Killer Sudoku

Handcrafted Killer Sudoku puzzles by the most popular Sudoku channel!

Killer Sudoku - Handcrafted Puzzles by Cracking The Cryptic

"Killer Sudoku" is a mobile puzzle game featuring handcrafted Killer Sudoku puzzles by the renowned Cracking The Cryptic team. Each puzzle involves strategically placed cages that indicate the sum of the numbers within, leading to intricate logic challenges. Players can earn stars by solving over 100 beautiful puzzles, including 15 bonus beginner challenges, all with hints designed to enhance their skills. Created by experienced Sudoku experts Simon and Mark, this game is perfect for fans seeking engaging and educational gameplay.
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App stats

Users: 14,542
23
Rating: 4.46
(362)
Version: VARY (Last updated: 2023-04-24)
Creation date: 2020-12-11
Price: 4.99
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App summary

Presented by Cracking The Cryptic, the most popular Sudoku channel, comes a new game based on our most requested variant: Killer Sudoku.

In Killer Sudoku, every puzzle features cages that tell you the sum of the numbers inside. This extra information leads to beautiful logic that you will master as you progress through our handmade puzzles. The puzzles in Killer Sudoku are created by Simon and Mark as well as a large number of guest creators. Fans of Cracking the Cryptic's channel will recognize many of these authors as some of the most talented creators working today!

As with our other games (‘Classic Sudoku’, ‘Sandwich Sudoku’, ‘Chess Sudoku’, 'Thermo Sudoku' and 'Miracle Sudoku'), Simon Anthony and Mark Goodliffe (the hosts of Cracking The Cryptic) have written all the hints for the puzzles. So you know that every puzzle has been play-tested by a human being to ensure that each sudoku is interesting and fun to solve.

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). Anyone familiar with their channel will know that Simon and Mark take pride in teaching viewers to be better solvers and, in these games, they always craft the puzzles with the mindset of trying to help solvers improve their skills.

Mark and Simon have both represented the UK many times at 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:
100 beautiful puzzles
15 bonus beginner puzzles
Hints crafted by Simon and Mark!

User reviews

These summaries are automatically generated weekly using AI based on recent user reviews. Google Play Store does not verify user reviews, so some user reviews may be inaccurate, spammy, or outdated.
Pros
  • Great handcrafted puzzles with clever logic
  • Informative step-by-step hints
  • Regular updates with new puzzles
  • Good user interface (UI) design
Cons
  • Drains battery quickly
  • Hints often not helpful or poorly explained
  • New interface layout is not well received by long-time users
  • App tends to freeze or crash, requiring restarts
Most mentioned
  • Battery drain
  • Hints quality
  • Difficulty of puzzles
  • Interface issues
  • Puzzles are clever and challenging
User reviews
Great game, the interface and interaction with the cells is the best out of all sudoku apps, they should make one for kakuro. But I have my phone set to not rotate if it detected my face so that it stays oriented the way I want to. Every app stays portrait when I lay down and play. But all your games still rotate to landscape when I don't want them to
by Kelly Vergara, 2024-07-07

I put 4 stars instead of 5 for one reason only: battery draining. I have bought all the apps and the sudokus are awesome. I spend a lot of idle time on them and they are totally worth it. Unfortunately, all the apps drain the battery a lot, so it is very inconvenient when you don't have a charger/power bank. There might be some looping or something running constantly in the background. I suggest to find a battery optimization strategy. A sudoku app should not drain that much battery :)

I genuinely loved this app, and was in the middle of playing through the puzzles a second time (after enough time had passed that of mainly forgotten the details) and then the GUI changed and I find that I just can't get used to the changes. It also feels like every action takes a split-second longer to register (new animations? a pause? don't know). And in a game with a timer, that's a bad deal. I'm sad to say, I'm not sure I'll be playing this again. If you start fresh here, it will be fine.
by Euc Pereyra (Euc), 2023-04-29
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