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✓ Great app, great puzzles, but it needs one more buttonLove CTC and love this app. The voice in my head turns into Simon's every time I play and I love it! These puzzles are so relaxing but also stimulating and satisfying. Is there any way you could add a button to the control panel to un-select all currently selected cells? I frequently want to do this to reduce the visual clutter on the board after I do some pencil marking, so I can take stock of how my markings changed things. Currently I have to reach up into the grid and unselect cells manually. Maybe a config to make holding the multi-select button clear selected cells by default? Or clear selected cells if cells are selected?.Version: 1.2.2
✓ Good update on originalInteresting variations, some of them are quite a lot of fun. On iPad, there is 1 frustrating crash. Sleep the iPad in landscape mode while playing. Wake and unlock iPad later in portrait mode and the iPad locks up, every time. Can take two or three minutes to reset everything..Version: 1.1.8
✓ A wonderful appI downloaded this app after getting back into sudoku for a variety of reasons. I have had such a blast solving the puzzles (which previously I would have put my head through the wall while attempting). The UI is gorgeous and very straightforward to a re-emerging sudoku enthusiast. The puzzles themselves are available in a variety of packs, some free and some paid. I have the utmost respect for the makers of this app and am so glad to be supporting them in their endeavors. Now, it’s time to get back to some solving!.Version: 1.1.5
✓ Love the GAS packI was so happy to see the genuinely approachable pack. Some of the other puzzles are too hard for me. There are 2 features that I would like to see added to the software. I want to able to add multiple colours to a single cell (what CTC calls flashing). I also wish there was an option for incorrect pencil marks to be marked in red rather than having them removed. Part of the issue with the auto removal is that it doesn't work if your initial pencil mark was invalid..Version: 1.1.5
✓ Great puzzles, but paid content shouldn’t be lockedI love cracking the cryptic and have all the sudoku apps for all varieties. But there’s a problem with - content that is paid for is locked until you have completed a certain number of puzzles. There are only 5 puzzles available at any one time. This is frustrating - if you have paid to unlock all puzzles (50 of them), you should have access to all puzzles and be able to complete them in any order you like. Can the limit be increased, or this unnecessary block be removed?.Version: 1.1.6
✓ Great app; GAS levels great for newer solverThe game works well and the multiple marking styles are great. The "Genuinely Approachable Sudoku" (GAS) levels are fun and not too challenging for someone new to these new styles of play. I'd love to see more of these. It would be nice to be able to import or set your own levels in the game. There's a display bug when changing between portrait and landscape, but nothing serious..Version: 1.1.7
✓ The best sudoku out thereThis is the latest app from Cracking the Cryptic, and I hope it’s the platform for all the future puzzles from them. The hand made and picked puzzles are the best and the toolset unmatched and the visuals are great too..Version: 1.0
✓ Great AppProbably the best sudoku app you can get and the domino and line sudoku puzzles are challenging and very entertaining..Version: 1.2.3
✓ I would give this app five stars if there was a way to clear progress or dataYep..: five stars once that feature is added.Version: 1.1.11
✓ Love itHi can you please make a feature where we can erase our progress and start from scratch but w/ access to everything already unlocked? and can we have a favorites feature? btw i love this app and the yt channel :).Version: 1.1.9
✓ Great appLove the app and the new update!.Version: 1.1.01
✓ Great appThis is a great app. Love the puzzles, very beautiful how they solve. One point would be on the arrows puzzle. Unless I’m missing something, can numbers repeat on the arrow? If so, can someone explain why the two arrows in box 3 can’t be 5 as I’m sure you can get 2-2-1 on the arrow. :/.Version: 1.0
✓ FunThese are a lot of fun and not incredibly difficult like they show on the channel..Version: 1.1.4
✓ Better color supportGreat app! Please add better coloring support (more than 3 colors and multiple colors within a cell) like is shown in the videos..Version: 1.0.1
