Cracking the Cryptic Hack 1.1.16 + Redeem Codes
Curated Sudoku Puzzles
Developer: Nick Carney
Category: Games
Price: Free
Version: 1.1.16
ID: com.StudioGoya.CrackingTheCryptic
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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.
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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.
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.
Version history
1.1.16
2023-10-03
Fixed a puzzle in the lines pack
1.1.15
2023-10-01
Our brand new Lines Variety Pack is available now!
- several fixes and changes to the lines pack
- several fixes and changes to the lines pack
1.1.14
2023-09-29
Get the new Lines Variety Pack, available now!
5 new Domino puzzles, all 100 Domino puzzles are now released!
5 new Domino puzzles, all 100 Domino puzzles are now released!
1.1.13
2023-08-09
5 new puzzles added to the Domino Sudoku pack!
Fixed a bug that caused some partial kropki puzzles to be labeled as full kropki puzzles on the rules screen.
Fixed a bug that caused some partial kropki puzzles to be labeled as full kropki puzzles on the rules screen.
1.1.12
2023-07-15
- 10 new puzzles added to GAS Volume #2, all 60 puzzles are now available!
- 5 new Domino puzzles
- 5 new Domino puzzles
1.1.11
2023-05-31
5 new Domino puzzles and 10 new GAS Volume #2 puzzles
1.1.10
2023-05-05
New puzzles for our Domino and GAS Volume #2 packs
1.1.9
2023-03-21
GAS Volume #2 is out now!
- 5 more Domino puzzles
- 5 more Domino puzzles
1.1.8
2023-01-31
5 new Domino puzzles
10 new GAS puzzles
Improvements/changes to the GAS pack interface
10 new GAS puzzles
Improvements/changes to the GAS pack interface
1.1.7
2022-12-29
December Update:
- 5 new Domino puzzles
- 10 new GAS puzzles
- 5 new Domino puzzles
- 10 new GAS puzzles
1.1.6
2022-12-03
New Puzzles!
- 5 more Domino puzzles
- 10 more GAS puzzles
- 5 more Domino puzzles
- 10 more GAS puzzles
1.1.5
2022-10-30
The GAS Pack is available now! 60 amazing puzzles featuring a huge amount of variety from the brilliant minds of Clover, Sam Cappleman-Lynes and Philip Newman. 30 puzzles are available now with 30 more coming over the next three months.
- 5 more Domino puzzles
- Minor changes and bug fixes, read more in the patch notes in-game
- 5 more Domino puzzles
- Minor changes and bug fixes, read more in the patch notes in-game
1.1.4
2022-09-16
5 more Domino Sudoku puzzles!
More QOL updates and minor fixes
More QOL updates and minor fixes
1.1.3
2022-08-30
Minor bug fixes
A few days ago, Cracking the Cryptic passed 500,000 subscribers! To celebrate, 23 amazing puzzle setters from the channel have created a free variety pack, available now!
We've released a number of UI/QOL updates. Read the in game patch notes for more information.
A few days ago, Cracking the Cryptic passed 500,000 subscribers! To celebrate, 23 amazing puzzle setters from the channel have created a free variety pack, available now!
We've released a number of UI/QOL updates. Read the in game patch notes for more information.
1.1.2
2022-08-29
A few days ago, Cracking the Cryptic passed 500,000 subscribers! To celebrate, 23 amazing puzzle setters from the channel have created a free variety pack, available now!
We've released a number of UI/QOL updates. Read the in game patch notes for more information.
We've released a number of UI/QOL updates. Read the in game patch notes for more information.
1.1.01
2022-08-21
Domino Sudoku: 5 more puzzles are available now!
A New UI: We have listened to your feedback and have completely overhauled the puzzle UI! Find out more in the in-game patch notes.
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Improved Eraser button
A New UI: We have listened to your feedback and have completely overhauled the puzzle UI! Find out more in the in-game patch notes.
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Improved Eraser button
1.1.0
2022-08-20
Domino Sudoku: 5 more puzzles are available now!
A New UI: We have listened to your feedback and have completely overhauled the puzzle UI! Find out more in the in-game patch notes.
A New UI: We have listened to your feedback and have completely overhauled the puzzle UI! Find out more in the in-game patch notes.
1.0.1
2022-07-28
1.0.1
- fixed a visual bug with the Sandwich and Killer overlays in Domino hybrid puzzles
- the timer now correctly pauses the game when using the notification center
- quitting the app on the "puzzle completion" screen now removes the completed puzzle's save file
- fixed a visual bug with the Sandwich and Killer overlays in Domino hybrid puzzles
- the timer now correctly pauses the game when using the notification center
- quitting the app on the "puzzle completion" screen now removes the completed puzzle's save file
1.0
2022-07-08
Cheat Codes for In-App Purchases
| Item | Price | iPhone/iPad | Android |
|---|---|---|---|
| Lines Variety Pack (A variety of Line based puzzles!) |
Free |
CJ513322742✱✱✱✱✱ | E3B94A1✱✱✱✱✱ |
| GAS Volume #1 (A variety of beginner friendly GAS puzzles) |
Free |
CJ617141787✱✱✱✱✱ | E0F7377✱✱✱✱✱ |
| Domino Sudoku Pack (A variety of Domino Sudoku puzzles) |
Free |
CJ705398553✱✱✱✱✱ | F160E69✱✱✱✱✱ |
| GAS Volume #2 (More of our beginner friendly GAS puzzles) |
Free |
CJ987321255✱✱✱✱✱ | 5A5DCDC✱✱✱✱✱ |
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- iGameGuardian for iOS (Watch Video Guide) or GameGuardian for Android (Watch Video Guide)
- Lucky Patcher (Watch Video Guide)
- Cheat Engine (Watch Video Guide)
- Magisk Manager (Watch Video Guide)
- CreeHack (Watch Video Guide)
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Ratings
4.5 out of 5
128 Ratings
Reviews
earthimmigrant,
Another Great Sudoku App From Cracking The Cryptic!
