Cracking the Cryptic 4+
Curated Sudoku Puzzles
Nick Carney
Designed for iPad
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- Free
- Offers In-App Purchases
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Description
Line Sudoku
Line Sudoku is a pack devoted to sudokus involving… LINES! Each puzzle features one or more of the popular “lines constraints” that often feature in variant puzzles on Cracking The Cryptic, including Renban, German Whispers, Palindromes, Region Sum and Ten Lines!
We’re thrilled that Line Sudoku includes puzzles by Phistomefel, Qodec, Clover, zetamath, Jay Dyer, Tallcat, Mr Menace, Peter Veenis, Joseph Nehme, Richard Stolk, Prasanna Seshadri, Tyrgannus and Full Deck & Missing A Few Cards! In addition, Mark and Simon have written hints for the challenging puzzles themselves so these hints are meaningful and, above all, educational.
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Welcome to the brand new Sudoku app from YouTube’s 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 two launch packs. Our first free collection is a variety pack by Prasanna Seshadri featuring 7 puzzles inspired from our previous Sudoku apps; Sandwich, Classic, Chess, Thermo, Miracle, Killer and Arrow Sudoku. Our first paid collection is Domino Sudoku, a new variant not featured in our previous apps with puzzles from our amazing constructors.
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!
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Domino Sudoku
Domino Sudoku is named after its domino-like appearance with X's, V's, white dots and black dots placed between cells on the grid. Each puzzle features one or more of these domino types with them all having a different effect: an X means digits in the two cells in the domino must sum to 10; a V means they sum to 5; a white dot means the digits are consecutive; and, finally, a black dot means the digits must be in a 1:2 ratio (ie one of the digits must be double the other).
As you can imagine, when you allow the world’s best Sudoku makers to use these rules they are in their element and they’ve made another set of masterpieces for this collection with a huge amount of variety! We’re thrilled that Domino Sudoku includes puzzles by Christoph Seeliger, Sam Cappleman-Lynes, Richard Stolk, Prasanna Seshadri, Phistomefel, Qodec, Clover and jovi_al. In addition, Mark and Simon have written hints for the challenging puzzles themselves so these hints are meaningful and, above all, educational.
As a bonus, Studio Goya has curated 10 generated beginner puzzles so that players of all skill levels can enjoy Domino Sudoku!
In Cracking The Cryptic’s games, players start with zero stars and earn stars by solving puzzles. The more puzzles you solve, the more stars you earn and the more puzzles you get to play. Only the most dedicated (and cleverest) sudoku players will finish all the puzzles. Of course the difficulty is carefully calibrated to ensure lots of puzzles at every level (from easy through to extreme).
So do join us as we continue to try to revolutionize Sudoku app genre.
What’s New
Version 1.2.9
5 new Lines puzzles!
Ratings and Reviews
Excellent
The CTC apps are the best sudoku apps available, and I like the idea of a single app with the different types of Sudoku as in app purchases. Hopefully a future update would allow us to transfer the puzzles from the other apps onto this one, and keep all our CTC goodness in one place!
Puzzles are great but hints are not always helpful
Puzzles are fun until you run into a block, probably like 70% of the time the hints are well written but other times they say things like “all parity can now be determined” but they don’t explain what that means or how. Some issues with hints could help by some formatting, less so in this app but in other apps 2 hints for the same puzzle could say row then column in one hint then column then row in the next. Better spacing or maybe colours or bold might make them more readable. Some clues just tell you what to do and others give an actual hint, but the ones that tell you what to do don’t explain why, eg c1r134 are a 267 triple, but when I look at my pencil marks I cannot see why those digits cannot go in other cells. Basically a great game brought down by inconsistent hints. I already feel dumb when I go to the hints section, I don’t need the hints to prove me right
Please allow iCloud between devices.
The app is great!
The only down side is that the progression isn’t synchronized between devices.
Please make it possible.
Thanks
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Information
- Seller
- Nick Carney
- Size
- 187.6 MB
- Category
- Games
- Compatibility
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- iPhone
- Requires iOS 12.0 or later.
- iPad
- Requires iPadOS 12.0 or later.
- iPod touch
- Requires iOS 12.0 or later.
- Mac
- Requires macOS 11.0 or later and a Mac with Apple M1 chip or later.
- Apple Vision
- Requires visionOS 1.0 or later.
- Languages
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English
- Age Rating
- 4+
- Copyright
- © 2022 Studio Goya LLC
- Price
- Free
- In-App Purchases
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- GAS Volume #1 $4.99
- Domino Sudoku Pack $7.99
- Lines Variety Pack $7.99
- GAS Volume #2 $4.99