Thank you to all our Patreons for continuing to support us, and for the lovely messages you send us, which we really value. This month, we are bringing you something very special, both in terms of ...
2023-12-01 16:00:10 +0000 UTC View PostTo celebrate the festive season that arriving soon, Sandra & Nala have created this incredible sudoku advent calendar. It features 24 puzzles (one for each day of December upto...
2023-11-25 13:59:39 +0000 UTC View PostAs a follow up to Crux by Jay Dyer a couple of weeks ago, Simon attempts another beastly sudoku that we've had recommended/requested. Darth Paradox has come up with a variation that seems abs...
2023-11-17 20:01:00 +0000 UTC View PostEvery month, the Times publishes an extraordinary workout for its Crossword Club members. The Times Monthly Club Special is not intended to be tackled without Chambers Dictionary* and perhaps Googl...
2023-11-12 15:15:49 +0000 UTC View PostToday Simon attempted one of the hardest sudokus we've ever seen. Jay Dyer's behemoth Crux is a puzzle that is both fascinating and baffling! With apologies to those who prefer their vi...
2023-11-02 21:30:01 +0000 UTC View PostThank you for sponsoring the channel! As November's monthly reward, we are delighted to bring you "Solve in Sudokuland" by DiMono, a short story featuring 6 sudoku puzzles that you have to solve to...
2023-11-01 16:00:12 +0000 UTC View PostHi Patreons! Here are solution videos to seven HIDDEN puzzles in Trick or Treat, the October monthly reward, a pack of 6x6 sudoku puzzle by the Sudoku Skunkworks. In addition, we are again includin...
2023-10-31 16:08:40 +0000 UTC View PostHi Patreons! Here are solution videos to the second set of puzzles in Trick or Treat, the October monthly reward, a pack of 6x6 sudoku puzzle by the Sudoku Skunkworks. In addition in the last post ...
2023-10-24 09:00:02 +0000 UTC View PostHi Patreons! Here are solution videos to the first nine puzzles in Trick or Treat, the October monthly reward, a pack of 6x6 sudoku puzzle by the Sudoku Skunkworks. In addition we include a video w...
2023-10-22 09:00:04 +0000 UTC View PostI thought I'd show you how I go about solving the Listener Crossword - an advanced, themed cryptic crossword published each week in The Times. This one is from September 15th, and is called Joint S...
2023-10-15 09:00:04 +0000 UTC View PostMark has recorded a video of himself solving last month's Times Monthly Club Special, the extremely hard puzzle for Times Crossword Club members. Nobody sane would take it on without a ...
2023-10-14 10:24:44 +0000 UTC View PostToday is "Ren day" on Cracking The Cryptic. We started with Simon's reaction video to Hi Ren (link below) and we'll be continuing with two videos later on where we each tackle one of the puzz...
2023-10-13 15:35:36 +0000 UTC View PostThanks so much to Skunkworks for not only creating the brilliant "Trick or Treat" sudoku pack for our monthly reward, but also for embedding a number of extra puzzles within, as Easter Eggs.
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2023-10-11 19:38:36 +0000 UTC View PostThank you for sponsoring the channel! As October's monthly reward, we are delighted to bring you "Trick or Treat" by Skunkworks, a collection of 6x6 sudoku puzzles that will entertain and amaze you...
2023-10-01 14:59:02 +0000 UTC View PostThe Times Monthly Club Special is a brutal cryptic crossword, with insanely esoteric vocabulary in the answers and the wordplay, but Mark takes it on every month, without a dictionary to hand! Watc...
2023-09-27 09:01:00 +0000 UTC View PostMark takes on "That's Touching", puzzle #798 from Matt Gaffney's series of 1,000 meta crosswords.
Watch him solve the grid and then try to identify the meta. Test yourself with the puzzle, an...
2023-09-21 09:01:00 +0000 UTC View PostWe hope you've had a chance to look at this very clever puzzle constructed by Kurt by now. (Link below if not). Kurt sent it to us as he's been investigating geometric properties in 6x6...
2023-09-17 15:00:59 +0000 UTC View PostOn the first Saturday in August this year, the Listener Crossword in The Times featured this puzzle, Citation Needed by Cagey.
There is a lot of talk about this being one of the all-time cryp...
2023-09-09 11:41:51 +0000 UTC View PostHello Patreons!
Thank you so much for supporting the channel! We love to bring you great rewards as a thank you, and we hope we have done it again this month. This pack of 7 variant sudoku pu...
2023-09-01 15:00:13 +0000 UTC View PostMany thanks to Philipp Blume (aka Glum_Hippo) for creating these videos on how to solve the last three puzzles, and the fiendish final meta, in his "Tennis, Anyone?" hunt, which was our August Patr...
2023-08-31 09:00:03 +0000 UTC View PostPhilipp Blume, aka Glum_Hippo, is a great friend of the channel, and created almost all of the "Tennis Anyone" August monthly reward. He has very kindly recorded videos of solution paths to all the...
2023-08-30 14:09:48 +0000 UTC View PostEvery month, Mark eschews a dictionary as he has a go at The Times Monthly Club Special, a crazily difficult cryptic crossword prepared for members of the Times Crossword Club - this one is by Rich...
2023-08-09 10:12:06 +0000 UTC View PostA small correction has been made to the pdf and links for "Tennis, Anyone?", the August monthly reward. We have had plenty of correct answers in already, so the small error wasn't stopping anyone, ...
2023-08-02 09:44:28 +0000 UTC View PostHello Patreons! Thank you so much for supporting us.
As a thank you, here is our August monthly reward - a pack of six puzzles, by Philipp Blume (aka glum_hippo) and ourselves, themed on tenn...
2023-08-01 15:01:01 +0000 UTC View PostToday on the channel (29th July), Mark solved Seeing Double by James Kopp, a puzzle that uses numbers outside the grid both to provide X-Sums clues and diagonal clues. You can see the video here: <...
2023-07-29 22:00:03 +0000 UTC View PostDuring the walkthrough solve of Mermaids, Mark forgot about a possibility in row 6 that needs addressing.
Thanks for the kindness of the comments pointing this out, especially to Julia Gog an...
2023-07-26 10:06:01 +0000 UTC View PostVery well done to DiMono on getting his Kickstarter funded with less than 48 hours to go! Now we are going to get to see the sequel to The Jewels of Osiris, and maybe we will get to find out what t...
2023-07-25 09:59:59 +0000 UTC View PostHi Patreons! We are delighted to bring you the second of our two solution videos to Kraken the Cryptic.
Here we take you through solution paths for the last three puzzles: Trident, Ruby...
2023-07-22 08:59:01 +0000 UTC View PostHi Patreons! Thank you so much for everything you said about Kraken the Cryptic and its puzzles - we were very proud to bring them to you.
Here we go into solution paths for the first t...
2023-07-21 08:59:01 +0000 UTC View PostMark takes on the Times Monthly Club Special for June, that legendary beast of a crossword puzzle, where the vocabulary is so outlandish as to elude Mark's own knowledge much of the time - and requ...
2023-07-10 09:42:14 +0000 UTC View Post