You know, I've watched so many of your videos and I'm constantly yelling at the screen. And about 70% of the time it turns out I'm wrong about whatever it is. I think the point is that most people who watch wish they were peering over your shoulder, involved in the action. That's why we're all yelling at the screen. You are great at doing these puzzles. Thank you for bringing the party.
With how much better he is at these than me, I live for those moments where I've spotted something he hasn't yet! But every time I'm like... "He hasn't done this yet... did I miss something? No... no I'm sure I'm right...Right?" And then I have to go triple check.
I try to solve the puzzle before I watch the solve, which gives me even more reason to shout obscenities at Simon, conveniently ignoring the fact that he will finish the whole thing at least twice as quickly as I could ever manage. It really annoys me when he uses a ridiculously convoluted logic train to prove a digit which sudoku could have solved for anyone who can simply scan or read their own pencil marks, but it annoys me more that he still beats my time, every time, without fail. The most annoying thing, though, is when he pencil marks all the digits which a square can be according to one of the rules, while not considering any of the other rules, then just moves on to something completely different. Eventually he'll triumphantly announce, "And that's not a [x] now!", when I've spent 15 minutes screaming "How can that ever be a f^%k!ng [x]?!?".
Aspartagcus here. :) Thanks for giving my puzzle a go! The reason it took so long is because I'm stubborn and sometimes won't add any extra constraints or rules to make it work, so it was quite restrictive in terms of setting this one. But I managed in the end. It is a bit tricky to solve fillomino on a normal sudoku grid with the fully drawn edges, which is why I made a version with dashed edges (as you can see in the example). Otherwise I suggest using the setting in SudokuPad for dashed edges. I used both edges and lines for keeping track of the regions when solving. :)
Ahh.. At 39:37 Simon makes a faulty assumption, missing that that region could grow up into R3C2. Easy to miss, happens to the best of us, but lucky that it was a correct digit at least. :P
Personally, I love when the rules are short. It feels inelegant to me to add a rule (even if a standard rule) to make a small disambiguation. The rules on this puzzle are delightful!
@@zamfofexThank you. I agree with your sentiment regarding rulesets. Although I have made a few long ones myself, I always at least try to keep a thematic idea to them.
I think the rules need clarifying as I attempted this thinking that because each region has to have one circle, every number 1 had to be in its own circle
At 39:45 the 2 in r4c3 is not forced like that, because the region can go up and grow (with 5 or higher in the circles). You must count the remaining cells in rows 123 and that's how you see it's not enough space for the regions if r4c3 is minimum 5.
For filomino puzzles (even sudoku kind) I've learned to use single central pencilmark as "at least this but maybe more". Since there is no reason to use single pencilmark in normal sudoku, I can quite easily always interpret it correctly :)
I could follow all the logic Simon applied, except at 39:47 when Simon said that the region in block 4 must be of size 2 because it is completely tapped in. At that stage, I don't see what prevent the region to be of size 5 and grow into block 1 through R3C2.
Same. I sat there for a minute figuring out how he came to that conclusion. It was a correct mark, but it felt like it wasn't narrowed down all the way. I had to pause and deduce it down for myself to feel better about it haha!
"as his mouse is right on the 5 that resolves the 5s and 7s" ... and seconds later on a 7 that resolves the 5s and 7s the other way. Simon never ceases to amaze in how he can find the most convoluted complex and seemingly backwards ways of resolving something while being completely blind to sudoku in front of him, sudoku so obvious even I've seen it.
Time and time again I think that Simon's solving style can be summerised in the phrase, "in conducting brilliance one often misses the blindingly obvious". If searching for speed you would perhaps benifit from a background pleb that misses the brilliance in light of the blindingly obvious. As you are not searching for speed i'll simply say it takes all minds to make a beautiful world. Thanks for the making the world more beautiful with your touch of obvious missing brilliance.
I'm grateful to setters, who invest their time in crafting these marvels and then give them to the rest of the world for us to enjoy And I'm grateful this channel exists where Mark and Simon are highly appreciated by all of us not because of anything futile but because of their minds
I finished in 111 minutes. This puzzle you really have to pay attention to. There are so many different ways to regions can loop onto each other, that it's hard to keep track of in my head and on the screen. This was a hard one, but enjoyable. Great Puzzle!
usually I have these puzzles on in the background while I do my own thing.. but this one was captivating and I couldn't focus on anything else the entire time!
