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The Sudoku Room

Sudoku that shows its working — watch a puzzle being made, learn the nineteen techniques that solve them, and never be told wrong without being told why.

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The Forge

readyPick a band and press forge. Nothing here is a re-enactment — the grid you watch is the grid you get.
Tricky

Three questions make a sudoku. Can this grid be finished? — constraint propagation fills a blank grid at random. Does it still have exactly one answer? — every clue removed is tested by counting solutions, and put back if a second one appears. Can a person finish it? — the same solver you get hints from tries the puzzle with only the techniques this band promises. When all three agree, you have a puzzle.

The Codex

Nineteen ways to work out a square, in the order people learn them. Meeting one opens its idea and a real position to practise on; finding it yourself three times, unaided, makes it yours.

Lesson

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How this works

The promise

Every puzzle here has exactly one answer, and every puzzle here can be finished by reasoning — never by guessing. That is not a slogan: the generator refuses to ship a grid its own technique library cannot finish, and you can watch it refuse, in The Forge.

Playing

Tap a square, then a digit. The notes button switches the pad to pencil marks; fill notes writes every legal candidate for you and keeps them tidy as you go. Undo is unlimited. Nothing is timed unless you want it to be, and Zen mode turns off the clock, the mistake ink and the counting altogether.

Keyboard: arrows or WASD to move · 1–9 to write · shift+1–9 for a pencil mark · backspace to erase · N notes · A fill notes · U undo · H hint · space pause

Hints that teach

The hint button is a ladder, not an answer. Press it once and the room names the technique that is available. Press again and it shows you where to look. Press a third time and it explains the argument in plain words and plays the move. Nothing is ever revealed by peeking at the answer — the room finds the move the same way you would.

Learning

Each technique the room uses on your behalf joins your codex, with its idea and a real position to practise on. Find a technique yourself three times — in a puzzle that genuinely needed it, without hints — and it is marked mastered, and the room stops explaining it.

What it costs

Nothing. There are no ads, no accounts, no subscriptions, no analytics and no server: your progress lives in this browser and nowhere else, and the whole room works offline once loaded. If you clear your browser data it is gone, because there is nowhere else for it to be.

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