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This game is the best of its class! A great combination of board design and intuitive gameplay. Gone are the days of thumb fatigue from enter notes. I like that the number controls show the count of remaining entries in the upper right corner and that it becomes disabled when all entries are complete. My only request is that these visual cues could continue when entering “Notes” mode. All-in-all, another home run from Microsoft Casual Games.

I enjoy the daily challenge of 3 different kinds of puzzles, especially the ice breaker. I have this app on both my home computer and phone. The squares on the phone version are a bit small resulting in mistakes and the “notes” numbers on the phone are so tiny they’re almost unreadable even with reading glasses. Otherwise, fun app!

Since I got rid of my Windows phone and tablet a while back, I've missed this game. While it's not the exact experience, I certainly like it much better than other sudoku options in the App Store. I love the daily challenges! And the background music is perfect, providing ambiance, but not distracting to such a thinker of a game. Thanks, Microsoft Casual Games Team!

This is really a great version of Sudoku. I like that there are different versions besides the classic version. I also like the daily challenges and the dark version. But, really, this is a Microsoft game and it doesn’t change orientation? I play on an iPad so maybe that is the reason, but it is very annoying that such a simple thing is missing.

I enjoy sudoku, but thought the Microsoft version was too easy. The difficult puzzles are more difficult than before and the easy puzzles are still easy enough for novices.

Several times have ended up in a dead lock (multiple solutions). Worse, some times, when undoing all the way to a re-start, NEW numbers are added to the original!. [please] Add - the option to re-start the same set up. - also, correct the UNDO to restore notes deleted (automatic delete notes option) by the moves being undone. That is, restore previously deleted by the move being undone. Else, player is unaware and game becomes UNSOLVABLE! Thank you ... else 5 stars may be due. ************ (Not sure the above review was SENT a while back) This Microsoft Casual Games implementation of Sudoku is almost the best: intuitive and easy to play in both desktop (Windows) or cell phone (iPhone IOS) modes ... but ... I use hearing aids and even with the sound up or down to nothing, the game interferes and filters my hearing in IOS. Killing the game restores hearing aids sounds. [Please] Add an OFF SOUND switch to free hearing (or blue tooth?) connections in the game app.

I really enjoy this game, and play the daily challenges every day. Having irregular shaped puzzles and the option to play with shapes instead of numbers adds a nice twist on the classic game. I use the same login on my laptop, phone, and iPad, and appreciate that all sync seamlessly. One frustration I have is that the game only supports portrait mode. My iPad only has a stand that supports it in landscape mode, and most apps work without issue. Sadly this app does not, and that is why I gave it four instead of five stars.

I love this game, especially the new ice breaker version. However, when playing it on my PC, the record keeping is unstable. Several times I have opened it to play the daily challenge and found that several challenges that I had previously completed were now listed as incomplete. Further, OS updates will wipe out the cumulative score. In late Oct/early Nov, I was past level 114, Grandmaster +, and an OS update dropped me back to level 0. Very frustrating!

As a long time fan of Sudoku puzzles, I find MS Sudoku to provide an excellent platform to learn for beginners and the different difficulty levels keep even the hardened Sudoku solver challenged. The ice breaker game in the daily challenge is a refreshing perspective on the puzzle. Seemingly simple at first, the strategy to smash the ice without running out of plays give an inter twist to this old puzzle game.

As a sudoku app, Microsoft’s works great. It gives you flexibility to mark the way you want, whether you work a puzzle box by box or number by number. The daily challenges are quick but pleasant ways to play daily. Thanks to iOS 14, it reveals that every time you open or switch to the app, it copies your clipboard. Nowhere in the app is a reason to paste data, so it is clear the app is stealing your clipboard data. This is very concerning. In addition to this, the ad free costs are too high for my taste. I prefer one time ad free purchases. In lieu of that, if I were able to get all the Microsoft games ad free on all platforms for the cost they offer, I would be willing to pay that. But as of right now, it’s about $10/yr for each game and each platform. Too high.

The game play is nice and has some challenge to it. What I absolutely do not like is that the game will not rotate. I use my iPad in landscape about 90% of the time because of my external keyboard. Even if I’m in prorate it will not rotate which is a pain when it is charging. I like my charge to be at the top, not the bottom so the cord is not kinked. Fix the rotation issue and I’ll review again.

Game music does not play when my iPad is set to silent ringer, which is great. One problem… ads have audio play anyway. Nothing more awkward then an ad playing loudly when you’re in a public place. Also the app tends to have endless loading screens occasionally when left in RAM too long. Force quitting the app will result in several moves not being saved to the cloud, and NOT detecting a differing local save upon start up (the only work around is to let it unload from RAM again without force quitting, i.e open several other apps until forcing swap memory usage). Just a strange and annoying bug.

I’ve Been playing the paid version of this game for a while on three different devices using the same Microsoft login. I’ve been doing that with solitaire for years and the account was always correct. With Sudoku, Initially, The level never synched up across the three machines. Then it started losing track of the daily challenge games I played, saying I didn’t play them on one machine even though I finished them on another. This was all while logged in. Then a few days ago, my “level” info was lost and I dropped from nearly 200 down to 1. It keeps track of all of my awards correctly on each machine though....wired. Now, i cant get the game to load at all on any of the three devices (2 iPads and an iPhone). The game just spins at the initial start up page. And never gets to the menu. Too bad. Fun game when it works but losing my history is inexcusable. I’m done.

I can live with the bugs and irritations in this game, but as of today I'm refusing to play it any more because I find the obligatory ads to be highly offensive. I get that I'm required to watch an occasional ad because I haven't subscribed to a premium membership or whatever, but I detest watching cartoon people being tortured or killed as part of some supposedly "cute" and "fun" game. Closing and reopening the game just keeps giving me the same offensive ad, never a different and less-offensive ad. Today's required ad seems to be a cartoon king drowning in a room filling up with water while he's chained to the floor by his feet. The idea that children are watching these ads, playing these games, and being taught that it's hilarious to watch someone being drowned in a bondage situation is positively frightening.