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Sudoku – The Game

by orcas2016 · Uncategorized

Let your website visitors play the famous sudoku game.

⚠ Stale⚠ Likely abandoned⚠ Few reviews
How scoring works →
41 Health · D
Maintenance 3/100
Rating quality 65/100
Support 70/100

41 health vs 63 average across 4,789 Uncategorized plugins

High removal-risk signals

63/100

Maintenance and integrity signals that tend to precede a WordPress.org removal. Not an official status, a heads-up to act.

  • Long abandoned. No update in 9+ years — the top precursor to removal once a vulnerability is found.
  • Compatibility drift. Tested only up to WordPress 4.7.33, well behind 6.8.

Directory ranking optimization

How it's scored →

How well this listing is tuned to rank in WordPress.org search, on the factors an owner controls. Not popularity, optimization.

33 / 100

Under-optimized

Biggest win: Update recency

Update recency 0/100
WP compatibility 8/100
Rating quality 49/100
Listing tuning 84/100

To rank higher: Last updated 3483 days ago — ship an update; wp.org decays a listing's search weight after ~180 days.

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Daily downloads

Since 2022-10-05 · 1,381 days · wp.org + Plugin Pulse archive

-58% vs prior 30d
Oct 22
Jul 26

30-day downloads

Rolling 30-day volume · peaks are release surges

23

now · peak 2.3K

Directory rank vs rivals

wp.org popularity rank over time · higher is better · when a rival's line climbs above yours, they've overtaken you

Sudoku · #27073 Dinosaur Game · #5978 Football Pool · #6387 PuzzleMe · #6773

Downloads per 1k installs · 30d

Engagement proxy · release spikes are signal, a long slide is an aging base

Estimated active installs

wp.org reports only “20+”. The real number sits in this band.

tracked estimate
20–30 ≈29

Refined from the date this plugin crossed into its current band.

Install history · since 2022-10-04 · 1,379 observations

Details

Version
1.0.9
Last updated
9.5y ago
Added
2016-12-02 · 9 yrs on WP
Requires WP
4.6
Tested up to
4.7.33
Requires PHP

Growth timeline

Install-band crossings we have observed, and how long each band took to outgrow

  1. 2025-01-19 30+ → 20+ down after 94 days in band
  2. 2024-10-17 20+ → 30+ up after 29 days in band
  3. 2024-09-18 30+ → 20+ down after 44 days in band
  4. 2024-08-05 20+ → 30+ up after 18 days in band
  5. 2024-07-18 30+ → 20+ down after 431 days in band
  6. 2023-05-14 40+ → 30+ down after 24 days in band
  7. 2023-04-20 30+ → 40+ up after 3 days in band
  8. 2023-04-17 40+ → 30+ down after 23 days in band

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Sudoku – The Game: 20+ active installs, 0.0★ (0 reviews). Plugin Pulse (WP Mayor), as of 2026-07-17. https://plugins.wpmayor.com/plugin/sudoku-game