Evening all! Really happy to see this one featured, it was so much fun to make. Actually, I started making this puzzle about 2 years ago - it was one of my very earliest puzzle ideas that I started making just after I had started releasing my first puzzles in early 2023. Like many puzzles, I got stuck with it and moved onto other things and it got added to my now very large pile of half-finished puzzles. At the beginning of January, a CTC monthly prompt was set about the theme of board games, and this seemed like a perfect reason to dust off this idea and start it again from scratch, now armed with a bit more setting experience under my belt. Also, due to the new Sudoku Maker software that didn't exist then, I was able to make the aesthetics a lot better than I would have been able to in 2023. Always satisfying to finally finish one off that has been sitting in my pile for a long time! This time it came together very smoothly. I always wanted this puzzle to almost have the feeling of playing Connect 4, involving some of the blocking logic from the game. And I definitely wanted at least one example of looking a couple of moves ahead and realising that a certain cell couldn’t be a certain colour, because it would create two separate lines which both need to be blocked, creating another line of 4 in the other colour. So yes that step in the middle involving r4c4 was not only intended, but much of the first half was designed to lead to that. Simon asked if it was based on a real game, or set more from a sudoku perspective. The answer is the latter! Much like a normal sudoku, I just played it through myself, solving and putting clues in to force things in interesting directions (for example to lead towards the r4c4 deduction.) The sudoku kept breaking towards the end until I realised a rule for a 7x6 grid: Each column is missing one digit, and this missing digit must be different for each column. It was breaking because I had created two columns without a 4 in it. So I had to backtrack a bit near the end and redo some of it. And yes I always wanted the ending to involve needing to ensure equal numbers of red and yellow, to resolve a final deadly pattern. Though I did do a bit of work to engineer that ending, I did also get a bit lucky with just how nicely that worked out :) Glad you enjoyed it Simon, and particularly delighted you appreciated the r4c4 step, as that is my favourite part too. Thanks again for the excellent solve, hopefully it was a nice bit of light relief after that epic IcyFruit solve. And finally: I did the picture too - stayed up late the other night drawing that. Very happy you included it in the thumbnail! :D
Thank you so much Marty for all the joy you bring to Simon, me and everybody else who has so much fun with your Puzzles. If I had a yacht, the first thing I would definitely put in the life boat was a huge amount of power banks and a tablet with the downloads of all your sudokus. May the lonely island come, I am prepared.
Just got to the r4c4 step and immediately paused the video to come read your comment to find out if that was both intended and necessary. Amazing work pal, this is truly brilliant puzzle constructing!
It was a brilliant idea to make the last deadly pattern to be solved by remembering the number of yellows and reds. So brilliant I couldn't actually figure out the reason and came looking for your comment! Really fun solve, thank you!!
One of the things that I've come to enjoy with this channel is noticing the different ways Simon and Mark work through puzzles. I think this solve presents some good examples of it. Mark is really diligent about applying the consequence of a deduction to what he's already learned and marked. He's very systematic at working all cells affected by a newly added digit and applying its implications. It's no surprise that he pencil marks so much more, because he's diligent at keeping them current. Simon tends to apply some consequences to a new deduction or digit, but often tries to find new big leaps in the solve right away. It happens numerous times in this puzzle, for example at 32:41 when he makes R2C2 yellow, he does not apply that new fact to the adjacent and marked R1C1 which must now be a yellow 2. Instead he starts working on the empty circles in the middle of the grid. I tend to find myself yelling at Simon at lot more because of this! 😂 But it also tends to lead to more "oh, cool!" moments than in Marks videos. Finally, it partly explains why heavy pencil marking doesn't work for Simon because he's not as diligent at cleaning them up after each deduction. I hope this doesn't sounds like criticism. I love watching them both and really enjoy the variety that the two different styles bring to the channel.
Yep. Another example - all the logic that starts at around 42:00, where he deduces that r3c2 is 5, which is right next to the 25 pencil mark. "If it is 5 then it must be red and that will help me to resolve 25 pair". Yes, Simon. If that's a five, it will certainly resolve the 25 pair, but not because of coloring. And so Simon proceeds - he puts in 5, ignores the 25 pair in the cell right next to it, determines the color, and applies parity logic to deduce that the cell next to 5 cannot be 5.
