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February Patreon reward - "Are You My Mamma?"

🕑 Added 2025-02-01 16:00:17 +0000 UTC

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Sébastien lecoq

My first finished sudoku hunt. It was just accessible enough (I had to restart a few puzzle in the second half). I was able to guess the answer before finishing the puzzles (because I was the correct kind of non-native speaker), but i still pushed through to get all the puzzle, and was finally able too. I really loved the puzzles. Thanks Paint by number institute again. And thanks Sven for those little red digits (next time, i'll try without it).

Mark Skosich

I hope you got it sorted out for Buzzing Along. I finally got to it and worked through the puzzle. The rules are definitely saying that a clue is either entirely shaded or entirely unshaded. If shaded, though, it could be a mix of colors. And FWIW, I had a couple of fails and restarts before getting it to solve.

Stefan Nardini

Oh, thank you so much. Apparently I was so excited about solving the final puzzle and I did not pay enough attention.

Vedran Kordić

The final puzzle gave you the final letter, and directly instructed you how to get the final answer.

Stefan Nardini

I enjoyed the puzzles a lot (though I only realized with the last puzzle that the coloring created pictures on the grid 🙈). This being said, I will probably not be able to participate in the competition. Although I got all the letters, as a non-native speaker I find lt quite difficult to get the correct answer without any other clues. This leaves me a bit frustrated as I put some effort into solving the puzzles in time.

Dani Brosnan

Wow! What a set of sudoku. I am new to Patreon and wasn’t going to join as I didn’t feel like I was good at solving, however, I’m beyond glad I did. I hope you all are enjoying/enjoyed the pack as much as I have!

Laurinda Brown

I have the same problem - Safari can't connect to sudokupad. Luckily I had finished this set and sent in the answer but can't open any of the S's on the You Tube channel.

billy mann

I hope it's fixed soon, it's the first time I've ever had enough spare time to actually sit and give the monthly puzzles a go, it would be a shame to do all but one of them

Leigh Edworthy

Yes. Finished puzzle 9 yesterday. Today, I can't open puzzle 10 or any I've previously solved. It says that Sudokupad's DNS address can't be found

billy mann

Is anybody else having trouble opening any of the puzzles? I was doing puzzle ten yesterday with no problems and today none of them will open

J Watson

Is sudokupad working

Mark Skosich

Thanks Tyler!

Tyler Stauss

Puzzle 9- buzzing along. Do the rules about shading and unshading cells indicate that if one cell of a clue is unshaded, the entire thing is unshaded, and therefore false. It seems to suggest this way, but doing so has led me the wrong direction multiple times.

Tyler Stauss

It’s is different for every puzzle. Read carefully

Mark Skosich

I think I understand the use of the word "clue" in instructions to mean all the "things" (outside sums, lying clues, renbans, kropkis, etc). So that would mean renbans for example are all or nothing.

Mark Skosich

If part of a grid clue (renban, kropki, etc) is definitely shaded , do we then conclude the entire thing is shaded? Same question for unshaded. I so far have been assuming each thing could be a mix (even though mix means lying).

Mark Skosich

There is also a setting in SudokuPad to give the numbers an "outline" coloring that brightens them up considerably when using black cell color

Ben Turmes

No.

Kerishma 'Keri'

Can a shaded cell be shaded two colours? 🤔🤔

Kim Wheeler

Lovely and cute pack, just finished it! Thanks very much!

William Hummel

Got it now, thanks!

Vedran Kordić

There is a pdf attached to the post you replied to, below the text "Simon & Mark". It's hard to miss so probably the web site didn't work properly for you. Try refreshing the page, using a different browser, opening a private window.

William Hummel

Hi, I just signed up as a Patron and I can't figure out how to actually start the puzzles. Do I need to be on the Discord server?

Andrei Fierbinteanu

If you go in the settings, you can enable a white border on the digits, makes them infinitely easier to see on black. Edit: its called "outline on elements" under "visual" section

Robert Gendron

I think just split after the last instruction. I googled the two word result and got results for the phrase, so I sent that in.

Whale

I'm also still confused - are we meant to scramble even after following the instructions in the last puzzle? Because I got two words but it's not an intelligible phrase or anything remotely close to what I've heard on CTC.

Adrian Stubbs

You made the same mistake as me. After 10 puzzles I forgot that there are Lying Clues. I don't know why but I was banging my head on that because of it.

Adrian Stubbs

I've heard them both say it I think, but more frequently by Mark.

Diane Roberts

Love that! It’s an amazing Easter egg for someone like me solving later than others but also checking these comments!❤️

Ryan Free

Is the PDF broken?

Vedran Kordić

It's the puzzle Mark solved in this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qa2OFF7-qNE

ARDavis

Brilliant pack! Thank you!

Panthera Cheshire

We later changed that to a confused bee who thinks he is an elephant

Panthera Cheshire

It's something more often said by Mark than Simon, but Simon has said it in videos too

Panthera Cheshire

When solving, use grey for black, then switch it when the puzzle is finished

A.W.

