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Four colours, four hollows, one sweet in each row.

EasyShidoku is sudoku on a 4×4 grid — the whole rule, none of the bookkeeping. Colour carries each number, so a five-year-old can finish a board before they can read one, and chapter six leaves you four clues and a single way in.

iPhone and iPad, iOS 17 or later

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Tap a square, then a colour. Or drag one across.
10 squares left

The colour is the number

One is pink, two apricot, three mint, four sky — on the icon, on the board, on the tray. The hue never moves. For a beginner that means matching comes first and reading follows; for everyone else it means a board you can read at a glance on a moving train.

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apricot
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mint
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sky

Drag it, or tap twice

Carry a sweet to its hollow, or tap the sweet and then the square. Small hands get to pick the way that works.

Mistakes wait for you

The first chapters mark a wrong sweet the moment it lands. From chapter three they hold it back until the board is full — checking your own work is the part worth learning.

Clues look the same

The sweets already on the board sit a little lower in the tray. Same sweet, same colour — just one that will not move.

It starts with one square

Discovery is a single box of four with one empty hollow: the only rule is that each colour appears once. Practice widens the board so rows start to matter. From Bronze on it is a real 4×4 — and Master leaves you four clues and one way in.

150 levels in all, three stars each. Stars open the chapters ahead —Bronze at 45, Master at 288 — and anyone stuck on one level can earn them somewhere else.

Every chapter is reachable without paying
  1. Discovery2×2 board

    each symbol appears once

    10
  2. Practice2×4 board

    and once in each row

    20
  3. Bronze4×4 board

    nine or ten squares filled in

    30
  4. Silver4×4 board

    seven or eight

    30
  5. Gold4×4 board

    five or six

    30
  6. Master4×4 board

    four or five, one way in

    30

Good to know

No account, ever

Nothing to sign up for and nothing to type. Progress lives on the device.

Game Center

Optional. Stars travel between your devices, and the daily puzzle has a leaderboard.

Light, dark, or neither

The board follows the device by default, and can be pinned either way in Settings.

Built for both

On iPad the board keeps to a column within reach rather than running to the edges.

Eleven languages

German, Spanish, French, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Dutch, Vietnamese, Chinese and English.

Ads, and a way out of them

The game is free with small ads. $1.99 removes them and opens every level at once.

The free version shows ads served by a third-party network, which reads a device advertising identifier. What that covers, and what it does not, is written out on the privacy page.

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Start at chapter one. See where you stop.

Coming soon to the App StoreiPhone and iPad, iOS 17 or later