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Of all the versions of Sudoku I’ve tried, this one is my favorite. A lot of the others have intrusive noises when you make mistakes or music. This app is very calming, doesn’t show the timer unless you want to see it, and gives you a very gentle red number if you place something wrong (which you can turn off entirely also). I don’t feel badly for making mistakes in this app. I find the game easy to control and even the markups are easy to do. This is also the perfect example of well placed ads in a mobile game. They’re entirely non intrusive, only playing when you start a new game and don’t auto play sound. I don’t mind watching the ads at all. Great version of a classic game! Keep it up!

This is the first sudoku app I have tried but I don’t have any desire to try others for comparison because this one has everything I need. There are 5 difficulty levels which is great because it allows your to progress to harder levels subtly instead of making big jumps to games that are much harder. You can take notes in the squares easily. The hint option provides small, piecemeal hints that give you a chance to figure out what to do once you know where to look instead of just telling you what to do. The hints sometimes also give explanation of strategy that teaches you how to figure out how to approach a situation in future games. I like this app a lot!

Hey guys! It’s sally! Back again to say that I love this game SO much and I would love to play it if only my mom would let me! That darn age restriction is really a Debby downer! I just want kids around the world to be able to play this game without having to have a parents restriction. It would be great to see such a progressive game to make a change for the better! If you are still reading this thank you for sticking around I know that may people have busy schedules and need a relaxing break during their day! This is a great way to relax from whatever bills are pulling up on you desk! I know that it really helps me after a day of hard work at preschool! I would love to see a lower age restriction!!! Lots of love to you all!!- Sally

I really like playing sudoku in this app. You can control what is automatic vs manual. I like to play "manually," so I really like that. Once I've turned off the "flag incorrect answers" option, I love that I can hit a check button and it will confirm if my answers are right so far. So I know I'm not going down a wrong path, but I get to choose when and if I want that help. The best feature to me is the hint. Instead of just filling in an answer for you like in other apps, the hint is actually a hint -- "look carefully at this row", for example-- so you get better at doing the puzzle by learning what to look for. Thanks!!

The audio advertisements are literally a “game-changer” for me!!! I’ve used this app for years and really love it! I use it almost every day. BUT ... just picture me turning my game on (not knowing the ads have been added) and the “blaring” advertisement not only makes me jump, but it wakes my husband up and starts the dog barking!!! I’m looking for a new app, but if you ever make it possible to turn the sound off on these ads, I’ll come back. Please add this one feature. And by the way, I would never even consider buying something from those annoying ads.

This is a fantastic application. I was never much of a sudoku doer but this application taught me how to do sudokus and learn many tricks. It’s great for recording possibilities and does alerts you if you put in a wrong possibility or entry. You get awarded points for completing the sudoku and you get points subtracted if you put in a wrong entry. I like that aspect of trying to improve your times. However if you wish to just relishing completing the Sudoku ignore the clock. I have gotten many hours of enjoyment from this app. I highly recommend it but warn you that you may become addicted.

I have tried quite a few sudoku apps recently, and this is the one I like the best. There are a few things that could be done to really perfect the experience for me: - Allow me to just buy the app and remove all of the annoying ads. - There needs to be a way to color the fields different shades to assist with solving puzzles when looking at number chains. - I want to view the puzzle without anything (cells) highlighted. - The contrast between the highlighted cells and the numbers is not very good, making the numbers hard to see. - If a cell has a number in it, it would be nice to have the cell “lock” so that you cannot put a pencil mark in the cell without first deleting the number. (Sometimes, I inadvertently hit a cell that has a number in it, overwriting the cell with a lone pencil mark.) - I like the hints, but it would be nice if the hints could also provide definitions for the terms for the various identified patterns. - The gradations between the difficulty levels could use some help... I can solve all the hard puzzles and the expert are all unsolvable for me without help. Feels like there should be a difficulty level in between those two. I had a sudoko app that I really liked, but it does not scale on my new iPad. Wish I could keep using that one. This particular app is a close second, though. Make the changes I suggested and the app would be 5 stars for me.

