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September Patreon Reward - Hollywood Lunchbox

🕑 Added 2024-09-01 15:00:12 +0000 UTC

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Helen

The whole of puzzle 1 took me 100 something minutes… puzzle 2 took 43😂

Helen

I struggled to figure out this hint at first, but once I wrapped my head around it, it really helped big time, so thank you! (Only just got round to September’s edition😁)

Quark Twain

I'm only able to solve these sandwich puzzles with BLT. (Bifurcation and Lots of Trial-and-error.)

Janek Möller

Did somebody manage to use the '*' for the title-hints?

Nick

Great puzzles finally had time to sit down and do them. What a joy

Timothy Riggs

With the last two puzzles I ended up with matching pairs that I couldn't resolve. Everything was correct up to then according to the check.

Christopher Bares

I had a bad solution for puzzle one and was led to believe adding was the way to go. I think that is a safe assumption after trying it that way on puzzle 2. It didn't work out.

Rocco V

I thought that too, but I realized the clue could refer to a 2-digit number so that's what I'm assuming at the moment.

Michael Lee

I agree. I like having a mixture of tough and not so tough puzzles, but having the hardest puzzle first and making it a requirement to complete before you can move on isn't ideal

Christopher Bares

Having trouble with the colored cells. The colored cells provide some of the sandwich clues for the next puzzle. Do I add them together and that's the sum for the next corresponding sandwich? Are those colored cells the digits used in the next puzzle for that corresponding sandwich? I'm not sure how to translate the colored cells to the next puzzle.

Leondu

puzzle 1 is the hardest. hint placed on Discord by ctc : In rows 4/6, if there isn’t a 9 in c5, there must be a crust in c7. So in c7 the crusts are either in r1 and r6 or r4 and r9. If they were in r1/6, the effect on the crusts in c8 (in r2/3c8 and r9c8) would put crusts in r4/7c9. And now there couldn’t be a crust in c1 in any of r2/3/4/6/7/8c1, and the sandwich in c1 would be impossible.

Leondu

hint on Discord placed by ctc : In rows 4/6, if there isn’t a 9 in c5, there must be a crust in c7. So in c7 the crusts are either in r1 and r6 or r4 and r9. If they were in r1/6, the effect on the crusts in c8 (in r2/3c8 and r9c8) would put crusts in r4/7c9. And now there couldn’t be a crust in c1 in any of r2/3/4/6/7/8c1, and the sandwich in c1 would be impossible.

David Carroll

I couldn't get through the first puzzle, and had given up on the whole thing, when I heard rumours of a hint. But I had already figured out the crusts in C7, so winning?

CORY THOMAS

Stuck on the first puzzle. Kinda ruins the pack when you can’t move on to any of the others

Jeremy Mitchell

Sorry, I copy pasted the wrong part of the page! It was "The World’s Greatest Sandwich"

Anders Sørensen

Hollywood Lunchbox is the name of the pack, not one of the sudokus :D So we don't know which one you really liked.

Anders Sørensen

#2? Isn't that #3?

Dale Rudrum

Many thanks for hint. Was really struggling with puzzle 1. At least I can move to the second now lol

Vedran Kordić

Could you make a version of puzzles without stars and coloured cells, please? I like using colours when solving sandwich sudoku and this is not helping.

Jeremy Mitchell

I finished all the puzzles. A few of them had some interesting logic, especially Hollywood Lunchbox. It seemed like the puzzles in this pack were much much harder than previous months, but I did get through it.

Matthew Buckley

Yes, I ran into that for a while...

Matthew Buckley

Colors in the grid on one puzzle are clues outside the grid on the next puzzle. As Leondu notes, not all of them are normal sandwich clues, depending on the rules of the specific puzzle, but they are the clues outside the border.

yip van den berg

It is a bit obscure. I completely read over it and was stuck so long on the puzzle. 'All such sums equal to zero are given'. Since there are no sums equal to zero in the puzzle, the 1 and 9 can not be next to each other. If you miss that rule, you cannot finish the puzzle I think.

Vera Weisenberger

Thanks, I found it in the meantime… It was tricky because the Patreon App doesn‘t ask for any of those settings. It still hasn’t worked though because the “Connect“ option keeps giving me sandclocks…

Jon Dahlberg

I hit enter too early. The weird ID is the patreon-chat channel on the CTC discord.

