Arrow Sudoku

Studio Goya LLC

About this game

Presented by Cracking The Cryptic, the most popular Sudoku channel, comes a new game based on our frequently requested variant: Arrow Sudoku.

In Arrow Sudoku, every puzzle contains a handful of "arrows" laid out in unique patterns. The numbers found along the shaft of the arrow must sum up to the number at the base. This simple rule leads to endless variety in the puzzles you will conquer. Fans of our previous game Miracle Sudoku will enjoy the hybrid puzzles we have included in the collection including Arrow Knight and Arrow Sandwich puzzles. These puzzles were curated by Mark and Simon and include puzzles made by them as well as from a large number of guest creators. Fans of Cracking the Cryptic's channel will recognize many of these authors as some of the most talented creators working today!

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). Anyone familiar with their channel will know that Simon and Mark take pride in teaching viewers to be better solvers and, in these games, they always craft the puzzles with the mindset of trying to help solvers improve their skills.

Mark and Simon have both represented the UK many times at the World Sudoku Championship and you can find more of their puzzles (and lots of others) on the internet’s biggest sudoku channel Cracking The Cryptic.

Features:
100 beautiful arrow puzzles by Simon, Mark and guests from their channel

Ratings and reviews

A very good collection of puzzles. On the technical side of things, the UI manages to pack a lot of functionality into a little space, and there's a nice amount of features available. I appreciate being able to do both center and corner notes, for example. On the puzzle side, I enjoyed the variety of puzzles: besides regular arrow sudoku, there's killer arrow, sandwich arrow, etc. Knight arrow was my least favorite. Hints are helpful as always, though occasionally confusing.

Love the other CtC apps, and the puzzles here are top notch as always, but the hint system has fallen very short. Rarely does the dynamic hint feature generate a hint, and the static hints often exclude key pieces of logic or use very poor and sometimes incorrect descriptive language. Unlike the other apps, this one is not good for learning. Would love more of these to be tackled by the YouTube channel with links embedded.

Similar to other reviewers, I'm a bit frustrated with the Smart hints giving digits but no reasons why. I'm also only on the 6th puzzle, and am already faced with a "deadly pattern" indicating there isn't a unique solution. This is my 4th app purchase of the collection, and I haven't seen this issue anywhere else.

What's new

Updated UI to match the CTC app
Bug Fix: fixed an issue causing the app to crash on the newest version of Android