A modern web app for Sudoku inspired by Cracking the Cryptic
MIT License
A modern web app for Sudoku
Sudocle offers the following features:
Sudocle has been inspired by the official web app of Cracking the Cryptic, the world’s most popular YouTube channel about Sudoku and other logic puzzles.
An online version of Sudocle is available at:
https://michelkraemer.com/sudocle
If you want to play one of the puzzles featured on Cracking the Cryptic in Sudocle, just copy the puzzle’s ID from the CTC webapp and append it to the URL shown above.
For example, the “Miracle Sudoku” by Mitchell Lee, one of the most popular puzzles ever featured on the channel, has the following URL:
https://app.crackingthecryptic.com/tjN9LtrrTL
This URL becomes:
https://michelkraemer.com/sudocle/tjN9LtrrTL
Here are some random screenshots (no spoilers!):
Sudocle requires Node.js v15 or higher. Run the application in development mode with the following commands:
npm install
npm run dev
Open your web browser and go to http://localhost:3000 to open the main page. Just like with the online version, you can append a Cracking the Cryptic puzzle ID to the URL (e.g. http://localhost:3000/tjN9LtrrTL).
Sudocle has been built with Next.js. In development mode, Next.js watches for source code changes and automatically refreshes the application in the browser.
If you want to build Soducle in production mode, use the following command:
npm run build
This will create a directory called out
, which you can upload to your web
server.
Alternatively, you can run Sudocle with Docker as follows:
docker build -t sudocle .
docker run -it -p 80:3000 --name sudocle --rm sudocle
Then, open http://localhost/sudocle/.
The name Sudoku is an abbreviation of the Japanese expression “Sūji wa dokushin ni kagiru” (数字は独身に限る), which can be translated to “the digits must be single” [Wikipedia]. Sūji means digits.
A monocle, a binocle, or a pair of binoculars are things that help people see.
Sudocle therefore helps people see digits 🤓😉
Sudocle is released under the MIT license. See the LICENSE file for more information.