after a lot of development and some feedback from other members of the forum who've been helping test it, I'm announcing a release of my Helper/Solver program.
It handles standard 3x3 Sudoku, diagonal variants, Killer, zero killer, Jigsaw, Jigsaw Killer, Samurai, Clueless and Clueless explosion puzzles.
The program features:
- full load & save at any point
full undo/redo history saved with the puzzle
bookmarks so you can quickly move back to previous steps
built-in notepad for manually recording moves
automatic recording and reporting of all changes made
extended combination calculator for Killer puzzles
Killer sum tool for finding 45-rule eliminations
Jigsaw LOL tool
batch solver to load/save puzzle libraries
highlights and describes individual eliminations to act as a training aid
The program (currently at Version 1.3.5) is available here: http://www.piarina.com/sudoku/SudokuSolver.msi and a comprehensive help file can be downloaded separately here: http://www.piarina.com/sudoku/SudokuSolverHelp.msi
If you want to browse the help file on line, go to: http://www.piarina.com/sudoku/
Hopefully some of you will find it a useful addition to your support tools.
Rgds
Richard