Manufacturer: Hudson Entertainment (http://www.hudsonentertainment.com/)
Distributor: Apple iTunes (www.apple.com/itunes)
Pros: Easy to get into, lots of custom options
Cons: Only 50 levels to play
Price: 3.49
Star rating: ****
Perhaps the best Sudoku app for beginners (and lazy puzzle-solvers), Hudson Entertainment’s Sudoku Vol. 1 offers a tutorial mode that explains Sudoku and walks you through the solving of a puzzle.
It also provides a number of visual tools for helping you solve puzzles. For example, one of my favourite “helper” features is called Borders: when you tap on a cell, a gold outline (shown to the right) surrounds the selected cell’s host region and the row and column containing the cell, making it easier to determine which numbers that cell can and cannot contain. (You can turn off this feature if you don't want it.) In addition, if you double-tap any given cell or solved cell, all other given and solved incidences of that cell’s number are highlighted; this is useful for quickly seeing, for example, which regions still need the number 2. A Hint button, which can be used three times for each puzzle, fills in a random unsolved cell. Finally, when all nine occurrences of a number have been entered, that number is grayed out on the onscreen keypad. For Details
Sudoku Vol. 1 for iPhone Review
SUPP Youth eyes sudoku record
Organisers to rope 1,000 participants of all ages to get into Malaysia Book of Records
SIBU: The Youth Section of SUPP Sibu branch is aiming to walk into the Malaysia Book of Records by hosting a sudoku competition to be attended by the most number of participants from the country.
Organising chairman Joseph Chieng said the event will be held at the Catholic High School on Sept 16 starting 8am.
Held in conjunction with the country’s 30th anniversary, it aims to attract between 500 and 1,000 participants of all ages.
“The closing date to join is Sept 8 by noon and those interested can register with the Youth Section at Sibu SUPP headquarters (tel: 313494), Extra Cheap Automart (323632) and YHL General Trading Company (322089),” Chieng said.
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iPhone Gems: Every Sudoku Game, Reviewed
If you’re reading this article, you probably already know that Sudoku is a one-screen puzzle game based upon a 9-by-9 grid that’s partially filled with numbers. The objective is to fill the empty spaces of the grid with single digit numbers so that the same digit does not appear twice on any horizontal or vertical line. Additionally, the same number should not appear twice in any of nine 3-by-3 mini grids on the screen. 
The fifth-generation iPod had a total of one Sudoku game, Electronic Arts’ Sudoku/Num-Pre. When we went to compile a master list last week of every iPhone Sudoku game, we discovered that there were so many versions—17, collectively costing over $70—that we literally crashed our iPhone 3G trying to install them all at once. We published the list on July 22, and our goal was to give you reviews after we finished testing them. Then new titles and updates were released.For Details
Sudoku star comes second in national final
By Ian Ross »
IT ALL added up for Congleton Sudoku specialist Dmitri Whitmore when he finished runner-up in The Times Newspaper's under-12 national championships.
The pint-sized mathematics prodigy, a pupil at the Junior Division at Kings School in Macclesfield, was one of thousands of entries to the intellectual teaser.
He qualified for the final in London as the youngest entrant in the competition.
Dmitri, who is said by Junior Division principal Geoff Shaw to be one of the best young mathematicians he has taught, said he owed his talent to his mum Olga.
"About two years ago my mum showed me how to do a Sudoku puzzle," he said.For Details
New drinking game: Sudoku?
We recently wrote about the high rate of human bite wounds in Dublin, Ireland, and noted that 82% of the injuries happened between 11 p.m. and 4 a.m., a time period when pub-goers stagger home after lord knows how many pints. What's more, 86% of these bite incidents involved the consumption of alcohol. But it need not be this way!
Scientists at the University of Kentucky have shown that there's an easy way to stop drunks picking fights. Give them a challenging mental task to perform -- a jigsaw, say, or a current affairs quiz, perhaps a level 5 Sudoku puzzle? That'll calm 'em down, if they don't deck you first.For Details
Sudoku lover climbs 20-metre billboard to solve puzzle
A Brisbane Airtrain puzzle beside Brisbane Road at Ebbw Vale originally depicted an unfinished Sudoku puzzle.
Next to it was the tagline: "Traffic slow enough to solve this?"
To the amazement of commuters and Brisbane Airtrain management, an eager puzzle solver climbed the 20 metre billboard and filled in the missing squaresblanks.
A nearby businessman said the billboard was replaced a fortnight ago.
Queensland advertising agency De Pasquale was the creative minds behind the engaging puzzle billboards that form part of a recent outdoor campaign for Airtrain.
De Pasquale chief executive Cos Luccitti said the Airtrain billboard campaign featured different puzzles and mazes for bored motorists stuck in traffic to highlight and promote the benefits of catching the Airtrain to Brisbane Airport.
"It's rewarding to see the billboards hitting the mark, especially when people have taken the time to complete the puzzle," Mr Luccitti said.
If you are the mystery Sudoku solver, email qt@qt.com.au or call 3817 1717.
Trial by sudoku
Sydney: As jurors sat day after day in a courtroom listening to testimony from 105 witnesses in a major drugs trial, it seemed as if some were taking their duties very seriously indeed. They were spotted assiduously taking notes, prompting the judge to compliment them on their diligence. But when one defendant saw they were writing vertically, not horizontally, the secret came out — they had been playing sudoku.
On Tuesday, the million-dollar trial at Sydney district court was abandoned after the head juror admitted she and four or five others had been playing the numbers puzzle for almost the entire period of the hearing.For Details
Sudoku contest in city
CHENNAI: The World of Titan, Pursawalkam, is organising a Sudoku competition for schoolchildren in classes 9 to 12. The competition will be held at 1 p.m. on Saturday at the showroom in Purasawalkam.
Each school can send in two teams comprising four members each. Participants will be required to solve a combination of four different Sudoku puzzles within a given time limit. Over 300 schoolchildren from 40 schools in the city have participated in the competition which has been held twice before, a release said.
To register, contact 42042332 or 26403624.
