Yes, Cracking the Cryptic is free to download, however it contains in-app purchases or subscription offerings.
🤔 The Cracking the Cryptic app's quality is mixed. Some users are satisfied, while others report issues. Consider reading individual reviews for more context.
Cracking the Cryptic has several in-app purchases/subscriptions, the average in-app price is €4.49.
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4.61 out of 5
23 ratings in Netherlands
I love the puzzles, they are designed well, fun to do and absolutely worth the price. My only problem is with the hints: they are written by people so good at sudoku that they completely fail to communicate the logic to people not yet familiar with it.
And it gets regular updates
Unfortunately many hints are not correct. With wrong column and/or row references. Furthermore some hints make big leaps in the thinking process. Like do A and the follows F. Steps B to E are not explained. I expected better hints. Not everyone is an expert!
Very good value for your money. A lot of hours of fun for just a few bucks. I am almost through all of them. Only criticism is that CTC can improve on the hints, they are not always accurate.
I love the update. Now finally more coloring options and an experience in line with the web app.
Finally cracking the cryptic has made 1 app for all their amazing hand crafted sudokus. Much better to pay a few euro’s to get all the amazing puzzles, without having to download an app for each and every one. Only the hints could be a bit better, but loving the app! Hope to see an update where I can put in all the apps I’ve previously bought, and combine/upload them in this one app.
Sometimes hints are incorrect or weirdly described (without explanation). Coordinates are sometimes wrong. The games are very fun, but there are only 7 to play for free. The game itself is well designed.
In so many puzzles, there will be a hint such as “r2c8 can only be 9”, and if you go to input 9 into r2c8, it’s just flat out wrong. Probably around 40% of the puzzles, I would say, contain uninterpretable typos, including mislabeling cell positions (saying r5c6 when they mean r6c5, or saying r5c6 when they mean r4c6). Additionally, even many of the clues that aren’t just fully wrong are still vague and unhelpful, assuming leaps of logic, causing me to get to the point where I just have to abandon many of the puzzles because there’s nowhere left for me to make progress. And then I don’t have enough stars to unlock new puzzles, so I often just have to manually put in random numbers until I fill out the grid of one puzzle so I can finish it and unlock new ones.
Just a horrible experience from top to bottom. Would not recommend.
It’s made intentionally difficult to play without paying for level packs. There are some free packs at the very bottom of the list.
