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New fog puzzle #32

Great app but this puzzle appears to be missing an anti-knight move rule.

Good but hints need lots of work

Best Sudoku app out there but unless you are a religious viewer of the CTC channel a lot of the hints are completely useless. “Are there any doubles or triples to help with eliminations?” How is this supposed to help? I read this, look at the puzzle and can’t see anything so the app makes me feel stupid. The hints should help TEACH how to solve the puzzles so you get better over time. That being said, those I can wrap my head around are phenomenal.
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Great puzzles

I’ve played every (I think) different CTC app and they’re all so good, but why can’t they all be in 1 app, it’d save space and also would mean I wouldn’t have had to get used to the different UI. Otherwise I love the variety and can’t wait for more packs to be added (however I’d rather if they were cheaper or offered more puzzles)
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Please fix hints

A lot of these puzzles go over my head, which is great because it’s challenging and is helping me understand how to approach these difficult types of sudoku. But the hints almost never explain their logic, and often just tell you where things go while there is not enough information on the board to justify what it is telling you. I get as far as I can before checking a hint, and use the hints to help me understand how to approach, but often just get frustrated by them.

Aside from most puzzle packs being locked behind a paywall, overall this is a great app and I am enjoying my time with it.
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The best sudoku app out there!!

I can’t believe I haven’t written a review for this yet?? You will not find a better app with better puzzles.

The puzzles are incredible, the logic is beautiful, and the user interface is excellent. I love getting to clear my progress and play the puzzles again while waiting for new packs to come out!

I have purchased all of the old CTC apps, I would love if there was a way to integrate them into this app as well because the UI is so nice! I’d be happy to even purchase them again.

P.S. any reviews claiming that there aren’t unique solutions are not accurate and are just coming from people who forget parts of rulesets and don’t double check that before leaving a negative review :) don’t let them discourage you from enjoying these puzzles!
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Best sudoku game there is

The game is the best sudoku game out there.
Unfortunately, when new puzzles are released, some of them have incorrect and/or incomplete hints which is frustrating. And I’ve found no way to give feedback regarding this. Right now for example, chimes #85 has incomplete hints and there’s no way for me to make progress or let the author now that their hints are wrong.
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Love

I’ve never reviewed anything before so I hope it comes across that I absolutely love this app. Incredible job.

Awesome

Great app! There are issues with performance and buttons don’t quite work the way you expect iOS buttons to work (press on touch rather than on release for example; buttons near the left and right edges of the screen often miss touches; refresh rate is weird sometimes).

Also GAS pack 2 puzzle 40 has a rule error I think? Lists killer, but should really be only serial killer. The rules are incompatible and it causes a wrong cage calculator to appear.

Thanks for the app!
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Joke

Looks like it was programmed by a 12 year old and everything is purchase to play

Improvements

I’m giving it 5⭐️ but PLEASE
⬜️0️⃣🎨
Give us option to have white colour on pallet.
Also more colour options would be nice.
In need of “0” digit

It needs some minor improvements but thank you for your work. With love

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