kaidoku 1.0.1

Player, solver and creater of sudoku puzzles

Kaidoku can solve sudoku puzzles as shown in the figure, play with the puzzles and create sudoku puzzles with a command-line interface.

Kaidoku is a

• player of sudoku. You can play original sudoku puzzles of various level of difficulty with command line interface. You can get hints when you want.

• solver of sudoku. It can solve a sudoku puzzle and show the procedure of solving a sudoku puzzle with various logics. It evaluates if a given puzzle is valid sudoku with unique solution.

• creater of sudoku. It can create new sudoku puzzles. The puzzles shipped with this program was created by the program itself.

Online player

25000 sudoku puzzles classified with 9 difficulty levels are available online. Hints can be shown by running kaidoku with pyodide.

https://sekika.github.io/kaidoku/sudoku

Full document

Document is availabe in English and Japanese.

https://sekika.github.io/kaidoku/

Supported logics

• Naked single, pair, triple and quad

• Hidden single, pair, triple and quad

• Pointing pair and triple

• X-wing family (Swordfish and Jellyfish)

• XY-wing and XYZ-wing

• Remote pairs

• Chain of pairs

• Trial and search