Comparison

Murder Sudoku GridNoir vs Scatterbox

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

Murder Sudoku GridNoir

Engage in over 3000 logic puzzles presented as murder mysteries. Solve daily challenges by deducing relationships between suspects, victims, and crime scenes. No guessing required, just pure deduction.

Highlights
  • 3000+ murder sudoku cases
  • Themed casebooks
  • Daily challenges
  • Deductive reasoning gameplay
  • Hints and score summaries
  • Progress saved locally
Features
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GridNoir turns murder sudoku into a large, living logic puzzle collection. Play 3000+ cases across themed casebooks, from classic crime scenes to cruise ships, hotels, campuses, trains, museums and more. Open a daily challenge, read the suspect cards, inspect the rooms and place each person on the grid. Each suspect belongs in one row and one column. Every clue narrows the possibilities until the victim, the culprit and the crime scene finally make sense. No guessing. No account. Just deduction. Features: - 3000+ murder sudoku cases and daily challenges - Themed casebooks with different locations and suspects - Crime-scene boards with rooms, objects and clue cards - Suspects, victims, rooms, objects and alibis - Helpful hints, score summaries and case-closing results - Optional rewarded ads for extra hints or early case access - Progress saved on your device If you search for crimoku, murdoku, murder sudoku, criminal sudoku, detective puzzles, whodunit games or logic grid puzzles, GridNoir gives you a new case to reason through, one square at a time.

About

Scatterbox

Features
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Scatterbox is a game of pure deduction. A handful of atoms are hidden in a grid. You fire a beam in from any edge, see where it comes out, and reason your way to what must be inside. No reflexes. No timers. No luck. Every board has exactly one answer, and it is always findable. There are only four things a beam can do: • Miss — straight in, straight out the far side. That lane is clear. • Hit — the beam never comes back. It ran into an atom head-on. • Deflection — passing an atom on the diagonal turns the beam ninety degrees. • Reflection — two atoms turn it back out the square it entered. Learn those four and you have learned the whole game. In the Ray Lab the atoms are visible: place them anywhere, fire beams, and watch every path bend, bounce, or vanish. BOARD OF THE DAY One puzzle a day, the same for everyone, built from the date. The difficulty rotates through the week — gentle on Monday, brutal by the weekend. Solve it to build a streak; miss a day and the streak resets. Your best streak is always on the home screen. FREE PLAY Set your own board — width, height, and atom count, up to 12×12 on iPhone and 16×16 on iPad — or switch on random mode and get a fresh shape every game. BUILT FOR THINKING • Every marker is numbered, so you are never guessing at colors • Dark mode and a color-blind friendly palette • An optional timer if you want the pressure, off by default • "Check" your guesses before you commit — for a small score cost • Reveal shows the full path every beam actually took Your score is the number of beams you fired plus a penalty for wrong guesses. Lower is better. There is no way to lose — only to solve it in fewer beams next time. Scatterbox plays entirely on your device. No account, no sign-in, nothing to sync. It works on a plane. Scatterbox is an independent game in the tradition of Black Box, the deduction puzzle designed by Eric Solomon in 1976. It is not affiliated with or endorsed by the original game or its publishers. Free to play, with ads. A one-time "Remove Ads" purchase turns them off for good. Privacy Policy: https://scatterbox.ggates1020.com/privacy/ Terms of Use: https://scatterbox.ggates1020.com/terms-of-use/

Screenshots

Murder Sudoku GridNoir4 screens
Scatterbox4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is iOS requirement: Murder Sudoku GridNoir at 15.0 against Scatterbox's 26.5. On price, update cadence, ads and in-app purchases 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Murder Sudoku GridNoir sells 1 one-off in-app purchase and Scatterbox sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Murder Sudoku GridNoir ships an update every 4 days, Scatterbox weekly. The most recent releases landed on November 7, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard1 real difference · 9 level
Murder Sudoku GridNoir versus Scatterbox: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterMurder Sudoku GridNoirScatterbox
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.5 (31 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews60.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings31 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 4 days — betterWeekly
AdsYesYes
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS15.0 — better26.5
Further details — not scored
Size93 MB6 MB
Age rating4+12+
DeveloperAdrian AmorGEORGE,HOWARD GATES

In-app purchases

1 purchases

Murder Sudoku GridNoir

One-time1
  • GridNoir Premium$6.99
1 purchases

Scatterbox

One-time1
  • Remove Ads$2.99

Questions

Is Murder Sudoku GridNoir free?
Murder Sudoku GridNoir is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Scatterbox free?
Scatterbox is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Murder Sudoku GridNoir or Scatterbox have ads?
Both Murder Sudoku GridNoir and Scatterbox show ads.
Which is updated more often, Murder Sudoku GridNoir or Scatterbox?
Murder Sudoku GridNoir ships an update every 4 days, and Scatterbox weekly. Most recently, Murder Sudoku GridNoir was updated on November 7, 2026 and Scatterbox on October 31, 2026.

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