⋆Sudoku

Oct ‘25 - Dropping from 5 stars to 3. The hints engine has changed and runs out of gas leaving you with “trial and error” as the hint. It used to be fantastic and would even show AIC solutions. Now it is so basic I’d like my $ refunded. I suspect the corporate profit focus shifted to jamming as many ads into the game as possible. I see a lot of comments with frustrated users deleting the game due to ad fatigue. I paid to remove ads. Still a nice interface but some dumb decision to change the hints engine has left this game truly disappointing. Sept ‘25 - This is the best interface out there! The AUTOFILL for notes is such a timesaver! The notes font is larger than every other sudoku app and actually readable without eye strain. The hints are very educational and allow me to then go and research new patterns so I’m learning and really advancing my skills. No 3 mistake limit. Easy to remove notes with one toggle. Other apps make you toggle each time you want to remove a note. The way it highlights for focus cells is the entire cell, not just a tiny note. Really enjoy playing this app.

When I was 24, I went to Tokyo to buy artificial flowers and Christmas tree lights! Walking along the “Ginza”, I stopped to have a drink at a street bar, and saw people playing a game I never saw before! It was Sudoku and as I watched I noticed it was played with much skill and with no emotions! Japanese people never show emotion in public, but their skill was unbelievable and I wanted to learn! All being very polite, I asked how to play and to my surprise, an older man giggled and asked me to with him! Slowly not talking as I couldn’t understand him nor him me, he showed me the technique pointing his finger as if I were playing! Starting in rows then columns, back and forth until I saw a pattern, and then he started another game and as he played he would point to me the a number and then ask me to hit that number wherever I saw it! Slowly I saw the pattern and although I really didn’t learn at that meeting, I thank him bowing and bowing!

I love the features here, like the number paint tool and the auto fill so I can get right into the meat of the puzzle, and I love how the hints are educational about the puzzle theory, instead of just telling me what goes in that square. I appreciate that the ad plays before the puzzle instead of part way through breaking my concentration, or after the puzzle and downing the happiness of solving it. I also like that the majority of the ads either have no sound, or are muted by default. I love this app so much!! The only issue I have is what I think is just a bug, where on my iphone 6, I can’t access the leaderboard, but I can see it just fine on my ipad. When I click the scores button, it just flashes the animation, but doesn’t actually take me to the screen. Since I mostly do this from my phone, it’s kinda disappointing, so I would love if that was fixed sometime.