Get Your Crayons! A Colourful Sudoku

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At 4pm this afternoon we released Blobz new sudoku hunt, Back To The Future!! One of the best films ever now has its sudoku tribute - join us for as little as $2 a month to play. Closing date 20 September 2025.

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** TODAY'S PUZZLE **
Eric Rathbun's sudoku, Get Your Crayons, has a sort of miracle sudoku quality - it doesn't seem possible that so few clues can do so much heavy lifting... and yet...!

How difficult it is might partly depend on whether you believe it's possible to finish... It is definitely worth persevering :)

Play the puzzle at the links below:

https://sudokupad.app/97wi902h8v

Rules:
Normal sudoku rules apply. Clues outside the grid give the sum of the digits along the indicated diagonal. Digits separated by a white dot have a difference of one, while digits separated by a black dot are in a 1 to 2 ratio (ie one digit will be double the other). Not all possible dots are given. Cells separated by a single knight's move (in chess) do not contain the same digit. Cells separated by a single king's move (in chess) do not contain the same digit.

** LIVE CRACKING THE CRYPTIC SHOW **
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The deadline to enter the August competition has passed, but we are excited at what the September Patreon reward will be! Watch for the first of the month, when we will release something we think you will really enjoy! Just $2/month for the monthly reward, $3/month (or higher) for solution videos. Lots of other great content available, including crosswords, Connections videos – along with past rewards! There is also a Patreon-only channel on our discord for help with the puzzles. Your support makes a big difference to us – thank you!

▶SUDOKU WORMS NOW LIVE! ◀ You can try worms (strings of sudoku which feed into each other) by Marty Sears or James Sinclair – (or both – approx. $1 apiece) – with more to come – either on Steam at these addresses or on AppStore:
Steam: https://store.steampowered.com/app/37...
https://store.steampowered.com/app/37...
AppStore https://apps.apple.com/us/app/crackin...
Android: https://play.google.com/store/apps/de...
and our latest full app is Cracking the Cryptic’s Fog-of-War Sudoku!
All our apps can be found at our website with links to all outlets:
https://www.crackingthecryptic.com/apps

▶ SVEN’S SUDOKU PAD ◀ Input classic sudoku puzzles into our software. With 12 free puzzles:
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Android: https://play.google.com/store/apps/de...
Amazon: Search for “SudokuPad”

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https://coffeebean.games/product-cate... Cracking the Cryptic’s Greatest Hits Vol. 1 and Vol 2, as well as the e-book editions of Fog of War (regular and deluxe editions), are all available!

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▶Credits◀
Music: Lucy Audrin (Piano): Mozart's Sonata no 16; and Mark’s outro music by Riffclown.
SOFTWARE: Thanks to Sam Cappleman-Lynes and Sven Neumann
Logo: Melvyn Mainini
Opening Credits: Burak Mescioğlu

▶ABOUT US◀
Hi! We're Simon Anthony and Mark Goodliffe, two of the UK's most enthusiastic puzzle solvers. We have both represented the UK at the World Sudoku Championships and the World Puzzle Championships. We're also "cryptic crossword" aficionados. Mark is the 13-time winner of The Times crossword championship and twice Senior World Champion in Sudoku, and Simon is the former record holder for most consecutive correct solutions to The Listener crossword. We hope we can help your puzzle solving while also introducing you to some of the world's best puzzles.

▶ Contents Of This Video ◀

0:00 Intro music and puzzle discussion
1:29 Sudoku Worms
3:03 Rules
6:01 Start of Solve: Let's Get Cracking

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