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title: "Cracking the Cryptic - Отзывы, Доход и Загрузки приложения in Соединенные Штаты | Apple App Store"
description: "OUR NEWEST PACK – CLASSIC VOLUME #2!  Classic sudoku is where it all began, and there is still lots of skill to be deployed to solve classic puzzles, and new techniques to be explored.  Nikoli, the Ja"
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# Cracking the Cryptic — Соединенные Штаты
> Curated Sudoku Puzzles

![Cracking the Cryptic App Icon](https://is1-ssl.mzstatic.com/image/thumb/Purple221/v4/88/70/be/8870be65-64d1-2f05-7e69-76aa788ec7cc/AppIcon-1x_U007emarketing-0-8-0-85-220-0.png/434x0w.png)

**Developer:** [Nick Carney](https://apptail.io/ru/developer/nick-carney-BdI)
**Category:** Games
**Rating:** 4.4/5 (199 ratings)
**Price:** Free
**Bundle ID:** com.StudioGoya.CrackingTheCryptic
**Store:** Apple App Store
**Country:** Соединенные Штаты
**Version:** 1.2.34 (released 2025-12-02)
**Original Release:** 2022-07-08
**Languages:** English

**App Store Link:** [Download on Apple App Store](https://apps.apple.com/us/app/app/id1629992934)
**AppTail Page:** [https://apptail.io/ru/app/cracking-the-cryptic-DYC/united-states](https://apptail.io/ru/app/cracking-the-cryptic-DYC/united-states)

## Cracking the Cryptic Description
OUR NEWEST PACK – CLASSIC VOLUME #2!

Classic sudoku is where it all began, and there is still lots of skill to be deployed to solve classic puzzles, and new techniques to be explored.

Nikoli, the Japanese puzzle house, named and popularised sudoku from 1984, and we have commissioned 20 puzzles from them for this Classic Sudoku 2 app. We have also created 20 ourselves, and sourced 20 more from Sam Cappleman-Lynes, the brilliant British sudoku expert. The result is a wonderful 60-puzzle pack which will delight and challenge you.

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Welcome to the brand new Sudoku app from the most popular Sudoku channel, Cracking The Cryptic.

Unlike other Sudoku apps, we feature handcrafted and curated puzzles from the world’s best Sudoku constructors. Each collection features puzzles made by various authors that are now familiar names to those who follow the channel.  Authors like Phistomefel, Clover, Sam Cappleman-Lynes, Christoph Seeliger, Richard Stolk, jovi_al, Qodec, Prasanna Seshadri and of course, Simon and Mark!

Downloading Cracking the Cryptic will give you access to our first free collection – a variety pack by Prasanna Seshadri featuring 7 puzzles inspired from our previous Sudoku apps; Sandwich, Classic, Chess, Thermo, Miracle, Killer and Arrow Sudoku. We also have purchasable packs designed for all skill levels and featuring many unique variants not seen previously.

We’ll be releasing more free and paid packs in the future so keep an eye on the app for more Sudoku content from Cracking The Cryptic!

## Cracking the Cryptic Screenshots
- [Screenshot 1](https://is1-ssl.mzstatic.com/image/thumb/PurpleSource112/v4/6a/90/bb/6a90bb22-1b9d-b3f8-6bc9-777d650b08a2/fe88dba9-7729-42d9-a3c3-b3d481a6cb4a_screen_1284x2778_2022-08-19_20-38-03.png/1284x2778.png)
- [Screenshot 2](https://is1-ssl.mzstatic.com/image/thumb/PurpleSource112/v4/14/7e/12/147e12c6-ad1c-cca6-5332-e942d1206dcb/f2e71a84-1f1c-494f-9828-87986ce76ccb_screen_1284x2778_2022-08-19_20-44-09.png/1284x2778.png)
- [Screenshot 3](https://is1-ssl.mzstatic.com/image/thumb/PurpleSource122/v4/f5/be/bf/f5bebf6d-8905-cc39-c7f4-242d4e7c83ce/d45a07a2-1a6b-4907-896c-b5d63d7bf3f1_screen_1284x2778_2022-08-19_20-40-03.png/1284x2778.png)
- [Screenshot 4](https://is1-ssl.mzstatic.com/image/thumb/PurpleSource122/v4/bc/48/b2/bc48b2f6-4197-43ed-5839-741d68c41e90/9567efff-d6af-4bed-ac20-bf31ad4cce98_screen_1284x2778_2022-08-19_20-41-44.png/1284x2778.png)

## Cracking the Cryptic Rating Breakdown in Соединенные Штаты
- 5 stars: 145 (73%)
- 4 stars: 22 (11%)
- 3 stars: 13 (7%)
- 2 stars: 6 (3%)
- 1 stars: 13 (7%)

## Cracking the Cryptic Reviews in Соединенные Штаты

### ***-- "Puzzles are good, hints are almost always wrong or vague"
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.
-- He henchmen, 2025-08-15

### *---- "Hints Are Pathetic"
Just a horrible experience from top to bottom. Would not recommend.
-- icloud_rusty, 2025-07-08

### **--- "Less than “free” app."
It’s made intentionally difficult to play without paying for level packs. There are some free packs at the very bottom of the list.
-- KiHarder, 2025-06-26

### ***** "love variant sudoku"
excellent app, I love the creativity of the puzzles! I wish there were more knight sudoku in this one.
-- Eren™, 2025-06-17

