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Review 2.0: I've been playing this version of Sudoku for several months now, and I want to thank the app developers for providing a version of the game for the adults! No funny animals, no storybook themes, no frantic distractions! Just a great app with plenty of boards to challenge you. For the greatest variety of challenge levels and no ads to distract you, spring for the "pay-to-play" version. It does not disappoint. Every player, from the beginner to a master's level player, will find a grid to their liking. Enjoy enjoy! Review 3.0: As I said before! Simply, the best. Review 4.0: I’m doing “medium” level grids, and am enjoying the challenge. Keep up the good work! As I said before, simply, the best!

Undoubtedly the best version of sudoku available on iOS. Clean and fast interface, quality of life tools that can be toggled easily mid-game, easy to make notes, auto population of notes that update automatically as you play, wide range of difficulty level, statistics on play history. I love this app, and I recommend it to everyone that likes/is interested in sudoku. I wish dearly that they would also make other board sizes available (16x16, 4x4) but only because it’s such a drag to play other board sizes on other interfaces now that I’m used to this excellent app.

The game is well designed with one exception. When you fill in a number for a box as an answer, rather than a note of a possible solution for a box, it will automatically erase all conflicting notes on other boxes. So if I put “9,” for example in a box, it will automatically erase all other notes where 9 might be an answer in the same rows and columns. That is good! But it’s very easy to put down a number accidentally as an answer, when you only intend to list it as a note of possible answers. When you do that, and I promise you will accidentally do that more than once, a bunch of your notes on other boxes are automatically erased. If you don’t catch it right away, it will ruin that game.

I changed iPods recently because I lost the other one, and I waded through several other apps to find this one, the one I loved so much on the old iPod. This app has everything I need. And it isn't burdened with a lot of fancy schmancy graphics. Some app producers seem to think that if they make the letters or numbers move or fly through the air, they will have enhanced the experience and made it better or even unique. These guys only added those features, which you can turn off or on, that really help.

This is a very good basic Sudoku game. All the basics are there regarding self-checks, highlights, paint mode (number then grid), etc. It would be nice to see a solver/hint mechanism, but otherwise it’s very solid. The one ding would be for night mode. It’s good that it picks darker colors, but it lowers the overall board brightness to be much dimmer than the rest of the phone as well so it ends up unusable. That’s something I would do myself with the brightness slider, and it’s not appropriate for the game to do it too. The game should only go dark on dark colors with normal brightness and let the phone dim as necessary.