Since only the 18 cage could disambiguate which colors are high and which are low, I placed dummy digits, pretending that one of my two colors was low and the other was high, but being willing to convert them all to 10-X at the end if the 18 cage went the other way. Doing it this way allowed me to use the logic I'm used to and kept me from making mistakes. My time today was 13:25, solver number 477.
Also, regarding selecting digits to resolve at the end... if you switch to color mode and double-click red, then type 12341234 in order to add 1234 to each red cell, then remove 1234 from them. That would leave the red cells with only their 6789 options. Then do the same with blue, but type 67896789. Now each cell has only one digit, and switching back to full-digit mode will let you double click any small digit to get all of them. Edit: Oops, I see that @gubblor got to this first.
Lovely! Took me a while to get to the cage and disambiguate the rest (60 mins approx) but very satisfying to solve on a misty sunday morning. Thank you! Love, Sheila
Very nice! I solved this yesterday and I thought it was absolutely brilliant! Took me a bit longer, because I failed to see why yellow/green had to be orange/pink for quite some time, I kept looking in the wrong place. You made it look easy, well done! Edit: as far as the disambiguation goes, I found the best way is to go to the colors and doubleclick one, and just type in all the other candidates of opposite polarity twice. I.e. if you were to select blue, go to the candidates, then type in 6789 and then 6789 again to remove, and then the reverse for red. You'd end up with a solved grid, but with candidates instead of actual digits, but just typing those in was the quickest way for me at least. Because then you can just doubleclick all the candidate 1s etc :)
This was significantly harder for me than other 20 minute videos on this channel. I guess I should have been warned when you said it was 2 stars. But I did enjoy working through the chain of deductions, and it felt so satisfying when the cage finally resolved all the pairs.
Abandoned the puzzle after 15 minutes, when I realised a diagonal line segment had tricked me into a colouring mistake. Clearly my concentration is not too good this morning, but I will retry later. 😀
Frustratingly couldn’t solve! I can’t get my head around the 28 and 37 relationship in whispers and ended up trying to colour the 46 and 19 combinations to no avail 😤
25 minutes, fun puzzle. Thanks for posting!
You're welcome!
Whoop whoop! 😁🥳🎉 What a great Sunday morning, thanks Sleuth!
Any time!
Really enjoyed this puzzle 33mins and a very satisfying solve
Since only the 18 cage could disambiguate which colors are high and which are low, I placed dummy digits, pretending that one of my two colors was low and the other was high, but being willing to convert them all to 10-X at the end if the 18 cage went the other way. Doing it this way allowed me to use the logic I'm used to and kept me from making mistakes. My time today was 13:25, solver number 477.
Also, regarding selecting digits to resolve at the end... if you switch to color mode and double-click red, then type 12341234 in order to add 1234 to each red cell, then remove 1234 from them. That would leave the red cells with only their 6789 options. Then do the same with blue, but type 67896789. Now each cell has only one digit, and switching back to full-digit mode will let you double click any small digit to get all of them.
Edit: Oops, I see that @gubblor got to this first.
Clever. I always worry about pencil marking as a typo can very easily ruin the entire solve!
This was a fun little solve! Thanks!
Glad you liked it!
Lovely! Took me a while to get to the cage and disambiguate the rest (60 mins approx) but very satisfying to solve on a misty sunday morning. Thank you! Love, Sheila
Well done!
Very nice! I solved this yesterday and I thought it was absolutely brilliant! Took me a bit longer, because I failed to see why yellow/green had to be orange/pink for quite some time, I kept looking in the wrong place. You made it look easy, well done!
Edit: as far as the disambiguation goes, I found the best way is to go to the colors and doubleclick one, and just type in all the other candidates of opposite polarity twice. I.e. if you were to select blue, go to the candidates, then type in 6789 and then 6789 again to remove, and then the reverse for red. You'd end up with a solved grid, but with candidates instead of actual digits, but just typing those in was the quickest way for me at least. Because then you can just doubleclick all the candidate 1s etc :)
Very clever, must try this next time I come across such a puzzle!
12:25. In beginning you managed somehow uncolor exactly same cell :D
This was significantly harder for me than other 20 minute videos on this channel. I guess I should have been warned when you said it was 2 stars. But I did enjoy working through the chain of deductions, and it felt so satisfying when the cage finally resolved all the pairs.
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Abandoned the puzzle after 15 minutes, when I realised a diagonal line segment had tricked me into a colouring mistake. Clearly my concentration is not too good this morning, but I will retry later. 😀
32:18 ... I got it but only by luck. I had to bifurcate.
Frustratingly couldn’t solve! I can’t get my head around the 28 and 37 relationship in whispers and ended up trying to colour the 46 and 19 combinations to no avail 😤
Keep going it can be solved just by colouring 46 and 19
Must do more german whisper line puzzles!
I found box 7 to be an excellent enforcer of those relationships 😉