Astraware Sudoku
By Handmark, Inc.
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Description
Astraware Sudoku has earned a reputation as one of the best Sudoku games available for portable devices. It is easy-to-use and packed with unique features that will challenge even the most avid Sudoku players!
Astraware Sudoku includes these essential features:
Puzzle generator - creates an unlimited number of true Sudoku puzzles in the background whilst you play. It automatically creates more puzzles when you need them, so you never have to wait.
Puzzle of the Day - download the puzzle for your chosen difficulty from the Sudoku of the Day webserver each day and once you've completed it, submit your time to see how you compare to other players worldwide!
Enter your own - you can enter puzzles from magazines and newspapers and get help solving them.
Multiple difficulty levels - perfect for players of all abilities, Astraware Sudoku offers a simple, usable interface and puzzles at 5 levels of difficulty.
Assistance - includes many types of assistance including a Sudoku solver, manual and automatic pencilmarks, a smart hints system to give you helpful guidance without just showing you the solution, and hold-and-highlight for locating particular numbers or groups. Use these features to help you learn how to play Sudoku, improve your game and progress to higher difficulty levels!
Astraware Sudoku will automatically save on exit so you can return to your puzzle after. You can play your own music in the background with the game sounds on or off.
What's New in Version 1.23.002
Fixed issue with game not launching on OS 3.0 devices.
Changed icon in iTunes.
Customer Reviews
They ruined it!
This new version has many irritating new "features" that make the game less enjoyable, especially for those that try to achieve a good solution time. For one the animation is horrible and time consuming. Even though there is an option switch to turn it off it doesn't work. And now it asks for confirmation every time you want to auto-fill pencil marks. Its another time consuming button to push. We need a way to turn that off! And worst of all, even though I can still play the older, better version of the game, it will no longer post my times from that version.
Bottom line, this is a failed attempt at improvement. They made it worse not better. Give me the old version back!
Nothing New
Summary: Move along, nothing to see here.
-Notepad is a nice but empty feature.
-Basic features we have come to expect in a Sudoku game are noticeably missing.
-The price is very high considering how little the game offers.
-A clean and nicely done GUI doesn't justify the price.
-You are limited to portrait view. Landscape is unavailable.
My reasoning:
I have every Sudoku game available on the Ipad due to a night of strong pain killers and a tendency to text friends in my sleep. I purchased $210 of apps in my sleep one night and now I have every Sudoku title available on the Ipad in my library.
You can trust I keep my Ipad / Iphone locked away at night now, especially when taking medication.
I have tried them all, the better ones I played for quite awhile before making up my mind.
Ever since then I give every new Sudoku game a try if it looks promising. Based on the app information and screenshots I gave this one a shot.
Unfortunately it brings little new to the table.
-The GUI is nice and clean, entry is fairly straight forward.
-The notebook is something I liked but its very limited. It gives you a ghosted image of the game and a set of colored pens to allow you to make notes.
-pencil marks are what I would expect. but without the ability to isolate specific numbers or easily identify patterns, the notepad is pretty much useless.
Bottom line, the notepad is a nice idea thats not fully realized.
-I found the inability to use Landscape maddening. I didn't know there were any games left that didn't take advantage of landscape anymore.
There are some big things missing that I have come to expect as basic features for any Sudoku game. You can't highlight a number by itself to Isolate it from the chaos of a complicated puzzle.
Without that ability, identifying patterns is far too difficult. It isn't much different than doing a game in the paper.
The asking price is pretty high for a game thats so basic and featureless.
I keep going back to :) Sudoku + by Jason Linhart. Its the best out there in there in terms of teaching advanced methods and features. Give this one a pass and keep looking.
- $2.99
- Category: Games
- Updated: Apr 15, 2011
- Version: 1.23.002
- Size: 3.8 MB
- Languages: English, Bokmål, Norwegian, Danish, Dutch, Finnish, French, German, Italian, Portuguese, Spanish, Swedish
- Seller: Handmark, Inc.
- © 2008-2010 Astraware Limited
Requirements: Compatible with iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad.Requires iOS 3.0 or later