He makes the same mistake at 17:59, forgetting that the circle could go up to get its 5 without boxing in the 3 he's bifurcated (the 3 can then just go south 3). Now, that doesn't actually work because it boxes in the 24 pairs, but, Simon didn't get the logic that far, he just stopped where he was wrong. Another lucky solve. I think Simon needs a vacation, a real one where he doesn't try to solve on his laptop while he's on holiday lol
For some reason I got great satisfaction that I was channelling Simon successfully in this solve: I also ended up hitting the undo button a lot because of the 29 'pair' that had sprouted erroneously.
Todays puzzle is one of my favourite ones. Otherwise I really like fog of war puzzles. And this one had the same kind of quality in many ways. Thank you Asparagus for a beautiful puzzle!!!!
Oh wow, I just did this puzzle yesterday! Took me ages to recover from a fairly early mistake, but I'm glad this wasn't posted yet to tempt me to peek lol
Omg, I did the same thing! It was heartbreaking when I realized how much work I had to throw out. 😭 What was your mistake? It'd be interesting if we made the same one.
That's a nice one. At some point I was stuck (box 7), but after 20 minutes I checked rules again and saw that 2 bordering regions can't have same size :D
Really cool! Another channel that might work is Vegas Matt. They literally just play high stakes slot machines, but there are a lot little catch phrases and running jokes among the guys. Not quite as sophisticated as CTC, though.
93m32s. That was a wonderful logic exercise! I had to do a bit of proof by contradiction at the end to finish the filomino-ing of the lower left corner, but everything worked out in the end
1:53:52 - Another brilliant puzzle but not that easy. I did use the checker en route a few times to check my logic as I’m not as good as Mark or Simon at picking up where I went wrong, but I always make sure I’m finding the logic correctly before entering the digits. The region starting at R3C9 was the one that stumped me for so long. It turned out to be about the last bit of region logic to resolve! Really enjoyed it though.
Finished in 84:12. Man, the logic for this was insane! The break-in was ok, but trying to figure out which possibilities could be eliminated kept getting harder and harder throughout. To get the final right side of the puzzle took me a good 40 minutes trying to figure out the combinations which could be eliminated correctly. Fun puzzle!
The video title remind me of lego set with "3+ years" printed on the box. "I can build this lego set in just 3 days imstead of 3 years, I so must be genius"
I solved it in 3h33m25s My first time playing along because it was simply such a nice looking puzzle. I'm quite happy with my time for my first time solving an advanced sudoku.
109:33 Brutally brilliant. Starts easily enough but quickly gets tougher and tougher. Incredible interplay between the fillomino and sudoku elements and the circles. Loved every second, even when I was hating it! 😂
26:29 for me, usually I’m slower than Simon by a fair bit. I think just thinking what would happen if the snake grew helped. Also using colors over lines when you know you need a new box. I immediately coloured all the box 2 circles
When solving for the top middle cage: Simon counts up to 7, realizes at 7 its blocked another cage. from there his brain goes 'its boxed in the other cage, so it cant be 9, but can it be 8' counts to 7 again and sees it is still a problem 'no, it cant be 8, but can it be 7' and proceeds to count the same 7 cells again. purely in good fun, always fun to point out a foibles of a brilliant mind
While the black region borders are easy enough to see between normal cells, they're hard to distinguish when they overlay box borders - so X marks are quicker and more visible
I put over an hour of time into this, used the video for help, and just couldn't get a solution in the end. Edit: watching the solve, I now see how using lines instead of colors is more helpful. I would mark cells having to be in a single region the same color, but then my mind would say two in progress regions as having to be different when they touch each other because the colors are different.
You should push for the pencil marks to allow for less than and greater than symbols. I've seen more than one puzzle that could benefit from these conglomerate pencil marks.
You could even just have a toggle for the visual aspect of a greater than or less than symbol. E.g. when imputing 1234 it would show less than or equal to 4 automatically based on a setting.
At just shy of 50 minutes for my solve, this is another one that I managed to best Simon's time on. I've noticed he has a weakness on region puzzles where he keeps stopping to look at the pretty numbers, when there's still more shape logic to be done staring him in the face :D
There's nothing quite so heartbreaking as getting an early corner 3 because of a logical error and having to correct, then finishing the puzzle corner-3 less.
