I let Dicember be an excuse to go through my Roll and Write files and look for odds and ends. That’s how I ended up playing Dicedoku.
Yeah, it’s a Sudoku as a dice game. It’s not even the first time I’ve seen that (we will get back to that)
Like other games like it, it uses two by three boxes to form the collection of grids because you are only using six numbers. And it’s a two X three grid of those boxes so it’s a six by six larger grid.
And, yeah, if that doesn’t make sense, it will with one glance at the board.
Here’s the clever bit. Each turn, five dice get rolled. You use one of them to select a Tetris shape. Then, you make that shape with the other four numbers and put that number-shape into the grid.
I’ve seen similar mechanics. Mosaix, which is from 2009, has a similar idea. But I can’t think of seeing this exact mechanic before. And I do think it is interesting.
Unfortunately, I found the actual game to be mildly annoying and I kept wishing the mechanic had been put to a more interesting use. It wasn’t the worst game I learned for Dicember 2024 but I can’t say I want to play it more.
A year or so ago, I learned Sudoku Rush, which is speed sudoku. The idea isn’t as clever but the execution is more fun. The fact that I can say that isn’t good for Diceduko.
Diceduko has an interesting core mechanic but applying to Sudoku just makes me want to do regular Sudoku puzzles.
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