I love getting to see their differences as well. And as much as I may good-naturedly yell at Simon through the screen, he has taught me more about puzzle solving than _anybody_ else, by far.
Absolute genius, as we would expect from Marty 😍 Great fun placing Connect 4 pieces in mid-air, reminds me of my brother trying to stop a piece falling to the bottom to make it look like he had got a run of 4! The next question is ... could you actually, plausibly, play a game to reach this end point without either player passing up an obvious win? Bonus points for anyone who can recreate Mark and Simon's anticlimactic game!
not really relevant to the video, but there's an upgraded connect 4 variant called simplexity. Each piece is assigned a shape in addition to its color, either circle or square. P1 wins with 4 matching colors or 4 circles. P2 wins with 4 matching colors or 4 squares. The wrinkle is that each player only has 10 pieces of their own shape, and the other 11 for the opponent's. So the strategy is to figure out when you can drop a piece of your color and your opponent's shape in a way that mostly benefits you.
01:08:34 I spent like 10 minutes staring at the puzzle trying to resolve de 14-14 deadly pattern at the end, until I read the rules from the beginning in desperation XD Thanks for the puzzle, it was really fun!
I actually finished this somewhat quickly though I made a bit of a mistake in the middle and that cost me some time, but most of my time spent on this puzzle was me staring at the end trying to resolve the final 5 cells. I finally had to come to the video and skip to the very end because I was CONVINCED I had made another logical error and simply could not find it no matter how many times I rewound. NOTHING made any sense at all and my final grid was all correct minus the 5 cells I could not disambiguate. One of them even had a digit but no color. So I backed up a few seconds and saw Simon was at the same point I was at. Then I saw how he settled the problem. Marty.... You have made a COMPLETE and UTTER fool out of me today. I hope you are happy. To anyone out there wondering how to resolve the final step of the puzzle and do not want to have it spelled out by the video, here is a hint. Reread the whole of the rules VERY CAREFULLY. Don't be like me and speed read them because you "obviously understand the rules". That way leads to looking stupid.
I finished in 53:52 minutes. Marty just keeps making innovative work and it is so fun to experience. This one almost felt like it was meant for non-sudoku Saturday with its style. The ruleset felt surprisingly simple, but it felt well executed. I think my favorite part was in the middlegame, seeing that no matter what color went into r4c5, both r3c5 and r4c1 both had to be yellow. That was some fun logic to see. I was so confused by the ending until I remembered the drawing rule. That felt like such a Marty ending. Great Puzzle!
What a beautifully flowing puzzle! I love the rat runs, all of them are amazing. This, however, was the most satisfying, easy, beautiful, rhythmic solve I ever had in any Sudoku, all different kinds of logics interacting in such a brilliant way. Like cruising through your city on a Sunday Evening, whenever you get stuck, it will only be for a few seconds. Marty, you are amazing! And now even though I should really go to sleep, I have to see Simon cruisin'!
What a great puzzle. And a great solve by Simon with him choosing to have fun rooting for yellow and also somehow determining exactly how the puzzle finishes before he's even halfway through.
Rules: 08:50 What about this video's Top Tier Simarkisms?! The Secret: 2x (06:00, 06:01) And how about this video's Simarkisms?! Sorry: 7x (10:52, 14:06, 22:01, 24:35, 25:28, 30:21, 46:32) Obviously: 5x (01:13, 03:08, 04:11, 09:37, 34:22) Hang On: 4x (20:25, 20:25, 21:19, 48:27) Pencil Mark/mark: 4x (38:10, 43:01, 43:47, 45:48) Cake!: 4x (05:41, 05:45, 06:13, 07:11) Lovely: 3x (05:52, 06:08, 23:29) By Sudoku: 3x (21:31, 35:04, 40:26) Goodness: 2x (20:29, 49:01) The Answer is: 2x (31:45, 31:48) Nonsense: 2x (08:22, 15:57) Incredible: 2x (07:37, 07:51) Magnificent: 2x (00:40, 00:43) Surely: 2x (18:46, 44:06) Ah: 2x (38:55, 47:17) What on Earth: 1x (11:23) What a Puzzle: 1x (48:49) Apologies: 1x (02:15) Clever: 1x (09:05) Stuck: 1x (26:47) Brilliant: 1x (08:56) Extraordinary: 1x (00:23) Ridiculous: 1x (32:19) Deadly Pattern: 1x (48:19) Gorgeous: 1x (32:28) Discombobulating: 1x (15:48) Shouting: 1x (05:22) Checkerboard: 1x (19:05) Stunning: 1x (48:52) In Fact: 1x (04:54) Whoopsie: 1x (12:37) Fabulous: 1x (49:11) What Does This Mean?: 1x (12:24) Most popular number(>9), digit and colour this video: Ten, Twelve, Twenty, Twenty One (2 mentions) Four (91 mentions) Yellow (103 mentions) Antithesis Battles: Odd (6) - Even (5) Row (25) - Column (7) 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!
