Thanks for solving my puzzle! I first encountered this ruleset in a puzzle by starwarigami a while back. I had this idea for the break-in and finally got around to turning it into a puzzle. Mathematics aside: (And spoilers) The break-in is related to the secret - Let S be the sum of the digits 1 to N. I won't prove it here, but it can be shown that S = N*(N + 1)/2. Rearranging, we get that N^2 = 2*S - N, which is what is happening on the long line. A similar set up would work for any size grid.
That shoutout almost made me cry. One more thing I'd like you to try, The next vid you've created You should dedicate it To yourself, 'cause you're such a great guy! Thank you for being so kind and for being one of the best parts of our day every day.
"There is a 1 on the line by sudoku" for a row thats completely known. Sometimes i want an eye tracker to see what you are looking at in these situations.
My favorite was one from a couple of years ago where he marked a pair of boxes with 45, then immediately-as in 2 seconds later-wondered "why is there a 45 pair here?" He fretted about it so much he ended up deleting it and backtracking several steps to redo the whole section with different logic.
I know this is so Simon. But if he had as good a memory as his insight he'd be so scary. His intelligence would know no bounds and he'd take over the world before we knew it!
@@davidh.4944 Do you remember exactly which puzzle that was? I have tried to go back and find that one and I have not been able to find it. (In fact, I am remembering it as just a five.)
@@theonlyben921Sorry, I'm afraid not. I think it was sometime during the lockdown, maybe late 2020, but I could be wrong about the details anyway. I mostly just remember how hilarious it was at the time.
I'm so glad I chose to click on this video today, because I completely forgot about Daylight savings and I have things I need to do tomorrow! I would have been running late all day!
What a lovely rule! That made for a really fun puzzle, I hope we see this rule again - one fun thing that Simon didnt mention is that the sums on the lines can never be prime, which is a really nice restriction I havent seen before
They could if you had 1 and prime ‘X’ in the squares and a two or three cell sum line that adds to X. Or even a one cell line that is diagonal and in a different box from the square cell with the X. It just worked out in the geometric design of this puzzle there were no such instances.
Now that I have started trying out these puzzles, I always get such a kick when I see you are doing a puzzle I have solved :) Eager to see how this play out!
This is my favorite puzzle and ruleset, to date. I will usually give myself 5-10 minutes to figure the break in before letting Simon do his thing, this time I worked it through before watching to see if my strategies and logic matched. I hope we see more of these.
I've been solving these puzzle for a few days by occassionally checking the video if I get stuck. On one hand, it feels kinda cheaty to get help from the video, but its been very helpful for learning new methods that then make solving the next puzzle require less video checks. My ability to solve sudoku has gone up dramatically from just process of elimination basics to having tools around set theory. It's been a great learning experience. I appreciate the detailed walk through of your thought process.
Very nice. I tried a bit of this before watching your solve, Simon, just to see what some of the potential interactions would be - and it seemed very interesting! Yours was a lovely solve - thank you!
Your pronunciation is perfect! Although they usually accentuate the mmmm a bit more ;). When I was in Canada 15 years ago, our tourguide would call me Booke, so consider me impressed!
I tried this one myself but couldn’t get much further beyond the 9 deduction. I did get the 3 in another way, but it turns out I was just grouping the lines in box 9 a weird way giving me 4 degrees of freedom, not 3. So I decided to just watch Simon’s solve from there. A great accomplishment!
Very nice ruleset. I think Mark did one just the other day, but his puzzle included the cells in the squares as well (maybe they were circles), so that ruled out 1s right away.
Interesting puzzle, thanks. Once I'd worked out that I would have to use my brain to solve it and that simply staring at it wasn't going to cut it, it was quite a smooth ride.
The only way I can work through these puzzles is to forge ahead until I get stuck, then watch Simon until he shows me some logic I've missed (or shows me a mistake I've made). So at one point I press play to learn, by 23:35, how Simon discovers location of 4 in box 7, then he says "...does that not do anything?...". But at that point I've PencilMark'd *all* of row 9, column 9, and box 9 while Simon, as usual, has eschewed that until absolutely necessary. So I see immediately what the 4 in box 7 does in box 9. Presumably Mark did as well. I do find doing a lot of pencil marking to be noisy like Simon does, but I just cannot keep the invisible possibilities are my fingertips like Simon. That and I make so many unwarranted assumptions which ruin my logic. ;-)
Apparently I solved this a while back, time was 39:18 (conflict checker off); I did ponder trying it again as I don't remember the solve much, but I think the time is decent enough. 🙂 I do remember that it was a really cool puzzle, props to Oddlyeven for it!
