# Sudoku Neo: Daily Puzzle — Daily logic, scored properly > Daily logic, scored properly (iPhone/iPad app by Alex Fedotov.) - Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/sudoku-neo-daily-puzzle/id6793507523 (this page in markdown: same URL + `.md`) - Developer: [Alex Fedotov](https://appshunter.io/developer/1210684956) - Category: Games, Board, Puzzle - Price: Free - Age rating: 4+ - Requires: iOS 18.0 · 15 MB - Languages: American English, German (Germany), Japanese, Russian, European Spanish - Released: 2026-08-06 - Data updated: 2026-08-29 - User reviews in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/sudoku-neo-daily-puzzle/id6793507523/reviews.md ## What is Sudoku Neo? Sudoku Neo scores how you solve, not how fast you type. Most sudoku apps rank players by finishing time. Sudoku Neo awards points for the shape of a solve: closing a digit family across the board, finishing a 3×3 box without a mistake, the order you close them in, and how much work the puzzle actually left you. The formula is published below, carries a version number, and is computed identically on every device — so the daily ranking is reproducible, not a black box. ONE DAILY PUZZLE FOR EVERYONE The Daily Challenge is a fixed, pre-verified Medium board shipped inside the app: every player in the world gets the same puzzle, playable offline, one attempt each. A completed game enters the recurring Game Center leaderboard; a loss stays in your local statistics and is never submitted. Missed a day? The archive keeps every past challenge playable — the same boards everyone else got. Archive results count toward your statistics, best score and best time, but never reach the leaderboard and never extend your streak: a streak means showing up on the day. HINTS THAT TEACH When you are stuck, the hint names the technique that unlocks the position — locked candidate, naked or hidden pair, triple, X-Wing, XY-Wing — and explains why it works before placing anything. Easy and Medium fall to plain scanning; Hard and Expert genuinely need technique, and the same solver that rates the puzzles backs every label. HOW SCORING WORKS • +40 points for each correctly filled cell. • Closing all nine copies of a digit awards a bonus for the work it took, the order you closed it in, and focused time. • Completing a 3×3 box awards a speed bonus, plus a clean-box bonus if it holds no mistake. • A digit and a box closed with one move award a combo. Winning adds a final pace bonus. • Mistakes escalate: −150, −350, −600 — the third ends the game. Each revealed hint costs −100. • The total is multiplied by difficulty: Easy ×1.00, Medium and Daily ×1.15, Hard ×1.35, Expert ×1.60. The formula is stored with a version number, so an update never rewrites results you already earned. Current scoring version: 2. BUILT FOR FOCUSED PLAY • Four difficulties, each puzzle with one unique solution and no guessing required • Notes, auto-notes, locked digits, pause, sound and haptics • Three colour themes, VoiceOver labels everywhere, Dynamic Type, Reduce Motion • Full interface in English, Russian, Japanese, German and Spanish — including every hint explanation • Works offline, no account, no tracking FAIR MONETIZATION Free to play. Interstitial ads appear only at breaks between games, never during a puzzle. Two hints per game are free; extra hints can be unlocked with an optional rewarded ad. One non-consumable purchase removes all advertising permanently. ## Version history (last 5 releases) ### 1.4 — 2026-08-26 The daily challenge becomes four: every difficulty now gets its own board each day, with its own leaderboard. Play one or all of them - the streak counts any difficulty won on its day. A redesigned home screen puts today's actual board front and centre, with your rank and streak beside it. Plus a new app icon, undo, a proper win celebration, a breakdown of which techniques your board required, a home screen widget, an optional evening reminder, and a short welcome for new players. ### 1.3 — 2026-08-24 A proper welcome: Sudoku Neo now opens with an animated launch screen - the grid draws itself in while the app gets ready. One small kindness: typing a digit on a cell you have already solved no longer counts as a mistake. A tap there could never change anything, so it is now simply ignored. ### 1.2 — 2026-08-20 Sudoku Neo now speaks Japanese, German and Spanish - the full interface, including every hint explanation. Pick a language in Settings or follow the system. The store description was rewritten to say plainly what the game does: scores the shape of your solve, one shared daily board, hints that teach. ### 1.1 — 2026-08-08 Past challenges. Every daily challenge since launch is now playable. Tap the calendar on the daily card and pick a day. The boards are the same ones everyone else played that day - they ship inside the app, so the archive works offline too. Archive results count towards your statistics, your best score and your best time. They do not go to the daily leaderboard and do not extend your streak: a streak means showing up on the day, so only the day itself counts for those. Also updated the advertising SDK. ### 1.0 — 2026-08-06 No release notes. ## More apps by Alex Fedotov - [St.Valentine, Love, Cute Bears](https://appshunter.io/ios/app/stvalentine-love-cute-bears/id1229613631) - [Gift Bears](https://appshunter.io/ios/app/gift-bears/id1233407080) - [New Year, Christmas Cute Bears](https://appshunter.io/ios/app/new-year-christmas-cute-bears/id1446203909) - [Sleeping Zoo Stickers](https://appshunter.io/ios/app/sleeping-zoo-stickers/id1467018875) - [SolveSwipe](https://appshunter.io/ios/app/solveswipe/id6786757028) - [Snake Battle Arena](https://appshunter.io/ios/app/snake-battle-arena/id6786846944) All apps by Alex Fedotov: https://appshunter.io/developer/1210684956 --- *Data collected daily from the US App Store and indexed by [AppsHunter](https://appshunter.io/). User reviews are verbatim App Store reviews. Ratings, prices and chart positions refresh continuously; this snapshot is from 2026-08-29.*