Sovereign Hill is alive and kicking. Its a right of passage as a student in Victoria that you go on a trip to Ballarat to see Sovereign Hill and learn about the Gold Rush and Eureka Stockade
Funny! For the first time I actually made a LMD account and searched up Marty as I enjoy his puzzles so much and found this one and gave it ago just earlier today! This will be a fun watch having already done it in 37:40.
73:08 for me, well chuffed with myself as this is the first puzzle I've been able to solve without having to refer to the video to see what logic I missed! Now to watch it and see how Simon did :) EDIT: Wow, that connect 4 deduction on R4C4 is something that I completely missed and not necessary to find for the solve, incredibly impressive to see that!
Only Simon can put 5 right next to a 25 pair, proceed to determine the color of the cell, and apply red color's parity logic to deduce that the cell next to a 5 cannot be 5.
Thank you so much for the birthday wishes. I enjoyed every video I watched so far and look forward to all those coming. Ps: I had amazing chocolate muffins yesterday.
41:15 ... I spent about 15 minutes backtracking to see where I went wrong on my first try, but I did find the correct way through in the end A most unique game-themed puzzle!
This video settles it. Marty puzzles are THE best puzzles. Always fun entertaining and clever. The Rat Run series is the best series since the MCU, and this puzzle was superb.
That was so much fun! I haven't had the time or patience to actually attempt many puzzles myself recently, but I could see the bottom row working out and just had to give it a go. Every logical step flowed so smoothly, left me feeling incredibly smart 😁
3:30 interesting behind the scenes, I'd be curious if you intentionally split it into a 2 part video parts of software things would like it better. 23:38 what a pretty puzzle. 33:06 I'm waiting for "and that's now a yellow 2 in the corner" but I love the new saying, we must not connect 4, to go along with your checkerboard and your or create a 2 by 2 sayings. 37:00 I didn't mean to imply there would be a song though. 39:56 oh man simon, i love coloring puzzles in sudoku world, i feel like I get very ahead, i'm shouting at the red-ness down column 6, since you filled the red clue.
This was such a fun idea, the illustration was great, and you took up the banner of yellow very convincingly, Simon! I definitely am putting this puzzle on my list to try.
I haven't watched the video, I'm still working on the solve, but I just had my mind blown when I realized how the logic unfolds. Because of course it would! 😮
I laughed so hard about 3/4 of the way in, after Simon decided that he'd be yellow, and he had to put a red in, which of course had to block 4 yellow. It was something like, oh so that has to be red, boo
10:10 "I don't know which one of us would have gone first" I'm presuming he meant that he didn't know who was yellow and who was red; clearly red went first xD
You could have also used Yellow logic, assuming we are talking about 31:20. There is no yellow digit that can be next to a 1 but 2 squares away from a 2. That's what I was thinking about, anyway.
@@theunamiableThe cell to the left has to be a 7, by yellow logic. But that leaves the possibility of r4c4 being a yellow 4, using yellow logic alone. That would be three away from the two known yellow neighbours, 1 and 7. I used the Connect 4 logic. I must have played more games of Connect 4 than Simon. I just saw it as something to look out for when playing Connect 4. Afraid I didn't quite have the reaction of "that's one of the best things I've (ever) seen" 😂. (Sorry Marty - I sometimes wish I had half of Simon's levels of enthusiasm and wonder 🙂).
Hmm. I think I may gave missed the intended solution path near the end. I ended up having the 21 required yellow discs, so I coloured all of my last four circles red by overall disc count alone, and not just the final one as Simon did. There were obviously other ways three of them could have been coloured red.