@ 24:20 - "Does that do anything else?" - Yes, it does everything. It takes 4 out of the 234s in box 3, forcing 6 in R2C8, and 3 into C9 in box 6. As usual, you place digits without looking what they do, or tidying up pencil-marks. This was a real facepalming moment. @ 27:28 - considering whether R2C2 can be 2 or 3 - Of course they can't! Look to the right. You've got a 23. If it were 2 or 3, the 4-cell line would have to sum to 6. If you work on the line in R2, R2C2 can only be 5 or 8. 8 doesn't work with the 4 in C2, because the column would be 32 + 4 + 8 + 9 +..., therefore it has to be 5 with the digits outside the line summing to 7, which has to be 1+6, with the 6 at the top An interesting rule, but I'm not a fan of maths puzzles like this. It's not that I'm maths averse, it's just that once you've done the maths there isn't much puzzle left.
"...if you travel by imagination" gave me a two-stage response of all-over chills and then tears in my eyes, which is the second time this week this channel has done that, the first being the recent outro of Simon singing Stick Season by Noah Kahan. So thank you both, and happy birthdays all round ❤
I got 97 minutes. This one was a fun one. Ii was very fun doing math to figure out which number had to in the square in box 9 by using row 9 and column 9. Overall, great puzzle!
I first thought "The sum does not include the digits in the squares" means you can't repeat the digits in the squares on the line. Of course row 1 and column 1 of this puzzle immediately show that's the wrong interpretation, but if this rule is used in future puzzles it might be good to word it differently.
@@pairot01 It's not the intended interpretation, but it is a perfectly valid interpretation. The sum is the sum of the digits on the line, so if the summation of the digits on the line (i.e. "the sum") doesn't include the digits in the squares that would mean the digits in the squares do not appear elsewhere on the line, at least by this alternative reading of the rules. I read the rules as intended, but I can see how someone could be led astray. Writing rules to be precise yet not overly long is difficult.
It always amazes me how Simon never misinterprets the most ambiguous rules ... in this case the sentence "The sum does not include the digits in the squares" can be interpreted in at least 3 ways, and I took the most logical one, because from the second rule it was already clear that the digits in the squares are not adding up to the sum and interpreted that the sum, for example "15" does not include the digits "5" and "3" and clearly 15 does, so was not valid. Therefore got horribly stuck when encountering that "solution" in the second row ... I want to give Simon the excercise (as a puzzle) to find out, especially for new rules, in how many ways some rules can be interpreted (by normal people 😊) ...
I'm not sure how you reached that conclusion, but it's not correct. E.g. a line could be [3]294[5]. The digits in the end boxes multiply to give 15, and the digits on the line in-between also sum to 15, and include a 9. (Also, one of the first digits Simon gets is a 9 on a line, in r1c1 at 10:35.)
I don't think I've seen Simon miss so many things as in this puzzle, between forgetting the deductions he made and the free digits he took a moment to fill in. Maybe all the lines and boxes were just over-stimulating
21:24 - And since there isn't a three in the digits adding to nine... ... That's three in the corner!! That's three in the spot light proving it's position!!
Serious comment this time, Simon... do you think your Sudoku creators now *deliberately ensure* that there is at least one three in a corner? It seems to occur a lot more than randomness would suggest.
Started watching a few months back so don't know the full story, but Simon always sings a couple of lines from "REM - Losing my religion", changing a line from "that's me in the corner" to "that's three in the corner". I guess he just really likes the song
Although I've just realised it doesn't appear in the channel's video list. You need to go to the "live" section. (It was appearing in my subscribed list with the other videos.)
I made all of the sudoku and ended up with deadly pattern of 2 and 7 only realizing that r6c8 r8c6 line is not 6 but 8 therefore deleting my 30 minutes of "progress" :)
The main argument is just to provide a smidge of consistency for the amount of daylight surrounding school in the winter vs the late spring/early fall (eg minimizing the amount of darkness that kids are in while getting on or off at bus stops). It would be too much work I suppose to adjust school start times throughout the year so instead we just make the whole population change their clocks.
Thanks for solving my puzzle! I first encountered this ruleset in a puzzle by starwarigami a while back. I had this idea for the break-in and finally got around to turning it into a puzzle.
