Happy birthday Simon! It was fun to watch it :) I especially liked the mentions to the other puzzles of the 7x7 mystery prime and KNT’s pentomino loop puzzle, because I saw both and thought that is good training for this puzzle :D
Thank you for constructing a puzzle for Simon's birthday. Many happy returns Simon. YT isn't displaying a comment box tonight for me to post separately.
Simon...there aren't enough of word to describe what you mean to this channel and community. Everyday you bring joy, humor, logic, stories, , announcements, poetry and love to us all. Thank you so much for being who you are on a constant basis!! Absolutely would cherish seeing you at a party. Have an exceptional birthday!! Happy birthday!!🎉🎉🎉
Everyone deserves a day where they can celebrate themselves, but you're certainly among the rarer ones that should get that extra bit of chocolate icing on their cake. Thank you for being you, and I hope you have the happiest of birthdays!
I finished in 70 minutes. I never heard of puzzle a day, but the rules looked pretty cool. It was quite fun to build them out. It got a lot harder after that, but the use of the 45 clue to force r6c6 to be high and create a quintuple in column 6 was amazing. This was a beautiful tribute to Simon who is fantastic in every way. Great Puzzle and Happy Birthday, Simon!
A very, very happy birthday Simon! Your puzzle videos and cheerful narrations of your logic are always a delight to watch. Enjoy your chocolate cake and keep up the good work! :) Also nice puzzle idea PjotrV. I wonder wether each configuration of the a-puzzle-a-day has a unique solution as-is. Either way there's definitely potential for a sudoku-derivative calendar in that format.
There is no unique solution to any of the a-puzzle-a-day. Some dates have over 100 different solutions, while the minimum amount of solutions is 7 for a date
Ah, nothing like seeing a nice bit of logic and patiently waiting for Simon to see it only for him to swerve around it and solve the puzzle without needing it like a champ 😅
as soon as he placed the 3 in the corner 4 was taken out from the 21 pentomino, which fixed the four on the red pentomino, but he solved the whole puzzle without even consider the existence of the 21 cage, i wont lie, i was stressing, but it was incredible to watch him still do it without that piece of knowledge
Happy Birthday Simon! If I could like this video twice, I would. That was an absolute delight to watch, made even better by how much you were clearly enjoying yourself. I don't care what anyone says about you and parties; you're wonderfully interesting, funny and wholesome. You deserve the very best chocolate cake. Thank you for everything you do.
I personally loved the "LGB-cutie" variant @6:20. That's very appropriate! Happy birthday, Simon! Thanks for sharing so much joy with us and for being such a positive force in the world. Thank you!
Happy Birthday to Simon, who demonstrated his oddball nature by eventually filling in the 21 pentomino with ordinary sudoku, and going for "the total sum for the grid" instead!🤩
An alternative to cracking the A/B disambiguation at 51:30 (without spoiling the whole puzzle): r5c7 sees both A and B, which makes it a naked single. That cascades across other pencil marks in row 5 and solves the value for A.
Happy birthday Simon! I’ve never ever in a million years thought that I would care about sudoku, but you oh so gracefully and effortlessly changed my mind, and my life for that matter. Your videos brighten up my day. Thank you for being you❤
This is quite a delightful puzzle, I have the A-Puzzle-A-Day calendar at my desk and it is always a nice little conversation starter. Such a fun way to combine this with sudoku
Happy birthday Simon! 🎂❤ I hope you had a wonderful day, you deserve it! Peter was so sweet to make you that puzzle, I'm glad we got to watch you solve it 🥰
I'm not a big commentator, but I just wanted to say happy birthday Simon! I struggle with anxiety and often have trouble letting my brain relax enough to fall asleep, but I've found that putting on a video of who I refer to as "the silly sudoku man" to my friends is the perfect way for me to drift off- and then I get to rewatch the video when I'm awake so I can ACTUALLY see the end of the puzzle! You bring so much joy and knowledge to the world and to my every day, I would LOVE to bump into you at a party to excitedly discuss obscure interesting things, and there are some days where being One Of Your Very Favorite People who gets to know the secret is more meaningful than you might realize. ❤
A very happy birthday to you, Simon. And thanks to PjotrV for a fantastic puzzle to celebrate. I am so glad you got to colour on your birthday, no birthday is complete without the colours coming out. And do some lovely logic, and occasionally some sudoku. Your pleasure is our pleasure, Simon - Happy Birthday!
