Name: Cracking the Cryptic
Rating: 4 (164 reviews)

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Cracking the Cryptic

Nick Carney

Released: 2022-07-08

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Version 1.2.18

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Version 1.2.18

Released: 2022-07-08

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Line Sudoku

Line Sudoku is a pack devoted to sudokus involving… LINES! Each puzzle features one or more of the popular “lines constraints” that often feature in variant puzzles on Cracking The Cryptic, including Renban, German Whispers, Palindromes, Region Sum and Ten Lines!

We’re thrilled that Line Sudoku includes puzzles by Phistomefel, Qodec, Clover, zetamath, Jay Dyer, Tallcat, Mr Menace, Peter Veenis, Joseph Nehme, Richard Stolk, Prasanna Seshadri, Tyrgannus and Full Deck & Missing A Few Cards! In addition, Mark and Simon have written hints for the challenging puzzles themselves so these hints are meaningful and, above all, educational.

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Welcome to the brand new Sudoku app from YouTube’s most popular Sudoku channel, Cracking The Cryptic.

Unlike other Sudoku apps, we feature handcrafted and curated puzzles from the world’s best Sudoku constructors. Each collection features puzzles made by various authors that are now familiar names to those who follow the channel. Authors like Phistomefel, Clover, Sam Cappleman-Lynes, Christoph Seeliger, Richard Stolk, jovi_al, Qodec, Prasanna Seshadri and of course, Simon and Mark!

Downloading Cracking the Cryptic will give you access to our two launch packs. Our first free collection is a variety pack by Prasanna Seshadri featuring 7 puzzles inspired from our previous Sudoku apps; Sandwich, Classic, Chess, Thermo, Miracle, Killer and Arrow Sudoku. Our first paid collection is Domino Sudoku, a new variant not featured in our previous apps with puzzles from our amazing constructors.

We’ll be releasing more free and paid packs in the future so keep an eye on the app for more Sudoku content from Cracking The Cryptic!

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Domino Sudoku

Domino Sudoku is named after its domino-like appearance with X's, V's, white dots and black dots placed between cells on the grid. Each puzzle features one or more of these domino types with them all having a different effect: an X means digits in the two cells in the domino must sum to 10; a V means they sum to 5; a white dot means the digits are consecutive; and, finally, a black dot means the digits must be in a 1:2 ratio (ie one of the digits must be double the other).

As you can imagine, when you allow the world’s best Sudoku makers to use these rules they are in their element and they’ve made another set of masterpieces for this collection with a huge amount of variety! We’re thrilled that Domino Sudoku includes puzzles by Christoph Seeliger, Sam Cappleman-Lynes, Richard Stolk, Prasanna Seshadri, Phistomefel, Qodec, Clover and jovi_al. In addition, Mark and Simon have written hints for the challenging puzzles themselves so these hints are meaningful and, above all, educational.

As a bonus, Studio Goya has curated 10 generated beginner puzzles so that players of all skill levels can enjoy Domino Sudoku!

In Cracking The Cryptic’s games, players start with zero stars and earn stars by solving puzzles. The more puzzles you solve, the more stars you earn and the more puzzles you get to play. Only the most dedicated (and cleverest) sudoku players will finish all the puzzles. Of course the difficulty is carefully calibrated to ensure lots of puzzles at every level (from easy through to extreme).

So do join us as we continue to try to revolutionize Sudoku app genre.

What's New in Version 1.2.18

Our long requested Fog of War pack is out now! Containing 50 puzzles (30 available now, 20 more releasing over the next few months) by some of the keenest minds and cleverest constructors there are. The sheer variety of uses of fog in this pack will amaze you.

