Sudoku on the Monarch

I was just thinking that to help students learn how to point and click, Sudoku could be another game that could be written for the monarch. I’ve never been able to play and I think it’d be fun. Since each number is just one cell, it’d be easy enough to display a 9 by 9 grid even if you included tactile grid lines. I still have not been able to beat the very easy level of chess so would love another game that I may actually be able to beat! :slight_smile:

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I made some Monarch Sudoku puzzles! It would also be great to have a Monarch Sudoku app. I hope you enjoy these.

Jenny
Sudoku Easy Volume 1 Book 1.pdf (2.0 MB)

Have you tried inputting these in to keyword to see if it displays correctly and if you can edit it by inputting numbers in to the squares?

Unfortunately, these are just PDF pictures of gameboards, and they don’t respond interactively in Tactile Viewer, but they do allow a user to have an entire board available for viewing electronically in a graphic and spatial format. Another option would be to use a BRF file rather than PDF and open it in KeyBraille - then a user would be able to input answers.

Hopefully there will eventually be a Sudoku app for the Monarch that will do all of this interactively.

See my post from earlier today with 250 Sudoku puzzles that are in BRF format that you can edit. The challenge with putting them in Key Word is that there isn’t really a way to distinguish between the number that is a part of the set puzzle and the number the user puts in. When I tried this (before Seeing Hands shared the 250 puzzles), I was left with a hashtag instead of a number sign which I believe increase the input number to three Braille cells instead of two. The challenge with displaying the NLS Sudoku book is that you cannot display the entire board at one time on the Monarch. That is because the book has full Braille cells surrounding the 3 by 3 grids which is nice for keeping track of these, but does increase the vertical line count.