GNOME Sudoku

GNOME Sudoku is an open source software that provides users with a Sudoku generator and solver game designed from the ground up to be deployed along with the award winning GNOME desktop environment.

Sudoku is a popular Japanese puzzle/logic game. This application, originally created by Thomas Hinkle and not distributed as part of the GNOME Games project, intends to provide users with a simple interface for generating, playing, saving, printing and solving Sudoku puzzles.

Features at a glance

Key features include infinite undo functionality, generation of symmetric puzzles with unique solutions, four difficulty levels, keyboard navigation, automatic resize of numbers and board when the main window is resized, as well as the ability to play the game with a mouse device.

In addition, it allows users to view the valid numbers for the current square by clicking the "hint" button, add notes or "pencil marks" to squares, automatically fill in the current square, and create "trackers" to automatically paint random entries with a different color.

Another interesting features is the ability to save and print multiple Sudokus, with or without difficulty levels. Additionally, users can view detailed game statistics while playing or at the end of a game, as well as to track additions, clear notes, view possible numbers and unfillable squares.

Getting started with GNOME Sudoku

To play a new Sudooku game you'll have to click on a difficulty level. The program will immediately open a 9x9 grid with 9 boxes where you have to fill in the missing numbers to win the game and proceed to the next level.

The graphical user interface follows the GNOME HIG (Human Interface Guidelines) and lets users to choose between Easy, Medium, Hard, and Very Hard difficulty levels from the get-go. Unfortunately, it does not integrated with the GNOME Panel, which means that it provides a classic menu type.

What is new in this release:

• Switch to meson build system (Ernestas Kulik)

What is new in version :

• Remove Statistics.page from Makefile.am (Andre Klapper)
• Updated user docs (Andre Klapper)
• Remove the OMF file (Piotr Drag)
• Updated help (Piotr Drag)
• Updated translations

What is new in version 3.26.0:

• Updated translations.

What is new in version 3.24.0:

• Use AX_REQUIRE_DEFINED in configure.ac (Michael Catanzaro)
• Stop using intltool (Sahil Sareen)
• Update MSGCTXT and PACKAGE_GNU in Makevars (Sahil Sareen)
• Keep POTFILES in in alphabetical order (Sahil Sareen)
• Remove trailing whitespace (Sahil Sareen)
• Add translator comments to the .desktop file (Piotr Drag)
• Updated translations

What is new in version 3.22.2:

• Use AX_REQUIRE_DEFINED in configure.ac (Michael Catanzaro)
• Stop using intltool (Sahil Sareen)
• Update MSGCTXT and PACKAGE_GNU in Makevars (Sahil Sareen)
• Keep POTFILES in in alphabetical order (Sahil Sareen)
• Remove trailing whitespace (Sahil Sareen)
• Add translator comments to the .desktop file (Piotr Drag)
• Updated translations

What is new in version 3.22.0:

• When pause is clicked, the game field should be hidden (Tom Pollok)
• Updated translations

What is new in version 3.21.4:

• Drop using declarations(Michael Catanzaro)
• Seed RNG for qqwing(Michael Catanzaro)
• Switch to C++ 11(Michael Catanzaro)
• Fix new warnings about static const variables(Michael Catanzaro)
• Updated translations

What is new in version 3.21.3:

• Fix window size growing out of control with GTK+ 3.20

What is new in version 3.20.2:

• Increase line width around 3x3 boxes.

What is new in version 3.17.2:

• Updated translations

What is new in version 3.16.0:

• Updated translations

What is new in version 3.15.2:

• The highlighter can now be turned off with a preference (Andrei Ghincu)
• XDG_CURRENT_DESKTOP may contain a list of desktops (Robert Ancell)
• Updated translations

What is new in version 3.14.2:

• Fix detection of Unity when XDG_CURRENT_DESKTOP contains a list
• Updated translations

What is new in version 3.14.1:

• Fix 100% CPU usage after generating a puzzle
• Only use a header bar on the print multiple sudokus dialog in environments that request it
• Don't set the main header bar as the title bar in Unity
• Updated Translations

What is new in version 3.14.0:

• Updated translations (Danish, German, Hungarian, Turkish)
• Fixed multi-threading issues (Michael Catanzaro)

What is new in version 3.14 RC1:

• Fix the game in RTL locales (Arnaud Bonatti)
• Various code cleanups and improvements (Arnaud Bonatti)
• Various window layout and drawing improvements (Arnaud Bonatti)
• Add n and r accelerators (Arnaud Bonatti)
• Many miscellaneous bugfixes (Arnaud Bonatti)
• A few miscellaneous bugfixes (Amisha Singla, Michael Catanzaro)
• Fix internationalization of game finished dialog (Marek AŒernockA½, Michael Catanzaro)
• Many updated translations

What is new in version 3.14 Beta 1:

• Dependencies: QQwing >= 1.1.3 (https://mail.gnome.org/archives/distributor-list/2014-August/msg00001.html)
• Started using QQwing as the puzzle generator
• Improved the board aesthetics
• Printing multiple puzzles is now multi-threaded
• Miscellaneous fixes and improvements
• Updated translations

What is new in version 3.13.4:

• Simplified the new game screen
• Improved the number picker design
• Lightly shade the current row, column and block
• Miscellaneous fixes and improvements
• Updated translations

What is new in version 3.12.3:

• Miscellaneous fixes
• Fix crash that was reported by Ubuntu's crash catcher over 5000 times
• Some more stuff is translated now

What is new in version 3.12.2:

• Updated translations

Requirements:

• GTK+
• Python
• PIL