Cracking the Cryptic
Line Sudoku
Line Sudoku is a pack devoted to sudokus involving… LINES! Each puzzle features one or more of the popular “lines constraints” that often feature in variant puzzles on Cracking The Cryptic, including Renban, German Whispers, Palindromes, Region Sum and Ten Lines!
We’re thrilled that Line Sudoku includes puzzles by Phistomefel, Qodec, Clover, zetamath, Jay Dyer, Tallcat, Mr Menace, Peter Veenis, Joseph Nehme, Richard Stolk, Prasanna Seshadri, Tyrgannus and Full Deck & Missing A Few Cards! In addition, Mark and Simon have written hints for the challenging puzzles themselves so these hints are meaningful and, above all, educational.
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Welcome to the brand new Sudoku app from YouTube’s most popular Sudoku channel, Cracking The Cryptic.
Unlike other Sudoku apps, we feature handcrafted and curated puzzles from the world’s best Sudoku constructors. Each collection features puzzles made by various authors that are now familiar names to those who follow the channel. Authors like Phistomefel, Clover, Sam Cappleman-Lynes, Christoph Seeliger, Richard Stolk, jovi_al, Qodec, Prasanna Seshadri and of course, Simon and Mark!
Downloading Cracking the Cryptic will give you access to our two launch packs. Our first free collection is a variety pack by Prasanna Seshadri featuring 7 puzzles inspired from our previous Sudoku apps; Sandwich, Classic, Chess, Thermo, Miracle, Killer and Arrow Sudoku. Our first paid collection is Domino Sudoku, a new variant not featured in our previous apps with puzzles from our amazing constructors.
We’ll be releasing more free and paid packs in the future so keep an eye on the app for more Sudoku content from Cracking The Cryptic!
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Domino Sudoku
Domino Sudoku is named after its domino-like appearance with X’s, V’s, white dots and black dots placed between cells on the grid. Each puzzle features one or more of these domino types with them all having a different effect: an X means digits in the two cells in the domino must sum to 10; a V means they sum to 5; a white dot means the digits are consecutive; and, finally, a black dot means the digits must be in a 1:2 ratio (ie one of the digits must be double the other).
As you can imagine, when you allow the world’s best Sudoku makers to use these rules they are in their element and they’ve made another set of masterpieces for this collection with a huge amount of variety! We’re thrilled that Domino Sudoku includes puzzles by Christoph Seeliger, Sam Cappleman-Lynes, Richard Stolk, Prasanna Seshadri, Phistomefel, Qodec, Clover and jovi_al. In addition, Mark and Simon have written hints for the challenging puzzles themselves so these hints are meaningful and, above all, educational.
As a bonus, Studio Goya has curated 10 generated beginner puzzles so that players of all skill levels can enjoy Domino Sudoku!
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).
So do join us as we continue to try to revolutionize Sudoku app genre.
Game Discussion
Steam User 1
Handcrafted sodukos of various kinds, created by constructors featured on Cracking the Cryptic. If you like soduko, this is a must have.
Steam User 1
The best collection I have found of hand-made and cleverly-built sudoku. In addition, most puzzles are variant sudoku and all of this is combined with a very smart marking system. I've been doing significantly more puzzles than I have time for and have stopped using any other source for them.
Steam User 0
Tentative recommendation.
The biggest thing to note is that you will be thrown into the deep end if you have never experienced some of these variations, often multiple types at the same time, one of them had a different variation in each of the 9 boxes.
Some minor features would be nice like:
Zoom, particularly on the mobile version, my eyes are not built for killer sudoku.
Idk wtf the black and white button does, maybe something explaining that would be nice
Smart hint could give some smart hints, or literally any hint at all.
Restart. Rather than going back into the menu and clicking new, weird.
Crossing out the sandwich sudoku numbers when a 1-9 pair is present would be nice.
A list of 1-9 crossed out when 9 of that number is present would be nice.
I've had quite a few instances of marks going missing
DLC is way expensive, and is 90% of the games content. If these came with puzzle generators rather than single instances of puzzles that would worth a lot more, but I still would not pay this much for a puzzle generator, when I can get full 3D games for less, sorry.
Steam User 0
Honestly a very good app that has some integration of various sudoku variants. There are tons more puzzle available for free at logic-masters.de (and most let you use the online version of the applet for free), but great for an app or something to have offline.
Steam User 0
Good game with many interesting puzzles to solve. Sometimes the hints aren't helpful at all or it simply can't generate more, but often if that happens it is either that something went wrong and you have made an error or the solution is approachable from some mental logic. Would recommend!
Steam User 0
Very cool game with a great variety of sudokus. The only thing i wish for is a button to automaticly solve a sudoku since especially in one of the GAS DLCs i got very big problems to solve some sudokus so I can´t get enough stars to unlock the remaining sudokus. I tried to fill in random numbers or use the hints to get the stars, but this is very annoying and takes more time than expected.
Steam User 0
It's an assortment of Sudoku themed puzzles and it's being added to which is nice. These Sudoku sets are not easy. A lot more logic will be required than a standard Sudoku puzzle, but they are all fun to do.