Real Kakuro‪™‬ 4+

I’ve been a fan of logic puzzles for most of my life, but I’d never heard of kakuro until recently. After trying it once I was an instant fan. Don’t let the math intimidate you: this is a direct relative of sudoku. Apart from the fairly simple sums, kakuro follows the same basic sudoku-style formula. You establish possibilities and then eliminate the impossibilities.

This isn’t the only implementation of Kakuro out there, but it may be the best. Real Kakuro provides a beautiful, functional interface that doesn’t get in the way of the game itself. It offers optional guidance to completely eliminate the need to solve the addition problems, but this is easily disabled. In short, it’s simple, it’s fun, it’s great.

Updated (see []). Kakuro is one of my favorites so I’m picky. This implementation is well done. I can’t quite consider it a 5 star for a minor but somewhat annoying reason - the number keys are rather small so I hit the wrong number a lot. I believe there is room to make them slightly bigger. This just isn’t a reason for me to mark it a 4 however, so I rated a 5. I’m hoping the keys can be made larger. The ads are handled well and are not too obtrusive [change that- they get obtrusive. If I turn off sound so I can play discretely, the ads should not blast out in high volume between every game with clown-like music. So now I’ll decide if I can live with the small keys and purchase the ad-free version cause I can’t live with the blasting ads.] I do like to support a great developer anyway.

I am having a great deal of problems with the app since the last Apple IOS update. I have had a few issues with the two updates prior to this, but it is horrible this time. A majority of the time when I complete a puzzle it kicks me out of the app. When it doesn’t, it shows me the ad, then allows me to open a new puzzle, but will not let me play until it kicks me back out or I close it and open it back up. Finally, two times now, I have had it go to the ad then instead of closing it, get a black screen with the Google ad in the top inch and black screen for the rest and it does not do anything. I cannot play at all right now, even closing it down and going back in is not resetting it!!