It's the 81st birthday of the man I'd call the JS Bach of variant #Sudoku, Aad van de Wetering. Simon on #CrackingTheCryptic does a fantastic job of solving this wonderful puzzle Aad has put together for the occasion. This shows how entertaining Sudoku can be. youtu.be/Ax2mD4RPRZA?...
It's also worth supporting #CrackingTheCryptic on Patreon for the extra puzzles, including videos on incredibly hard Listener #Crosswords www.patreon.com/crackingthec...
My second #YouTube recommendation is the weekly solve of the Times #CrypticCrossword by Simon Anthony on #CrackingTheCryptic. He never assumes knowledge in the viewer and explains how the clues work. His enthusiasm for cryptics is infectious. I never miss one of these. youtube.com/watch?v=TaNE...
Proud of myself for completing both Times puzzles *before* watching Cracking the Cryptic 😂 - I was not fast and I made two mistakes on the main, but I’m taking that! Off to watch Simon do it now! Highly recommended but I wish they’d come over to BlueSky!
#cryptic #crackingthecryptic
Three men facing the camera. The man in the middle wears a safari outfit, the man on the right is holding a clipboard.
Met some of my favourite YouTubers at DASH this weekend. #CrackingTheCryptic
An impressive accolade for the Times Main puzzle today - you’ll also see a quick solve of my Quick Cryptic at about 1:18:41 - and Simon did say it was a very good puzzle, so I’ll absolutely take that!
And if you don’t watch these anyway, I can’t recommend them enough!
#crackingthecryptic
It’s shout at Simon time! #crackingthecryptic - I’ve missed my relaxing Saturday routine the last couple of weeks! And it’s all friendly shouting, he’s mostly much better at solving than me 😂 - and having seen the comments on Friday’s Breadman quick, I’m fascinated to see him solve it!
I might have to start a list of favourite Simon quotes, but this will be at the top 😂 #crackingthecryptic
I'm a patreon member of #crackingthecryptic and so today was treated to the new monthly sudoku pack, entitled "Regeneration". And, somewhat sadly, I did all six puzzles, apparently being only the 19th to solve the last of the six puzzles. I found them to be a bit easier than some of the previous […]
Really enjoying #crackingthecryptic from 23rd May solving @enigmatistelgar.bsky.social’s Times puzzle - but I’m very disappointed at Mark not knowing the Pobble! ‘…nobody ever could see the face of the Quangle Wangle Quee’ - one of my favourites!
I just searched "oil and water" on here to see if anyone was posting about this puzzle set! I've had a ton of fun with it although I might be crashing and burning on the 10th (last) puzzle in the set. The one that I had to start over on was number 8. #crackingthecryptic
Just spent far too long on #CrackingTheCryptic May Patreon challenge grid 3. I couldn’t disambiguate it at all. I ended up clearing it and restarting, and I seemed to somehow not make the same mistake the second time around. Still took me 55 minutes though. But I do like this “Oil and Water” […]
Ooh no, generally a good cryptic crossword is very logical and has rules - you just have to learn them! If you’re interested, maybe start with #minutecryptic or the Guardian’s Quick Cryptic series - or fifteensquared.net or some of the many great videos, such as #crackingthecryptic on YouTube
Really enjoying #crackingthecryptic Times crossword - but finding myself wanting to shout through the screen more than usual 😂 I’m usually too slow 😂
It took a couple of attempts, but yesterday's #CrackingTheCryptic was a lot of fun to solve
www.youtube.com/watch?v=-L9q...
Ich liege gerade in der Wanne, werde nachher ein bisschen #CrackingTheCryptic gucken und dabei häkeln. Ansonsten nur Spaziergang mit dem Hund geplant. Sonntag!
A plane next to a ground power unit with a quincunx emblazoned on it
#quincunx spotted in the wild. #CrackingTheCryptic
Great introduction to Fog of War Sudoku! No guessing required to solve. The other part that wasn't immediately clear my first time playing was that you can enter numbers into fog areas. #puzzles #sudoku #crackingthecryptic
Tried to do Zwift & CTC yesterday. Not there yet 🤔
#crackingthecryptic
I try not to miss Simon's solves on Cracking The Cryptic, but this one was particularly good, and surprisingly easy, too. There is a link to give it a go yourself. #sudoku #crackingthecryptic
www.youtube.com/watch?v=z0rb...
Another lovely and approachable #CrackingTheCryptic sudoku variant puzzle tonight.
I may be a slight bit exhausted and inebriated. I failed to read an arrow, and so missed a logical deduction. Finished in 15:45
A lovely and approachable "fog of war" sudoku today on Cracking The Cryptic:
sudokupad.app/18p5s54kcz
Rules and solve here:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ON3...
#crackingTheCryptic #sudoku
Tonights #CrackingTheCryptic is clearly one close to my heart!
"The Astronomy of #Sudoku" - puzzle by Scojo, live-solve by Simon:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=pqS8...
A #CrackingTheCryptic video titled #Supersymmetry? Yeah, I'm definitely trying it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_qIBjkX1TMk
A #CrackingTheCryptic video titled #Supersymmetry? Yeah, I'm definitely trying it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_qIBjkX1TMk
