What features would you want to see in Pure Sudoku?

Hi Abel, The opponents’ numbers left is an excellent feature. I did have a notification that you had liked my daily score today, thank you. I then went looking to see if I could do it, but it must be in the next update. With a weekly league it would refresh at the end of the week and everyone would start from zero again. As for the whys and wherefores , I’m not sure, these are features from other apps that I play which I thought would work with your app. 🤷🏻‍♀️🤣

I’d let both players finish, but separate winning from completion. The first correct finish determines the winner; the other player can keep solving with a clear "race decided" banner and an optional end-now button. That preserves the value of completing the puzzle without making the winner wait for closure. The key is showing the result immediately so nobody thinks the race is still open.

I can’t select on iPad, but I can on iPhone

Yay! That will be really great. I love far from most I am close to and we like working on puzzles together.

Quick update — I checked the data and have now made some changes. Since Blitz was introduced on August 29, regular Race produced 10 matches: 7 Easy, 3 Medium, and no Hard or Expert. Blitz produced 59 matches during the same period. That is still a small sample, so it isn’t enough to make strong claims about completion or retention, but it does show that regular Race was offering very little difficulty variety. The previous regular Race split was: - 80% Easy - 15% Medium - 4% Hard - 1% Expert I’ve now changed it to: - 45% Easy - 35% Medium - 15% Hard - 5% Expert Blitz will remain the very easy, fast multiplayer option, with only 14 open cells. That gives regular Race more room to provide variety and a meaningful challenge without removing the accessible option. I also adjusted the Daily Challenge. Previously its ten-day rotation was 7 Easy, 2 Medium, 1 Hard, and no Expert. Its new twenty-day rotation is: - 10 Easy - 6 Medium - 3 Hard - 1 Expert That works out to 50% Easy, 30% Medium, 15% Hard, and 5% Expert. Expert will therefore appear about once every twenty days, adding some variety without making the daily streak routinely punishing. I still like the idea of factoring in completed games, win rate, or player rating later. First, I want to observe how this more balanced shared mix performs. If we add skill-aware difficulty afterward, it should be decided server-side using both players’ ratings, while continuing to give both players the exact same puzzle and avoiding additional matchmaking queues. Thanks for raising it — please let me know how the new balance feels! Hope you are enjoying the new puzzle look too

Thanks Abel — I really like this approach, and I appreciate you looking into it and making changes so quickly. The new split for regular Race sounds much better to me. I think having Blitz as the quick/easier option gives Race the freedom to offer a proper mixture of difficulties, rather than both modes effectively doing the same job. I also really like your idea of eventually taking a player’s rating, completed games and/or win rate into account. It seems a sensible way of giving stronger players more of a challenge without making things unnecessarily difficult for newer players, particularly if both people in the race still receive exactly the same puzzle. I’ll definitely give the new balance a good try and let you know how it feels. And yes — I do like the new puzzle look! 😊 Thanks again for taking the feedback on board.