Cracking the Cryptic

Great app. But please check out the hints in the last added line puzzle by Qodec (#45). After placing some 9s and 8s i got stuck in this puzzle, so i decided to use a hint. Hint #2 tells me that r1c1/2/3 is either 127 or 136 triple, so i got confused and was thinking “how do you exclude 145 triple?” Not seeing other option i decided to bifurcate the f out of this puzzle and went on a very very long trip finding seemingly a correct way to exclude this possibility (and, of course, i was wrong). Eventually i solved the puzzle on my own only to find out that the option i was previously trying so hard to exclude (dismissed by the hint #2) was indeed the correct one. Anyway, on the one hand i got to solve this on my own, on the other hand wasted a lot of time doing Sisyphean labour. Have kinda mixed feelings about this, but great puzzle anyway.

This app is outright golden. Best puzzle content ever!

Please just fix hints. The rest is great. They have some veeeery unobvious logic and sometimes simply mistakes. Cheers.

The handmade puzzles and handwritten hints are incredible! I have never felt more satisfaction then cracking a super tough level after 3 cumulative hours. I’m not even a fan of the YouTube channel. One note for devs. Sometimes the coordinates given in handwritten hints are wrong. I found it on 2 off the most recently released levels

I love this app and play it almost every single day, but the lack of editing on the clues is beyond frustrating. Puzzle 45, which I’m replaying today, doesn’t just have a typo, which is unfortunately somewhat common, but clues 2 and 3 are flat out incorrect and will not let you solve the puzzle if you follow them. Also, please include a few clues on the bonus pack puzzles. Valentine’s Day #1 I have never been able to solve without finally having to guess after filling in all possibilities around the grid with the clues given. Please have a tester go through and identify all of the typos. A beginner who is relying on the clues to proceed is going to be very frustrated and give up if they don’t figure out that the row and column numbers were transposed for a given clue.

I’m really enjoying this app, and (though I’m nowhere near finished with all the puzzles), can’t wait for more! I did want to say, GAS 1 Puzzle 59 has a rule set that doesn’t make sense— I think they just meant to include the even sandwich rule set, not the sandwich rules as well. Also, to my inexperienced eyes, two crossing renban lines (in the shape of an x) initially seemed like one single renban “shape”, so for anyone else who’s found that ambiguous, any same-color lines crossing in the shape of an x are two distinct lines, not one. If highlight errors is turned on, Puzzle 40 in GAS 2 (I believe) marks repeated digits as in cages as incorrect, even though digits in a cage can repeat in this ruleset. These are all minor though- the vast majority of the time, it’s a very smooth, clutter-free sudoku app with very clear rules, and all the features and puzzles you could ask for!

Love this game and have enjoyed playing it, but need to report an error. GAS#2 puzzle 21 has an inaccurate solution - the arrows in cube 5 do not match the “correct” answer.

You can tell this app is made by sudoku fans as every quality of life feature to be had is present. Watch the makers YouTube channel (also called Cracking The Cryptic) to see how they use it too. It helps!

I’ve spent dozens of hours enjoying these puzzles, and the UI is excellent

I love the app, the best Sudoku app I’ve ever used. My only issue is that the themes aren’t colorblind friendly. I noticed this especially on the new valentine’s puzzle. In the light themes it’s hard to see the range of a cell and in the dark themes it’s hard to see the contents of cells in the fortress or moat.