Sudoku Dragon Stripe

We've added our own unique twist to the Sudoku puzzle. All the daily puzzles and puzzles generated online have a row or column or region in the solution arranged as a stripe of all the numbers in order (or reverse order).

This is provided as an option within the Sudoku Dragon program when you generate a new puzzle. Here are some examples of puzzles with the stripe shown.

Sudoku stripe 1 In this puzzle the stripe was hidden away in reverse order in the last column. The Sudoku stripe can be in normal or reverse order and in any row or column.

Sudoku stripe 2 The stripe can also be wrapped into a region or mini-grid. The top-central region had the numbers 1 to 9 hidden as a sequence. The pattern can also be found in reverse order in regions, these can be quite hard to spot.

We hope you'll enjoy solving our puzzles with the Sudoku stripe as it adds a new addition to your solution strategy. Finding where the stripe is located will generally unlock the solution to a number of grid squares. But in more challenging puzzles it is often very tricky to work out where the stripe might be hidden.