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Nick Carney

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1.2.18

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iOS 12.0 or later

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iPhone 5s, iPhone 6, iPhone 6 Plus, iPhone 6s, iPhone 6s Plus, iPhone SE, iPhone 7, iPhone 7 Plus, iPhone 8, iPhone 8 Plus, iPhone X, iPhone XR, iPhone XS, iPhone XS Max, iPhone 11, iPhone 11 Pro, iPhone 11 Pro Max, iPhone SE (2nd generation), iPhone 12, iPhone 12 Pro, iPhone 12 Pro Max, iPhone 12 mini, iPhone 13, iPhone 13 Pro, iPhone 13 Pro Max, iPhone 13 mini, iPhone SE (3rd generation), iPhone 14, iPhone 14 Plus, iPhone 14 Pro, iPhone 14 Pro Max, iPhone 15, iPhone 15 Plus, iPhone 15 Pro, iPhone 15 Pro Max, iPhone 16, iPhone 16Plus, iPhone 16Pro, iPhone 16ProMax, iPad (5th Generation) Wi-Fi, iPad (5th Generation) Wi-Fi + Cellular, iPad (6th generation) Wi-Fi, iPad (6th generation) Wi-Fi + Cellular, iPad Pro, iPad Pro (Cellular), iPad Pro (9.7-inch), iPad Pro (9.7-inch) (Cellular), iPad Pro 12.9-inch (2nd generation), iPad Pro 12.9-inch (2nd generation) Wi-Fi + Cellular, iPad Pro (10.5-inch), iPad Pro (10.5-inch) Wi-Fi + Cellular, iPad Pro (11-inch), iPad Pro (11-inch) Wi-Fi + Cellular, iPad Pro 12.9-inch (3rd generation), iPad Pro 12.9-inch (3rd generation) Wi-Fi + Cellular, iPad Air, iPad Air (Cellular), iPad Air 2, iPad Air 2 (Cellular), iPad Air (3rd generation), iPad Air (3rd generation) Wi-Fi + Cellular, iPad mini Retina, iPad mini Retina (Cellular), iPad mini 3, iPad mini 3 (Cellular), iPad mini 4, iPad mini 4 (Cellular), iPad mini (5th Generation), iPad mini (5th Generation) Wi-Fi + Cellular, iPad (7th generation) Wi-Fi + Cellular, iPad Pro 11-inch (2nd generation), iPad Pro 11-inch (2nd generation) Wi-Fi + Cellular, iPad Pro 12.9-inch (4th generation), iPad Pro 12.9-inch (4th generation) Wi-Fi + Cellular, iPad Air (4th Generation) (Wi-Fi), iPad Air (4th Generation) (Wi-Fi + Cellular), iPad (8th generation) Wi-Fi, iPad (8th generation) Wi-Fi + Cellular, iPad Pro 11-inch (3rd generation), iPad Pro 11-inch (3rd generation) Wi-Fi + Cellular, iPad Pro 12.9-inch (5th Generation), iPad Pro 12.9-inch (5th Generation) Wi-Fi + Cellular, iPad (9th Generation), iPad (9th Generation) Wi-Fi + Cellular, iPad mini (6th Generation), iPad mini (6th Generation) Wi-Fi + Cellular, iPad Air (5th generation), iPad Air (5th generation) Wi-Fi + Cellular, iPad Pro 11-inch (4th generation), iPad Pro 11-inch (4th generation) Wi-Fi + Cellular, iPad Pro 12.9-inch (6th generation), iPad Pro 12.9-inch (6th generation) Wi-Fi + Cellular, iPad (10th generation), iPad (10th generation) Wi-Fi + Cellular, iPad Air 11-inch (M2) Wi-Fi, iPad Air 13-inch (M2) Wi-Fi, iPad Air 13-inch (M2) Wi-Fi + Cellular, iPad Pro 11-inch (M4) Wi-Fi, iPad Pro 11-inch (M4) Wi-Fi + Cellular, iPad Pro 13-inch (M4) Wi-Fi, iPad Pro 13-inch (M4) Wi-Fi + Cellular, iPad MiniA17Pro, iPad MiniA17ProCellular, iPod touch (6th Generation), iPod touch (7th generation)

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Ratings & Reviews

4.0 of 5 (164 Ratings)

App Store: Customer Reviews

2024-11-13

Please fix hints

A lot of these puzzles go over my head, which is great because it’s challenging and is helping me understand how to approach these difficult types of sudoku. But the hints almost never explain their logic, and often just tell you where things go while there is not enough information on the board to justify what it is telling you. I get as far as I can before checking a hint, and use the hints to help me understand how to approach, but often just get frustrated by them.

Aside from most puzzle packs being locked behind a paywall, overall this is a great app and I am enjoying my time with it.

