Good Sudoku by Zach Gage Zach Gage You’ve never played Sudoku like this. Good Sudoku turns your iOS device into an AI powered Sudoku genius whose only mis… Free Buy Now Watch Media DetailsYou’ve never played Sudoku like this. Good Sudoku turns your iOS device into an AI powered Sudoku genius whose only mission is to help you learn and love this classic game. Whether you’ve never tried Sudoku, or you play every day, Good Sudoku’s elegant layout, intelligent hint system, and busywork reducing tweaks will help you play better and have more fun. - Over 70,000 of the highest quality puzzles you’ll see anywhere - Optional tools to reduce busywork - AI powered hint support to continuously boost your skills - 3 standard modes: Good, Arcade, and Eternal - 3 Daily puzzle modes that get harder throughout the week + global leaderboards - 5 levels of difficulty - Import your own puzzles from elsewhere in Custom mode (and share them with friends!) --- We put everything we could into making the best digital Sudoku game ever released: - We wrote a puzzle generator from scratch to create over 70,000 of the highest quality puzzles you’ll see anywhere. We spent weeks figuring out how to generate intricate and complex puzzles you won’t find in other Sudoku apps. Our hardest puzzles require wild techniques like “XYZ Wings”, “Hidden Quadrouples”, “Jellyfish”, and “Swordfish”. - Most people don’t know this but Sudoku puzzles are actually generated by programatic Sudoku solvers. The fastest way to know how hard your puzzle is, or if it’s valid, is to write a solver that knows all the strategies that can try it. With Good Sudoku, we run our solver as you are playing, so if you get stuck, it can detect what you know by looking at your answers and your notes, and then help you find the next technique you need to solve the puzzle. - Most Sudoku games classify difficulty into vague Easy, Medium, and Hard difficulties — But what do these difficulties mean? Typically they refer to the kinds of solving techniques that are required to solve a given puzzle without resorting to guess-and-check. In Good Sudoku we aren’t vague about it at all. We lay out exactly which techniques are required for each difficulty level. Good Sudoku allows you to practice them individually outside of puzzles, and keeps track of which ones you’ve learned! - When we first got interested in Sudoku we noticed that a lot of players spend most of their time looking at the board and counting. On easy puzzles, this counting serves as a way to increase the difficulty by making the puzzle take longer. We know some sudoku players love the counting but we found it a bit tedious and designed some tools to alleviate the busywork. At first these tools might feel a bit like cheating, but once your mind is freed up from counting you’ll have space to see the much deeper more fascinating side of Sudoku: all of the beautiful technique structures. Freed from the burden of busywork Sudoku becomes one of the best search-style games we’ve ever played. More fun than word-searches and solitaire, high-level Sudoku is a real treat — and with Good Sudoku and a little practice, anyone can learn it! - We noticed when looking at other Sudoku apps although there are often daily puzzle modes, those modes never include global leaderboards. Weird! Good Sudoku remedies this problem! - We wanted to make the best Sudoku out there, and while we’re proud of our puzzles, we recognize that puzzles come from all places. That’s why we built a quick and easy custom puzzle mode into Good Sudoku, so if you have a paper puzzle that you’re stuck on, or you’re trying some wild variant (Like the Miracle Sudoku!) it’s easy to put it into the game, play it, and share it with your friends. If the puzzle follows standard Sudoku rules, our hint system will even help you get unstuck! We truly hope Good Sudoku can introduce you to, or deepen your love for this great game. -Zach and Jack Information Seller:Zach Gage Genre:Puzzle, Strategy Release:Jul 22, 2020 Updated:Jul 13, 2021 Version:1.0.22 Size:176.7 MB TouchArcade Rating:Unrated User Rating:Unrated Your Rating:unrated Compatibility:HD Universal NurgleTWH likes this. stfj Well-Known Member Sep 18, 2009 227 39 28 Male #2 stfj, Jul 23, 2020 Hey y'all! My latest game, Good Sudoku, is out! There's some more info on the website at playgoodsudoku.com Jared wrote it up a bit here. I hope you enjoy it! Dan_MapleMana, solarnya and Lull4by like this. vectorarchitekt Well-Known Member Dec 29, 2013 2,489 177 63 #3 vectorarchitekt, Jul 23, 2020 I’ve always been terrible at math, and was horrible at sudoku but I’m eager to try this out. solarnya likes