2. INTRODUCTION

The present program is aimed at being a kind of didactic instrument for all sudokus amateurs. Besides it will help you to improve your skills and to widen your abstract thoughts horizons showing not only the new rules and steps in the game, but also new forms of sudokus problems vision.

If you are a beginner, you will learn the main rules of sudokus. Also you will see the influence zones of each cell. The program can help you prompting every step in order to enable you to solve the most difficult sudokus.

If you consider yourself to be an expert you will discover for yourself the importance of dealing with possibilities. Besides you will be able to solve various sudokus boards and even create new boards with which nobody has ever dealt with before.

Remember that it is you who determines the limits in SudokuSensei v2.0.

2.1 GAME RULES

The main aim of the game is to fill all the cells of the table in such a way that each row and each column of the grid contain different symbols. Besides, each grid is divided into groups or boxes and each group also contains different symbols.

Besides, there are tables which have more than one grid in which grids have one common box.

Each grid, box and cell has the edges of different colors so as to let you distinguish between them easily.

Each sudoku may be solved up to the end if you will follow logical steps.

Each number you have placed gives you the directions to proceed with making progress. Good luck!

2.2 CONTROLS

The game may be fully controlled by the keyboard or by the mouse though we recommend to use both the keyboard and the mouse.

You may enter the menu and chose options in it by means of a keyboard or a tabulator.

To move from one cell of the table to another you may use the cursor or the mouse button to select the cell


For example:

Press “→”: the cell from the right will be selected.

Press “←”: the cell from the left will be selected.

Press “up”: the cell from the bottom will be selected.

Press “down”: the cell from the top will be selected.

To delete the selected cell, press the simbol to delete on the keyboard.

For example:

Press “7” : the simbol "7" will be deleted.

To set the final value in the cell, keep pressed Control button and the symbol you want to set.

For example:

Press “Control + 7”: to set value 7 in the cell.

Another important control are the key of undo and redo actions:

Use “Control + Z” to undo a movement.

Use “Control + X” to redo an undo movement.

If you want to mark your possibilities or set the final value with the help of the mouse, press the cell with double click and select the necessary action in the "Enlarge Window" that will appear later.

2.3 FIRST STEPS

The first thing you will see after the loading of the game will be the main window.

Go to "Game" menu and select "New Board".

Then the dialog in which you will be able to select the necessary board will appear. The default option is a classic sudoku. Select your board and finally press "Create Board".

The new board will appear in the main window and a new window, "Enlarge Window", will appear. In this new window a very wide board and a panel with buttons for deleting the possibilities and setting final values will appear.

Now you will be able to create the new sudoku from a newspaper or to select in "Game" menu the "New Game".

If you press "New Game" button the dialog of game creation will appear. So as we want to start solving sudokus as soon as possible, select the level of difficulty in the window of the "New Game" and press "Ok".

In several seconds the program will create the new sudoku.

Select "Game Mode" in the main window if you need additional help. Also in Sensei mode you will be able to see the solved sudoku if you press "Show Solution" in "Options" menu.

After these first steps you are ready to fight with SudokuSensei v2.0.

But if you want to know more secrets of this program, read the next chapter.