Sudoku Replay & Timer for NYT

Master your NYT Sudoku game. Record every step, replay your logic to find mistakes, and track your time per cell to improve speed.

🧩 SUDOKU REPLAY & TIMER FOR NYT - Your Personal Sudoku Coach Master your New York Times Sudoku game with automatic move recording, step-by-step replay analysis, and detailed performance statistics. Whether you're a casual player looking to improve or a speed solver chasing faster times, this extension helps you understand your solving patterns and track your progress. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🎯 AUTOMATIC MOVE RECORDING • Records every cell entry, pencil mark, and correction automatically • No buttons to press - just play naturally and we capture everything • Tracks pause/resume events to calculate your true "active solving time" • Captures the in-game timer at each move for precise timing analysis • Works seamlessly with NYT Sudoku Easy, Medium, and Hard puzzles ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🔄 STEP-BY-STEP REPLAY • Replay your entire solve from start to finish • Navigate with Previous/Next buttons or jump to any move • Fast-forward and rewind controls (-100, -10, +10, +100 moves) • See exactly which cell changed at each step (highlighted in yellow) • Review your thought process and identify where you got stuck • Perfect for learning from mistakes or analyzing tough puzzles ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 📊 PERFORMANCE STATISTICS Track your solving performance with detailed metrics: • Active Time - Your actual solving time (excludes pauses) • Total Entries - Number of cells filled • Average Time per Action - Speed metric to track improvement • Notes Count - How many pencil marks you used • Clears Count - Number of corrections made Use these stats to understand your solving style: → High notes + low clears = Methodical, careful solver → Low avg time per action = Speed solver → Many clears = Trial-and-error approach (room to improve!) ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🔗 SHARE YOUR SOLVES • Generate shareable links with one click • Friends can watch your entire replay in their browser • No account required - links work instantly • Perfect for comparing strategies or showing off fast times • Links work even without the extension installed ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 💾 SMART SESSION MANAGEMENT • Automatically resumes recording if you return to the same puzzle • Keeps your 6 most recent games for review • All data stored locally on your device - your privacy respected • No cloud uploads, no accounts, no tracking ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🎮 HOW TO USE 1. Install the extension 2. Go to nytimes.com/puzzles/sudoku 3. Play any puzzle - recording starts automatically 4. Click the extension icon to see your saved games 5. Click any game to open the replay viewer 6. Analyze your solve and share with friends! ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🔒 PRIVACY FIRST • All game data stored locally in Chrome storage • No server uploads or cloud sync • No personal information collected • No ads, no tracking, no analytics on your puzzle data • Open source and transparent ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ❓ FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS Q: Does this work with other Sudoku sites? A: Currently optimized for NYT Sudoku only (nytimes.com/puzzles/sudoku). Q: Will this affect my NYT Sudoku experience? A: No! It runs silently in the background with zero impact on gameplay. Q: How many games are saved? A: The 6 most recent games are kept. Older games are automatically removed. Q: Can I export my game data? A: Yes! Use the Share feature to generate a link containing your full game. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Perfect for: ✓ NYT Sudoku enthusiasts wanting to improve ✓ Speed solvers tracking personal bests ✓ Players who want to learn from their mistakes ✓ Friends who love comparing solving strategies ✓ Anyone curious about their Sudoku solving patterns ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Questions or feedback? We'd love to hear from you! Please reach out via https://tally.so/r/3xLAJy