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Sudoku Susser is a comprehensive Sudoku assistant and master-level solver.

Hints mode shows you what numbers are legal for the remaining squares. The Deducer uses human-style reasoning to solve the puzzles and can take you step-by-step through their solution with detailed explanations of each step. The brute-force Recurse option solves all puzzles. And tons of hilighting modes help you see the patterns in the puzzles.

You can even drag puzzles right off the web-pages of major UK newspapers into the application, then edit, save and print them for offline fun.

What’s New:
Version 2.5.6:

Minor Changes

• Mac version is now a universal binary.
• Notes tab lets you make notes about the current puzzle; these notes are saved in the sudokus.txt file.

Bug Fixes

• Some of the more complex hilighters were not properly handing possibility reduction, which would in rare instances cause things to not work right. This has been fixed.
• Save as text and save as graphic now remember the last folder you saved something into, so you don’t have to repeatedly navigate when saving multiple puzzles.
• New preference lets you decide whether the blobs on directional line connectors appear at the start or the end of the connector (used to be always on the end)
• You can now specify a proxy server and port for doing http connections, though it requires manually editing the sudokus.txt file (details in manual)
• Fixed a bug where really excessively complicated implication tree hilights could cause an out of bounds error and crash.
• The embarrassing timer only counts up when it’s actually visible.

Developer’s website: Robert Woodhead