WE Games Wooden Sudoku Puzzle Board Game with Number & Thinking Tiles - 11 in.

Well made board and pieces. The system works well. Storage under the board is great. Much easier than wearing-out an eraser. Do order an extra set of the small tiles. Hard-levels need the extra pieces. https://www.amazon.com/dp/B001QI3MIW

When it arrived I launched a game straightaway with a very seasoned Sudoku player, an elderly member of the family. She doesn’t play board games usually but will enjoy sudoku. No instructions were read! Everything was obvious to the sudoku player, including how to use the mini thinking tiles and the dual sided larger thinking tiles. We used a very difficult puzzle from a sudoku book by Nikoli. Did not face a shortage of mini thinking tiles. Maybe it’s just our way of play - to not clutter every square with all the possibilities. Just used what was provided. The box came in a sophisticated black and red theme. Great as a gift for adults, teenagers or older children. Compact not bulky. So pleased that they did not design the box to be positioned solely as a small child’s game. Nice! The board surface is mostly plywood and smooth veneer. Not bulky or heavy. Definitely not carved out of solid precious woods either. The product shots are fairly accurate. The key difference between this WE Games edition of a wooden Sudoku board in comparison with the numerous generic no name wooden Sudoku boards currently out there is the use of a slightly larger 1.8cm tile size instead of a smaller 1.5cm; and the inclusion of mini thinking tiles which you can order more of if needed. Mini thinking tiles are frequently omitted on generic models but is good to have for medium to difficult puzzles if buying for an experienced Sudoku player. A segmented drawer for different tiles would have been nice but is not a deal breaker. A removable grid may also be nice to some. A stained wood color for the board would be nice but is still not a deal breaker. The clean light wood color will age with time and have it’s own charm. Note: Our boxed set oddly had no ‘6’ mini thinking tiles so we reversed the 9s. Large tiles were thankfully complete. I did order additional mini thinking tiles but I did not use them. The manual is clearly written in English by someone who cares about the game. Thank you! Nothing fell out of the drawers yet. It does get stored in the box always. Just handle, store and transport with care. It’s not a toy to be given to infants or very young children. Mini tiles are similar in quality as seen in the Amazon supplier product shots. Nothing like the ones seen by some negative Amazon reviews which had terribly deformed tiles. It is adequate and usable.

This is the best sudoku table top wooden game. The pieces are of great quality. The board and storage drawers are nice. Quite well built and elegant. The guessing mini pieces are an aid to solve complex puzzles. Over all good.

This is a great board! We love having the numbers in two different colors and we love having the thinking tiles. The board is well made and being able to put the tiles away in drawers is great. It's nice enough to leave sitting out, but also comes in a sturdy box if you'd like to put it away. The grid on top is also nice so the tiles don't slide around. A few of the numbers are printed a little off center, but that doesn't bother me. I really have no complaints. We love this board and so do others when we've given it as a gift. I like that I am no longer searching for good sudoku books or printable puzzles online. My only issue right now is I'm trying to order another one for a gift and it hasn't been available for the past few weeks until now, when Dorm Room Games began offering it at over twice the price. I bought my other boards just two months ago for $30, free shipping, and they are asking $50 plus $15 shipping, which is ridiculous. I'm hoping it is offered again soon at a reasonable price.

We love playing Sudoku and ordered this board to play together. We wanted a board with drawers to store the tiles. We were thoroughly disappointed with the quality of this board. The tiles are unfinished, unsanded wood chips of various sizes, many of which do not fit the grid. The drawers stick and the board must be bent slightly to release them. In attempting to remove one of the tiles, I got a splinter under my nail from the grid, which is also unfinished. Save your money, or better yet spend the extra $5 and get the mahogany board with plastic tiles.

The board and tiles are beautiful, but the set is not really practical for working sudoku because of the setup and cleanup time. Pencil and paper is much faster, except maybe for the sight-impaired. Also, people who like to use the tiny crib-note tiles for the harder puzzles may find (as we did) that there are not enough of them. We use the set for really hard sudoku that take 30 mins or more. Otherwise, we just leave it on the coffee table, as it makes an attractive conversation piece. The set gets five stars for attractiveness and two stars for fun and practicality. I rounded down the overall rating because I had hoped we would actually use the set.

I really enjoy doing Sudoku puzzles and I also love the tactile elements of board games. This Sudoku board is the best of both worlds. It's good quality for how inexpensive it is. The board is well made and a good size, the pull out drawers/trays function well, and I haven't encountered any missing tiles. There were a couple of imperfect tiles, but these were the exception, not the rule. I also like that the tiles are double sided (same number in red/black) so that I can keep track of which numbers I started with and which I filled in. And I love, love, love the little thinking tiles. Those sold me on this set. You can have up to four tiny numbers in each cell. If there was one little thing I would change, I wish the trays had dividers to sort the tiles, but that's a minor thing.