Big Bad Sudoku Book for iPhone and iPad

It’s been called the “Best Sudoku Game on ANY platform”. Sudoku Book is a magical sudoku puzzle book that comes alive beneath your fingertips and is an essential game for every iPhone or iPad.  It has been in the #1 spot as most download iPad app in 8 countries, and in the top 10 games in 56 countries. It’s been featured in What’s Hot, New and Noteworthy, Game Center Games, and is an iTunes Game Starter Kit app. And now version 2 has been updated with all the features that you requested: more puzzle types, better difficulty levels, a campaign mode, sound effects, and social gaming features where you can challenge friends over email or Facebook.  Originally created exclusively for the Apple iPad to have the look and feel of a physical ancient sudoku book, now the theme has been updated and it runs on all iOS devices from the iPod Touch and the original iPhone to the new iPhone 4.  (Supports iOS 3.1.3 – up)

See what some real customers had to say:

“If Apple made a sudoku game I think it would look like this” – Dytavio

“The whole look is perfect… This is the best sudoku interface of the five sudoku apps I have downloaded. I suspect the rest will be removed from my iPad” – GrayerBeard

It is absolutely the best way to play sudoku.

Awesome Features:

Game Center Support (Requires iOS 4.1 or higher). Now compare your score with everyone else’s.  Game Center keeps track of a score leader board and achievements.

Social Gaming feature offers competitive play. Share puzzles by sending them in emails, text messages, or by posting them on Facebook. Automatically finds puzzles that your Facebook friends have posted. Play their puzzles and try to beat their score.

Puzzle Scoring adds an arcade game feel to sudoku and provides a metric for challenges. Now there are two parts to the puzzle, how to solve it and how to get a higher score.

Difficulty Levels definitions provide games that are consistently Easy, Medium, Hard, Expert, or Insane. New puzzles can be chosen visually from either the random or pattern generator. All puzzled are guaranteed to be solvable without guessing, although harder puzzles require some advanced solving techniques.

Campaign Mode has 50 preset puzzles that span all 5 difficulty ratings. Play one to unlock the next one. See how high of a score you can get by completing all 50.

Game Options provide lots of playing flexibility. The iPad now has either the original Round “Pen” or a new square one. The iPhone has two “Pen” sizes, a single line small one or a larger two line version.

Marks Options allow you to copy the true marks to your marks so you can start reducing candidates.

Features:

Check out the iPhone User’s Guide: http://www.badweaselgames.com/sb/iPhoneHelp.php

and the iPad User’s Guide: http://www.badweaselgames.com/sb/iPadHelp.php

Version 2.x is a major upgrade:

• Version 1.0 was iPad only.  It is now universal – iPhone / iPhone4 / iPod Touch / iPad in one app!
• Buy one app and load it on all your devices
• Fully supports 4.0 and background multi-tasking on iPhone and iOS4
• Beautiful high resolution graphics for iPhone4′s retina display
• Runs on older generation iPhones using OS 3.1.3

• Added a better ‘new puzzle’ selector with visual selection of puzzles
• Created more clearly defined standard for difficulty ratings
• Added “Insane” puzzles
• Created all new puzzles with choice of random or pattern generation
• Added a Campaign Mode of 50 preset puzzles
• Added puzzle scoring for competitive play
• Added a puzzle timer
• Now keeps track of statistics
• Now with Sound Effects

Added Lots of Game Options:

• iPad Only: Added an option for a square or round ‘pen’
• iPhone Only: Added an option for large or small ‘pen’
• Sound Effects ON/OFF
• Score Display: ON During Play / On Display after puzzle completion
• Timer Display: ON During Play / OFF (shows after puzzle completion)
• Row/Column/Block Completion Sparkle:
• Always, When 1-9, Only When Correct

Added Marks Options:

• Reveal/Hide True Marks with Active Update
• Show/Hide My Marks
• Two Marks Styles to choose from
• Copy True Marks to My Marks
• Clear All My Marks
• Set All My Marks On

Added Profiles:

• 4 User Profiles
• Can be used to play up to 4 games at once or so different users can use the same device to each play different games.
• All 4 games are saved in progress when the game is turned off

Puzzle Sharing and a Incoming Puzzle Queue

• Save any puzzle to your queue for later play
• Email a puzzle to a friend for competitive play
• Send a puzzle to a friend via a text message
• Or post puzzle challenges on Facebook
• Completed puzzles can be shared to create puzzle challenges.
• Keeps track of how many challenges you’ve played and won.
• Automatically searches your Facebook feed and imports puzzle challenges your friends have posted.

Highlights are a revolutionary and Sudoku Book™-exclusive way to see and solve sudoku puzzles. With highlights you can softly highlight cells, rows, or columns with the gesture of a finger. They help focus your attention and narrow down possibilities. You can use highlights to temporarily mark positives or negatives.Swipe into a row or column to highlight the whole line

• Press and hold on an empty cell to highlight it’s row, column and block
• Swipe into a row to highlight the whole row, or swipe into a column to highlight the whole column.
• Press and hold on a number to highlight all occurrences of that number.
• Press and hold again to highlight all rows, columns and blocks for all of those occurrences.
• ‘Draw’ on the board to highlight cells.
• Tap outside the gameboard to clear all highlights.
• Rub on a previous answer to wipe it out and remove it (iPad Only)

Get Hint offers clues to help solve your puzzle without actually giving away the answer. It might direct you to a cell and tell you your answer is incorrect. Or it might highlight an empty cell and tell you that a ‘Single’ or a ‘Hidden Single’ can be found there.

• First level hint is to highlight an incorrect answer (in RED)
• Second level hint is to highlight an empty cell that is a ‘Single’ (in GREEN)
• Third level hint is to highlight an empty cell that is a ‘Hidden Single’ (in BLUE-TEAL)

Millions of puzzle combination in 5 difficulty levels and 2 puzzle types.
Numbers ‘draw’ on the board.
Quick Start jumps you back into the gameplay right where you left off.
‘Rub out’ an answer to clear it, but just like real paper a little smudge will be left behind.
Operates in all orientations (iPad Only).

Check it out on the iTunes app store:

Bug Fixes in 2.0:

• Fixed the occasional hang during launch
• Fixed the random flashing box after a win
• Fixed the incorrect difficulty label after a reload
• Improved the touch sensitivity on selecting cells and other gestures
• Fixed some minor animation problems
• Adding or removing a user mark now automatically turns on my marks.
• Now application loads faster

Bug Fixes in 2.1:

Bug Fixes in 2.1.1:

• Fixed crashing under iOS 3.1.3
• Fixed hanging/crashing about 10 seconds in (facebook check).
• Fixed crash when reporting 50th campaign score to game center.
• Fixed game center leader boards sort order.

Added in 2.2:

• Now supports background audio – listen to iPod music while playing the game
• Added Game Center Support for iPad