If You Had To Solve This To Survive, What Would You Do?!
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- Опубліковано 28 вер 2024
- Today's puzzle is one of the most incredible sudokus we've ever seen. It's a debut on the channel for FinnishGuy and it's called Palindromaze. And if, Squid Game-style, you had to solve this to survive, what would your strategy be?! You can play the puzzle at the following link:
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It was very enjoyable to see Simon's take on solving my puzzle. As someone commented below, this may have been one of the larger SET theory operations in CtC's history. For this, I got inspiration originally from Aad van de Wetering's Checkerboard puzzle. As I had created a palindrome puzzle shortly before Aad's puzzle was featured on the channel, combining some elements of the logic on Aad's puzzle with palindrome logic got me curious: could a puzzle like this be created?
Simon followed the clues towards the break-in. There were a couple of steps in the initial part of the solve where Simon found an alternative but equally functional approach to what I had thought about. If someone is interested in trying to spot those, there is an alternative way to constrain the contents of the 14-cage following the SET logic, and some palindrome logic within box 6 which could have provided some extra help. As I suspected, the video also contained plenty of colouring.
Thank you for featuring the Palindromaze! It certainly made my day.
I literally applauded after simon finished canceling the palindromes because I was so gobsmacked
Thanks for making it. Really enjoyable. Very dynamic. I couldn't break in but have learnt the set theory now I guess.
I think the 31 diagonal tip was far too obvious as there is only like 6 possible solutions
"Solve this sudoku, or you shall die!" "May I say goodbye to my wife and kids?" "Don't you wanna try solving the puzzle first?" "Please, good sir, I beg you, just shoot me!"
The first digit Simon guessed when doing the set thing was a 3 in the corner. That 3 was correct.
😮 Sudoku-clairvoyance
ikr? :D
Simon constantly forgetting about the palindrome, never gets old.
And normal sudoku techniques.
I admit I shouted a few times. lol. I shouted nicely though because Simon is so sweet.
Imagine if we could leave emoji reactions over the video 😆
"Let's not forget about the palindrome".
Places a 6,4, and a 123 triple in row one. Immediately forgets they're on the palindrome. Lol
I came here to say exactly this.
Simon literally says, "This is one of the greatest Sudoku puzzles we have ever featured on this channel," in more than half the videos on this channel. So, a fairly generous use of the superlative. That said, Simon's relentless praise and genuine admiration of the constructors is a huge part of what makes CTC so fun to watch.
This man saying sorry for completing this legendairy of a puzzle a little slower than he could have done, but forgetting that this happens to everyone in a sudoku puzzle😝 Keep on creating this fantastic content! I really have a different look at sudoku puzzles now. Take care!
Why don't you get Sven to add more colors? I know it's nice having them 0-9 for easy entry, but maybe custom colors, or different palettes or something, since you seem to run out of them often.
Or letters
or remove colours once they dont serve any purpose!
or patterns! like striped or dotted or whatever
Would be nice but for now we can just mix two colors which gives us more combos than we could use.
@@louisesuth8141 Hear, hear. I'm all for using colors for making deductions (and I know Simon LOVES coloring), but once a color has been resolved to a digit, there's no need to keep adding it to new instances of that digit. This is especially true when a color gets resolved very early during the solve. Besides running out of colors, the problem with continuing to color 6-7-8-9 after they've been deduced in this puzzle is that you have to constantly worry about about updating the digits and colors in parallel, when only the digits actually matter.
24:47 for me. That is brutal. This might probably be the first time I find myself physically applauding an idea on a puzzle. Not only is the idea of the break-in awesome, but the way it keeps going after you’ve found the main key and it basically solves the whole puzzle… Definitely one of my favorite puzzles of all time.
One of the coolest uses of set theory i've seen on this channel, that was beautiful
Yes! I still need to learn to see it. I needed the break-in from the video to get going. I guess that's the Simon magic, to notice the chessboard pattern and deduce from there... something special.
Rules: 02:48
Let's Get Cracking: 05:54
What about this video's Top Tier Simarkisms?!
Bobbins: 1x (37:07)
Three In the Corner: 1x (21:21)
You Rotten Thing: 1x (51:04)
And how about this video's Simarkisms?!
