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.

This is an awesome Sudoku App. If you enjoy the variety Sudoku on YouTube channels like Cracking The Cryptic you will love this app. I’m not a Sudoku wizard but I’ve slowly gotten better with the puzzles here. GAS 1 and 2 and the Approachable pack are indeed approachable and a great place to start. I find variety sudoku so much more fun than standard sudoku. There is a ton of value here for a tiny investment- well worth it! Here are a few things I would improve: (1) Add the calculator more places. It would be really useful for example on X-Sum sudokus but it’s not there. (2) If the sudoku is a Serial Killer don’t include the Killer rules, that’s just confusing. (3) Refine, improve, maybe combine the menu system? Could we just access all the packs we own in one place? Also if there is a tutorial for best practices on how to use notation please direct me there. Thanks for everything! It’s a great app!!

Great puzzles, but got a bit tripped up by the way the in-app purchases had to be restored after updating the app.

Best Sudoku app out there but unless you are a religious viewer of the CTC channel a lot of the hints are completely useless. “Are there any doubles or triples to help with eliminations?” How is this supposed to help? I read this, look at the puzzle and can’t see anything so the app makes me feel stupid. The hints should help TEACH how to solve the puzzles so you get better over time. That being said, those I can wrap my head around are phenomenal.

This app is my favorite sudoku app _by far_. One suggestion - I’d love a way to turn on push notifications to be notified when there’s new puzzles. Currently I just have to check the app occasionally to see if something new has been added

A lot of these puzzles go over my head, which is great because it’s challenging and is helping me understand how to approach these difficult types of sudoku. But the hints almost never explain their logic, and often just tell you where things go while there is not enough information on the board to justify what it is telling you. I get as far as I can before checking a hint, and use the hints to help me understand how to approach, but often just get frustrated by them. Aside from most puzzle packs being locked behind a paywall, overall this is a great app and I am enjoying my time with it.

It is a companion app for a popular YouTube channel Cracking the Cryptic. If you like the channel and variant sudoku puzzles, this is the app to get. However, to get 5 stars from my side, it needs two things: 1) proper Mac support — it only works as an iPad app on Mac with no keyboard support; 2) in-game purchase options for puzzles from legacy apps made by the same team such as classic sudokus. I would like to keep only this app to do all puzzles instead of downloading each app for each variant.

I’ve loved this app and these puzzles for years. I think the interface is pretty awkward and could be improved, but the puzzles are excellent. I keep coming back to this app because the puzzles are so satisfying.