Jan
A few months ago, my mom got me into Sudoku. For those who haven’t heard about the “puzzle sensation that’s sweeping the nation” (as one of my puzzle books calls it), it’s a logic problem involving numbers. It’s not a math puzzle though. I’ve always done crossword puzzles before bed when I wanted to just do something quick before sleep (i.e. not read a book since I can’t put those down and might end up staying awake for hours more). But the last few months have involved mostly Sudoku puzzles.
Unfortunately, it involves this annoyance of penciling things in and erasing them, thus piling up little eraser shreds all over my bed. Ew. Also, books full of the puzzles aren’t that cheap. I was looking on Amazon and $7 seems like a lot of money for 100 puzzles. So I looked for free web puzzles and found Web Sudoku, which seems quite nice. Only problem is it’s mighty inconvenient to click around with the mouse and enter the numbers using the keyboard.
As I thought about this, I realized, hey, I have a Tablet PC
- that means I can flip my screen around, turn it flat and write on the screen with a stylus (I’m talking about my laptop, not somehow my home machine with the giant Dell 2405 monitor). Now that would be perfect, playing on my computer, so no nasty eraser woes, but still being able to write the numbers in.
One web search later and I found Inkudoku, which sounds like exactly what I want. Of course, it’s just a website and a description, the product isn’t available yet! But I thought I’d talk about it anyway, just in case anyone was curious. 