Multi Player Mode on the Live Sudoku Site

The Live Sudoku site now has a Multi Player mode so I decided to try it out. You can see it yourself here. I used my Facebook login to start with and scrolled down to the list of games played recently, which looked like this:

Games were being played every few minutes so it was clear that this option has become popular very quickly. I looked at the times taken for each game and, as I am quite slow at solving sudokus, I realised that I could not compete with any of the recent participants so I clicked on the

button. This allowed me to play against the LiveSudoku robot at a level to match my solving ability. As the match progressed I was able to check my progress as you can see below:

It is obvious to me that a lot of thought has gone into creating this multi player mode so if you enjoy competing against others when solving sudokus, you should give it a try.

Printable Sudoku Puzzles on the Live Sudoku Site

If you look at my Copyright Information page, you will see that I allow anybody to print, copy and distribute my puzzles free of charge. However, there is only ever one puzzle per post so your printing costs might make this uneconomical.

If this applies to you, take a look at the Free Printable Sudoku page on the Live Sudoku site. This lets you download PDFs which contain easy, medium, hard or evil puzzles, with either 4 or 6 puzzles on each page. You are then free to print and copy them as often as you wish. The page has other options too, including the ability to create blank sudoku grids.

I downloaded one of their books of evil puzzles, which contained 60 sudokus. I checked the grade of the first grid on SudokuWiki.org. This gave it a rating of Tough / 177. The solve path used naked pairs, naked triples, pointing pairs and a Y-wing. You can see the puzzle below if you would like to try it yourself: