Universal Good Sudoku by Zach Gage (by Zach Gage)

Thanks! I was thrilled lol. I’ve never been able to get this game.

 

Wow, makes sense. Thanks for replying. I appreciate your activity in forums and your awesome games!

 

i am hoping something can be done to reduce the heat and battery drain of this game. I enjoy it (and many others in your catalog) but my phone gets really hot and that’s after a few minutes of playing. I have last years iPhone so it should be able to handle this game.

 

Thanks for answering my feedback!

There was a weird naming war with Sudoku games and punctuation ten years ago, such that different games ended up with nearly the same names. I realized after I posted you’d probably find 5 of them with what I gave you.

The specific Sudoku+ game I had in mind is the one with the : ) smiley emoticon before the word, and the icon of The Thinker. Problem is if I typed the emoticon, it became the graphical one. It’s quite old (10 years, and looks it), but also has smart hints and a complete pattern tutorial that’s much uglier and less interactive than yours.

re: Game Center, it’s tied somehow to saving game sessions. Either publishers are getting an ID they can save against or there’s cookie storage in it or something, not sure which. I’m sure you’re way more familiar with the service than I am, for anything SDK—it’s a little more opaque from the consumer side.

If I keep it enabled, F2P timewasters like the Marvel and Star Wars gacha RPGs, even some premium games, won’t let me delete my save and start over. A new install will restore my currency and other persistent details from cloud instead. With it disabled, deleting the game and reinstalling gives me a new session.

I haven’t found a way to reset my GC data otherwise, so I just keep it disabled so I don’t have to think about it. Not the most noble reason, I know, but I like cheap freebies sometimes. Thing is it’s not that often that I play them, so I never remember the game when I come back. Not being able to start over feels like wearing someone else’s used shoes.

I’ll turn GC on occasionally and for short periods in order to play board games with my wife or similar focused uses. What stings here is what feels like unnecessary coupling of puzzle delivery to GC scoring that puts friction by making me flip the setting back and forth for dailies.

I bought nearly every premium Sudoku game in the App Store at one point a couple of years ago, trying to find a modern one I liked. Yours is better than any of them. I really hope you find a way to a daily “offline” mode so I can make the game a habit.

 

Yep, Expert is another level. But with all the tool and hints to teach you the ropes, you are in good hands. This is why I love the app even more. Keep up the good work.

 

Dowloaded but i am not sure if i want to unlock the full game before some things are solved. This game sucks the battery like crazy and the phone gets hot. 30% of the battery drained in 10' my god not even the most demanding games in my phone do that

 

I’ve been working on Good/Expert/Puzzle 1 and when I finally admitted I was stuck and asked for a hint, it said it was unsolvable.

So I restarted the puzzle and asked for another hint, and now it again says it is unsolvable WITHOUT ME ENTERING ANYTHING!



What the hell?

Great game otherwise, you know besides it serving up puzzles that it says are unsolvable and it can’t give hints for.

 

I’ve also noticed that when you save and quit a puzzle and go drill techniques and come back to the puzzle you just quit, that the score has changed.

 

Middle row, third grid, you can enter five there. Just for starters. Also second to last row you can enter something (7). Dont know about bug though

 

My immaterial hints of solving is basically:

1. Focus on each number and see if there is any single out in rows, columns and houses. If there is a single out, it is your number.
2. Find “pairs” and use the cross out the negatives.
3. Cross out and run focus again, as many as necessary
4. I would say feel free to use Hint, learn to spot the patterns, personally, I run the same puzzle again and again to learn to visualise the patterns.

This is a very good game by design, and it is addictive which I never realised before.

 

I encountered something similar to the unsolvable bug occurring when I did a few tutorials. I tried to do the “Xwing” technique practice and was presented with “Unsolvable” bug. I forgot to take a screenshot unfortunately.

 

Not sure if this is intentional, but if you leave the app for any reason, your undos are all gone. Which can be a pain when you don’t remember your last 2-10 moves, lol.

 

I’m having a very similar issue.