Application Description
| Numberz (Sudoku game) for Palm OS |
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Beautiful rendition of SuDoku on your Palm handheld
device.
Try your luck at the fastest growing puzzle sensation.
Generates proper one solution SuDoku puzzles quickly and easily at
varying difficulty levels. Up to 2 Billion unique puzzles can be
generated.
Named in the list of 12 killer apps of all-time for Palm OS by Rick Broida (Founder & former editor of Handheld Computing Magazine)
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Features include:
- Generates standard 9x9 puzzles quickly and easily.
Can generate up to 2 Billion different puzzles!
- Five different number entry methods. The most
flexible Sudoku interface available today!
- Intuitive interface makes solving
puzzles fun.
- Extensive support for the 5-way navigation keypad for
one handed operation without a stylus!
- Five individual skill levels of puzzle generation to
challenge you.
- Enter in your own puzzles from magazines or other
sources.
- World class built-in puzzle solver, with hint
capability.
- Full support for "pencil marks", including automatic
marks.
- Customizable number outline colors, crosshatch line
color.
- Crosshatching support.
- Custom highlighting support for advanced puzzle
solving techniques.
- Load/Save unlimited number of game states by name.
- Remove wrong or Replace wrong numbers simply by
selecting a menu option.
- Quick save/load (snapshot) of your puzzle state.
- High-scores are kept at each level for number of
moves, time completion, as well as number of puzzles solved.
- Crisp and clean graphics, with easy to read text.
- Unlimited undo feature to go back
in your steps.
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Product Screenshots:
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System Requirements:
- Any Palm OS device with OS 3.5 or greater.
- Works with either color or grey scale devices.
Including high-resolution devices, as well as high-resolution sony
devices.
- Supports all popular device models, including the
Treo 600, 650, 700P, 755p, Centro, LifeDrive, Zire 72,71,31, and more!
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- 100% satisfaction guaranteed on all purchases
- 30 Day money back guarantee
- Same day support requests
- Lifetime FREE product upgrades (when available)
- Buy now, get your registration code immediately
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Updated Description:
Version 4.12: Registration code issues have been fixed.
Version 4.10: Increased speed of puzzle generation and screen rendering. Improved graphics. Improved speed on Sony devices. Added support to register the device for those individudals who have a Treo device and do not have a Hotsync name.
Version 4.0: Extensive changes to the User Interface. Modified the handling of pencil marks to allow for more versatility. Added highlighting capability, as well as puzzle preview in both load and import functions. Many more enhancements and bug fixes.
Version 3.93: Issue during entering of registration number, that caused some devices to lock-up temporarily. Most notably affected Zire 72. This has been fixed.
Version 3.92: Issue with some devices launching the application and only seeing a blank white screen.
Version 3.91: Saved game database is now backed up when a hotsync is performed. Some grey scale/B&W devices had problems displaying game. This has been fixed. After puzzle is completed, automatically brings up level select dialog. Fixed issue with not being able to delete entered numbers with the `x¿ button during a custom game entry.
Version 3.9: Some customers with Sony devices had trouble getting into hi-resolution mode. This has been fixed.
Version 3.8: Changed game layout for ease of use. Combined all hi-res/low-res/sony versions into one file. Reduced installed game size by over 50%
Version 3.7: Added alternative method of number activation by tapping on any fixed black number in the puzzle grid area. Fixed bug with generating always a beginner level even after completing an advanced level. Added new additional method of choosing a number to cross-hatch.
Version 3.6: Fixed registration issue some users were experiencing. Added quick-replace of a cell's contents by tapping and holding the stylus.
Version 3.5: Several bug fixes. Now includes new improved self-extracting installer, for easy installations.
Version 3.4:
Fixed several issues with some devices experiencing problems tapping on various areas of the screen, and not producing any results. Added Remove Wrong/Replace wrong option to the Puzzle menu. Modified screen layout and graphics for all versions (high resolution, Sony high resolution, low resolution color, and low resolution black and white). Modified pencil mark operation in that if two numbers exist in a cell, and you remove one of the marks, the remaining mark stays a mark and doesn't turn into a "placed" number, unless you select that number from the sidebar and tap on the cell again to bring it forward. Added the option to show or hide the game time elapsed. Added capability to override the default auto-off time of the device only during game play.
Version 3.3:
Fixed several bugs including reset statistics, undo buffer getting corrupted sometimes on puzzle save/load. Added customizable outline color, crosshatch color, as well as background images. Also added a hint capability.
Version 3.2:
Added the ability to check the solvability of the puzzle at any time, and also to point out obvious mistakes by SuDoku rules. Also added a preference to allow invalid number entry.
