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This puzzle was made as a Christmas gift in the CtC fan discord server secret santa. I am still not sure if the person I made this puzzle for actually knows that it was me who created it. They did say some nice things about the puzzle though.

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• Normal Sudoku Rules
Each row, column & 3x3 box contains the digits 1-9.
• Digits may not repeat in a cage.
• Black dots between two cells indicate that the value of one of those cells is the ratio between the sums of each of the two cages containing those cells. No two of these ratios are the same.
• The coded phrase at the top refers to something that happens in the story of The Nativity.
• The value of the ‘?’ little killer clue is equal to (N – X) + Σp . Where Σp is the sum of all prime numbers that appear as cage totals (if the same total occurs for more than one cage it is only counted once).

Use one of the following links to play online:

Play some of my sudoku variant puzzles here. I have had a passing interest in sudoku and killer sudoku puzzles for some time. During the Coronavirus lockdown I discovered the Cracking The Cryptic YouTube channel. This opened up to me a whole new world of sudoku variant puzzle types that I had been completely unaware of.

Killer partridge in a pear sandwich

This is the first one of my puzzles to be featured on Cracking The Cryptic. I was amazed that Simon chose my puzzle to solve on Christmas Day. I created this for the December 2020 monthly puzzle prompt in the CtC fan discord server. The theme was the 12 days of Christmas.

Smaller is bigger - The Sudoku

This is basically a killer sudoku puzzle but where the cage totals are not given and must be determined. The grid also contains a magic square, a diagonal constraint and some other rules to help solve the puzzle.

Can you find what is wrogn and solve the puzzle? This was inspired by DiMono's puzzle: Everything is Wrogn!. In my puzzle, there is only one of the rules that is 'wrogn' but you have to figure out which it is.

Pumpkins are usually a Treat but someone has played a trick and some of them aren’t! Can you find which are a Trick or a Treat and use this to complete the puzzle? This puzzle was made for the October 2020 monthly puzzle prompt in the CtC fan discord server which was on the theme of Halloween.