Cracking the Cryptic

Cracking the Cryptic

By Nick Carney

  • Category: Games
  • Release Date: 2022-07-08
  • Current Version: 1.2.8
  • Adult Rating: 4+
  • File Size: 178.75 MB
  • Developer: Nick Carney
  • Compatibility: Android, iOS 12.0
Score: 4.55944
4.55944
From 143 Ratings

Description

Line Sudoku Line Sudoku is a pack devoted to sudokus involving… LINES! Each puzzle features one or more of the popular “lines constraints” that often feature in variant puzzles on Cracking The Cryptic, including Renban, German Whispers, Palindromes, Region Sum and Ten Lines! We’re thrilled that Line Sudoku includes puzzles by Phistomefel, Qodec, Clover, zetamath, Jay Dyer, Tallcat, Mr Menace, Peter Veenis, Joseph Nehme, Richard Stolk, Prasanna Seshadri, Tyrgannus and Full Deck & Missing A Few Cards! In addition, Mark and Simon have written hints for the challenging puzzles themselves so these hints are meaningful and, above all, educational. -------------------- Welcome to the brand new Sudoku app from YouTube’s most popular Sudoku channel, Cracking The Cryptic. Unlike other Sudoku apps, we feature handcrafted and curated puzzles from the world’s best Sudoku constructors. Each collection features puzzles made by various authors that are now familiar names to those who follow the channel. Authors like Phistomefel, Clover, Sam Cappleman-Lynes, Christoph Seeliger, Richard Stolk, jovi_al, Qodec, Prasanna Seshadri and of course, Simon and Mark! Downloading Cracking the Cryptic will give you access to our two launch packs. Our first free collection is a variety pack by Prasanna Seshadri featuring 7 puzzles inspired from our previous Sudoku apps; Sandwich, Classic, Chess, Thermo, Miracle, Killer and Arrow Sudoku. Our first paid collection is Domino Sudoku, a new variant not featured in our previous apps with puzzles from our amazing constructors. We’ll be releasing more free and paid packs in the future so keep an eye on the app for more Sudoku content from Cracking The Cryptic! -------------------- Domino Sudoku Domino Sudoku is named after its domino-like appearance with X's, V's, white dots and black dots placed between cells on the grid. Each puzzle features one or more of these domino types with them all having a different effect: an X means digits in the two cells in the domino must sum to 10; a V means they sum to 5; a white dot means the digits are consecutive; and, finally, a black dot means the digits must be in a 1:2 ratio (ie one of the digits must be double the other). As you can imagine, when you allow the world’s best Sudoku makers to use these rules they are in their element and they’ve made another set of masterpieces for this collection with a huge amount of variety! We’re thrilled that Domino Sudoku includes puzzles by Christoph Seeliger, Sam Cappleman-Lynes, Richard Stolk, Prasanna Seshadri, Phistomefel, Qodec, Clover and jovi_al. In addition, Mark and Simon have written hints for the challenging puzzles themselves so these hints are meaningful and, above all, educational. As a bonus, Studio Goya has curated 10 generated beginner puzzles so that players of all skill levels can enjoy Domino Sudoku! In Cracking The Cryptic’s games, players start with zero stars and earn stars by solving puzzles. The more puzzles you solve, the more stars you earn and the more puzzles you get to play. Only the most dedicated (and cleverest) sudoku players will finish all the puzzles. Of course the difficulty is carefully calibrated to ensure lots of puzzles at every level (from easy through to extreme). So do join us as we continue to try to revolutionize Sudoku app genre.

