Sudoku Times - Number Puzzle

Welcome to Sudoku Times, the ultimate brain-teasing puzzle experience!

Infinite Joy Ltd.
Google Play rating4.7★2.2K ratings
PriceFreeListed price
Age4+Store age rating
CategoryGames

What we found

Full report

Some warnings 12 users report an aggressive ad load. Nothing confirmed. Checked: 219 reviews, the store listing and the privacy label.

Money

  • Free to download.

Ads

From our automated analysis, 26 Oct 2026. Every label links to its evidence in the full report below.

This analysis describes version 2.5.0 of the app, analyzed 2026-10-26 .

The store currently lists version 2.5.0, updated 2026-05-15.

Preview

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Store screenshots supplied by the developer.

About this app

Welcome to Sudoku Times, the ultimate brain-teasing puzzle experience! Dive into our beautifully crafted game, designed to cater to both beginners and Sudoku veterans. Whether you're looking to kill time or engage in a serious number-crunching session, Sudoku Times is your go-to choice. Available on many devices, play anytime, anywhere, even without Wi-Fi!

🌟 Features

- Multiple Difficulty Levels: Choose from Easy, Medium, Hard, Expert or Master. Perfect for gradually improving your puzzle-solving skills or pushing them to the limits!

- Customizable Gameplay: Enjoy our user-friendly interface with features like Dark Mode for night-time play and larger numbers for easy visibility.…

From the developer’s store description.

For developers and the curious

The full report

The evidence, sources, measurements and versions behind every label above.

Findings and evidence

0 published · 1 shown, not confirmed

One source only — shown, not confirmed 1

Open observations that have not cleared the evidence bar.

Aggressive ad load

One source only

Aggressive ad load: raised by 12 distinct reviewers (about 1 in 18 reviews we read)

Sources
User reviews
Agreement
Only one kind of source so far. Shown, not counted.
Where measured
From Google Play reviews

This observation has not cleared the required evidence standard.

Definition

Advertising volume or placement that interrupts normal use: ads between every action, unskippable or forced full-screen ads.

Open evidence
How we know
Share and sample
5.5% of the 219 reviews read.

Nothing was published as a thing to watch for in this assessment. That is not a finding that nothing is wrong with the app.

What reviewers report

219 reviews read · 1 review-based observation

219 reviews read for this analysis. Each observation keeps the sample and store it was based on.

Aggressive ad load

Shown, not confirmed

Way. Too. Many. Ads. Holy hell, batman. So many unskipable ads. Pause the game? 3 ads before you can resume, even if you only paused for 30 seconds. Ads before the game. Ads after the game ends. Feel like I downloaded a 90s infomercial…

2★ · Google Play · 2024-10-31

I like this game but the adverts are off putting. An ad when you finish a puzzle and an ad before you start the next one. Some ads are over 60 seconds and cannot be skipped. Would give 5 stars but can't get past the ads so 3

3★ · Google Play · 2025-02-04

Forced ads are full ads not pop ups, I understand having them, but forced ads should be no more than 5 to 8 seconds not 15 or more, delete game

1★ · Google Play · 2024-09-22

A sampled review illustrates one person’s experience. It does not establish a finding on its own.

Measurements

5 measured · 3 not assessed

“Not assessed” means we could not measure it. It is never a zero and never a pass.

From store data and reviews

Developer replies to reviews
Replies to at least 1 review in 20
Price in the store description
The store description doesn’t list prices (most don’t)
Cancelling, in the store description
The store description doesn’t say how to cancel (most don’t)
Themes reported by reviewers
1 theme reported
Counted from the reviews we have read for this app. "No theme reported" means no theme reached our reporting threshold — it is not a finding that nothing is wrong with this app, and we do not say it is.
Five-star share of ratings
80–89% five-star
Arithmetic on the stores' own published rating counts. It says nothing about why the ratings fall where they do.

