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
The existing Cracking the Cryptic collections are great if you like a specific Sudoku type enough to dedicate 100 puzzles to it; however, this game and it's DLCs are pretty much THE best option on Steam if you want a wide array of puzzles on the Sudocore - even sets focused on specific themes tend to mix in other rules here and there, keeping things deeply interesting.
Additionally, this has basically the best set of aid tools this side of the Sven's Sudokupad web version - high-end marking options, multiple types of pencilmarking, bespoke per-puzzle hints and a robust (though imperfect) Smart Hint system.
Do be aware the free component is a few sampler packs to introduce some of the sets; they do, however, include a representative sample of the full difficulty range of the game.
Steam User 0
Tons of puzzles with varying rules and difficulty. Most of it is behind DLC, however they're cheap and often have 100+ puzzles in them. If you watch the youtube channel you'll be familiar with many of the Sudoku styles. Lots of fun, very in depth settings for markings. Only things I would like is possibly some background music and more themes!
Steam User 0
it is what it says on the box. free puzzles will keep you busy for a while
Steam User 0
Best sudoku game I've played. Very good UI, good puzzles.
Hints are usually helpful (not always - depending on the actual puzzle/author)
Steam User 0
I'm not great at this but this is one f the best Sudoku apps/games I have found so far and it is teaching me a lot.
Steam User 0
Seeing "not recommended" after over 200 hours of gameplay is so funny to me. Only valid guy like that is the colorblind one
Get this if you like sudoku. It has satisfying puzzles of all difficulties. The harder puzzles by cleverer setters are difficult, but accomplishable by ramming your head into it for a few hours. If you can solve most on logicmasters DE, you're fine here.
Tip: look for the weak point. If it looks weak, that's probably where you solve the puzzle.
Steam User 0
very interesting puzzles, much different from the standart sudokus you see out there.