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Mark solves the beastly Club Monthly Cryptic

Hi everyone, 

Mark has recorded his solve of the June Club Monthly Special crossword from The Times.  This is, as usual, an insanely difficult puzzle and it's nice to see Mark have ...

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Serkan Yurekli's Cross The Streams puzzle

Hi everyone, 

As promised in this evening's video, I've recorded my solve of Serkan's incredible Cross The Streams puzzle!  You can find it by following the link below.  

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June's Monthly Reward Video

Hi everyone, 

We hope you all enjoyed our Olympic Rings sudoku :)

We've made this video that talks through the solve.  Enjoy!

As always, we'd like to say "thank you" for...

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A Mathematical Listener Crossword

Hi everyone, 


The Listener crossword series is considered to be the hardest in the world.  It's been running since 1930 with weekly puzzles that are loved the world over.  ...

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Happy Birthday To Us + A Bonus Puzzle!

11 June marks three years since we released our first video on YouTube.  Looking back at that video it is quite incredible where we've come.  Chiel Beenhakker has constructed this delight...

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Bonus: Fillomino Solve

Hi everyone, 

As mentioned on the channel a couple of days ago, I've recorded my solve of the recent Fillomino puzzle that appeared on gmpuzzles.com on Saturday June 6th.  The puzzl...

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How To Create A Sudoku Puzzle

We're very proud to be able to share this video with you.  It features the world-class setter Christoph Seeliger explaining how to construct a Thermo Sudoku from scratch.  We're very grat...

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Matt Gaffney's Crossword Metas

Hi everyone, 

Here is a bonus video on Matt Gaffney's wonderful weekly crossword competition - which features some amazing metas at the end of each puzzle.  

Enjoy!

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Patreon Reward Puzzle: June 2020

Hi everyone, 

It's the start of the month and that means our new reward puzzle.  We're sad the Olympics won't be happening this summer so we have made an Olympics-themed sudoku for ...

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The Complete Works of Cracking The Cryptic

Hi everyone, 


As mentioned on yesterday's video, one of our viewers (thank you Chiel Beenhakker!) has created a spreadsheet which lists the whole back catalogue of Cracking The Crypt...

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The Nightmare: Kurt's Solution

Hi everyone, 

A couple of weeks ago we published Kurt Hugo Schneider's incredible difficult (and beautiful) irregular 6x6 diagonal sudoku.  That puzzle can be played at the link at ...

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Proof that 6x6 Diagonal Sudokus Are Symmetric

Hi everyone, 

As mentioned in tonight's video, we are delighted to share with you a bonus video by Kurt Hugo Schneider in which he goes through the reason that all 6x6 Diagonal Sudokus a...

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Solution to Joke van Veenendaal's Puzzle Hunt

Hi everyone, 

We're also publishing today the solution to Joke's lovely collection of puzzles published here on 20 April:

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Solution to Puzzle Hunt OVERDONE

Hi everyone, 

We really hope you enjoyed Nicolas Rasmussen's awesome puzzle (published on 10 April here if you haven't tried it yet):

 2020-05-23 18:40:09 +0000 UTC View Post

Bonus: Thermo Sudoku by Ashish Kumar

Hi everyone, 

As mentioned in tonight's video, we are delighted to share with you a bonus puzzle from the brilliant constructor, Ashish Kumar.


Fittingly, given the release this...

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New Junior Puzzle Hunt

Hi everyone, 

We have a great new junior puzzle hunt to share with you.  It's been created by Scott Strosahl - who many of you will know makes very good puzzles for adults too :) View Post

Kurt Hugo Schneider's Nightmare!

We're sure many of you attempted Kurt's 6x6 Irregular sudoku (to win the wallet) a couple of weeks ago.  Kurt has been busy creating an even harder test!  Do have a go but, be warned, thi...

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May's Monthly Reward Video

Here is our solution to video to May's Monthly reward puzzle!


 As always, thank you all so much for supporting the channel, we really do appreciate it.

 

&nbs...

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The Times Monthly Cryptic - Mark attempts it!

You can watch Mark's monthly battle with The Times Monthly cryptic at this link.  This IS worth watching :)

Simon & Mark

 2020-05-17 16:45:05 +0000 UTC View Post

CTC puzzle by Prasanna Seshadri

Hi everyone, 

We're thrilled to be able to share this special sudoku designed by Prasanna Seshadri with you.  This puzzle is very unusual in that it involves 14 different sudoku var...

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Bonus: Anti-Knight Sudoku by Mike Halderman

Hi everyone, 

Here is a VERY nice Anti-Knight puzzle designed by one of our patrons Mike Halderman.

 2020-05-10 09:53:31 +0000 UTC View Post

Our First Sudoku Puzzle Hunt

We are absolutely thrilled to bring this incredible Sudoku Puzzle Hunt to you.


It has been created by Ben Needham and we can't recommend it highly enough.   Read the instruction...

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Patreon Reward Puzzles: May 2020

Hi everyone, 

Herewith our reward puzzle(s) for May.  These three linked sudokus that should prove quite interesting/challenging! 

As always, a big thank you from both of...

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Kurt Hugo Schneider Solves His 6x6 Sudoku

Hi everyone, 

Kurt was kind enough to provide us with a video discussing how he envisaged the solution path to his brilliant 6x6 partial jigsaw sudoku.  You can watch at the link be...

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Mark's New Video Solving The Times crossword

Hi all, 

Here a link to Mark's latest solve of The Times cryptic crossword.

Enjoy!

Simon

 https://...

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Bonus Puzzle by Ashish Kumar

We have another bonus for our patrons!  Thanks to Ashish for creating this special "Cracking The Cryptic-themed" Thermo King Sudoku for us.  

2020-04-22 16:43:29 +0000 UTC View Post

Solution to April's Monthly Reward Puzzle

Hi everyone, 

Here is our reward video for April's puzzle.

 https://youtu.be/jSJr2RtdHzc   

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Children's Puzzle Hunt

 

Hi everyone, 

Here is a new puzzle hunt for children also by Joke van Veenendaal.  We estimate that children aged 7-10 might enjoy it (but we actually enjoyed it too an...

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New Adult Puzzle Hunt

Hi everyone, 

Here is a new puzzle hunt by Joke van Veenendaal.  Each of the three puzzles  has a single English word as its answer.   Used together, they can be used...

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Bonus Puzzle for Patrons by Ashish Kumar

Hi everyone, 

We're delighted to share this bonus puzzle by Ashish Kumar with you.  Ashish created this puzzle specially as a gift for our patrons (how awesome is that!).

&nbs...

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