Color Sudoku game adds twist to computing

Beware. There's a new Soduku game that could prove to be as addictive as the original. Antony Harfield, a doctoral student in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Warwick U.K., based a new colorized version of the Japanese game on empirical modeling. This "pays more attention to what humans take into account and provides a practical means to explore problems that aren't so cut and dry," according to MSNBC's article. In the new game, each number is given a color, with empty squares blending the colors of numbers that could fit. The colors of the open squares change as the possible combinations decrease.

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[Stevenii]

Sudoku is not a Japanese game, it's an American game that was given a Japanese name once it became popular in Japan....

[dmm]

I found the colors distracting, and not helpful. It was fun though, to set everything to white, then turn on one number at a time. It then shows you which squares can only receive that number. Cycle through the numbers. Auto-sudoku. But it gets old REAL quick.