6:24 "groking" I didn't realise that Simon had read "Stranger in a strange land". (In summary to "grok" something means to understand something at the highest level.)
It does if you turn on "compact pencilmarks" in settings. Simon tried it for all of five minutes when it first became an option, but decided he didn't like it that way, so turned it off again. I have it turned on and think it's great.
Kind request… please try not to use black lines to delineate regions in a grid that already contains black lines that delineate regions (e.g. regular sudoku) 😊
5 y/o logic: Of course "Mark" is the one who very generously "marks" cells while "Simmon" is reluctant to do the same. So obviously "Simmon" ends up with a lot less "marks" to work with and obviously he ends up calling for aid from Bobbins the cat a lot more by invoking their name.
Fun puzzle but I didn't understand why the circle at R4C3 can be the same was the circle in R3C2? 🤔 Anyway thanks for the fun solve! 😊 Edit: Nevermind, someone explained in the comments 😅
Did you see the nominations for puzzle of the year came out? I'm not suprised Fillomino Sudoku has so many nominations. It's a truly amazing puzzle. Terrible, awkward, cringe-inducing dialogue. Flat, boring cinematography, no story to be invested in at all. Plus, a boring lifeless character that we all end up hating at the end. It's also really long. I would say it feels almost twice it's length. But did you know that it took 12 years to make? Nothing has ever taken 12 years to make. With all this hype, I just don't see how -Boyhood could fail to win best picture at the Ocars- Fillomino Sudoku could fail to win -best picture at the Oscars- the best puzzle award.
@aronlide Hey great puzzle, seriously. I just can't hear the phrase "x took y years to make" without remembering drunken Midwesterns complaining about boyhood.
You know, I've watched so many of your videos and I'm constantly yelling at the screen. And about 70% of the time it turns out I'm wrong about whatever it is. I think the point is that most people who watch wish they were peering over your shoulder, involved in the action. That's why we're all yelling at the screen. You are great at doing these puzzles. Thank you for bringing the party.
Hahah. That is definitely me. "3 3 3!!, oh it's definitely not a 3"
Me too!
With how much better he is at these than me, I live for those moments where I've spotted something he hasn't yet! But every time I'm like... "He hasn't done this yet... did I miss something? No... no I'm sure I'm right...Right?" And then I have to go triple check.
@@LadyEmilyNyxThis is definitely me😂
I try to solve the puzzle before I watch the solve, which gives me even more reason to shout obscenities at Simon, conveniently ignoring the fact that he will finish the whole thing at least twice as quickly as I could ever manage.
It really annoys me when he uses a ridiculously convoluted logic train to prove a digit which sudoku could have solved for anyone who can simply scan or read their own pencil marks, but it annoys me more that he still beats my time, every time, without fail.
The most annoying thing, though, is when he pencil marks all the digits which a square can be according to one of the rules, while not considering any of the other rules, then just moves on to something completely different. Eventually he'll triumphantly announce, "And that's not a [x] now!", when I've spent 15 minutes screaming "How can that ever be a f^%k!ng [x]?!?".
Aspartagcus here. :) Thanks for giving my puzzle a go! The reason it took so long is because I'm stubborn and sometimes won't add any extra constraints or rules to make it work, so it was quite restrictive in terms of setting this one. But I managed in the end.
It is a bit tricky to solve fillomino on a normal sudoku grid with the fully drawn edges, which is why I made a version with dashed edges (as you can see in the example). Otherwise I suggest using the setting in SudokuPad for dashed edges.
I used both edges and lines for keeping track of the regions when solving. :)
Ahh.. At 39:37 Simon makes a faulty assumption, missing that that region could grow up into R3C2. Easy to miss, happens to the best of us, but lucky that it was a correct digit at least. :P
Personally, I love when the rules are short. It feels inelegant to me to add a rule (even if a standard rule) to make a small disambiguation. The rules on this puzzle are delightful!
@@zamfofexThank you. I agree with your sentiment regarding rulesets. Although I have made a few long ones myself, I always at least try to keep a thematic idea to them.
