The Sudoku for bees
Fill the hive.
Seven honeycomb flowers, forty-nine hexes. Place the numbers 1 to 7 under three rules, and deduce the one safe number left.
How it works
A little hive logic.
The grid is one big flower made of seven small ones. Blocks are never turned, so every cell has a twin at the same place in each other flower. Fill every cell with 1 to 7.
- Rule 1Exhaustiveness
Each block must contain all numbers from 1 to 7.
YES · all sevenNO · a repeat - Rule 2Non-adjacent
Two neighbouring cells must not contain the same number, even from 2 different blocks.
YES · 3 beside 4NO · 3 beside 3 - Rule 3Non-matching
Each number must occupy a different position in each block: twin cells never hold the same number.
YES · new positionNO · same position
Made for the moment you are in
Settle in. Think it through.
Everything you expect from a good number puzzle, on a board of real 3D wax tiles that lean toward your finger. Tap a cell, then a number. On a keyboard: 1 to 7, N for notes, Z to undo, arrows to move.
See clashes instantly
A number that breaks a rule turns red with a dashed ring, and so do the cells it clashes with.
Keep pencil notes
Hold a number on the pad, or press N, to mark possibilities until only one safe number is left.
Find your rhythm
A timer, a mistakes counter and a live score. Pause any time; the clock stops with you.
Take a hand
Undo, erase, or ask for one of three hints. Each hint names the rule that gives the answer away.
A daily ritual
One fresh hive, every day.
The Sudobi of the day changes at midnight, your local time. Solve it on consecutive days to grow a streak, then share the flower you made: each block coloured by the order you finished it, with no numbers to spoil it.
Sudobi of the day
Open today's hive
A game with bees at heart
A small moment for a big little world.
Sudobi was made to keep bees in mind. Wild bees and honeybees are declining in many places, pushed by lost meadows, pesticides and disease. Every flower you complete is a small reminder of the pollinators that help our world bloom: plant something that flowers, and leave a corner of the garden wild.
The hive is waiting.
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