2024-10-29

Excellent app for variant sudokus

It is a companion app for a popular YouTube channel Cracking the Cryptic. If you like the channel and variant sudoku puzzles, this is the app to get. However, to get 5 stars from my side, it needs two things: 1) proper Mac support — it only works as an iPad app on Mac with no keyboard support; 2) in-game purchase options for puzzles from legacy apps made by the same team such as classic sudokus. I would like to keep only this app to do all puzzles instead of downloading each app for each variant.

2024-10-01

Love it, but it could be better

I’ve loved this app and these puzzles for years. I think the interface is pretty awkward and could be improved, but the puzzles are excellent. I keep coming back to this app because the puzzles are so satisfying.

2024-09-29

Notepad please

Hey Love the puzzle design

Please Please Please implement a notepad feature my brain is too small to keep all the observations in my head. Also enabling the killer calculator on region sum lines puzzles would be great

2024-09-06

No support for in-app purchase glitch

I’ve been a Cracking the Cryptic fan since I discovered it during the pandemic. I have purchased all apps and found them all to be well worth the price. I value being able to continually re-solve puzzles to improve my time, so the timing feature, including the record kept of the best time, is a big plus. The hints are great for learning how to improve puzzle solving skills. While the quality of the hints is not consistent, with some over-explaining and some under-explaining, I understand how much time goes into striking the right balance for consistency across puzzles and for users at different levels. I would pay more if the price were increased to make the quality more consistent (perhaps tiered hints for users at different levels). I liked the new approach of the CTC app with separate modules for sale as in-app purchases until I discovered a glitch that no one has helped me solve. I use 2 different Apple IDs to buy apps because I divide my time between Canada and the U.S. and the sale of some apps is restricted by country. My main account is Canadian, but when I need to buy an app restricted to the U.S., I have to log out of the Canadian Apple ID and into the U.S. one. Sometimes I forget to switch back. I inadvertently bought the first 4 CTC modules using the U.S. account. Many months later after solving all puzzles in the first 4 modules except for some puzzles not yet released, I bought the recently released module while logged into the Canadian account. A few days later, I had to log into the U.S. account to download a U.S. banking app. The next time I opened the CTC app after doing that, the free modules and the most recently purchased one showed up with my playing history but the 4 modules I purchased using the U.S. account were set to unpurchased with my playing history gone. I suspected that this was due to switching accounts and discovered that I had purchased different modules while logged into different accounts. However, when I logged out of the Canadian account and into the U.S. account, the modules I had purchased using the U.S. account were still showing up as not purchased and the “restore purchases” function did not work. I have tried every way I can find to report the problem to developers and Apple but have received no solution. I tried requesting a refund of the apps I can no longer access, thinking I would re-purchase them using the Canadian account (though my play history would still be lost), but Apple told me they are not eligible for a refund. If a solution to this problem is found, I will change my review.

2024-08-31

So much fun!

I recently downloaded the "CTC Approachable Sudoku #1" pack, and it is so much fun! I have been playing along with Simon and Mark on the youtube channel for about a year, and it's genuinely exciting when I can solve these on my own.

2024-08-26

Puzzles are good, hints are almost always wrong or vague

In so many puzzles, there will be a hint such a (r2c8 can only be 9), and when I go to input nine, it’s just wrong. Probably around 30% of the puzzles, I would say, contain uninterpretable typos

2024-07-09

No games without purchase

I downloaded this game having checked the types of in app purchases available. What I found when I opened the app was no games at all unless a purchase was made. I am all for reasonable in app purchases but to not have anything to try out made me delete it right away. I’d have no trouble paying an “entry” fee as long as it included some games- perhaps I would buy more if I liked them. But there being no games is misleading and is why it’s no longer on my phone.

2024-06-26

Scammers

It’s free to download, it costs is use after downloading it.

2024-05-20

Not for beginners

This app is definitely not for beginners. I watch their videos and they make it look so easy, but it's not - at least not for me. I can't figure how to sample a classic Sudoku before making a purchase, which is something that should be a given. No directions and no way to contact the company. Sad because I enjoy the videos and I've learned a lot.

2024-05-11

Highest quality sudoku puzzles available

The handmade puzzles and handwritten hints are incredible! I have never felt more satisfaction then cracking a super tough level after 3 cumulative hours. I’m not even a fan of the YouTube channel.

One note for devs. Sometimes the coordinates given in handwritten hints are wrong. I found it on 2 off the most recently released levels

2024-05-07

Please fix clues!!

