⋆Sudoku 17+

Playing it for 65years

When I was 24, I went to Tokyo to buy artificial flowers and Christmas tree lights! Walking along the “Ginza”, I stopped to have a drink at a street bar, and saw people playing a game I never saw before! It was Sudoku and as I watched I noticed it was played with much skill and with no emotions! Japanese people never show emotion in public, but their skill was unbelievable and I wanted to learn! All being very polite, I asked how to play and to my surprise, an older man giggled and asked me to with him! Slowly not talking as I couldn’t understand him nor him me, he showed me the technique pointing his finger as if I were playing! Starting in rows then columns, back and forth until I saw a pattern, and then he started another game and as he played he would point to me the a number and then ask me to hit that number wherever I saw it! Slowly I saw the pattern and although I really didn’t learn at that meeting, I thank him bowing and bowing!

Developer Response ,

Thanks for playing this Sudoku, and sharing this story with us, Screener!

Simple, relaxing, easy

Of all the versions of Sudoku I’ve tried, this one is my favorite. A lot of the others have intrusive noises when you make mistakes or music. This app is very calming, doesn’t show the timer unless you want to see it, and gives you a very gentle red number if you place something wrong (which you can turn off entirely also). I don’t feel badly for making mistakes in this app. I find the game easy to control and even the markups are easy to do. This is also the perfect example of well placed ads in a mobile game. They’re entirely non intrusive, only playing when you start a new game and don’t auto play sound. I don’t mind watching the ads at all. Great version of a classic game! Keep it up!

Update: Recently the style of the game updated and I don’t like it as much. The previous graphics looked better and more relaxing IMO. I wish there was an option to switch it back, like a “classic” or something. One of the things I really liked about this version of sudoku was that you could always see what numbers were fully discovered, even if you had a tile selected. Now you have to unselect a tile to see which numbers are still in play.

A bit disappointing since this was far and away the best sudoku app IMO. Now it’s just eh like the rest.

Developer Response ,

Hi ArtsyAxolotl, we value your feedback and reintroduced the classic Sudoku board in our latest update to the game which can be found here: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/sudoku/id418044512. We hope this update brings you a better playing experience!

Best sudoku app I’ve ever seen, with a tiny quibble

I love the features here, like the number paint tool and the auto fill so I can get right into the meat of the puzzle, and I love how the hints are educational about the puzzle theory, instead of just telling me what goes in that square. I appreciate that the ad plays before the puzzle instead of part way through breaking my concentration, or after the puzzle and downing the happiness of solving it. I also like that the majority of the ads either have no sound, or are muted by default. I love this app so much!!

The only issue I have is what I think is just a bug, where on my iphone 6, I can’t access the leaderboard, but I can see it just fine on my ipad. When I click the scores button, it just flashes the animation, but doesn’t actually take me to the screen. Since I mostly do this from my phone, it’s kinda disappointing, so I would love if that was fixed sometime.