Cracking the Cryptic

Cracking the Cryptic
Cracking the Cryptic

Cracking the Cryptic

Curated Sudoku puzzles


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Comments
Denis Husadžić
Denis Husadžić ★★★
"Love the YouTube channel, love the puzzles. However, the app seems horribly unoptimized in terms of battery usage. It drains my battery like nobody`s business."
Version: 1.1.7
Miroslav Mahdon
Miroslav Mahdon ★★★★
"App with Sudoku constructed by skilled experts. Hints are not explaining all steps (and that`s OK, it makes to think about the hint). Unfortunately, sometimes it`s misleading (but the result of the hint is correct, and can be used)."
Version: 1.1.4
Brian Standfast
Brian Standfast ★★★★★
"Works great and challenging puzzles."
Version: 1.1.5
Maxwell Bollinger
Maxwell Bollinger ★★★
"Most puzzles have mistakes in them"
Version: 1.1.3
Matt Knight
Matt Knight ★★★
"I`ve been enjoying the domino sudokus but on multiple games I`ve been in a position where there was more than one correct solution but only one programmed in the game."
Version: 1.1.4
Curt Laubscher
Curt Laubscher ★★★★★
"I`m enjoying these puzzles much more than I expected! There`s so much variety in the domino pack and free ones, you get exposed to various kinds of variant sudoku rules that I otherwise thought I was not interested in. Oh was I mistaken. I highly recommend this app."
Version: 1.0.1
Vanessa A.
Vanessa A. ★★★
"The difficulty of these puzzles is kind of all over the place too. There was one that took me almost 9 hours, followed by one that took me like 10 minutes total, followed by one where literally the very first step required knowledge of some mathematical quirk of the combination of rules that had never come up before that moment."
Version: 1.1.5
Dennis Brownfield
Dennis Brownfield ★★
"Great curated puzzles, and a much improved interface vs. the previous apps all the while providing better but still imperfect hints. Unfortunately the coding doesn`t live up to the puzzles as this app is as much a battery hog as its siblings were, has sluggish moments when selecting multiple cells, and continuously flags completed puzzles as incomplete if you close the app after completing one, usually partially resetting progress in the completed puzzle."
Version: 1.1.8
Tom Knust
Tom Knust ★★★★
"works great but I`d prefer an option to force portrait mode/disable auto rotation"
Version: 1.1.1
Balázs Hrivnák
Balázs Hrivnák ★★★★
"Really well done app. Some feedback on the small issues yet found: 1. On the max star levels the number of stars are too wide for my screen, one star gets squished under the line in an akward way 2. On the Variety Puzzle pack, the Puzzle #4 description of the Battenburg rules are quite easy to misunderstand to be (top left,bottom right same parity; top right,bottom left opposite parity) instead of the intended (top left,bottom right parity A; top right,bottom left parity B). Thanks in advance."
Version: 1.1.4
ASW :
ASW :
"Unable to turn off moving background in any theme! How about a simple solid theme that allows you to play rather than be distracted. Nonsense. Navigation issues. Very poor value at the moment."
Version: 1.1.4
Jan Schneider
Jan Schneider ★★★★★
"Finally an all-in-one app from CtC. This might look like one of many Sudoku apps on Play, but it is THE app with great handmade puzzles. Not a lot of puzzles to start with, but I`m sure many more will be added over time."
Version: 1.0
Axel Schweiger
Axel Schweiger ★★★★★
"Great app, but theres an issue. The puzzle #12 under the 500k special edition is wrong, the center left BOX should be an 8 on the top left corner, not a 6. Otherwise theres 2 6 in the box and no 8."
Version: 1.1.1
David Spooner
David Spooner ★★★★
"Hint system has improved but could be better. Maybe break the smart hint clues into parts like a) there is a hidden digit in box nine b) in r8c8 c) it is a 7. That way it`s a hint of where to look and doesn`t just tell you the answer... Maybe highlight the cells that the hint is refering to. Maybe a help option to check pencil marks. Also how to turn off the animated background eats battery even when idle?"
Version: 1.1.4
Branson Perreault
Branson Perreault ★★★★★
"so great to see a rules engine that supports so many variants in one app! great work with this one fellas"
Version: 1.1.5
Doug Linning
Doug Linning
"Can hardly play anything without paying"
Philip Grzemkowski, Jr.
Philip Grzemkowski, Jr. ★★★★★
"Great game. Found puzzle 46 hint 3 to be incorrect. Needs to be fixed. First time anything has ever been wrong. These guys are pretty great a putting together puzzles."
Version: 1.1.8
David Panofsky
David Panofsky ★★★★
"Love the app so far, but would really appreciate the ability to change the ``red`` numbering option with a different color. I`m just color blind enough that the red and black numbers look almost identical."
Version: 1.1.6
Frederik “Snakeers” Marqversen
Frederik “Snakeers” Marqversen ★★
"Absolutely great, but with issues: Obviously like all of your apps, these puzzles are masterpieces. However, frequently when you finish a puzzle and continue the app does not seem to save save and shows the white flag although the grid it correctly filled when you reopen. Second, just as often I finish a puzzle, press continue but then close the app for the day. The next time the app is opened it will open on that last puzzle but with all progress from the last few minutes missing."
Version: 1.0.1
Kevin Barker
Kevin Barker ★★★
"Loved it, but had to remove. Crashes every so often."
Version: 1.1.3
com.StudioGoya.CrackingTheCryptic
Installs: 50,000+ (65,791 at 2024-03-07 12:21:49)
Version: 1.2.7
Category: Puzzle Games
Pegi : Everyone
Publish Date : Jul 14, 2022
Update Date : 2024-02-15
Android Version : 5.1
In-App-Purchase : $2.99 - $4.99 per item
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DESCRIPTION
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 the 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.
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