hello and welcome to sunday's edition of cracking the cryptic where i'm under a bit of time pressure today it's my father's birthday happy birthday dad if you're watching uh i'm expected out to lunch i've no idea how long lunch might go on for but it might be a while um so i was meant to get a video done earlier this morning and of course i have failed so we're going to be looking at this puzzle and i'm hoping shy i'm hoping shy this isn't an absolute monster it's called binary fission and it's a classic sudoku and shai wrote to us and said that she's really proud of this one and if shai says she's proud of it that basically means it's going to be awesome um now interestingly i haven't heard from the testers i need to put this into a solver sometimes they tell me put it into a solver and it'll and the soul will say it's absolutely monstrously difficult but i've not been told that today so it might be approachable although i do know that shy's puzzles recently have all been showcasing sort of unusual logical techniques so we'll have a look at this i don't quite understand binary fission in the title someone will have to explain it to me at the end um now before we kick off and i read you the rules which won't take long um i want to just mention of course this incredible puzzle pack we've got going on um over on patreon at the moment this is available free on patreon um it's panthera and the asylums um basically introduction to japanese some sudoku and these puzzles are beautiful because they're so colorful and because you basically get a picture once you complete them correctly so if you um hopefully many of you all know the rules of japanese some sudoku but if you don't read the rules and you'll understand um but each of these puzzles leads to a picture don't get stung we can perhaps imagine what that mom might be um i don't know what that one is um eclipse there and there's a not an alarm clock dedicated to simon so i haven't actually done that one yet so i should really do that and find out what what has been dedicated to me um anyway i say do have a go at those you will enjoy them and these are preparation for our november monthly reward on patreon which is coming in just a week's time where there will be a whole plethora of these puzzles for you to solve all of different difficulties going right through the difficulty scale and they are gorgeous so we're looking forward to releasing that in due course now let's get on with binary fission i'll read the rules here we go normal sudoku rules apply there i've said it that's it so do have a go as always i'm cracking the cryptic you can play the puzzles yourselves the way to do it is to click the link under the video in the video description and that will allow you to play the puzzle on whichever device takes your fancy and with that i get to play let's get cracking so twos i can see have to
START_SELFPROMO_TOKEN um now before we kick off and i read you the rules which won't take long um i want to just mention of course this incredible puzzle pack we've got going on um over on patreon at the moment this is available free on patreon um it's panthera and the asylums um basically introduction to japanese some sudoku and these puzzles are beautiful because they're so colorful and because you basically get a picture once you complete them correctly so if you um hopefully many of you all know the rules of japanese some sudoku but if you don't read the rules and you'll understand um but each of these puzzles leads to a picture don't get stung we can perhaps imagine what that mom might be um i don't know what that one is um eclipse there and there's a not an alarm clock dedicated to simon so i haven't actually done that one yet so i should really do that and find out what what has been dedicated to me um anyway i say do have a go at those you will enjoy them and these are preparation for our november monthly reward on patreon which is coming in just a week's time where there will be a whole plethora of these puzzles for you to solve all of different difficulties going right through the difficulty scale and they are gorgeous so we're looking forward to releasing that in due course now let's get on with binary fission i'll END_SELFPROMO_TOKEN