Do you like to play sudoku? Do you prefer images over numbers? You may for this game. Picture sudoku lets you choose images from photo-sharing site Flickr with which to fill your sudoku puzzle. You can specify the tag and/or the user whose images you want to integrate into the game.
Examples:
Chicagoland sudoku (with just my photos)
turtle sudoku (with everyone’s photos)
long-shadow sudoku (with everyone’s photos)
chocolate sudoku (with everyone’s photos)
As you can see, the possibilities are endless.
The game also gives you a “blank” with which to erase placement of photos. If you are intrigued by a picture and want to see it in full size on Flickr then just click on the asterisk next to its name in the left-hand column.
Have fun!
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I haven’t quite figured out yet, whether Sudoku is fun. I worked my way through about a book’s worth of them a few weeks ago and I kind of get the point, but it seems like mostly I was just able to solve them or not able to—there wasn’t any middle ground where there was a real challenge. Once in a while I would hit on a new solving rule which was kind of fun when it happened—but I can’t really imagine that continuing to happen with any regularity over a long period of working the puzzles.
I was looking for there to be a kind of chess-like (or “paint by numbers”-like) thing on the harder puzzles, where I would make a putative entry mentally and then work ahead to try and find a contradiction; but could not seem to get it to work out.
Thanks for the new addiction. I really needed that. Really.
Definitely more of a time sink than numbers! Not sure whether to say thanks or not – do bloggers need time sinks?
Heheh, I apologise if it’s too much of a time sink. ;-)
Becky (the inventor of Flickr Sudoku)
I’m wondering—Are computer algorithms good at solving those puzzles?
I am pretty sure that “being solvable by algorithm” is a requirement for a valid Sudoku puzzle.
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