Sandwich Sudoku

Sandwich Sudoku, developed and published by Studio Goya, takes the familiar foundation of classic Sudoku and transforms it into a more layered and intellectually demanding experience. While it preserves the core rule set—filling a 9×9 grid so that each number appears only once per row, column, and subgrid—it introduces an additional constraint that fundamentally changes how players approach every puzzle. This twist is simple to understand but surprisingly deep in execution, making the game feel both accessible and challenging at the same time. The defining mechanic revolves around the “sandwich” clues placed outside each row and column. These numbers indicate the total value of the digits that lie between the 1 and the 9 within that line, forcing players to think not only about placement but also about numerical relationships. This added rule reshapes the logic of Sudoku into something more analytical, requiring players to consider combinations, spacing, and order in ways that go beyond traditional deduction. Instead of solving the grid piece by piece through elimination alone, players must constantly balance multiple layers of reasoning, which makes each completed puzzle feel esp…

This is amazing. It is like regular Sudoku, except you are eating Sandwitches, and Sandwitches are flying around eating at the peripheries of the Sudoku board. IN reality this is phenomonal. Which is good. I would give this a 9.7 out of 10. Easily. However this game leaves me feeling hungery. I Think that this game is good. We should have more games like this. This game is inspiring. The only reason more people don't play it. Is for the same reason that war and justien bieber exist. And that is because well over 80% of all people are stupid. However i am not stupid, is why i playied this game in the first play. I think it is an exellent example of Sudoku. Altough. I have objectively knocked off 0.3 points regressing it from a 10 out of 10 initially to a mere 9.7 out of ten (by 2005-6 IGN standards), as a professional game reviewer, would i have to say that this game bears no daunting and or startleing sound design choices, no blood no gore no nudity. Which is fine. Just fine. However multi language support? Sudoku comes from Japan, initially so it would only make perfect sense to give a Japanese translation, to Pay homeage' (or whatever) to what ever Japaense person wh…

Great learning game. Shouts to Cracking The Cryptic

Having successfully worked hundreds of traditional Sudoku puzzles, I was ready for a change. I ran across "Cracking the Cryptic," and decided to try Sandwich Sudoku. I really enjoy the math clues to help solve the puzzles. It took a fair amount of time to figure out what the numbers on the puzzle menu meant, but finally realized you just start each puzzle by double clicking on any one ( I am old school, so I started with number 1 and worked them in sequence!) i am getting a bit faster with each completed puzzle. Great fun!

Sudoku

The only bad thing I can say about this game is that I find their interface to be less intuitive than Sven's SudokuPad, namely that backspace is bound to the undo action rather than delete, and that N and M are used for undo/redo instead of the more common Ctrl+Z/Ctrl+Y. Still, it provides enough options so that it is still playable for those more used to SudokuPad or other Sudoku apps. One feature of the UI I do like is that it has a specific button for annotating 19 in a single cell - something which you will do a lot in Sandwich Sudoku. You often know where the 1s and 9s are in the puzzle, but don't know which is which, so this is a nice quality-of-life feature. Another feature I really is the hints. Unlike with other puzzle games where it would just reveal the value of a random cell, it actually explains a piece of logic for you, to help you solve the puzzle on your own. This allows the game to become a learning experience where you can become a better Sudoku Solver. There are 100 puzzles in this Sudoku, ranging from fantastically easy to frustratingly difficult. The game encourages you to start slow by only giving you access to the easy puzzles. As you play you will unlock …