crackingthecryptic

Logic Puzzle Walkthrough

Hi everyone, 

As mentioned in our recent videos, we've made a walkthrough of how to solve the Double Choco puzzle from the recent UK championship.  The puzzle is by master puzzle creator Robert Vollmert and has a cool theme!

If you'd like to play the puzzle before watching the video, you can do that here:

 2020-04-10 12:36:19 +0000 UTC View Post

The Crossword The Champ Couldn't Finish

Hi everyone, 

We've uploaded a bonus video for our crossword viewers!

Mark attempts to solve The Times' Club Monthly special - a crossword so vicious that even he can't be sure of completing it...

 https://youtu.be/VSgKrPfs3IQ 

Enjoy

Simon & Mark

A New Puzzle Hunt!

Hi everyone, 

As previewed on the channel in the last couple of days, we're delighted to share this puzzle with you.  The author is Nicolas Rasmussen and, incredibly, he's just 14 years old.  

As usual with Puzzle Hunts, the idea is to deduce an English word or phrase from the puzzle.  These puzzles don't tend to have much in the way of instructions so you have t...

Adult Puzzle Hunt - Some Hints

Hi everyone, 

Thanks for all the feedback on the puzzle hunts.  We're aware that a lot of people are still working on the adult hunt and wanted to share some tips (see the base of this message).  Congratulations to the following who provided the first three correct solutions:

First place: Marco W / Penzo, Deusovi, Autumn Leaves, Panda, and jkittykitkat 

Sec...

Phistomefel's Killer Sandwich link

I'm not sure why YouTube is truncating the link but try copy and pasting the link below if you are having problems:

 2020-04-05 20:04:38 +0000 UTC View Post

Patreon Reward Puzzle(s): April 2020

Following on from our recent popular treasure hunts, we've designed another one for the April reward!  This one combines Starbattle, Anti-diagonal sudoku and a little word puzzle!
Do let us know if you enjoy it!  

[The Adult Treasure Hunt has had two correct solutions so far.  The Junior Treasure Hunt has had about 500 correct solutions (!) and children as young as 8 yea...

Cracking The Cryptic's Puzzle Hunt No. 1

Hi everyone, 

As promised in our recent videos, here is the first of (hopefully) a series of Puzzle Hunts!

The Hunt has been created by Neil Talbott, one of the UK's best puzzle solvers - Mark and I have tested it and we think it's awesome!

How does it work?  Each of the attachments is a separate puzzle, the answer to which is a single English word.   Used ...

Junior Puzzle Hunt

Hi everyone, 

Here is our first Junior Puzzle Hunt - we hope you'll love it.  Please do give us some feedback once you've solved it.  Is it too easy/too hard?  Would you like more puzzles included?  Feedback can be sent to:

crackingthecryptic@gmail.com

The three puzzles can be played online using the links provided in the document but please note that ...

How To Solve A Fillomino Masterpiece

Hi everyone, 

As mentioned in tonight's video, here is a bonus video on how to solve John Bulten's incredible Fillomino puzzle.  The puzzle first featured on gmpuzzles.com so be sure to check them out - their content is very good.  The puzzle is discussed in Monday's video (23 Mar 2020).

All the best, 

Simon & Mark

  2020-03-25 19:26:28 +0000 UTC View Post

Patreon Reward Video: March 2020

Here is our video on how to solve this month's Coloured Sandwich Sudoku reward puzzle.  

 https://youtu.be/oDezEP5Q_-Q 

As ever, thank you all very much for supporting the channel.

Simon & Mark

Hard Slitherlink by Ken Endo - The Video

As mentioned in tonight's video on YouTube, if you are interested in harder Slitherlinks then do try this wonderful puzzle from Ken Endo:

http://pzv.jp/p.html?slither/15/15/1c1ci62218c1cdgcci7cb673bc818b176bc7bi6c1...

Chess Sudoku: Android now live!

Here is the link:

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.StudioGoya.ChessSudoku&hl=en_US

Chess Sudoku - Out On App Store!

Hot off the press so I wanted to share it with you all.

 https://apps.apple.com/us/app/chess-sudoku/id1500654482?ls=1

On Steam, the game was released yesterday (and, on Android, we're still waiting on confirmation - grrrrr).

