Classic Sudoku by Studio Goya LLC delivers a premium, brand-backed puzzle experience from Cracking The Cryptic. With 40 launch puzzles, 5 new levels each month for the first year (100 total), and expert hints, it combines rigorous play-testing with a star-based progression in a paid mobile Sudoku offering. It holds notable BOARD rankings in AU (#4), DE (#15), and SE (#18) and carries a 4.5 rating from 928 ratings, with 10,000+ total downloads and 270 in the last 30 days.
Pros & Cons
Brand-backed, expert-curated puzzles from Cracking The Cryptic
Rigorous play-testing ensures a solvablesolver journey
Regular content updates: 5 new levels each month (first year)
Hints provided by well-known puzzle hosts for guided learning
Paid app with a $4.99 price point, which may deter users seeking free alternatives
Relatively curated catalog (40 launch puzzles; 100 levels planned in year 1) compared to broader free sudoku libraries
No explicit free tier indicated in the data, potentially limiting exposure for casual players
About Classic Sudoku
Classic Sudoku is a board app developed by Studio Goya LLC.
Download Statistics
Classic Sudoku has been downloaded 43 thousand times. In the last 30 days, the app was downloaded 270 times.
User Ratings
Classic Sudoku is rated 4.48 out of 5 stars. The rating is based on 930 ratings.
App Information
Classic Sudoku costs $4.99 to download. The APK download size is 58.17 MB. The latest version available is 2.3.1. The last update was on December 7, 2025.
Technical Requirements
Classic Sudoku requires Android 4.4+ or higher. The app has a content rating of Everyone. The app has been available on Google Play November 2019.
Description
Presented by Cracking The Cryptic, the most popular Sudoku channel, this is the brand new “Classic Sudoku” game that their viewers have been requesting for the last two years!
Simon Anthony and Mark Goodliffe, the hosts of Cracking The Cryptic, have assembled a most extraordinary collection of sudoku puzzles. The sudokus in the game cover a wide range of difficulty with something for everyone - and also require an incredible range of techniques to solve them efficiently! Each of these special puzzles had to qualify for inclusion in the game by passing our rigorous play-testing - a test that NO other sudoku game on the market would pass. This play-testing ensures that a human being has actually thought about the journey you, the solver, will go on as you work through the puzzle. No computer testing here!
Indeed our more advanced puzzles have been carefully designed to showcase some of the diabolical techniques in an intuitive way with the aim of helping solvers UNDERSTAND the patterns involved.
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!
Featured authors include (obviously) Simon and Mark but also some other authors who have produced popular puzzles on the channel!
Mark and Simon have both represented the UK many times in 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: 40 beautiful puzzles on launch 5 new levels every month for the first year (a total of 100 levels!) Hints written by Mark and Simon!
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The best classic sudoku app that I have used. I like the highlighting of both numbered and noted cells, the ability to enter notes in multiple cells and ability to use center and corner notes. Plus some quite tricky puzzles.
★★★★★Michael Buck· Nov 8, 2023
I just finished puzzle #100. This is by far the best Sudoku app I've played. I didn't think I would notice a difference between handcrafted and computer generated puzzles, but after playing many different Sudoku apps I've found that this set of handcrafted puzzles are more fun, more challenging, and are also helpful with learning new techniques. I didn't really know how to solve harder Sudoku puzzles before this app. Now I've just completed puzzle #100 without hints.
★☆☆☆☆Ørnulv Bjertnes· Nov 6, 2024
I've fallen asleep while solving, only to wake up to the phone being dangerously warm, with the screen still on. (And battery drained.) While I see the usefulness of the game keeping the screen on while you're solving, a 30-minute timer to lock the screen would be nice, and safe. Great puzzles with almost all hints being correct.
★★☆☆☆Michael Peterson· Sep 19, 2025
Love the loaded games. But using the interface is NOT intuitive. Example: I turn on coloring the squares and fumble my way to actually coloring some of them. Hooray, right? Wrong. I swear there is absolutely no way to switch back out of coloring the squares! I've tried everything available on the interface, but no dice! WTH? And just you try to find any kind of tutorial on how to navigate this app. Hello? Instructions anyone? I really want to be able to use this thing but can't get help!
★☆☆☆☆AJ Klein· Aug 29, 2025
The latest update broke drag to select multiple squares. Also, the sudoku list flashes and does not load on Pixel 10 Pro XL when the display is set to Standard Resolution. It does show properly when set to Max Resolution.
★★☆☆☆adrian51gray· Apr 1, 2023
The new UI is terrible. Now all the numbers are tiny and there is wasted space on the screen meaning I keep missing the buttons. There are also icons and buttons with very unclear meaning. Much prefer the older UI!
Google Play Rankings for Classic Sudoku
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