hello and welcome to friday's edition of cracking the cryptic where today we're going to be trying a puzzle with a very unusual achievement to its name this puzzle has a NUMBER_TOKEN approval rating on logic masters germany and a NUMBER_TOKEN star out of NUMBER_TOKEN difficulty rating as well so it sort of hit the jackpot in two respects it's called friends squared and it's by joe wavren and joe made this as a birthday present uh for his friend jovial and i'm sure many of you recognize jovial's name she is one of the greatest setters on earth of sudoku puzzles so um and in fact joeville is one of the people who recommended this to us we've had stacks of recommendations for this puzzle in recent days apparently it is something of a masterpiece i'm very delighted to see five given digits in the grid and the green squares are friendly squares now i have done friendly sudhoku a couple of times before recent well i say recently doesn't feel recent to me but i know i've done them before and i can't remember anything about them or what i've learned about them so this could be a very very long video you will know better than me um now i've got a couple of things to mention before i read you the rules so uh firstly oberdin we're going to be returning to the good ship obradin on sunday evening at NUMBER_TOKEN p.m uk time and we'd love to have your company if you want to see us floundering around trying to be detectives um yeah that would be great also yes on the the uh this puzzle which is two truths and a lie by zetamath um is well it's being rumored to be the best sudoku of all time it's an incredibly clever puzzle and my solve of this has been on patreon now for a couple of couple of weeks but we we said we were going to release it on the channel and we are tomorrow morning uk time NUMBER_TOKEN a.m this puzzle or the video of this puzzle will go live um so if any of you have been struggling to do it you will be able to see my attempt now if you haven't had a chance to have a go at it do have a go you can play this right now there's a link under this video you will have to go through the rules which are prodigious in terms of their length basically every standard type of sudoku rule is included in this grid and each time three times so you can see there are three german whispers lines for example and two of them are true one of them is a lie so you basically are going to have to employ that uh that knowledge repeatedly even to solve the puzzle it's absolutely brilliant do have a go if you have time and as i say the video of this one is going live on the channel NUMBER_TOKEN a.m tomorrow um now the only other thing i wanted to mention actually is a little bit more somber um this i'm a big fan of poetry if you follow the channel you'll know ir is something that i i do enjoy and i especially enjoy the work of brian bilston and he regularly tweets his poetry and this appeared on on his twitter account yesterday and
START_SELFPROMO_TOKEN um now i've got a couple of things to mention before i read you the rules so uh firstly oberdin we're going to be returning to the good ship obradin on sunday evening at NUMBER_TOKEN p.m uk time and we'd love to have your company if you want to see us floundering around trying to be detectives um yeah that would be great also yes on the the uh this puzzle which is two truths and a lie by zetamath um is well it's being rumored to be the best sudoku of all time it's an incredibly clever puzzle and my solve of this has been on patreon now for a couple of couple of weeks but we we said we were going to release it on the channel and we are tomorrow morning uk time NUMBER_TOKEN a.m this puzzle or the video of this puzzle will go live um so if any of you have been struggling to do it you will be able to see my attempt now if you haven't had a chance to have a go at it do have a go you can play this right now there's a link under this video you will have to go through the rules which are prodigious in terms of their length basically every standard type of sudoku rule is included in this grid and each time three times so you can see there are three german whispers lines for example and two of them are true one of them is a lie so you basically are going to have to employ that uh that knowledge repeatedly even to solve the puzzle it's absolutely brilliant do have a go if you have time and as i say the video of this one is going live on the channel NUMBER_TOKEN a.m tomorrow um now the only other thing i wanted to mention actually is a little bit more somber um this i'm a big fan of poetry if you follow the channel you'll know ir is something that i i do enjoy and i especially enjoy the work of brian bilston and he regularly tweets his poetry and this appeared on on his twitter account yesterday and END_SELFPROMO_TOKEN