"I'm Blown Away"

** TODAY'S PUZZLE **
What an extraordinary time this is for variant sudokus. The last few days have featured exceptional puzzles and now here is yet another: Magnus Josefsson's Chaos FilloSudokumino has been praised to the nines by the community and now we get to solve it. It's weird but it's utterly wonderful.
You can try it at the link below:
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Rules:
Place a number in every cell of the grid such that: 1. There is a 9x9 subgrid that forms a valid standard sudoku; and 2. Disregarding the interior 7x7 area of the sudoku subgrid, the rest of the grid (including the 1-cell wide perimeter of the sudoku grid) forms a valid fillomino. [Standard fillomino rules are as follows: a) Divide the grid into regions of orthogonally-connected cells and enter into each cell the size of its region; b) No two regions of the same size may share an edge.
An example puzzle can be seen here:
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** A New Series Of Videos On Patreon **
Simon & Mark have made a video in which they collaborate to solve the puzzle Jabberwocky by DadJokes as a special Patreon bonus video. The feedback so far has been wonderful - thanks to all those who've taken time to comment. Jabberwocky can be played here:
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Join us on Patreon to watch the video for as little as $2/month here:
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To celebrate achieving 500k subscribers, we're trying to say thank you in a couple of ways.
We've released a FREE app full of handmade puzzles - simply download the Cracking The Cryptic app on Android, Steam or App Store and then select the 500k pack. We're streaming a playthrough of this app and you can watch the first two episodes here:
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We'll be streaming the next episode on Thursday evening at 10pm UK time.
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We released September's Monthly Reward. It's a sequence of Linked Sudokus and we've already had over two thousand correct solutions! Submit your entry by 20 September for a chance to win a prize!
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** Our New App Is OUT **
Our new app is OUT on App Store AND Android AND ON PC (via Steam)!!
We've completely revamped the interface. Now you download the basic app free and you can choose to download additional content. So there's a FREE pack of puzzles by Prasanna Seshadri and a paid pack: DOMINO SUDOKU!!! Prasanna's free pack includes one puzzle for each variant of our existing apps (so there's a killer sudoku, a miracle sudoku, a thermo sudoku, etc). Domino Sudoku is a pack of 100 handmade puzzles (40 on launch, 5 added each month for a year) by some of the best constructors in the World: Phistomefel, clover, jovi_al, Christoph Seeliger, Qodec, Sam Cappleman-Lynes and Richard Stolk have all contributed sudokus!!
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[@Khellr0s]

Thank you so much for featuring my puzzle!

[@HunterJE]

IMO you described the logic on not being able to leave a one-wide strip on an edge perfectly sufficiently to use

[@jsadvent8240]

83 minutes? And I'm out of munchies 😔 Halcyon Days indeed, thanks in large part to our hosts. Deep gratitude to them and to all who tapped their creative source, 81 squares at a time...or more.

[@jmcklbrgh]

I downloaded the app and completed my first ever thermometer sudoku today!

[@tyrgannusgaming6657]

No way you went for this! Super courageous, good show

[@rayoberhoff1506]

As many times as Simon has appologized for something that people were "screaming at the screen," I never actually screamed at the screen until today. The 9 in r1c1 had me screaming "Simon, do sudoku! It's a nine! IT'S A NINE!"

[@series161]

I don't understand why you worry about the video length so often. I mean, apart from the fact that a lot of people (including me) enjoy the long videos even more, you know that youtube has buttons for pause, fast forward, rewind and even stop, right? 😂

[@user-kn8bu8ue6z]

Fun fact: if you have 23 people, then there's a 50% chance that 2 people share a birthday!

[@wayneboucher4883]

Appalling that the A’s in the top row are struck through. 😢

[@brettaspivey]

I call it fillodoku

[@NerfedFalcon]

Shortcut: The 48 pair in box 7 can be resolved by the ambiguity rule. If 8 is in the lower cell, the shape of the size-8 region is ambiguous, so it must go in the top cell where there's only one way the size-8 region can fit.

[@TheSpazattack540]

"I dont know if people will accept this"

[@hamishwatt2475]

56:11

[@DArtagnonW]

Not sure if this is rigorous enough either, but proof that the sudoku grid can't be within 1-square of the puzzle edge:

[@ianyoung1101]

The line through the A's in the top row... I won't be able to sleep!

[@anaisakaclotolphe519]

me: i'm tired, i'll watch the beginning of the video and then go to sleep and watch the rest tomorrow during breakfast

[@mitnehmerrippe]

Ahhh, this Sting guitar intro - such a good song and such a lovely version you played! Also such a lovely occasion - i don’t know the birthday girl Alexis, but I’m sure you’ve made her very happy with that thoughtful gift.

[@leojs5673]

a family sized ctc is just what i needed to lift my spirits today. hope every one has a happy week!!

[@SirBradiator]

Love that Sven has added a 2001 reference when the software can't give a solution rather than the old style of just highlighting everything red as an error

[@bruresende]

Nowadays I don't even expect a video of less than 1-hour in length, I set my schedule to accommodate it and it feels like I have a lot of spare time whenever it's a shorter video... Not complaining about short videos, just pointing out how it fited so smoothly onto my daily routine the long ones that I don't even noticed it...