Mathematics aside: (And spoilers)
The break-in is related to the secret - Let S be the sum of the digits 1 to N. I won't prove it here, but it can be shown that S = N*(N + 1)/2. Rearranging, we get that N^2 = 2*S - N, which is what is happening on the long line. A similar set up would work for any size grid.
Thank you for this brilliant puzzle!
I love these arithmetical challenges -- very nice puzzle!
This is one of my favorites, loved this ruleset. Excellent job.
It was a very fun puzzle! I tried it on my 11 year old who is refusing to learn times tables, but they weren't interested. Sigh.
That shoutout almost made me cry.
One more thing I'd like you to try,
The next vid you've created
You should dedicate it
To yourself, 'cause you're such a great guy!
Thank you for being so kind and for being one of the best parts of our day every day.
38:22 "we worked out this couldnt be 9" 38:34 "9 might be possible" 12 seconds- too funny
I feel like ADHD is both a blessing and a curse for sudoku solving.
Simon isn't any fun at parties so he ignores himself.
He was missing Sudoko left, right and center, as usual... Oh, Simon, never change!
"There is a 1 on the line by sudoku" for a row thats completely known.
Sometimes i want an eye tracker to see what you are looking at in these situations.
How Simon's mind works:
"So we've already worked out that this cannot be a 9. So what can it be? 1, 4, 5, 6 or 9. What if it's 9?"
My favorite was one from a couple of years ago where he marked a pair of boxes with 45, then immediately-as in 2 seconds later-wondered "why is there a 45 pair here?" He fretted about it so much he ended up deleting it and backtracking several steps to redo the whole section with different logic.
I know this is so Simon. But if he had as good a memory as his insight he'd be so scary. His intelligence would know no bounds and he'd take over the world before we knew it!
@@davidh.4944 Do you remember exactly which puzzle that was? I have tried to go back and find that one and I have not been able to find it. (In fact, I am remembering it as just a five.)
@@theonlyben921Sorry, I'm afraid not. I think it was sometime during the lockdown, maybe late 2020, but I could be wrong about the details anyway. I mostly just remember how hilarious it was at the time.
I'm so glad I chose to click on this video today, because I completely forgot about Daylight savings and I have things I need to do tomorrow! I would have been running late all day!
Solved it in just under 2 hours! With a very small bit of help from the video here and there when I was stuck. Thank you Simon! - from a fellow Simon
What a lovely rule! That made for a really fun puzzle, I hope we see this rule again - one fun thing that Simon didnt mention is that the sums on the lines can never be prime, which is a really nice restriction I havent seen before
They could if you had 1 and prime ‘X’ in the squares and a two or three cell sum line that adds to X. Or even a one cell line that is diagonal and in a different box from the square cell with the X. It just worked out in the geometric design of this puzzle there were no such instances.
That's not true. Small primes are possible, if there is a 1 in one of the squares. But it is true for lines of length at least 4.
Well, you can't have primes bigger than 7.
But wait for the Shroedinger Doublers version of this puzzle to mess everything up XD
Now that I have started trying out these puzzles, I always get such a kick when I see you are doing a puzzle I have solved :) Eager to see how this play out!
I’ve been playing Islands of Insight. I am so excited for you to play again. I’ve been having a blast. BEAM
This is my favorite puzzle and ruleset, to date. I will usually give myself 5-10 minutes to figure the break in before letting Simon do his thing, this time I worked it through before watching to see if my strategies and logic matched. I hope we see more of these.
I've been solving these puzzle for a few days by occassionally checking the video if I get stuck. On one hand, it feels kinda cheaty to get help from the video, but its been very helpful for learning new methods that then make solving the next puzzle require less video checks. My ability to solve sudoku has gone up dramatically from just process of elimination basics to having tools around set theory. It's been a great learning experience. I appreciate the detailed walk through of your thought process.
Very nice. I tried a bit of this before watching your solve, Simon, just to see what some of the potential interactions would be - and it seemed very interesting! Yours was a lovely solve - thank you!
Shout out to starwarigami for developing the ruleset back in 2022 ❤
Thanks so much for the birthday wishes! You pronounced Mmmbokke perfectly, amazing!😂
Happy birthday!
Your pronunciation is perfect! Although they usually accentuate the mmmm a bit more ;). When I was in Canada 15 years ago, our tourguide would call me Booke, so consider me impressed!
I tried this one myself but couldn’t get much further beyond the 9 deduction. I did get the 3 in another way, but it turns out I was just grouping the lines in box 9 a weird way giving me 4 degrees of freedom, not 3. So I decided to just watch Simon’s solve from there. A great accomplishment!
