The Mad Miracle Sudoku

** TODAY'S PUZZLE **
Mark makes Simon open this one live on camera. It's an absolute beast. Incredible looking, seemingly impossible to understand (unless you're a computer programmer!) but is it actually solvable? Try thoughtbyte's Friendly Indexing Miracle and see what you think!

Play the puzzle at the link below:

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Rules:
Normal sudoku rules apply. A cell is "friendly" if it contains its row, column, or 3x3 box number. [Boxes are numbered in normal reading order ie top left (box 1) through to bottom right (box 9).) All friendly cells are column and row indexers, and they must index at least one cell other than themselves. Column indexing: friendly digits in column X indicate the column in which the digit X appears in that row. Row indexing: Friendly digits in row X indicate the row in which the digit X appears in that column. Friendly indexer example: if r3c6 is a 2, then r3c2 is a 6 and r2c6 is a 3. Digits may not repeat along the indicated diagonal.

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▶ Contents Of This Video ◀

0:00 Theme music & puzzle reveal
2:00 Rules
6:20 Kraken The Cryptic - a NEW sudoku hunt on Patreon!
7:31 Happy birthdays and marriages!
10:54 Start Of Solve - Let's Get Cracking!

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▶ SUDOKU PAD - Use Our Software For Your Puzzles ◀

You can input classic sudoku puzzles into our software and help support Sven, the programmer responsible for the wonderful user interface we all use to play these puzzles everyday. The app also comes with 12 handmade puzzles from us:

iOS:
https://apps.apple.com/us/app/svens-s...

Steam: https://store.steampowered.com/app/17...
Android:

https://play.google.com/store/apps/de...

ALSO on Amazon: Search for “SudokuPad”

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