I love this app and play it almost every single day, but the lack of editing on the clues is beyond frustrating. Puzzle 45, which I’m replaying today, doesn’t just have a typo, which is unfortunately somewhat common, but clues 2 and 3 are flat out incorrect and will not let you solve the puzzle if you follow them. Also, please include a few clues on the bonus pack puzzles. Valentine’s Day #1 I have never been able to solve without finally having to guess after filling in all possibilities around the grid with the clues given.

Please have a tester go through and identify all of the typos. A beginner who is relying on the clues to proceed is going to be very frustrated and give up if they don’t figure out that the row and column numbers were transposed for a given clue.

2024-04-29

Excellent app, can’t wait for more puzzles!

I’m really enjoying this app, and (though I’m nowhere near finished with all the puzzles), can’t wait for more!

I did want to say, GAS 1 Puzzle 59 has a rule set that doesn’t make sense— I think they just meant to include the even sandwich rule set, not the sandwich rules as well.

Also, to my inexperienced eyes, two crossing renban lines (in the shape of an x) initially seemed like one single renban “shape”, so for anyone else who’s found that ambiguous, any same-color lines crossing in the shape of an x are two distinct lines, not one.

If highlight errors is turned on, Puzzle 40 in GAS 2 (I believe) marks repeated digits as in cages as incorrect, even though digits in a cage can repeat in this ruleset.

These are all minor though- the vast majority of the time, it’s a very smooth, clutter-free sudoku app with very clear rules, and all the features and puzzles you could ask for!

2024-04-24

Great game BUT

Love this game and have enjoyed playing it, but need to report an error. GAS#2 puzzle 21 has an inaccurate solution - the arrows in cube 5 do not match the “correct” answer.

2024-03-28

Best Sudoku App

You can tell this app is made by sudoku fans as every quality of life feature to be had is present. Watch the makers YouTube channel (also called Cracking The Cryptic) to see how they use it too. It helps!

2024-03-24

Incredible Puzzles

I’ve spent dozens of hours enjoying these puzzles, and the UI is excellent

2024-02-23

Great app, but not colorblind friendly

I love the app, the best Sudoku app I’ve ever used. My only issue is that the themes aren’t colorblind friendly. I noticed this especially on the new valentine’s puzzle. In the light themes it’s hard to see the range of a cell and in the dark themes it’s hard to see the contents of cells in the fortress or moat.

2024-01-27

Great app, great puzzles, but it needs one more button

Love CTC and love this app. The voice in my head turns into Simon's every time I play and I love it! These puzzles are so relaxing but also stimulating and satisfying.

Is there any way you could add a button to the control panel to un-select all currently selected cells? I frequently want to do this to reduce the visual clutter on the board after I do some pencil marking, so I can take stock of how my markings changed things. Currently I have to reach up into the grid and unselect cells manually.

Maybe a config to make holding the multi-select button clear selected cells by default? Or clear selected cells if cells are selected?

2023-11-30

Handwritten hints need to be checked for accuracy

I love this app and have bought several packs of puzzles. Unfortunately the handwritten hints for some of the puzzles are completely incorrect or very difficult to understand. Puzzle 45 in the lines pack for example has a hint that says row 1 columns 1/2/3 must be either a 1/2/7 or a 1/3/6. Neither of these combos are accurate. The follow up hints to this puzzle then make no sense. I would also appreciate a logical explanation as to why something is true. Many of the puzzles are very difficult and I find the hints to be difficult to determine how I was supposed to get to that next step logically.

2023-10-21

Great puzzles and playability, with a couple caveats

I love Cracking the Cryptic, and the puzzles they have in the app are truly fantastic. The app has great marking features (two forms of pencil marking and colors) for solving these difficult puzzles as well. However, it eats battery like crazy and has (relatively) few puzzles for the price tag on each pack.

Battery Life: 100% battery on my iPhone 14 Pro Max gets drained to ~50% after only a couple hours of play.

Puzzle updates: I appreciate that they are hand crafted and manually hinted, but updates are frustratingly few and far between. I would love to play puzzles from videos here instead of Sudoku Pad (which doesn’t always import correctly), even without hints, for more content and variety.

