So I've been working through the Sudoku game project using pdcurses, and then one silly thought struck me.... I don't know how to even generate a random Sudoku board! Can anyone help me?

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anonymous · Answer

The text interface is coming up very nicely, but it's still buggy (first time I've used pdcurses) and I'm figuring out stuff like window resizing for example.

shadowfiend · Answer

To be honest, figuring out the algorithm to produce a proper Sudoku board is probably a good mental exercise in and of itself. I don't know for sure myself :)

anonymous · Answer

I think it would be neat to prompt the player something like "Enter a random seed" and generate a random board out of that seed, and have the bottom displaying the seed # so someone can just enter that number again to generate the same board again.

anonymous · Answer

for now I will just manually write the boards... I want to get that interface working :-D