Sorry: 9x (08:54, 09:20, 17:13, 37:38, 40:39, 45:49, 50:29, 51:18, 54:13)
Beautiful: 7x (20:00, 32:18, 44:48, 44:55, 45:19, 52:29, 52:29)
Ridiculous: 6x (23:16, 24:50, 27:18, 27:20, 33:28, 57:45)
Bother: 5x (41:15, 42:30, 45:43, 45:49, 51:00)
Clever: 5x (42:25, 47:43, 47:49, 47:52, 49:08)
By sudoku: 4x (30:28, 34:46, 43:10, 47:35)
Hang On: 4x (13:44, 40:45, 42:59, 46:04)
Surely: 4x (26:25, 29:05, 53:56, 54:01)
Good Grief: 3x (11:18, 40:55, 45:04)
Brilliant: 2x (24:17, 24:20)
Extraordinary: 2x (57:18, 57:21)
Shouting: 2x (54:29, 55:13)
Stunning: 2x (57:29, 57:31)
What on Earth: 1x (20:14)
Diddly Squat: 1x (15:23)
Goodness: 1x (58:06)
Apologies: 1x (54:27)
Nonsense: 1x (08:57)
Stuck: 1x (37:40)
Deadly Pattern: 1x (56:13)
Come on Simon: 1x (39:55)
Famous Last Words: 1x (47:02)
Of All Things: 1x (34:46)
Witty: 1x (02:23)
Think Harder: 1x (50:33)
Disappointing: 1x (37:11)
FAQ:
Q1: What is a Simarkism?
A1: A Simarkism is something that Simon and Mark typically or frequently say.
Q2: How do you do this so fast?
A2: I'm not made of flesh and blood, but of sand ...
Q3: Why don't you include 'XX' and 'YY'?
A3: Probably it's already on the list ('Scooby-Doo' for example), but not mentioned in this video. But if you think it's not, tell me what you'd like me to include and there's a good chance I'll add it!
Q4: You missed 'XX' at 'YY:ZZ'!
A4: That could very well be the case! Human speech is hard to understand for computers like me, especially British sometimes! Point out the ones that I missed and maybe I'll learn!
Q5: Could you turn these statistics into videos?
A5: I've been playing around with the idea and I'm open to input as to what people would like to see. Let me know if you are interested in this and/or have suggestions.
you have WAY too much time on your hand to catalogue this.
@@kyleborders420 its a bot
Any votes for "box thingy(-thing)"? He uses both in this video.
I think I heard him say "rotten thing" more than once this puzzle
I think Outrageous is another candidate
Simon, that breakthrough was one of the coolest I've ever seen. Almost made me not yell at TV for all the missed palindrome nums. Almost. Lol. Absolutely love the channel. Thank you and Mark so much for sharing everyday. First thing I look forward to after work. Dinner and ctc.
Thanks for missing the 6 in box 8. That is a great way of wanting me to watch more of your videos, it made me feel smart from 45.22 onwards. If I had to do this to survive, I would be dead as a doornail...
If I may suggest a quicker wind-up: from 47:51 the red-grey domino in row 7 must contain a 2 - this forces a 3 in r7c9 (also resolving the kropki dot with a 6 on the palindrome) which in turn forces the red-grey domino to be a 1-2 pair. The puzzle winds up very procedurally from there, I think - but nice to see it forced another way.
First looking at it, I thought the cages and "odd" cells were a sign the puzzle was inelegant and needed disambiguation to work.
However, after being stuck myself and not finding the set myself, watching it all unfold, with clue type leading to clue type, I am very impressed.
Pfff, I did it. What a puzzle! And ... I heard Simon say my late-night ode to the puzzle maven. His guitar in- and outros, his occasional Douglas Adamesque interjections and that video when he said The Raven, nah, if that isn't worth a little attempt to repay my debts, I don't know what is.
FinnishGuy gave a fantastic telegraph with his title. If you are aware of colouring proofs in number theory and combinatorics, checkerboard patterns are very accessible, cortically speaking. Then the sheer psychology of the association with mazes that are negotiated in palindromic fashion and the fact that the palindromes have even lengths, inducing a parity clash, a sort of domain wall separating the central cells, it all came together in my mind. I had no intuition *whatsoever* about those four residual cells, while Simon with his ability to spot weirdness was led to the application of SET much slower but with tonnes more insight.