How'd I get on? It took me just 20 times as long as it took you. That's 12 hours. Two tries, including hitting that trap in the center the first time through.
Apparently, they are too clever for each other, but not perfect, because Connect 4 is a solved game, where player 1 will sinn if played perfectly, regardless of what player 2 does.
Was interested in this because I played it myself and was unable to solve the end without using the logic of preventing a deadly pattern, which felt quite anticlimactic to me. I overlooked entirely the method simon used, unfortunate!
Haven't watched for a while. But sad to see you're still doing 9 minutes of housekeeping at the start of your vids. Crack into it. Do mentions etc at the end. It will help with new viewers.
I'm a little saddened by the flavor and rules. Connect 4 is a solved game. If player 1 knows what they're doing, they can win 100% of the time. It can't be true that both Mark and Simon are too clever *AND* the game ended in a draw.
But when it's human beings playing the game, there is always some probability of error; even if not sufficient to lose the game, at least enough to blow the first-move advantage and admit the possibility of a draw.
I think you've forgotten to take into account Simon's powers of scanning, and Mark's inability to write pencilmarks on a plastic frame. Our heroes have feet of clay.
Why do you keep making instructions that are completely misleading. Go look at solution and read the instructions. The you have an up arrow with a 3 with only one spot above. It's nonsense and you don't even define how the board wraps at diagonal boundaries
That circle has two arrows, one pointing up and one pointing down. The instructions clearly state that you *combine* the counts of all the arrows coming from a circle.
UA-cam sometimes holds off views for a bit to verify if they're legitimate, but they don't do a similar check for likes. That's how this situation can happen.
Evening all! Really happy to see this one featured, it was so much fun to make. Actually, I started making this puzzle about 2 years ago - it was one of my very earliest puzzle ideas that I started making just after I had started releasing my first puzzles in early 2023.
Like many puzzles, I got stuck with it and moved onto other things and it got added to my now very large pile of half-finished puzzles. At the beginning of January, a CTC monthly prompt was set about the theme of board games, and this seemed like a perfect reason to dust off this idea and start it again from scratch, now armed with a bit more setting experience under my belt. Also, due to the new Sudoku Maker software that didn't exist then, I was able to make the aesthetics a lot better than I would have been able to in 2023. Always satisfying to finally finish one off that has been sitting in my pile for a long time!
This time it came together very smoothly. I always wanted this puzzle to almost have the feeling of playing Connect 4, involving some of the blocking logic from the game. And I definitely wanted at least one example of looking a couple of moves ahead and realising that a certain cell couldn’t be a certain colour, because it would create two separate lines which both need to be blocked, creating another line of 4 in the other colour. So yes that step in the middle involving r4c4 was not only intended, but much of the first half was designed to lead to that.
Simon asked if it was based on a real game, or set more from a sudoku perspective. The answer is the latter! Much like a normal sudoku, I just played it through myself, solving and putting clues in to force things in interesting directions (for example to lead towards the r4c4 deduction.)
The sudoku kept breaking towards the end until I realised a rule for a 7x6 grid: Each column is missing one digit, and this missing digit must be different for each column. It was breaking because I had created two columns without a 4 in it. So I had to backtrack a bit near the end and redo some of it.
And yes I always wanted the ending to involve needing to ensure equal numbers of red and yellow, to resolve a final deadly pattern. Though I did do a bit of work to engineer that ending, I did also get a bit lucky with just how nicely that worked out :)
Glad you enjoyed it Simon, and particularly delighted you appreciated the r4c4 step, as that is my favourite part too. Thanks again for the excellent solve, hopefully it was a nice bit of light relief after that epic IcyFruit solve.
And finally: I did the picture too - stayed up late the other night drawing that. Very happy you included it in the thumbnail! :D
This was a fun one. Very original, as always!
Thank you so much Marty for all the joy you bring to Simon, me and everybody else who has so much fun with your Puzzles.
If I had a yacht, the first thing I would definitely put in the life boat was a huge amount of power banks and a tablet with the downloads of all your sudokus. May the lonely island come, I am prepared.
The puzzle was fantastic but the artwork was truly extraordinary!