Thank you! I must have missed that one.

Ian Wallace-Moyer

Nevermind I read the rules more carefully and realized what it was saying

Ian Wallace-Moyer

I had this same question and wondered what was happening there

Nathan Playle

Mark solved this in his 1 Feb video so you can get the link there :) be warned - it's harder than the puzzles in the pack!

Ben Turmes

Not really bad manners, but all puzzles can (and should?) be solved with only the rules mentioned by the authors. ;-)

Sébastien lecoq

Also, note to Mark and Simon, in the solution videos. If you have kids, you are under legal obligation to do the animal noises. If Vimes can do it, so can you.

Sébastien lecoq

I really need to ask. For a friend... Is it considered bad manner to use what you assume of the picture to help with the solving ?

Tamara Holdren

The technique I have used is to use the dark gray for the black. You end up with the picture with a similar look, but the numbers are easier to read. I think there may have only been one puzzle where it had dark gray and black together .. and then one of the colors was so minimal, I substituted a color.

Esther

Same question, I did all the puzzles and submitted answer but nowhere was there a button for a bonus?

A.W.

When Simon shows the solve counts in his videos, there is a bonus puzzle called “No Petting!” listed with 1,000+ solves. Where do I find that? I didn’t see anything in the puzzle pack that mentioned it.

Gerald Collins

From the notes here I went back to the last solution, but still don't get two words. Perhaps next time.

Vedran Kordić

This time only a third of the puzzles contain black colouring; this is a big improvement compared to the previous colouring puzzle set where almost every puzzle had black, so thank you. Of course, I would appreciate more if none of the puzzles had black, because sudokupad has dark blue digits which are very hard to see on dark background. There are other tools like Penpa which allow solvers to change digit colour.

Gerald Collins

I finished last night. And like some others here I have a problem with the final answer. I get noise and one word. I entered what I had. Guess I got it wrong. Ah well.

Tim Hodson

The font has ambiguity. You might be misinterpreting one of the letters.

Brian Pietsch

Ah... thanks, guess I was being dense :) (It's Monday, so I'm allowed!)

David Yingling

It's tricky. You need to look at the post from the "Cracking the Cryptic" memberships on the left sidebar in Patreon. The link doesn;t show up in the normal Home feed with all your memberships. But here it is: https://www.patreon.com/file?h=121168418&m=414461509

Brian Pietsch

I may just be being dense here, but where the link to the puzzles?

Mario

Thanks for this new variant. Fun pack to solve. Easy to make a mistake here and there. Concentration is key.

Christian Studer

That was fun, went faster by than a day in Lake Town. Non-spoiler hints: Make absolutely sure to read the rules to the end for each puzzle. The rules for coloring the clues change from puzzle to puzzle! And if you’re stuck, remember: It’s still Sudoku. ;-)

Vera Weisenberger

Mark uses them more often than Simon.

John Andrew McCullough

https://images.app.goo.gl/MWcZPEwy7bVq3E7z6

John Andrew McCullough

Maybe it’s a Heffalump! https://disney.fandom.com/wiki/Heffalumps

Lynda Garth

It is definitely something that Mark would say :-)

Zero

Yes.

Robert Gendron

Thanks, I read the letter only and missed the instruction there, still never remember hearing those words said in the videos

Nikamar

Read all of the last congratulation message. I tried to scramble the letters too first but when I read the message again it got a bit easier :-)

Robert Gendron

Am I missing something on the solution phrase? The last 5 characters form a word, but the first 6 are nonsense. I don't see any two words descrambled from the 11 characters that jump out at me as something commonly heard on the channel.

Nikamar

Is the solution words something that Mark says often? I only watch Simon's videos and I've never heard him say it?

Erik Hesselink

Yes, took me far too long to figure that out. I don't think it's explicit in the rules? Probably should be.

Lisa Mattson

The order of the colors inside the grid do not necessarily correspond to the order outside the grid

Spyros Soldatos

Anyone knows if colors appear in the grid in the same order as outside the grid?

B.C. Gio

Yes…but the rules imply that the whole zipper line must be shaded, conflicting with the 39u clue for column 5

Trevor Tao

Clue in row 9 should be correct. Note that you can use check-sum logic. The orange row totals should have the same sum as the orange column totals

B.C. Gio

Am I wrong in thinking the clue in row 9 is not correct - I got the solution…but it is clearly not a zipper line when assuming the outside colors are true?

Dragonja

Yes, exactly

sara c

Buzzing along - “I’m sorry, I’m not your mamma said the elephant” is the winning message. Uuummmm I think your having an identity crisis of you own, aren’t you a bee? The story confirms - bee. Colour coding suggests probably not elephant.

Trevor Tao

Took me way too long to discover a fun fact: the last puzzle is broken if you use Renban instead of Zipper Line :-O

Cooper Leher

If there is no number sum clue of a given color (let's say red) outside a row or column, does that guarantee that no cells in that row/column are shaded red?