British YouTube channel about sudoku and other puzzles
Cracking The Cryptic
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Personal information
Nationality
British
Website
www.patreon.com/crackingthecryptic
YouTube information
Channel
Cracking The Cryptic
Presented by
Simon Anthony
Mark Goodliffe
Years active
2017–present
Genre
Puzzle
Subscribers
578 thousand[4]
Total views
204 million[4]
Associated acts
Tom Collyer[1]
Kurt Hugo Schneider[2]
Tantan Dai[3]
Creator Awards
100,000 subscribers
2020
Last updated: 17 February 2024
Cracking the Cryptic (CTC) is a YouTube channel dedicated to paper-and-pencil puzzles: primarily sudoku, but also cryptic crosswords and other types of number-placement, pencil, and word puzzles. They occasionally stream puzzle games on YouTube.
The channel was set up in 2017 by two friends from England: Simon Anthony, a former investment banker, and Mark Goodliffe, a financial director.[5][6]
Anthony is a former member of the UK's world sudoku and world puzzle championship teams, while Goodliffe is a 12-time winner of the Times Crossword Championships and UK sudoku champion.[5][6]
Each video is generally composed of one of the two hosts presenting a puzzle with given rules and then solving it in real time, with their live commentary. The channel features both standard and variant puzzles.[7]
During the COVID-19 pandemic, the channel grew in popularity, and as of 14 October 2023[update] it had 557,000 subscribers, with the most popular video receiving nearly 10 million views.[8][9][10]
The music played at the beginning and end of many videos is Mozart's Piano Sonata No. 16, nicknamed Sonata facile or Sonata semplice.[11]
^Anthony, Simon; Collyer, Tom (8 April 2019). World Class Sudoku Solver Shares His Tricks! (YouTube). Retrieved 19 March 2022.
^Anthony, Simon; Schneider, Kurt Hugo (24 April 2020). This Puzzle Trick Is Not Cheating! (YouTube). Retrieved 19 March 2022.
^Anthony, Simon; Goodliffe, Mark; Dai, Tantan (14 February 2021). The Fastest Female Sudoku Player Ever (YouTube). Retrieved 19 March 2022.
^ ab"About Cracking The Cryptic". YouTube.
^ abClinton, Jane (22 May 2020). "Suduko solving aces become unlikely YouTube stars during lockdown". inews.co.uk. Retrieved 3 July 2021.
^ abJohnson, Tom (3 July 2021). "Fifty years of The Spectator crossword". The Spectator. Retrieved 3 July 2021.
^Bellos, Alex (6 May 2019). "Can you solve it? Sandwich sudoku - a new puzzle goes viral". The Guardian. Retrieved 26 May 2021.
^Usborne, Simon (22 May 2020). "Puzzled man solving 'miracle' sudoku becomes YouTube sensation". The Guardian. Retrieved 31 March 2021.
^Schwartz, Nick (21 May 2020). "Watch this genius solve insanely difficult sudoku puzzles". USA Today. Retrieved 31 March 2021.
^Marsden, Rhodri (23 January 2021). "Cracking the Cryptic: How the healing art of sudoku became a YouTube sensation". The National. Retrieved 31 March 2021.
^Bell, Alice (7 September 2021). "These sudoku YouTubers are about to become your favourite game streamers". Rock, Paper, Shotgun. Retrieved 13 October 2021.
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