Just got to the r4c4 step and immediately paused the video to come read your comment to find out if that was both intended and necessary. Amazing work pal, this is truly brilliant puzzle constructing!
It was a brilliant idea to make the last deadly pattern to be solved by remembering the number of yellows and reds. So brilliant I couldn't actually figure out the reason and came looking for your comment! Really fun solve, thank you!!
One of the things that I've come to enjoy with this channel is noticing the different ways Simon and Mark work through puzzles. I think this solve presents some good examples of it.
Mark is really diligent about applying the consequence of a deduction to what he's already learned and marked. He's very systematic at working all cells affected by a newly added digit and applying its implications. It's no surprise that he pencil marks so much more, because he's diligent at keeping them current.
Simon tends to apply some consequences to a new deduction or digit, but often tries to find new big leaps in the solve right away. It happens numerous times in this puzzle, for example at 32:41 when he makes R2C2 yellow, he does not apply that new fact to the adjacent and marked R1C1 which must now be a yellow 2. Instead he starts working on the empty circles in the middle of the grid. I tend to find myself yelling at Simon at lot more because of this! 😂 But it also tends to lead to more "oh, cool!" moments than in Marks videos. Finally, it partly explains why heavy pencil marking doesn't work for Simon because he's not as diligent at cleaning them up after each deduction.
I hope this doesn't sounds like criticism. I love watching them both and really enjoy the variety that the two different styles bring to the channel.
I often say that Simon could go faster if he would pencil mark just a bit more, as I take twice as long on the puzzle with help from the video.
Yep. Another example - all the logic that starts at around 42:00, where he deduces that r3c2 is 5, which is right next to the 25 pencil mark. "If it is 5 then it must be red and that will help me to resolve 25 pair". Yes, Simon. If that's a five, it will certainly resolve the 25 pair, but not because of coloring. And so Simon proceeds - he puts in 5, ignores the 25 pair in the cell right next to it, determines the color, and applies parity logic to deduce that the cell next to 5 cannot be 5.
I love getting to see their differences as well. And as much as I may good-naturedly yell at Simon through the screen, he has taught me more about puzzle solving than _anybody_ else, by far.
Marty Sears is a genius, this puzzle looks amazing. Well done Marty.
Absolute genius, as we would expect from Marty 😍
Great fun placing Connect 4 pieces in mid-air, reminds me of my brother trying to stop a piece falling to the bottom to make it look like he had got a run of 4!
The next question is ... could you actually, plausibly, play a game to reach this end point without either player passing up an obvious win? Bonus points for anyone who can recreate Mark and Simon's anticlimactic game!
not really relevant to the video, but there's an upgraded connect 4 variant called simplexity. Each piece is assigned a shape in addition to its color, either circle or square. P1 wins with 4 matching colors or 4 circles. P2 wins with 4 matching colors or 4 squares. The wrinkle is that each player only has 10 pieces of their own shape, and the other 11 for the opponent's. So the strategy is to figure out when you can drop a piece of your color and your opponent's shape in a way that mostly benefits you.
01:08:34 I spent like 10 minutes staring at the puzzle trying to resolve de 14-14 deadly pattern at the end, until I read the rules from the beginning in desperation XD Thanks for the puzzle, it was really fun!
Thank you for reminding me to read the rules 😭
I can confidently say that Marty Sears is my favorite puzzle setter ever, by far, no question.
I actually finished this somewhat quickly though I made a bit of a mistake in the middle and that cost me some time, but most of my time spent on this puzzle was me staring at the end trying to resolve the final 5 cells. I finally had to come to the video and skip to the very end because I was CONVINCED I had made another logical error and simply could not find it no matter how many times I rewound. NOTHING made any sense at all and my final grid was all correct minus the 5 cells I could not disambiguate. One of them even had a digit but no color. So I backed up a few seconds and saw Simon was at the same point I was at. Then I saw how he settled the problem. Marty.... You have made a COMPLETE and UTTER fool out of me today. I hope you are happy. To anyone out there wondering how to resolve the final step of the puzzle and do not want to have it spelled out by the video, here is a hint. Reread the whole of the rules VERY CAREFULLY. Don't be like me and speed read them because you "obviously understand the rules". That way leads to looking stupid.
This! And completely agree that it was a very Marty ending.