Just using any color but black for the line tool goes a long way towards keeping cage borders and region borders visually distinct
I think the rules need clarifying as I attempted this thinking that because each region has to have one circle, every number 1 had to be in its own circle
At 39:45 the 2 in r4c3 is not forced like that, because the region can go up and grow (with 5 or higher in the circles). You must count the remaining cells in rows 123 and that's how you see it's not enough space for the regions if r4c3 is minimum 5.
Thank you, I got confused there! 😊
Was looking for this comment, yeah Simón missed some logic here. But luckily he got the correct possibility anyway
I was so confused at this point as well
I had to look forward to see if it's gonna turn correct or not, can't handle this much pressure
Also saw that and was half hoping he caught it and went back
For filomino puzzles (even sudoku kind) I've learned to use single central pencilmark as "at least this but maybe more". Since there is no reason to use single pencilmark in normal sudoku, I can quite easily always interpret it correctly :)
I could follow all the logic Simon applied, except at 39:47 when Simon said that the region in block 4 must be of size 2 because it is completely tapped in. At that stage, I don't see what prevent the region to be of size 5 and grow into block 1 through R3C2.
Agreed, at this point he hadn’t done enough to prove it was a 2.
Same. I sat there for a minute figuring out how he came to that conclusion.
It was a correct mark, but it felt like it wasn't narrowed down all the way. I had to pause and deduce it down for myself to feel better about it haha!
1:12:45 "How are we going to do? We are going to need Sudoku" as his mouse is right on the 5 that resolves the 5s and 7s :)
Another instance of this phenomenon :D
We should make a list, there's probably at least 10-15 instances of this happening.
"as his mouse is right on the 5 that resolves the 5s and 7s" ... and seconds later on a 7 that resolves the 5s and 7s the other way. Simon never ceases to amaze in how he can find the most convoluted complex and seemingly backwards ways of resolving something while being completely blind to sudoku in front of him, sudoku so obvious even I've seen it.
Time and time again I think that Simon's solving style can be summerised in the phrase, "in conducting brilliance one often misses the blindingly obvious".
If searching for speed you would perhaps benifit from a background pleb that misses the brilliance in light of the blindingly obvious.
As you are not searching for speed i'll simply say it takes all minds to make a beautiful world.
Thanks for the making the world more beautiful with your touch of obvious missing brilliance.
It takes all minds to make a beautiful world. Wow I love that. Very thought provoking
I'm grateful to setters, who invest their time in crafting these marvels and then give them to the rest of the world for us to enjoy
And I'm grateful this channel exists where Mark and Simon are highly appreciated by all of us not because of anything futile but because of their minds
I finished in 111 minutes. This puzzle you really have to pay attention to. There are so many different ways to regions can loop onto each other, that it's hard to keep track of in my head and on the screen. This was a hard one, but enjoyable. Great Puzzle!
This solve was so much fun to watch because I was actually able to keep up with you during the solve, no complex theorems or techniques popping up
usually I have these puzzles on in the background while I do my own thing.. but this one was captivating and I couldn't focus on anything else the entire time!
39:40 I think that region could have gone up
Just checked every other number; and 2 is the only number that works. So, it indeed can't go up
He makes the same mistake at 17:59, forgetting that the circle could go up to get its 5 without boxing in the 3 he's bifurcated (the 3 can then just go south 3). Now, that doesn't actually work because it boxes in the 24 pairs, but, Simon didn't get the logic that far, he just stopped where he was wrong.
Another lucky solve. I think Simon needs a vacation, a real one where he doesn't try to solve on his laptop while he's on holiday lol
As soon as I saw it i though "has simon just got lucky?"
Looks like yes.
Glad it wasn't just me! Ended up being right, but a bit lucky!
Going up makes it a 4 and it has to go west as well. Seemed obvious when I saw it, I don't see it as getting lucky.
For some reason I got great satisfaction that I was channelling Simon successfully in this solve: I also ended up hitting the undo button a lot because of the 29 'pair' that had sprouted erroneously.
Todays puzzle is one of my favourite ones. Otherwise I really like fog of war puzzles. And this one had the same kind of quality in many ways.
Thank you Asparagus for a beautiful puzzle!!!!
