Leave a Review ▻Sudoku
I’m learning how to play
And this is a good app for people like me who are learning how to play the game. It has the very basic level for the beginner (me!), but it also provides for people who have progressed in their learning. (Not me, yet!)
Why did I give it only 3 stars?
There are no rules included in the app, and I find that to be a nuisance when I’m trying to learn. I have a feeling that the person who showed me how to play, didn’t tell me all of the rules, and so I am floundering a bit and I’m losing points and patience because I keep having to go outside the app to find the rules.
The other reason is that it isn’t very forgiving, even in the beginner level! If I happen to play a number that has already been played in that row or column or box, it still counts as an error! Maybe that’s what the rules are, but, because there are no rules within the app, I can’t check. And who knows, the maker of the app might have made some of their own rules. But I’ll never know …Show lessInconsistent
Sometimes it’s great. But more often than not you don’t know what you’re going to be getting. The scoring is completely random. Amazing, record-breaking time rounds will get you low scores, random games will get you high scores. It seems as though which numbers you pick maybe affects your score, which makes absolutely no sense whatsoever. Plus the “difficulty” is random as well. If you choose a “hard”, sometimes you get a medium you can knock out in 3 minutes, sometimes you get harder than an expert level one that is impossible without several pure luck guesses. Choose a medium, sometimes get an expert. You have no idea, it won’t tell you what level you’re ACTUALLY playing. Plus the numbers you pick from are overlapping so it’s not uncommon that you choose the wrong number unless you’re super careful when you’re choosing.
So if you’re just looking for an app to go through the motions of playing sudoku, this does that. If you’re looking for consistency, or predictably, or rational scoring to see how well you’re doing, or basic quality, keep looking.Show lessSome issues
I used to play this all the time but have found another one that has features that are helpful like penciling in all possible numbers and this one doesn’t show penciled numbers in the same spot for pattern recognition.