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title: "Chess Sudoku - Reviews, Revenue and Downloads in United States | Apple App Store"
description: "***** AUGUST UPDATE ***** 15 new King puzzles, all 100 puzzles are out now!  -------------------------------------  Presented by Cracking The Cryptic, YouTube’s most popular Sudoku channel, comes a ne"
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# Chess Sudoku — United States
> by Cracking the Cryptic

![Chess Sudoku App Icon](https://is1-ssl.mzstatic.com/image/thumb/Purple115/v4/05/e8/96/05e8969b-79da-4517-d52c-09cecb79b259/AppIcon-0-0-1x_U007emarketing-0-0-0-7-0-0-sRGB-0-0-0-GLES2_U002c0-512MB-85-220-0-0.png/434x0w.png)

**Developer:** [Nick Carney](https://apptail.io/developer/nick-carney-BdI)
**Category:** Games
**Rating:** 4.9/5 (148 ratings)
**Price:** Free
**Bundle ID:** com.StudioGoya.ChessSudoku
**Store:** Apple App Store
**Country:** United States
**Version:** 1.6 (released 2021-08-25)
**Original Release:** 2020-03-02
**Languages:** English

**App Store Link:** [Download on Apple App Store](https://apps.apple.com/us/app/app/id1500654482)
**AppTail Page:** [https://apptail.io/app/chess-sudoku-fnob/united-states](https://apptail.io/app/chess-sudoku-fnob/united-states)

## Chess Sudoku Description
***** AUGUST UPDATE *****
15 new King puzzles, all 100 puzzles are out now!

-------------------------------------

Presented by Cracking The Cryptic, YouTube’s most popular Sudoku channel, comes a new game that connects two of the world’s biggest mind games: Chess and Sudoku!

How does Chess Sudoku work? Well we’ve taken the classic sudoku game everyone knows and loves and created puzzles with chess-related twists! There are three different types of puzzles in the game: Knight Sudoku; King Sudoku and Queen Sudoku.

In Knight Sudoku, in addition to the normal rules of sudoku (no repeated digit in a row/column/3x3 box) a digit must not appear a chess knight’s move away from itself. This simple extra restriction introduces lots of clever additional logic that makes the puzzle even more interesting!

King Sudoku and Queen Sudoku work the same way: ie it’s always normal sudoku but, in King Sudoku a digit must not be a single diagonal move away from itself; and, in Queen Sudoku, every 9 in the grid acts like a chess Queen and must not be in the same row/column/3x3 box OR diagonal of any other 9!

As with their other games (‘Classic Sudoku’ and ‘Sandwich 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 to be better solvers and, with their 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 from the Knight, King and Queen variants
Hints crafted by Simon and Mark!

## Chess Sudoku Screenshots
- [Screenshot 1](https://is1-ssl.mzstatic.com/image/thumb/Purple114/v4/84/65/ce/8465ce80-deeb-d1de-ebc1-18d533557815/pr_source.png/1242x2688.png)
- [Screenshot 2](https://is1-ssl.mzstatic.com/image/thumb/Purple114/v4/56/33/ae/5633ae11-cb0d-c70f-1865-f45f72c06dd2/pr_source.png/1242x2688.png)
- [Screenshot 3](https://is1-ssl.mzstatic.com/image/thumb/Purple114/v4/54/00/73/540073b8-aea1-a2ef-e432-7229e6115abc/pr_source.png/1242x2688.png)

## Chess Sudoku Rating Breakdown in United States
- 5 stars: 136 (92%)
- 4 stars: 8 (5%)
- 3 stars: 3 (2%)
- 2 stars: 1 (1%)
- 1 stars: 0 (0%)

## Chess Sudoku Reviews in United States

### ****- "Chess soduku make less sense, queen moves especially"
I am a chess player so I expected chess soduku to make sense.  Queen move ones though clearly have some additional rule.  It says no duplicates on the diagonals, but it’s only some diagonals and not the others.  For instance in puzzle 2, the 1s x out all the spots in row 5.  In puzzle 1, it starts with two fours across the long upper left to lower right diagonal.  Huh?!
-- Chessfreak13576, 2023-02-27

### ****- "More puzzles?"
I love this app!! The chess move limitations add such interesting new patterns and techniques. However, I’ve finished all the knight move puzzles multiple times and am getting bored of them! I’d love to see another update with more puzzles.
-- emily1746, 2021-09-30

### ***-- "Multiple solutions"
Puzzles number 30
In the knight sudoku has 2 solutions.
-- Flyingjudas, 2020-12-25

### ***-- "Queen’s move errors"
Several other reviews have stated it already, but the puzzles don’t seem to follow the queen’s move restrictions very well. One review listed a few and the very first one had multiple contradictions. I love the app but the devs should probably take a look at this.
-- Derpy13, 2020-11-30

### ***** "Great Software and Top Notch Challenge"
After discovering CTC from YouTube, its safe to say I knew this app would be worth the price. The mechanics of center and corner notes, coloring, and multiple cell selection makes playing these intricate puzzles so much smoother. Not to brag but the easy puzzles were a breeze, as they should be. The hard ones definitely stumped me multiple times. Some I broke free after a couple hours but others I needed to use the hints which are very helpful. I recommend watching their videos if hesitant on the purchase, but be warned you will be a sudokuholic after!
-- Adog1233, 2020-11-24

### ***** "A must buy!"
I would highly recommend this app for anyone who has ever liked sudoku.  Personally I was very into sudoku many years ago but admittedly got a tad bit bored of it.  These puzzles offer a very fresh and interesting twist on classic sudoku puzzles that has rekindled my interest in sudoku.
-- Bones2424, 2020-11-22

### ***** "Great App"
This is a fantastic app. The puzzles are good, and train you to work your way up to the hardest ones. The variants add a tremendous amount of fun. There are three different types of puzzles, queen restriction, knight restriction, and king restriction. The solving interface is also fantastic. I highly recommend it, and I look forward to trying CTC’s other apps.
-- SomeNickname42, 2020-08-15

### ***** "Amazing App (and Amazing Channel)"
This app is amazing. The rules are interesting. The puzzles are engaging. The creators are awesome. I’ve got hours of fun out of this, and for $5, it’s easily worth it. 

If I had any feedback, it would be that I’d love more puzzles in the current categories, especially more difficult ones. I love the challenge of the most difficult puzzles of the app, but crave more. (though to be fair I have yet to finish the Queen Puzzles, so perhaps I shouldn’t complain).
-- Asteroidfor2020, 2020-07-13

### ***** "Perfect"
This app works so well, it is really smooth compare to other sudoku apps. I really like it. The variant chess sudoku is my favorite. The only thing I wish was different is the corner notation for the 5 cause they go to the middle which can be confusing, but this is really nitpicking. Great app!!
-- Loupdovic, 2020-07-04

### ****- "Comment on hints"
I tried Queen sudoku today and for games 2 and 3 Queen rules do not seem to be followed in the final solution.
-- V T R, 2020-07-03

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## Chess Sudoku Discovered Keywords
- cracking the cryptic
- queens knight
- chess sudoku

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## Chess Sudoku Available In
- [United States](https://apptail.io/app/chess-sudoku-fnob/united-states)
- [United Kingdom](https://apptail.io/app/chess-sudoku-fnob/united-kingdom)
- [Germany](https://apptail.io/app/chess-sudoku-fnob/germany)
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- [Sweden](https://apptail.io/app/chess-sudoku-fnob/sweden)
- [Netherlands](https://apptail.io/app/chess-sudoku-fnob/netherlands)
- [Russia](https://apptail.io/app/chess-sudoku-fnob/russia)
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