Thanks you :)
Oh wow, I just did this puzzle yesterday! Took me ages to recover from a fairly early mistake, but I'm glad this wasn't posted yet to tempt me to peek lol
Omg, I did the same thing! It was heartbreaking when I realized how much work I had to throw out. 😭
What was your mistake? It'd be interesting if we made the same one.
Thoroughly enjoyed this one! Splendid puzzle.
That's a nice one. At some point I was stuck (box 7), but after 20 minutes I checked rules again and saw that 2 bordering regions can't have same size :D
Rules: 04:50
Let's Get Cracking: 08:04
Simon's time: 1h7m17s
Puzzle Solved: 1:15:21
What about this video's Top Tier Simarkisms?!
Bobbins: 2x (45:05, 1:03:56)
Knowledge Bomb: 1x (16:52)
Three In the Corner: 1x (1:15:00)
Maverick: 1x (50:05)
You Rotten Thing: 1x (38:58)
And how about this video's Simarkisms?!
Hang On: 20x (06:56, 07:36, 10:59, 15:12, 19:08, 28:01, 31:12, 33:39, 40:22, 46:31, 49:25, 51:02, 59:34, 1:02:07, 1:03:56, 1:04:19, 1:07:31, 1:09:56, 1:09:56)
By Sudoku: 17x (09:10, 29:30, 30:03, 35:29, 38:07, 40:37, 42:13, 42:50, 44:44, 46:23, 55:01, 55:08, 56:00, 56:07, 59:43, 1:09:26, 1:13:15)
Ah: 12x (09:40, 12:00, 22:46, 27:03, 38:35, 38:58, 40:34, 41:11, 44:59, 51:02, 1:00:09, 1:07:23)
Pencil Mark/mark: 12x (14:00, 18:17, 22:56, 23:02, 42:21, 43:40, 46:44, 46:52, 51:54, 1:08:56, 1:09:59, 1:10:05)
Beautiful: 7x (32:55, 32:59, 1:08:40, 1:11:10, 1:11:46, 1:11:53, 1:15:48)
In Fact: 7x (31:51, 45:31, 46:14, 51:52, 1:08:18, 1:14:40)
Obviously: 6x (31:06, 37:24, 38:39, 45:06, 52:54, 1:12:06)
Whoopsie: 5x (39:35, 40:03, 41:42, 41:42, 44:54)
What on Earth: 4x (17:54, 20:18, 29:07, 1:03:27)
Clever: 4x (1:05:47, 1:08:11, 1:15:11, 1:15:35)
Brilliant: 4x (00:27, 02:55, 36:28, 1:15:31)
Wow: 4x (57:29, 57:29, 1:05:44, 1:05:44)
Cake!: 4x (03:02, 03:33, 04:18, 04:35)
Sorry: 3x (03:04, 22:01, 44:12)
Bother: 3x (37:14, 1:06:02, 1:13:08)
Lovely: 3x (32:37, 1:12:36, 1:15:48)
Nonsense: 2x (03:36, 1:10:32)
Ridiculous: 2x (51:43, 1:08:08)
Surely: 2x (39:54, 55:28)
Phone is Buzzing: 2x (10:56, 51:06)
Goodness: 1x (39:01)
Naughty: 1x (05:38)
I Have no Clue: 1x (46:28)
Gorgeous: 1x (59:47)
Take a Bow: 1x (1:15:31)
Think Harder: 1x (21:52)
What Does This Mean?: 1x (41:29)
That is Sick: 1x (1:11:55)
Most popular number(>9), digit and colour this video:
Twelve (5 mentions)
One (109 mentions)
Red (9 mentions)
Antithesis Battles:
Even (4) - Odd (1)
Higher (3) - Lower (0)
Black (2) - White (2)
Column (20) - Row (17)
FAQ:
Q1: You missed something!
A1: That could very well be the case! Human speech can be hard to understand for computers like me! Point out the ones that I missed and maybe I'll learn!
Q2: Can you do this for another channel?
A2: I've been thinking about that and wrote some code to make that possible. Let me know which channel you think would be a good fit!
It should be how/what on earth
Really cool! Another channel that might work is Vegas Matt. They literally just play high stakes slot machines, but there are a lot little catch phrases and running jokes among the guys. Not quite as sophisticated as CTC, though.