Reduced file sizes drastically. Hi-res version is now half the size.
Small bug in the undo moves feature.
Version 3.1:
Sony devices had a bug with the puzzle numbers not able to be entered properly. This has been fixed in this version.
Version 3.0:
Support for manual pencil marks. Full save and load capability as well as Import/Export to memo pad. Added support for crosshatching. Fixed an issue with solver not always finding solutions.
Version 2.0 adds: Automatic penicl marks, puzzle solving capability. User entered puzzles now allowed. Sony hi-res Clie support, as well as support for older Grey scale Palm devices.
Shareware
$9.95 USD
User Reviews
3636 of 7240 people found this review helpful:
20-Sep-07 by Patricia Kurt
RETIRE YOUR PENCIL - THIS IS A GREAT SUDOKU APP!
The feature I enjoy most is the existence of various options/modes for working within the puzzle. It is great to be able to highlight all of a certain number, then move to crosshatch mode to get a different perspective (while still holding the highlighting). The ability to update all VALID pencil marks at once is a feature that I find myself frequently employing. The statistics feature is nice for tracking improvement in time and number of moves. This is a great product at a very reasonable price!
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4381 of 8549 people found this review helpful:
18-Jan-06 by Scott Brown
I have to say that this is one of the best products in its category and class of game. I found the product to be very well written and pleasing from a UI perspective. I went thought the demo puzzles and when I had two puzzles remaining (of the 10 allowed) I decided to register. I would think that the author may get more advanced users to register the product if the demo allowed you to select a difficulty level for each of the 10 puzzles instead of always giving the beginner level. It is very nice to have a tool like this that you can take with you and work on a given puzzle when time permits. I would like to see the product have additional ability to customize it in the future (maybe support skins in the future), but the way it is today works quite well. I would highly recommend this product based on it professional look and feel along with a reasonable price. Customer service when I had a question was quick and responsive. The author was looking for feedback on how to make the product better. Keep up the great work.
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4224 of 8440 people found this review helpful:
17-Jan-06 by Steve Stang
VERY nice program with plenty of features. Numbers are easy to see and enter and I love the pencil marks on this one. I also really appreciate the fact that you can create your own custom puzzles (I like to create the same puzzles from the newspapers that my co-workers work on). The only "glitch", if you will, that I've encountered is when you are creating a custom puzzle and accidentally drop a number into a square that you didn't intend to drop it into, the "x" (delete) button does not work to remove it. You have to start over again with a new puzzle in order to create the puzzle the way you want. Perhaps this could be a quick fix in a future version. Otherwise I still give this program 5 stars! Truly addictive! -- Thanks!
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4210 of 8572 people found this review helpful:
04-Jan-06 by Robert Stewart
Numberz is superior to almost all of the others in most every way. Memory usage is quite low; some competing programs use five or more times the memory. The display is easy on the eyes; it is colorful and clear. It works (almost) ideally (according to my definition of ideal, of course); competing programs require more taps for the same results. Numberz has smart user interaction elements that streamline the number of taps needed to do common tasks such as replacing all pencil marks with a value by a simple tap-n-hold.
Is everything perfect? Nope. You can't control the colors of all UI elements. There aren't any themes, including a custom theme, whereby you can switch all colors at once. There isn't enough control over the display elements you can change. For example, the user-entered values must be black, but you can choose the corona color to highlight them. You can't hide unwanted UI elements like the timer or cross hatch buttons, for example, which would simplify the appearance of the app.
There are only two functional suggestions I have for Numberz to make it perform ideally. The first has to do with what tapping does in manual pencil mark mode. The first tap in a square should enter the selected number as a pencil mark, not as a value. Tapping a square with a number for which a mark exists in the square should remove that number's mark or, if there are no other marks in the square, change the mark to a value. Tapping a square with a number that is already in the square as a value should erase the value. Second, I'd like a semi-automatic pencil mark mode that will revert to a value when only one pencil mark remains in a square.
Despite my wishlist for these features, I bought this app. I tried every other sudoku app at PalmGear before buying this one. None others came close to Numberz.
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4297 of 8623 people found this review helpful:
05-Sep-05 by Carlos Sztoltz
There isn't much to say about Sudoku. It's a logical an nice puzzle. But this game has a lot of features and the last version has even snapshots so you can go back to a point where, e.g., you started to make some guesses. The support is also very good and they add suggestions and fix bugs real fast. I have tested some Sudoku games, but this is the one! It's worth to try!
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Shareware
$9.95 USD
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