14:22 for me. Great puzzle, I really liked the ruleset!
“I wasn’t thinking about sudoku.” Should be played on a loop in the background of all of Simon’s videos.
Very nice ruleset. I think Mark did one just the other day, but his puzzle included the cells in the squares as well (maybe they were circles), so that ruled out 1s right away.
Interesting how we need to achieve entropy between the chained sums- like the rule set.
Simon, you can click the check button again to see the "Congrats" screen with the stats again
❤ 3s in the corner and the song!! 🎶
Never gets old for me and always a pleasure to see the joy om Simon's face. 🙂
@@davidrattner9 absolutely!! Simon’s happy face lights up the world!!! ☺️
Interesting puzzle, thanks. Once I'd worked out that I would have to use my brain to solve it and that simply staring at it wasn't going to cut it, it was quite a smooth ride.
Rules: 06:35
Let's Get Cracking: 08:24
What about this video's Top Tier Simarkisms?!
Three In the Corner: 7x (21:55, 22:15, 22:21, 23:14, 24:55, 26:14)
The Secret: 4x (08:44, 09:18, 09:44, 28:21)
Bobbins: 3x (23:41, 25:25, 41:52)
Nori Nori: 2x (04:46, 04:49)
And how about this video's Simarkisms?!
Ah: 12x (11:40, 11:40, 22:50, 24:46, 25:28, 33:16, 33:29, 36:32, 36:45, 38:57, 38:57, 43:39)
By Sudoku: 11x (25:30, 25:33, 26:34, 28:43, 30:09, 31:52, 33:11, 41:41, 44:14, 44:18)
Sorry: 6x (03:40, 15:36, 23:49, 23:49, 39:41, 40:14)
Cake!: 6x (03:14, 05:48, 05:51, 05:54, 06:08, 06:19)
Lovely: 4x (01:00, 02:59, 45:39, 46:12)
Beautiful: 4x (06:02, 06:14, 42:05, 46:54)
Bother: 3x (37:52, 37:52, 43:18)
Hang On: 3x (06:57, 31:13, 42:13)
Obviously: 3x (10:11, 11:44, 45:28)
Pencil Mark/mark: 3x (22:30, 23:05, 33:29)
Brilliant: 2x (45:42, 45:47)
Gorgeous: 2x (45:55, 45:57)
In Fact: 2x (04:17, 10:27)
Clever: 1x (22:55)
In the Spotlight: 1x (25:00)
Incredible: 1x (02:13)
Shouting: 1x (05:09)
Irritating: 1x (21:51)
Surely: 1x (19:36)
Phone is Buzzing: 1x (29:15)
Wow: 1x (34:20)
What Does This Mean?: 1x (06:57)
Nature: 1x (25:51)
Most popular number(>9), digit and colour this video:
Fifteen (8 mentions)
Three (68 mentions)
Yellow (7 mentions)
Antithesis Battles:
High (3) - Low (3)
Even (13) - Odd (1)
Row (11) - Column (8)
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!
Nori nori 😂
The only way I can work through these puzzles is to forge ahead until I get stuck, then watch Simon until he shows me some logic I've missed (or shows me a mistake I've made).
So at one point I press play to learn, by 23:35, how Simon discovers location of 4 in box 7, then he says "...does that not do anything?...".
But at that point I've PencilMark'd *all* of row 9, column 9, and box 9 while Simon, as usual, has eschewed that until absolutely necessary. So I see immediately what the 4 in box 7 does in box 9. Presumably Mark did as well.
I do find doing a lot of pencil marking to be noisy like Simon does, but I just cannot keep the invisible possibilities are my fingertips like Simon. That and I make so many unwarranted assumptions which ruin my logic.
;-)
Apparently I solved this a while back, time was 39:18 (conflict checker off); I did ponder trying it again as I don't remember the solve much, but I think the time is decent enough. 🙂 I do remember that it was a really cool puzzle, props to Oddlyeven for it!
73:33 for me
struggle for box 1&9 and spent over half an hour
glad to finish it,nice puzzle
“How did I get this digit?” Makes me laugh every time.
Sum-Product Lines are an interesting rule set. Made me math in a confounding way.
@ 24:20 - "Does that do anything else?" - Yes, it does everything. It takes 4 out of the 234s in box 3, forcing 6 in R2C8, and 3 into C9 in box 6. As usual, you place digits without looking what they do, or tidying up pencil-marks. This was a real facepalming moment.
