Free 9x9 software for windows

SuDoKu-Cracker 2009.04 offers you an interesting game which becomes your choice in your free time.

Major Benefits:

1. Playing Sudoku.
   
   • The SuDoKu-Cracker creates only puzzles with a unique solution. The built-in Sudoku-generator has seven different levels of difficulty and can generate an "infinity" of different puzzles in very high quality.
   • The advanced Help functions shows or solves respectively next logical step for you if you need help to solve the puzzle (see picture).
   • All puzzles can be printed, saved and opened again. And exported to e.g. HTML and RTF documents.
     
2. Creating / solving Sudoku-puzzles.
   
   • The SuDoKu-Cracker is also a sudoku solver. With this program you can create your own puzzles. All of them (and also from newspapers and magazines) can be solved with the SuDoKu-Cracker. The program is fast, efficient and returns accurate solutions for all this puzzles
   • Example: To solve the worlds hardest sudoku called AI Escargot, the SuDoKu-Cracker needs less than 50 milliseconds.
     

Major Features:

1. The game
   • Show / hide 'candidates'
   • 'Exclude' (hide) candidates from field
   • Undo / Redo
   • Copy (+) and Paste (+)
   • Drag and Drop (mark a puzzle [e.g. in a forum] and drag it over to the SuDoKu-Cracker)
   • Several ways to mark fields, in 11 different colors.
   • Tip: Right-click the color you want to mark selected field with.
   • Strikeout rows and columns (double-click a number to strikeout all rows and columns that contains the number)
   • Save to file (internal format or as text-file)
   • Printing (optional with solutions).
   • Tip: Candidates are printed if 'Show candidates' is marked (only 'single print')
   • Export to several known formats (e.g. HTML, RTF, Text)
   • Remarks: If you use the SuDoKu-Cracker to create puzzles which you are publishing (e.g. on the Internet), you have to mark it clearly, that the puzzle is made with the SuDoKu-Cracker and you have to place a link to us (www.The24net.com/sudoku) near it
   • Supports both mouse and keyboard
   • 'Mouse-wheel' (scroll-wheel) can be used to coloring all one, two, etc. and / or change field-value
2. Solving puzzles (helper)
   • Supports most common solution methods
   • 'Help-function' show next logical step (Hint)
   • 'Help-function' solve next logical step
3. Making puzzles (generator)
   • 'Infinite' of different puzzles
   • Seven levels of difficulty
   • Only unique puzzles (i.e. puzzles with only one solution)
   • Creates only high-quality puzzles.
   • Each level is based on certain criteria, for example, to solve a Very Hard puzzle, you need to understand the basic of the Solution method Colors.
   • This strength differentiate it from most common generators
   • Both symmetric and asymmetric puzzles (right-click on 'New' to make an asymmetric puzzle)
   • SuDoKu-Cracker can be started with parameters for automatic batch-making puzzles that can be saved / exported direct to different files
4. Solving puzzles (solver)
   • Can solve absolute all 9x9 puzzles (e.g. from newspapers and magazines)
   • Very fast (average 0.4 milliseconds = 2500 puzzles per second)
5. Languages
   • English
   • German
   • French
   • Danish
   • Norwegian
   • Swedish
   • Greek
   • Hungarian
   • Spanish
   • Russian

Enhancements:

• Minor update
• • Bugfix in popup menu
    

Requirements:

• Win95
• Win98
• WinME
• WinNT 3.
• WinNT 4
• Windows 2000
• WinXP
• Windows Server 2003
• Windows Vista