Cracking the Cryptic

Curated Sudoku puzzles

Cracking the Cryptic: Curated Sudoku Puzzles

"Cracking the Cryptic" is an innovative Sudoku app offering a collection of handcrafted puzzles from renowned constructors. Enjoy unique variants like Line Sudoku and Domino Sudoku, complete with educational hints. Players earn stars by solving increasingly challenging puzzles, making it suitable for all skill levels, from beginners to experts. The app promises regular updates with new puzzle packs to keep players engaged in the captivating world of Sudoku.
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Version: 1.2.18 (Last updated: 2024-11-08)
Creation date: 2022-07-14
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Other: view network connections, full network access

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App summary

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 the 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.

User reviews

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Pros
  • Excellent collection of Sudoku variant puzzles
  • Good level of customization for personal preferences
  • Engaging and challenging puzzles with continuous updates
  • No annoying ads
  • Intuitive controls and improved interface
Cons
  • Slow menu navigation and long loading times
  • High battery consumption and device warming
  • Inaccurate hints and incorrect puzzles reported by multiple users
  • Glitches with saving progress
  • Clunky interface and difficulty with certain features
Most mentioned
  • Menu navigation and loading times
  • Battery drain and warming of the device
  • Inaccuracy of hints and puzzles
  • Customization features
  • Overall quality and challenge of puzzles
User reviews
Excellent collection of Sudoku variants puzzles to work through with a good interface to mark down numbers and notes. However! The more puzzles you start and/or solve, the slower the puzzle-select menus become. I'm now waiting easily over a minute on a blank screen before the next puzzle can be started, or when navigating from puzzle-collections to puzzle lists!
by Alan To (xoAlto), 2024-12-04

The app is very good for it's purpose, which is sudoku solving. There is a good level of customization to adapt to your personal preferences. A minor annoyance is that some colored cells may be hard to see with cell selection. The biggest thing that developers should look into is battery drain. I get that the screen is always on but it drains battery very quickly.
by Ricardo Ribeiro, 2024-11-19

Edit: Reduced to 1 star, hint system is vital to learning yet is rife with errors and shallow. Needs a skilled editor. Great curated puzzles, improved interface vs. previous apps all the while providing better but still imperfect hints. This app is as much a battery hog as its siblings were, has sluggish moments when selecting multiple cells, and flags completed puzzles as incomplete if you close the app upon puzzle completion, usually partially resetting progress in the completed puzzle.
by Dennis Brownfield, 2024-10-08
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