✓ Love ThisI was already a big fan of the earlier apps (Killer, Arrow, etc) because of the phenomenal puzzle quality, but this app adds some features that I thought were lacking in the other ones (more colors, for example). I also like that new puzzle packs can be easily purchase and added to a single app..Version: 1.1.9
✓ Great overall, some hard, I wish just one appI love the variant sudoku is available through here and the intuitive app layout. Some of them are so hard that the hints don’t seem to make any sense because they just states are gonna be true without any explanation. Greater detail in the hints would be very helpful. Most importantly, I really wish that all the different packs were integrated into one app on my phone. I’m happy to keep paying the same amount per pack of puzzles, five dollars for Thermo, five dollars per knight pack, etc. But having a whole bunch of different apps to switch through is complicated to figure out which puzzle I want, where it is, and it and clutters up my phone. I really like that this version they released has multiple packs to buy within it, and I hope that they keep adding other options for in app purchases within this one app..Version: 1.1.9
✓ Cracking the cryptic appOverall good puzzles but some puzzles have more than one solution.Version: 1.0
✓ My last review was 4 stars — now updated…I have 3-4 ideas to improve the app. #1: Rather than allowing red numbers allow us a choice of coloring for the letters ( as well as tiles. #2: talk to Sven and enter a collaborative agreement to make your apps interchangeable #3 collect all cracking the cryptic apps as playable within this app without additional expenditures. #4 get Simon and Mark to prefer your software..Version: 1.1.4
✓ Awesome puzzles!Another great app from the channel. One tiny problem, the colouring doesn’t work properly, I tried using the orange colour and only some squares changed..Version: 1.0
✓ Needs unique solutionsOn multiple puzzles, I’ve encountered a point where there is no way to deduce the correct number positions because there are multiple solutions that could fit within the rules. The app is otherwise entertaining and not difficult to use, but having to plug in a 50/50 guess to see what errors out to solve a puzzle is frustrating..Version: 1.1.9
✓ Great app from a great teamI’ve bought and played all of the ctc apps so far and haven’t been disappointed by any of them. The handpicked puzzles are always fun and difficulty with some tricky break ins but the hints are usually enough to aid in the start. Notes on the new update, it could use a keypad flip option. I’m used to a computer keyboard layout and it messes with me a little when using 123/789. Also the icon at the top left showing both the restraints and negative restraints was helpful in remembering when I should use certain logic but I don’t see it there anymore. Other than those few quality of life options, great new app and new update..Version: 1.1.01
✓ This is the BEST collection of variant sudoku you can find in an app!The puzzles never feel same-y. Some are quite challenging, but if you hit a wall, the hint system gives you just the nudge you need—with an explanation of the logic, not just “3 in the corner.” The other CTC apps are also excellent, I highly recommend them all (Miracle Sudoku is my favorite). Looking forward to the next pack!.Version: 1.0
✓ Please allow iCloud between devices.The app is great! The only down side is that the progression isn’t synchronized between devices. Please make it possible. Thanks.Version: 1.1.4
✓ TransformativeIt will make you question the existence of God and you will love every minute of it.Version: 1.1.01
✓ Improved Interface and Puzzle Pack SupportAlthough built on the same framework as the other CtC apps, this one includes some very welcome interface updates, especially to how pencil mark and coloring tools work, and I’m excited to buy individual puzzle packs rather than new apps each time.Version: 1.1.5
✓ OBSESSED with this app - wish is was available on older macsThese puzzles are so addictive! Unfortunately my phone screen is a little small sometimes, and it would be nice to have the app on my computer. I have iOS 11 or later, but I don’t have an M1 chip. I would suggest making it available on more macs if possible, please..Version: 1.1.9