@ 27:28 - considering whether R2C2 can be 2 or 3 - Of course they can't! Look to the right. You've got a 23. If it were 2 or 3, the 4-cell line would have to sum to 6. If you work on the line in R2, R2C2 can only be 5 or 8. 8 doesn't work with the 4 in C2, because the column would be 32 + 4 + 8 + 9 +..., therefore it has to be 5 with the digits outside the line summing to 7, which has to be 1+6, with the 6 at the top
An interesting rule, but I'm not a fan of maths puzzles like this. It's not that I'm maths averse, it's just that once you've done the maths there isn't much puzzle left.
Great one. I had a great start, but after did box 9 I didn't know what to do anymore 😅
Cobra's curse by icyfruit had this ruleset on brown lines ❤
Yes to crepes with lemon & sugar! I grew up with these in Australia :)
We defenitely had this rule once in a puzzle not too long ago, but can't remember which one it was. Loveley usage of this rule, nevertheless :)
Fnaire here on Oren's account.
Thank you so much for reading out the poem! (Giggles like a little girl)
"...if you travel by imagination" gave me a two-stage response of all-over chills and then tears in my eyes, which is the second time this week this channel has done that, the first being the recent outro of Simon singing Stick Season by Noah Kahan. So thank you both, and happy birthdays all round ❤
30:00 Typical of Simon not to do the simple sudoku thing (a two in R3C7) but embarking on a calculation first 😂
8:59 - Simon's Extremely Commonplace Revelation Explains This. 👍👍
Decided to try this on my own, It took me about *three hours*....... Really fun though!
Finished in 35:59. Interesting new ruleset, though it involves a LOT of math......
Fun puzzle!
I got 97 minutes. This one was a fun one. Ii was very fun doing math to figure out which number had to in the square in box 9 by using row 9 and column 9. Overall, great puzzle!
“This cell can’t be 9.” 5 seconds later “Can this cell be 9?”😂
the 45 pair in box 9 would have been a nice pencil mark to have when you got the 4 in box 7 :D! at 23:30
I first thought "The sum does not include the digits in the squares" means you can't repeat the digits in the squares on the line. Of course row 1 and column 1 of this puzzle immediately show that's the wrong interpretation, but if this rule is used in future puzzles it might be good to word it differently.
That's not a correct interpretation of the rule. It says the *sum* doesn't include those digits, not the digits on the line.
@@pairot01 It's not the intended interpretation, but it is a perfectly valid interpretation. The sum is the sum of the digits on the line, so if the summation of the digits on the line (i.e. "the sum") doesn't include the digits in the squares that would mean the digits in the squares do not appear elsewhere on the line, at least by this alternative reading of the rules.
I read the rules as intended, but I can see how someone could be led astray. Writing rules to be precise yet not overly long is difficult.
It is amusing how Simon subconsciously has the cursor on an obvious cell at 42:08 but then moves on and keeps ignoring it multiple times.
I liked this ruleset. It's simple, as sudoku rules have to be.
What a fun design for this puzzle! My time today was 35:50, solver number 1175.
"So this square has to be literally a square", both "a 4-sided graph" and "multiplying by itself"🤣
It always amazes me how Simon never misinterprets the most ambiguous rules ... in this case the sentence "The sum does not include the digits in the squares" can be interpreted in at least 3 ways, and I took the most logical one, because from the second rule it was already clear that the digits in the squares are not adding up to the sum and interpreted that the sum, for example "15" does not include the digits "5" and "3" and clearly 15 does, so was not valid. Therefore got horribly stuck when encountering that "solution" in the second row ... I want to give Simon the excercise (as a puzzle) to find out, especially for new rules, in how many ways some rules can be interpreted (by normal people 😊) ...
really great puzzle - my way to solve it was a bit different from Simons (and it took my 2 hours -.-) but I did ^.^
Thank you for the birthday wishes 😁
I put a bit of work into this (my timer says over 50 minutes, lol nowhere near that long), but I'm too tired and am just going to watch the video...
The sum does not include the digits in the squares so does that mean the line shouldn't have any 9 as well right? Or am I misinterpreting something?
I'm not sure how you reached that conclusion, but it's not correct. E.g. a line could be [3]294[5]. The digits in the end boxes multiply to give 15, and the digits on the line in-between also sum to 15, and include a 9.
(Also, one of the first digits Simon gets is a 9 on a line, in r1c1 at 10:35.)