### ***** "I want more!!"
I loved every second of it! I finished all the packs and can’t get enough of it! Add more packs please🪃🛝
-- NightDragon239, 2025-06-05

### ***** "The only good app on my phone"
First and foremost the puzzles are really excellent. But there’s a major problem with this app. Once you get used to it, the UI for every other sudoku website/app will make you cry in comparison.
-- ThatYoeYouKnow, 2025-05-11

### ****- "Best layout!"
This is the best layout for sudoku controls out there! My only change I would make is the option to remove the timer in the “settings”. Sometimes it’s nice to just relax and not care about time. Watching the clock tic is distracting and can add stress to an otherwise relaxing and delightful pass time.
-- t-monk chef, 2025-02-10

### ***-- "The hints can be quite bad"
The puzzles are all fantastic, but if you get stuck and need a hint, you might be out of luck. A lot of them reference the incorrect cells, others are confusingly written, and many don’t really help you to understand the “why”. It would be fine if the app was free, but we are paying for this and it feels like very little thought went into the hints.
-- Gurudāsa, 2025-01-17

### *---- "Free to download. Not free to play."
Game sells level packs. Pass
-- Dalton46sd, 2025-01-16

### ***** "It’s Fantastic and some quick fixes"
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!!
-- Tuskadory, 2024-12-28

### ****- "Great puzzles"
Great puzzles, but got a bit tripped up by the way the in-app purchases had to be restored after updating the app.
-- Hdysitdugxigxxgxic, 2024-12-23

### ****- "Good but hints need lots of work"
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.
-- farlej47, 2024-12-17

### ***** "Best sudoku app there is"
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
-- c_irl, 2024-11-22

### ***-- "Please fix hints"
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.
-- Pupper27, 2024-11-13

### ****- "Excellent app for variant sudokus"
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.
-- Kevlar1, 2024-10-29

### ****- "Love it, but it could be better"
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.
-- lovehappystuff!!568, 2024-10-02

### ***** "Notepad please"
Hey Love the puzzle design 

Please Please Please implement a notepad feature my brain is too small to keep all the observations in my head. Also enabling the killer calculator on region sum lines puzzles would be great
-- Thedalekkiller, 2024-09-30

### *---- "No support for in-app purchase glitch"
I’ve been a Cracking the Cryptic fan since I discovered it during the pandemic. I have purchased all apps and found them all to be well worth the price. I value being able to continually re-solve puzzles to improve my time, so the timing feature, including the record kept of the best time, is a big plus. The hints are great for learning how to improve puzzle solving skills. While the quality of the hints is not consistent, with some over-explaining and some under-explaining, I understand how much time goes into striking the right balance for consistency across puzzles and for users at different levels. I would pay more if the price were increased to make the quality more consistent (perhaps tiered hints for users at different levels). I liked the new approach of the CTC app with separate modules for sale as in-app purchases until I discovered a glitch that no one has helped me solve. I use 2 different Apple IDs to buy apps because I divide my time between Canada and the U.S. and the sale of some apps is restricted by country. My main account is Canadian, but when I need to buy an app restricted to the U.S., I have to log out of the Canadian Apple ID and into the U.S. one. Sometimes I forget to switch back. I inadvertently bought the first 4 CTC modules using the U.S. account. Many months later after solving all puzzles in the first 4 modules except for some puzzles not yet released, I bought the recently released module while logged into the Canadian account. A few days later, I had to log into the U.S. account to download a U.S. banking app. The next time I opened the CTC app after doing that, the free modules and the most recently purchased one showed up with my playing history but the 4 modules I purchased using the U.S. account were set to unpurchased with my playing history gone. I suspected that this was due to switching accounts and discovered that I had purchased different modules while logged into different accounts. However, when I logged out of the Canadian account and into the U.S. account, the modules I had purchased using the U.S. account were still showing up as not purchased and the “restore purchases” function did not work. I have tried every way I can find to report the problem to developers and Apple but have received no solution. I tried requesting a refund of the apps I can no longer access, thinking I would re-purchase them using the Canadian account (though my play history would still be lost), but Apple told me they are not eligible
-- Frustrated by Glitch, 2024-09-06

### ***** "So much fun!"
I recently downloaded the "CTC Approachable Sudoku #1" pack, and it is so much fun! I have been playing along with Simon and Mark on the youtube channel for about a year, and it's genuinely exciting when I can solve these on my own.
-- Beyelzubub, 2024-08-31

### ***-- "Puzzles are good, hints are almost always wrong or vague"
In so many puzzles, there will be a hint such a (r2c8 can only be 9), and when I go to input nine, it’s just wrong. Probably around 30% of the puzzles, I would say, contain uninterpretable typos
-- He henchmen, 2024-08-26

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## Cracking the Cryptic In-App Purchases
| Item | Price |
|------|-------|
| GAS Volume #1 | $2.99 |
| Domino Sudoku Pack | $4.99 |
| CTC Approachable Sudoku #1 | $2.99 |
| Lines Variety Pack | $4.99 |
| GAS Volume #2 | $2.99 |
| CTC Fog Pack #1 | $4.99 |
| CTC Worms - Marty Sears | $0.99 |
| CTC Worms - James Sinclair | $0.99 |


## Cracking the Cryptic Discovered Keywords
- miracle sudoku
- cracking the cryptic
- classic sudoku
- logic wiz sudoku
- sudoku pad
- chess sudoku
- thermo sudoku
- logic wiz
- ctc connect
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