✓ Great app, but the latest update was for the worstThe puzzles are great, but the update is making things hard to enjoy them. I love that the newest update included a new set of puzzles, but the quality of life changes certainly hurt my enjoyment of the app. I particularly miss the eraser (I realize the backspace key functions as an eraser, but it visually is less intuitive than an actual eraser icon) and the bulk erase trash bin, but the layout change is also distracting and unwieldy - in landscape mode, the puzzle is shoved as far to the left of the screen as possible with an awkward dead space on the right with the inputs below it. Why the forward/reverse, back, setting, and hint boxes aren’t in the dead space, I don’t know - instead they’re squashed between the puzzle and the number keys, making the bottom right of the screen very visually cluttered..Version: 1.1.2
✓ Great puzzles and playability, with a couple caveatsI love Cracking the Cryptic, and the puzzles they have in the app are truly fantastic. The app has great marking features (two forms of pencil marking and colors) for solving these difficult puzzles as well. However, it eats battery like crazy and has (relatively) few puzzles for the price tag on each pack. Battery Life: 100% battery on my iPhone 14 Pro Max gets drained to ~50% after only a couple hours of play. Puzzle updates: I appreciate that they are hand crafted and manually hinted, but updates are frustratingly few and far between. I would love to play puzzles from videos here instead of Sudoku Pad (which doesn’t always import correctly), even without hints, for more content and variety..Version: 1.1.16
✓ Awesome app! Great puzzles!It’s an awesome app with sublime puzzles. There is a small typo in the rules of puzzle 20 by Zetamath in the free pack. it says full kropki rules and the title says partial kropki so i’m not sure which one is correct. Thanks for the great updates!.Version: 1.1.12
✓ Best of the bestLove this app - especially two things: highlighting of the squares with notes and the large format..Version: 1.1.3
✓ Great mixGreat selection of puzzles, loving the variety of the new “GAS” pack in particular - I much prefer the mix of puzzles in this than the older apps where the puzzles are all one type and get a little stale as you work through them..Version: 1.1.6
✓ Incredible PuzzlesI’ve spent dozens of hours enjoying these puzzles, and the UI is excellent.Version: 1.2.7
✓ Good app, more colours please!The app is very good and intuitive, even on a small screen like a smartphone. Very impressed with the pencil marking automatic removal, where placing a digit removes (most) relevant pencil marks (based on normal sudoku rules, not variant rules). My only reservation is that the colouring is not as intuitive and there are only three colours, which is often insufficient for some variants, particularly Killer and Arrow variants. Would be good if colouring button worked like the pencil marking buttons, turning the numbers 1 to 9 into nine colours buttons. The same could happen with the X button by turning 1 to 9 into drawing options such as X, O, centre lines and border lines..Version: 1.0
✓ AwesomeBy far my favourite app love the domino variants.Version: 1.0
✓ Before you get mad like I did…In the settings change the highlighting of errors to duplicates instead of the default setting. The second puzzle that I did I messed up, it highlighted an error, I couldn’t understand why then I just started putting numbers in until it didn’t say error and beat the whole thing in a better time than my first puzzle. Shouldn’t be default setting but it’s a setting you can change at least :p Sorry for run-on sentences english is my first and only language..Version: 1.0
✓ Love this appThis has been a great sudoku app from the start just due to the quality of the puzzles. The new interface updates have solidified this as the perfect variant sudoku app. The GAS puzzle pack is very enjoyable so far!.Version: 1.1.6
✓ Brain-melting!It's not the best Sudoku app I've used (That would be the excellent Good Sudoku by Zach Gage) but it's serviceable and the puzzles on offer here are wonderful..Version: 1.1.4
✓ Always excellentExcited to get this pack. Always excellent puzzles and hints when needed. Helps you improve skills with each attempt. Simon and Mark are great solvers. If you have not subscribed to the channel do so. Entertaining, social, close knit group without drama. One request, more frequent GAS..Version: 1.1.15
✓ Best Sudoku AppYou can tell this app is made by sudoku fans as every quality of life feature to be had is present. Watch the makers YouTube channel (also called Cracking The Cryptic) to see how they use it too. It helps!.Version: 1.2.8
