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Muzukashii

Focused Sudoku

難しい · Muzukashii · "difficult"

Sudoku, but you only see one ninth at a time.

A standard nine-by-nine board hides behind the screen. Only the three-by-three you're working on is visible — the rest live in your head. Swipe between boxes, or tap the mini-map to wander.

  • Daily Challenge
  • Game Center
  • iCloud sync
  • Zen mode
The Muzukashii main menu.

A look inside

The Muzukashii main menu.
Main menu
A single three-by-three box visible, the rest of the board hidden.
One box at a time
The Daily Challenge calendar tracking a streak.
Daily Challenge
The win screen after a completed puzzle.
Solve

What's inside

Built with care, down to the details.

  • Three difficulties

    Ichi, Ni, San. Pick your tier and pick up exactly where you left off.

  • Daily Challenge

    One puzzle a day, the same for everyone. A calendar tracks your streak.

  • Zen mode

    No timer, no record — just the board and the leaves.

  • Pencil notes

    Scratch candidates into a cell; placing a digit clears its peers.

  • Conflict arrows

    The board you can't see still talks back — a red arrow points to a duplicate hidden in another box.

  • Koyo atmosphere

    Washi paper, Sumi ink, soft ambient music and a page-flip on every region change.

About Muzukashii

Muzukashii — Japanese for “difficult” — is a minimalist Sudoku that hides most of the board. You see only the three-by-three box you’re working on; the rest of the nine-by-nine lives in your head. Swipe between boxes or tap the mini-map to move around, and let the board you can’t see talk back through quiet conflict arrows when a digit clashes with one hidden elsewhere.

It’s wrapped in a Koyo (autumn-leaf) atmosphere — washi paper, Sumi ink, soft ambient music, and a page-flip on every region change. Play three difficulties, chase the Daily Challenge with a streak calendar, climb Game Center leaderboards, or drop into a timer-free Zen mode.

A single, optional Supporter Edition tip unlocks a few cosmetic extras, but the whole game — every puzzle, the Daily Challenge, Game Center and iCloud sync — is fully playable for free.

♥ Supporter Edition

A single one-time tip.

The app stays fully playable without it — nothing behind the gate is required to solve a puzzle. Adds dark mode, an alternate app icon, a custom splash and a supporter badge, with more to come at no extra cost.

iPhone · iPad · Mac · Vision · Puzzle Game