From this uber-satisfying start it went downhill for me. I really struggled with the Y-wingy effect of the small/big palindrome interplay. That's what palindromes do: they put cells that are far away, into relationships that classically can only share a row, column or box. This puzzle was full of that sort of logic. In the end 88:51 but I live to fight another day.
Then Simon's solve: great song as usual. If I would not be totally convinced that Mark and he are, like, totally honourable men, I would have sworn that 4/6 pair in box 8 was just trolling the brethern and sistern. As it was, it was just Simon's weird-wiredness that we know and love.
I was featured on the channel and I have never set a sudoku! How weird is that? Hearing Simon say The Maven, I remembered what someone once said about Beethoven's music: "It sounds a lot better than it actually is". Not comparing myself to Ludwig here, of course, just stealing a great quote. But I *did* spend the first few years of my life on Beethovenstraat in Amsterdam 😎
Please forgive my rambling. Writing comments on CtC is a therapeutic mind dump experience for me. You can just skip it. Oh, you didn't, if you read these words. Who made that joke about the ultra-secret letter that had the PS "Destroy before reading"?
Good night, friends and acquaintances. Gute Nacht, ihr Marmelstein, ihr Berg und Hügelein, gute Nacht. Der Mohr hat seine Schuldigkeit getan, der Mohr kann gehen.
A great showcase, of both the puzzle and your poem. So good I had to read your message through the PS :)
Des Simons Wunderrätsel.
@@Anne_Mahoney Bingo! In diesem Wetter, in diesem Braus...
@@Anne_Mahoney Bernard Haitink of blessed memory - another one of those beautiful souls - said in the documentary "Een Dirigentenleven" (Hans Hulscher, 1994): "If you are in the doldrums, listen to Mahler's Sixth - then your troubles look a lot less important."
My father ob"m was a founding member of the Internationale Gustav Mahler Gesellschaft.
Someday, when I'm lonely
Wishing you weren't so far away
Then I will remember
Things we said today
Amos, it was my pleasure to be featured on the channel alongside The Maven. I am also glad you managed to complete the puzzle, which by no means was designed to be easy!
2:39 Rules
5:56 Let's Get cracking!
I'm not the bot you are looking for, so no Marxisms for ya.
Thanks, Sergey. Any idea what happened to Sand bot?
@@SunDry_Marchy naaah, no idea. Maybe he's a lil late for the party today?
@@SunDry_Marchy the bot doesn't always post, I figure maybe it gets rate limited checking UA-cam or has difficulty downloading the subtitles so it can't post. Hopefully since it's maintainer watches the videos they'll notice and fix whatever the issue is.
@@scragar sometimes the bot uploads the comment a couple hours later.
@@HolySerega well it certainly makes it a bit harder to show the support and appreciation for bot's maintainers..
There’s storms raging outside where I live in the Dandenongs near Melbourne. At any moment I might lose power or have a tree crash through my house. But what’s my priority? Watching CTC 6.30 in the morning. The internet has cut out several times. I’ve changed from big screen to little screen on the phone with 4G, and then back to the big screen again just in time to yell about the white kropki dot in box 8 again! This coincided with another internet blackout and a quick trip to the loo. If the internet hadn’t cut out, I would’ve held on. Internet back on to watch the finale. Wow! Take a breath. Take a bow. What a puzzle and the poem at the end just widened the smile that was already on my face.
Good to know there are other Aussies watching! I'm up at 5am in West Aust so I still have time to get ready for work or whatnot.
Am also near Melbourne, and was fortunate to avoid any carnage from the overnight storms.
Simon mentioned recently he was no stranger to Melbourne and the Peninsula - as there seems to be a few CtCers here, I’m sure he will get an enthusiastic welcome next visit.
Oh yeah, grouse puzzle this one.
I was watching this from just north of the Melbourne CBD this morning as the tempest raged and ravaged. Yet Simon solving sudoku is such a becalming influence, I was floating on cloud nine…until he failed at basic sudoku and my own tempest sprang into being. Never question the gods, the ancient philosophers intoned, and surely Simon is one of the deities. Perhaps the tempest was unleashed by my lack of kindness?
