You saw all the important things, even if you weren't always seeing the digits at the end there. :) As for the title, the thing I've heard somewhere that rhymes with orange is a "door hinge", and, well... there's a few of them in the puzzle, doing important work! Thank you for the solve, and for showcasing my puzzles!
5:40 The method applied to column 9 has one advantage: you know the sum of the top three digits. 29:30 I did worse. I was at the same stage in the grid, but took a lot longer to realize that I hadn't dealt with that arrow sum.
What a wonderful puzzle! The initial run around the edges was really cool, and box 5 saved me from an earlier deductive mistake (had to back up a fair amount), but still succeeded in completing the puzzle in 16:32 (conflict checker off). Major props to Sotek for this one! Also, congratulations on (as of this writing) reaching 4,000 subscribers, BremSter! Very much deserved!
I used an alternate way to start using SET on the outside rows and columns. Highlight as usual, then eliminate the 4 corners as duplicated. Then you can eliminate a couple of arrows with their circles. In box 7 you can eliminate both arrows as they share a circle so must be the same sum. The eliminate the 2 14 cages, leaving you just the two cages in column 1 and all but one cell in row 1. We know the total of the two cages in column 1, so that gives the total of the remaining cells in row one. That puts a 1 in the corner to finish the math in the 16 cage in row 1 and leaves the pairs of 15s you found. (Yes, I just watched a SET solve on a different channel, so had SET on the brain.) Of course, from there I got hopelessly stuck, and had to get the necessary hints from you. Followed that up with an error somewhere, at which point I gave up. But the break in was fun.
You saw all the important things, even if you weren't always seeing the digits at the end there. :)
As for the title, the thing I've heard somewhere that rhymes with orange is a "door hinge", and, well... there's a few of them in the puzzle, doing important work!
Thank you for the solve, and for showcasing my puzzles!
Very nice puzzle!
The middle box was AS STUNNING as the break in!!! Class!
What a stunning puzzle and fabulous explanations of the solve! Always happy to see a Sotek puzzle featured!
That was an amazing puzzle! So many little deductions built in.
Very nice puzzle.
Great solve.
Really nice puzzle, also getting close to 4000 subs!
Incredible how this puzzle was so good with only arrows and cages!! I needed your solve to help me when I was stuck 😅 thank you!
Insanely good puzzle, there's a lot going on everywhere and it's a constant surprise! Fantastic!
I surprised myself with this one, 20:00 flat, but found it almost guided you to the next sum deduction in order. Loved it
18:15 for me, quite tricky today !
5:40 The method applied to column 9 has one advantage: you know the sum of the top three digits.
29:30 I did worse. I was at the same stage in the grid, but took a lot longer to realize that I hadn't dealt with that arrow sum.
What a wonderful puzzle! The initial run around the edges was really cool, and box 5 saved me from an earlier deductive mistake (had to back up a fair amount), but still succeeded in completing the puzzle in 16:32 (conflict checker off). Major props to Sotek for this one!
Also, congratulations on (as of this writing) reaching 4,000 subscribers, BremSter! Very much deserved!
I used an alternate way to start using SET on the outside rows and columns. Highlight as usual, then eliminate the 4 corners as duplicated. Then you can eliminate a couple of arrows with their circles. In box 7 you can eliminate both arrows as they share a circle so must be the same sum. The eliminate the 2 14 cages, leaving you just the two cages in column 1 and all but one cell in row 1. We know the total of the two cages in column 1, so that gives the total of the remaining cells in row one. That puts a 1 in the corner to finish the math in the 16 cage in row 1 and leaves the pairs of 15s you found. (Yes, I just watched a SET solve on a different channel, so had SET on the brain.)
Of course, from there I got hopelessly stuck, and had to get the necessary hints from you. Followed that up with an error somewhere, at which point I gave up. But the break in was fun.
28:21 for me
nice puzzle
Legendary puzzle.
42:22 ... a challenge for me