hello and welcome back to cracking the cryptic and uh ah i'm looking at this grid and going what on earth is going on so yesterday i called the puzzle the called the video something like you won't believe how empty this grid is and look there is just nothing in this grid except some cages and a rule set that i've had a very quick look at and my mind is blown like to be fair a couple of days ago no i mean i suppose a week ago maybe we did a puzzle i did a puzzle which only had killer cages but the cages had to have unique sums and i could sort of picture how that would lead to a uniquely solving sudoku just actually it was very hard but it did it was very clever this though well we'll get to the rules in a minute um let's mention patreon first tomorrow is the first of december and the day of release of our mexican standoff competition so that is coming up tomorrow three puzzles sent in by three different constructors who had no idea they were taking part in a competition but a meta puzzle will link it all together and make one of them the winner and you have to find out who that is they have to find out who that is they don't know um so that's coming up tomorrow do join us on patreon if you haven't already or if you are i don't know how you get patreon notifications i think there's something you can click there to make sure you do get them and uh it'll be out at NUMBER_TOKEN pm our time anyway so that's going on there um also well our book is starting to arrive in um in various locations in the usa so thank you very much to everybody who has commented on that i saw several people saying how annoying it arrives on a work day i'm either going to have to take a day's vacation or just think about it all day till i get home and start trying the puzzles that's great i mean we're very pleased with the reaction but i guess only a minority of the books have turned up so far the rest are on their way it seems so good news and uh we're very pleased with that now you can't at the moment we're close to pre-orders so you can't order a copy of it until all this shipping is finished and then we'll reopen for for printing more books um and you won't get those before christmas so only if you've ordered this the book on if you've been part of the kickstarter will you get the book before christmas i'm afraid that was a surprising extra benefit of being on kickstarter i mean the whole thing's been been delayed more than more than we expected more than anybody with knowledge of world shipping at the time we started the kickstarter expected but things have happened in the world and we are not immune to them um now what else the apps of course they're all available sudoku pad now available on windows um with steam that is on the link under the video it's also on ichio i think as well if you hate steam for some reason not sure anybody does um and do check it out on the links under the video and uh loads going on as always merchandise too i showed you the let's get cracking t-shirt yesterday
START_SELFPROMO_TOKEN um let's mention patreon first tomorrow is the first of december and the day of release of our mexican standoff competition so that is coming up tomorrow three puzzles sent in by three different constructors who had no idea they were taking part in a competition but a meta puzzle will link it all together and make one of them the winner and you have to find out who that is they have to find out who that is they don't know um so that's coming up tomorrow do join us on patreon if you haven't already or if you are i don't know how you get patreon notifications i think there's something you can click there to make sure you do get them and uh it'll be out at NUMBER_TOKEN pm our time anyway so that's going on there um also well our book is starting to arrive in um in various locations in the usa so thank you very much to everybody who has commented on that i saw several people saying how annoying it arrives on a work day i'm either going to have to take a day's vacation or just think about it all day till i get home and start trying the puzzles that's great i mean we're very pleased with the reaction but i guess only a minority of the books have turned up so far the rest are on their way it seems so good news and uh we're very pleased with that now you can't at the moment we're close to pre-orders so you can't order a copy of it until all this shipping is finished and then we'll reopen for for printing more books um and you won't get those before christmas so only if you've ordered this the book on if you've been part of the kickstarter will you get the book before christmas i'm afraid that was a surprising extra benefit of being on kickstarter i mean the whole thing's been been delayed more than more than we expected more than anybody with knowledge of world shipping at the time we started the kickstarter expected but things have happened in the world and we are not immune to them um now what else the apps of course they're all available sudoku pad now available on windows um with steam that is on the link under the video it's also on ichio i think as well if you hate steam for some reason not sure anybody does um and do check it out on the links under the video and uh loads going on as always merchandise too i showed you the let's get cracking t-shirt yesterday END_SELFPROMO_TOKEN