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Cracking the Cryptic APK

Latest Version 1.2.22 for Windows
Updated 2025-02-15

Game information

Version 1.2.22 (#54)

Updated 2025-02-15

APK Size 62.8 MB

Requires Android Android 5.1+ (Lollipop)

Offered by Studio Goya LLC

Category Free Puzzle Game

Game id com.StudioGoya.CrackingTheCryptic

Developer's notes Curated Sudoku puzzles

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Latest updates

What's new in Cracking the Cryptic 1.2.22

Fog pack puzzle #40 fix

Editor's review

Download the latest Cracking the Cryptic application, version 1.2.22, compatible with Windows 10/11 (using emulators such as Bluestacks), Android devices. This free Puzzle app is developed by Studio Goya LLC and is easy to download and install.

Previous versions, including 1.2.22, 1.2.12, are also available. If you need help or have any problems, please let us know.

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 the 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.

Game permissions

Cracking the Cryptic 1.2.22 APK requires following permissions:

Allows applications to open network sockets.

Allows applications to access information about networks.

Ratings and Reviews

Rating: 4.1/5 based on 8+ reviews

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3 ★ App may be great but it's not free, as I thought.

4 ★ Very nice collections of fun variant Sudokus. Just a few annoyances that prevent it from being 5 stars: No way to autofill cells with candidates; you have to select them all, click 1-9, and then eliminate conflicts. Placing a number in a blank cell eliminates conflicts, but givens don't. Harder puzzles are locked until you solve enough easier ones. As someone who already plays medium to hard variants, the easier ones can be tedious (see also above issue with autofill). Battery usage. No more chr

2 ★ Hints are very unintuitive and sometimes contain errors

5 ★ Absolute best sudoku app on the market. Whenever I have someone around me making a sudoku thats probably computer generated I'll try and pursuade them to try a hand made puzzle, they'll scoot it off at first, but after trying their mind is always blown. These puzzles are just so more fun to make, and challenge your brain in incredible ways. Also the software is intuitive and pleasant. The only improvement needed is that the tablet app is very slow in the menu, while puzzling it's normal.

3 ★ Definitely needs some polish. The hint system really needs some work and fleshing out. The hints feel disjointed and hard to track out onto the puzzle itself. "Smart" hints will state where a naked single is while the puzzle doesn't show how said cell is a naked single yet.

Previous versions

Cracking the Cryptic 1.2.22 APK for Windows (#54, 62.8 MB)

Cracking the Cryptic 1.2.12 APK for Windows (#41, 61.6 MB)