Sudoku

The Object of the Game

The object of Sudoku is to fill in all the empty squares with the correct numbers:

• Every 3x3 square must contain all the numbers 1 through 9
  
• Every row must contain all the numbers 1 through 9
  
• Every column must contain all the numbers 1 through 9
  

1 through 9 may appear only once in a single column, row or 3x3 square.

Every square filled in makes it easier to finish your puzzle! Sudoku can be quite an addicting pasttime.

*Note: After GoPets Sudoku is purchased from the Starcade, the game may be played as many times as wanted. No prize shells are awarded for winning.

How to Play Sudoku

Completing a Sudoku puzzle successfully requires some deduction and reasoning, as well as sometimes trial and error. Choosing an Easy game, less squares will be blank, meaning that it is easier to figure out which numbers are missing. With a Hard game, more squares will be blank, which will require more trial and error to finish the puzzle.

Click on the acorn to start a new round.

• Start New Round:
  

You will be given the option to choose an Easy, Medium or Hard game.

• Easy Medium Hard Selection:
  

When you've selected your puzzle difficulty, a board will appear showing some numbers missing:

• New Puzzle:
  

If you don't like this particular puzzle and want a new one, just click on the circling arrow at the top right of the puzzle.

• Circling Arrow:
  

You will be asked if you want to play again:

• Play Again?:
  

If you click on the X (which means "no") you will be returned to your puzzle in progress. If you click on the checkmark (meaning "yes") you will be presented a fresh puzzle.

To start your puzzle, click on an empty square to fill it in. The square will be highlighted in red:

• Square Selection:
  

Click on the correct number on the number bar at the bottom to fill the square in.

• Number Bar:
  

In this case, the correct number is 8:

• Filled in Square:
  

Continue to fill in the squares with the correct numbers. To erase incorrect numbers, click on the incorrect number and use the eraser in front of the 1 on the number bar:

• Eraser:
  

A completed puzzle will look like this:

• Completed Puzzle:
  

Once you have finished filling in all the squares, you will either be successful or not in completing the puzzle correctly. If you were not successful, you will see this message:

• Failed:
  

This means somewhere in your puzzle, the numbers are not filled in correctly. Review your puzzle for duplicated numbers in either rows, columns or 3x3 squares. Fix the errors.

When all the numbers are entered correctly, you will receive this message:

• Success!:
  

Congratulations! You've just successfully completed a Sudoku puzzle!

Solution Tips

• When first starting a puzzle, scan rows, columns and 3x3 squares that have only one or two boxes open, and fill in those numbers first.
• As you work through the puzzle, you might like to try working all columns first, for example.
• On a paper puzzle, you can pencil in little numbers in the square that could be possibilities. With GoPets Sudoku, you might like to use a pencil and paper on the harder puzzles to notate possibilities in particular squares.

-- Home.Gankaku - 14 Nov 2006
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