Cracking The Cryptic

It's Friday so it's masterclass day! Today's @thetimes cryptic crossword is by one of THE great constructors, John Guiver. It's magnificent... (and quite hard!) youtu.be/UAdwSDdjVZU @serpent_xwords @Mickhodgkin #crossword #minutecryptic

We're having a go at the new game The Artisan Of Glimmith from @lunarchstudios (creators of Islands Of Insight).... If you want to watch two sudoku experts battle these puzzles, we'd love to have your company! youtube.com/live/qfCLHPML4… #artisanofglimmith

A movie-length edition this evening as Simon tackles a truly mind-bending sudoku from Las4one called FUll Rankillers. This one is quite hard....!! youtu.be/OFuVsaFv1ZE #sudoku

It is definitely popcorn night tonight on Cracking The Cryptic... :) Any guesses on the puzzle? (And the video will probably go live 10mins late due to the time it's taking to upload... apologies!) 🍿🍿🍿🍨🍨🍨🍨🍿🍿🍿

Want to watch two "sudoku experts" back in the Blue Prince mansion (for the 36th time!)?!! We're live now: youtube.com/live/X3tRQR_u2… @dogubomb #blueprince

It's Friday so here's our masterclass solve of today's @thetimes cryptic crossword! It's by our friend Colin Thomas today and it's a great one to learn some of the tricks from. youtu.be/GpfL0c1D-W8 @serpent_xwords @Mickhodgkin #crossword

Two sudoku experts (one tipsy) in the Blue Prince mansion for the 35th time.... Now that sounds like an evening of top-tier entertainment! And it's happening right now: youtube.com/live/_MQBd2h5A… @dogubomb #blueprince

Mark runs our Friday masterclass on today's@thetimescrossword by Jason Crampton. See how to solve the puzzle here: youtu.be/Hj2bNZstLzc @serpent_xwords @Mickhodgkin #crossword

We're back in the Blue Prince mansion now (for the 30 somethingth time!). Love to have your company if you're free and want to watch to sudoku "experts" attempt to figure out this incredible game :) youtube.com/live/ncPRRVliw… #blueprince @dogubomb

A lovely bonus on the channel this morning from those clever folk over at Jane Street (@JaneStreetGroup): a puzzle called Party Planning that we found really entertaining. Check it out (and their Academy Of Math & Programming too if you're eligible). youtu.be/_1nReDjfoVI

This might look like a sudoku but it's White to move and mate in 1...!!? youtu.be/cAj0gZA5ccE #chess #puzzle

Here's our Friday masterclass on today's @thetimes crossword by James McGaughey. A lot of errors have been logged today... but WHICH clue was causing the problem?! youtu.be/7WsD0Wou8e8 @serpent_xwords @Mickhodgkin #crossword

We're back in the Blue Prince mansion right now. Love your company if you're free! Sudoku nerds vs Puzzle Game Of The Year... for the 33rd time! youtube.com/live/lOnZ8-7im… @dogubomb #blueprince

The 14-year old Simon would have loved to try this puzzle... At least he wouldn't have had any difficulty remembering his school maths then... youtu.be/RbjLl7O_Qx0 #quadratics #maths (And we're in the Blue Prince mansion later on at 10pm UK time...!)

Here's our masterclass for today's fantastic @thetimes crossword from John Guiver: youtu.be/J9GSLqcWQGY The clues today are just unbelievably good (and the Quick Cryptic by Loon is great too!) @Mickhodgkin @serpent_xwords #crossword

We're back in the Blue Prince mansion this evening. We'd love to have your company if you're free. youtube.com/live/5yb720Zqn… #blueprince @dogubomb

We thought Claude Opus was just for writing code and emails. We were wrong. It just created a Sudoku with a logic path so 'human' it's really surprised us. Is this the new benchmark for AI reasoning? @Anthropic @DarioAmodei @DanielaAmodei @jackclarkSF youtube.com/watch?v=uK4Mas…

Tonight's puzzle requires some unusual thinking - what a debut from Sneppix! youtu.be/ejAp2wK1B8w #logic

Do you have any popcorn in the house? 🍿🍿🍿

It's always such a pleasure to welcome one of our viewers onto the channel to attempt a puzzle! Awesome work by Beatrice on a fabulous (and difficult) sudoku by cornishjohn: youtu.be/YNTpvdIpA58 #sudoku #puzzle