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Sudoku Drops

A twist on the Game of Sudoku, if the regular puzzles are too easy for you move onto the next level with Sudoku Drops.

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Sudoku Drops

A little internet history

A whole world of Flash games.

1996
FutureSplash brought animation to the web and became Macromedia Flash. Games, cartoons and interactive websites followed.
2020–2021
Adobe ended Flash Player support on 31 December 2020 and blocked playback in its player from 12 January 2021.
Today
We use Ruffle to help preserve these original Flash games in modern browsers, without the old Flash plug-in. Compatibility varies by game.

Our part in that early web

Our Java games began on Smilie.com in the 1990s, before Matica followed. A surviving Smilie archive from 1 June 1997 refers to Mirkin’s Darts; Matica appears in the archive from 11 November 1998.

These games are part of that first wave of web play. We’re keeping them accessible, along with their original pages and history.

Read more: Adobe’s Flash history · Adobe’s end-of-life notice · Ruffle

We’re restoring our classic games for today’s browsers. Some controls need a keyboard or mouse; scores and other features are still being checked.

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Original game notes

This is Sudoku with a difference. You start with a blank sheet and you decide where the numbers go. Some people have compared it to the game Tetris. I'd love to fill the whole board up, but even though I built the game I've never been able to do it. The highest score ever was from someone called 'Mage' who scored 73!

*Update* Derek informed us that he scored 76 which we can confirm from the database. 2 other also managed 76 Pauline and AJ

*Update 2* The 76 points record stood for a very long time but we had another player contact us informing us they scored 77. I don't know what it is about the name Derek, but this player is called Derek too although he's not the same Derek that broke the previous record.