That was some puzzle! The idea to combine set, diagonal, cage and palindromic logic was nothing short of beautiful. As Simon said, stunning! Many thanks to FinnishGuy and well done Simon for getting through the solve (you could say it was just slightly difficult)!! ;)
There was some shouting that happened near the end but what a great puzzle/solve. One of the most incredible uses of SET in a while. Bravo to FinnishGuy for having the creativity to incorporate that in their puzzle, and bravo to Simon for having the genius to find it.
I swear that if Simon had better scanning, he'd be the absolute best sudoku solver of all time. 🙂
I am glad that I found this UA-cam channel and that I am retired and have enough time to admire this „beauty of Logic”. May I send you one day a puzzle of mine?
They have discord server with setters help channel, and iirc their mailbox mentioned in their channel description also accepts submissions
Simon, I have a quick tip for you... When you place a digit (or pencil marks) in a square, your mind seems to the go directly to look where this square goes in other boxes and you often forget to look what this square does to the box, column or row. Therefore you are missing easy triples, doubles and even naked singles.
Example at 48:18
Wow, the breakthrough at 23:30 is just stunning. The largest set theory operation (so far?) in CtC history?
Largest? Other SET theory concepts are about as large. Instead of C13579 = 5 of each number = R13579, Simon could just as easily have used C2468 = 4 of each number = R2468, yielding the same sets of 20 blue and 20 orange cells after 16 cells cancel. Now one well-known SET theory concept is Phistomefel's ring: R34567 - box 5 = 4 of each number = C1289 yielding Phistomefel's ring and another corresponding set of 16 cells after 20 cells cancel.
Not in a million years would i have found those opening sets! Bravo! I do think the maze this puzzle is as real in your brain when trying to keep track of it all as it is drawn on the grid!
This is the second time in a week that I solved the puzzle without using SET at all, while Simon did use it during his solve. I'm glad because I'm never able to spot SET. :)
Bifurcation would definitely be on the table...
Yeah, I don’t think any of us would be above using bifurcation to solve this if our lives depended on it. I mean, it’s worth giving up on finding the logical way to solve one puzzle so that we can live to solve many more puzzles, right?
"Jocking my straps"
WOAH Simon, language!
Gave up after an hour where the closest to a digit was a 789 in r7c2 *lol*. This was an amazing break-in puzzle and how Simon spotted the pattern and how this could lead to a SET solution was quite astonishing. Once I saw him do the SET, it almost became a GAS puzzle !
"...if I solve the puzzle..." every single time he says this, I have to just pause and think about whether he's just being incredibly humble, or whether there are some other puzzles or there they've recorded but not solved that we haven't seen....
But of course, I choose to believe he's just being incredibly humble. It's irrefutable, he will solve the puzzle every time! :)
On the Q&A video they said they fail some small but significant percentage of the time. I do think it's funny that they say "if I solve the puzzle" to the camera, because if we're seeing it, then that means they did!
56 minutes, though I got stuck a bit early and picked at Simon exploring the idea of sets...then I ran with it. So, needed a little nudge, but did the rest
Overflowing with goodness! A great puzzle! Simon reading Amos' poem!!!! total :😍😍😍
Oh yeah. Goodness is exactly right.
Your break-in into this puzzle is just phenomenal.
Simon's jump-start was very helpful as I would not have figured out so quickly that two digits in box 3 are identical to two digits on the 31 diagonal. After that, an excellent and colorful puzzle developed, which gave me a lot of joy.
Absolutely brilliant, guys. Thank you so much.
Every day, to get to Cracking the Cryptic I type 'crack' in my search bar because I just have to get my sudoku shot. What can I say? I can quit whenever I want.
Fitting, Finnish have the longest single word palindrom ('saippuakivikauppias ' that means soapstonesalesman)...
What's soapstone...?
@@SunDry_Marchy
A very soft stone that’s easy to carve. It feels “soapy” because it has a lot of talc in it, hence the name.
That could and maybe should have been the title!
