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Cracking the Cryptic

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Studio Goya
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Studio Goya
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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.

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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!

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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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User Reviews

Overwhelmingly Positive
14 user reviews
100%
Positive
10 hrs at review
Recommended

Having watched the Cracking the Cryptic You Tube channel since the COVID-19 pandemic started I am interested in Sukoku variants

3 helpful
112 hrs at review
Recommended

Hand crafted puzzles from some of the best setters in the world of sudoku

2 helpful
269 hrs at review
Recommended

Handcrafted sodukos of various kinds, created by constructors featured on Cracking the Cryptic. If you like soduko, this is a must have.

1 helpful
23 hrs at review
Recommended

EDIT: Note the comments. I may not be as versed as Mark and Simon, but this is not my first rodeo in the world of mid to high-end puzzles. And I am growing tired. Tired of the desktop app still being inferior to the web app; tired of hints prompting me to differently color four dominoes using three colors; tired of there being no quality control.

1 helpful
114 hrs at review
Recommended

great puzzles, makes me feel stupid i love. thumbs up emoji

3 hrs at review
Recommended

It is a good sudoku game as it allows you to mark the boxes in the grid easily.

3 hrs at review
Recommended

Fun if you like puzzles.

44 hrs at review
Recommended

Found this after watching many vids of the same name which I enjoy but generally find too difficult to figure out without advice from the videos. I picked up the 'GAS' DLC packs and am burning through them and having a great time with it. I will list the downsides to this but this are extremely minor complaints 1/I don't like interface for color coding the cells. It is functional, but to me I don't like how it obscures the color of existing selected cells when you are multi-selecting. Its hard to explain but isn't a big problem. 2/So far, I've found exactly one puzzle without a unique solution. A few other appeared to be ambiguous at first but I found ways to resolve all but one puzzle. Overall, these are much more interesting and satisfying than standard sudokus. The built-in available hints usually enough to help if you get stuck.

153 hrs at review
Recommended

I only recently found Cracking the Cryptic on YouTube a couple months ago, but very quickly I fell in love with the channel, and have bought all the CtC apps on Steam and have enjoyed all of them. This one is definitely my favorite, I keep coming back to the puzzles even though I have already solved them all (until the next update, that is!) to see if I can understand the logic better, especially after learning a new technique from the channel! (Yes, I did brute-force some of these puzzles initially, but they are much more fun to solve properly). I can't recommend this app high enough, as well as the other apps. The DLC is cheap, and very much worth it. The only minor detail I find slight issue with is every so often a puzzle will seem to not be solvable (ie deadly pair) and the conflict checker is the only way to solve since whatever logic there may be is nearly non-existent and you as the solver have no clue how the solution is obtained, however those puzzles are usually one of the...

9 hrs at review
Recommended

Great collection of Sudoku.

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System Requirements

Minimum

Minimum:
  • OS *: Windows 7 or newer
  • Processor: Intel Core i3 2.00 GHz
  • Memory: 1 GB RAM
  • DirectX: Version 9.0
  • Storage: 100 MB available space

FAQ

How much does Cracking the Cryptic cost?

Cracking the Cryptic is completely FREE to play. You can download and play it without any purchase.

What are the system requirements for Cracking the Cryptic?

Minimum: Minimum: OS *: Windows 7 or newer Processor: Intel Core i3 2.00 GHz Memory: 1 GB RAM DirectX: Version 9.0 Storage: 100 MB available space

What platforms is Cracking the Cryptic available on?

Cracking the Cryptic is available on Windows PC, macOS.

Is Cracking the Cryptic worth buying?

Cracking the Cryptic has 100% positive reviews from 14 players.

When was Cracking the Cryptic released?

Cracking the Cryptic was released on Aug 1, 2022.

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