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Sudoku Help - Puzzle creation options

Here's a page from the extensive help system for SudokuDragon. It is displayed as a help screen when running the program. To get the full picture Download our Sudoku Dragon and see the screen in its full context.

We offer a great deal of choice when generating a new Sudoku puzzle for you to solve. Some other solvers don't offer any options at all !

You can select whether you want the program to generate a new Sudoku for you using File | Generate New. It does this randomly and as there are billions to choose from, you aren't going to get the same one next time. If you prefer you can download a Sudoku puzzle from our Web Site, this lets you play the same game as other people and you can use the discussion boards on the web site to discuss your experiences of solving it. Use the File | Download New... command to download a new puzzle this includes a set of daily puzzles.

If you want a blank grid so that you can use Sudoku Dragon to help solve a puzzle printed in a newspaper or magazine you can create a new puzzle with the File | New Blank... or toolbar button. After you have copied in the square allocations you should immediately save the game using File | Save as that sets the initial grid to use if you restart the game later on.

We support a range of grid sizes, by far the most often used is the standard 9 x 9 grid. The smaller grid sizes from 4 x 4 up to 8 x 8 are useful for learning the basics of Sudoku. Larger grid sizes are possible too, but 16 x 16 and 20 x 20 are the super-sized ones that we offer as a challenge for the dedicated puzzle solver.