Sudoku by Conceptis - feel the difference

Monday, September 12, 2005

Conceptis launched its own Sudoku - the number-placing puzzle that is taking the world by storm. New magazines with Conceptis Sudoku are being released this month by several international publishers while other publications are on the way. See additional items in this PuzzleTimes issue for more.

Sudoku puzzles by Conceptis provide a different and unique experience compared to most other Sudoku puzzles on the market today. As the leading company in the international logic puzzles market Conceptis has succeeded to develop a top quality product once again.

"We achieved this by first developing a Sudoku Analyzer“, says Dave Green, president of Conceptis. “W e used this technology to analyze hundreds of puzzles from other Sudoku creators around the world, learning how they are constructed, which logical "tricks" they use, what makes them easy or difficult, and most important, what makes them fun to solve."

Green adds that the last part – making the puzzles fun to solve - was the most difficult, and was achieved by comparing the Analyzer results to data collected from human testers who solved the same puzzles. Using the conclusions of this research Conceptis developed a correlation algorithm, which has been embedded in the company’s puzzle generator software to provide full control of the quality, difficulty, appearance and fun elements of the puzzles.

Conceptis Sudoku puzzles come in endless beautifully-symmetrical patterns and a wide range of difficulty levels from very easy to extremely difficult, taking anything from five minutes to several hours to solve. In addition to having lots of interesting logic situations and being more fun to solve, the smooth difficulty level progression and the direct EPS/PDF file export make Conceptis Sudoku ideal content for magazine, newspaper and book publishers all over the world.

The current Sudoku by Conceptis is a 9x9 grid based puzzle with several given numbers. The object is to place the numbers 1 to 9 in the empty squares so that each row, column and 3x3 box contains the same number only once.

According to Green, the next developments will include Sudoku variants, such as MiniSudoku, MegaSudoku, MultiSudoku, DiagonalSudoku, SumSudoku and LatinSudoku. Other types of logic puzzles will also be developed by the company in 2006.

Related resources

• Conceptis Sudoku