How Easy Is This Fog Sudoku?

** TODAY'S PUZZLE ** Br1312te returns to the channel tonight with a lovely Halloween-themed puzzle called Creatures In The Dynamic Fog. This is fog sudoku at its best and perhaps a smidge harder than the 2/5 difficulty rating suggests. Play the puzzle at the links below: https://sudokupad.app/ey3tqoay3j Rules: Normal Sudoku rules apply, but once again strange things are afoot... Fog has filled the land, thicker than ever before, and within it, lurk many Creatures of the night! Yet fear not! If you can find them, friendly Wisps will aid you in navigating the fog. There is one Wisp in each row, column, and 3x3 box, marked by a pale blue dot. Cells containing a Wisp contain either their row, column or box number (read in normal reading order). No two Wisps can contain the same digit. Fog cleared by Wisps leaves an eerie blue light. The Monsters: Zombies: marked by a green dot, zombies have an infectious bite. Orthogonally adjacent cells are even when the zombie's number is even, or odd when the zombie's number is odd. Vampires: marked by a red dot, vampires suck the power from their victims. Orthogonally adjacent cells sum up to the vampire's number. Headless Horsemen: marked by an orange dot, horsemen have a knight's reach. Cells a chess-knight's move away from the horseman can't contain the same digit as the horseman's number. Poltergeists: marked by a grey dot, poltergeists throw everything into disarray. Orthogonally adjacent cells are either all higher than the poltergeist's number, or all lower. Fog: the land is covered in dynamic fog. Putting in correct digits will clear the fog for that cell. Finding a Wisp will clear more fog. No guessing is required. The monster under your bed will know if you cheat! The intro today is Vincent by Don McLean. RIP Daniel Naroditsky. ** NUMBERPHILE VIDEO ** We've just found out that there is a new @numberphile video featuring Cracking The Cryptic. Thanks so much to Brady Haran. You can find it here:    • The Anti-Knight Killer Sudoku - Numberphile   ** BLUE PRINCE STREAM ** You can rewatch last night's Blue Prince stream here: https://youtube.com/live/K746dnkYOjU ▶ NEW PATREON VIDEOS ◀ Solution videos for October's competition are incoming. We will draw the winner in the next couple of days.   / crackingthecryptic   ** LIVE CRACKING THE CRYPTIC SHOW ** On 2nd November Simon & Mark will be doing a live episode at the Stratford-upon-Avon Literary Festival. https://www.stratfordliteraryfestival... ▶NEW SUDOKU WORMS NOW LIVE! ◀ We're delighted to announce the release of two new worms - by none other than Phistomefel and Michael Lefkowitz (Juggler)! These join the first two worms by Marty Sears or James Sinclair... you can find them either on Steam at these addresses or on AppStore: Steam: https://store.steampowered.com/app/40... https://store.steampowered.com/app/40... https://store.steampowered.com/app/37... https://store.steampowered.com/app/37... AppStore https://apps.apple.com/us/app/crackin... Android: https://play.google.com/store/apps/de... and our latest full app is Cracking the Cryptic’s Fog-of-War Sudoku! All our apps can be found at our website with links to all outlets: https://www.crackingthecryptic.com/apps ▶ SVEN’S SUDOKU PAD ◀ Input classic sudoku puzzles into our software. With 12 free puzzles: iOS: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/svens-s... Steam: https://store.steampowered.com/app/17... Android: https://play.google.com/store/apps/de... Amazon: Search for “SudokuPad” ▶ CTC FAN DISCORD SERVER◀   / discord   ▶ OUR VIDEO CATALOGUE – CATEGORISED WITH LINKS◀ https://tinyurl.com/CTCCatalogue ▶SEND US PUZZLES TO SOLVE/CONTACT US◀ crackingthecryptic@gmail.com Snailmail: Mark Goodliffe, Box 102, 56 Gloucester Road, London SW7 4UB ▶FOLLOW US◀ Twitter: #crypticcracking @crypticcracking Instagram @crackingthecryptic ▶Credits◀ Music: Lucy Audrin (Piano): Mozart's Sonata no 16; and Mark’s outro music by Riffclown. SOFTWARE: Thanks to Sam Cappleman-Lynes and Sven Neumann Logo: Melvyn Mainini Opening Credits: Burak Mescioğlu ▶ Contents Of This Video ◀ 0:00 Intro music and puzzle introduction 1:44 RIP Daniel Naroditsky 3:23 Last night's epic Blue Prince stream 5:12 Extra tickets for Stratford 4:21 Skunkworks competition 5:38 Happy Birthdays etc 6:14 Rules 10:20 Start of Solve: Let's Get Cracking #sudoku #puzzle #logicpuzzles