Classic Sudoku

Handcrafted Sudoku puzzles by the most popular Sudoku channel!

Classic Sudoku - Challenging Puzzles for Everyone

"Classic Sudoku" is an engaging Android app featuring expertly curated Sudoku puzzles from Cracking The Cryptic. Designed by Simon Anthony and Mark Goodliffe, it offers 40 beautiful puzzles at launch, with 5 new levels added monthly for the first year. Players start with zero stars, earning them as they solve puzzles, unlocking more challenges. Each puzzle has undergone rigorous play-testing to ensure a well-thought-out solving experience, catering to both beginners and advanced Sudoku enthusiasts.
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App stats

Users: 36,890
66
Version: 2.2.1 (Last updated: 2023-08-28)
Creation date: 2019-11-21
Price: 4.99
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Other: view network connections, full network access

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App summary

Presented by Cracking The Cryptic, the most popular Sudoku channel, this is the brand new “Classic Sudoku” game that their viewers have been requesting for the last two years!

Simon Anthony and Mark Goodliffe, the hosts of Cracking The Cryptic, have assembled a most extraordinary collection of sudoku puzzles. The sudokus in the game cover a wide range of difficulty with something for everyone - and also require an incredible range of techniques to solve them efficiently! Each of these special puzzles had to qualify for inclusion in the game by passing our rigorous play-testing - a test that NO other sudoku game on the market would pass. This play-testing ensures that a human being has actually thought about the journey you, the solver, will go on as you work through the puzzle. No computer testing here!

Indeed our more advanced puzzles have been carefully designed to showcase some of the diabolical techniques in an intuitive way with the aim of helping solvers UNDERSTAND the patterns involved.

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!

Featured authors include (obviously) Simon and Mark but also some other authors who have produced popular puzzles on the channel!

Mark and Simon have both represented the UK many times in the World Sudoku Championship and you can find more of their puzzles (and lots of others) on the internet’s biggest sudoku channel, Cracking The Cryptic.

Features:
40 beautiful puzzles on launch
5 new levels every month for the first year (a total of 100 levels!)
Hints written by Mark and Simon!

User reviews

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Pros
  • High-quality hand-crafted puzzles that are challenging and enjoyable.
  • Customizable UI with various options for marking and notes.
  • Educational hints that help improve solving techniques.
  • Allows for both corner and center notes, which aids in advanced marking.
Cons
  • App drains battery quickly.
  • UI can be clunky and unintuitive at times.
  • Limited number of highlighting colors available.
  • Hints take up full screen, making it difficult to view the puzzle while reading them.
Most mentioned
  • Quality of puzzles
  • Battery drain
  • User interface issues
  • Customizability of notes and markings
User reviews
It might be an issue on my end, but is there no sound in the app? There is no sound options in the settings menu and so far I can't hear any clicks or taps when I select something. Tbh it drives me crazy because I have to keep doublechecking everything I do, because there's no sound, no response to my selections.
by Tony Mase, 2024-08-21

The ONLY sodoku app I have found that allows both corner notes and center notes. For that reason alone, it is the best Sudoku app on this platform. Because of that, I am begging the creators to allow us to enter puzzles from other apps. An amazing function would be to be able to take a picture of a puzzle and have it entered into their platform. But at the very least they should allow us to enter other puzzles onto their platform and work them. Thank you all so much for such an amazing app.
by DGS DGS, 2024-04-30

Best sudoku app I've been able to find on the play store so far. The puzzles themselves are great + the UI is amazing. The app contains a ton of useful features for marking and notes that are easy to find and use (minimal navigation required to switch back and forth between number entry and the numerous different notes / marking options). The color palette can be customized. I really like how when you tap on a numbered cell the UI highlights the rows, columns, and other instances of that number.
by Lizzie Gillis, 2024-03-13
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