E3 2006: Sudoku Gridmaster announced

DS News | With puzzles coming directly from the Sudoku creators.

Who didn’t see this coming – Nintendo will be bringing Sudoku to the DS with help from it's creators, Nikoli, who handpicked all of the 400-plus puzzles. Sudoku Gridmaster is not the first time we’ll seen Sudoku on the DS though, as it will be included in the first “Brain” game coming to PAL regions in June.

Practically a match made in heaven, players will be able to touch the square on the Sudoku grid that they want to fill in and then either choose the number gamer’s wish to fill the square with from the touchscreen keypad or just write the number on the screen using the stylus.

Some very handy features include the ability to highlight entire columns of numbers and the ability to highlight every occurrence of a particular number in the grid, as shown here. There are four levels of difficulty; practice, easy, normal, hard, as well as four tutorials to help beginners to Sudoku.

No mention of multiplayer yet, but stayed tuned to PALGN - we'll bring you more as we know it. For now, you check out the first screenshots of Sudoku Gridmaster in the media panel.

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