31:36 Absolute brilliance. So many strange layers to this. Most importantly, of course, happy birthday young Simon!! The picture that came with the puzzle also appeared to have the requisite 1:1 ratio! 🎉🎂
Dear Simon. Hope you had a fantastic birthday yesterday with a lot of chocolate cake (with a lot of frosting). Thanks to PjotrV for setting a beautiful puzzle for you, it was absolutely well deserved on your part! Have a fantastic year, and keep calm and crack on :-)
Happy birthday Simon!! Thank you for your videos, they mean so much to me and many other people as they carried us through very hard times. I hope you have lots of chocolate cake!
Happy birthday, Simon! Thank you for all you do for us, I would love to run into you at a random party, which seems unlikely given where we live, but I shall keep hoping against hope
Happy Birthday Simon! I want to say your videos have been so helpful for my mental health but also for my career. I am a music teacher who often gets frustrated with my career for many many reasons. I always lead with kindness for my students and try and not let the mess show in my lessons. I sense that you are just being you, which is a nice person. I guess I'm trying to say you for being you and giving me the confidence to do the same. You are loved!
Happy birthday Simon! Thanks so much for all you do, I appreciate that there’s a small corner of the universe dedicated to logic puzzles, community, and kindness that you and Mark have started. Y’all make the world a brighter place and considering the world we live in this is no small feat and no small gift. So thank you and again: happy birthday!!
Happy birthday, Simon! As a man of sugary disposition myself, I'm terribly jealous of your cake. But my own birthday is coming up on the 11th, so I won't have to be left out for too long. Delightful puzzle today, as always! You're too kind to us, giving us a gift today of all days.
Happy Birthday Simon! I hope you have a wonderful year, full with good moments and making fun memories! I will enjoy all the sudokus you'll make and post this year 😊
An absolutely well deserved happy birthday and huge love! 💞 Not only would i be thrilled to see you at a party, but you would indeed be the life of the party!
i was staring at the red quadrouple for a while that made the grey 25 cage a 7 by sudoku. but in classic simon fashion he found a more complicated way of proving another digit had to be 6
Happy (Late) Birthday, Simon - don't know if you'll read a late comment. I try to watch each of your Sudoku videos - they were an important part of my sanity through COVID lockdown, feels like forever. I'm delighted to know that I share my birthday with you, and thank you for all of the joy you've given to puzzlers around the world. May you have plenty of chocolate cake for years to come.
Happy birthday! Its been a long time since Ive done logic puzzles and Ive found these so facinating, that I even did one of the easier ones I saw mark doing! Thanks!
Great puzzle! When I solved it, I was left with 6 7 pairs everywhere and had to use the 45 diagonal to resolve which felt really elegant. Simon solved the diagonal earlier on and, I don't know if that was the intended time, but it didn't feel as smooth. At 37:32, If he'd realised that the 21 cage didn't contain a 4 because it doesn't contain a 3, the rest of the grid solves quite quickly., leaving you with the 6 7 pairs.
Happy birthday , Simon and lots of chocolate cake with very thick icing. Thank you for keeping me entertained every day. I hope you have enjoyed your day.
Even without watching the video yet -- yes, Simon, of course I wish you a happy birthday. With excessive amounts of chocolate cake, and maybe a nice wine. 😻
Happy birthday Simon! It was fun to watch it :) I especially liked the mentions to the other puzzles of the 7x7 mystery prime and KNT’s pentomino loop puzzle, because I saw both and thought that is good training for this puzzle :D
A-Puzzle-A-Day does work for every date, I found 340 dates out of 366 :)
There are even multiple solutions per date
Thank you for constructing a puzzle for Simon's birthday. Many happy returns Simon. YT isn't displaying a comment box tonight for me to post separately.
@@PjotrVwow!!
Don't forget 29th feb :)
@@easternbrown I have got that one already :) (that's why I said 366 dates ;))
He enjoys the comments! Especially when they’re kind! He’s Simon! Happy Birthday!
Happy birthday Simon! (Chain?)
Happy birthday Simon!
Happy Birthday Dear Simon!
I think we can all agree, would be thrilled to run into Simon at a party and exchange 'interesting' factoids.
Happy Birthday Simon
Yes indeed!
I love how Peter designed a puzzle to maximize pencil marking for Simon.
Simon...there aren't enough of word to describe what you mean to this channel and community. Everyday you bring joy, humor, logic, stories, , announcements, poetry and love to us all.
