Killer Sudoku

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Love Killer Sudokus in general and can solve very difficult ones, but this programs is awful

The excellent puzzles in this game are ruined by the numerous faults. Game Design 101 - Have a "New Game" option in the menu. If a Player wants to repeat the entire game from scratch they should be able to. Game Design 102 - Have a "Save Game" option. If you accidentally press "Play" instead of "Continue" from the menu, realise you clicked the wrong thing, and go back to the menu, the "Continue" option is no longer there. You can't get back to where you left off playing, unless you can remember the Puzzle Number you were up to. This is virtually impossible, given that the Puzzles are not in numerical order. Game Design 103 - Have the "Reset Puzzle" option on the same screen as the puzzle. Why is this option on a different page? Cracking the Cryptic are on YouTube where the presenters solve a puzzle and you can try the same puzzle using their "Net Based Software" In that software, you can reset the puzzle from the same page. Why don't you have the same option in Killer Sudoku??? Game Design 104 - Have some consistency between your products. Why is the web based software so different to the products you sell on line??? For example, why are there only 3 colours in Killer Sudoku, and 27 colours available in the Web based software. Some puzzles on the Web are solved using colours. For example, you might know that various squares throughout the grid are "89" pairs, but you don't know which is the 8 and which is the 9. However, you can tell, that one 89 pair is different from another 89 pair, so you colour them differently. Then at some point later in the puzzle, you realise that the 8 has to be Blue and the 9 has to be Red. So you can highlight all the Blue coloured squares with one click of the mouse; make sure the program is in "Enter Number" mode and click "8". All the Blue coloured squares will have 8 Entered. You cannot do this in Killer Sudoku - WHY NOT !!! Game Design 105 - Have a User Friendly interface. The User Interface in this product and in all Cracking the Cryptic products, including the Web based ones is atrocious. It is User Unfriendly. It is "CLUNKY" !!!! When I am using this product, or any other of Cracking the Cryptic product, I am continually making mistakes. This tells me the Interface is BAD. The program is getting in the way of my using it, instead of helping me use it; or making my usage of it effortless. Just watch Simon and Mark on YouTube and see how many "Entering" mistakes they make when using THEIR own product. This is telling you their is a problem with the Interface. If the Interface was good, they would not make so many mistakes. Game Design 106A - You cannot "un-highlight" highlighted squares. You can do this on the web - why can't you do it in Killer Sudoku ? This is especially tedious if you have to highlight many squares and you accidentally highlight a "wrong" square. Since you can't un-highlight, you are forced to "start over" Game Design 106B - Higlighting inconsistencies" If I have highlighted certain squares, I should be able to select what I want to do with those squares, and shift between those options. For example, I may want to Enter Pencil Marks in the highlighted squares, or I may want to Enter a Number in those squares, or may want to Colour those squares. If I am in "Enter a Number" mode and decide I don't want to this mode, but I want to be in Colour mode; and I have highlighted squares throughout the Grid, I should be able to just press the Colour Button and have my highlighted squares coloured. This doesn't happen. I have to select the Colour Mode, then re-highlight the squares AGAIN Game Design 107 - Have a decent Help section The HELP in this product is ABYSMAL, and that is putting it mildly. It is absolutely ATROCIOUS. Every Computer Program, as part of its development, should be thoroughly tested before it is released. The testing will reveal errors and flaws, which the programmers should correct before the product is released. This has obviously NOT been done with Killer Sudoku - or else their Testers must have been retarded Chimpanzees !!! The HELP system is hyper UNFRIENDLY !!! You have to "INTERPRET" what the Help is trying to tell you BEFORE you start to work out and understand the logic. The way of referencing Rows and Columns is confusing at best. A far more logical system would be to use a Coordinate system like they do in Chess, where the Rows are Letters of the Alphabet and the Columns are numbered. Knight (N) to F3, Queen (Q) to B4, etc. I found I was continually looking at the wrong squares when using the so-called HELP in this program. When they are talking about squares in a Column they give the Row reference first. If you are talking about a Column reference, you give the Column number FIRST, then the ROW Column 4. Rows 6,7 and 8. NOT Row 6, 7 and 8, Column 4 It makes more sense to reference BOXES or CAGES then ROWS and COLUMNS. For example, if you want to reference Column 4, Rows 7, 8 and 9 and this happens to be a 6 CAGE, why not simply reference this as "The 6 CAGE in BOX 8". That is far easier to understand then R7R8R9-C6. If this happens to not be a CAGE, then simply say "Column 6 in Box 8" OR "Box 8, Column 6" Separate the sentences. Start each sentence on a new line. This makes it far easier to read. It is absolutely riddled with errors of all descriptions - misspelled words, referencing Columns when they mean Rows (and visa versa), giving the wrong Column or Row, mistakes in Logic, Clues given in the wrong order, etc, etc, etc This so-called HELP is littered with unhelpful ERRORS. I must mention a definite POSITIVE in this game and that is the Calculator. This is an extremely useful tool and the programmer should be commended for this aspect of the game. SIMON and MARK: I commend you for bringing outstanding puzzles to the attention of the Public. I commend you for having the nous to make a Business out of what you love. People pay good money (which they have worked hard to earn) to buy your products. Have a bit of Pride and Integrity in what you make and give your Customers a decent product instead something which is clearly substandard. PS: My background is in Science and in Computer Programming, so I know what I am talking about. There was a Sudoku program I bought about 20 years ago on the NET and its User Interface runs rings around your products. Sincerely Greg Coulson

good controls tough puzzles hint system is nice nice if needed but need to start from beginning of puzzle to use it effectively most times

if you read this your interested in good sodoku and puzzle games and therefor this game is perfect for you

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Killer Sudoku is one of my favorite variants of Sudoku. It features dashed outlined areas on the grid called cages. 'the number at the top left of the cage indicates what the digits in the cage should sum to. If you like Sudoku, you will love Killer Sudoku!!

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