Cracking the Cryptic's Greatest Hits – Volume 2!

A project in London, UK by Blue Beard Entertainment
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The second book of hand-crafted puzzles curated by the world's most popular sudoku channel.
Backers: 6548
Average Pledge Per Backer: $33

Funded: $214,224 of $20,000
Dates: Oct 12th -> Nov 18th (38 days)
Project By: Blue Beard Entertainment
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Latest News

(Almost) all stretch goals unlocked + Project We Love!!

November 18th - via: kickstarter.com
Hey! We have just over 12 hours to go, and we are down to one remaining stretch goal!! If we can raise another $4,221 in the next 14 hours, we'll have unlocked every single stretch goal. Can we do it?? 115 puzzles unlocked! Since last night's update,... (Read More)

Final 24 hours, almost $190,000 raised!!

November 17th - via: kickstarter.com
Hey! As I write this, we're fast approaching the final 24 hours of the campaign! Very exciting. We're currently at $187k raised, just $5,000 less than the first book!! So close!! Since I last posted (two days ago) (!!!) we've unlocked several more... (Read More)

Final days, final stretch goals!

November 15th - via: kickstarter.com
Greetings! Since our last update, we've blasted through what we in the biz call "a whole heckload of stretch goals": more puzzles, more community-selected puzzles, a third puzzle hunt, and a puzzle postcard with each copy of Volume 2! The Hunts... (Read More)

A poll and a cushion-cover!

November 10th - via: kickstarter.com
Hey! Two big pieces of news today, so I'm going to jump straight into them! Cushion covers! As part of the campaign, we're excited to be offering Cracking the Cryptic cushion covers. We're still finalizing the design, but here's what we're thinking:... (Read More)

So many stretch goals unlocked! Also: a question for everyone!

November 9th - via: kickstarter.com
Hey! Sorry that it's been a few days without an update; I've been traveling, and my access to internet was spottier than I was expecting. I come bearing much good news! Firstly, it's my birthday! 🎉 This does not affect the project at all, but it's... (Read More)

New stretch goals!!

November 2nd - via: kickstarter.com
Hey! Good news! Since the last update, we unlocked THREE MORE STRETCH GOALS! As well as that, we've uploaded a whole cavalcade of new stretch goals, all the way up to $150k! 🎉 At $110k we unlocked a Simon guitar live stream! He'll do a full live... (Read More)

Two new stretch goals unlocked!!

October 29th - via: kickstarter.com
Hey! I hope your Saturday is going as well as mine – the sun is shining, the bees are singing, the birds are confused because the bees have taken their job, and I'm getting ready for a lovely lunch of chicken-and-sudoku-book pie. Just a quick post... (Read More)

Four-book pack now available!

October 26th - via: kickstarter.com
Hey! Just a very quick update today: We hit the $95k stretch goal! That means MORE beautiful puzzles in this beautiful, edible book*! *note: book is not edible We're up to a total of 55 Mark-and-Simon selected puzzles, 10 community-voted puzzles, and... (Read More)

Spiral-bound books now available!! Also: stretch goals aplenty!

October 26th - via: kickstarter.com
Hey! I come today with two huge pieces of great news: Cracking the Cryptic's Greatest Hits will be available as a spiral-bound book! This was the #1 request we got when the new book was announced; after a few weeks of back-and-forth with our factory,... (Read More)

Community-selected puzzles!!

October 20th - via: kickstarter.com
Hey! Earlier this week, we hit $80,000 raised towards Volume 2! That's almost half of what the first book raised in its entirety...and we're just over a week into this campaign! Thank you so much to everyone who's joined us to make Cracking the... (Read More)

New stretch goals!!!

October 14th - via: kickstarter.com
Greetings! We launched the campaign just over 50 hours ago, and since then the support you've shown for this new project has wildly exceeded our expectations! So first of all: thank you, thank you, thank you! Because of you, we're going to make this... (Read More)

Funded in 2 hours!!

October 12th - via: kickstarter.com
Wowee!! We did it!! In less than 2 hours, Cracking the Cryptic's Greatest Hits Volume 2 has been funded! This is going to be a REAL BOOK, that will be arriving at YOUR HOUSE for you to EAT*! *please do not eat the book Hi! I'm Peter C. Hayward; I'm... (Read More)

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