13 comments

  • jamie_ca 18 hours ago

    Looks neat.

    The CtC community is pretty prolific, and if your colors could match theirs that'd be much easier to parse. https://youtu.be/mkomrpQG388?t=212 has most of them all at once, I think palindrome is the only one missing from there.

    Also, if your solver could pick up shift for corner marks and control/command for center marks, that'd be a nice quality of life pickup compared to Sudokupad.

    • imglorp 18 hours ago

      The CtC community sometimes overlaps with, and mentions in their vids, https://www.dailykillersudoku.com/ which also has a nice UX, especially for helping compute totals and possible sum-partitions. Some features might bear imitating/flattering.

      • jandrese 17 hours ago

        I like it showing you the possibilities when you click on a cell in a cage, but I was really wishing they had a "press shift and the number to set the cell value" feature. I messed myself up a couple of times by unselecting the wrong number when attempting to set the cell and not noticing for a couple of moves. For example, if a 10 cage is a 28 pair and I figure out that the left one is a 2 and the right is an 8, I was clicking on the left and hitting 2, making an error.

        If you hold shift while hitting the number it should just set the cell to that number, not just erase a mark.

      • stanac 17 hours ago

        I didn't know about that one, looks neat. Thanks.

        Sums of cages and selected numbers (even outside of killer/sandwich) were a must have feature for me, so I implemented those features early. Also combinations are available for single cage or multiple selected cages and for selected sandwich.

        • imglorp 16 hours ago

          Something I wish DKS did better was Fill. If you have selected a cage and press F, it will fill the cage with all the possible combinations on the right panel. Instead, I think it should take only the ones you haven't ruled out by de-selecting them.

    • NotAnOtter 14 hours ago

      +1 on matching the CTC 'standards'. You'll get significantly more user adoption if the conventions match.

    • stanac 18 hours ago

      Thanks, I was matching colors of another popular Sudoku app. Ultimately it would be best to allow users to configure colors and other presentation attributes (thickness of the line, alpha, dotted/dashed, etc...).

  • spencerflem 18 hours ago

    What a lovely site, and thank you for all the devotion to being user friendly.

    You've added something wonderful and artistic to the world, can't wait to try it out more tonight :)

    • stanac 18 hours ago

      Thank you for your kind words.

  • LanceH 16 hours ago

    I wrote a 3d version of sudoku where every slice of a cube was a valid sudoku. It was an awful game. At first it was difficult to wrap your head around the 3d, but once you did it offered so many more clues as to be boring and 95% of the time would be filling out easy cubes.

    • NotAnOtter 14 hours ago

      This sounds like a cool one-time solve. Solving high level traditional sudukos is mostly about learning "rules" (like The Phistomefel Ring). I imagine the equivalent in 3d would be too complex for a human to parse.

      • fsckboy 11 hours ago

        too complex, or is he saying "there are no complex 3D puzzles, too much information"

    • spencerflem 16 hours ago

      Cool experiment though :)