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What's New in Sudoku
1.1.0
October 21, 2026
The Journey is here: 1,200 levels. And for the first time, Sudoku shows ads. NEW • The Journey: 4 chapters of 300 levels — Camp, Seas, Deserts and Mountains — with trophies and a coin chest every 5 levels. • Journey levels don't count toward your streak; Free play and the Daily Challenge do. • A home screen that brings your Journey and Free play together. • Now in 28 languages. Sudoku follows your iPhone's language. • 8 color themes: you start with one and unlock the rest with coins or Journey trophies. • Numbers you place correctly now lock in place; only Undo can take one back. ADS, HINTS, COINS AND OTHER CHANGES • Sudoku now shows ads: a banner while you play, and now and then a full-screen ad when you leave a win screen in Free play or the Journey. The Daily Challenge shows the banner but no full-screen ads. • The first time you open Sudoku after this update, you choose personalized or limited ads. Both choices show ads on the same schedule; with limited ads, Sudoku tells the ad companies not to personalize them, so the ads may be less relevant to you. Change it any time in Me → Settings → Ad privacy. • In the Journey, a short video plays before you retry a level you lost; if none is available, the level starts anyway. • Each puzzle now starts with one hint instead of three; when a video is available, watch it for another. • Extra hints and extra lives now come from a short video instead of coins, and the Shield has been removed. • Reached the mistake limit? Once per puzzle, a short video gives you one more life (in 1.0, coins could buy up to two per puzzle). • Win rewards are lower than in 1.0, the Daily Challenge included: a win now pays 10–40 coins depending on difficulty (it was 30–250), and today's Daily Challenge pays double that. Past days, and puzzles opened from Saved Puzzles or a shared link, pay no coins. • Optional videos also earn bonus coins: 3× the coins on the win screen, or +50 in the Shop. • Streak repair (one missed day, once a week) now also works with a short video; with coins it costs 1,000 coins (it was 300). • The Magic Pencil now runs on charges at 100 coins each: 1 to 6 charges (100–600 coins) depending on difficulty, paid once per puzzle. In 1.0, each use cost 400 coins. • Leaving a Free play puzzle unfinished to start a new one no longer costs coins (it was 30); the puzzle you leave counts as a loss. • Hints and Shields bought with coins in 1.0 can no longer be used, and they aren't refunded. Your coin balance carries over: this update doesn't reset anyone's coins. • Scoring has changed: you earn points for each correct cell, with bonuses for completing a row, column or box and for finishing without a mistake. The score no longer drops with time. • You can play today's Daily Challenge and the last 30 days; older days stay in the calendar, locked. FIXES • If you close the app after losing, you now return to the same loss screen. • The Daily Challenge and streaks follow your local date.
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