Ok not really…But there is an article over at Gizmodo which talks about widgets and ours got a significant mention. Big thanks to Laura Richardson for writing an excellent article! Here’s the link.
Ok not really…But there is an article over at Gizmodo which talks about widgets and ours got a significant mention. Big thanks to Laura Richardson for writing an excellent article! Here’s the link.
I love this widget but it seems to cause some major problems with my computer. It constantly freezes my computer.
Has anyone else had this problem?
Tracy
Why Sudoku becomes bugged : when I wish to write a number, this number is always small as a pencil mark and his square is blue; I cannot more obtain the good red square in which
the numbers have a good size.
Is repairing possible and how ? Thanks.
Raphael Cataldo from France.
Before bugging, Sudoko was a marvellous intellectual game. Alas !
Raphael
I take pleasure in doing.
OK, like everyone else here I love the SuDoKu widget - excellent job - and yes I’m going to PayPal you. Not sure how you figured out the algorithm to generate them, but it’s pretty cool. Unlike the other posters, haven’t had any problems at all, (here’s to tempting fate). But that’s not the purpose of the posting. If you love strategy games, as I suspect you do, then you’ve probably heard of Strategic Conquest. I used to love that game, unfortunately it hasn’t been updated in 10 years. If you’d like another hit, how about taking a shot at a Widgetized version of that? Keep up the good work!
I have to add to the list of bugs that in addition to peristent pancil marks the program sometimes fails to recognize that I’ve finished the puzzle… Every now and then it will loose my high scores as well.
Regardless of these problems I still enjoy playing sudoku. Thank you Brian!
I was just wondering if you had any plans to implement a feature where the generated puzzles could be solved without any guess-and-check. I do understand, of course, that this would likely require implementing several solve methods which is not an insignificant amount of work. However, with this implemented, I would gladly paypal you…as it stands, I find it far to frustrating to come across a puzzle which requires me to guess-and-check and, since this happens often, I do not use your widget.
A couple of good sites to find solve methods are:
http://www.scanraid.com/sudoku.htm
http://www.sudokusolver.co.uk/
Oh, of course, with various solve methods implemented, it would be far easier to better estimate the difficulty of solving the puzzle.
aarg…first comment wasn’t posted.
I was wondering if you had any plans to implement a feature where the generated puzzles could be solved without any guess-and-check. It would, of course, require the implementation of various solve methods to be certain of this, which, I know, is not an insignificant amount of work.
The widget breaks under UFS.
To reproduce:
Unzip the widget on an UFS volume and rename to “Sudoku”. Then, open the main HTML file. It will display, but it won’t do anything except highlight boxes and numbers.
Repeat the procedure under a HFS+ volume and it “works” as much as it can outside the Dashboard environment.
The widget breaks under UFS.
To reproduce:
Unzip the widget on an UFS volume and rename to “Sudoku”. Then, open the main HTML file. It will display, but it won’t do anything except highlight boxes and numbers.
Repeat the procedure under a HFS+ volume and it “works” as much as it can outside the Dashboard environment.
Love this widget! Just can’t figure out how the scoring works - would love to have an “explanation” for scoring. Seems I sometimes get a higher score with more mistakes, and vice versa. How can I find the “rules” for scoring?
BTW - Raphael - did you try the “p” key? (to change from penciling to real answers). That works for me. Good luck.
JC
You could add an option that would allow external soduko puzzles to be inputed; then we could use your widget to solve them. Otherwise your widget it is great fun.
i’ve solved at least 2 of your puzzles and it doesn’t recognize because the widgets knows of a different solution. True Sudoku puzzles only have one solution. I had several people look at my solution and it was correct, as was the solution recommended by your widget.
I like this widget. When you get round to tweaking the smaller things could you have the high score view default to the level you just played? At the moment it always shows me the easy scores and I have to manually reselect the level I played to see if it was a high score.
Very small niggle though - nice job.