I don't think I've seen Simon miss so many things as in this puzzle, between forgetting the deductions he made and the free digits he took a moment to fill in. Maybe all the lines and boxes were just over-stimulating
Canada too, is cursed with daylight savings time, we lose an hour of sleep Sunday
21:24 - And since there isn't a three in the digits adding to nine... ...
That's three in the corner!! That's three in the spot light proving it's position!!
Brilliant puzzle.
Serious comment this time, Simon... do you think your Sudoku creators now *deliberately ensure* that there is at least one three in a corner? It seems to occur a lot more than randomness would suggest.
Can someone explain the history/story of 3 in the corner to me? Watched quite some puzzles but always feel like I am missing something.
Started watching a few months back so don't know the full story, but Simon always sings a couple of lines from "REM - Losing my religion", changing a line from "that's me in the corner" to "that's three in the corner". I guess he just really likes the song
Are the Island of Insights streams on a different channel? I can't find it in the video listing.
No, this channel. I can see the first video in the list. It's four days old and appears right after the "Fencing is My New Favourite Sport" video.
Although I've just realised it doesn't appear in the channel's video list. You need to go to the "live" section. (It was appearing in my subscribed list with the other videos.)
stream recordings are listed under the 'live' tab, not the 'videos' tab
15:23 - And this is precisely where I gave up and started watching the solve.
Very nice! 18:18 for me today.
I suggest that the new line could be called "the product sum line"
I made all of the sudoku and ended up with deadly pattern of 2 and 7 only realizing that r6c8 r8c6 line is not 6 but 8 therefore deleting my 30 minutes of "progress" :)
Not sure why I even attempted this one given the video length, I think there were some quick people in the comments... Took me 1:12:55 though!
oh boy. if Simon has to do sudoku XD
saw a few times where i did sudoku and it take like a minute before Simon realizes he can do some sudoku XD
46:50 with no help from the video, pretty proud of myself
Not a HUGE fan of this ruleset, but it's an excellent puzzle. Thanks.
54 mins for me. Thanks!
Took me roughly 90 minutes, I missed the early deductions of row 2 column 1 and row 1 column 2 using the known sums.
Now that was interesting!
45 minutes for me. A bit more math than I prefer but I still had a good time.
i have been absent for some time. can someone explain to me what's with the "3 in the corner"?
That's me (three) in the corner / That's me (three) in the spotlight / losing my religion
R.E.M. - Losing my religion
When the ruleset is easier to solve than sudokuing....got stuck on the. Inner 3 layers cuz I missed the blatant 6 sudoku that followed the 9.
so happy to see you PLONK a 3 in the corner!!
And again: it took me double the time Simon used for this.
My kids agree that crepes are the proper pancakes.
"There will be a 3 in the corner of this puzzle" - well yeah, it's a rule going in
Also the sums on a line can never be prime numbers above 9
solved it in twice your time, but solved it myself! (dang proud of meself)
Talking crepes to Dutch people, Simon? May the spirit of the pannekoek descend upon you!
Love the content!
47:11
Loved the new ruleset, and the opening (well, second part really) was a very pretty deduction.
22:38 for me.
34:12 today. horrible solve. my brain did not cooperate. i more or less just bruteforced it.
60:28 for me.
38:27 for me
34:42 great puzzle! I liked it, logic was fun and not too difficult!
Slow, but solved in 140 minutes :D
Daylight saving should be banned, it servers no purpose in the modern world imo.
The main argument is just to provide a smidge of consistency for the amount of daylight surrounding school in the winter vs the late spring/early fall (eg minimizing the amount of darkness that kids are in while getting on or off at bus stops). It would be too much work I suppose to adjust school start times throughout the year so instead we just make the whole population change their clocks.
Why is the modern world different with respect to daylight saving? What has changed that makes it no longer relevant?
Having now lived half of my life in a country without it, waking up at 4:30am with sunlight flooding my eyes says otherwise.
We need to get rid of "regular" time and just stay on "daylight savings time" year round.
what about joy? what about happiness? what about beauty?
and 2.9 hours later... I finally solved it 🙄
62 minutes
I don’t mind that you sing when you get a 3 in the corner. But, please, do not corrupt the lyrics 😢
The "three in the corner" thing is definitely getting a bit old.
Shame on anyone who finds a 3 in the corner annoying!
nooooooo don't apologize for 3 in the corner!!!!! there's us who genuinely look forward to a 3 in the corner in a solve 🥹🥹🥹🥹🥹