Sudoku ◆

I use to love this app! I’ve had it and played it for a long time. I use to play this app multiple times a day. It was a good way for me to take a quick break and decompress. The most recent update brought ads. Before this hey had a kind of placeholder for the ads, but that could be quickly x’ed. Now the ads are long and hard to get rid of. They don’t just come at the end of a game or the beginning of a new game, they come every time I open the app. If I have to interrupt my game to briefly move to another app, such as to answer a text, when I return to the game (and I’m not talking about reopening the app, but just being away from it for even a few second) I get another long ad. It’s become so frustrating that I’ve decided to delete the app and instead play my second favorite app by a different make of sudoko or return to playing puzzle pages. If the ad were less often or were a mix of longer ads and short, single photo/page ads, I could probably tolerate it. My son is a game designer, so I appreciate that everyone deserves to earn money for their work. But the way they changed the game and added the ads is so intrusive and time consuming that the app is no longer fun.

I didn't like this app at all. It was attractive at first -- cute enough that I paid and upgraded to have the numerous ads removed -- but it wasn't as good as I thought. My biggest pet peeve is how everytime you enter a number, it does this highlight thing where it shows you all the other locations of the number you just entered. There's no setting to remove it and it's incredibly distracting and time-wasting. There’s also no way to see which ones are the answers and which ones are the pre-populated ones. It loads fairly slowly, too, and all that unnecessary effects get in the way of the game. The numbers are not that bad responsive and if you accidentally put it a number as an answer instead of a note — and if that number happens to be correct, it won’t let you delete it. Which is frustrating because I don’t want to win easily. Overall, it's for casual, infrequent players. For those who play more frequently, I recommend other sudoku apps that's less frills and more sustance.

I love the colors for each number or I can change it to just 1 color overall. It's great to keep your mind active and I love all the different difficulty levels to choose from. I play it for enjoyment, but my elderly father with dementia plays it to keep his mind active and I'm grateful for this game. The colors and different levels of difficulty really helps out. He wouldn't play any other sudoku games on his phone, IPAD, or in a book because he had difficulty seeing it and became overwhelmed. Thank you for this and I definitely give it 5 stars for that alone but you offer so much more!