*** NEW PATREON SUDOKU HUNT JUST OUT ***
We’ve just released our December monthly reward – The
Cryptic Scriptures Of The Secret Snake Society – a sudoku hunt featuring nearly 20 puzzles by some of the greatest setters on the planet. Anyone who solves them all gets shoutout! Remember that patrons gets access to their own special channel on the CtC Fan Discord server – where you can find hints 😉
*** TODAY’S PUZZLE ***
You been asking for Simon to have a go at this one… Chaos CaveSudoku by Magnus Josefsson – one of the most difficult and well-loved sudokus on Logic Masters Germany of recent times. It is well worth all its plaudits and it is also quite hard… 🙂
Play it at the link below:
Rules:
Place some digits in the grid and shade some cells so that a) There is a 9×9 subgrid filled with digits that forms a valid standard sudoku; b) disregarding the interior 7×7 of the sudoku subgrid, the rest of the grid forms a valid “cave”. A valid Cave is formed where all unshaded cells are orthogonally connected; all shaded cells are orthogonally connected to an edge of the grid (nb the borders around the 7×7 interior of the sudoku are edges for this purpose); each number written in an unshaded cell must show how many cells can be seen from that position horizontally and vertically, where the view is limited by the next shaded cell or an edge of the grid. The cell with the number itself is included in the count; and each number in a shaded cell must equal the total number of cells in that orthogonally connected group of shaded cells.
*** NEW GAS PACK IS OUT ***
The new GAS pack is out on Steam for PC here:
It’s already out on Android and App Store. 60 original puzzles by Sam Cappleman-Lynes, Clover and Philip Newman!! Earn party hats and dinosaurs with these brand new puzzles!
We’ve also released a FREE app full of handmade puzzles to celebrate reaching 500k subscribers – simply download the Cracking The Cryptic app on Android, Steam or App Store and then select the 500k pack. We’re streaming a playthrough of this app and you can watch all seven episodes
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