I finished in 53:52 minutes. Marty just keeps making innovative work and it is so fun to experience. This one almost felt like it was meant for non-sudoku Saturday with its style. The ruleset felt surprisingly simple, but it felt well executed. I think my favorite part was in the middlegame, seeing that no matter what color went into r4c5, both r3c5 and r4c1 both had to be yellow. That was some fun logic to see. I was so confused by the ending until I remembered the drawing rule. That felt like such a Marty ending. Great Puzzle!
Just another original, brilliant and wonderful puzzle from the majestic Marty Sears!! Thumbnail and drawing of Mark and Simon is a treat!!
What a beautifully flowing puzzle! I love the rat runs, all of them are amazing. This, however, was the most satisfying, easy, beautiful, rhythmic solve I ever had in any Sudoku, all different kinds of logics interacting in such a brilliant way. Like cruising through your city on a Sunday Evening, whenever you get stuck, it will only be for a few seconds.
Marty, you are amazing!
And now even though I should really go to sleep, I have to see Simon cruisin'!
Great puzzle! Always nice to see a novel puzzle idea, Marty never disappoints.
I usually skip the non-sudoku puzzles but this was fabulous! Marty Sears is incredible and, of course, Mark and Simon are rather brilliant as well.
Ballarat local here - sovereign hill is still operating and thriving!
What a great puzzle. And a great solve by Simon with him choosing to have fun rooting for yellow and also somehow determining exactly how the puzzle finishes before he's even halfway through.
he knows me well now :D
Rules: 08:50
What about this video's Top Tier Simarkisms?!
The Secret: 2x (06:00, 06:01)
And how about this video's Simarkisms?!
Sorry: 7x (10:52, 14:06, 22:01, 24:35, 25:28, 30:21, 46:32)
Obviously: 5x (01:13, 03:08, 04:11, 09:37, 34:22)
Hang On: 4x (20:25, 20:25, 21:19, 48:27)
Pencil Mark/mark: 4x (38:10, 43:01, 43:47, 45:48)
Cake!: 4x (05:41, 05:45, 06:13, 07:11)
Lovely: 3x (05:52, 06:08, 23:29)
By Sudoku: 3x (21:31, 35:04, 40:26)
Goodness: 2x (20:29, 49:01)
The Answer is: 2x (31:45, 31:48)
Nonsense: 2x (08:22, 15:57)
Incredible: 2x (07:37, 07:51)
Magnificent: 2x (00:40, 00:43)
Surely: 2x (18:46, 44:06)
Ah: 2x (38:55, 47:17)
What on Earth: 1x (11:23)
What a Puzzle: 1x (48:49)
Apologies: 1x (02:15)
Clever: 1x (09:05)
Stuck: 1x (26:47)
Brilliant: 1x (08:56)
Extraordinary: 1x (00:23)
Ridiculous: 1x (32:19)
Deadly Pattern: 1x (48:19)
Gorgeous: 1x (32:28)
Discombobulating: 1x (15:48)
Shouting: 1x (05:22)
Checkerboard: 1x (19:05)
Stunning: 1x (48:52)
In Fact: 1x (04:54)
Whoopsie: 1x (12:37)
Fabulous: 1x (49:11)
What Does This Mean?: 1x (12:24)
Most popular number(>9), digit and colour this video:
Ten, Twelve, Twenty, Twenty One (2 mentions)
Four (91 mentions)
Yellow (103 mentions)
Antithesis Battles:
Odd (6) - Even (5)
Row (25) - Column (7)
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!
Finished in 49:49
Happy with that. Very unique puzzle, thank you for featuring
Sovereign Hill is alive and kicking. Its a right of passage as a student in Victoria that you go on a trip to Ballarat to see Sovereign Hill and learn about the Gold Rush and Eureka Stockade
Funny! For the first time I actually made a LMD account and searched up Marty as I enjoy his puzzles so much and found this one and gave it ago just earlier today! This will be a fun watch having already done it in 37:40.
I did the same last year and haven't missed a Marty Sears puzzle since!