In the app package we scanned

No package has been scanned for this app, so nothing is published about what it ships. That is an absence of evidence, not a finding.

Sensitive permissions
Not assessed
No package has been scanned for this app
Analytics or tracking SDKs in the scanned package
Not assessed
No package has been scanned for this app
Advertising SDKs in the scanned package
Not assessed
No package has been scanned for this app
How we know

Supporting measurements: not a complete list of possible harms or positives. Measurement vocabulary 1.4 · how these are measured

Versions and dates analysed

Assessed 26 Oct 2026

This analysis describes version 2.5.0 of the app, analyzed 2026-10-26 .

The store currently lists version 2.5.0, updated 2026-05-15.

Store update history

Each store’s release notes, as the developer wrote them. They are the developer’s words, not ours.

Google Play

Version 2.5.0 · 2026-05-15

No release notes were provided for this version.

Assessment record

Status
Automated analysis
App identifier
sudoku-times
Assessment date
26 Oct 2026
Sources used
3 independent signals: user reviews, the store listing and the store privacy disclosure
Reviews read
219
Package examined
No package scan
Human inspection
Not completed

Assessed 2026-10-26 from 219 user reviews, the store listing and its privacy label. We have not scanned the app's package, so nothing on this page was read from inside the app itself.

How we know
Measurement vocabulary
1.4

How this page was produced

Analyzed 2026-10-26 Version analyzed: 2.5.03 independent signals219 reviews scannedConfidence: HighNot human-reviewedVocabulary v1.13Methodology v1.3
Signals run: user reviews, the store listing and the store privacy disclosure. Not yet checked: SDKs in the app package, the app's own on-screen text and the app manifest.

Store facts

Google Play

What the stores publish. Store ratings are the stores’ numbers, not Appworthy’s, and are never averaged across stores.

Google Play

Store rating
4.73 ★ · 2,229 ratings
Version
2.5.0
Updated
15 May 2026
Price
Free
Age rating
4+
Size
Not supplied
Open in Google Play
Developer
Infinite Joy Ltd.
Category
Games
Listing price
Free

No itemized purchase list is available for this listing.

Method and limits

What this report can and cannot show

How the automated analysis works

This assessment is produced automatically. Three independent signals are read — user reviews, the store listing and the store privacy disclosure — and each candidate finding is filed under the sources that support it.

No charge stands on one kind of evidence — with one published exception. A finding is either a measured fact that anyone can reproduce (an ad SDK is in the package; every subscription bills weekly; the privacy label omits a tracker we can see), or it is an interpretation — and an interpretation needs independent sources to agree before it reaches the catch list. The exception is a harm only users can see: a charge may publish from reviews alone, as “Reported by N users”, once enough reviewers raise it to clear that charge’s own published bar. That agreement rule is what replaced the human reviewer, not a model’s confidence.

There is no overall score, on purpose. A 0–99 number was published here until 2026-09-15. It was withdrawn because it discriminated too weakly to be the instrument — 44.7% of every pair of apps tied — and because a single number is a verdict where a count is an observation. What publishes instead is a row of measurements, each of which says what was counted and, where we could not look, says that instead.

Findings under One source only are real reports we do not stand behind as findings. They are shown because withholding them entirely would hide a genuine complaint, and labelled because publishing them as charges would be an accusation off a single source.

Limits of this report

  • A package scan is static. It identifies code and text in one Android build. It does not measure a live ad session, test a deletion request, or count the steps needed to cancel.
  • Reviews keep their sample. A review-only charge shows distinct reviewers, the share and the sample size, and is published only once it clears that label’s published threshold. Calibration labels are machine-drafted and not yet confirmed by a person.
  • Not assessed is a state. It is never a zero and never a pass.
  • A missing label is not a clean bill of health. It means the evidence did not support one, not that the app is problem-free.
Not yet human-reviewed. A hands-on test can confirm or contradict a finding and adds its own measurements; it does not change a measurement row. Hands-on inspections are not yet open.

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