Sudoku Master Edition

Name: Sudoku Master Edition
Rating: 4.6 (7884 reviews)
Author: Hoolatron Studios

Daily Number & Logic Puzzles

Free · In‑App Purchases

7.9K Ratings
Age Rating

4+
Years
Category

Board
Developer

Hoolatron Studios
Language

EN
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Size

125.6
MB

Unleash Your Puzzle Skills! Sudoku M.E. - The ultimate 9x9 puzzler with Apple Pencil integration and a sleek, modern interface. Play the world's best Sudoku on iOS! ***FEATURED AS APPLE'S GAME OF THE DAY IN 40+ COUNTRIES*** SUDOKU MASTER EDITION is classic Sudoku with a wardrobe. Play across dozens of custom themes, jump into limited-time events, and pick your fight across five difficulty levels from Easy to Master. Beautiful, minimalist, and built to keep you coming back. Whether you're a daily solver or just getting hooked, here's what's inside: THEMES & EVENTS - Dozens of custom themes to make the board truly yours - Exclusive limited-time events with rewards you won't find anywhere else - 13 app icons and 26 hand-picked fonts to match your style - Sleek Dark theme for late-night solving PLAY YOUR WAY - Five difficulty levels, from a gentle Easy to a brutal Master - Lightning Mode for fast, high-energy solving - Zen Mode for a calm, distraction-free pen-and-paper feel - Mistake Mode or Classic Mode, however you like to play - Adjustable grid styles and a modern color palette that's easy on the eyes SMART TOOLS - Highlight Helper to spot your next move - Notes for jotting down possibilities (or secret messages, we won't tell) - Auto-complete and Quick Start to skip the busywork - Daily reminders so you never break your streak - In-app tutorial and help for when you need a hand APPLE PENCIL (compatible iPad & Apple Pencil) - A true pen-and-paper experience: scribble numbers and notes by hand - Built-in Notepad to sketch ideas and erase with a tap - No Pencil? Just toggle the notepad off and play as normal Relaxing original soundtrack by EARLYGUARD, endless customization, and more on the way. Download SUDOKU MASTER EDITION and find your perfect game.

Ratings & Reviews

4.6

out of 5

7.9K Ratings

Was much better before version 3...
12/03/2017
vaficionado
This latest update has introduced a bunch of bugs. Some are so fundamental as to make the game almost unusable now - it doesn’t remove notes as it’s supposed to when a number is locked in to a row, and just now I noticed it actually let me enter the number 2 twice in one row. The auto-fill function (for when there’s just one number in a segment remaining) has also stopped working properly, and all of a sudden the Apple Pencil integration is allowing non-pencil input, drawing on the notepad or filling number boxes with handwriting even when I’m not using the pencil, just tapping the screen with my finger! Also, the numbers no longer “go away” when they’re all placed. It used to be that when you had 9x 2s, the 2 would disappear as an option. Now it stays there, even though you can’t use it any more. This was definitely the best sudoku app in the App Store, up until two days ago. Now.... eh. Needs some help!Edit: updating to 5 stars based on developer response and quick resolution of reported issues! Mistakes happen but what matters is how you respond to them. And this team responded exactly as they should. Thanks, guys!

Developer Response
UPDATED: Thanks so much for the revised review. We really are working super hard to make sure that problems are taken care of immediately. We do have some friends and family and even users who beta test for us but don't always catch stuff, then there are device specific issues. We are grateful for your understanding, patience, sticking with us when we have issues and most importantly: giving us the opportunity to correct them. Thank you again! Please update to the latest version that was just released today Dec 3. We hope that you find the new version to be a much better experience than 1 star. Please feel free to email us at hello@hoolatronstudios.com if you have any issues or suggestions. Thank you for your support!ORIGINAL:Hiya!Version 3.0 introduced a new mode - Classic Mode, which is activated by default. Please go into your settings & switch back to Mistake Mode, where you can enable to have duplicates removed, turn Quick Mode back on, etc.Hope this helps!
Was much better before version 3...
12/03/2017
vaficionado