According to a very old kids' book, there is also "saippuakalasalakauppias" (i.e. soapfishsecretsalesman, whatever that product is even intended to be, and why it would need to be sold in secrecy...)
Fun fact about the break in: If you highlight the even numbered rows/columns and delete the overlap you end up with the exact same thing as if you highlight the odd numbered rows/columns and delete the overlap. Since this is one row/column less this strategy saves several seconds! :p
I tried to color the big palindrome. Ran out of colors obviously and used digits as indices. But that didn't help. I'm very impressed how you cracked it in the beginning with the different sets. Looks like black magic. I wonder how long the setter worked on this one. Very well done!
A couple of weekends, tossing quite a few less functional versions of the idea into the recycle bin.
39:21 finish. I confused myself for a while with all of the coloring I did, until I decided to delete it after I finished with each number. Very fun!
I lost patience with this one and watched the video until Simon started wondering about the the all one bishop's palindrome making a checker board pattern. That was enough of a hint. I was able to get the break-in before work and finish solving afterwards.
I love how you keep saying ‘we’, like “now we can pencil mark this”. Makes me feel very smart, as if I’m solving the puzzel too. 😄
"...now i get to play" always puts a smile on my face. is it just me?
I would like to see a puzzle containing both the checker board set theory and knights move constraint
I think that would end up really interesting
Well, now you got me thinking. Interesting idea.
Tried everything for an hour or two before even thinking of set theory. Did it in inverse from Simon though - with 4 rows and 4 columns, i think that is easier.
Makes it very easy to cancel out the palindromes. Brilliant break-in. And you do need to spot it to solve the puzzle. At least i think so. Very proud that i made it.
Utterly brilliant puzzle. I don't really give it a go, just watch along and try to see the logic either as you go or sooner. I didn't think set at all until Simon said it and my eyes widened. I was thinking it had to have been interactions between the palindromes 🤣..
What an awesome break-in!
So when is the audiobook of Simon reading poetry coming out?? 😍
Too tough for me ... particularly bad timing, given the theme of the video.
I had the same early coloring as Simon, but it never occurred to me to try to restart and use SET. Just another brilliant solve by a Sudoku master.
"If You Had To Solve This To Survive, What Would You Do?!" Me, just looks at the rules "Then I die!" :D
I think I'd bifurcate like there's no tomorrow.
Yep, I died too :-)
I never spotted them but I obviously made loads of mistakes as I arrived at at least 5 dead-ends before giving up...
@@jounik what if there's a timer clock that stops at 1 hour
Another brilliant solve of a great puzzle.
This is mental! Well done Simon.
Simon, thank you so much for your beautiful reading of my ditty. Just so that the brethern and sistern can see how much you added with your diction to the bare words, I'll copy those below. Knowing how careful you are with names on the channel, I hesitantly point out that my first name is usually pronounced AHmos rather than AYmos.
[for Simon]
THE MAVEN
Not so long ago in lockdown, I lived lonely in a ghost town
And considered: "Binge or no binge, that's the question for tonight."
While I sat there, not an inkling, suddenly my screen went blinking
And the UA-cam tab was tinkling: "This you've never seen before!""
"Just some clickbait," I dismissed it, "algorithm, just ignore.
This is one I fall not for!"
In my darkened lamp-lit bedroom, in my mind a dragonhead tomb,
Just one mouse click and I fled doom, entering the channel's door -
And while watching maven's logic, barely noticed my old clock tick
When my screen became a joss stick, joss stick I'd been waiting for -
Truly balm applied to bruises, crack of dawn worth waiting for -
Puzzles, friendship and much more.
Aw, c'mon, I think he got "vitt-enburg" rather than "wit-," so for an Anglophone that's already pretty good, right?
@@Anne_Mahoney You are right. When I was still in the banking/hedge fund world, my nickname was Amy 😃. Never met Simon there, though.
you're like a live-action Sherlock Holmes
We don't like mild deductions; we like great big potent deductions. Oh my, Simon, I'm getting all flustered.
Such a clever puzzle - another advert for the much-lauded Finnish education system? - but a pity I don't think I'll ever be able to spot SET without a nudge from Simon.