I wrote a review a few days after this came out and it seems to have been lost, so I will try again. I have been excitedly awaiting this app for the last few months that Mark and Simon have been teasing it on their channel, and it has certainly lived up to the anticipation! These new variants are a fun challenge, expanding my skill set and teaching my brain new strategies and methods of logic to solve them. The Cracking The Cryptic collection are by far my favorite Sudoku apps, and I highly recommend this one and all their previous releases as well (Classic, Sandwich, Killer, Thermo, Arrow, Chess, Miracle).
That’s enough reviewing from me - I have puzzles to solve. Say it with me now: let’s get cracking!
That’s enough reviewing from me - I have puzzles to solve. Say it with me now: let’s get cracking!
jeje1067,
Not Approachable for Newcomers
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.
Reviewer Name 6,
Great overall, some hard, I wish just one app
I love the variant sudoku is available through here and the intuitive app layout. Some of them are so hard that the hints don’t seem to make any sense because they just states are gonna be true without any explanation. Greater detail in the hints would be very helpful.
Most importantly, I really wish that all the different packs were integrated into one app on my phone. I’m happy to keep paying the same amount per pack of puzzles, five dollars for Thermo, five dollars per knight pack, etc. But having a whole bunch of different apps to switch through is complicated to figure out which puzzle I want, where it is, and it and clutters up my phone. I really like that this version they released has multiple packs to buy within it, and I hope that they keep adding other options for in app purchases within this one app.
Most importantly, I really wish that all the different packs were integrated into one app on my phone. I’m happy to keep paying the same amount per pack of puzzles, five dollars for Thermo, five dollars per knight pack, etc. But having a whole bunch of different apps to switch through is complicated to figure out which puzzle I want, where it is, and it and clutters up my phone. I really like that this version they released has multiple packs to buy within it, and I hope that they keep adding other options for in app purchases within this one app.
Emma Sea,
Great app, but the latest update was for the worst
The puzzles are great, but the update is making things hard to enjoy them. I love that the newest update included a new set of puzzles, but the quality of life changes certainly hurt my enjoyment of the app. I particularly miss the eraser (I realize the backspace key functions as an eraser, but it visually is less intuitive than an actual eraser icon) and the bulk erase trash bin, but the layout change is also distracting and unwieldy - in landscape mode, the puzzle is shoved as far to the left of the screen as possible with an awkward dead space on the right with the inputs below it. Why the forward/reverse, back, setting, and hint boxes aren’t in the dead space, I don’t know - instead they’re squashed between the puzzle and the number keys, making the bottom right of the screen very visually cluttered.
Bryan_B,
Great puzzles and playability, with a couple caveats
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.
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.
Velikovsky10189,
Before you get mad like I did…
In the settings change the highlighting of errors to duplicates instead of the default setting. The second puzzle that I did I messed up, it highlighted an error, I couldn’t understand why then I just started putting numbers in until it didn’t say error and beat the whole thing in a better time than my first puzzle. Shouldn’t be default setting but it’s a setting you can change at least :p Sorry for run-on sentences english is my first and only language.
emattbranch,
Puzzles great, hints terrible
The harder puzzles are quite difficult. After an hour I tend to start looking at hints because I just want to get through it. So many times I read a hint that does not apply to the puzzle at all. Give a step by step solution or don’t bother. For example “colouring the 7s reveals that XYZ can’t go in rXcY.” And at the point I’m at it simply doesn’t reveal anything, but there’s no logic or explanation before that hint so there’s nothing you can do but plug the numbers in… and then you might as well be entering data into a grid. Frustrating enough for me to write a review which I almost never do.
lucasquinby,
A wonderful app
I downloaded this app after getting back into sudoku for a variety of reasons. I have had such a blast solving the puzzles (which previously I would have put my head through the wall while attempting). The UI is gorgeous and very straightforward to a re-emerging sudoku enthusiast. The puzzles themselves are available in a variety of packs, some free and some paid. I have the utmost respect for the makers of this app and am so glad to be supporting them in their endeavors. Now, it’s time to get back to some solving!
Melds.,
Great app; GAS levels great for newer solver
The game works well and the multiple marking styles are great. The "Genuinely Approachable Sudoku" (GAS) levels are fun and not too challenging for someone new to these new styles of play. I'd love to see more of these.
It would be nice to be able to import or set your own levels in the game.
There's a display bug when changing between portrait and landscape, but nothing serious.
It would be nice to be able to import or set your own levels in the game.
There's a display bug when changing between portrait and landscape, but nothing serious.
iti136,
First puzzle doesn’t have a unique solution
On puzzle one got all the way until the end and came to where only square to fill were: r2c2, r2c3, r2c6, r3c3, r3c6, r4c2, r4c3. The only number to place were 3,5, and 9 to get a unique solution I could put a 5 in r2c2 which would give me in the same order as above: 5, 3, 9, 9, 5, 3, 5. that was wrong so I plugged in 3 and came to a situation where r2c3, r2c6, r3c3, r3c3 were 5 or 9 and were both completely interchangeable with nothing to give you a unique solution. If the very first puzzle isn’t solvable I think I’ll go play the other apps.
