BEGINNER video: How to solve The Times crossword: 2 Jan 18
Simon helps you solve this accessible cryptic from The Times.
From playlist Cryptic crossword: Beginner guides
The Times Crossword Friday Masterclass: Episode 5
*** TODAY'S PUZZLE *** In the fifth edition of our attempt to solve a Friday Times crossword, Simon takes on today's puzzle - which is a bit of a beast but also contains several absolutely outstanding clues. This is a REALLY good crossword. The puzzle is available to play on The Times c
From playlist The Friday Crossword Masterclass
The Times Crossword Friday Masterclass: Episode 7
*** TODAY'S PUZZLE *** In the seventh edition of our attempt to solve a Friday Times crossword, Simon takes on today's puzzle - which is challenging but also contains several outstanding clues. Don't worry if some of this seems bonkers... at least you get to say Simon's way of indicating
From playlist The Friday Crossword Masterclass
The Times Crossword Friday Masterclass: Episode 3
*** TODAY'S PUZZLE *** In the third edition of our attempt to solve a Friday Times crossword, Simon takes on another beast! The puzzle is available to play on The Times crossword club website (which is behind their paywall): https://www.thetimes.co.uk/puzzleclub/crosswordclub/puzzles/cr
From playlist The Friday Crossword Masterclass
The Times Crossword Friday Masterclass: Episode 8
*** TODAY'S PUZZLE *** In the eighth edition of our attempt to solve a Friday Times crossword, Simon takes on today's puzzle which, unusually for a Friday, is not brutally hard. It gives him the chance to achieve something he might never have done before... The puzzle is available to p
From playlist The Friday Crossword Masterclass
Beginner video: The Times crossword on 15 Nov 2017
Simon shows how to get going on this Championship puzzle.
From playlist Cryptic crossword: Beginner guides
The Times Crossword Friday Masterclass: Episode 2
*** TODAY'S PUZZLE *** In the second edition of our attempt to solve a Friday Times crossword, Simon takes on another beast! The puzzle is available to play on The Times crossword club website (which is behind their paywall): https://www.thetimes.co.uk/puzzleclub/crosswordclub/puzzles/c
From playlist The Friday Crossword Masterclass
How to solve the Diabolical Sudoku in The Daily Telegraph on 22 Sept 2017
Simon discusses how to solve this puzzle and methods of annotation that may or may not help.
From playlist Sudoku guides
The Times Crossword Friday Masterclass: Episode 4
*** TODAY'S PUZZLE *** In the fourth edition of our attempt to solve a Friday Times crossword, Simon takes on today's puzzle - which is rated only slightly harder than average... but what if you just don't know some of the words? The puzzle is available to play on The Times crossword cl
From playlist The Friday Crossword Masterclass
Guided solve through The Quick Cryptic: 24 Nov 2017
You solve the whole puzzle (with a hint here and there)
From playlist Cryptic crossword: Beginner guides
D-Day - The Secret War - Extra History - #2
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From playlist Extra History: Chronological Order (1700 CE - Present)
Enigma, TypeX and Dad - Computerphile
This installment of the Bletchley Park series has a personal note for Professor Brailsford. He tells us what his dad did in the war. Professor Brailsford's notes: http://bit.ly/ultrasecret Enigma and Turing Playlist: http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLzH6n4zXuckodsatCTEuxaygCHizMS0_
From playlist Alan Turing and Enigma
Cracking the Cryptic - the Podcast - Episode 3
Here's the third episode of our podcast! We welcome your feedback ... In this episode of the Cracking the Cryptic Podcast, Mark, Peter, and Simon talk about the worlds of competitive sudoku, puzzle and crossword solving. Links: -Mark tells the tale of the Sudoku Scammer: https://youtu.b
From playlist Our Podcast series: Chatting The Cryptic
Beginner video: How to solve The Times crossword on 20 Dec 2017
Simon talks through how to get started on today's puzzle, which also featured in the Grand Final of The Times crossword championship two months ago.
From playlist Cryptic crossword: Beginner guides
Beginner video: Solving The Times crossword on 1 Nov 2017
Simon goes back to basics and explains the structure of the cryptic crossword clue with a few examples from today's puzzle.
From playlist Cryptic crossword: Beginner guides
*** TODAY'S PUZZLE *** In the fifth edition of our series of live solves of interesting daily crosswords, Simon takes on Friday's puzzle from The Guardian by Tramp. This is a good crossword to learn some tricks from and also to indulge in the variety of clues about Harry & Meghan!! The
From playlist The Friday Crossword Masterclass
Claude Chappe and the Napoleon Telegraph
The development of technology for speedy long-distance communication dates back to antiquity, and reached its pre-electronic peak in the telegraph before Samuel Morse’s telegraph. Before wires crossed the world, Napoleonic France could send a message from Paris to Lille, a distance of some
From playlist France
Art and Science: Samuel F.B. Morse
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From playlist Art and history
Speaker: Ilja In this presentation I'll present a series of unusual security bugs. Things that I've ran into at some point and went "There's gotta be some security consequence here". None of these are really a secret, and most of them are even documented somewhere. But apparently most peo
From playlist 23C3: Who can you trust