Real Kakuro™

I’ve been a fan of logic puzzles for most of my life, but I’d never heard of kakuro until recently. After trying it once I was an instant fan. Don’t let the math intimidate you: this is a direct relative of sudoku. Apart from the fairly simple sums, kakuro follows the same basic sudoku-style formula. You establish possibilities and then eliminate the impossibilities. This isn’t the only implementation of Kakuro out there, but it may be the best. Real Kakuro provides a beautiful, functional interface that doesn’t get in the way of the game itself. It offers optional guidance to completely eliminate the need to solve the addition problems, but this is easily disabled. In short, it’s simple, it’s fun, it’s great.

I am having a great deal of problems with the app since the last Apple IOS update. I have had a few issues with the two updates prior to this, but it is horrible this time. A majority of the time when I complete a puzzle it kicks me out of the app. When it doesn’t, it shows me the ad, then allows me to open a new puzzle, but will not let me play until it kicks me back out or I close it and open it back up. Finally, two times now, I have had it go to the ad then instead of closing it, get a black screen with the Google ad in the top inch and black screen for the rest and it does not do anything. I cannot play at all right now, even closing it down and going back in is not resetting it!!

I gave this five stars because it deserves it for what you get. There are so many puzzles, you will never run out. It doesn’t ask you for money. I guess there are ads, but they never bother me. I was doubtful they could be challenging enough while still being small enough to fit on the phone, but definitely some of them are. My one big wish: please please please give us an undo button! Sometimes I will discover a flaw in logic after I’ve already made a number of entries based on it. I need the ability to back up several moves because there’s no way to remember everything I need to correct.

If you like Kakuro, this is a great app to pick up. Each level has enough games in it to keep you busy for a long time. And if you do play a lot, you'll probably find the next level beckoning to you. And there's also the challenge of re-visiting problems you solved early on, to see if you can beat your old score. (Trust me, it will seem like you're playing it for the first time, again.) This is my first review, and I'm not getting anything for it. I just felt had to write it, and alert you Kakuro players about a great deal!

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This is a well written, well laid out, great game, five stars. Four stars off for the really intrusive push of ads and constant suggestions for other games of this shop, including timer which forces one to stare at it for a generous amount of time before it can be clicked away. It even downloads and starts to play commercial videos - from a data plan I pay for?! Also, no settings to regulate what it does? Game does not save scores when in airplane mode to prevent this kind of intrusions. I understand that the maker wants to make money, that's legitimate and not unreasonable. However, other game companies are much more reasonable in their use of ads, they are not pushing. If the game is good, I'll still buy it. In this case I'm so put off that I'll remove the game despite of it's appeal and won't install any other app from this maker again.