hello and welcome to thursday's edition of cracking the cryptic and we have something very special to try today and very unusual i should add the puzzle on screen has been cooked up by no less than NUMBER_TOKEN of the fantastic soul setters that we have over on our discord server and literally apparently they all get together they give themselves NUMBER_TOKEN minutes each to add an extra rule to the puzzle and the result is this one and some of the setters involved in this are names that you'll all recognize they've appeared appeared on the channel many times before so this is really a collaboration of complete setting geniuses um and the testing reports say that that what they've managed to create is a beautiful beautiful sudoku puzzle so we're in for an absolute treat now i'll read out the names of all those involved in creating it it's going to be difficult i think i'm just going to refer to them as the geniuses after this but it's ben it's bataku it's clover gliberal hakisan lavaloid prasanna sashadri punching kato who i think is priyan bhushan reverend ricky cruz rsp shy tossed crunch and ex-owned um i think it's x-owned is it x-owned has how i should say that or zoned i'm not sure but i think it's x-owned um so it's it really is a stellar lineup um and some unusual lengthy rules because obviously if each one of them is adding on a new constraint every NUMBER_TOKEN minutes we've got quite a lot going on in the puzzle but i am absolutely well i'm very much looking forward to trying this one um now the other news of course is reverend's puzzle hunt reverend who actually was you know one of the authors of the puzzle on the screen um that came out two or three days ago to the most incredible reception i mean we have been astonished at how many of you have tried it how many of you have got through it i have another list of names to read out today so many congratulations to jonathan mason oliver sperandio tom morley ben cleary hamlin parched mind stephen mccallum uh robert anders biggie badbol joel seligstein andreas meyer no this is the one that mark had to read out the other day i will read this very carefully haribe al sakh make of that what you will john john chiofi gosh i'm such a child um team vival team favala joshua chang ben batera becky lovell and tom fisher and hannah w fantastic solving all of you really really well done um and if you want to have a go at reverend's puzzle hunt the way to get it is just become a patron of the channel over on patreon and to do that you just click that link i shall try and remember to put a link on the screen right now now let's get to the rules of this one what is going on we've got normal sudoku rules apply i don't know which of them contributed that rule um the gray circle uh is odd that's that
START_SELFPROMO_TOKEN one um now the other news of course is reverend's puzzle hunt reverend who actually was you know one of the authors of the puzzle on the screen um that came out two or three days ago to the most incredible reception i mean we have been astonished at how many of you have tried it how many of you have got through it i have another list of names to read out today so many congratulations to jonathan mason oliver sperandio tom morley ben cleary hamlin parched mind stephen mccallum uh robert anders biggie badbol joel seligstein andreas meyer no this is the one that mark had to read out the other day i will read this very carefully haribe al sakh make of that what you will john john chiofi gosh i'm such a child um team vival team favala joshua chang ben batera becky lovell and tom fisher and hannah w fantastic solving all of you really really well done um and if you want to have a go at reverend's puzzle hunt the way to get it is just become a patron of the channel over on patreon and to do that you just click that link i shall try and remember to put a link on the screen right now END_SELFPROMO_TOKEN