I want to thank you for your videos. I learned a lot with it, and this was the first hard sudoku from NYT I solved by myself. For me, it solved itself after i found the 4 in the ninth column, as the only possibility for that square. Thanks again!
Supereasy for me today! I was just basic scanning the top band. Suddenly I asked myself (in Rangsk voice): "where are 5 and 9 in this column (9)?" - I'd say that's like a... mini NYT trick! That 59 pair in C9 is there from the beginning, revealing 148 triple. After that the puzzle solved itself, I only needed to put the digits in their places. Finding 37 pair in B6 was the last missing piece... "and we're done" (in Rangsk voice again).
21:33 today … top band made me think I was gonna cruise. Then I got bogged down a little in the next two bands, even after placing the 4 in box 9. Didn’t truly collapse for me til I placed the 6 in box 5.
I do my puzzles "old school" by writing them on paper. I could NOT solve it today. Turns out, I didn't write down the original givens in box 5. Believe it or not, those two givens made a big difference. LOL Thanks for the video.
After the intial scan I went quite directly to C9R7, because it had many different digits looking into it. (Solved it via the pair, never noticed that the pointing eights made it a 4 directly.) After that it was just applying the methods. (Looking for many digits limiting a cell is a method for "easy" sudokus; it gets kinda forgotten once you do the hard stuff.)
I got in some early trouble when I spotted, and wrongfully assumed, that R2C3 and R2C5 was a hidden 16 pair. That lead to some incorrect placement of the 142 in row 1 and the 1589 placement in column 9. Once I was left with a 59 in R7C0 I had to go back and re-assess my logic.
Did the quality of puzzles decrease while I was asleep? There was no use of sudoku tricks necessary to solve this puzzle. Not even a single x-wing or y-wing.
Newspaper puzzles like the NYT never require and never have required advanced techniques to solve like the x-wing or y-wing. Only singles, locked candidates (pointing, claiming), and pairs/triples.
14:52 The puzzle solved itself today, nice flow, thank you for the video
I want to thank you for your videos. I learned a lot with it, and this was the first hard sudoku from NYT I solved by myself. For me, it solved itself after i found the 4 in the ninth column, as the only possibility for that square. Thanks again!
Congrats on your first solve!
Supereasy for me today!
I was just basic scanning the top band. Suddenly I asked myself (in Rangsk voice): "where are 5 and 9 in this column (9)?" - I'd say that's like a... mini NYT trick! That 59 pair in C9 is there from the beginning, revealing 148 triple. After that the puzzle solved itself, I only needed to put the digits in their places. Finding 37 pair in B6 was the last missing piece... "and we're done" (in Rangsk voice again).
21:33 today … top band made me think I was gonna cruise. Then I got bogged down a little in the next two bands, even after placing the 4 in box 9. Didn’t truly collapse for me til I placed the 6 in box 5.
14:52 for me. I was much aggressive with penciling, which can be a problem sometimes but today it helped find some of the triples/pairs quicker.
Once you have the pointing 8s in c9, the 3 & 8 (c6 r8,9) create a 38 pair in r7 c2,7.
20:19 for me today. I got a little stuck till I realized the 8’s in box 3 pointed down to box 9. Then it all resolved.
I do my puzzles "old school" by writing them on paper. I could NOT solve it today. Turns out, I didn't write down the original givens in box 5. Believe it or not, those two givens made a big difference. LOL Thanks for the video.
Lol I believe it!
Oh wow, interesting!
After the intial scan I went quite directly to C9R7, because it had many different digits looking into it. (Solved it via the pair, never noticed that the pointing eights made it a 4 directly.)
After that it was just applying the methods.
(Looking for many digits limiting a cell is a method for "easy" sudokus; it gets kinda forgotten once you do the hard stuff.)
6:42 I was very quick. Box by box seemed to work well. Also targetting anything with the smallest number of cells left, row box col.
19 here! Thanks!
12:49 to solve.
24:20 for me.
24:21 about average, fun solve.
I got in some early trouble when I spotted, and wrongfully assumed, that R2C3 and R2C5 was a hidden 16 pair. That lead to some incorrect placement of the 142 in row 1 and the 1589 placement in column 9. Once I was left with a 59 in R7C0 I had to go back and re-assess my logic.
Very tough
15:17 idk why this one took me so long today
9:10 to solve
13:04
Did the quality of puzzles decrease while I was asleep? There was no use of sudoku tricks necessary to solve this puzzle. Not even a single x-wing or y-wing.
Newspaper puzzles like the NYT never require and never have required advanced techniques to solve like the x-wing or y-wing. Only singles, locked candidates (pointing, claiming), and pairs/triples.
😂😂😂
16:00. Meh.