2023-10-18

Not Approachable for Newcomers

I absolutely love the channel and solving puzzles. I don’t pretend to be the same level of genius as people who complete these puzzles within an hour but o knew I could try my hand at some puzzles and slowly build a skill set. Although the puzzles so far have been brutally challenging, I have found it to be an enjoyable experience for the most part. However. The one thing that is making some levels absolutely horrible experiences are the hints. The hints themselves often require leaps of logic that are in no way clear to the untrained eye. I will read some hints that claim something that I cannot for the life of mean prove to be true or understand and I don’t feel it’s right to make progress off of logic I don’t understand so I get stuck. The hints NEED to be readdressed and modified for anyone at any skill level. Although I already said I’m not a genius, I’m can say with a certain level of confidence that I am rather intelligent but it was still very very rough at times.

2023-10-01

Great for iPad, Improvement needed on Mac

This is an excellent companion app for YouTube channel Craking the Cryptic, with a great selection of variant sudoku puzzles. It works for Mac as well. However, it lacks support for keyboard, which is desperately needed to play on Mac. Considering the channel provides an excellent web app complete with keyboard support, adding that shouldn't be too hard. It would be a 5-star app if it had keyboard support.

2023-10-01

Always excellent

Excited to get this pack. Always excellent puzzles and hints when needed. Helps you improve skills with each attempt. Simon and Mark are great solvers. If you have not subscribed to the channel do so. Entertaining, social, close knit group without drama. One request, more frequent GAS.

2023-08-11

I would rebuy all the older games as DLC just to use this app

I’ve played all the Sudoku apps by this developer. This is the best user interface so far. I would honestly pay for all the older games puzzles as DLC just so I can solve them in this UI.

Also please add an advanced option to delete puzzle progress/history to make it easier to replay the game from scratch. 😉

2023-06-19

I would give this app five stars if there was a way to clear progress or data

yep..: five stars once that feature is added

2023-05-06

Good puzzles, drains battery

Interesting puzzles and twists on regular sudoku. The hints have some typos and the app drains battery worse than a video call, for no apparent reason, or I’d rate it higher.

2023-04-26

Great overall, some hard, I wish just one app

I love the variant sudoku is available through here and the intuitive app layout. Some of them are so hard that the hints don’t seem to make any sense because they just states are gonna be true without any explanation. Greater detail in the hints would be very helpful.

Most importantly, I really wish that all the different packs were integrated into one app on my phone. I’m happy to keep paying the same amount per pack of puzzles, five dollars for Thermo, five dollars per knight pack, etc. But having a whole bunch of different apps to switch through is complicated to figure out which puzzle I want, where it is, and it and clutters up my phone. I really like that this version they released has multiple packs to buy within it, and I hope that they keep adding other options for in app purchases within this one app.

2023-04-20

OBSESSED with this app - wish is was available on older macs

These puzzles are so addictive! Unfortunately my phone screen is a little small sometimes, and it would be nice to have the app on my computer. I have iOS 11 or later, but I don’t have an M1 chip. I would suggest making it available on more macs if possible, please.

2023-04-20

love it

hi can you please make a feature where we can erase our progress and start from scratch but w/ access to everything already unlocked? and can we have a favorites feature? btw i love this app and the yt channel :)

2023-04-14

Needs unique solutions

On multiple puzzles, I’ve encountered a point where there is no way to deduce the correct number positions because there are multiple solutions that could fit within the rules. The app is otherwise entertaining and not difficult to use, but having to plug in a 50/50 guess to see what errors out to solve a puzzle is frustrating.

2023-04-01

Love This

I was already a big fan of the earlier apps (Killer, Arrow, etc) because of the phenomenal puzzle quality, but this app adds some features that I thought were lacking in the other ones (more colors, for example). I also like that new puzzle packs can be easily purchase and added to a single app.

2023-01-20

Puzzles great, hints terrible

The harder puzzles are quite difficult. After an hour I tend to start looking at hints because I just want to get through it. So many times I read a hint that does not apply to the puzzle at all. Give a step by step solution or don’t bother. For example “colouring the 7s reveals that XYZ can’t go in rXcY.” And at the point I’m at it simply doesn’t reveal anything, but there’s no logic or explanation before that hint so there’s nothing you can do but plug the numbers in… and then you might as well be entering data into a grid. Frustrating enough for me to write a review which I almost never do.