this. ShinHadoukin Well-Known Member Feb 20, 2015 964 139 43 #4 ShinHadoukin, Jul 23, 2020 Last edited: Jul 23, 2020 The Note Taking tutorial is “glitching out” for me. I tap to start gray note taking and I cannot get the numbers to go in the cell. This is the second time. I started over the tutorial after the same thing happened trying to cross out the 2’s in the cross-out part of the tutorial. ***3rd try I completed the tutorial*** Lull4by likes this. geoelectric Well-Known Member Apr 22, 2010 464 22 18 San Jose, CA #5 geoelectric, Jul 23, 2020 Last edited: Jul 23, 2020 I like it quite a bit. I miss sticky/paint mode (select a number and note type, if any, tap multiple cells one by one to apply) enough to lead with it here. Otherwise Good Sudoku distills out the best parts of the classic Sudoku+ app’s solving tools and rich hint/tutorial mechanism with much nicer graphics and a handful of strong strides forward in Sudoku tools. Using two types of notes is a nice advancement of the usual UI and really does work very well for marking unresolved pairs and other developing patterns. The tutorial would have you think they’re only for pointing pairs but a “highlight” color can be whatever you want it to be—very powerful. And the explicit crossout note is a great way to record a “no way it can be this number” conclusion that’s otherwise hard to represent unless you’re very confident your notes are complete. The crossout makes incremental note taking a much more viable way to solve even advanced puzzles. These are simple, intuitive features I’m really surprised I’ve never seen or even thought of after trying a *lot* of Sudoku apps. Focus mode with full feedback feels a little like cheating but gives you Sudoku pattern recognition superpowers. At the end of the day it’s just an inversion of auto-noting so I don’t feel too guilty, though it does feel extra cheaty without auto-notes being on as well. I like being able to solve just the interesting stuff, so features that quickly expose the easy patterns and auto solve obvious singles are great for a fast forward. It can all be turned off. A few legit gripes: It’d be nice if I could simultaneously have brighter notes and dimmer numbers in night mode. It’s hard to find a brightness where 25% gray-on-black notes are legible and white-on-black numbers are comfortable. Perhaps themes could change the numbers and gray note colors too, or there could be a low contrast option. A minor and possibly invalid gripe is that the scoring system doesn’t appear to care much which solving tools I use. That means to stay at all competitive I have to use them all, even if they do feel a little too easy sometimes. I may be missing how the Difficulty multiplier works, though. It seems based on puzzle content, such as number of raw singles or simple pairs, rather than enabled assists. It’s also entirely possible the game is really meant to be played with full solving assist on so that the focus stays on the more complex patterns in its puzzles, and that weighing it like a general Sudoku app isn’t fair. The other gripe is the hard reliance on being logged into Game Center to even play the Daily. I won’t do it, and am missing out because of that. Too many games don’t let me start over if they can track the GC ID, and it has almost no personal benefit, so I stay logged out nowadays. Slay the Spire and any number of other games still let me play dailies—I just can’t get on the leaderboard. And so it should be here too. I’m kind of annoyed that I paid for the IAP before discovering one of the few additive parts over Sudoku+ was service-walled unnecessarily. It’s a big chunk of the game’s appeal. solarnya Well-Known Member Jul 22, 2015 902 284 63 Male Close to Tokyo, Japan #6 solarnya, Jul 23, 2020 I bought it, and I like it a lot. I'm on tutorial and this app gives me unsolveable examples many times.(on Locked Candidate at least) Othereise, very impressive Sudoku app for me in my life ever. bacon-N-eggs Well-Known Member Mar 17, 2012 265 4 18 #7 bacon-N-eggs, Jul 23, 2020 Same thing happens to me, I thought I was just not doing something right stfj Well-Known Member Sep 18, 2009 227 39 28 Male #8 stfj, Jul 23, 2020 bacon-N-eggs, solarnya: There is a bug in the first page of sudoku techniques we're working on a solution now! Sorry about those unsolvables. geoelectric: Thanks for the detailed feedback! I was actually totally unaware of Sudoku+ and I'm kind of shocked I didn't come across it when looking for Sudoku games. Not having access to multiple note types was the original thing that drove me to want to make this. To your other feedback: Night Colors: I'll look into this. It was