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** TODAY'S PUZZLE **
Not one but two puzzles in tonight's video as Simon attempts Wessel Strijkstra's Never - a sudoku/yajilin hybrid which, we have to say, is just mindblowingly good.  To prepare for the main event, Simon tackles shye's Yajilin from the Discord server Daily Pencil Puzzle channel first :)

Play shye's yajilin here:

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Wessel Strijkstra's puzzle can be played here:

https://app.crackingthecryptic.com/su...

Rules:
Normal sudoku rules apply. Shade some cells grey so that no two grey cells are orthogonally adjacent and draw a non-intersecting loop through the centres of all the remaining cells (ie cells that are neither blue nor grey). Blue cells cannot be shaded grey, and digits in blue cells represent the number of grey cells in a straight line in the indicated direction (if given).  All blue cells need arrows and some arrows must be determined by the solver. A clue outside a row gives the sum of the digits on the first horizontal loop segment passing through its row (including the cells in which it turns); likewise for columns and vertical segments.

Standard yajilin rules for shye's puzzle are:
Shade some cells so that no two shaded cells are orthogonally adjacent and draw a non-intersecting loop through the centers of all the remaining empty cells. Clues cannot be shaded, and represent the number of shaded cells in a straight line in the indicated direction.

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