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Your reward this month is The Fossil Hunt, an incredible sudoku hunt by Philipp Blume, aka Glum_Hippo, themed on (a) palaeonto...
2023-02-01 16:00:09 +0000 UTC View PostBack in 2004, in the second year of The Magpie (see www.piemag.com ), Simon's monthly puzzle was Circling the Square by Pieman, an incredibly hard advanced thematic cryptic crossword - remembered w...
2023-01-27 10:00:02 +0000 UTC View PostThanks so much to all the constructors involved in Cryptic Scriptures of the Secret Snake Society! Here's where you can learn how to solve the final eight puzzles in the pack, which would have take...
2023-01-25 10:00:00 +0000 UTC View PostHere are the solutions to the first seven of Jay Dyer’s astonishing Numeric Alchemy puzzles, which would have been enough to get you into the prize draw!
The theme of the hunt was Modifier ...
2023-01-23 09:59:59 +0000 UTC View PostMark again takes on the Times Monthly Club Special, the challenging cryptic that drains even his ability, and vocabulary, each month. This one is by Roger Phillips.
See the video here:
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2023-01-14 10:59:01 +0000 UTC View PostSometimes people are generous enough to send us actual letters, cards and even presents!
Mark went down to the PO Box after the Christmas and New Year holidays, and returned with a whole host...
2023-01-11 14:00:20 +0000 UTC View PostHere is a brand new puzzle type invented by the brilliant setter/solver Magnus Josefsson. It's got a fairly intricate ruleset, which is why we were a little worried about attempting it on the...
2023-01-02 23:49:40 +0000 UTC View PostHello Patreons!
Thank you so much for supporting our channel, and Happy New Year! New Year's Day is the first of a month, and that always means there is new Patreon content - this month Jay D...
2023-01-01 16:00:07 +0000 UTC View PostThanks so much to all the constructors involved in Cryptic Scriptures of the Secret Snake Society! Here's where you can learn how to solve the first eight puzzles in the pack, which would have been...
2022-12-30 14:36:22 +0000 UTC View PostHi Everyone,
We are reissuing the document for Phistomefel's brilliant Hybrid Sudoku Hunt, including a couple of clarifications. These involve "normal killer sudoku rules apply" in The Nori N...
2022-12-27 16:46:44 +0000 UTC View PostWe were so keen to get this out to you that we used a slightly out-of-date version of the pdf - one that didn't have the solution words when you complete the puzzles (although all the puzzles were ...
2022-12-21 22:52:21 +0000 UTC View PostWe are absolutely thrilled that our friend Phistomefel volunteered to make a Puzzle Hunt for Cracking the Cryptic's Patreons! This demonstrates the value of being a member of this very special club...
2022-12-21 18:33:58 +0000 UTC View PostA little bonus video today in which Simon tackles Shadow by tallcat - a curious mixture of sudoku, cave and skyscrapers!
This has a ruleset that seems like kryptonite to Simon at least - utte...
2022-12-15 13:31:29 +0000 UTC View PostThe Times Monthly Club Special can lay claim to being the hardest regulrly published cryptic anywhere - and few of us have heard of any of the entries used in the grid. Notwithstanding, Mark takes ...
2022-12-13 11:00:00 +0000 UTC View PostHi Patreons,
Thank you so much for supporting our channel. We are really grateful, and your support helps us to keep the channel going in the form that it is.
We are delighted to presen...
2022-12-01 16:00:13 +0000 UTC View PostThis month's (well, last month's) Times Monthly Club Special is by Roger Phillips, and, as usual, is jam-packed full of vicious vocabulary, crazed clues, wacky wordplay and diabolical definitions.<...
2022-11-28 09:59:01 +0000 UTC View Post
As mentioned in the bonus video published on the channel today, The Magpie magazine includes a mathematical puzzle each month. Here is the mathematical that appeared in the first ever edition...
2022-11-27 10:01:00 +0000 UTC View PostThanks to PjotrV, Aspartagcus and Panthera for their excellent work creating The 12 Labours of Hercules hunt, and indeed the solution videos to accompany it!
Here are the last seven videos: 2022-11-26 18:38:53 +0000 UTC View Post
Thanks to PjotrV, Aspartagcus and Panthera for their excellent work creating The 12 Labours of Hercules hunt, and indeed the solution videos to accompany it!
Here are the first six videos: 2022-11-24 10:00:05 +0000 UTC View Post
Simon solved this cryptic crossword from the Times recently - one of the hardest in recent times - and auggested Mark record his solve too. Now you can compare how they got on with it.
Here i...
2022-11-14 09:26:37 +0000 UTC View PostSimon attempts this quite astonishing puzzle by Mr.Menace, which combines sudoku with the Japanese logic puzzle Masyu. To say this is an impressive puzzle is doing it a disservice - it's mesm...
2022-11-11 12:41:20 +0000 UTC View PostWe get some amazing entries to our competitions but this video solution from Matt Bouyack was, we thought, outstanding. We're very grateful that Matt has agreed we can share it with you and w...
2022-11-04 11:59:43 +0000 UTC View PostThis amazing puzzle has baffled and bamboozled many! We're thrilled to present jovi_al and shye's own video explaining how they thought about this incredible sudoku.
Massive thanks to ...
2022-11-04 11:29:29 +0000 UTC View PostHi Patreons,
Thank you so much for supporting our channel. We are really grateful, and your support helps us to keep the channel going in the form that it is.
We are delighted to presen...
2022-11-01 16:00:21 +0000 UTC View PostThe Skunkworks collective has not only supplied the fantastic pack of Duality puzzles, they have also sent us videos explaining the solutions! Here are puzzles 10 to 14, with explanations by the in...
2022-10-29 09:00:04 +0000 UTC View PostThe Skunkworks collective has not only supplied the fantastic pack of Duality puzzles, they have also sent us videos explaining the solutions! Here are puzzles 5 to 9, with explanations by the indi...
2022-10-28 09:00:04 +0000 UTC View PostThe Skunkworks collective has not only supplied the fantastic pack of Duality puzzles, they have also sent us videos explaining the solutions! Here are the first four, which were enough to get yo u...
2022-10-27 09:00:00 +0000 UTC View PostAn absolutely extraordinary puzzle for you to try today from two of the best setters around: jovi_al and shye have created a classic sudoku which incorporates some very very interesting logic...
2022-10-18 18:38:16 +0000 UTC View PostThis month's puzzle in The Times Monthly Club Special series is by Richard Rogan, the Times Crossword Editor.
Like every month, this puzzle will be full of arcane answers, cruel clues, wonder...
2022-10-17 08:00:07 +0000 UTC View PostHere is where Mark took on the August Monthly Club Special from the Times, an insanely hard cryptic crossword with a mix of extremely difficult clues and remarkably aracane answers.
How will ...
2022-10-07 13:53:11 +0000 UTC View Post