2022-12-30

Great app; GAS levels great for newer solver

The game works well and the multiple marking styles are great. The "Genuinely Approachable Sudoku" (GAS) levels are fun and not too challenging for someone new to these new styles of play. I'd love to see more of these.

It would be nice to be able to import or set your own levels in the game.

There's a display bug when changing between portrait and landscape, but nothing serious.

2022-12-03

Love this app

This has been a great sudoku app from the start just due to the quality of the puzzles. The new interface updates have solidified this as the perfect variant sudoku app. The GAS puzzle pack is very enjoyable so far!

2022-11-03

A wonderful app

I downloaded this app after getting back into sudoku for a variety of reasons. I have had such a blast solving the puzzles (which previously I would have put my head through the wall while attempting). The UI is gorgeous and very straightforward to a re-emerging sudoku enthusiast. The puzzles themselves are available in a variety of packs, some free and some paid. I have the utmost respect for the makers of this app and am so glad to be supporting them in their endeavors. Now, it’s time to get back to some solving!

2022-11-02

Improved Interface and Puzzle Pack Support

Although built on the same framework as the other CtC apps, this one includes some very welcome interface updates, especially to how pencil mark and coloring tools work, and I’m excited to buy individual puzzle packs rather than new apps each time

2022-10-28

Poor attention to detail for hints in Domino Pack

The puzzles are great. I’m not a great solver (yet) and I need to resort to hints from time to time. It’s sad when it’s harder to understand the hints with wrong row/column references than it is to solve the puzzle! For the free puzzles it’s no big deal, but when I pay for an additional pack I expect a professional product. Is it too much to ask that a competent solver proofread the hints?

2022-10-01

Fun

These are a lot of fun and not incredibly difficult like they show on the channel.

2022-09-22

Rules and hints impossible to parse

I can’t figure out why a given thing I do is against the special rules, and the hints aren’t all that clear

2022-09-21

My last review was 4 stars — now updated…

I have 3-4 ideas to improve the app.

#1: Rather than allowing red numbers allow us a choice of coloring for the letters ( as well as tiles.

#2: talk to Sven and enter a collaborative agreement to make your apps interchangeable

#3 collect all cracking the cryptic apps as playable within this app without additional expenditures.

#4 get Simon and Mark to prefer your software.

2022-09-08

Best of the best

Love this app - especially two things: highlighting of the squares with notes and the large format.

2022-08-30

Great app, but the latest update was for the worst

The puzzles are great, but the update is making things hard to enjoy them. I love that the newest update included a new set of puzzles, but the quality of life changes certainly hurt my enjoyment of the app. I particularly miss the eraser (I realize the backspace key functions as an eraser, but it visually is less intuitive than an actual eraser icon) and the bulk erase trash bin, but the layout change is also distracting and unwieldy - in landscape mode, the puzzle is shoved as far to the left of the screen as possible with an awkward dead space on the right with the inputs below it. Why the forward/reverse, back, setting, and hint boxes aren’t in the dead space, I don’t know - instead they’re squashed between the puzzle and the number keys, making the bottom right of the screen very visually cluttered.

2022-08-25

Transformative

It will make you question the existence of God and you will love every minute of it

2022-08-24

Great app from a great team

I’ve bought and played all of the ctc apps so far and haven’t been disappointed by any of them. The handpicked puzzles are always fun and difficulty with some tricky break ins but the hints are usually enough to aid in the start.

Notes on the new update, it could use a keypad flip option. I’m used to a computer keyboard layout and it messes with me a little when using 123/789.

Also the icon at the top left showing both the restraints and negative restraints was helpful in remembering when I should use certain logic but I don’t see it there anymore.

Other than those few quality of life options, great new app and new update.

2022-08-17

Better color support

Great app! Please add better coloring support (more than 3 colors and multiple colors within a cell) like is shown in the videos.

2022-08-13

Best

Absolutely best and most challenging sudoku I’ve ever found. Really fun!

2022-08-07

First puzzle doesn’t have a unique solution

On puzzle one got all the way until the end and came to where only square to fill were: r2c2, r2c3, r2c6, r3c3, r3c6, r4c2, r4c3. The only number to place were 3,5, and 9 to get a unique solution I could put a 5 in r2c2 which would give me in the same order as above: 5, 3, 9, 9, 5, 3, 5. that was wrong so I plugged in 3 and came to a situation where r2c3, r2c6, r3c3, r3c3 were 5 or 9 and were both completely interchangeable with nothing to give you a unique solution. If the very first puzzle isn’t solvable I think I’ll go play the other apps.

