The Best Way To Build A Castle
967*** THE SUDOKU EVENTS OF THE YEAR ***
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*** TODAY'S PUZZLE ***
Wessel Strijkstra's Castle Woku is a hybrid of the logic puzzle Castle Wall and our old friend Sudoku. It's achieved a perfect 100% approval rating on Logic Masters and with good reason - it's quite simply magnificent.
Play it at the link below:
https://app.crackingthecryptic.com/sudoku/b6tTH63QF9
Rules:
Normal sudoku rules apply. Draw a non-intersecting loop through the centres of some cells. The loop travels orthogonally from cell to cell. The loop may not enter coloured cells that contain a green, grey or black square. Green squares must lie inside the loop; black squares must lie outside the loop; grey cells may either be inside or outside the loop – the solver must discover which. The digit in a coloured square represents the number of times the loop cuts a cell border in one direction (north, south, east or west). Directions and values of all coloured square clues must be determined, if not given. A clue outside a row gives the sum of the digits on the closest horizontal loop segment passing through its row (including the cells in which the loop turns); likewise for columns and vertical segments.
*** NEW CONTENT ON PATREON ***
As well as the Phistomefel and Jay Dyer extravaganzas, Simon's solve of Magnus Josefsson's new puzzle Castle Wall Yin Yang #1 is now available as a bonus video. You can play the puzzle at the link below (and the logic-masters link contains an example):
https://app.crackingthecryptic.com/sudoku/6DPBrnQGLp
https://logic-masters.de/Raetselportal/Raetsel/zeigen.php?id=000CBD
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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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