✓ Puzzles great, hints terribleThe harder puzzles are quite difficult. After an hour I tend to start looking at hints because I just want to get through it. So many times I read a hint that does not apply to the puzzle at all. Give a step by step solution or don’t bother. For example “colouring the 7s reveals that XYZ can’t go in rXcY.” And at the point I’m at it simply doesn’t reveal anything, but there’s no logic or explanation before that hint so there’s nothing you can do but plug the numbers in… and then you might as well be entering data into a grid. Frustrating enough for me to write a review which I almost never do..Version: 1.1.7
✓ Puzzles are great but hints are not always helpfulPuzzles are fun until you run into a block, probably like 70% of the time the hints are well written but other times they say things like “all parity can now be determined” but they don’t explain what that means or how. Some issues with hints could help by some formatting, less so in this app but in other apps 2 hints for the same puzzle could say row then column in one hint then column then row in the next. Better spacing or maybe colours or bold might make them more readable. Some clues just tell you what to do and others give an actual hint, but the ones that tell you what to do don’t explain why, eg c1r134 are a 267 triple, but when I look at my pencil marks I cannot see why those digits cannot go in other cells. Basically a great game brought down by inconsistent hints. I already feel dumb when I go to the hints section, I don’t need the hints to prove me right.Version: 1.1.5
✓ ExcellentThe CTC apps are the best sudoku apps available, and I like the idea of a single app with the different types of Sudoku as in app purchases. Hopefully a future update would allow us to transfer the puzzles from the other apps onto this one, and keep all our CTC goodness in one place!.Version: 1.0
✓ I would rebuy all the older games as DLC just to use this appI’ve played all the Sudoku apps by this developer. This is the best user interface so far. I would honestly pay for all the older games puzzles as DLC just so I can solve them in this UI. Also please add an advanced option to delete puzzle progress/history to make it easier to replay the game from scratch. 😉.Version: 1.1.13
✓ Brilliant appBy far the most interesting Sudoku puzzles around. Minus one star because there’s an error in The Cat’s Whiskers (#17). The rules say all Kropki dots are given, but that isn’t true..Version: 1.1.12
✓ Great app got even betterI liked this app a lot when I downloaded it but it became so much better when I found the settings and changed to “WEB APP presets”. Soooo much more fun! It would be good if this was made more obvious, e.g. the first thing you see when you first use the app..Version: 1.1.3
✓ Loving it !My standout favourite so far of all the CTC variant sudoku apps. Absolutely compulsive. Only criticism, and it is one that stands for all the CTC apps, is that we need more options for colouring - both an expanded palate and the ability to harlequin cells..Version: 1.0
✓ First puzzle doesn’t have a unique solutionOn puzzle one got all the way until the end and came to where only square to fill were: r2c2, r2c3, r2c6, r3c3, r3c6, r4c2, r4c3. The only number to place were 3,5, and 9 to get a unique solution I could put a 5 in r2c2 which would give me in the same order as above: 5, 3, 9, 9, 5, 3, 5. that was wrong so I plugged in 3 and came to a situation where r2c3, r2c6, r3c3, r3c3 were 5 or 9 and were both completely interchangeable with nothing to give you a unique solution. If the very first puzzle isn’t solvable I think I’ll go play the other apps..Version: 1.0.1
✓ BestAbsolutely best and most challenging sudoku I’ve ever found. Really fun!.Version: 1.0.1
✓ Excellent puzzles…but sometimes the rules are very difficult to understand. For example lines pack puzzle 16 is totally incomprehensible. And since you have to solve puzzles to unlock later ones for some reason, this is a problem..Version: 1.1.16
✓ Great app, but not colorblind friendlyI love the app, the best Sudoku app I’ve ever used. My only issue is that the themes aren’t colorblind friendly. I noticed this especially on the new valentine’s puzzle. In the light themes it’s hard to see the range of a cell and in the dark themes it’s hard to see the contents of cells in the fortress or moat..Version: 1.2.7
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