This latest update has introduced a bunch of bugs. Some are so fundamental as to make the game almost unusable now - it doesn’t remove notes as it’s supposed to when a number is locked in to a row, and just now I noticed it actually let me enter the number 2 twice in one row. The auto-fill function (for when there’s just one number in a segment remaining) has also stopped working properly, and all of a sudden the Apple Pencil integration is allowing non-pencil input, drawing on the notepad or filling number boxes with handwriting even when I’m not using the pencil, just tapping the screen with my finger! Also, the numbers no longer “go away” when they’re all placed. It used to be that when you had 9x 2s, the 2 would disappear as an option. Now it stays there, even though you can’t use it any more. This was definitely the best sudoku app in the App Store, up until two days ago. Now.... eh. Needs some help!Edit: updating to 5 stars based on developer response and quick resolution of reported issues! Mistakes happen but what matters is how you respond to them. And this team responded exactly as they should. Thanks, guys!
Developer Response 12/03/2017
UPDATED: Thanks so much for the revised review. We really are working super hard to make sure that problems are taken care of immediately. We do have some friends and family and even users who beta test for us but don't always catch stuff, then there are device specific issues. We are grateful for your understanding, patience, sticking with us when we have issues and most importantly: giving us the opportunity to correct them. Thank you again! Please update to the latest version that was just released today Dec 3. We hope that you find the new version to be a much better experience than 1 star. Please feel free to email us at hello@hoolatronstudios.com if you have any issues or suggestions. Thank you for your support!ORIGINAL:Hiya!Version 3.0 introduced a new mode - Classic Mode, which is activated by default. Please go into your settings & switch back to Mistake Mode, where you can enable to have duplicates removed, turn Quick Mode back on, etc.Hope this helps!
Bad scoring system
12/16/2018
dworsnup
I'm new to Sudoku, so I'm not sure how it would typically be scored, but the way this game does it is silly. When you play a tile, the name of the tile is multiplied by a number which decreases as the timer counts up. This scoring system allows for a user to be presented with the "same" board as another, execute the exact same sequence of moves with the same timing, and come to a different score. To do this, all you must do is permute all of the tile names, i.e., replace all 1s with 9s, all 2s with 1s, all 3s with 2s and so on. This doesn't really change the board since you could replace the numbers with letters or glyphs and the structure of the soduko board remains the same - there is still one one of each type of tile in each row, column, and square. For a perfectionist like myself, this scoring system causes me to constantly restart games until I get that perfect start that allows me to play a bunch of 9s in the beginning. Ideally, the tiles would count evenly, since it doesn't really matter which tiles you are playing. If you are playing tiles at all then you're making progress. My suggestion would be to instead measure how sparse the board is (since play is more difficult the fewer tiles on the board) and multiply this value by the value determined by the timer. There are of course other options. I just don't like the way it is done now.Other than that, this app is awesome. 4/5
Bad scoring system
12/16/2018
dworsnup

I'm new to Sudoku, so I'm not sure how it would typically be scored, but the way this game does it is silly. When you play a tile, the name of the tile is multiplied by a number which decreases as the timer counts up. This scoring system allows for a user to be presented with the "same" board as another, execute the exact same sequence of moves with the same timing, and come to a different score. To do this, all you must do is permute all of the tile names, i.e., replace all 1s with 9s, all 2s with 1s, all 3s with 2s and so on. This doesn't really change the board since you could replace the numbers with letters or glyphs and the structure of the soduko board remains the same - there is still one one of each type of tile in each row, column, and square. For a perfectionist like myself, this scoring system causes me to constantly restart games until I get that perfect start that allows me to play a bunch of 9s in the beginning. Ideally, the tiles would count evenly, since it doesn't really matter which tiles you are playing. If you are playing tiles at all then you're making progress. My suggestion would be to instead measure how sparse the board is (since play is more difficult the fewer tiles on the board) and multiply this value by the value determined by the timer. There are of course other options. I just don't like the way it is done now.Other than that, this app is awesome. 4/5
Ads were not removed after money was paid.
05/21/2019
Xx?$&$
I downloaded the game and realized there were ads underneath the game being played. There were also loud and annoying ads after the game was completed. I paid $4.99 to remove ads. The ads are still there — all of them. I wrote the game support group to find out what I should have expected when I paid to remove ads, and I did not get a response. I think they are dishonest. My advise to anyone using this game is to play it with the ads and to not pay any money to remove the ads. No one will remove them, and no one will respond to you. If I could give a lower mark than one star, I would.Update: It has only been one day, and after I heard from the developers, I tried their suggestion. The ads are now gone, and I couldn’t be happier with the game. I like playing this game, and I am happy to find out that the people who developed it care enough about it to take care of the people who play it. My apologies for jumping to conclusions; I have run into game developers who are not interested in how their game affects those who play it, and I am glad to see that you are not one of them.

