How Can This Possibly Solve?!
1,141Apologies but tonight’s video was not recorded today. We’d hoped to bring you an update about the Times Crossword Championship - in which we both managed epic fails - and also to say happy birthdays to Ann-Christin, Carole and Jae but Simon has been affected by a power cut as someone drove their car through a telegraph pole in his area so this is from his (scarce) holiday stash. Hopefully back to normal tomorrow where he’d been intending to do a bonus crossword video about the championship in the morning.
*** TODAY'S PUZZLE ***
Another loop-building sudoku today from yttrio and this one is even more astonishing than the last. A few small cages is all it takes to create a fascinating and jaw-dropping solve path. It's bizarre and quite wonderful!
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Rules:
Normal sudoku rules apply. Digits in a cage must not repeat and must sum to the number in the top left corner of the cage. Draw a one-cell-wide loop of orthogonally connected cells. The loop may not touch itself, not even diagonally. The loop must enter at least one cell of each cage. Numbers on the loop count as double their value when calculating cage sums. For example, a 2-cell cage summing to 10 may contain a 2 on the loop and a 6 not on the loop. The loop acts as a German Whispers line (i.e., adjacent digits on the loop must have a difference of at least 5). The original, undoubled value of the digit is always used for the purposes of the German Whispers constraint.
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▶ Contents Of This Video ◀
0:00 Theme music & introduction
1:07 Patreon, Apps, Merch, etc
1:40 Rules
7:30 Start of Solve - Let's Get Cracking!
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You can input classic sudoku puzzles into our software and help support Sven, the programmer responsible for the wonderful user interface we all use to play these puzzles everyday. The app also comes with 12 handmade puzzles from us:
iOS:
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