Conceptis launched Hitori

Thursday, September 7, 2006

As the global urge for new logic puzzles continues Conceptis announces the availability of Hitori - the fifth within the company’s series of number-logic puzzles. The classic version of Hitori has been a popular number-logic puzzle in Japan since the beginning of the 90s.

Starting September 10, four new Conceptis Hitori puzzles are available every week in Conceptis’ Free Weekly Puzzles section. In addition, Conceptis publishers can download hundreds of Hitori puzzles from the Download Center, for publication in their magazines.

“As with all other logic puzzles we develop, I strongly believe Conceptis Hitori provide a different and unique experience compared to other Hitori puzzles available on the market today” says Dave Green, president of Conceptis. “We used the same development process to create Hitori as we did for Sudoku and Kakuro, but please don’t take my word for it. Try for yourself…”

Conceptis Hitori puzzles come in seven distinct difficulty levels starting from Ultra Easy and up to Very Hard, taking anything from five minutes to several hours to solve. The puzzles are available in 11 size configurations of 4x4, 5x5, 6x6, 7x7, 8x8, 9x9, 10x10, 12x12, 14x14, 16x16 and 18x18. According to Conceptis Marketing department additional variants and sizes are being considered and may be available next year.

Ideal Content

In addition to having lots of interesting logic situations and being more fun to solve, the seven difficulty levels, the range of sizes and the direct EPS/PDF file export make every Conceptis Hitori puzzle ideal content for magazine, newspaper and book publishers all over the world.

Conceptis Hitori, which has been announced just one month after the successful launching of Conceptis Battleships, is already making its way to several magazines and books by Conceptis publishers. Additional information will be released about the new publication in our next Hitori news item.

About Hitori

Hitori is a number-elimination puzzle which has been invented in Japan by Nikoli Puzzles. Unlike Sudoku and Kakuro, Hitori puzzles start with all the numbers in the grid. The object is to shade squares so that same numbers don’t appear in a row or column more than once. In addition, shaded squares must not touch each other vertically or horizontally while all un-shaded squares must create a single continuous area.

Hitori, or ひとり in Japanese, means “alone”, or “by myself”. The full name as it appears in Nikoli’s books is ひとりにしてくれ, pronounced Hitori-ni-shite-kure which means "leave me alone". The Hitori brand name is registered by Nikoli Puzzles in Japan.