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Developer Description
Handcrafted Killer Sudoku puzzles by the most popular Sudoku channel!
In Killer Sudoku, every puzzle features cages that tell you the sum of the numbers inside. This extra information leads to beautiful logic that you will master as you progress through our handmade puzzles. The puzzles in Killer Sudoku are created by Simon and Mark as well as a large number of guest creators. Fans of Cracking the Cryptic's channel will recognize many of these authors as some of the most talented creators working today!
As with our other games (‘Classic Sudoku’, ‘Sandwich Sudoku’, ‘Chess Sudoku’, 'Thermo Sudoku' and 'Miracle Sudoku'), Simon Anthony and Mark Goodliffe (the hosts of Cracking The Cryptic) have written all the hints for the puzzles. So you know that every puzzle has been play-tested by a human being to ensure that each sudoku is interesting and fun to solve.
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). Anyone familiar with their channel will know that Simon and Mark take pride in teaching viewers to be better solvers and, in these games, they always craft the puzzles with the mindset of trying to help solvers improve their skills.
Mark and Simon have both represented the UK many times at the World Sudoku Championship and you can find more of their puzzles (and lots of others) on the internet’s biggest sudoku channel Cracking The Cryptic.
Features:
100 beautiful puzzles
15 bonus beginner puzzles
Hints crafted by Simon and Mark!
What's New
Version Information
- Version
- -
- Downloads
- 10K+
- Updated on
- Dec 7, 2025
- Released
- Dec 11, 2020
- Requires
- Android Varies with device
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Killer Sudoku - Google Play Rankings
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#113 in Top Paid Puzzle in United States
#67 in Top Paid Puzzle in Germany
#141 in Top Paid Puzzle in Argentina
#141 in Top Paid Puzzle in Pakistan
Killer Sudoku users say on Google Play
I have all the Cracking The Cryptic collections, and this one is my favorite. I've gone back and solved all of the puzzles multiple times. (since this app came out, I've been authoring puzzles myself. Some mine are included in the newer "Line App" collection under the name HalfBakedLunatic)
It's hard. I'm not sure if it's too hard; the people getting this are likely to be more advanced players....but it's still very hard. Having watching a ton of CTC I feel I have a slight advantage, but once again, it's HARD! That does mean there's likely great value in this - the 5th puzzle took me an hour and 20 minutes. Point of for the immediate end screen. I want to see what I've just completed.
This app fails in the balance of fun and difficult, to go further, the Phistomefel puzzles are not fun. Because you have to unlock puzzles, there are points where you're stuck with a couple puzzles that feel like the setter is just trying to prove how much better at sudoku they are than you. Eventually I'll just start jamming in random numbers until the cell indicates it's correct, and finish the puzzle that way, just so I can hopefully move on to a fun one.
Even the supposedly easiest puzzles are way harder than the easiest puzzles in the other CTC apps and in this app the hints are even worse than in the other apps. If you get stuck, forget looking at the hints to help you out. Half the time they mention a wrong row or column number and most of the time there are steps in the logic that aren't easy to see that are completely skipped in the hints. All of the other apps are nice but I can't recommend this one for anyone who's new to killer sudoku.
Doesn't work in landscape mode on Samsung S6 Lite, the combinations box is overlaping the sudoku grid.