Sudoku Unbound #1 Review – Review Introduction
This is a review of Sudoku Unbound #1 – a logic puzzle game for Kindle by Puzzazz. It is available for $2.99 in the Amazon store and was released in January 2011. It is rated 5 stars on 32 customer reviews.
The company has also released Sudoku Unbound #2 in August 2011. This is also rated 5 stars and sells for $2.99.
Available on the following Kindle versions as of 11/13/2011: Kindle Keyboard (formerly Kindle 3), Kindle DX, Kindle 2nd Generation.
Sudoku Unbound #1 Review – Main Takeaways
Sudoku Unbound #1 is another version of Sudoku for the Kindle. 100 puzzles are contained in the app and three difficulty levels of Easy, Medium and Hard. (You can consider it 300 puzzles if you do the same puzzles on different difficulty levels).
Other options available are to Hide pages for completed puzzles and to choose between using the top row of the keyboard (for Kindle 3) for numbers or the left three rows and columns.
Typical with most Sudoku games, you can take notes (fill in numbers) or use the ‘Fill in All Notes’ option, use the Back button to undo a move or the menu options to Remove One Mistake or Remove All Mistakes.
There is also a hint option available for clearing mistakes. In my opinion – Sudoku on a Kindle is great at any price.
Sudoku Unbound #1 Review – Conclusion and Overall Rating
I would give my Sudoku Unbound #1 review 4.5 stars. It is a good version on the Kindle. I take away .5 stars because I think their ‘Easy’ version is a little tougher than it should be for beginning players.
Filed under: Kindle Game Review
Thanks for the review of our Sudoku Unbound ActiveBook titles. It’s always good to get feedback.
We calibrated our definition of “Easy” against the most popular Sudoku books you can find in bookstores and on Amazon. We acknowledge that they’re harder than the Easy puzzles in apps that generate random puzzles, but that’s largely because those apps are incapable of generating hard puzzles, so they have skewed their ratings a bit — frequently defining Easy vs. Hard solely on the number of givens rather than the techniques needed to solve the puzzle. When naming our difficulty levels, we had to pick between matching existing books or the random apps. We chose the former because we think it’s both a better scale and the one that will last.
You might want to check out Snap Sudoku, an ebook of Beginner puzzles. These puzzles line up in difficulty with the Easy puzzles in random apps, but still have the elegance and enjoyment level of our carefully crafted puzzles.
Roy Leban
Puzzazz
If someone were looking for “easier” Sudoku – for beginners – try Puzzazz’s Snap Sudoku, which is available for only $0.99 and uses the same great Puzzazz interface.
God, I feel like I shuold be takin notes! Great work