CLUSTER GAME-SUDOKU-TERMINAL · 15 ENTRIES · EARLIEST ENTRY 2021-05-26
Terminal and desktop puzzle games
The cluster consists of standalone sudoku and crossword games, most of which run in the terminal or as desktop apps, and includes a few auto-solving tools and one maze runner using Q-learning. Dated entries before the index start are sparse and irregular, appearing roughly every few months to over a year apart from March 2019 through June 2026, with no consistent cadence. Traction leaders are sudoku_rs, sudokuincrivelNew, and neon_sudoku_v2, all of which show 0 stars on their activity signal.
Entry timeline
ENTRY TIMELINE
Each bar is the month a member carries, which is a creation date where the source published one and a crawl date otherwise. Nothing in the index was found before 11 August 2026, and coverage broadened sharply on 14–15 August, so a bar from then on reports how much we found that month, not how much was built; an earlier bar reports how far back a member's own source dated it — not how long we have been watching.
Members by activity
Activity signals, not revenue.
Build origin · 1 ai-built · 4 hand-coded · 10 unlabelled
Operator · 3 hobby · 11 open source · 1 unlabelled
Two labels per entry, never collapsed into one: how it was built, and who stands behind it. Counted over the 15 listed below. Unlabelled means nothing has decided yet — not that the answer is small.
- 01katana-tui0★12 daysliveopen sourceTerminal client for solving user-created Nonograms Katana picture puzzles.
- 02Sudoku You0★8 daysliveopen sourceOffline Sudoku game that generates puzzles, imports custom grids, and offers step-by-step logical solving hints with annotations.
- 03KSquares0★1 molivehand-codedopen sourceDesktop game that recreates the classic dots-and-boxes puzzle where players take turns connecting dots to complete squares.
- 04sudokuincrivelNew0★1 moliveai-builtA standalone sudoku game released for a games portal.
- 05sudoku_rs0★1 mo—hobbyA desktop Sudoku game that generates puzzles and provides a playable interactive grid.
- 06Sudoku2★6 mostalelivehobbyReal-time cooperative Sudoku game where two players solve puzzles together with live chat and rematch functionality.
- 07neon_sudoku_v20★4 molivehand-codedhobbyA neon-themed Sudoku game with procedurally generated puzzles, audio effects, and online leaderboards through a backend database.
- 08qnetwalk0★3 yrabandonedliveopen sourcePuzzle game where players connect terminals to a central server in as few turns as possible.
- 09sudoku-tui0★5 moliveopen sourceA terminal Sudoku game that provides an interactive interface for solving puzzle grids.
- 10labyrinthine0★7 mostaleliveopen sourceTerminal maze runner that uses Q-learning to auto-solve progressive levels.
- 11sudoku-term0★1 yrabandonedliveopen sourceA Sudoku game that runs in the terminal and lets players solve puzzles interactively.
- 12tui-sudoku0★1 yrabandonedliveopen sourceTerminal-based sudoku game with configurable difficulty and display options playable from the command line.
- 13xdplayer0★2 yrabandonedliveopen sourceTerminal application that lets users download and solve crossword puzzles interactively from the command line.
- 14term-sudoku0★4 yrabandonedlivehand-codedopen sourceSudoku game that lets players solve puzzles in a terminal.
- 15cursewords0★5 yrabandonedlivehand-codedopen sourceTerminal app that lets users solve crossword puzzles interactively.
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