Here is the long-awaited solution video to Saturnalia and By Jove!, from June’s monthly reward, our ‘Planets Suite’ of sudoku. Mark explains a way you could have gone about solvin...
2023-07-04 09:15:01 +0000 UTC View PostHi folks,
RockyRoer sent us a pdf which contains the puzzles (of July's Patreon reward - Kraken the Cryptic) for people who like to print them out and solve on paper.
Sorry if not inclu...
2023-07-02 07:49:42 +0000 UTC View PostDid the makers of ‘Ruby Gillman, Teenage Kraken” decide to capitalise on our channel name sounding like from Kraken the Cryptic? Or did we just lean into a lousy pun?
Whichever, it mean t...
2023-07-01 15:00:00 +0000 UTC View PostHere are solution paths for the first four puzzles in The Planets Suite: Mercury Rising, The Martian, V-ness between Us and Blue Marble.
We will be creating a video for Saturnalia and By Jove...
2023-06-27 09:25:42 +0000 UTC View PostHi Patreons!
Here is a VERY approachable sudoku challenge - five 4x4 sudokus, which anyone can try. Do please try and get your friends, relatives, and especially young children to give these ...
2023-06-18 14:59:01 +0000 UTC View PostSo each month, Mark takes on The Times Monthly Club Special, the insanely obscure cryptic crossword published for Times Crossword Club members. And each month, due to a mixture of confidence and hu...
2023-06-17 09:20:01 +0000 UTC View PostHello, Patreons! Thank you so much for supporting the channel.
Welcome to June’s monthly reward, our ‘Planets Suite’ of sudoku. There are six puzzles in the pack. To enter the com...
2023-06-01 15:01:00 +0000 UTC View PostSo many thanks to DiMono for his amazing sudoku-and-treasure-hunt-cum-novel The Jewels of Osiris. And now he has created solution videos for the puzzles (and the riddles, and the Arabic) in the sto...
2023-05-31 14:30:02 +0000 UTC View PostOn the channel, Mark's Friday masterclass video showed him attempting Thursday's crossword (by mistake). It was suggested that he attack Friday's actual crossword at speed, and then explain it afte...
2023-05-26 13:48:37 +0000 UTC View PostTS Eliot says April is the cruellest month, and here Mark takes on April's cruellest cryptic, the Times Monthly Club Special - without a dictionary, as far as possible.
This one is by Roger P...
2023-05-26 09:00:03 +0000 UTC View PostHi Patreons,
Here's another special mid-month reward, conceived as a way for kids to enjoy a sudoku hunt, or those who want some puzzles a bit easier than the regular monthly rewards!
M...
2023-05-16 15:00:04 +0000 UTC View PostDiMono has asked us - quite reasonably - to provide the accompanying document which supplies some help with the final part of Act 1 of the Jewels of Osiris. Just as a reminder, if you finish the hu...
2023-05-02 08:28:15 +0000 UTC View PostHi Patreons,
Please see the Monthly Reward post below/earlier. However it seems that on some devices it is difficult to browse the files in the zip folder, so we are posting them separately h...
2023-05-01 16:35:00 +0000 UTC View PostHello Patreons! Thank you so much for supporting us.
As a thank you, here is our May monthly reward - an extraordinary story, combined with a Sudoku and Treasure Hunt. The author is DiMono, w...
2023-05-01 14:59:02 +0000 UTC View PostThanks so much to the constructors and testers who made the Knightmare on Sudoku Street hunt - you are brilliant! Here you can watch videos of the solve paths of puzzles 13 - 19, which t...
2023-04-26 08:59:01 +0000 UTC View PostThanks so much to the constructors and testers who made the Knightmare on Sudoku Street hunt - you are brilliant! Here you can watch videos of the solve paths of puzzles 6 - 12, the midd...
2023-04-25 08:59:59 +0000 UTC View PostThanks so much to the constructors and testers who made the Knightmare on Sudoku Street hunt - you are brilliant! Here you can watch videos of the solve paths of the puzzles - this vide...
2023-04-24 09:00:03 +0000 UTC View PostThe most devious cryptic crossword regularly published is The Times Monthly Club Special, for Crossword Club members. Last month's is by Richard Rogan, from March 2023.
Mark...
2023-04-19 09:00:03 +0000 UTC View PostHi Patreons,
Here's a special mid-month reward, conceived as a way for kids to enjoy a sudoku hunt, or those who want some puzzles a bit easier than the regular monthly rewards!
Many th...
2023-04-15 15:03:17 +0000 UTC View PostMany thanks to the PBN Institute (Panthera, TheAsylm & Montinox) for not only creating the Alice's Adventures in Sudokuland hunt, but also to Panthera, TheAsylm and SudokuHero for making these ...
2023-04-04 09:00:03 +0000 UTC View PostMany of you have been absolutely intrigued by this astonishing puzzle, which Simon was pranked by Mark into attempting on April Fools Day.
The video, which is jolly long, can be seen here: 2023-04-03 11:06:52 +0000 UTC View Post
Please note we have re-uploaded the Knightmare pack (both in the original post and here), with one small revision in puzzle 18. This hasn't stopped some people solving the whole pack already - cong...
2023-04-03 07:03:17 +0000 UTC View PostHello Patreons! Thank you so much for supporting us.
As a thank you, here is our April monthly reward pack of puzzles - a brilliant set from the Skunkworks collective. Despite the date today,...
2023-04-01 15:00:08 +0000 UTC View PostMany thanks to the PBN Institute (Panthera, TheAsylm & Montinox) for not only creating our March monthly reward, the Alice's Adventures in Sudokuland hunt, but also making videos explaining the...
2023-03-25 08:47:53 +0000 UTC View PostEvery month Mark takes on The Times Monthly Club Special without using a dictionary (at first) - how mad this is gets revealed when you see some of the puzzle's answers go in, and their clues expla...
2023-03-22 10:00:07 +0000 UTC View PostSimon has a go at at Listener crossword from last year called Late Arrival by Aragon. The Listener is the hardest crossword published anywhere in the World by a mainstream publication and it'...
2023-03-07 10:41:14 +0000 UTC View PostHello Patreons! Thank you so much for supporting us.
As a thank you, here is our March monthly reward pack of puzzles - a brilliant set from the Paint By Numbers Institute (aka Panthera, TheA...
2023-03-01 16:00:07 +0000 UTC View PostHere are the solutions to the remaining puzzles from Jay Dyer’s astonishing Numeric Alchemy puzzles, which would have been enough to get you a shout-out on the channel!
The theme of the hun...
2023-02-27 10:00:03 +0000 UTC View PostPhilipp Blume, aka glum_hippo, has been kind enough to make us videos showing how to solve all the puzzles in his brilliant Fossil Hunt, the February monthly reward. Here are the videos of him talk...
2023-02-24 10:00:03 +0000 UTC View PostEach month, Mark takes on the Times Monthly Club Special, clearly the hardest cryptic crossword, with the most obscure vocabulary, regularly published anywhere. This is January's puzzle, by Richard...
2023-02-23 10:00:02 +0000 UTC View Post