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March 21, 2008 5:22 PM PDT

Exercise your brain with this freeware game

by Seth Rosenblatt
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There's little doubt that this new free Sudoku game sports an atrociously decorated interface, bedecked with smileys and butterflies. However, the game play itself in Free Sudoku 2008 is unimpaired, and the three levels of difficulty and timer actually make this a reasonable experience if you're looking to fret over number patterns for a while.

Free Sudoku 2008 features good gameplay but a hideous interface.

(Credit: CNET Networks)

The game provides the timer, the difficulty level, a solution checker, and an "I-give-up" option on the right-hand side of the panel. The main panel is taken up by the game board, and has an interesting feature: players can enter up to nine numbers into one box. Some may call this cheating, but it makes strategizing easier for those visual thinkers out there. Of course, if you hit the "Check my solution" option with more than one number per box it'll mark those boxes wrong, but I found it to be a helpful tool.

Plastered at the top and bottom of the game are static ads for the game's publisher, Best-Web-Sites.eu. I was quite skeptical about this, but since LinkScanner verified the site as safe and virus and malicious software checks didn't freak out at the game's installation, I'll go on the record as recommending this 500KB install as a decent way to kill time and stretch your brain.

Originally posted at The Download Blog
Seth peers into the deep, dark corners of software so that you don't have to. He has yet to suffer a single nightmare about OS/2. You can follow him on Twitter.
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by crazy20044038 March 21, 2008 7:18 PM PDT
its nice
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by downloadgallas March 21, 2008 11:08 PM PDT
this is very useful
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by snehalstar2 March 21, 2008 11:11 PM PDT
i hope it is good??
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by chettyharish March 23, 2008 1:00 AM PDT
cooooool~~~~~~
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by FrancQld March 23, 2008 6:13 PM PDT
what comment?
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by FrancQld March 23, 2008 6:13 PM PDT
what comment?
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by alerbied March 24, 2008 2:44 PM PDT
nice
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by pranesh_1011 March 24, 2008 9:16 PM PDT
game is nice.
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by chingyflingy May 29, 2008 11:24 PM PDT
It's a good stuff and very useful, can make your brain exercise!
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