Jon Dahlberg

To obtain the "Patron" or "Top Patron" role, follow instructions detailed on this page: https://support.patreon.com/hc/en-us/articles/212052266-Get-my-Discord-role. Both roles grant you access to <#727949361421615115>. Note that the Patron role is only available for Tier 1.5 pledges. Top Patron is only available for top level pledges.

Leondu

the colored cells are not necessarily sandwich clues

Antti Valkama

the rules for #2 are a bit unclear or maybe it's my bad english

Whisper

Thank you. Sandwich is new to me and I was completely stuck.

Jason Veale

I normally love getting stuck in to the puzzle hunt each month, but not being able to solve the first puzzle is very deflating. I don't always solve every puzzle each month, but I like to give them a crack each time. Hopefully I will have more success next month.

Vera Weisenberger

I am on the CTC discord, but I can‘t seem to find the Patreon channel there… how can I get access?

Darryl Gilbert

Thank you for a wonderful set of puzzles. I was stuck for a bit with the colours, but I see the ruleset is very clear. I really liked the challenge level this month. IMHO the puzzles were progressively harder, but I can understand how some folks are stuck on #1. There are a few challenging deductions to make in each puzzle.

Cracking The Cryptic

Happy to publish the hint here for those not on Discord: In rows 4/6, if there isn’t a 9 in c5, there must be a crust in c7. So in c7 the crusts are either in r1 and r6 or r4 and r9. If they were in r1/6, the effect on the crusts in c8 (in r2/3c8 and r9c8) would put crusts in r4/7c9. And now there couldn’t be a crust in c1 in any of r2/3/4/6/7/8c1, and the sandwich in c1 would be impossible.

Alex Hambrock

Once you have it installed there should be something in your Patreon subscription section for ctc with a link to join the patron only channel

Alex Hambrock

Discord is a free chatting application and a server is basically a community, with its own sub-channels for discussion and moderation staff, etc. There's a CtC one which features a Patreon only channel where people give friendly hints and tips all the time, I really recommend checking it out! You can get Discord on your device App Store or here: https://discord.com/download

Tim Redmond

Can someone explain to me what that means? Discord server is a new concept for me.

Cracking The Cryptic

See the post above - the stars don't matter at all for solving the sudoku puzzles.

Cracking The Cryptic

It is clear that Puzzle 1 may be the hardest puzzle in the set - and accordingly we will be posting a hint around 4pm today in the patreon-chat channel on the Discord server.

Mario

This is a MAGNIFICENT reward. A real MASTERPIECE. Thanks a million. What a ride ! 10-digit code submitted. Can't wait for the next reward. Great work !

Jonathan Stübner

Does the "*" in the cells have any significance? Can't find anything in the rules about them.

Sandra Bittmann

Do i understand it right, that colored clues are sandwich clues? I can't seem to be able to understand that right now....

scralt !

i managed to place a single digit in the first puzzle after 74 minutes. This will be a long one... but definitely enjoying it so far!!

Darryl Gilbert

Thank you for explaining. Red is a duplicate as well.

Matthew Buckley

The colors in the grids only carry over to the *sandwich clues* in the next puzzle. It's a bit of a confusing coincidence that purple was reused for 2-3 and 3-4.

Bill Ehardt

The first puzzle is not very approachable. Seeing lots of people in the discord stuck with finding just 1 digit.

Remy Monsen

I am not sure if it's me or what's not (probably me), but I just saw Simon's latest video, where he called this pack somewhat approachable, and at the end called the puzzle from the video (Rat Run 10) a hard one. I am struggling really hard with the first one in this pack, not been able to complete it yet, while I found that Rat puzzle of only moderate difficulty... Oh well, I'll find my way through this sooner or later (hopefully), just found it funny hearing the words approachable about something I had been struggling with for hours.

Darryl Gilbert

Can someone please explain the rules of the coloured cells? I thought that they were specific one or two digit numbers, which get carried to the next puzzle. In puzzle 4, purple changes digit size, and I also get conflicts between the red and green clues that I don't understand.