Problem

[witkneey]

I recently purchased SudokuLive, but have found that when I try and
join a game I get a message "Failed to Connect to Game". When I have
been able to play, I have really enjoyed the program, but am wondering
if I am doing something wrong because most of the time I am unable to
play.

Whitney

[plaureano]

On Dec 22, 3:53 am, witkneey <wwerl...@hotmail.com> wrote:
> I recently purchased SudokuLive, but have found that when I try and
> join a game I get a message "Failed to Connect to Game".

This means that the computer hosting the game in not reachable (i.e.
behind a router or firewall is the most likely scenario).

You can host your own games, and others may join you, there is no
need to wait for someone to host a game.

At this exact moment three people are hosting:

Marlene (reachable / works)
Dell (unreachable)
Jeff (unreachable)

>  When I have
> been able to play, I have really enjoyed the program, but am wondering
> if I am doing something wrong because most of the time I am unable to
> play.

You can create you own games, do so, other will join in if your
Internet setup allows it to happen.

To host a game, choose if you want your game to be
“Cooperative” (where everyone can see each others game) or
“Competitive” (where you can only see what other users have already
filled, but you cannot see what digits they used) and choose “Internet
game”, press one of the difficulty level buttons (just like when
starting a single player game) and other users will now be able see
and join your game.

If you are on a LAN (local area network) things should go pretty
smoothly. Just check the next chapter on how to join a game. However
if you are “Hosting” a Internet game a lot of stuff can go wrong so
please read carefully if you run into problems:

You can only “Host” internet games if you have a public IP connection
on your computer. And I mean directly on your computer, not on a
router or wireless system. Users that connect directly to cable-
modems, adsl-modems, analogic modems or ISDN-modems, should be fine…
if you have a wireless router or something that allows you to have a
home network of several computers, connected to the each other and to
the Internet, it is very likely to mean “trouble” as far as hosting
network games on the Internet (not just with “Su Doku Live”… the same
applies to every other game available). You can on some routers
configure them to forward some ports, or all ports, to your computer.
On my Wireless Linksys router I just added my Mac IP Address to the
DMZ.
If your firewall (i.e. Running on your computer or on your router -
if you have one) is active it may block incoming connections from
other players attempting to join your game. You can either disable the
firewall(s) completely OR allow incoming UDP connections to port 6112.
Anyway… if you run into trouble hosting games you can always join
others on games they created. It’s not the end of the world, just a
nuisance. :-)
Currently there are no features to allow you to blacklist users or
even refuse connections to a game host. Those area however planned for
upcoming versions os “Su Doku Live”...

Paulo