Perhaps add “Rotten” for simon
93m32s. That was a wonderful logic exercise! I had to do a bit of proof by contradiction at the end to finish the filomino-ing of the lower left corner, but everything worked out in the end
1:53:52 - Another brilliant puzzle but not that easy. I did use the checker en route a few times to check my logic as I’m not as good as Mark or Simon at picking up where I went wrong, but I always make sure I’m finding the logic correctly before entering the digits. The region starting at R3C9 was the one that stumped me for so long. It turned out to be about the last bit of region logic to resolve! Really enjoyed it though.
One of the best puzzles yet. Just the right amount of challenge (very hard for me), few rules with great logic. 10/10. 140:06.
39:40 it could go north? i think simon was lucky here
Indeed, but he would've ruled other options out fairly easily if he'd seen it.
i think he noticed that there is a 4 in the row, which it would become if it went north
@@aescafarstadwhy not 5, i can't easily see how 5 is ruled out
oh that would break r3c4 i see
Finished in 84:12. Man, the logic for this was insane! The break-in was ok, but trying to figure out which possibilities could be eliminated kept getting harder and harder throughout. To get the final right side of the puzzle took me a good 40 minutes trying to figure out the combinations which could be eliminated correctly.
Fun puzzle!
The video title remind me of lego set with "3+ years" printed on the box.
"I can build this lego set in just 3 days imstead of 3 years, I so must be genius"
I solved it in 3h33m25s
My first time playing along because it was simply such a nice looking puzzle.
I'm quite happy with my time for my first time solving an advanced sudoku.
First fillomino I've ever done, took 73 minutes with a lot of drawing lines and boxes everywhere. :D
109:33
Brutally brilliant. Starts easily enough but quickly gets tougher and tougher. Incredible interplay between the fillomino and sudoku elements and the circles. Loved every second, even when I was hating it! 😂
26:29 for me, usually I’m slower than Simon by a fair bit. I think just thinking what would happen if the snake grew helped. Also using colors over lines when you know you need a new box. I immediately coloured all the box 2 circles
Well done! That's fast!
67:08 for me. Beginning was easy. Got stuck filling in the first three columns. Brilliant puzzle.
39:35 why couldnt the region starting in r4c3 enter box 1 through r3c2, making it at least 3?
Brilliant puzzle.... pretty and colourful.
I think I’ve watched too many Cunk on Earth clips. This puzzle title makes me want a puzzle called Filomina Cunk. 😂
Solved in 1:01:01 solve number #804
The logic in the bottom left was brutal
Would it make sense to introduce a marking like >4? or would that be more confusing then helpful?
You can turn on "Compact pencilmarks" in the settings in SudokuPad, which would show 4-9.
When solving for the top middle cage: Simon counts up to 7, realizes at 7 its blocked another cage. from there his brain goes 'its boxed in the other cage, so it cant be 9, but can it be 8' counts to 7 again and sees it is still a problem 'no, it cant be 8, but can it be 7' and proceeds to count the same 7 cells again.
purely in good fun, always fun to point out a foibles of a brilliant mind
😂
One obviously has to make sure that if it's growing to size 7, then it has to grow via the same route. 🙂
Odd choice to do Xs rather than just drawing region border segments...
Holy moly, yes. Regions both marked by colour and a red line, and border limits marked by both red crosses and black lines. Too much!!! 😮😮
action economy
While the black region borders are easy enough to see between normal cells, they're hard to distinguish when they overlay box borders - so X marks are quicker and more visible
@@deniseiln Feel like that's a separate problem of using black lines rather than another color
For anyone interested, there's a version with dotted borders on my Logic Masters Germany page so you can more easily see where the regions are drawn.
Coloring by 4-Color Theorem at the end adds some extra fun to these kinds of puzzles.
At this rate it's going to take me more than 3 years to solve it
I put over an hour of time into this, used the video for help, and just couldn't get a solution in the end.
Edit: watching the solve, I now see how using lines instead of colors is more helpful. I would mark cells having to be in a single region the same color, but then my mind would say two in progress regions as having to be different when they touch each other because the colors are different.
I love watching these videos even tho i could never solve any of the puzzles you do haha
You should push for the pencil marks to allow for less than and greater than symbols. I've seen more than one puzzle that could benefit from these conglomerate pencil marks.
