The Californian Mountain Snake

** TODAY'S PUZZLE **
A new author makes their debut today, Video Floral, and what a debut. This is an extraordinary sudoku combining, seemingly effortlessly, normal sudoku, yin-yang, german whispers and renban - all built around this long red snake! Simon doesn't find this an easy puzzle but boy is it brilliant (and it's got a perfect 100% rating on LMD).

Play the puzzle at the link below:

https://app.crackingthecryptic.com/su...

Rules:
Normal sudoku rules apply. Shade some cells in the grid such that all shaded cells are orthogonally connected and all unshaded cells are orthogonally connected. No 2x2 box may be fully shaded or fully unshaded. Along the red line, each run of cells with the same shading contains a non-repeating set of consecutive digits in any order. Along the red line, digits in each pair of adjacent cells with different shading must differ by at least 5. The grey cell is shaded.

** KICKSTARTER - JUST ONE WEEK TO GO **

Please don't forget our KICKSTARTER campaign - it's the only way to get a copy of our new book, Cracking The Cryptic's Greatest Hits Volume 2! Check it out here:

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/...

** NEW PATREON SOLVE **
Simon has recorded his solve of Mr Menace's EXCEPTIONAL puzzle Masyudoku. This is so good that Simon is a tiny bit concerned that it might be enjoyed by a wider audience, despite its ruleset (which is much easier to get to grips with if the solver has a working knowledge of the Japanese logic puzzle Masyu).

You can find the puzzle here and watch Simon's solve on Patreon:
https://logic-masters.de/Raetselporta...

And there's also The 12 Labours Of Hercules - a fantastic sudoku hunt by Peter Veenis, Aspartagcus and Panthera - with original art by Peter! A shout-out on the channel for successful solvers of the whole pack :)

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** NEW GAS PACK IS OUT **
The new GAS pack is out on Steam for PC here:

https://store.steampowered.com/app/21...

It's already out on Android and App Store. 60 original puzzles by Sam Cappleman-Lynes, Clover and Philip Newman!! Earn party hats and dinosaurs with these brand new puzzles!

We've also released a FREE app full of handmade puzzles to celebrate reaching 500k subscribers - simply download the Cracking The Cryptic app on Android, Steam or App Store and then select the 500k pack. We're streaming a playthrough of this app and you can watch all seven episodes

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▶ SUDOKU PAD - Our New App ◀

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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