Thu May 12 2022
20 new puzzles!
All puzzles are now released, thank you for playing Miracle Sudoku!
First of all, I’ll say that I love the content of this app, in fact I love all of cracking the cryptic’s apps. However, I’ve found that the user interface can be hard for me to use. I have a disability that is related to my eyesight, and I would like more options to mess with things like the font size. Additionally, the default color schemes of a few of the apps don’t have much contrast between the lightest and darkest colors, and might not be user friendly to those with color blindness. Still, I really don’t feel comfortable giving this app anything less than 5 stars, because the content is so singularly wonderful!
Yet another great sudoku app! I’ve only played the first 4 and I’m loving the variety already. There’s really interesting mechanics with the different variants put together so the puzzles are quite nice so far. I was a bit worried about the difficulty, but it seems to be quite approachable so far. An there are hints if you need help. The different gameplay options also make it easier to manage the constraints. The only thing is that I wish the number and colour picker buttons were a bit bigger. I struggle pressing them some times.
After solving a good chunk of the problems I can say this is my favorite sudoku game yet. The combinations of different kinds of sudoku make for really interesting problems. Definitely recommend completing the other ones before playing this game as there are a lot of different mechanics at play. This is my favorite sudoku game they’ve made by far, and that’s a high bar.
This is a great app and a lot of fun to play, but for one quirk: (almost?) all puzzles seem to have a pattern where the same 3 numbers are repeated in same row or column in every square. For example in the puzzle I just completed, every square has a row with 1,4, 7, a row with 3,6,9 and a row with 2,5,8. Once you recognize the pattern, finishing the puzzle is trivial. Fun and challenging to get to the point that the pattern can be seen. Note to developers: is there a mathematical reason for these patterns? And is there any way to avoid these patterns in future puzzles?
I got bored early in the sudoku craze, but watching Cracking the cryptic brought me back into trying a few. These don’t feel rote at all - they feel like you are being guided through the solution like a good puzzle game. The easy ones are easy, but if the difficult ones are anything like the channel, there is plenty of challenge in store.
It's great, but there is just one annoying visual bug. When I rotate my phone to landscape, the 'hint' dialogue becomes very thin and vertical without me instigating it. It is also doing it with the first-time arrow sudoku tutorial message. I suspect the instances are related. Otherwise, it's a lovely app and the hint system works well. It has a nice variety.
The blend of different puzzle types keeps everything fresh and interesting. The Chess sudoku app touched on this a bit—switching between Knight and King sudoku (and now Queen sudoku as well) kept things from getting old, but this app takes it to a whole new level. This app is honestly stunning.
Like a lot of people I got back into Sudoku these past 6 months and Cracking the Cryptic had a major part in this. All of their apps are fun but this one has me the most happy whenever I find the right way to get started. The hints are helpful and the overall experience is flawless. Hoping for more puzzles and maybe a dedicated Killer Sudoku App.