{"id":18,"date":"2007-02-05T18:46:00","date_gmt":"2007-02-05T17:46:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tapper-ware.net\/blog\/?p=18"},"modified":"2010-07-11T12:03:40","modified_gmt":"2010-07-11T10:03:40","slug":"sudoku-update-now-with-1000-puzzles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tapper-ware.net\/blog\/sudoku-update-now-with-1000-puzzles\/","title":{"rendered":"Sudoku! (Update: Now with 1000 puzzles)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>OK, so yesterday evening I started working on a new Javascript minigame: Sudoku.<\/p>\n<p>I know what you&#8217;re going to say: there already are way too many Sudoku games around. And you&#8217;re absolutely right.<\/p>\n<p>Problem is, there are very few good games around, and even less that run in your browser and almost none that require no plugins.<\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s already a first Alpha version available here (but with just a single puzzle):<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.tapper-ware.net\/sudoku\/\">Here!<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The feature list is already longer than for most other Sudoku games:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Use the buttons at the bottom to add notes to the selected field.<\/li>\n<li>Use the buttons at the right to confirm a number.<\/li>\n<li>Use the &#8220;?&#8221; to get all notes automatically.<\/li>\n<li>You can&#8217;t confirm numbers that collie with other numbers in the field, however you can enter numbers that are simply wrong.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>So what&#8217;s still missing (aside from a new UI):<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Automatic Solver<\/li>\n<li>Generator<\/li>\n<li>Tabs for different versions of the same puzzle<\/li>\n<li>True handwritten notes<\/li>\n<li>Menu to enable\/disable solvers.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Did I forget anything? Tell me!<\/p>\n<p>Update:<\/p>\n<p>Now there are 1000 new puzzles available. While there is still no generator in this, I have instead opted to instead create a converter for the files generated by <a href=\"http:\/\/ostermiller.org\/qqwing\/\">QQwing<\/a>, A free Sudoku generator published as OpenSource. Now, on launch the game will select a random number between 0 and 1000 and load the level with that number. However there are no difficulty levels yet: While QQwing supports this, it is not being used yet. All levels are difficulty &#8220;Expert&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>OK, so yesterday evening I started working on a new Javascript minigame: Sudoku. I know what you&#8217;re going to say: there already are way too many Sudoku games around. And you&#8217;re absolutely right. Problem is, there are very few good games around, and even less that run in your browser and almost none that require &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tapper-ware.net\/blog\/sudoku-update-now-with-1000-puzzles\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Sudoku! (Update: Now with 1000 puzzles)<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tapper-ware.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tapper-ware.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tapper-ware.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tapper-ware.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tapper-ware.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.tapper-ware.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":155,"href":"https:\/\/www.tapper-ware.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18\/revisions\/155"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tapper-ware.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tapper-ware.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tapper-ware.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}