"Here is a Soduko puzzle you must solves or be eliminated. We have seen Simon solve it within an hour, so that is how much time we'll give you"
Well I'm dead then. Even with unlimited time I'm not sure I'd see all the logical steps required.
I've realized that Simon and I have completely different distastes in grids. Simon doesn't like over-pencil-marking, and I don't like over-coloring. Particularly telling in this puzzle when the 789 coloring provided no value, Simon removed the useful orange coloring instead of the 789 coloring (which I would have done much earlier as soon as their digits got filled in). Color-noise makes it really hard for me to scan the puzzle.
This is a brilliant puzzle -- though not really sure what it had to do with Squid Game. It involved coloring which I enjoy, and used SET in an interesting way to only provide one small bit of logic that would be hard to tell otherwise rather than something that is long-lived.
I find colors really helpful before you know what the number is, but I very much agree with you that once you know what the number is, a 789 pencil mark is much more useful than a smattering of colored squares.
It’s like how once you get a 23 pair, for example, you tend to remove the corner marks for readability. The colors are there to help, and should go away once their job is done.
I'm hoping the app gets Letters for the purposes of Substitution to reduce the need for coloring noise in some of these puzzles. It's such a simple addition and yet gets neglected.
To me I'd rather see a cell marked say "ACDF" than whatever arbitrarily was picked from Green Purple Orange Red...
@@jaeusa160 Agreed. I don't mind using colours but when you have long palindromes, for example, letters would be preferable
@@jaeusa160 Another advantage of letters is that they'd go away when you fill in the digit. No more "This is cell 6 so we must also make it yellow for no reason".
“Box thingy-thing” needs to be added to the list of SiMark-isms 😊 It’s my new favorite
I love that the three he placed in the corner in the SET proof didn't get a song. It tried again by being there in the real puzzle. Poor 3. Hope your voice recovers quickly Simon.
whenever i try a sudoku puzzle i always end up breaking the puzzle so I'm very amazed by how Simon practically never does that. tbh i use his video as a cheat sheet whenever I mess up
Spotting that break in seems unbelivable. I mean solving puzzles like that its easy to drop a concluaion that little killer and odd circles are disambiguating clues for later part of the solve.
Really incredible puzzle! I love solving alongside you, I try to do it by myself, but when I get stuck for over 30min, I look how to get to the next logic with your video. I would've never in a million years spotted the geometry :o it's quite interesting to watch you solve it after, I had colour coded different things and found other patterns, which is pretty unusual when following along. We got there in the end! Thanks for the video 🙂
If it's taken Simon just shy of an hour to solve then I think the simple answer is that I would die... ☠
Got it in 92:04! So as long as the Squid Game people are giving me that much time, I guess I'd live to the next round! Almost gave up but found the set about thirty minutes in.
That 7 on the Palindrome in box 1 really tripped you up Simon.
Applause to FinnishGuy and Simon!
If there was some apocalypse or Hunger Games type situation, I would always be the first to die! This would be no exception! Glad to see you would survive Simon!!
2nd but before the bot! Now to the puzzle. I'll try it first, then hear Simon's song.
Yay Amos!!!! You are a star!!!
I loved the poem! I hope to hear more!
@@GotG113 I can't wait to hear Simon say it. Having heard him in earlier videos I imagine my late-night abuse of E A Poe will sound a lot better than it actually is (Kaiser Josef II in Amadeus). Just started my evensong a.k.a. the daily CtC.
[edit] I misremembered. The Emperor's quote was "Too many notes, Mozart". I cannot for the life of me remember the source of the "sounds better than it is". A useful meme nevertheless 😎
I also hope to hear more: I'd listen to Simon reading a phonebook.
Simon really has a colouring addiction.
You could have figured out that 2 had to be on the R7C3/C4 kropki dot, and if it were 2/3 would leave R7C9 with no value, therefore it is a 1/2 and place a 3 in R7C9.
Depending how you interpret "exactly 1 repeated digit" the logic about "can only be exactly 1 repeat since it's odd" at the start may or may not be right - while you cannot repeat two different digits, you can repeat one digit more than once if it's odd (in this case, 9,9,9,4 would get you there at first blush, even though of course it is later seen to be impossible due to the palindrome/set logic)
Only one digit may be repeated, but the repeated digit may occur twice or three times.
