December Monthly Reward - 100 Snackdokus!

I really enjoyed all these puzzles.

Elizabeth Justusson

That is the palindrome line. The circle at one end is not a thermometer circle. It took me a good while to figure that out. I wondered why there was a rule for something that did not exist in the puzzle.

Elizabeth Justusson

is there a mistake in the rules on "everything" puzzle 90? It says the thermo must increase strictly, but the result is a slo thermo, the answer is 4-4-4?

Peter Galgano

*sigh* I was so much looking forward to trying this lot, to the extent of becoming a patreon. And the wheels have come off completely on puzzle 1 :( I can't see how on earth it can be solved.

John Lagrue

you have to start from the 1 and reach the 3 in five steps (six cells). The line may not touch itself, so in box 1 there's only one cell which may also be on the line. (both others touch the 3 and therefore the line)

Anyone had trouble with understanding the line in puzzle 66, Sour Worm? I got the correct solution and still cannot figure out how the line works.

Gareth Higgs

Hey, I'm now at 92/100, that's an A.

Molly

These are the first set of puzzles I've actually been able to do. They are usually way too hard for me and I gave up. On this set I've gotten 74 out of 100! That's a passing grade in my book! Summer puzzles I just had no clue how to do, like the aforementioned puzzle 57. I would really appreciate some easier challenges. Maybe hard ones for the super brains and an easier set for little old ladies like me.

Molly

I'm logged in. There is an explicit warning "Not shared - Your email and Google account are not part of your response"

Puzzles are GAS but great collection and fun, great work again Skunkworks. Decrypting was the hardest and brilliant :-)

Leondu

at the top the email appears; maybe you have to login to google first

Leondu

Very nice collection. One question about the submission: the Google Form does not seems to include one's email, just the name. Is that expected?

I joined patreon just for this and so far has been the best desciion of my life. Very nice work all around.. 25 in and just loving each one.

I put myself on a diet, max 10 cookies a day

Leondu

Try the below link, and just update the number to the correct sudoku as you move along. Good luck! ☺️ http://tinyurl.com/CTC-Snack-1

Hamsa

These puzzles are a real delight! So much invention and variety! Thanks so much to all who put this together. Getting hoarse from singing "That's 3 in the corner..."!

Okay so I did all of them but now I don't want to go back through and collect the letters from every last puzzle

Another great hunt!! Thanks!

Tamara Holdren

Ok.. I'm done. I have a sentence... with English words that feel correct... but I have no idea what the solution is x.x

Brezendrache

I 100% loved the snack-sized approach! The question for which to answer was entertaining.

Cruised through the first 8 and came to a screeching halt at puzzle 9. I am so thrown off by the digits 1-9 in such a small grid.

Tammy Russell

Thanks!

Thank you!

it means that it's like a "strict renban", so the digits need to be in order on each line: for example, 1-2-3 or 4-3-2 are ok but 1-3-2 is not

Juha-Matti Heikkinen

What is meant with the term "sequence of digits" in Puzzle 46.

Do you mean that you are not able to open the pdf at all? Try installing a pdf reader from Google play / App store. Adobe acrobat reader should be free. Then when you click and download the pdf from the link, open it with that app.

Juha-Matti Heikkinen

This must be the best Patreon reward so far. I'm more than half-way in, and I just don't want the fun to stop. Thank you to everyone who contributed to this wonderful collection!

Petr Čertík

Very fun pack. Never finished one this quickly. Glad I watch your channel often or I'd have never got the answer!!

Perfect, thank you!

Adarsh Nednur

yellow and red are 4 digits long, blue and green are 3 digits long

Consider the 12 and 10 diagonals together.

Tom Stuart

Puzzle 10 I can’t see a way in

What does puzzle does not include solution mean

A 3 would only demand there to be three higher digits in the bottom row AND the diagonal combined.

Alexander Herges

I breezed through the first 9 puzzles and was loving it. Then I got to Little X by Aspartacus and he kept me locked down for several hours over 3 days. I hope I understand that technique better now because I spent WAY too long figuring it out.

EB

In puzzle 82, is the bulb of the thermometer repeated on the thermometer line, or is each line showing the cells on the thermo after the bulb? In other words, is the red thermometer (including the bulb) 3 digits or 4 digits long? Having a little trouble figuring out how to get a unique solution if it's the former, but I don't want to assume.

Adarsh Nednur

It took me a couple tries because I kept forgetting that the X-sums clues outside the grid are also on the Renban lines, so the digits outside the grid must also be consecutive with the digits on their own line and cannot repeat on their own line. Also, keep in mind that the X-sums clues could be any of the digits 1-5. If you go through and figure out which of those digits are possible X-sums clues without repeating the X-sum clue digit on the line, you should hopefully be able to get the answer.

