Leave a Review ▻Sudoku
I've loved learning this "new to me" game.
I was tired of the matching, find patterns, word games that had
their own kind of enjoyment. I use it while waiting in lines, Dr's offices, or just taking s mental break from my emotional way of thinking and give my logical muscles a little exercise. LOL. If you know anything of what your supposed to do with all those numbers in boxes of rows and columns, start with easy and allow yourself as many mistakes as it takes to understand what is going on and what you need to do. I really talk/type too much.... no bells and whistles or candy... just good old fashioned thinking... brain candy that's a brain muscle exercise.Show lessCarrie Lea'
Good way to learn & practice Sudoku
Great mental exercise that allows you to track improvement. I play different strategies and enjoy seeing which is faster in each situation. The timer helps me track improvement and when I feel I have "mastered" a level, I can move up. Plus, you have options of turning on or off any of the in-game assistance (such as automatically highlighting all the numbers on the board of the number you just played) This allows you to either get more help as you are learning or less help if you would rather simulate pen & paper games. All in all, fun way to keep the brain going.Show lessSbaw
Still a Great game
Don't download this if you want to spend only a little time playing one game leads to another and before you know it 50 + games have been done and you can't risk failing, so immense concentration needed.
Best of all no in app purchases to carry on.
Can I just contradict, some other comments?
Yes you can guess and you have 4 chances to do so, but you don't have to. As with all sudoku puzzles you can work out the answer a guess is what my wife calls cheating!Show lessJordi J Morell
Solid game
I've played this Sudoku game for a while before rating it. It's also the only time I've ever played a sudoku game. I think the app is great. I especially like the note taking ability to solve the puzzle, writing in numbers that are possible in squares. At first I didn't think it valuable but it is important on the higher/harder difficulties. The whole user interface of highlighting boxes (all of that same number on the grid) is useful. Selecting numbers, removing them s from the board when they are all used (found) is smart thinking by the developers. Bottom line, I think the developers thought through and put into the game all the elements a player would want and need. This is definitely a game I'm keeping. Because it is a free game it is a true winner that you should have in your games selection!Show lessJediHoth
Good Enough but Not Perfect
The quality of the game is not great, but for a free game, the problems are not severe enough to subtract more than one star.
1. The layouts are random, not symmetrical the way quality Sudoku puzzles are supposed to be. This makes the level of difficulty vary within a given level.
2. You have to switch back and forth between writing notes and filling cells.
3. On a small screen, cells are difficult to select, especially along the right side.
4. Due to 3 and 4, it's easy to make marks you didn't intend. You can undo notes, but there's no Undo that lets you take back a mistake if you fill a cell that you only meant to make a note in.
5. The programmers recognize this and compensate by letting you make three mistakes before counting it against you. On the fourth mistake, the game is treated as a loss.
6. It would be nice to have a Reset that allows you to repeat a setup that you lost or got stuck on.
7. The notes are small. It would be helpful if the contrast were enhanced for folks with marginal eyesight.
8. Ads are unobtrusive, but it's easy to touch them by mistake, and then you have to go through the process of closing the browser and finding your way back to the game.Show lessAlphadogtucker
Nice version
I have played this game on and off for several years. It is polished and enjoyable, a great way to learn how the game works and to pass the time while travelling. I would like to be able to pay for an ad-free version.Nettinonuts
Fun Version of Sudoku
I've spent a lot of time playing this game, and it's good. My only complaint is the mistake tracker. I wish I could be allowed to be able to make mistakes without being given the answer. At least there should be a setting where I have that choice. Sometimes at the end, I'm trying to make a good time and I've got it figured out and I accidentally hit the wrong key, or I don't change from the permanent selection to the notes selection and I get a mistake. Also, on expert, sometimes I do actually 'guess' between two possibilities to see which one will play out. I can't do that with this version because I'm marked with a mistake and the answer is given. But, considering how often I use the app, I think it would be hypocritical to give it less than a 4 star rating.Show lesssmboomsslt
No way to remove numbers
Some of these reviews have to be fake. Some don't make sense (this version is free but someone was put off by the price?), but mostly because I can't believe anyone would 5 star a sudoku game that has no way of removing a tile accidentally placed on the board. And THEN I figured out that it's because this is a sudoku game that pretty much doesn't let you make a mistake. Can't really see the point in it, to be honest - actually the worst interpretation of sudoku I've ever come across, with no traditional option at all.Show lesssiftycat
Very good, but...
My wife and I both enjoy this enough to wish to support the developer by buying it. However we are both irritated by the periodic bug in 5.4 that, at hard level at least, rejects a correct number and logs a mistake, only to accept it at second time of asking (after moving the program on by doing something else). This happens every few games to us both, and we've found it's not down to hitting numbers too fast. Haven't seen any other reviews mentioning this. Sort this out and we'll buy it, it's otherwise a great game.Show lesselaric
Good app but...
There are some issues that need to be worked out. I've just noticed that despite my phone being on silent, any time a game is finished and a new game begins, the first tile I touch makes a sound. The first time this happened, I double checked and sure enough my phone was silent but perhaps I was hearing things? Nope, it still happens...
I also wish the buttons were a little more sensitive. Going back and forth between the notes function and the live tiles, I often click the notes button to turn it on and end up laying a live tile because it didn't actually kick on. Of course when this happens it is typically the wrong tile that goes down and I get a penalty mark.
Also with the screen sensitivity, many times I accidentally grab the wrong tile but it's too late and I get a penalty. I wish there was some sort of time delay where if you press the correct tile within like .2 seconds it would let you put that one down and not be penalized.
Otherwise this is the best sudoku app I've found in the App Store.Show lessBritBrit559