Developer Response
Hiya!I'm sorry, we didn't receive your email.Please try the following:- Make sure you're signed into the iTunes Account that you used to pay to remove ads.- Open Sudoku ME- Go into the game's Settings- Click on "Restore Purchases" on the very top.That oughta fix it; if not, PLEASE email us: hello@hoolatronstudios.com
Ads were not removed after money was paid.
05/21/2019
Xx?$&$

I downloaded the game and realized there were ads underneath the game being played. There were also loud and annoying ads after the game was completed. I paid $4.99 to remove ads. The ads are still there — all of them. I wrote the game support group to find out what I should have expected when I paid to remove ads, and I did not get a response. I think they are dishonest. My advise to anyone using this game is to play it with the ads and to not pay any money to remove the ads. No one will remove them, and no one will respond to you. If I could give a lower mark than one star, I would.Update: It has only been one day, and after I heard from the developers, I tried their suggestion. The ads are now gone, and I couldn’t be happier with the game. I like playing this game, and I am happy to find out that the people who developed it care enough about it to take care of the people who play it. My apologies for jumping to conclusions; I have run into game developers who are not interested in how their game affects those who play it, and I am glad to see that you are not one of them.
Developer Response 05/20/2019
Hiya!I'm sorry, we didn't receive your email.Please try the following:- Make sure you're signed into the iTunes Account that you used to pay to remove ads.- Open Sudoku ME- Go into the game's Settings- Click on "Restore Purchases" on the very top.That oughta fix it; if not, PLEASE email us: hello@hoolatronstudios.com
Sudoku
05/13/2018
Tinajenn
UPDATED REVIEW: Developer responded to my review 😐...That’s actually the 1st time I’ve ever received a response on a game I reviewed and I’ve reviewed many. They responded with, “blah blah, blah blah, blah”. I didn’t read it yet, but I’ve raised my 3 stars to 5 just because they responded. I’m also changing my like for this game to LOVE because my issues have been solved....maybe that’s what they were telling me 🤔...well anyway, this is a great game. I love how it’s like 5 or 6 levels of difficulty, instead of the usual easy, medium, hard. I like it because even the easy is not too easy to solve. I like that you can chose a color scheme for the squares and the lines are almost transparent so all you really see are a bunch of numbers. It’s confusing in a good way when trying to select the right number, because it forces you to think harder and make accurate decisions. I really love this game because it’s not easy and I just don’t see how I’d get bored with it. It’s challenging and it’s by far, the best Sudoku game I’ve ever played. 5/4/18 review: I like this game. I would LOVE it if it didn’t crash so much 😒

Developer Response
Hiya!We're about to release Version 4.0, which will include numerous bug fixes - as well as bring some cool new features too.The crashes started happening with the latest iOS update - we're sorry, but rest assured: we're on top of it.Thank you so much for giving our little game a try :)
Sudoku
05/13/2018
Tinajenn

UPDATED REVIEW: Developer responded to my review 😐...That’s actually the 1st time I’ve ever received a response on a game I reviewed and I’ve reviewed many. They responded with, “blah blah, blah blah, blah”. I didn’t read it yet, but I’ve raised my 3 stars to 5 just because they responded. I’m also changing my like for this game to LOVE because my issues have been solved....maybe that’s what they were telling me 🤔...well anyway, this is a great game. I love how it’s like 5 or 6 levels of difficulty, instead of the usual easy, medium, hard. I like it because even the easy is not too easy to solve. I like that you can chose a color scheme for the squares and the lines are almost transparent so all you really see are a bunch of numbers. It’s confusing in a good way when trying to select the right number, because it forces you to think harder and make accurate decisions. I really love this game because it’s not easy and I just don’t see how I’d get bored with it. It’s challenging and it’s by far, the best Sudoku game I’ve ever played. 5/4/18 review: I like this game. I would LOVE it if it didn’t crash so much 😒
Developer Response 05/04/2018
Hiya!We're about to release Version 4.0, which will include numerous bug fixes - as well as bring some cool new features too.The crashes started happening with the latest iOS update - we're sorry, but rest assured: we're on top of it.Thank you so much for giving our little game a try :)

We squashed some bugs and made a few behind-the-scenes improvements to keep things running smoothly. Got feedback or found something we missed? Email us at hello@hoolatronstudios.com — we read every message and would love to hear from you.

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Seller: Hoolatron Studios
Size: 125.6 MB
Category: Board
Compatibility: Requires iOS 15.6 or later.

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Was much better before version 3...

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Ads were not removed after money was paid.

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