Adarsh Nednur

I'm old and not very technologically savvy...how do I play these puzzles in SudokoPad. Pdf link doesn't seem to work for me on my phone. If anyone can help please I'd be very grateful. Thankyou

For the X-sums and consecutive digits puzzle 80 I’ve don’t the puzzle 10 different times with different answers every time and not being correct is there any curtain way you have to do it

I was too until I realised what it meant by indicated directions combined

Never mind I'm a dufus. I figured it out.

Steve Atkinson

I don't understand puzzle 4. R1C2 has 2 be a 1 as there's only 1 cell to its left, r1c2 has to be a 2 as 3 and 4 are greater than 2. By the same logic r4c2 also has to be a 2 but now what the heck can I put in r4 c4 - it surely has to be another 2 as r4 has two empty spots so 3 and 4 must be what goes there so that the 2 has 2 digits greater than itself. #CONFUSED - I don't see any other way of interpreting the rules.

Steve Atkinson

I KNOW Aimee RIGHT! as i read the instructions the upper left can be any number EXCEPT a 1 which is immediately to its right pointing left... but that means below the one bottom pointing up has to be a 2 pointing up.... eliminating the bottom right corner being a 2 (the double arrow cell) so how can it be a 3 when the two is lower than 3

The big clue if you've tried Rot-13 is then the next line that the letters are in order, but which order?

Michael Lee

So gratifying to be among the first 300 to finish this time, after never finishing a monthly hunt before!

Stinky Pete

The pdf link should be right under the signature in their post above…but, I do find sometimes the pdf does not show. When this happens, it is like patreon is requiring me to reselect cracking the cryptic under memberships. Once I do that, I can view the post again, and suddenly the pdf is visible.

Tamara Holdren

Thanks, I had done that though, and all 25 possible iterations ended in gobbleygook also. So there must be something else about this that I'm not understanding.

Benjamin Good

The clue is in the instructions, ROT13. You can google that but the simple explanation is that this is a way of decoding letters. The 13 means move along the alphabet 13 characters (wrap around once you get past Z). So A -> N, B -> O, Z -> M and so forth.

I was a bit confused, but the best example is the bottom right. What it is saying in that case is that of all the digits in the diagonal and the bottom row, X of them are greater than the cell with two arrows (which contains the digit X). The rest are the same but there's only one direction to look.

It's telling you the modulus. EG if you had a 3 and 2 in a domino, that's 5 total. Divided by 4 equals 1 with 1 remainder, so the diamond would have a 1.

I solved all the puzzles but I don't understand what I'm supposed to do with the letters. I submitted them as-is as the answer to the riddle, but I doubt that that's really correct.

Benjamin Good

where are the puzzles?

Go to the CtC patreon page. The pdf doesn't seem to appear unless you're on that page. I had the same problem

I LOVE smaller sudoku puzzles. This was a nice treat.

Stephen Staver

Can someone make sense of the arrows in puzzle 4

Form puzzle 13 how is it that you can divide so small numbers actually into the numbers provided

if no one else has pointed this out yet, one of the little killer clues in snack 36 is completely unnecessary to solve the puzzle - the other LK and the kropki dot are sufficient info

Benny Ng

Mark and Simon what a truly delightful set of puzzles. I am just left smiling at all the brilliant ideas that the setters come up with on a 4 by 4 grid. And nice to see some setters (like Adem Jaziri, Florian etc) after a while.

sampath kumar

As Emily said - all new! :) we have a snack guest series running at the moment, so if you want even more snacks, that is the place where you find them 😃

Sandra and Nala

I guess I'm done with sudoku for few more days at least, those 100 were to much 😅

Firiat

I am pretty sure that they are brand new, especially for this release. But maybe a Skunkworks member will answer with more actual knowledge! 😊

Emily Williams

thanks for overfeeding us 😂

Are these the same snackdokus from the discord guest puzzle series?

I solved Snack 4 but looking back, I’m very confused by the arrows

The Silver Chords

What a day! A new hunt and the first day of Sandra and Nala's Advent Calendar. Spoiled for choice...

Cathy Bryant

For puzzles 21 and 30, remove the last hyphen in the url (it worked for me), e.g. http://tinyurl.com/CTC-Snack21

The link to puzzle 21, "Rhino" doesnt seem to be working for me

SweetBlues (Victor Sundal)

the link for puzzle 21 doesn't seem to work

SquirrelKonjyUr

Where's the link?