outrageously challenging to get the night colors designed for this game because so much information is being communicated and it has to be so well organized and both visible when you need it and ignorable when you dont (in the case of grey notes) Tools: The puzzle books are only for you on your local device, so you should pick the tools you enjoy, you're only competing against yourself. The dailies have three modes, Arcade and Good with all the tools on, and Classic with all the tools off. We did this to try to address the thing you're bringing up here- if you're competitive you want to have a level playing ground Game Center: I have noticed some people strongly will not log into game center. Unfortunately this wasn't something I had anticipated when I built my tools for doing dailies. Can you explain what it is about logging into game center that you dislike so much? I have to admit it is always confusing to me. geoelectric likes this. DonnyDJ76 Well-Known Member Nov 1, 2011 1,793 55 48 Male Teacher Hackensack, NJ #9 DonnyDJ76, Jul 23, 2020 After unlocking the full game, Game Center became active. Have never seen that one before. I received 2 achievements, but, there is no Game Center button within game to access either the leaderboards or achievements. There are leaderboards, but they only appear accessible if you go onto an iOS device that is 9.3.5 and below. A few bells and whistles can be added, (it’s Sudoku, but still). Don’t regret my purchase at all. Just hoping all is fixed in the above posts. stfj Well-Known Member Sep 18, 2009 227 39 28 Male #10 stfj, Jul 23, 2020 DonnyDJ76: Ah right i guess the only access is through the statistics page which is locked until you buy the game. Ill look into a fix for this. chengchisang Well-Known Member May 25, 2018 119 31 28 #11 chengchisang, Jul 23, 2020 Can't stop playing first 15 Advanced puzzles straight. Great game! Unlock immediately. Once you learn the tools available, it becomes an exercise of pattern recognition. May not be the true intention but I am having fun. Who cares. Tango Well-Known Member Sep 11, 2010 455 0 16 #12 Tango, Jul 23, 2020 Liking the game a lot. Notice it is a pretty big battery drain on my iPad Pro. Lost 6% in 20 minutes. Screen brightness at about 30%. Not sure if this is to be expected. stfj Well-Known Member Sep 18, 2009 227 39 28 Male #13 stfj, Jul 23, 2020 Def below expert it is like this, but it's also fun! Above expert the pattern recognition continues but it's much much harder, which is what I love the most about Sudoku! chengchisang likes this. stfj Well-Known Member Sep 18, 2009 227 39 28 Male #14 stfj, Jul 23, 2020 This is a unity thing frustratingly :/ Boardumb Administrator Staff Member Patreon Silver Patreon Gold Apr 14, 2009 8,950 850 113 THE BOSS Sacramento, CA #15 Boardumb, Jul 23, 2020 I believe in Geo's case the problem is how game saves can be tied to Game Center and can't be erased, so if you ever wanted to wipe your progress and start over you can't because it will always load your existing progress from GC. geoelectric likes this. ColeDaddy Silver Supporter<br>Moderator Staff Member Patreon Silver Patreon Gold Patreon Bronze Mar 20, 2010 4,226 130 63 Male Sojourner Washington D.C. #16 ColeDaddy, Jul 23, 2020 I'll wait for the fixes before plunking down my shekels vectorarchitekt Well-Known Member Dec 29, 2013 2,489 177 63 #17 vectorarchitekt, Jul 24, 2020 Ok, I must admit that while I’m too stupid for normal Sudoku, having the auto-note feature is a game changer. I am so proud of myself for beating all 3 dailies yesterday even if it took me like 15 tries on the classic and with only 27,000 points because I was so negative. stfj Well-Known Member Sep 18, 2009 227 39 28 Male #18 stfj, Jul 24, 2020 i dunno if you did it with auto-note I don't think you're too stupid All auto-note does is fill in the notes you could fill in yourself if you wanted to spend your time looking and squares and counting So congrats! bruab Well-Known Member Mar 12, 2010 179 1 18 #19 bruab, Jul 24, 2020 I always liked sudoku, but the note-taking was a chore. With auto-note and the other enhancements I became instantly addicted! I bought the game and played for like 5 hours yesterday. I can't figure out how to see the Game Center achievements though. ShinHadoukin Well-Known Member Feb 20, 2015 964 139 43 #20 ShinHadoukin, Jul 24, 2020 Any thoughts in a friends list within the game? Compare scores with that list. 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Hey y'all! My latest game, Good Sudoku, is out! There's some more info on the website at playgoodsudoku.com Jared wrote it up a bit here. I hope you enjoy it!
