Sudoku Joy - Number Games 12+

I have seen sudoku many upon many times. I have casually glanced at the puzzles and quickly decided not to attempt it. I am really not a quick math student. Today, I saw this app and the urge to try it was overwhelming. Needless to say, I tried it. I was amazed that it was not the math game I had expected. It was challenging to check the cells over and over again, counting the numbers and correctively recounting them. I completed the first two puzzles before I had the chance to realize that I was enjoying this puzzle. I am still not a very good person at math, but you don’t have to be good to count to 9.

I’m tired of the whole “mistakes” part of this app. I get it’s there so that people don’t just randomly guess numbers, but people that actually want to play sudoku correctly aren’t going to do that, they will play it properly. 95% of the mistakes I’ve made were because I either thought I was in notes mode when I wasn’t, or because my fat fingers accidentally pushed the wrong button. And instead of having me watch an ad in order to continue playing the game, it just restarts the game. I literally got 90% of an expert level game, about 35 minutes into the game, and I had to restart. That’s ridiculous. Pen and paper sudoku would let me finish the game. Either have a way to disable the “mistakes” feature or at least save the game from where you made your last mistake. I’m not tryin to invest another 30 min of my time just for the app for pull this sort of thing again just because my finger slipped and hit the wrong button.

I have played this game pack for several months now and have become aware of a major flaw. I do not know what the application is doing in background but it consumes significant amounts of power. My iPhone 8 gets hot when this application is on screen or in background. I was working outdoors for a couple hours today with the iPhone in sleep mode. I wasn’t playing the application but it was still in background on my screen. In two hours my battery drained from 98 to 30% ! UNACCEPTABLE. This iPhone is relatively new and no other application drains battery the fast.

I attempted to contact the developer help screen but it appears to be kanji not English. Additionally, I was unable to access the suggested Facebook account. Suggestion to developers; make your web reference a hyperlink or at least allow copy permission to cut and paste the URL.

Sincerely frustrated!