Sudoku with a friend
August 14, 2007 on 11:42 am | In Features | 19 Comments
If you’ve traveled on a plane in the last year, you know that Sudoku is the latest game that is puzzling people of all ages. If you’re among them, check out the Pandaf Sudoku plug-in for Yahoo! Messenger (8.1).
It’s a conversation plug-in which means it runs during an IM conversation, allowing both you and your friend to work on a Sudoku puzzle together. That’s great for me because I don’t usually get very far in a Sudoku puzzle on my own.
Maybe I need to brush up on my Sudoku strategy…
To add this plug-in to Yahoo! Messenger, visit the Pandaf Sudoku plug-in page in the gallery and click the “Install Now” button. To use it, you need to be running the latest version of Yahoo! Messenger for Windows (8.1). If you’re running 8.1 right now, click here to install the plug-in.
To find more plug-in games to play on your own or with a friend, check out the Fun & Games category in the gallery.
Sarah Bacon
Product Manager
Can we get battleship on yahoo games and messenger? That seems like it would be fun
More single and multiplayer games please
Comment by chatter_chatter_chatter — August 14, 2007 #
Sudoku is very easy. I need tougher challenge.
Comment by user — August 14, 2007 #
BTW the Sudoku puzzle was last updated 4 months ago.
This is not NEW.
Is that really the best you could come up with?
Sudoku was written by ‘pandaf’ (well done) and not Yahoo.
Yahoo, are you folks actually doing ANYTHING?
Comment by deep (again) — August 16, 2007 #
thank
Comment by Nguyen hai Minh Quan — August 17, 2007 #
[...] share your Sudoku smarts with your buddy while chatting over IM about your weekend plans. Read more here or check out other games you can play with your pals over Yahoo! Messenger [...]
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Hi, Sarah. I’m free next saturday for some fun Sudoku.
Comment by Jaunty Mellifluous — August 18, 2007 #
Finally! I have been waiting for this. Thanks Yahoo!
Comment by Sam — August 20, 2007 #
currently most rooms i am being sent to are nothing but bots??
Comment by an unhappy chatter — August 20, 2007 #
OK! That last post just does not sound right in any possible context. I’m gonna go play SUDOKU!
Comment by Chet Simpson — August 20, 2007 #
thanks sarah I like this game
Comment by hi — August 20, 2007 #
That Sudoku isn’t working that great.
Comment by sceptic — August 20, 2007 #
Gee, anyone wanna play Sudoku with me while we wait?
Comment by Venom — August 20, 2007 #
Sudoku is a fun game…you can play it while you’re waiting to get into a chat room…or shortly after you get booted!
Comment by eparico — August 20, 2007 #
Sudoku would be great if… nevermind.
I can’t say I really play Y! games though. Yahoo! Fighter would be my favorite if I had to choose though.
Comment by Adam [Torseq Tech] — August 21, 2007 #
To be honest a solo Sudoku plug-in would be nice for those conversations where you’re bored with the person but they keep on talking.
Comment by Bobby — August 21, 2007 #
Once again, Sarah, thank you for your continuing dilligence with providing information pertinent to the current status of chat system updates and fixes.
I am still seeing a lot of intolerance, and a lot of pure ignorance among the vast majority of chat users concerning the chat system problems, in particular the accidental downgrade of your room server code to the original way of handling join requests. I find this to be disheartening, but your blogs give me hope of an eventual resolution, on a par with your previous system upgrades over the time that Y!Chat has been in existence.
What the dissenters people fail to understand is the sheer complexity of upgrading *any* distributed system while it’s still live. Y! is by no means a small chat system, and it’s also extremely complex (the login stage of YMSG is a good demonstration of the handshaking involved between servers).
I am now, as I always have been, positive about the changes being made to this department of Y!, because changes *are* happening. And thanks again for your recent entry! Keep up the good work, and don’t listen to the doomsayers!
Comment by John D. Morden — August 21, 2007 #
I bet the Yahoo people don’t even play the games they create for us to play. Oh wait, I don’t play the crappy games @ Yahoo. I play @ POGO, http://www.pogo.com. A lot more fun than Yahoo games.
Comment by Russ — August 24, 2007 #
Sudoku! Sudoku! My family favourite game.
Comment by James B — August 29, 2007 #
very interesting ang sudoku..! hope i can play with it everytime…
Comment by teenah — August 30, 2007 #