** TODAY'S PUZZLE **
Maths Professor Dorlir has come up with an a blisteringly brilliant puzzle today - it's part sudoku and part fillomino... one difficulty the solver faces is that we aren't told which digits are which!! The whole thing is fascinating but take care - it is very easy to make a mistake!

Play the puzzle at the link below:
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Rules:
Each digit from 1 to 8 must appear eight times in the grid. Some digits from 1 to 8 are sudoku digits and the others are omino digits. All instances of a particular digit are of the same type. For each digit, its type must be determined. A sudoku digit must appear exactly once in every row, column and box. An omino digit indicates the size of its omino (an omino is a group of orthogonally connected cells containing identical omino digits.) Two ominos of the same size may not touch each other - not even diagonally. For a digit in a circle, it indicates exactly how many circles contain that digit. Digits separated by a white dot are consecutive digits.

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▶ Contents Of This Video ◀

0:00 Theme music & puzzle intro
1:26 Dungeons & Diagrams Stream last night
1:54 Islands of Insight & James Bond
2:24 Happy Birthdays
4:23 Rules
6:34 Start of Solve: Let's Get Cracking

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