PLATINUM SUDOKU Gameloft

Leave the messy pen and newspaper behind and play one of 20 million Sudoku anywhere! Fans of numbers and breaks, this is for you! With millions of Sudoku and Kakuro grids, your puzzle solving skills will be put to the most challenging test. Create your own grid with the “Custom Puzzle” mode for endless fun, or use the “Solver” mode to escape unavoidable failure. Coaches offer tons of Sudoku and Kakuro secrets, and advanced players will face tricky grids with higher levels of difficulty, including the “Sudoku X,” an exclusive game mode where diagonals come into play. Are you ready to face the challenge?

Playing Platinum Sudoku

Goal

Think hard to crack millions of Sudoku grids: fill a 9×9 grid so that each column, each row, and each of the nine 3×3 boxes contains the digits 1 through 9 and never repeat.

Play Kakuro grids also: insert a digit from 1 through 9 into each white cell so that the sum in each entry matches the clue associated with it and no digit is duplicated in any line or column.

Unlock the 5 increasing levels of difficulty, from “easy” to “sudoku X”, an exclusive game mode where diagonals come into play

Rack your brain even more with 6 other numeric challenges.

Game Play Screen

How to play classic Sudoku and Kakuro

Let the coaches explain all the tricks and secrets to you.

Sudoku tutorial Kakuro tutorial

6 additional challenges

Subtract - Drag smaller Pair match - Connect every Shuffle - Drag the numbers numbers into bigger ones number with its pair. The paths to arrange them in to subtract them. must not intersect! consecutive order. Your goal is to reach 0.

Choice block - Drag the High Sum - Touch the block Mine Detector - Each number block that completes the with the largest sum shows how many mines are grid to the center. around it. Touch all empty cells to win.

In-game options

Num-pad/Handwriting – Choose how to write your number.

Draft – Take notes in the selected cell.

Options – Go to the options menu. Options – Set game options. Highlight – Highlight the current line and column, as well as current diagonal in Sudoku X. Auto possibles – Automatically show possible numbers in cells. Coach’s tips – Activate this option if you want the coach to give you hints from time to time. Easiest cell – Mark the easiest cell to solve. Font – Choose your font. Music – Choose your music and adjust the volume. Skin – Choose your screen skin. Grid – Choose your grid design.

Hint – Choose a hint to help you solve the grid.

Undo – Undo your last action.

Eraser – Erase the number in the selected cell.

Controls

Touch a cell with your finger to select it. Depending on the game mode, either draw directly the number onscreen with your finger or touch the desired number on the dial.

Handwriting – Draw the number with Num-pad – Dial the desired number. your finger.

Pausing – Press the Menu button during the game to pause.

Setting Up Your Game

Main Menu

Quick game – Quickly start a new grid. Sudoku – Enjoy the 20,000,000 million Sudoku grids. Play Sudoku ! – Start a new grid in one of the 5 available difficulty levels: easy, medium, hard, pro and Sudoku X. 20 million grids – Enter a grid number to play it. Learn Sudoku – The coaches will explain to you how to play Sudoku. Tutorial – The basic rules of Sudoku. Lessons – Improve your Sudoku skills with the coach’s tips & tricks. Custom Grid – Create your own grid. Solver mode – Solve any Sudoku grid by entering the number you already have. Kakuro – Enjoy the 350 Kakuro grids. Play Kakuro – Start a new grid in one of the 3 available difficulty levels: easy, medium and hard. Learn Kakuro – The basic rules of Kakuro. Challenges – Play with numbers in 6 additional games. Subtract – Drag smaller numbers into bigger ones to subtract them. Your goal is to reach 0. Pair Match – Connect every number with its pair. The paths must not intersect! Shuffle – Drag the numbers to arrange them in consecutive order. Choice block – Drag the block that completes the grid to the center. High sum – Touch the block with the largest sum. Mine detector – Each number shows how many mines are around it. Touch all empty cells to win. Options – Set game options.

Pause Menu

Resume game – Resume the game in progress. Clear grid – Clear all the cells of the grid in progress. Back to menu – Got back to the main menu.

Options Menu

Choose an Option or press the arrow at the bottom of the screen to go back to the main Menu. Coach – Choose your coach. Sound – Set the sound options. Stats – Check your stats. Language – Choose one of the 6 available languages. Reset progress – Reset your game. About – Game information.

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