Number Place Next Play

The Number Place puzzle published in printed matter comes to be solved freely at any time in your favorite place by shooting and taking into your smart phone or tablet.
For beginners, there is a function to teach which cell should be observed next, and the Number Place puzzle can be enjoyed without giving up on the way.
The progress of each puzzle is saved automatically, and there is no upper limit to the number of puzzles saved. The function to back up to SD card is provided. If you have too many puzzles, you can reduce them as you like.
If you don't have printed puzzles to photo now, please try to solve four sample puzzles included.
If you use the function of shuffle in making puzzle mode, you can change even the sample puzzle into an original puzzle.
You can photo a background photograph, and you can enjoy the Number Place puzzle on an original screen only for you.
This application controls a basic flow by operation of the mode change and the menu selection.
The menu changes depending on the mode.

There are three modes.

1. Normal Mode
It is the mode in which you can solve puzzles very ordinarily.
There is a memo function by which you writes in probable numbers or colors remarkable cells. (M button)

2. Helpful Mode
It is the mode for beginners who come to a deadlock, and you can know next plays of the Number Place puzzle in the mode.
The level of next plays is three stages roughly, and is classified by color.
The color ■ ■ used on the sample puzzles of easy-class and hard-class means a relatively easy level.
The color ■ ■ first used on the sample puzzle of difficult-class means a difficult level.
If you long tap outside of the puzzle in this level, "History of Narrowing Down Possibility" is shown and you can save it to a file.
It is the record of computing process on this app.
The color ■ ■ shown to first twice on the sample puzzle of extraordinary-class means a super difficult level including the trial and error, and this is not always the best play.
When you do a long-tap on the cell which you want to know, a brief description of the next play is concretely displayed.
In the helpful mode, the cells that have a duplicate number are displayed in red.
You can also get the final solution answer automatically, but you can get it from even the stupid puzzle with plural answers.

3. Making Puzzle Mode
It is the mode for correcting, when you photo a printed puzzle and incorrect recognition occurs.
Even if you photo a puzzle displayed on the PC monitor, it cannot normally be read easily, but please manually input from the beginning in such a case.
If you change a puzzle being solved in the making puzzle mode, it means that the puzzle is changed in itself.
So when you want to create a new puzzle, please save as a new puzzle by pressing the M button.
If you save even a sample puzzle as a new one, it becomes an object of which progress is saved automatically and respectively.
In the making puzzle mode, you can use a shuffle function and can transfer a puzzle to an original one by shuffling.

ATTENTION
Currently, this application cannot be updated.
From August 1, 2019, apps that cannot be used on 64-bit devices are prohibited from publishing new and updated apps on Google Play.
This application incorporates the image analysis library used when capturing puzzles with the camera.
Since this library is old, only 32-bit version exists.
From August 1, 2021 onwards, apps that do not include the 64-bit version will no longer be available on Google Play.
In other words, this application that supports only 32bit is expected to be removed from Google Play.
The free version of “Number Place Next Play” is also available on the Amazon Appstore.
The Amazon Appstore does not currently have any of these operational issues.

Recent changes:
Version 1.5
* Added same number repeating inputs after number selection
When you press the number button in the case of no cell selection, same number cells turn to blue.
And after the same button pressed next, it shifts to the state of same number repeating inputs.
* Added simple undoing of numeric input
If you press C button immediately after numeric input, it returns to the state before input.