I was playing all the levels, at least once a day. Today I got to middle level, and somehow ended up with a blacked out screen. Unable to clear, so I had to delete the app and reload. I was about to finish round 50. Update: when I finished a game and went to the next level, another game shows up to try. In my case, a video slot machine shows up and an arrow is pointing to the start button. There is no “x” to exit out. When I touch the black border, it just shows a blacked out screen with no way to exit. I am then forced to delete the app, and then reload it. I enjoy the game, but not this side effect. Please fix this.

The puzzles are good overall, although Hard puzzles can be solved by looking mostly at naked pairs and simple elimination. Expert level puzzles utilized swordfish a lot, at least in the puzzles I played. There are a lot of Sudoku games out there and ultimately for me it comes down to interface. I found myself hitting the wrong number multiple times and the highlighted squares blend so well with the background it makes them difficult to see. Since you are playing against the clock to boost your score, this can be quite frustrating. Undo is a two step process. Finally, there is no way to purchase your way out of seeing the pop up ads, so those are there for you to enjoy forever. The hint system is quite good and educational, truly the best part of the app.

My first issue with this app is that the levels are wildly inconsistent. Sometimes the easy ones are harder than the medium ones. Sometimes the medium ones are more like impossible. And I play the “insane” level on my other Sudoku app. The other issue I have with this game is that once you move on, there’s no way to differentiate the numbers you’ve added from the numbers that were already there. This makes it much harder than my other game, or much harder than a print version would be. Even in an extremely difficult print puzzle you can easily see where you’ve been and if there’s a problem what might need to be changed. Here, everything looks the same. If they’d fix this one issue it would be a much better app.

When my favorite suduko game started glitching after 5 years, I downloaded this one because I have, and like, Brainium's Free Cell. This version works well but there are a few things I would change. The colors make it difficult to read. Too many colors in the same color family. Why are they using so many greens? I don't see a reason for highlighting anything but the relevant information. Also, it is hard to distinguish yellow numbers on green. The other thing I would change is that when I am using auto-fill to see all my options, when there is only one autofill number left in a box I want to tap the box and have it automatically put the number in. That is easier than going down and putting the number in.

There are aspects of the game that are useful. The highlighted squares for each number helps you to look for XWing swordfish XY XYZ. What I don't like is the flawed logic of the Sudoku construction. The hard setting takes less than three minutes to solve. The so-called expert is ridiculous. I have never seen a Hidden swordfish before. That is a swordfish where there are the same number interfering with the identification of the pattern. You have to evaluate .... could it be a swordfish or not a swordfish. This happens often. I have yet to find a game that is fun. They are either ridiculously easy or ridiculously hard. It would be nice to have games that were a combination of hidden triplets or hidden quads and XY and / or XYZ and XWing and swordfish.

I've been playing sudoku for years upon years on paper. It was the way I learned. I didn't want to carry around the sudoku book so I got this because all the other apps had some sort of points system which I hated. My complaint is the game tells you when you've put down all of a single number. I don't like this because the fun of sudoku is the challenge and with this it is less challenging. But because all other games force a score system this is the only one I am willing to play. I love that you guys are trying to popularize sudoku I just wish there was an authentic mode where there is no extra help. I can just figure it out myself.

I’ve played this game on and off for years, and I get really excited when I level up. I’ve noticed now that I hit 22, every time I go to level up to 23, it asks me if I want to rate the game. I say, not now, and it says level up! And starts me back over at 22. I’m not sure why this is so upsetting, but I was thinking of purchasing the the game in order to not see ads, and now there’s no way if I won’t continue to level up. I should be around 150,000 points now, but it says 89,000 ish every time it sets me back to the beginning of level 22. It’s enough for me to knock three stars.. otherwise, I probably would have given it 4 stars. Oh and I didn’t rate it this time from it asking, I came to the App Store and found the game. So I’m not sure what to do when it asks me next time. Find a new sudoku game?