The Puzzle With The Most Unexpected Endgame

** TODAY'S PUZZLE **
Christounet returns to Cracking The Cryptic today with a 100%-rated monster: Yin Yang Killer Deconstruction (to give it its full title) is brilliant and baffling!  It's only got 4* for difficulty on Logic Masters but it certainly puts up some resistance and several of the steps on the way to the solution are FANTASTIC.

Play the puzzle at the link below:
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Rules:
Fill the grid with 9 non-overlapping 3x3 square regions, such that each region contains the digits 1-9 once each and no digit repeats in any row or column. Cells outside regions do not contain digits. The whole 11x11 grid must form a valid “yin yang” grid: ie shade some cells such that all shaded cells are orthogonally connected, all unshaded cells are orthogonally connected, and no 2x2 area is fully shaded or fully unshaded. Digits in a cage must not repeat. The number in the top left corner indicates either the sum of the digits of the shaded cells or the sum of the digits of the unshaded cells contained within that cage.

** NEW SANDRA & NALA FOG PACK **
A bonus sudoku pack was released on Patreon yesterday of 5 fog of war sudokus to celebrate the arrival of spring (in the Northern hemisphere) from Sandra & Nala.  It's completely free - just click our Patreon link below.

Other treats on Patreon include:
- the new James Bond sudoku hunt competition;
- Simon's latest forays into the world of Islands Of Insight;
- Mark's video looking at the new OneUp puzzle from Rodolfo Kurchan;
- his solve of Region Geometry by Emre Kolotoğlu (3hr 36min long...!);
- and Mark's latest solve of The Times Club Monthly cryptic crossword

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▶ Contents Of This Video ◀

0:00 Theme music & puzzle intro
1:20 New free Fog Of War sudoku pack
2:16 Happy Birthdays
6:05 Rules
10:45 Start of Solve: Let's Get Cracking

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