SuDoKu-Cracker (Generator / Solver / Helper)

a r n e

SuDoKu-Cracker
Generator / Solver / Helper
Version: 2008.06
Windows 95, 98, Me, NT, 2000, Server 2003, XP, Vista
Freeware
Languages: English · German · French · Danish · Norwegian · Swedish · Hungarian
www.the24net.com/sudoku/

Application features
- Show / hide "candidates"
- "Exclude" (hide) candidates from field
- Undo / Redo
- Drag and Drop
- Several ways to mark fields, in 11 different colors
- Strikeout rows and columns (double-click a number to strikeout all rows and columns that contains the number)
- Save to file (internal format or as text-file)
- Printing (also multiple puzzles at one page)
- Export to several known formats (e.g. HTML, RTF, Text)
- Supports both mouse and keyboard
- "Mouse-wheel" (scroll-wheel) can be used to coloring all one, two, etc. and / or change field-value

Helper
- Supports most common solution methods
- "Help-function" show next logical step (Hint)
- "Help-function" solve next logical step

Generator
- "Infinite" of different puzzles
- Seven levels of difficulty
- Only unique puzzles (i.e. puzzles with only one solution)
- Creates only high-quality puzzles
- Each level is based on certain criteria, for example, to solve a Very Hard puzzle, you need to understand the basic of the Solution method Colors. This strength differentiate it from most common generators
- Both symmetric and asymmetric puzzles
- SuDoKu-Cracker can be started with parameters for automatic batch-making puzzles that can be saved / exported direct to different files

Solver
- Can solve absolute all 9x9 puzzles (e.g. from newspapers and magazines)
- Very fast (average 0.4 milliseconds = 2500 puzzles per second)

Feedback will be appreciated.

arne.
www.the24net.com/sudoku/

a r n e · Posted: Mon Dec 22, 2008 1:52 pm Post subject:

New Version (SuDoKu-Cracker 2009) available for download at www.the24net.com/sudoku/

This version is MS Windows Vista (both 32-bit and 64-bit) compatible.
New languages: Greek and Russian.
Release notes: www.the24net.com/sudoku/changes/

arne.

a r n e · Posted: Mon Nov 09, 2009 8:44 am Post subject:

New version of SuDoKu-Cracker (Version 10) is now available http://www.the24net.com/sudoku/

Changes:
- MS Windows 7 compatible
- WORDOKU (Sudoku with letters, any character can be displayed)
- Select display font (also graphic fonts e.g. 'Wingdings')
See: Release notes and Online-Help for more information.

Note:
The 'default' alphabet and character-set used by SuDoKu-Cracker, change with the current selected 'keyboard input locale' (language). Supported character-set: Latin (US, Western Europe), Cyrillic, Greek, Hebrew, Arabic and Baltic.

Feedback will be appreciated.

arne.