Cracking The Cryptic Negative Reviews

Cracking the Cryptic App Complaints & User Negative Comments 2024

Cracking the Cryptic app received 17 complaints, negative comments and reviews by users. Have you ever had a bad experience using Cracking the Cryptic? Can you share your negative thoughts about cracking the cryptic?

Cracking the Cryptic for Negative User Reviews

✓ Good puzzles, drains batteryInteresting puzzles and twists on regular sudoku. The hints have some typos and the app drains battery worse than a video call, for no apparent reason, or I’d rate it higher..The Lamer GamerVersion: 1.1.10

✓ Too many dinosaursI love this app. However the latest GAS puzzles are a little annoying. It’s not the puzzles themselves, it’s the blooming dinosaurs! As far as I can tell, if you start a puzzle and don’t finish it, you will be awarded a new dinosaur every time you open the app. I got interrupted during one puzzle and didn’t finish it for a while, but even though I was solving other puzzles in time I kept collecting dinosaurs. With one thing and another, I now have considerably more dinosaurs than completed puzzles! Great puzzles, though! Further thoughts; I simply can’t read the numbers on the quad sodukos on IOS. Perhaps, if I were younger it would work, but as it is, I will ne ever do these..SokoyuVersion: 1.1.6

✓ CtC - not what I was expectingI’m a bit lazy to mess with the settings in the app. The interface is ok, but I prefer the CtC Sudoku Pad - it’s what I’m used to, and all the auto-shading, auto-removal is more than I’m willing to get used to. The free puzzles by Prasanna Seshadri are challenging. I did the first 5/7 before deciding, the app interface isn’t for me. I’d recommend looking into cracking the cryptic’s channel. They have completed hundreds of amazing puzzles that are crafted by even more amazing designers/setters..Ewm73Version: 1.0

✓ Handwritten hints need to be checked for accuracyI love this app and have bought several packs of puzzles. Unfortunately the handwritten hints for some of the puzzles are completely incorrect or very difficult to understand. Puzzle 45 in the lines pack for example has a hint that says row 1 columns 1/2/3 must be either a 1/2/7 or a 1/3/6. Neither of these combos are accurate. The follow up hints to this puzzle then make no sense. I would also appreciate a logical explanation as to why something is true. Many of the puzzles are very difficult and I find the hints to be difficult to determine how I was supposed to get to that next step logically..NjgwghbggjfcdssxxfbsfbdwVersion: 1.2.0

✓ Rules and hints impossible to parseI can’t figure out why a given thing I do is against the special rules, and the hints aren’t all that clear.The scronglerVersion: 1.1.4

✓ New UIWell that’s ruined my Sunday morning. Some instructions on what the new buttons do would be helpful please. If there is anything in the help guidance then I can’t find it..BristolBasedVersion: 1.1.0

✓ Not Approachable for NewcomersI absolutely love the channel and solving puzzles. I don’t pretend to be the same level of genius as people who complete these puzzles within an hour but o knew I could try my hand at some puzzles and slowly build a skill set. Although the puzzles so far have been brutally challenging, I have found it to be an enjoyable experience for the most part. However. The one thing that is making some levels absolutely horrible experiences are the hints. The hints themselves often require leaps of logic that are in no way clear to the untrained eye. I will read some hints that claim something that I cannot for the life of mean prove to be true or understand and I don’t feel it’s right to make progress off of logic I don’t understand so I get stuck. The hints NEED to be readdressed and modified for anyone at any skill level. Although I already said I’m not a genius, I’m can say with a certain level of confidence that I am rather intelligent but it was still very very rough at times..Jeje1067Version: 1.1.16

✓ Great fun! Though keep crashing on M1 Macbook proWill change to 5 stars once the crashing problem is fixed. Great work!.Ycl117Version: 1.0

✓ Great games but it keeps resetting!I’ve played about 40 games on the app but every now and then it resets and I lose the difficulty levels achieved. A shame as I love Cracking the Cryptic on the whole!.SMJAppVersion: 1.1.7

✓ Not a bad start, but needs improvementThis really needs to match some more of the capabilites that Simon and Mark use in the videos in SudokuPad More colouring options, 3 colours is not enough Undo history is lost if entering the settings from within an open puzzle. Please could digits entered by the user be in a different colour to given digits. Need the ability to double click a digit and see all instances of that digit in the grid..Rpb424Version: 1.0

✓ Dreadful keyboard supportNavigation of the grid with the arrow keys works, but must be done incredibly slowly as the same button cannot be pressed in rapid succession. The backspace key to clear entries in a cell does absolutely nothing. You cannot select multiple cells with ctrl as you can on the web version of the sudoku grid. The game is unplayable with a keyboard.Jack Mackay-NealVersion: 1.1.4

✓ Great for iPad, Improvement needed on MacThis is an excellent companion app for YouTube channel Craking the Cryptic, with a great selection of variant sudoku puzzles. It works for Mac as well. However, it lacks support for keyboard, which is desperately needed to play on Mac. Considering the channel provides an excellent web app complete with keyboard support, adding that shouldn't be too hard. It would be a 5-star app if it had keyboard support..Kevlar1Version: 1.1.15

✓ The developer is now rushing content with no quality checksI have been a long term fan of Cracking The Cryptic, both on Youtube and as an app developer and generally their content is very strong. However, as time has gone by their apps have seemingly become nothing more than a cash grab, where each update REMOVES useful features (such as keyboard support etc), but worse still the clues provided for the times you get stuck often are plainly incorrect. After discovering repeated significant issues with clues, literally providing false information, I have taken the time to examine all clues in retrospect of solving the puzzles. In doing so I have found that the last few updates in particular have had a ridiculous amount of false information. Whilst the aim of the game is obviously to attempt to solve puzzles without clues, sometimes it is inevitable that one may be required, often at a time of sheer frustration which is only exacerbated when the solutions provided are wrong. In short, I am optimistic that the developers may one day return to their previous high levels of quality, but recent signs suggest this is unlikely to be in the short term, so I would advise avoiding the app until they resolve these issues..WellimustbedeadVersion: 1.2.0

✓ Interface IssueThe Puzzles are great as always! But whenever I’m solving a kropki or xv puzzle with cages or sandwiches, all the dots stay on the screen while I’m looking at the options. It makes trying to work with the information a little more difficult, but I’m sure it’ll be fixed soon!.Healan_Version: 1.0

✓ Poor attention to detail for hints in Domino PackThe puzzles are great. I’m not a great solver (yet) and I need to resort to hints from time to time. It’s sad when it’s harder to understand the hints with wrong row/column references than it is to solve the puzzle! For the free puzzles it’s no big deal, but when I pay for an additional pack I expect a professional product. Is it too much to ask that a competent solver proofread the hints?.Mgayle4Version: 1.1.4

✓ Puzzles are good, hints are almost always wrong or vagueIn so many puzzles, there will be a hint such a (r2c8 can only be 9), and when I go to input nine, it’s just wrong. Probably around 40% of the puzzles, I would say, contain uninterpretable typos.He henchmenVersion: 1.1.16

✓ Puzzles with more than one solutionReally like the software. Great tool to do puzzles. But…… Working through the Standard Dominos package (in-app purchase) I have found several with multiple solutions. Disappointing..RyanT!55!Version: 1.1.13

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