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Reviews

  • Best Sudoku App

    5
    By Mountain_Stream
    You can tell this app is made by sudoku fans as every quality of life feature to be had is present. Watch the makers YouTube channel (also called Cracking The Cryptic) to see how they use it too. It helps!
  • Incredible Puzzles

    5
    By ryan_antony
    I’ve spent dozens of hours enjoying these puzzles, and the UI is excellent
  • Great app, but not colorblind friendly

    5
    By hffchukbfryugcdwqfj
    I love the app, the best Sudoku app I’ve ever used. My only issue is that the themes aren’t colorblind friendly. I noticed this especially on the new valentine’s puzzle. In the light themes it’s hard to see the range of a cell and in the dark themes it’s hard to see the contents of cells in the fortress or moat.
  • Great app, great puzzles, but it needs one more button

    4
    By mps1991
    Love CTC and love this app. The voice in my head turns into Simon's every time I play and I love it! These puzzles are so relaxing but also stimulating and satisfying. Is there any way you could add a button to the control panel to un-select all currently selected cells? I frequently want to do this to reduce the visual clutter on the board after I do some pencil marking, so I can take stock of how my markings changed things. Currently I have to reach up into the grid and unselect cells manually. Maybe a config to make holding the multi-select button clear selected cells by default? Or clear selected cells if cells are selected?
  • Handwritten hints need to be checked for accuracy

    3
    By Njgwghbggjfcdssxxfbsfbdw
    I love this app and have bought several packs of puzzles. Unfortunately the handwritten hints for some of the puzzles are completely incorrect or very difficult to understand. Puzzle 45 in the lines pack for example has a hint that says row 1 columns 1/2/3 must be either a 1/2/7 or a 1/3/6. Neither of these combos are accurate. The follow up hints to this puzzle then make no sense. I would also appreciate a logical explanation as to why something is true. Many of the puzzles are very difficult and I find the hints to be difficult to determine how I was supposed to get to that next step logically.
  • Great puzzles and playability, with a couple caveats

    4
    By Bryan_B
    I love Cracking the Cryptic, and the puzzles they have in the app are truly fantastic. The app has great marking features (two forms of pencil marking and colors) for solving these difficult puzzles as well. However, it eats battery like crazy and has (relatively) few puzzles for the price tag on each pack. Battery Life: 100% battery on my iPhone 14 Pro Max gets drained to ~50% after only a couple hours of play. Puzzle updates: I appreciate that they are hand crafted and manually hinted, but updates are frustratingly few and far between. I would love to play puzzles from videos here instead of Sudoku Pad (which doesn’t always import correctly), even without hints, for more content and variety.
  • Not Approachable for Newcomers

    3
    By jeje1067
    I absolutely love the channel and solving puzzles. I don’t pretend to be the same level of genius as people who complete these puzzles within an hour but o knew I could try my hand at some puzzles and slowly build a skill set. Although the puzzles so far have been brutally challenging, I have found it to be an enjoyable experience for the most part. However. The one thing that is making some levels absolutely horrible experiences are the hints. The hints themselves often require leaps of logic that are in no way clear to the untrained eye. I will read some hints that claim something that I cannot for the life of mean prove to be true or understand and I don’t feel it’s right to make progress off of logic I don’t understand so I get stuck. The hints NEED to be readdressed and modified for anyone at any skill level. Although I already said I’m not a genius, I’m can say with a certain level of confidence that I am rather intelligent but it was still very very rough at times.
  • Puzzles are good, hints are almost always wrong or vague

    3
    By He henchmen
    In so many puzzles, there will be a hint such a (r2c8 can only be 9), and when I go to input nine, it’s just wrong. Probably around 40% of the puzzles, I would say, contain uninterpretable typos
  • Great for iPad, Improvement needed on Mac

    3
    By Kevlar1
    This is an excellent companion app for YouTube channel Craking the Cryptic, with a great selection of variant sudoku puzzles. It works for Mac as well. However, it lacks support for keyboard, which is desperately needed to play on Mac. Considering the channel provides an excellent web app complete with keyboard support, adding that shouldn't be too hard. It would be a 5-star app if it had keyboard support.
  • Always excellent

    5
    By Brian5989
    Excited to get this pack. Always excellent puzzles and hints when needed. Helps you improve skills with each attempt. Simon and Mark are great solvers. If you have not subscribed to the channel do so. Entertaining, social, close knit group without drama. One request, more frequent GAS.

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