hello and welcome to saturday's edition of cracking the cryptic where today we're going to be taking a look at a puzzle that only appeared on logic masters germany yesterday and i think it has broken the record for how many times we have been we've had this puzzle requested already i think we're up to NUMBER_TOKEN NUMBER_TOKEN times this puzzle has been suggested stroke recommended to us in less than NUMBER_TOKEN hours it is absolutely remarkable it's called this way please and it's by mr menace mr melissa's all well his puzzles are always brilliant um but this one apparently is an absolutely special puzzle and it's meant to be genuinely approachable so if you find some of the puzzles that we do very uh very tricky and well you'd be in good company um then this one might be one to give to get devote some time to it should be doable uh it's got a very interesting rule as well it's sort of it looks like arrow sudoku but it's an interesting twist on it i've noticed at the end of the rules which i will read you in just a moment um two things to mention first uh tomorrow night NUMBER_TOKEN p.m uk time mark and i are returning to the good ship obradin to try and solve more murders we'd love to have your company um so hope to see you there i'll try and remember to put a link to that on the screen right now the other link i will put up is to this video which has finally been released on the channel um so we released this on patreon a couple of weeks ago uh it's um well it's it's my solve of two truths and a lie by zeta math this is a puzzle some people are describing as the best sudoku there has ever been i totally understand that having solved it it is it's just a masterpiece do give it some time you can play this puzzle right now by clicking the link under this video um it's got a long set of rules but the rules are all standard and it is a joy so yeah you can you can either have a go at that or watch me solve it on the channel right now and do do leave some nice comments if you do enjoy either of those things because i'm sure zetameth well he certainly deserves the plaudits so it would be nice for him to get some um now let's go back to mr menace and i'll read the rules to this way please and i've got two given digits thank you very much mr menace you're most generous we've got normal sudoku rules apply digits along an arrow sum to the digit in that arrow circle so this circle here is the sum of those two digits um additionally the digit in an arrow circle will repeat in a cell pointed at by that circle's arrow tip so let's stick with this arrow here so let's say this square was a six i think what we're being told here is that this digit here the six will repeat in a cell pointed at by this arrow tip so in one of those two positions yeah it says this repeat can be in one can be one or more cells away from the arrow tip but not the arrow tip cell itself so yeah so what
START_SELFPROMO_TOKEN um two things to mention first uh tomorrow night NUMBER_TOKEN p.m uk time mark and i are returning to the good ship obradin to try and solve more murders we'd love to have your company um so hope to see you there i'll try and remember to put a link to that on the screen right now the other link i will put up is to this video which has finally been released on the channel um so we released this on patreon a couple of weeks ago uh it's um well it's it's my solve of two truths and a lie by zeta math this is a puzzle some people are describing as the best sudoku there has ever been i totally understand that having solved it it is it's just a masterpiece do give it some time you can play this puzzle right now by clicking the link under this video um it's got a long set of rules but the rules are all standard and it is a joy so yeah you can you can either have a go at that or watch me solve it on the channel right now and do do leave some nice comments if you do enjoy either of those things because i'm sure zetameth well he certainly deserves the plaudits so it would be nice for him to get some um now let's go back to mr menace and i'll read the rules to this way please END_SELFPROMO_TOKEN