When Sudoku Becomes Poetry...

** TODAY'S PUZZLE **
Exceptional stuff today from Marty Sears and Dorlir who somehow trump what they can each produce individually!! It's called Catch The Zippersnake and makes Simon feel all poetic... (yes, Captain Beaky is POETRY!).

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Rules:
Normal sudoku rules apply. Draw a snake that starts and ends at a purple spot and has a purple spot exactly at its centre. The snake can only move orthogonally from cell to cell, and may not touch itself, not even diagonally. The snake functions as a “zipper line” ie any pair of digits that are an equal distance from the central spot sum to the digit on that central spot. Any pair of cells connected by a clue (dot, diamond, X or V) must either both be on the snake, or both be off the snake. Cells connected by a white dot contain consecutive digits. Cells connected by black dot contain digits in a 1:2 ratio (ie one is double the other.) Cells connected by a green dot must contain digits with a difference of at least 5. Cells connected by a red diamond contain digits with the same parity (ie both are odd or both are even.) Cells connected by an X contain digits summing to 10. Cells connected by a V contain digits summing to 5.


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▶ Contents Of This Video ◀

0:00 Theme music & Puzzle intro
1:17 arctan's sudoku
3:47 Riffclown's Sudoku Hunt IS JUST OUT
4:33 Happy Birthdays
8:33 Hissing Sid
9:47 Rules
14:05 Start of Solve: Let's Get Cracking
1:19:30 The Raven by Edgar Allan Poe

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