Cracking the Cryptic

Studio Goya LLC

In-app purchases

About this game

OUR NEWEST PACK – CLASSIC VOLUME #2!

Classic sudoku is where it all began, and there is still lots of skill to be deployed to solve classic puzzles, and new techniques to be explored.

Nikoli, the Japanese puzzle house, named and popularised sudoku from 1984, and we have commissioned 20 puzzles from them for this Classic Sudoku 2 app. We have also created 20 ourselves, and sourced 20 more from Sam Cappleman-Lynes, the brilliant British sudoku expert. The result is a wonderful 60-puzzle pack which will delight and challenge you.

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Welcome to the brand new Sudoku app from the 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 first free collection – a variety pack by Prasanna Seshadri featuring 7 puzzles inspired from our previous Sudoku apps; Sandwich, Classic, Chess, Thermo, Miracle, Killer and Arrow Sudoku. We also have purchasable packs designed for all skill levels and featuring many unique variants not seen previously.

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!

Ratings and reviews

The 33 free puzzles were fun, if a bit easy. The paid packs are too expensive for what you get. I would rather make a larger (like $10-20) one-time purchase to unlock all puzzles, past and future. The small purchases of a few puzzles at a time smells too much like microtransactions for my taste.

The puzzles are good with a lot of variety especially with the optional paid packs. The app itself needs some bug fixes though. Clicking the continue button often opens the previous puzzle in an unfinished state despite having finished it and started the next puzzle. Very annoying. Also, the menu lags a LOT. Like taking 10ish seconds to load the puzzle select list. Also very annoying.

The killer cage sums tool and the accompanying calculator tool are wonderful, BUT they should be available on all puzzles. There are many times, even in non-killer puzzles, that knowing how many ways there are to make 23 in 5 cells would be very beneficial. Please at least add the option to have this tool available on all puzzles.

What’s new

Check out our newest pack, The Sudoku Worm of Zetamath!