Thermo Sudoku

Handcrafted Thermo Sudoku puzzles by YouTube's most popular Sudoku channel!

Thermo Sudoku: Challenging Puzzle Game

"Thermo Sudoku" is an engaging Android app featuring handcrafted Thermo Sudoku puzzles by Simon Anthony and Mark Goodliffe of Cracking The Cryptic. Each puzzle includes thermometer shapes with digits that must increase away from the bulb, creating fresh logical challenges. With over 100 beautiful puzzles, hints crafted by the hosts, and a difficulty range from easy to extreme, players earn stars as they progress and enhance their skills. Perfect for dedicated Sudoku enthusiasts seeking an innovative experience!
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Users: 14,278
14
Rating: 4.82
(490)
Version: 1.6.1 (Last updated: 2023-08-28)
Creation date: 2020-05-20
Price: 4.99
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App summary

Presented by Cracking The Cryptic, YouTube’s most popular Sudoku channel, comes a new game featuring one of the most popular puzzle types: Thermo Sudoku.

How does Thermo Sudoku work? Well each sudoku grid contains thermometer shapes (often drawn to create themes) and digits on thermometers must increase as one moves further from the bulb end. The interactions between the thermometers leads to new logical ideas and patterns that completely refreshes the standard sudoku solving experience.

As with their other games (‘Classic Sudoku’, ‘Sandwich Sudoku’ and ‘Chess Sudoku’), Simon Anthony and Mark Goodliffe (the hosts of Cracking The Cryptic) have personally crafted the hints for the puzzles. So you know that every puzzle has been play-tested by a human being to ensure that the 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 YouTube 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
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
  • Challenging and clever puzzles
  • Helpful hint system
  • Beautiful interface and customization options
  • Handcrafted puzzles from a reputable publisher
  • Introduces players to various Sudoku strategies
Cons
  • Insufficient number of puzzles
  • Hints can be unhelpful or confusing
  • App can overheat devices
  • Color scheme makes it difficult to read numbers
  • Game experience affected by using Unity engine, leading to battery drain
Most mentioned
  • Need for more puzzles
  • Issues with hints
  • Lack of synchronization across devices
  • Positive experience with the puzzle design
  • Customization options are a plus
User reviews
Well, I had a much better time with this pack than with the chess sudoku one. There were only a few puzzles I got stuck on, but two of them were because they seemed to require you to see like a dozen moves ahead to see conflict. There was one time where there was a typo in a hint (mixing up row and colum in the clue).
by Tony T, 2024-12-08

I dont have a problem with paying for these but would appreciate an explanation on your logic on #45 there is no explanation on r1 why it is expected to be evenly distributed. I can probably figure it out further down the solve but your hint 1 says 9 can be solved is not a guarantee at that stage. there is no break in the line that says each thermometer terminates in the middle.
by Melanie Stone, 2024-10-04

Great! The hint system is helpful but not hand-holdy, and you're not punished for looking them up. I will say, puzzle 79 seems to require guessing at an option and proceeding until you find a contradiction (the "smart hint" gave up and the setter's hint confirmed that was what you needed to do), but they claim that shouldn't be needed for their puzzles, so that was disappointing. Maybe if you're good enough you can get an eye for that kind of thing?
by is b, 2024-06-18
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