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10:13 "I think that's the move that I would make if I went first"... Simon, the second move is on top of the first one! 😀
Haven't watched in a while but amazing solve, one of the coolest sudokus I've ever seen
I love how Simon chooses to be Yellow in a game that he knows is a draw as if choosing Yellow has a better outcome or play! LOL
While also saying that Mark will do more pencil-marking, at a point where there is _more_ pencil-marking in yellows than reds 😂
73:08 for me, well chuffed with myself as this is the first puzzle I've been able to solve without having to refer to the video to see what logic I missed! Now to watch it and see how Simon did :)
EDIT: Wow, that connect 4 deduction on R4C4 is something that I completely missed and not necessary to find for the solve, incredibly impressive to see that!
Only Simon can put 5 right next to a 25 pair, proceed to determine the color of the cell, and apply red color's parity logic to deduce that the cell next to a 5 cannot be 5.
Thank you so much for the birthday wishes. I enjoyed every video I watched so far and look forward to all those coming. Ps: I had amazing chocolate muffins yesterday.
41:15 ... I spent about 15 minutes backtracking to see where I went wrong on my first try, but I did find the correct way through in the end
A most unique game-themed puzzle!
That is my new favourite. ❤ Im going to wait a week and give it a try.
This video settles it. Marty puzzles are THE best puzzles. Always fun entertaining and clever.
The Rat Run series is the best series since the MCU, and this puzzle was superb.
That was so much fun!
I haven't had the time or patience to actually attempt many puzzles myself recently, but I could see the bottom row working out and just had to give it a go. Every logical step flowed so smoothly, left me feeling incredibly smart 😁
3:30 interesting behind the scenes, I'd be curious if you intentionally split it into a 2 part video parts of software things would like it better.
23:38 what a pretty puzzle.
33:06 I'm waiting for "and that's now a yellow 2 in the corner" but I love the new saying, we must not connect 4, to go along with your checkerboard and your or create a 2 by 2 sayings.
37:00 I didn't mean to imply there would be a song though.
39:56 oh man simon, i love coloring puzzles in sudoku world, i feel like I get very ahead, i'm shouting at the red-ness down column 6, since you filled the red clue.
I love how we didn't have to count to figure out the last color because we could infer it from the fact that we need to resolve a deadly pattern x)
This is way harder than it should be! The logic is quite clear, but man I made so many errors! Great exercise for your brain.
Looking forward to video with Simon and Erin!!
Can't wait for it either !! Should be a blast. Hope u been well ❤❤
@ hope the same for you! ❤️💚💙🩷
This is an all-time great, even for Marty
I had to check the calendar. I thought I might have missed days and today is Saturday. Instead, I get a treat of a Sudon'tku Saturday on Thursday.
After the long Tuesday-Wednesday-feature this turned into an Everything-could-happen-Thursday...
This was such a fun idea, the illustration was great, and you took up the banner of yellow very convincingly, Simon! I definitely am putting this puzzle on my list to try.
What an awesome puzzle. It’s so much fun combining a classical game with number clues, and working both angles.
I have never played much connect 4; so I just watched. Great puzzle.
Astounding! This was so much fun after the marathon yesterday ❤
I haven't watched the video, I'm still working on the solve, but I just had my mind blown when I realized how the logic unfolds. Because of course it would! 😮
I laughed so hard about 3/4 of the way in, after Simon decided that he'd be yellow, and he had to put a red in, which of course had to block 4 yellow. It was something like, oh so that has to be red, boo
This almost feels like it should have been a sudon'tku Saturday puzzle! (But much excite to have it as soon as possible) ❤
10:10 "I don't know which one of us would have gone first" I'm presuming he meant that he didn't know who was yellow and who was red; clearly red went first xD
Pretty sneaky, sis. (Americans who grew up in the 1970's will have that reference permanently lodged in their brains.)
Brilliant finish!! how does anyone even come up with that
18:56 for me. What a fun puzzle!!
The squarification of the circles... great puzzle.
And me thinking it was a circlefication of the squares... *sigh*
This looks like fun!!
Very exciting puzzle.
Loved it
What a sneaky little rule that only comes into play at the very end 😅
01:15:22 for me, another fun one!
I loved the end, I wonder if that sneaky connect 4 logic in the middle was necessary? Not sure I would have found that!
I think so... I hope so!
You could have also used Yellow logic, assuming we are talking about 31:20. There is no yellow digit that can be next to a 1 but 2 squares away from a 2. That's what I was thinking about, anyway.
(Except that 2-7-4-1 would work. Oops.)
