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Published on September 8, 2025 10:00:06 PM ● Video Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=33vSAyF-adI

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Here is where you can attempt Kurtosis by Michael Lefkowitz: https://sudokupad.app/npvkzvpizp?setting-digitoutlines=0
Fill the grid with digits from 1-9 so that no digit repeats in any of the 9 rows, 11 columns, or 9 boxes. Along each of the 6 grey lines, digits increase in one direction. If a line has a bulb, the bulb is the smaller end. Digits touching a white dot are consecutive. Digits touching a black dot are in a 2:1 ratio.
(For clarity, thermometer and kropki clues "connect up" as if the grid were un-skewed).

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You may think that you are reliving the past when you see that we have another brilliant sudoku hunt by Blobz as September’s monthly reward – it’s Back to the Future! The beautifully-themed puzzles will transport you, we promise! Just $2/month for the monthly reward, $3/month (or higher) for solution videos. Lots of other great content available, including crosswords, Connections videos – along with past rewards! Recently released is the seven-video series of Simon solving Listen!, an amazing Listener crossword from the Times. There is also a Patreon-only channel on our discord for help with the sudoku hunts. Your support makes a big difference to us – thank you!

** LIVE CRACKING THE CRYPTIC SHOW ** On 2nd November Simon & Mark will be doing a live episode at the Stratford-upon-Avon Literary Festival. Please book early to avoid disappointment, this event sold out quickly last year due to the venue sizehttps://www.stratfordliteraryfestival.co.uk/events/simon-anthony-and-mark-goodliffe..

▶ SUDOKU WORMS NOW LIVE! ◀ You can try worms (strings of sudoku which feed into each other) by Marty Sears or James Sinclair – (or both – approx. $1 apiece) – with more to come – either on Steam at these addresses or on AppStore:
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▶ Credits◀
Music: Lucy Audrin (Piano): Mozart's Sonata no 16; and Mark’s outro music by Riffclown.
SOFTWARE: Thanks to Sam Cappleman-Lynes and Sven Neumann
Logo: Melvyn Mainini
Opening Credits: Burak Mescioğlu

▶ ABOUT US◀
Hi! We're Simon Anthony and Mark Goodliffe, two of the UK's most enthusiastic puzzle solvers. We have both represented the UK at the World Sudoku Championships and the World Puzzle Championships. We're also "cryptic crossword" aficionados. Mark is the 13-time winner of The Times crossword championship and twice Senior World Champion in Sudoku, and Simon is the former record holder for most consecutive correct solutions to The Listener crossword. We hope we can help your puzzle solving while also introducing you to some of the world's best puzzles.

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▶ Contents ◀
0:00 Theme Music & News around the channel
3:05 Rules of today’s puzzle
5:25 Start Of Solve - Let's Get Cracking!

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