The Note Taking tutorial is “glitching out” for me. I tap to start gray note taking and I cannot get the numbers to go in the cell. This is the second time. I started over the tutorial after the same thing happened trying to cross out the 2’s in the cross-out part of the tutorial. ***3rd try I completed the tutorial***
I like it quite a bit. I miss sticky/paint mode (select a number and note type, if any, tap multiple cells one by one to apply) enough to lead with it here. Otherwise Good Sudoku distills out the best parts of the classic Sudoku+ app’s solving tools and rich hint/tutorial mechanism with much nicer graphics and a handful of strong strides forward in Sudoku tools. Using two types of notes is a nice advancement of the usual UI and really does work very well for marking unresolved pairs and other developing patterns. The tutorial would have you think they’re only for pointing pairs but a “highlight” color can be whatever you want it to be—very powerful. And the explicit crossout note is a great way to record a “no way it can be this number” conclusion that’s otherwise hard to represent unless you’re very confident your notes are complete. The crossout makes incremental note taking a much more viable way to solve even advanced puzzles. These are simple, intuitive features I’m really surprised I’ve never seen or even thought of after trying a *lot* of Sudoku apps. Focus mode with full feedback feels a little like cheating but gives you Sudoku pattern recognition superpowers. At the end of the day it’s just an inversion of auto-noting so I don’t feel too guilty, though it does feel extra cheaty without auto-notes being on as well. I like being able to solve just the interesting stuff, so features that quickly expose the easy patterns and auto solve obvious singles are great for a fast forward. It can all be turned off. A few legit gripes: It’d be nice if I could simultaneously have brighter notes and dimmer numbers in night mode. It’s hard to find a brightness where 25% gray-on-black notes are legible and white-on-black numbers are comfortable. Perhaps themes could change the numbers and gray note colors too, or there could be a low contrast option. A minor and possibly invalid gripe is that the scoring system doesn’t appear to care much which solving tools I use. That means to stay at all competitive I have to use them all, even if they do feel a little too easy sometimes. I may be missing how the Difficulty multiplier works, though. It seems based on puzzle content, such as number of raw singles or simple pairs, rather than enabled assists. It’s also entirely possible the game is really meant to be played with full solving assist on so that the focus stays on the more complex patterns in its puzzles, and that weighing it like a general Sudoku app isn’t fair. The other gripe is the hard reliance on being logged into Game Center to even play the Daily. I won’t do it, and am missing out because of that. Too many games don’t let me start over if they can track the GC ID, and it has almost no personal benefit, so I stay logged out nowadays. Slay the Spire and any number of other games still let me play dailies—I just can’t get on the leaderboard. And so it should be here too. I’m kind of annoyed that I paid for the IAP before discovering one of the few additive parts over Sudoku+ was service-walled unnecessarily. It’s a big chunk of the game’s appeal.
I bought it, and I like it a lot. I'm on tutorial and this app gives me unsolveable examples many times.(on Locked Candidate at least) Othereise, very impressive Sudoku app for me in my life ever.
bacon-N-eggs, solarnya: There is a bug in the first page of sudoku techniques we're working on a solution now! Sorry about those unsolvables. geoelectric: Thanks for the detailed feedback! I was actually totally unaware of Sudoku+ and I'm kind of shocked I didn't come across it when looking for Sudoku games. Not having access to multiple note types was the original thing that drove me to want to make this. To your other feedback: Night Colors: I'll look into this. It was outrageously challenging to get the night colors designed for this game because so much information is being communicated and it has to be so well organized and both visible when you need it and ignorable when you dont (in the case of grey notes) Tools: The puzzle books are only for you on your local device, so you should pick the tools you enjoy, you're only competing against yourself. The dailies have three modes, Arcade and Good with all the tools on, and Classic with all the tools off. We did this to try to address the thing you're bringing up here- if you're competitive you want to have a level playing ground Game Center: I have noticed some people strongly will not log into game center. Unfortunately this wasn't something I had anticipated when I built my tools for doing dailies. Can you explain what it is about logging into game center that you dislike so much? I have to admit it is always confusing to me.
After unlocking the full game, Game Center became active. Have never seen that one before. I received 2 achievements, but, there is no Game Center button within game to access either the leaderboards or achievements. There are leaderboards, but they only appear accessible if you go onto an iOS device that is 9.3.5 and below. A few bells and whistles can be added, (it’s Sudoku, but still). Don’t regret my purchase at all. Just hoping all is fixed in the above posts.
DonnyDJ76: Ah right i guess the only access is through the statistics page which is locked until you buy the game. Ill look into a fix for this.
Can't stop playing first 15 Advanced puzzles straight. Great game! Unlock immediately. Once you learn the tools available, it becomes an exercise of pattern recognition. May not be the true intention but I am having fun. Who cares.
Liking the game a lot. Notice it is a pretty big battery drain on my iPad Pro. Lost 6% in 20 minutes. Screen brightness at about 30%. Not sure if this is to be expected.
Def below expert it is like this, but it's also fun! Above expert the pattern recognition continues but it's much much harder, which is what I love the most about Sudoku!
I believe in Geo's case the problem is how game saves can be tied to Game Center and can't be erased, so if you ever wanted to wipe your progress and start over you can't because it will always load your existing progress from GC.
Ok, I must admit that while I’m too stupid for normal Sudoku, having the auto-note feature is a game changer. I am so proud of myself for beating all 3 dailies yesterday even if it took me like 15 tries on the classic and with only 27,000 points because I was so negative.
i dunno if you did it with auto-note I don't think you're too stupid All auto-note does is fill in the notes you could fill in yourself if you wanted to spend your time looking and squares and counting So congrats!
I always liked sudoku, but the note-taking was a chore. With auto-note and the other enhancements I became instantly addicted! I bought the game and played for like 5 hours yesterday. I can't figure out how to see the Game Center achievements though.
Any thoughts in a friends list within the game? Compare scores with that list. I know you can have friends in game center, but I still prefer in the game. I text the image of my scores in spelltower+ to my mother-in-law & thought, “I would love a friends list.”