Classic Cruel Solitaire vs Sudoku 5000
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Classic Cruel Solitaire
A straightforward card game where the objective is to arrange all cards onto foundation piles in ascending order by suit. Players move cards one at a time between tableau piles, following descending suit order. The game allows for redealing cards from the stock pile multiple times.
- Ascending order card placement
- Descending order tableau moves
- Empty tableau pile restriction
- Unlimited redeal option
- Quick and simple gameplay
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Solitaire Cruel is a quick,simple card game. The goal is to move all the cards to the foundations in ascending order by suit. You can only grab one card at a time and move it from one tableau pile to another in descending order by suit. When a tabluea pile is empty, you cannot move new cards there. By clicking the empty stock pile at the upper left, you can collect and redeal the cards in the tableau. The cards will not be shuffled,but will be placed back into the tableau in piles of 4 until no more cards are left. You can do this as many times as you want.
Sudoku 5000
This logic puzzle game challenges you to fill a 9x9 grid with digits 1-9. Each row, column, and 3x3 sub-grid must contain all digits without repetition. It offers 5 difficulty levels, each with 1,000 unique puzzles for a total of 5,000 challenges.
- 5000 unique puzzles
- 5 difficulty levels
- 9x9 grid logic
- Number placement
- Combinatorial puzzle
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Sudoku originally called Number Place, is a logic-based, combinatorial number-placement puzzle. The objective is to fill a 9x9 grid with digits so that each column, each row, and each of the nine 3?3 sub-grids that compose the grid (also called "boxes", "blocks", "regions", or "sub- squares") contains all of the digits from 1 to 9. The puzzle setter provides a partially completed grid, which has a unique solution. There are 5 levels of difficulty. Each category contains 1,000 tasks. Total 5000 puzzles !
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Sudoku 5000 at 5.0 against Classic Cruel Solitaire's 1.8. Sudoku 5000 also leads on iOS requirement (8.1 vs 11.0). Classic Cruel Solitaire's advantage is update cadence (every 7 months vs every 38 months) and ratings volume (5 vs 1). On price, ads, in-app purchases and monetization model there is nothing between them.
Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Sudoku 5000 holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 1.8. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Classic Cruel Solitaire has 5 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.
Classic Cruel Solitaire ships an update every 7 months, Sudoku 5000 every 38 months. The most recent releases landed on November 1, 2026 and November 2, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Classic Cruel Solitaire | Sudoku 5000 |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 1.8 (5 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 25.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 5 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 7 months — better | Every 38 months |
| Ads | Yes | Yes |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Ad-supported | Ad-supported |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 11.0 | 8.1 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 7 MB | 64 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Kevin White | Ruslan Goncharenko |
Customer experience
Classic Cruel Solitaire
Sudoku 5000
In-app purchases
Classic Cruel Solitaire
No in-app purchases
Sudoku 5000
No in-app purchases
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