Top Sudoku Sites

Here are the best all round sites for Sudoku fans.

• Pappocom
  Pappocom offers a program which will create endless new puzzles for you. It also offers a solver for many newspaper published puzzle, rules, how to play, a players forum and regular competitions.
• Astraware Sudoku
  Great all-round Sudoku site with six new puzzles each day in 6 categories of difficulty, tutorials for solving sudoku puzzles using every type of technique, downloadable Sudoku and Sudoku for the Palm OS.
• Mark Huckvale
  Compiler of puzzles printed in The Independent with easy puzzles to get the kids hooked,a booklet of challenging puzzles and an online puzzle generator.
• Solve Sudoku (Without even thinking!)
  Great Sudoku tutoral on simple method for solving the puzzles.
• The Mathematical Association of America
  A discription of how to play many of the varients of Sudoku, including Colour Sudoku, Magic Sudoku, Sums Sudoku, Factor Rooms, Geometry Sudoku, More Than Sudoku and many more.
• Simetric
  Two Sudoku tutorials, one is a step by step solution for a puzzle printed in The Daily Telegraph, the other is a seven page tutorial for a 'feindish' puzzle printed in The Times.
• Su-Doku.net
  Great all-round sudoku site with daily puzzles to play online or print off, information and solving techiques.
• A Sudoku Solver
  By Roger Hui. From Vector Magazine which is "the journal of the BAA, which promotes the APLs - very terse programming languages derived from Iverson’s mathematical notation." This Sudoku Solver is written in text, so if you understood the last sentence I guess you can cut and paste it, then run it. (Can you tell I don't know what I'm talking about).
• Sudoku-Help Plus
  The Sudoku Puzzler's Perfect Notepad! Not a solver but a downloadable spreadsheet that automatically updates all the available options as you solve a puzzle. Sudoku Help Plus includes 72 puzzles plus some Cluedoku (Alphabetic Sudoku) Puzzles. The site also includes a Sudoku solving tutorial and proposes a rating system for the difficulty of Sudokus.
• Sudoku Made Easier
  Detailed explanation of how to solve a puzzle, notable for the printable Elimination Grid which you can use for eliminating possible solutions rather than trying to fit little pencil marks in the squares.
• Sudoku Programmers Forum
  Forum for anyone interested in setting puzzles and writing solver and generation programs.
• Wikipedia
  Definition of Sudoku from open source encyclopedia, with lively debate on the content of the article.
• Let's Make Sudoku
  A step by step guide to making your own Sudoku puzzles.
• The Sudoku Experience
  Sudoku Blog with the latest Sudoku programs, information and musings.
• Solving Sudoku (or... how to solve sudoku, yawn...)
  Step-by-step technique for solving the puzzles.
• Su Doku FAQ
  Alogrithms for writing creation and solver programs