

The use of the power ups are limited by the token system. The game has 8 different power ups, with functions that help the player in solving the puzzle, like give the correct value for a cell or slowing the time down, boost XP, etc. The experience points collected will increase the player rank, and make the power ups available. Intense - 9x9 puzzle, recommended rank: Master, starts with 5000 pointsįinishing a game yields experience points, even if the player gave up the puzzle.


The game has two play modes: the classic mode and the lightning mode. The game later received a spiritual successor with Microsoft Sudoku. As a free-to-play game, the game includes basic banner advertisements. Similar to the studio's adaptation of Minesweeper, Sudoku adheres to Microsoft's Metro interface while adding new functionality to the base game, including Xbox Live support (such as leaderboards and achievements), a persistent XP system, unlockable power-ups, and an alternate point-based scoring mode ("Lightning"). Sudoku is a free-to-play puzzle game developed by Babaroga and released digitally by Microsoft Game Studios for Windows Phone 7 devices on July 29, 2011.Ī digital adaptation of the number-puzzle game of the same name, Sudoku tasks players with filling a 9x9 grid with a combination of numeric digits (with some of the grid pre-filled, higher difficulties making the board more ambiguous) so that each row, column, and 3x3 sub-grid have all nine digits.