Simon & Mark

Steam link:   2020-03-03 12:06:56 +0000 UTC View Post

Patreon Reward Puzzle: March 2020

Here is the reward puzzle for March.  We've returned to the popular Sandwich Sudoku genre this month and added a small twist.  Do let us know if you enjoy it!  

In other news, our new app is due to be released today:  Chess Sudoku.  Here is a link to the Steam page.  (We can't control the exact release date for Android and the App Store but we are aiming for ...

Patreon Reward Video: Feb 2020

Here is the video on how to solve the (difficult and devious) Hybrid Sudoku.   

Thank you all for supporting the channel here.

Simon & Mark

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ewEmIixg31U&feature=youtu.be

February 2020 Patreon Reward Puzzle

Here is the reward puzzle for February.  It showcases some ideas that you might like to look out for in our upcoming app:  Chess Sudoku!

Thanks so much as always for supporting us; we really do appreciate it.

Simon & Mark

Patreon Reward Videos: January 2020

Here are two videos: one for the main puzzles and one for Christoph's bonus puzzle.  

Thank you all for supporting the channel here.

Simon & Mark

Chain of Sudokus:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hWYO_XPK92c&feature=youtu.be

Cubic Sandwich Sudoku by...

Patreon Reward Puzzles: January 2020

Here are the reward puzzles for January.

Thanks so much as always for supporting us; we really do appreciate it.

Simon & Mark

Patreon Reward Video: December

Here is our video on the solution to Christoph Seeliger's wonderful Thermo Sandwich Sudoku puzzle.  Hope you enjoy it!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KjL8e7Xrv0k

Simon and Mark

Patreon Reward: December 2019

Here is the reward puzzle for December.

Thanks so much as always for supporting us; we really do appreciate it.

Simon & Mark

Classic Sudoku App: Now Released on all platforms

Here are the links for anyone interested:

AppStore - https://apps.apple.com/us/app/classic-sudoku/id1488838275?ls=1

Steam - https://store.steampowered.com/app/1188330/Classic_Su...

Our New App: Classic Sudoku

Hi all, 

We wanted to give our Patrons the scoop on our new app.  It will be launching on all platforms tomorrow (26 Nov).   You can see a short video introducing the game here:

 https://store.steampowered.com/app/1188330/Classic_Sudoku/ 

Simon &...

Patreon Reward Video: November 2019

If you're reading this message, massive thanks from us for being a $3+ patron - we really appreciate it.

Here's our video for November's puzzle.  

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bHCFQWEhVHY&feature=youtu.be

Patreon Reward 8: November 2019

Here is this month's reward puzzle - we really like this one and hope you do too!

Simon & Mark

October Reward Videos

Here are October's Reward Video(s).  We did one video for each puzzle:

Classic Sudoku:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nFehrzlWPKU

Sandwich Sudoku: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ash-2MHHlOc 

Thanks again to e...

Patreon Puzzle 7: October 2019

Here is our Patreon challenge for October.  Thanks so much to all of you for your support of the channel.  We really hope you like this month's puzzles - be warned, they are not easy!

Simon and Mark

Patreon Reward Video: September 2019: Shikaku & Sudoku

Here is the reward video for this month's sequence of puzzles.  Thanks so much to all of you for your support.

Simon & Mark

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5-NtMy2ziqg&feature=youtu.be

Patreon Reward: September 2019

Massive thanks as always to all of you for supporting us here.  In the attachment you'll find this month's reward, which mixes up Shikaku and Sudoku.  We hope you like it!  

Mark and Simon

Addendum:  We've had several correct solutions to the meta but some requests for clarification.  We've therefore made a one-sentence addition to the ...

Android version of Sandwich Sudoku

Is now live.  Sorry for the delay but we got there in the end.  We will announce it formally in a video on the channel later today but we wanted to tell our patrons first.

Simon & Mark

Patreon Video Reward August 2019: Puzzle Hunt

Here is the link to Simon's video on how to solve the final two puzzles from Derek Neal's Puzzle Hunt.  A big thank you once again from us both for sponsoring us here.

Simon & Mark

https://youtu.be/s_5ZLnoR8tI