Solid app, these features would make it even better
Sat May 04 2024 Benjamin GreenWorth the $5 for sure. If you play this game often, buy it and support the developers. Love the UI with the ability to quickly change the colors. Also the app is fast it doesn’t glitch or lag, allowing me to play fast. Some other apps are laggy and it slows me down. Please make the following changes: 1. The HINT button needs to be renamed. It is not a “hint” it just reveals the square. Call it REVEAL. 2. Add a setting to allow paying users to remove the HINT button. I keep accidentally tapping it 3. Create an actual HINT button that gives a hint 4. Make the “tournaments” real, with players competing against each other instead of a scoreboard full of fake users and fake scores 5. Prevent users from doing unlimited HINTS or reveals in tournament games. 6. This is BIG one that would make things so much easier. Please add a calendar selection feature so that players can easily browse to past daily puzzles. Currently players must swipe one month at a time. If I have completed the past two years worth of puzzles and want to play some older ones, I would have to swipe 24 times to get to the puzzles that I want to play! Take a look at the NYT Games crossword app and the way they handle the calendar.
Bad timing for commercials
Fri Feb 23 2024 jaimeLynn25I recently got into Sudoku again quite a few years ago I dappled in it now I have seven apps for different makers of the sudoku game. I’m gonna narrow it down to two or three that I like the most and I’m playing them back to back playing a couple games in each one until I figure out what I do and don’t like so originally I like this one the most because it was the first one I downloaded in this recent journey of getting back into it but what I’ve came to realize is it gives the ads at all the wrong times you’re just getting on a roll and it congratulates you if you finish a number or a cell or a block whatever and how it congratulates you by giving you an ad it’ll be like a cute little emoji congratulations way to go you’re doing great and then Bam you gonna add I understand these apps to be free have to have ads but it’s just all bad timing. Maybe if you mess up or something give you an ad give you an ad when you finish the game or when you start a new game something like that, I’ll try and keep track of what the other ones do but I’ve played the other ones all a few times and I was not annoyed with the ad so this must have the most ones out of the seven that I have and it’s super annoying because you just get on a roll, you got numbers in your head what you’re gonna play next and then you gotta wait for an ad and you lose it all in your mindso if it wasn’t for that, I would probably give it a five star
Ads and Statistics
Sun Apr 21 2024 DaDernskieYou guys used to run a lot less ads. I get needing revenue to continue running the app but I have pretty quick times. There’s no reason I should have to watch 3 ads for a 2:20 minute level. Secondly, I used to have a flawless statistic sheet across the board. 100% wins. Just recently I noticed I dropped to 99% and saw that I have 131 started and 130 won. But my streak is 130… that means I should’ve lost the first one I ever started and I never should’ve had 100% wins. Which means the loss was randomly added to my account. It’s also on the daily challenges which you CANT reset not to mention no one wants to reset 130 games. Please fix whatever glitch happened on my account so I can have my 100% back. I dealt with the ads because of my statistics, but with my statistics being skewed and now not flawless anymore; its not worth staying on an app I already have other issues with.
Your generic computer response because you scanned the word “ads” has cost you a player. I may be a drop in the bucket but maybe enough people will get fed up with the lack of respect and the obnoxious level of advertising that ruins timed runs. The main issue, and most of my review has to do with the statistic glitch. And even if; I watch 45 seconds of nonskippable ads to play a 2.5 minute level. Having ads to run a game and being overkill are very different. I’d argue having close to a 1/3 of my time on this app being spent in adds is overkill.
If it’s not broken why try to fix it?
Tue Aug 08 2023 tbett6922I loved this app but the sudden change to a new interface is really bugging me. There was no actual app update to indicate the change. There now is significant lag that is eating away at my times and making it so I have to touch numbers or blocks multiple times for it to register. The scoring has also noticeably changed and my new scores don’t even hit my previous averages. Less important but still worth discussing: Completing a block or a row is now less visually satisfying. In dark mode there still is a wave of blocks to indicate the completion, but it’s a wave of black instead of a wave of light, which makes it more difficult to see the effect and takes away some of the sparkle for me. I used to try leaving the center block blank for the satisfying ripple of total puzzle completion and now I’m not really as motivated to play seeing the kinda dismal wave of darkness. I do like the completed puzzle being displayed upon finishing, but i feel it is clunky to have to scroll just to see all the stats of the completed puzzle, when the original layout displayed everything in a completely fine way. (Edit: after seeing so many new comments about the ads getting worse I change my tune about paying for the app. It was worth it before but unless the update is reverted or fixed it seems like it’s downgraded either way)
It’s more of a game than solving a puzzle
Mon Nov 25 2024 ChillepepaIt’s not a bad Sudoku, it’s just not what I am looking for. You can play a “game” of Sudoku, choosing a difficulty level. Initially easy & medium are open, as you play more of a difficulty level, a new level will open. Or you can choose a daily challenge, I think that is somewhere between easy & medium.
If you are a beginner this probably a great app to start as it has all kinds of features to help you. Like highlighting a row, column & block, highlighting the number you just entered. Using notes to list the possible numbers for a square and auto removing them. You can also turn all that off - which I did. I found the highlighting rather annoying.
If you are just playing the “game” I’m assuming the goal is to score the highest points, the faster you solve the more points. I just want the challenge of solving the puzzle. I don’t care about scoring points. I didn’t like if screwed up the puzzle and wanted to restart I had to erase the numbers in each square individually, there was no reset puzzle option. I play The NY Times Sudoku and that is what I am looking for not a game option. I still have it 5 starts as it is an easy game, with different levels of play. It’s not the apps fault it is not what I want.
