How Can This Sudoku Be Real?

** TODAY'S PUZZLE **
We've had a lot of requests and recommendations for this daunting sudoku from Marty Sears: Everything In Its Right Place. It has a 100% approval rating and a maximum difficulty rating. It is also, when you read the rules and think about them for a few moments, absolutely unbelievable that this puzzle can work/exist/be solvable/etc? One of the great sudokus.

Play the puzzle at the following link:

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Rules:
Normal sudoku rules apply. Draw 3 snakes which must each begin and end at a different grey spot. Snakes are lines which may move orthogonally and diagonally between cells. They may touch each other (or themselves), and can even cross each other, but they must not branch, share cells with each other, or enter cages. A digit on a snake indicates exactly how many times that digit appears on that snake. Eg: If there is a 5 on a snake, there are five 5s on that snake. One snake is a “German Whisper” line; along it, adjacent digits must differ by at least 5. One snake is a “slow thermometer”; along this line, reading from one end to the other, digits must always increase or stay the same. One snake is “entropic”; along it, any group of 3 adjacent cells must contain one low digit (1, 2 or 3), one medium digit (4, 5 or 6) and one high digit (7, 8 or 9.) Digits in a cage must sum to the small clue given in that cage. Digits separated by a V sum to 5.

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100 4x4 Snackdoku pack from the Skunkworks was released on 1 December as our monthly reward.

Simon's solve of Broken Secrets by TotallyNormalCat was also released yesterday. You can try that puzzle here: https://sudokupad.app/jMg44R2tpb

There's also Mark's latest battle with The Times' Club Monthly Special cryptic crossword.

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▶ Contents Of This Video ◀

0:00 Theme music & puzzle Intro
2:12 Chants Of Sennaar Upcoming
2:27 Kickstarter - just 5 days left
2:52 Snackdokus competition
3:28 Happy Birthdays
4:59 Rules
9:30 Start of Solve: Let's Get Cracking

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