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[xemnosyst]

A sudoku web app with a help menu to visualize many different strategies you could use on the current board. Play at https://sudoku.simonton.app

Other features:
- "Auto apply" any strategy to have the app apply as you play. Personally, I let the game erase candidates and apply naked singles for me.
- Play within your web browser; no need to install anything.
- Alternatively, "Add to homescreen" from Chrome or Safari. It will look and feel similar to a native app, and can be played offline.
- Share a link to your current game exactly as you have it. E.g. https://sudoku.simonton.app/?board=faE7 ... urqxlw1PNF

[creint]

https://sudoku.simonton.app/?board=hAmgCYIWTECo0rFAhFkwikUFlGgADcWzuWdhtnkhvNFsyOXgVU76e8N2jlFqL6ENQO4RkFGrEm86AiT2cQsChSW7YDUnfg7AuWl
64: Continuous loop of 6
You are missing -1r7c6, seeing both on and off, don't know if that is still within the definition.

Could it be nicer if you render the digits on top of the drawing instead of behind?
Is there an import function?

[xemnosyst]

Thank you for checking it out, and for the feedback!

Interesting observation about that loop. It never occurred to me that you could eliminate candidates based on non-consecutive members in a loop. Makes sense! I will add that to my TODO list.

I do see what you mean about the lines obscuring the numbers. I spent some time on colors recently, and I think it's worse now. Changing the rendering order could be a bit more involved ... maybe I can make the lines a little translucent to mitigate the issue as a quick improvement, even if that wouldn't be as nice as rendering the lines under the numbers but still over the highlighting & grid.

There is an import function. From the menu button in the top left, go to "Share" then "Import from clipboard". If it recognizes what you have in your clipboard that will do the import, otherwise it will popup up a dialog explaining the format needed.

[xemnosyst]

A few more features to point out since February:

• Enter a custom game, editing the givens
• Set light/dark theme
• Import & export puzzle strings
• The help menu finds and visualizes nets
• Viewing a net lists other strategies that would be equivalent in that case. This is a work in progress. So far it recognizes these equivalents:
  
  • Hidden single
  • Omission
  • Hidden pair
  • Naked pair
  • Complex x-wing, listing base and cover sets
  • Turbot fish
  • Empty rectangle
  • Unique rectangle types 1, 2, 4, 5, and 6
  • Hidden rectangle
  • Avoidable rectangle types 1, 2, 4, 5, and hidden
  • XY-wing
  • XYZ-wing
  • W-wing

For example check out the nets in the help menu for this game. (I wanted to attach a screenshot, but is errors with "the board attachment quota has been reached".)

[coyote56]

It is a very interesting and instructive application. It would be great if selecting a number would highlight all the candidates for that number, it would make it much easier to find strategies at a glance.
Thank you.
My apologies. That option is already included in the settings. I don't understand how it went unnoticed.