TB
Clicking on a cell occasionally moves the widget instead of inserting a number as it should. This is fixable by adding the following to #grid rule of the .css file (the code will probably get wordwrapped; email me for a clean copy if needed):
-apple-dashboard-region:
dashboard-region(control rectangle 20px 204px 186px 20px)
dashboard-region(control rectangle 20px 113px 186px 111px)
dashboard-region(control rectangle 20px 20px 186px 202px)
dashboard-region(control rectangle 107px 204px 88px 20px)
dashboard-region(control rectangle 107px 113px 88px 111px)
dashboard-region(control rectangle 107px 20px 88px 202px)
dashboard-region(control rectangle 195px 204px 8px 20px)
dashboard-region(control rectangle 195px 113px 8px 111px)
dashboard-region(control rectangle 195px 20px 8px 202px);
Thanks to anonymous coward for narrowing down that “The widget breaks under UFS”. The problem is that UFS is a case-sensitive file system and that Sudoku.html loads “widget.js” instead of “Widget.js”. It’s a very easy patch for 1.5… Brian, here’s to hoping you can get that fix into 2.0.
Thanks for the coolest widget in the world! I was just playing it and clicked on the link to this website so I thought I’d tell you how much I liked it…
I was running the sudoku widget 1.5 for 23 minutes, when i need to zoom in my screen and after what my mac mini hang up after less when 5 minutes.
Does this have anything to do with the widget?
The high scores list on my Sudoku widget get corrupted.
The scores remain the same, but the times changes (they
increase).
Hi. Thanks for the widget. It’s great.
Don’t know if you noticed, but I tried entering a puzzle and locking it in, today. All my entries come up red under auto-check, even though the widget could solve the puzzle when I checked that. Kinda sad. It would be better to grey out the option for blanks or just ignore it than the glaring RED-YOU’RE WRONG on every number!
Tried grabbing the latest version and redoing but I’m guessing you know that it was the same.
Well done, though. Great widget.
It would be cool if you could put the pencil marks with a right-click.
thanks
Great Widget! Just downloaded and played it. I do have a suggestion though for a improved user interface. The current one is just to unintuitive and really slows me down.
I’d like to propose that:
1) number keys by default will simply enter in pencil marks.
2) To commit a number, user must hit shift + the number. I.e. to commit a “1″, you’d type shift-1, or in other words, a “!”.
3) Arrow keys and mouse clicks should only be used for selecting squares.
4) At the end of the game, instead of just giving the score, give the score plus how the score was calculated. I.e. it’d be great if it printed out that you made x number of errors, and that cost you z number of points.
These suggestions are to fix these annoyances:
1) It’s super annoying that if you click on a square, it puts in a number. I don’t know about others, but I use mice to select things, not to enter things.
2) The default should not be to commit a number. It should be harder to commit than to put in a pencil mark. It’s annoying when you are intending to put in a pencil mark, but you just push space instead of shift-space on accident and you get docked points for a dumb interface mistake!
Just my two cents! Thanks so much for making this widget though! Tons of fun! I’ll probably be spending more time in dashboard mode than in normal desktop mode now. =)
-ben
I’m addicted and hope that I don’t lose my high scores!! I do have a question. Often when I am holding down the shift key and entering the pencil marks in multiple spaces the puzzle “flies” out and I have to lose time to open it up again. At first I thought it was because I was clicking outside the widget but that’s not the case. Any ideas what I’m doing wrong or how I can stop this?
Thanks,
Sue
Unless I overlooked something, once I use a or A to fill in one empty square or all empty square with pencil marks, there’s no way to erase them again, Otherwise, I’ve been enjoying it, and look forward to 2.0
Well i haven’t had a single problem - I’m jsut curious about how the score is computed
well done. it’s a great wedge because it has a feature to pencil mark the numbers which helps a lot to solve sudoku.
However, sometimes I’m not aware of if I’m only marking with pencil or actually putting the numbers down, and I lose my points for that.
So it would be perfect if this wedge has a feature to distinguish and let players know if (s)he is pencil marking or actually marking the number.
Great work!
I love this widget, playing it way too much! I agree with a previous comment that the scoring seems inconsistent. I just played a game (hard) in 15.51 minutes and only got a score of 2469 (no mistakes).
Thaks for the great widget.
very good
Love the widget but I am (and 30 % of all males) red green color blind. Soft shades cause us problems. Could you contrast the colors some. I’m hooked!