@@theunamiableThe cell to the left has to be a 7, by yellow logic. But that leaves the possibility of r4c4 being a yellow 4, using yellow logic alone. That would be three away from the two known yellow neighbours, 1 and 7.
I used the Connect 4 logic.
I must have played more games of Connect 4 than Simon. I just saw it as something to look out for when playing Connect 4. Afraid I didn't quite have the reaction of "that's one of the best things I've (ever) seen" 😂. (Sorry Marty - I sometimes wish I had half of Simon's levels of enthusiasm and wonder 🙂).
fun variant! much appreciated!
@47:23 "Pretty sneaky sis!"
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Hmm. I think I may gave missed the intended solution path near the end. I ended up having the 21 required yellow discs, so I coloured all of my last four circles red by overall disc count alone, and not just the final one as Simon did. There were obviously other ways three of them could have been coloured red.
"There, I've said it." LOLOLOL
Don't you mean yellolol?
How'd I get on? It took me just 20 times as long as it took you. That's 12 hours. Two tries, including hitting that trap in the center the first time through.
I commented but didnt see the 5 in the red.. them scotomas again 😮
Wonder if Marty knew Simon was playing yellow in this game. :)
In hindsight, yes yellow does feel a bit more Simony doesn't it? I deliberately left it unknown though :D
52:58, seems like I am awful at seeing three in a row on a diagonal!
Ingenious
I really had hard time crying over the 3 at the start... like it can't be yellow... you make 3 yellows and the red is broken, like what took so long?
Sadly, Coldplay is wrong, half of them are red.
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Very punny
I'm curious, if anyone would make a game analyzis, recomstructing possible moves, providing the restrictions by the rules of the puzzle.
Apparently, they are too clever for each other, but not perfect, because Connect 4 is a solved game, where player 1 will sinn if played perfectly, regardless of what player 2 does.
23:05 for me
50.48 for me. As usual, when stuck (especially at the end) read the rules again.
I got stuck 15 mins on those last 14s and uncoloured 2. Totally forgot about the first rule until I reread the rules. Facepalm!
The top left 12 could not be 1, so you could of used that to get the red token in C4 R4
Was interested in this because I played it myself and was unable to solve the end without using the logic of preventing a deadly pattern, which felt quite anticlimactic to me. I overlooked entirely the method simon used, unfortunate!
So, instead of working on Rat Runs Season 3, Marty granted us this puzzle. Okay, I buy it :D
Marty makes puzzles whilst asleep 😂😂
@@chipsounder4633 I do actually have sudoku dreams sometimes. Can't be a good sign haha
Check his comment on this video, apparently it was a very early creation of his
@@shaunelliott8583 cool 😎
forgot about the equal number of disks, and thought the sudoku was broken. otherwise took me about 48 minutes to solve it. I was not very good.
Look at this grid
I made a puzzle for you
And everything you do
And it was half yellow.
You and OlafDoschke would get along well I believe, go find his comment on this video
44:20 for me.
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Haven't watched for a while. But sad to see you're still doing 9 minutes of housekeeping at the start of your vids. Crack into it. Do mentions etc at the end. It will help with new viewers.
I'm a little saddened by the flavor and rules. Connect 4 is a solved game. If player 1 knows what they're doing, they can win 100% of the time. It can't be true that both Mark and Simon are too clever *AND* the game ended in a draw.
But when it's human beings playing the game, there is always some probability of error; even if not sufficient to lose the game, at least enough to blow the first-move advantage and admit the possibility of a draw.
I think you've forgotten to take into account Simon's powers of scanning, and Mark's inability to write pencilmarks on a plastic frame. Our heroes have feet of clay.
Why do you keep making instructions that are completely misleading.
Go look at solution and read the instructions. The you have an up arrow with a 3 with only one spot above. It's nonsense and you don't even define how the board wraps at diagonal boundaries
am very happy with the wording thanks. Everyone else seems to understand them
That circle has two arrows, one pointing up and one pointing down. The instructions clearly state that you *combine* the counts of all the arrows coming from a circle.
interesting is 0 views but 8 likes already. interesting syncro for numbers by google.
UA-cam sometimes holds off views for a bit to verify if they're legitimate, but they don't do a similar check for likes. That's how this situation can happen.