Sudoku·Mate

Learn to solve sudoku puzzles!

Sudoku·Mate is an app that not only gives you endless sudoku puzzles to solve, it actually teaches you how to solve them.

Whether you’re new to sudoku puzzles or a seasoned solver, there’s something for you with Sudoku·Mate! This app can keep the best solvers challenged, but its real strength is taking you to the next level, wherever you’re starting from.

Sudoku·Mate not only gives you the puzzle, but it helps you learn how to solve it. Text hints direct you to the next step. Tapping on the hint text will give you more detail. Tapping one more time will display a lesson in how the strategy works. Sudoku·Mate covers common strategies hands-on, including:
* cross-hatching
* locked candidates
* x-wing
* skyscraper
* kite
* unique rectangles
* chains

And with three different user levels, each with three puzzle levels, Sudoku·Mate will keep you entertained and challenged for years to come!

Features include:
— All levels:
— Free version with ads, convertible to no ads with one-time in-app purchase
— Wifi not required (after in-app purchase)
— Instructions and lessons built-in (no wifi connections required)
— Unlimited games
— The ability to fill in starting pencil marks
— Coloring mode (also shows strong and weak links when pencil marks are used)
— Text hints lead you to next steps (but can be turned off)
— Daily puzzles allow you to play against friends, increases in difficulty as the week progresses
— Custom puzzles lets you enter puzzles you find and get help solving them
— Beginner level features:
— Reveal errors option shows errors immediately so you don’t get off track
— Undo to solvable allows you to automatically undo to a point the puzzle can solved
— Colored numbering to see what numbers are needed
— Higher level features:
— Auto fill pencil marks (fills in marks and updates them for changes automatically) so you can focus on strategies
— Auto pencil mark hints (points out naked and hidden singles) so you can focus on strategies

Works on iPad and iPhone.