Ancient Sudoku Review
Ancient Sudoku is your basic Sudoku Mac game. Click on numbers to fill in the squares, and complete the 9x9 grid by placing in each row, column and 3x3 box numbers from 1 through 9 without using a number more than once. With that said, there is much more to Ancient Sudoku besides the mysterious sounding music. You can create your own puzzle, get one from newspapers or books, choose from multiple tile sets, print a sudoku and use an in game music player.
By creating your own puzzle from your ideas or from a newspaper, magazine or book you customize your play. The computer verifies that the puzzle is solvable before using it. In addition, this game can check boards you have already done. This process is a great step for correcting your many finished sudoku puzzles.
The many options to this game are the difficulty levels, check on duplicates and errors, and different tile sets. Also you can change the look of the selector (ring, keypad, spinner), turn animation on and off, and of course, the usual sound level and music level.
There is a Master Challenge for all those who are a whiz at sudoku and want a more difficult play. You complete a set of 10 sudoku boards in sequence with escalating difficulty. Upon finishing all 10 boards, you become the master high scorer.
On the regular Sudoku play, you choose the difficulty level and tile set. Whether you play with the usual numbers or you change it up a little by switching to the letters or colors, it’s up to you. The helps are the standard helps: hint, solve, undo and save. The pencil hints will put all possible numbers (letters or colors) in each square. I didn’t like the fact that the possible numbers were not in the same location in each square which made scanning across rows and down columns more difficult, but that didn't create a big hardship. I just had to be more careful. The other minor annoyance was that the duplicate numbers in the hints were not automatically removed when you placed a number in the square, but you had to click on pencil hints button again to remove them. This would not have been bad except in Sudoku Latin Squares, they remove the duplicates immediately without having to click another button. One gets spoiled quickly when it comes to mac games.
Overall Ancient Sudoku with its mellow, Asian like music was a relaxing way to spend a quiet afternoon solving sudokus. The many options give it a variety of changes to keep you interested and engaged in this game.
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Sudoku Latin Squares Review
At first glance, I thought the Mac game, Sudoku Latin Squares, had a Latin American flair to it. I don’t think this is far-fetched since there are so many Asian, Mayan, Hawaiian themed games out there. So naturally I waited for the fiesta-like screen or music to show up. It didn’t appear. Upon further investigation, I learned that the term Latin squares referred to a mathematical grid which one developer used Latin characters as symbols for experiments. Sudoku is a form of Latin squares. Who knew? Ok, ok, all you math geeks out there knew.
In any event, Sudoku Latin Squares is a very fun play. It consists of 2 games in one. One is the Latin Squares with various game fields and 4 difficulty levels, and the other is the familiar Sudoku 9 x 9 grid. Latin Squares’ columns and rows contain numbers with 1 through how many squares in the columns and rows. Also each colored section 
must have numbers 1 through how many squares with the same color with no number repeating in each section, just like Sudoku. Latin Squares’ easy level starts with 3 columns and 3 rows with 3 colored areas. The columns and rows and colors increase as the difficulty level increases. By starting out at the easy level you quickly learn the game, and for beginners this is an ideal way to learn. Of course, once you get the hang of this game the easy levels are not challenging, and you must go on to the more difficult levels for enjoyment and excitement.
You play Sudoku exactly the way you would play the newspaper or book games. It has just one game field with 4 difficulty levels. Click on numbers to fill in the squares , and complete the grid by placing in each row, column, and 3 by 3 box numbers from 1 through 9 without using a number more than once.
Both of these games, Latin Squares and Sudoku, will offer hours of entertainment in addition to working your mental 
fitness. I liked the grid size, clarity, and layout of these games. Some extra features also helped make my play a little more pleasant and easier. The Auto hints button puts in each blank square all the possible numbers. I used this feature since my right click button was not working properly and didn’t want to use the control-click button to access the numbers. The numbers were all in the same location in each box. This is really helpful so you can quickly scan the columns and rows. Another neat feature was the print button for all those who like to write out your Sudokus (I’m one of them). I’ve never found Mac games to have interesting music, but I didn’t mind the music for once. If you do not like it, you can always turn it off or use itunes.
I imagine in future generations of the game, the screens will be more advanced with larger grids and more variety of patterns and colors, but in the meantime, this Sudoku Latin Squares is a clever twist to the standard Sudoku game. Do your brain a favor and try this mentally challenging game while having fun at the same time.
Features of Sudoku Latin Squares:
-2 great games – Sudoku and Latin Squares
-hints, undos and saves
-print feature
-mark squares with notes
-auto notes
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