The elegant Sudoku assistant for Mac

What is Sudoku? It is a brainteaser coming from Japan, very popular in many countries around the world. There are scientific researches describing the mathematics behind Sudoku, and many teachers recommend it as improving logical thinking, but foremost it is a very enjoyable and intelligent game.

There is only one very simple rule: Fill in the grid so that every column, every row and each of the nine 3 x 3 boxes contains all digits from 1 through 9. Sounds easy? Try it out!

The aim of Sudoku Companion is to make solving Sudoku puzzles more convenient. It is very Mac-like and it has all necessary and expected features: multiple undos, notes in each cell, every move is validated, you can save and load a puzzle or print it out and much, much more. Sudoku Companion has also some "cheating" options built in but be careful and use them wisely. They can change simple puzzles into boring ones but at the same time they can help you to concentrate on the strategy when you are solving really difficult Sudokus.

Sudoku Companion won’t solve anything for you, that would ruin all the fun, but it will allow you to enjoy solving Sudokus on your Mac without paper, pencil and bottles of Tipp-Ex.

System requirements: Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger or higher; 2.2 MB free disk space. Internet access to load Sudoku of the Day.

Highlights:

Mac-like.
Easy and intuitive to use.
High fun-factor.
Generates Sudokus in 5 degrees of difficulty: Easy, Medium, Hard, Fiendish and Insane.
Even harder Sudoku of the Day posted on the web site daily.
Multiple undo, print, saving and loading of puzzles.
Runs natively on both Power PC- and Intel-based Macintosh computers.

Current version: 1.4.7

New in this version:

No success message when the validation is off, all cells are filled in but the solution is wrong.
Other minor changes and fixes.

Shareware: Sudoku Companion is distributed as shareware. The game may be tested for a period of 15 days before it should be registered. However, it doesn't write any hidden files to your disk nor "calls home" and it is possible to use it (with a guilty conscience :-) longer if you haven't made up your mind by then.

Registration: A regular single user license for Sudoku Companion costs $9 or 7.50 € (+ VAT if you are a resident of the EU). The registration information will be sent to you within a maximum of 2 business days.

Go to the Registration page.