2022-07-29

Another Great Sudoku App From Cracking The Cryptic!

I wrote a review a few days after this came out and it seems to have been lost, so I will try again. I have been excitedly awaiting this app for the last few months that Mark and Simon have been teasing it on their channel, and it has certainly lived up to the anticipation! These new variants are a fun challenge, expanding my skill set and teaching my brain new strategies and methods of logic to solve them. The Cracking The Cryptic collection are by far my favorite Sudoku apps, and I highly recommend this one and all their previous releases as well (Classic, Sandwich, Killer, Thermo, Arrow, Chess, Miracle).

That’s enough reviewing from me - I have puzzles to solve. Say it with me now: let’s get cracking!

2022-07-27

Interface Issue

The Puzzles are great as always! But whenever I’m solving a kropki or xv puzzle with cages or sandwiches, all the dots stay on the screen while I’m looking at the options. It makes trying to work with the information a little more difficult, but I’m sure it’ll be fixed soon!

2022-07-21

Before you get mad like I did…

In the settings change the highlighting of errors to duplicates instead of the default setting. The second puzzle that I did I messed up, it highlighted an error, I couldn’t understand why then I just started putting numbers in until it didn’t say error and beat the whole thing in a better time than my first puzzle. Shouldn’t be default setting but it’s a setting you can change at least :p Sorry for run-on sentences english is my first and only language.

2022-07-10

The best sudoku out there

This is the latest app from Cracking the Cryptic, and I hope it’s the platform for all the future puzzles from them. The hand made and picked puzzles are the best and the toolset unmatched and the visuals are great too.

2022-07-10

This is the BEST collection of variant sudoku you can find in an app!

The puzzles never feel same-y. Some are quite challenging, but if you hit a wall, the hint system gives you just the nudge you need—with an explanation of the logic, not just “3 in the corner.”

The other CTC apps are also excellent, I highly recommend them all (Miracle Sudoku is my favorite).

Looking forward to the next pack!

2022-07-10

CtC - not what I was expecting

I’m a bit lazy to mess with the settings in the app.

The interface is ok, but I prefer the CtC Sudoku Pad - it’s what I’m used to, and all the auto-shading, auto-removal is more than I’m willing to get used to.

The free puzzles by Prasanna Seshadri are challenging. I did the first 5/7 before deciding, the app interface isn’t for me.

I’d recommend looking into cracking the cryptic’s channel. They have completed hundreds of amazing puzzles that are crafted by even more amazing designers/setters.

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Please fix hints

Excellent app for variant sudokus

Love it, but it could be better

Notepad please

No support for in-app purchase glitch

So much fun!

Puzzles are good, hints are almost always wrong or vague

No games without purchase

Scammers

Not for beginners

Highest quality sudoku puzzles available

Please fix clues!!

Excellent app, can’t wait for more puzzles!

Great game BUT

Best Sudoku App

Incredible Puzzles

Great app, but not colorblind friendly

Great app, great puzzles, but it needs one more button

Handwritten hints need to be checked for accuracy

Great puzzles and playability, with a couple caveats

Not Approachable for Newcomers

Great for iPad, Improvement needed on Mac

Always excellent

I would rebuy all the older games as DLC just to use this app

I would give this app five stars if there was a way to clear progress or data

Good puzzles, drains battery

Great overall, some hard, I wish just one app

OBSESSED with this app - wish is was available on older macs

love it

Needs unique solutions

Love This

Puzzles great, hints terrible

Great app; GAS levels great for newer solver

Love this app

A wonderful app

Improved Interface and Puzzle Pack Support

Poor attention to detail for hints in Domino Pack

Fun

Rules and hints impossible to parse

My last review was 4 stars — now updated…

Best of the best

Great app, but the latest update was for the worst

Transformative

Great app from a great team

Better color support

Best

First puzzle doesn’t have a unique solution

Another Great Sudoku App From Cracking The Cryptic!

Interface Issue

Before you get mad like I did…

The best sudoku out there

This is the BEST collection of variant sudoku you can find in an app!

CtC - not what I was expecting