Ad raging / horrible hints
Wed Jun 21 2023 JaredchasedheraroundI am in no need of a sudoku game. I do enjoy it, but I do not enjoy 15-30 second ad pop ups interrupting my experience. It was actually taking away from my time to do other things so in a way, I thank you for helping me remove this app from my phone.
Also what’s up with the hints? I was playing on expert and trying to get the hang of little to no details, I narrowed down the 3rd row from the top running horizontal. 4/7 in left box, 3/6, 3/6 in middle section, 4/7 in right box as well as other areas. I hit the hint and it wanted to say I didn’t have enough info in the inner boxes and added back the 4/7 in the middle. If I could show a pic I would. The horrible hint wanted to further confuse what I had simplified. How is someone to be more “advanced” if the hints are the opposite of useful? I later solved the puzzle with no thanks to the hints and also proved that only 3/6 would fit in those middle boxes. This wasn’t the first time I noticed this garbage hint. Though there were some moments when it would help me see where I messed up and how I should have reasonably seen a number I missed.
So if the “hint” wants to add numbers to the uncertain boxes, you’d better screenshot it and double check. It sent me backwards on my progress
Love this app, great for learning
Wed Nov 06 2024 >Soursop<I’ve used a few different Sudoku apps, and this is the best so far! In other apps, it was hard to learn advanced techniques because there was rarely an opportunity to find an x wing or a swordfish. In this app, I find both relatively often, making it easier for me to learn how to spot them. I like that you can long press on a number and then simply tap any cell to fill it with that number, it makes things much easier and more enjoyable. The tournaments and things are a fun option, but not too pushy and obnoxious. The hints are really great for not just helping you win, but helping you understand how to play the game better! The only things I wish were better: Sometimes it’s hard for me to see which little numbers are bold. I wish instead of just turning bold, they turned a different color, too. Also wish that it wasn’t so easy to accidentally change a cell you have solved. It should just be permanent once you have solved it. I make enough mistakes by failing to click the notes button. I don’t need this additional way to make mistakes. No one needs to change a solved cell.
Not great…
Mon May 27 2024 FoxLife4629I would rate this ZERO stars if I could. I don’t want to get some crappy developer response that was probably put here by AI, I want something real to be done because honestly a computer made response won’t change anything, so if I get one I will know that no developer ACTUALLY read this. Okay, if you are someone who misclicks a lot or you’re good at sudoku, do not buy this game. For starters, I love playing the NYT sudoku and wanted a game where I could just play sudoku without having to wait for the next daily puzzles. I saw this game and it’s good reviews and thought hey, why not. I was very displeased to find that you couldn’t start at an even the expert level, which by the way is easier than the NYT medium puzzle. I spent so much tedious time having to play levels that I finished in under ten minutes to be able to get to my level of sudoku, which I still have not found. These levels are simply not difficult enough if you actually know how to play sudoku and are good at it. What I dislike the most about this game is the fact that if you accidentally click the wrong number or the wrong box, which is easy to do since everything is so clustered, it counts it as a mistake, and then you have to start all over after simply making three mistakes. So much tedious time out in and for nothing. And the amount of ads? What is up with that? Also, the second chances don’t even work, even when you’re right. Really not a fair system, and I would not recommend.
Is my phone about to explode?
Tue Apr 01 2025 JNeutI don’t have a lot of bad things to say about this app. I love puzzles so this app is great when it comes to that. It’s very interactive with a ton of different things to do. I love grinding the daily challenges and tracking my progress in tournaments. Great way to wind down the day. However, I have one big problem with this app.
This would have gotten a 5 star review if it wasn’t for this reason. The ads. Way, way, way too many ads. I understand that at the end of the day this is a business, and I respect that, but it seems incredibly overkill. I seem to get at minimum 5 ads per puzzle. Sometimes even more. I don’t usually have an issue with ads, I’ll just click the X and keep playing. It becomes an issue for me when it seems to be killing my battery and lighting my phone on fire. Seriously, give it a minute into a puzzle and my hand is on fire. I’d usually just cave and remove ads permanently, but for 9.99? Really? Maybe I’m unaware of changes in the mobile app industry, but that seems incredibly steep when you already give me an ad every couple minutes. Frustration aside, I do really enjoy using this app, but please lower the amount of ads. If that’s not possible, then figure out a way to fix the battery usage. It’s getting ridiculous how quickly my phone overheats playing sudoku.
Was perfect, now barely playable
Wed Jul 26 2023 GBF2019* I appreciate the devs responsiveness, upped the rating by a star.
This was the perfect balance of everything before. Recently I updated and now anything I do results in advertisements. If I just pause the timer willingly, I can’t return to the game without an ad. Any time I finishing finding all of one number on a board I get an ad??? Completely ridiculous. Just too many examples of ads interrupting a game where I’m trying to get a good time on the board but interrupted over and over. Awful now. Looking for a new app. *Developer response: It is completely understandable that the app has ads, we all know that free apps need to run ads to sustain them. The problem isn’t just the fact that there’s ads, it’s the frequency and the timing of when the ads are interrupting the experience of the application. If during 1 game of sudoku (roughly 5-10 min on average I’m guessing) there are ads interrupting anytime a user needs to pause, completes a box, or completes all instances of a number on the board, it becomes a pretty sizable time of the gameplay and pretty much ruins any momentum for people playing the game, which as we all know is part of sudoku as exponentially things get quicker the more you figure out. It’s not really just about ads existing on the app.
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