Sudoku.com - Number Games 4+

Great app - with one suggestion for improvement

This is a great app - thank you! I play it almost daily, and it’s fun, challenging and thoroughly enjoyable.

The only suggestion I’d like to make is to get rid of the puzzles requiring “Bowman’s Bingo” to solve them. To my mind the Bowman’s Bingo “let’s assume” strategy is just guessing. You might as well “let’s assume” (ie “guess”) a number is correct and follow it to its conclusion one way or another. The guessing involved is irritating - I get to a certain point and don’t know if there’s a logical move I’ve missed, or if I’m now meant to “let’s assume”. The only way to know for certain is to check the hint, which I try to avoid doing.

The hint function is a fantastic way to learn the strategies. Thank you for this, as well as the game on the whole.

Developer Response ,

Hello! We have issued an update and we hope the problem with Bowman's Bingo strategy has been resolved. If you face any problems, please contact us at support@easybrain.com. We will try our best to help you out. 🙌

The best sudoku app on the market!! But either extreme ends in bowman’s bingo or in less than 15mins

Now I love this app don’t get me wrong. I would give it a 5/5 hands down and I’ve played almost 1300 games all up. The interface is amazing and so easy to use. I can’t stand the other apps. But please review the extreme games!! It should be hard with a good challenge. But they are either over in less than 15mins and are that of a hard level or end in bowman’s bingo. Finding one that’s actually a challenge only to realise it ends in bowman’s bingo is beyond disappointing and I know a few people at work who have stopped using the app due this reason alone. I find very few that actually end with a good challenge of problem solving with an answer that’s not “let’s guess/assume this cell is…” . Can we please please have an option that stops bowman bingo games, so those of us who don’t like it can opt out of those puzzles for just a good old fashions puzzle finding patterns and actually being able to figure out the answer that way. I love the hints when one gets hard as it helps in learning for future games to find more patterns but again the bowman’s bingo helps no one and suddenly the fun of the “challenge” is gone. It’s honestly the only reason I went looking for other apps in the first place. While I enjoy their extreme levels much more the interface they use are just horrible. Please please fix this one and only issue

Used to be alright, but it just kept getting worse

I didn’t mind the ads at first. One after each game that you could close quickly. Then it was one before or after. Then both. Then before and after EVERY puzzle. Then whenever you paused the game. Then after the first time you got all the spots for one number in each puzzle. Then each time you did that again if over 3 mins had passed since the last time it showed an ad due to that.

And over the course of that, it changed all of these ads from quick popups to ones you couldn’t close for 5 seconds, then to those ones where it either doesn’t show a button to skip it (and then takes you to a different ad screen to close it) until 15 seconds in, or didn’t show it at all unless you tapped the screen. And now they’re each slightly different ads for the same money-printing, zero-thought, zoomer-brand game.

While that’s understandably a deal-breaker for many, what finally killed this for me was the new UI update. Holy hell, I don’t know who’s on your UI team but bolded default font text on EVERYTHING is not a good look, especially when the text and numbers gets spaced out alongside it. And now when you fill in all of a number’s spots for the first time in a puzzle, it interrupts play to show a silly “good job!” emoji sticker in the middle of the screen for a few seconds. Before it cuts to the ad, naturally.

Congrats, guys, you finally convinced me to shop around for a different sudoku app.

Developer Response ,

Hi! We need ads to support and improve the game to stay free for everyone. You may skip an ad after 5 seconds: tap the cross-shaped/fast-forward button in the right/left upper/lower corner. You can disable all ads for a small one-time fee in Settings. If you can't skip an ad, please send a screenshot via the "Help" section in the app. We added popups and emojis for a new fresh look of the app. We will be analyzing our players' feedback about those features.