Thank you so much for being who you are on a constant basis!! Absolutely would cherish seeing you at a party.
Have an exceptional birthday!! Happy birthday!!🎉🎉🎉
Absolutely spot on. Hear hear!
As always, I agree wholeheartedly with both David and Emily!!
Everyone deserves a day where they can celebrate themselves, but you're certainly among the rarer ones that should get that extra bit of chocolate icing on their cake. Thank you for being you, and I hope you have the happiest of birthdays!
You're such a star Lori. Thank you :)
Happy Birthday Simon, I’m one of the many who’d happily talk to you at a party! Thank you PyotrV for this lovely puzzle
I finished in 70 minutes. I never heard of puzzle a day, but the rules looked pretty cool. It was quite fun to build them out. It got a lot harder after that, but the use of the 45 clue to force r6c6 to be high and create a quintuple in column 6 was amazing. This was a beautiful tribute to Simon who is fantastic in every way. Great Puzzle and Happy Birthday, Simon!
Happy Birthday, Simon! Thank you for giving us a gift every day. (That cake needs more icing. Always, *always* more icing!)
Happy Birthday Simon! Thank you for your teaching, poetry, music, sense of humor and so much more. Best of everything… especially the chocolate cake 😉
A very, very happy birthday Simon! Your puzzle videos and cheerful narrations of your logic are always a delight to watch. Enjoy your chocolate cake and keep up the good work! :)
Also nice puzzle idea PjotrV. I wonder wether each configuration of the a-puzzle-a-day has a unique solution as-is. Either way there's definitely potential for a sudoku-derivative calendar in that format.
There is no unique solution to any of the a-puzzle-a-day. Some dates have over 100 different solutions, while the minimum amount of solutions is 7 for a date
Ah, nothing like seeing a nice bit of logic and patiently waiting for Simon to see it only for him to swerve around it and solve the puzzle without needing it like a champ 😅
Ngl about 50 minutes in, box number (7,-5) couldn't have been a 6 or a 7 and it was stressing me out
as soon as he placed the 3 in the corner 4 was taken out from the 21 pentomino, which fixed the four on the red pentomino, but he solved the whole puzzle without even consider the existence of the 21 cage, i wont lie, i was stressing, but it was incredible to watch him still do it without that piece of knowledge
Happy Birthday Simon! If I could like this video twice, I would. That was an absolute delight to watch, made even better by how much you were clearly enjoying yourself. I don't care what anyone says about you and parties; you're wonderfully interesting, funny and wholesome. You deserve the very best chocolate cake. Thank you for everything you do.
I wonder if there is anything more Simon than to worry about being too indulgent for solving his birthday puzzle on his own puzzle channel
I personally loved the "LGB-cutie" variant @6:20. That's very appropriate! Happy birthday, Simon! Thanks for sharing so much joy with us and for being such a positive force in the world. Thank you!
Most UA-cam videos are 8-12 minutes long, meanwhile Simon here casually having a 15 minute intro and I love it!
Happy Birthday to Simon, who demonstrated his oddball nature by eventually filling in the 21 pentomino with ordinary sudoku, and going for "the total sum for the grid" instead!🤩
And even doubling the arithmetic by doing the whole grid instead of just the left half, since he already summed the right half earlier.
An alternative to cracking the A/B disambiguation at 51:30 (without spoiling the whole puzzle): r5c7 sees both A and B, which makes it a naked single. That cascades across other pencil marks in row 5 and solves the value for A.
Happy birthday Simon! Many happy returns from George and Lara in Leeds! :D
Happy birthday Simon! I’ve never ever in a million years thought that I would care about sudoku, but you oh so gracefully and effortlessly changed my mind, and my life for that matter. Your videos brighten up my day. Thank you for being you❤
This is quite a delightful puzzle, I have the A-Puzzle-A-Day calendar at my desk and it is always a nice little conversation starter. Such a fun way to combine this with sudoku
A very happy birthday to you Simon, with of course an enormous chocolate cake, with the correct amount of icing, which is massive. ❤🎉
Happy birthday Simon! 🎂❤ I hope you had a wonderful day, you deserve it! Peter was so sweet to make you that puzzle, I'm glad we got to watch you solve it 🥰
I'm not a big commentator, but I just wanted to say happy birthday Simon! I struggle with anxiety and often have trouble letting my brain relax enough to fall asleep, but I've found that putting on a video of who I refer to as "the silly sudoku man" to my friends is the perfect way for me to drift off- and then I get to rewatch the video when I'm awake so I can ACTUALLY see the end of the puzzle! You bring so much joy and knowledge to the world and to my every day, I would LOVE to bump into you at a party to excitedly discuss obscure interesting things, and there are some days where being One Of Your Very Favorite People who gets to know the secret is more meaningful than you might realize. ❤
A very happy birthday to you, Simon. And thanks to PjotrV for a fantastic puzzle to celebrate. I am so glad you got to colour on your birthday, no birthday is complete without the colours coming out. And do some lovely logic, and occasionally some sudoku. Your pleasure is our pleasure, Simon - Happy Birthday!
