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The Ncurses Sudoku System is a Sudoku clone, and it looks like it means business, the interface looks as if it’s for system configuration.

The controls are hjkl, arrow keys, and mouse for moving around and if has a pencil-marking feature to help you solve the game, read the in-game help.

Five difficulty settings and thirty levels, timers and statistics, also a summary after you solve the level.

Do you know Sudoku has a history of more than 100 years? Actually, it’ll be 123 years on this November 19. The word “Sudoku” (数独) is Japanese, named by Maki Kaji; prior to that, “Number Place” in 1979 by Howard Garns, the modern Sudoku was born; further back in 1892, when all these digits started by a French newspaper, Le Siècle, as number puzzle.

Even I have never played this game on paper like magazines or newspapers, but I did with games and quite a few times. Although they say “practice makes perfect,” it doesn’t seem to be the case for me in this Sudoku number jungle. If you have just watched the video, then you probably have noticed that it took me silly amount of time to solve the easiest level. Lost in Digits.

The Ncurses Sudoku System was created on 2009-11-08 by Vincent Launchbury, et al., written in C with ncurses under the GPLv2, currently git-be45679 (2014-12-19, v0.7b (2010-04-21)).