Tsumego Pro (Go problems) vs Pattern Prodigy
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Tsumego Pro (Go problems)
Enhance your Go skills with a vast library of tsumego puzzles. Learn from detailed solutions and explore variations to understand mistakes. Features daily problems, adaptive difficulty, and customizable game settings.
- Daily tsumego problems
- Adaptive difficulty modes
- Detailed solutions and bad variations
- Color selection (black, white, random)
- Hint system
- Book theme
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Improve your Go game (weiqi, baduk) with Tsumego Pro and its large collection of tsumego problems! Each problem contains all valid answers and a lot of bad variations, to help you know why you are wrong. Features: - 6 daily problems - A simple mode: try to solve all problems in each package - A progress mode: the difficulty increases or decreases depending on your level - Choose your color (black, white, random) - Browse the solution, or just get a hint - A book theme (black and white)
Pattern Prodigy
Test your logical reasoning and pattern recognition skills. This game presents a series of numbers and challenges you to identify the underlying pattern to predict the next number in the sequence. It offers a progressively challenging experience for players.
- Identify number patterns
- Test logical reasoning
- Progressive difficulty
- Develop problem-solving skills
- Engaging number puzzles
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Can you figure out the next number? Use your logic and test your skills to discover the pattern. It starts easy but gets tough! Good Luck!
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Verdict
The clearest difference is ads: Pattern Prodigy at none against Tsumego Pro (Go problems)'s shown. Pattern Prodigy also leads on iOS requirement (8.0 vs 15.6). Tsumego Pro (Go problems)'s advantage is update cadence (every 3 weeks vs every 15 months) and ratings volume (1.8K vs 209). On price, rating, 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. Tsumego Pro (Go problems) sells 12 one-off in-app purchases and Pattern Prodigy sells 3 one-off in-app purchases. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.5 for Tsumego Pro (Go problems) against 4.5 for Pattern Prodigy. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Tsumego Pro (Go problems) has 1.8K ratings behind it against 209, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews are what separate them: 74% of Tsumego Pro (Go problems)'s written reviews are positive against 64% of Pattern Prodigy's.
Tsumego Pro (Go problems) ships an update every 3 weeks, Pattern Prodigy every 15 months. The most recent releases landed on September 29, 2026 and September 27, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Tsumego Pro (Go problems) | Pattern Prodigy |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.5 (1.8K ratings) | 4.5 (209 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 74.1% of reviews — better | 63.6% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 1.8K — better | 209 |
| Update frequency | Every 3 weeks — better | Every 15 months |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.6 | 8.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 14 MB | 16 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Emmanuel Mathis | GammaLateral LLC |
Customer experience
Tsumego Pro (Go problems)
Pattern Prodigy
Bugs and requests
Tsumego Pro (Go problems)
Reported bugs
3 issues- Purchases do not work
- Incorrect problems
- Issues with the progress mode and problem selection
Requested features
6 requests- Explanation when a move is correct or incorrect
- More explanations and instructions for beginners
- Ability to play out variations and see different outcomes
- Consistent difficulty ratings for problems
- Ability to bookmark and revisit problems
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- More content and problem sets
Pattern Prodigy
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Tsumego Pro (Go problems)
- +150 Basic Problems$0.99
- +150 Intermediate problems$0.99
- +150 Easy problems$0.99
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- Beginner problems$1.99
- Elementary problems$1.99
- Intermediate problems$1.99
- Advanced problems$1.99
- Advanced problems #2$1.99
- Basic tesuji$1.99
- Daily problems - Easy$1.99
- Daily problems - Hard$1.99
- All-Access Pass$9.99
Pattern Prodigy
- Get 30 Hints$0.99
- Get 70 Hints$1.99
- Remove Ads$1.99
Questions
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