You could even just have a toggle for the visual aspect of a greater than or less than symbol. E.g. when imputing 1234 it would show less than or equal to 4 automatically based on a setting.
took me 80 minutes to solve, fantastic puzzle
At just shy of 50 minutes for my solve, this is another one that I managed to best Simon's time on. I've noticed he has a weakness on region puzzles where he keeps stopping to look at the pretty numbers, when there's still more shape logic to be done staring him in the face :D
I guess Simon gave up on removing the red lines. And the x's as well.
At 1:05:27 Row 1 column 7 has to be the same as Row 9 column 8, which would resolve all the 5s & 7s
Why does it have to be the same as r9c8? If r1c7 was a 5 it could be the same as r8c9 (the 5 in box 9), no?
First two colours out of the box were dark green and red. Oh Simon.
I know they are your favourite. Can you just not use green or something at all?
There's nothing quite so heartbreaking as getting an early corner 3 because of a logical error and having to correct, then finishing the puzzle corner-3 less.
6:24 "groking"
I didn't realise that Simon had read "Stranger in a strange land".
(In summary to "grok" something means to understand something at the highest level.)
Doesn't the software allow a range to be entered, so you can do something like 4-9 rather than 456789?
It does if you turn on "compact pencilmarks" in settings. Simon tried it for all of five minutes when it first became an option, but decided he didn't like it that way, so turned it off again. I have it turned on and think it's great.
@@RichSmith77 Agreed. I usually turn it on for a puzzle like this when I find it helpful to list a lot of candidates.
51:59 for me. Tough puzzle, but very enjoyable!
Great save on a terrible pencil mark mistake. So easy to make that type of mistake -- not realizing you have an extra cell highlighted.
I made the same mistake that Simon did at 1:09:58. That makes me feel less bad about making that error.
Was too difficult for me to do it purely by logic. I eventually gave up and guessed the 7/9 region on the right and then completed it.
It's lucky the Times cryptic crossword was so easy today so Simon had plenty of time to spend on this 😅
80.40 for me. Great puzzle it is.
Kind request… please try not to use black lines to delineate regions in a grid that already contains black lines that delineate regions (e.g. regular sudoku) 😊
noooo its fine please don't make him even more neurotic about his color choices 😭
5 y/o logic: Of course "Mark" is the one who very generously "marks" cells while "Simmon" is reluctant to do the same.
So obviously "Simmon" ends up with a lot less "marks" to work with and obviously he ends up calling for aid from Bobbins the cat a lot more by invoking their name.
Bobbins is a cat?
1:16 How is it that Simon neglects to settle the newly known boundaries ? It would be much, much clearer for us mere mortals ,-)
Feel like I got soo close but broke it somewhere along the way
Fun puzzle but I didn't understand why the circle at R4C3 can be the same was the circle in R3C2? 🤔
Anyway thanks for the fun solve! 😊
Edit: Nevermind, someone explained in the comments 😅
At 39:56 why cannot the two grow upward?
Just as long time as it took for a Star Wars film to make.
It took me 01:00:40.
59:49 for me
57:11 for me. quite hard. especially the second half.
Happy new tax year eve everyone!
What happens to the video / internet? I get constantly stuck.
41:37 for me. the end sucked.
Can't please everyone, I guess...
Seems broken in sudokupad. It comes through with just classic rules and no special rules
Less haste Simon. At least 2 logical errors
70 minutes
Did you see the nominations for puzzle of the year came out? I'm not suprised Fillomino Sudoku has so many nominations. It's a truly amazing puzzle. Terrible, awkward, cringe-inducing dialogue. Flat, boring cinematography, no story to be invested in at all. Plus, a boring lifeless character that we all end up hating at the end. It's also really long. I would say it feels almost twice it's length. But did you know that it took 12 years to make? Nothing has ever taken 12 years to make. With all this hype, I just don't see how -Boyhood could fail to win best picture at the Ocars- Fillomino Sudoku could fail to win -best picture at the Oscars- the best puzzle award.
Oh, so that's how it's done? XD Should've waited a few more years then, haha!
@aronlide Hey great puzzle, seriously. I just can't hear the phrase "x took y years to make" without remembering drunken Midwesterns complaining about boyhood.
Lucky solve by Simon... bit disappointing