Happy birthday Simon! These videos always bring me a great deal of joy. Hope your day was joyful and full of all the chocolate cake!!
Happy birthday Simon!!! Thank you so much for what you do!
31:36
Absolute brilliance. So many strange layers to this.
Most importantly, of course, happy birthday young Simon!! The picture that came with the puzzle also appeared to have the requisite 1:1 ratio! 🎉🎂
Well Happy Birthday Simon! I'm so glad I found your channel, and I hope you've had lots of chocolate cake!
Happy birthday Simon, thanks for the many years of entertainment. 🎉
A birthday sudoku deserves a happy outro music. Happy birthday and thanks for keeping up with this channel and interesting puzzles.
Happy birthday to one of my favourite people! 😊
Happy Birthday, Simon. I will definitely come speak to you at your party.
Happy birthday Simon, best wishes and a great party with never ending chocolate cake and a fine wine!
Finished in 28:20. Lovely construction.
Fun puzzle and Happy Birthday, Simon!
Dear Simon. Hope you had a fantastic birthday yesterday with a lot of chocolate cake (with a lot of frosting). Thanks to PjotrV for setting a beautiful puzzle for you, it was absolutely well deserved on your part! Have a fantastic year, and keep calm and crack on :-)
Happy birthday simon!
Many happy returns, Simon. Hope you had a lovely day.
Happy birthday Simon!! Thank you for your videos, they mean so much to me and many other people as they carried us through very hard times. I hope you have lots of chocolate cake!
Happy birthday, Simon! Thank you for all you do for us, I would love to run into you at a random party, which seems unlikely given where we live, but I shall keep hoping against hope
Happy birthday, Simon. Thanks for all you do.
Happy Birthday Simon! I want to say your videos have been so helpful for my mental health but also for my career. I am a music teacher who often gets frustrated with my career for many many reasons. I always lead with kindness for my students and try and not let the mess show in my lessons. I sense that you are just being you, which is a nice person. I guess I'm trying to say you for being you and giving me the confidence to do the same. You are loved!
Happy birthday Simon! Thanks so much for all you do, I appreciate that there’s a small corner of the universe dedicated to logic puzzles, community, and kindness that you and Mark have started. Y’all make the world a brighter place and considering the world we live in this is no small feat and no small gift. So thank you and again: happy birthday!!
A very happy birthday to you Simon, thanks for all the wonderful and quality entertainment over the years and here's to many more!
Very happy birthday dear Simon. Greetings from Utrecht, The Netherlands
Happy birthday, Simon! As a man of sugary disposition myself, I'm terribly jealous of your cake. But my own birthday is coming up on the 11th, so I won't have to be left out for too long. Delightful puzzle today, as always! You're too kind to us, giving us a gift today of all days.
Happy birthday sudoku sensei Simon
Happy Birthday Simon. This puzzle might be the best birthday present this year.
Happy birthday, Simon. Many happy returns. And have lots of chocolate icing. And cake.
A very happy birthday to you Simon! Thank you for everything you do for this community, and thank you for being you!!
Happy birthday Simon!!! Thank you for keeping us company and entertaining us every day, I hope you've had a lovely day and enjoyed some chocolate cake
Happy Birthday! Thank you for brightening our days, for all of these years; hopefully yours today is just as bright.
Happy Birthday Simon.
May you have as great a day as the enjoyment you give to us all.
Oh and chocolate cake with a one to one icing ratio.
Happy Birthday Simon!
Thanks for all the great content!
Happy Birthday Simon! I hope you have a wonderful year, full with good moments and making fun memories! I will enjoy all the sudokus you'll make and post this year 😊
Happy birthday Simon! Thanks so much for all the joy you bring to so many people's lives every day!
