Cracking the Cryptic

Cracking the Cryptic

Curated Sudoku Puzzles

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37 reviews
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📼4 scs
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🧾$2.99 - $4.99
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All Versions of Cracking the Cryptic

1.2.12

June 25, 2024

5 new Lines pack puzzles!

1.2.11

June 7, 2024

Visual bug fixes

1.2.10

May 30, 2024

5 new puzzles in the Lines pack!

1.2.9

May 1, 2024

5 new Lines puzzles!

1.2.8

March 28, 2024

- 5 new Lines puzzles - 2 new holiday puzzles

1.2.7

February 15, 2024

Fixed the solution for Valentine's Day #1.

1.2.6

February 15, 2024

Added the knight's restriction to Valentine's Day #1

1.2.5

February 13, 2024

New bonus Holiday Pack featuring Valentine's themed puzzles! 5 new puzzles in the Lines Pack!
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1.2.4

February 5, 2024

Fixed a typo

1.2.3

February 1, 2024

5 new puzzles in the Lines puzzle pack!

Cracking the Cryptic In-App Purchases History

$2.99

GAS Volume #1

A variety of beginner friendly GAS puzzles

$2.99

GAS Volume #2

More of our beginner friendly GAS puzzles

$4.99

Domino Sudoku Pack

A variety of Domino Sudoku puzzles

$4.99

Lines Variety Pack

A variety of Line based puzzles!

Price History of Cracking the Cryptic

Description of 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. -------------------- 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! -------------------- 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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Cracking the Cryptic: FAQ

Is Cracking the Cryptic compatible with iPad devices?

Yes, Cracking the Cryptic is optimized for iPad devices.
The creator of Cracking the Cryptic is Nick Carney.
Currently, Cracking the Cryptic supports iOS 12.0 or later.
Users have overwhelmingly positive things to say about Cracking the Cryptic, as evidenced by its stellar rating of 4.5 out of 5.
The App Category Of The Cracking The Cryptic App Is Games.
1.2.12 is the newly released version of the Cracking the Cryptic app.
The latest update for Cracking the Cryptic was released on July 1, 2024.
The app was initially released on February 6, 2023.
Designed for children, contains no adult material.
Currently, the Cracking the Cryptic app supports the following languages: English.
Unfortunately, Cracking the Cryptic is not on Apple Arcade.
Indeed, Cracking the Cryptic provides opportunities for in-app purchases.
No, Cracking the Cryptic does not offer compatibility with Apple Vision Pro.

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Reviews of Cracking the Cryptic

  • Please fix clues!!

    I love this app and play it almost every single day, but the lack of editing on the clues is beyond frustrating. Puzzle 45, which I’m replaying today, doesn’t just have a typo, which is unfortunately somewhat common, but clues 2 and 3 are flat out incorrect and will not let you solve the puzzle if you follow them. Also, please include a few clues on the bonus pack puzzles. Valentine’s Day #1 I have never been able to solve without finally having to guess after filling in all possibilities around the grid with the clues given.

    Please have a tester go through and identify all of the typos. A beginner who is relying on the clues to proceed is going to be very frustrated and give up if they don’t figure out that the row and column numbers were transposed for a given clue.
  • Excellent app, can’t wait for more puzzles!

    I’m really enjoying this app, and (though I’m nowhere near finished with all the puzzles), can’t wait for more!

    I did want to say, GAS 1 Puzzle 59 has a rule set that doesn’t make sense— I think they just meant to include the even sandwich rule set, not the sandwich rules as well.

    Also, to my inexperienced eyes, two crossing renban lines (in the shape of an x) initially seemed like one single renban “shape”, so for anyone else who’s found that ambiguous, any same-color lines crossing in the shape of an x are two distinct lines, not one.

    If highlight errors is turned on, Puzzle 40 in GAS 2 (I believe) marks repeated digits as in cages as incorrect, even though digits in a cage can repeat in this ruleset.

    These are all minor though- the vast majority of the time, it’s a very smooth, clutter-free sudoku app with very clear rules, and all the features and puzzles you could ask for!
  • Great app, but not colorblind friendly

    I love the app, the best Sudoku app I’ve ever used. My only issue is that the themes aren’t colorblind friendly. I noticed this especially on the new valentine’s puzzle. In the light themes it’s hard to see the range of a cell and in the dark themes it’s hard to see the contents of cells in the fortress or moat.