Only four days remain to get in on the Kickstarter for Cracking the Cryptic's Greatest Hits Volume 2!
If you have even a passing interest in #sudoku, you owe it to yourself to develop a deeper interest, and preferably to do so before this campaign ends Friday.
I have the first volume from last year's Kickstarter, and it is fantastic, but many of the puzzles are fiendishly difficult for me, so I haven't finished them all. Also, the campaign hit a stretch goal for spiral binding, so I've upgraded my pledge this time around to get a reprint of that first volume that can lay flat on a table more easily.
I don't get anything out of this pitch, I just love the YouTube channel, love the first book, and want to see Simon and Mark continue to succeed.
@pwinn So what is this really? Puzzle scenarios you have to solve, or? The kind of stuff you can happily pass time with on the toilet?
I'm kinda burnt out on the regular sudokus that you can find anywhere. My favorite variation is the Consecutive Sudoku, or also known as Sudoku +1.
@trinsec Variant sudoku puzzles, yes. Last volume started with a single "classic" sudoku, but then added a series of variant rules to make things more... interesting. For example, the YouTubers responsible for this book just posted one of their twice-daily videos that features a puzzle with what appear to be four (4) variant rules in addition to the normal rules of sudoku.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8jSAUaGiuhI
I haven't watched it yet, but that's the sort of puzzle one should find in the book. In that case, it looks like: Knight's Move, Little Killers, Killer Sudoku, and a rule I've never seen before involving a pink line.
@trinsec I should add that every one of these puzzles is hand-crafted, none assembled by computer. Most sites I've found that have exorbitant numbers of sudoku puzzles to solve generated them automatically, even the ones with a new puzzle every day. These CtC guys loathe the very concept of computer-generated puzzles.
With hand-crafted puzzles, you can be led along a solve path that is often elegant to watch unfold.