Happy Birthday, Simon!!
Happy Birthday Simon!!!! Have a wonderful day mate!!!
37:53 for me.... Great puzzle, also ordered myself a wooden "puzzle a day" calendar
Happy birthday Simon! Thank you for all the great solves! And here’s to many many many more 🥳🥳🥳
An absolutely well deserved happy birthday and huge love! 💞
Not only would i be thrilled to see you at a party, but you would indeed be the life of the party!
Happy birthday Simon. Thank you for producing these wonderful and brilliant videos.
HAPPY BIRTHDAY SIMON! 🎉🎂☕️💥🎈👑🌺🧁🍫🥂🍪🍩🏌️🎁💡✈️🧩🧩🧩🧩
Have the happiest of birthdays my friend with lots of chocolate cake!
Present that gives and gives! happy birthday Simon and thank you Peter
Lang zal he leven in de gloria! 🎉. Thanks, Sinon, for the jouful videos every day.
Happy Birthday Simon! I hope that your birthday was a special day, with family and friends! God bless you! Wishes!🎉🎉🎉
Ah, the puzzle was amazing too!
HAPPIEST OF BIRTHDAYS TO YOU SIMON!
Happy birthday! Your channel has brought so much joy to us all, I hope your birthday brings you that same level of happiness.
i was staring at the red quadrouple for a while that made the grey 25 cage a 7 by sudoku. but in classic simon fashion he found a more complicated way of proving another digit had to be 6
Happy (Late) Birthday, Simon - don't know if you'll read a late comment. I try to watch each of your Sudoku videos - they were an important part of my sanity through COVID lockdown, feels like forever. I'm delighted to know that I share my birthday with you, and thank you for all of the joy you've given to puzzlers around the world.
May you have plenty of chocolate cake for years to come.
Of course, Simon! Happy Birthday! 🎉
Happy birthday, Simon! Hope you had a most wonderful special day
Happy birthday Simon! You're One of my favorite people
Happy birthday, Simon! And thanks for years of fun puzzle solving.
Happy birthday! Its been a long time since Ive done logic puzzles and Ive found these so facinating, that I even did one of the easier ones I saw mark doing! Thanks!
Happy birthday Simon. What a perfect puzzle to solve on your birthday. Hope you had a perfect day of celebration, you deserve it.
Hope you enjoyed today! Happy birthday 🎉
Happy Birthday, Simon. I have learned SO much about sudoku solving from this channel.
Great puzzle! When I solved it, I was left with 6 7 pairs everywhere and had to use the 45 diagonal to resolve which felt really elegant. Simon solved the diagonal earlier on and, I don't know if that was the intended time, but it didn't feel as smooth.
At 37:32, If he'd realised that the 21 cage didn't contain a 4 because it doesn't contain a 3, the rest of the grid solves quite quickly., leaving you with the 6 7 pairs.
Happy Birthday, Simon 🎉🎉🎉 Hope you had a great celebration and thank you for your videos!
Happy birthday Simon! Thanks for giving us a gift to celebrate!
Happy Birthday young man! Wish you plenty of puzzles and cakes for the years to come!
Happy birthday Simon! Fan of the channel and wishing you the best
Happy Birthday Simon! Lots of cake with plentiful icing.
Happy Birthday, Simon! Best wishes!
Happy birthday, Simon!! Happy chocolate cake day!! 😊
Little late, but Happy B-Day Simon! You opened beauty of custom sudoku for me 🙏
40:35 for me - made a counting mistake and had to back out a bit.
Happy birthday, Simon.
Happy birthday , Simon and lots of chocolate cake with very thick icing. Thank you for keeping me entertained every day. I hope you have enjoyed your day.
Happy birthday Simon :) Lovely puzzle Peter!
Happy Birthday! Thank you so much for the daily entertainment :)
You are awesome
Happy birthday Simon!!
Happy birthday, Simon. All best wishes to you.
Happy birthday Simon. Hope you had lots of chocolate cake
Even without watching the video yet -- yes, Simon, of course I wish you a happy birthday. With excessive amounts of chocolate cake, and maybe a nice wine. 😻
Many happy returns Simon. Hope you've had a fantastic day 🎉
Happy birthday, Simon 🎉 hope u had a great day and a big chocolate cake 🎂
36.10 for me. Nice puzzle. Happy Birthday Simon!
Happy Birthday Simon! And thanks for all the content you make!