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▶ JOIN OUR KICKSTARTER – An Advent Calendar from CtC – 24 sudoku puzzles by the great and good of the sudoku community! Makes a great holiday gift for yourself or your sudoku-loving friend. https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/ctcadventcalendar/an-advent-calendar-from-cracking-the-cryptic
Here's where you can try Counting Shadows by Andrea Acciatelli (Cliffhanger resolved in tonight's episode!): https://sudokupad.app/1vyiko0v3g
Normal sudoku rules apply. In each 3×3 box, shade every cell whose digit matches its position within that box, counting from left to right, top to bottom. For example, R6C4 is the 7th cell in Box 5, so it must be shaded if it contains a 7.
Each line has a circle. The digit in the circle indicates the total number of shaded cells along its connected line, including the circle's own cell if shaded.
Each medium-sized white circle contains one or two digits that must appear, at least once, within the four cells surrounding it.
Kropki Dots: A white dot connects two digits that are consecutive. A black dot connects two digits where one is double the other. All Kropki dots connecting cells belonging to DIFFERENT LINES are given. However, Kropki connections between cells belonging to the SAME LINE may exist, without being shown.
▶ OUR PATREON PAGE – JOIN THE COMMUNITY, SUPPORT US AND TRY OUR PUZZLE HUNTS◀
https://www.patreon.com/crackingthecryptic
You have until the 20th to track down all the guests at A Dickens of a Party and send in the solution. Loads of crossword content is available, too, including: Mark solving Words of a Feather; Simon’s multi-video solve of Periodical Location by Nebuchadnezzar; Mark’s monthly Club Special solve. Also Gridograms, Connections, many other things. Just $2/month for the monthly reward, $3/month (or higher) for solution videos. It’s the best puzzle club in the world! Also a Patreon-only channel on our discord for help with the sudoku hunts. Your support makes a big difference to us – thank you!
▶ Our Merch makes great holiday gifts: tees, hoodies, water bottles, and much more, and show the world that you’re part of the wonderful Cracking the Cryptic community! Don’t miss our new Rat Run merch, designed by Marty Sears: https://cracking-the-cryptric-shop.fourthwall.com/en-usd/collections/rat-run Check it all out here: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCC-UOdK8-mIjxBQm_ot1T-Q/store ◀
▶ NEWEST IN OUR APP: A Worm by Zetamath – “Snecko”, which features overlapping 6x6 puzzles that just might not yield to a strictly sequential solve! On Steam it’s at https://store.steampowered.com/app/4756830/Cracking_the_Cryptic__The_Sudoku_Worm_of_Zetamath/ and you can find the AppStore and GooglePlay links at https://www.crackingthecryptic.com/apps ◀
▶ OUR APPS: Classic Sudoku Volume #2 joins our main app, along with Sudoku Worms (from Blobz, Phistomefel, Marty Sears, James Sinclair, and Michael Lefkowitz, and Zetamath), Fog of War, and many other variant types, including Lines, Domino, Killer, Thermo, Arrow, Chess, Sandwich, Miracle, and a few Approachable collections. Every app is full of hand-crafted puzzles with hints.
Check out https://www.crackingthecryptic.com/apps with links to all outlets. ◀
▶ FIND OUR BOOKS HERE ◀
https://coffeebean.games/product-category/cracking-the-cryptic/ Cracking the Cryptic’s Greatest Hits Vol. 1 and Vol 2, as well as the e-book editions of Fog of War (regular and deluxe editions), are all available! (Great gifts!)
Our website, with thanks to GeorgeTheToad: https://www.crackingthecryptic.com
▶ CTC FAN DISCORD SERVER◀
https://discord.gg/BbN89j5
▶ OUR VIDEO CATALOGUE – CATEGORISED WITH LINKS◀
https://tinyurl.com/CTCCatalogue
▶SEND US PUZZLES TO SOLVE/CONTACT US◀
crackingthecryptic@gmail.com
Snailmail: Mark Goodliffe, Box 102, 56 Gloucester Road, London SW7 4UB
▶FOLLOW US◀
Twitter: #crypticcracking
@crypticcracking
Instagram @crackingthecryptic
▶Credits◀
Music: Lucy Audrin (Piano): Mozart's Sonata no 16; and Mark’s outro music by Riffclown.
SOFTWARE: Thanks to Sam Cappleman-Lynes and Sven Neumann
Logo: Melvyn Mainini
Opening Credits: Burak Mescioğlu
▶ABOUT US◀
Hi! We're Simon Anthony and Mark Goodliffe, two of the UK's most enthusiastic puzzle solvers. We have both represented the UK at the World Sudoku Championships and the World Puzzle Championships. We're also "cryptic crossword" aficionados. Mark is the 14-time winner of The Times crossword championship and twice Senior World Champion in Sudoku, and Simon is the former record holder for most consecutive correct solutions to The Listener crossword. We hope we can help your puzzle solving while also introducing you to some of the world's best puzzles.
Thank you for watching!
Simon and Mark
#crypticcracking #puzzle #sudoku
▶ Contents ◀
0:00 Theme Music & News around the channel
3:28 Rules of today’s puzzle
6:15 Start Of Solve - Let's Get Cracking!