Guardian Puzzles & Crosswords

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Leaving five stars because I like the Guardian, want to support it, and the quick crosswords and sudoku are really great. But the app itself has a few bugs that really need fixing and other tweaks: 1) If you click about, there’s no way to get back to the main screen on iOS without hard closing the app and reopening. 2) the text input on the crossword is dodgy. If you press a key twice quickly, it registers on the keyboard, but doesn’t come up in the app. This is really annoying! I constantly struggle to type in words and input text 3) quite often if I leave the app for a bit it will lose all my Sudoku annotations. The crossword sometimes also deletes all my progress. Also quite annoying! In terms of tweak: Is it possible to also just add all the features to the crossword that exist online. E.g clear word. And the yellow and purple color scheme is a bit jarring, the online one is much nicer (and virtually perfect). Other kinds of puzzles would also be really great. From a Guardian supporter x

I used to use Crosswords, which is fine, but it lost its linkage to the free crosswords from the Independent, and I stopped my Telegraph subscription. I only need cryptic crosswords. So it’s great that I found the Guardian, which has endless cryptic crosswords of differing levels, and Sudoku as a bonus. The price is fine for a full year, and I’m happy to support the Guardian. Two minor bugs - the screen doesn’t rotate to landscape on my iPad Pro 12.9” (2018), and it always forgets one of my settings (skipping letters that are already filled in). But this is all that any cryptic crossword lover could want, in my opinion.

This is a really good sudoku app (I don’t do the crosswords) but it doesn’t work in landscape (mildly frustrating) - the main problem though is the cost. At £3.49 per month it costs close to 40 quid annually which, in my view, is a lot to pay for sudokus. So I’ve had to cancel it, unfortunately, as I am still looking for an app I prefer. If sudokus were included in the newspaper subscription it would be more cost effective, but that’s not the case...

As a long time sudokuer and budding cryptic solver this is a great little app. A really nice way to have the Everyman puzzles in your pocket to chip away at. The Everyman is difficult enough to be a challenge without being so difficult I can’t solve any clues! Also big thanks to the developers. An earlier version of this app kept forgetting hard solved sudoku pencil marks between sessions. Glad to report that this has now been fixed.

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The Guardian has an excellent online crossword page. The check and cheat are easy to use, not hidden behind another menu and they have a useful anagram helper feature. In comparison this app is really poor. The drop down menu is clumsy. There is no anagram feature, after you complete a clue it automatically spits you into the next one instead of letting you look at the answer and clue together. I don’t know why you would not base your app on a good online experience that you have already created and instead make something that is significantly worse. What a disappointment.