Killer Sudoku CTC 4+
by Cracking the Cryptic
Nick Carney
Designed for iPad
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- £4.99
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Description
***** APRIL UPDATE *****
40 new standard puzzles + 15 bonus beginner puzzles
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Presented by Cracking The Cryptic, YouTube’s most popular Sudoku channel, comes a new game based on our most requested variant: Killer Sudoku.
In Killer Sudoku, every puzzle features cages that tell you the sum of the numbers inside. This extra information leads to beautiful logic that you will master as you progress through our handmade puzzles. The puzzles in Killer Sudoku are created by Simon and Mark as well as a large number of guest creators. Fans of Cracking the Cryptic's YouTube channel will recognize many of these authors as some of the most talented creators working today!
As with our other games (‘Classic Sudoku’, ‘Sandwich Sudoku’, ‘Chess Sudoku’, 'Thermo Sudoku' and 'Miracle Sudoku'), Simon Anthony and Mark Goodliffe (the hosts of Cracking The Cryptic) have written all the hints for the puzzles. So you know that every puzzle has been play-tested by a human being to ensure that each sudoku is interesting and fun to solve.
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). Anyone familiar with their YouTube channel will know that Simon and Mark take pride in teaching viewers to be better solvers and, in these games, they always craft the puzzles with the mindset of trying to help solvers improve their skills.
Mark and Simon have both represented the UK many times at the World Sudoku Championship and you can find more of their puzzles (and lots of others) on the internet’s biggest sudoku channel Cracking The Cryptic.
Features:
100 beautiful puzzles
15 bonus beginner puzzles
Hints crafted by Simon and Mark!
What’s New
Version 1.2
- 40 new puzzles
- 15 bonus beginner puzzles
All 100(+) puzzles are out now, thank you for playing Killer Sudoku!
Ratings and Reviews
Great puzzles
Love Killer sudokus. The app interface is really good, though a few more colors for the cells wouldn’t harm.
Some of the constructions are amazing, but a few (notably some CTC ones) require bifurcation to solve, which is a bit frustrating. Even the hints indicate this.
Poor readability lets down great game
I need to start by saying the Killer is my favourite sudoku puzzle type.
But the Killer creates the biggest readability challenges, and the app doesn't yet meet the challenge. For those with less than perfect eyesight, even on an ipad it can be difficult to tell apart corner notes from the cage numbers. In landscape mode the grid is smaller than it needs to be: please use some of the spare space to enlarge it.
The overlay of the hints, and the additional combination screen in portrait mode is problematic too ... with no ability to move it, it normally obscures the part of the grid you're trying to work on.
The navigation between menus in this and the other games in the series is also pretty odd. I'm used to it now, but at first I got confused trying to get back to play the game.
As others have said there are also typos, and not all of the controls are explained well to start with.
Excellent game - great puzzles, great interface
This is a really enjoyable experience - the puzzles are good and challenging, with some fascinating variations and ways to break into them. I have done the first 17 and they all are very good.
As well as the puzzles, the interface is very nice to use - particularly the way in which you can see what the possible options are for the cages and the way it can show you the sum of multiples cages.
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Information
- Provider
- Nick Carney
- Size
- 50.8 MB
- Category
- Games
- Compatibility
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- iPhone
- Requires iOS 11.0 or later.
- iPad
- Requires iPadOS 11.0 or later.
- iPod touch
- Requires iOS 11.0 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
- © 2021 Studio Goya LLC
- Price
- £4.99
Supports
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Family Sharing
Up to six family members can use this app with Family Sharing enabled.