Power BI and Sudoku – Yes Please

June 22, 2018 By Mike Carlo

This week Philip Seamark, an avid Power BI developer has released a joint project with PowerBI.Tips, a full Sudoku game in Power BI. To be totally honest with you Phil did all the hard work, I just contributed the pretty background and provided some suggestions. To learn more about how Phil build this amazing game within Power BI check out his blog post about it here.

The Game

If you want to play this Power BI file you can do so below:

To play the Sudoku game in full screen use this link.

Want the file:

If you are interested in looking at this file to see how it works you can download the file using the link below.

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