A Sudoku In The Danger Zone
885*** TODAY'S PUZZLE ***
Lots of you have been asking about this puzzle - Highway To The Danger Zone by Jay Dyer. It's definitely NOT easy but my goodness it's incredibly clever. One of our longest ever sudoku solves (for which we apologise) but this magnificent creation is too good to miss.
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Rules:
Normal sudoku rules apply.\n\nDivide the entire grid into killer cages, each of which is a set of orthogonally connected cells. Each cage contains exactly one clue, which may be in any position in the cage, and gives the sum of the digits in that cage. Digits may not repeat in a cage. Single cell cages are allowed.\n\nDraw a single loop through the centres of some cells with no branches or crossings, which visits each cage exactly once. The loop moves orthogonally from cell to cell. If two cells share an edge but are in different cages, at least one of them must be visited by the loop. The digit in a clued cell equals the number of cells in that cage which are visited by the loop.
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▶ Contents Of This Video ◀
0:00 Theme music & puzzle intro
2:05 Happy birthdays/anniversaries
3:12 The Planets - our new Patreon reward & today's fact!
4:30 Rules
8:07 Start Of Solve - Let's Get Cracking!
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