While that is technically true, he very rapidly used the colouring of the palidromes to show that red, yelow and purple all appeared in box 4 and thus had to be three unique digits. Also, as you correctly pointed out "only one repeated digit" doesn't necessarily mean that it only repeats once.
50:40 No sir, you should (as always) think of sudoku. That six in R7C5 (and therefore in R9C7) was staring at you ages ago. But it makes your wonderful solve all the more entertaining 😉
As long as there wasn't a short time limit, no problem!
loving the thumbnails, they’re always so fun to see!
Too tough for me. I worked on it for a couple of hours, trying to keep colors straight, but couldn't get any real break-in. Only after watching Simon's set break-in did I eventually complete the rest of it on my own. Total time... too embarrassing to mention.
That amount of SET logic just to prove two digits can't be the same as one another. Bonkers idea, beautifully executed.
Well, oddly there is also another constraint which gets carried over through the SET logic :)
This week has melted my mind with all the genius...
24:52 - the easy way to see this is remembering the blues are one set and the orange are the same set. And as these sets only have 2 numbers, in box 3 have to be different elements of the sets, thus they are also the same set. In box 4 and 7 they have to be the opposite. To better remember it until you know the digits, you switch the colouring on one side, so that same coluors mean the same digits.
54:05 🤯 Haha. I've been staring at that 4 in r7c1 for 9 minutes waiting for him to make r7c5 a 6, then he finally looks at it again and adds 4 to the possibilities in r7c7. Ahhh! Good break-in, though. I appreciate the explanation of the set theory. As a newer sudoku enthusiast, I would not have gotten that.
Lovely stuff. Looking forward to you having more colors. A color wheel would be pretty fun.
Wow.. such a clever solution. no way would i have seen that.
This is SO beautiful!!!!
Brilliant puzzle! 'Solved' it in 40 minutes (I watched the video with 1.5x speed)
That start is insane, beautifull solve though! (apart from the normal scanning oopsies :P )
I wonder how many people found that start.
My final realization to complete this puzzle was that r3c7 is the same as r4c8, eliminating both 1 and 4 as possible candidates for both boxes by virtue of sudoku.
"Imagine having to do Sodoku in a Sodoku puzzle! How outrageous!" Simon, you're the BEST! 🤣😂
I noticed that if FinnishGuy got rid of the two-cell-long palindrome on r5c5, he could extend two ends of the medium-length palindrome meet up on those two squares and the puzzle would be identical. I wonder why he opted not to do that.
You are correct - this could have been done. I simply did not spot that, as I was happy to get the palindromes functioning they way they were. I suppose one could argue which configuration would have resulted in a more stylistic maze on the grid.
Ompas kiva nähdä vihdoinkin muitakin suomalaisia kanavalla. Olettaen, että olet suomalainen. Sanoisinko, että ajatus on ollut erinomainen, ja toteutus onnistunut. Täten luovutan tittelin parhaasta suomalaisesta sudokusta lähes puolentoistavuoden jälkeen ilomielin teille. Onneksi olkoon!
Kiitos. Koetin etsiä omaa sudokuasi kanavalta, mutta en onnistunut löytämään. Minkä niminen se on?
Great video and what a puzzle, did notice something, you could have got the 3/6 on the white dot in column 9 by ruling out the 2 because it would have left a 1-3 pair in row 7, which of course are not consecutive.
That poem is on point !
I’m new here but I’m impressed.
Nice work!
Great puzzle
Interesting if a little wayward solve
Simon was in his element, colouring and set theory with minimal sudoku
Suomi mainittu! Fun puzzle. :)
I humbly admit I would still be looking for that break-in a fortnight from now.
And after that I'm just thinking fill in your palindrome, Simon!
It remains so amusing how Simon finds the hardest stuff and then doesn't see the easy stuff.
The 4s bewitched Simon.
how tf did Simon see how to set theory that out so quickly I gave up after a few hours to watch simon hint me in...bonkers. Bravo Simon. QUESTION though: you have people test puzzles for you to solve and you say you 'look' at them before playing (sometimes). How much do you 'look' at them and do the testers hint anything like contains X rules/difficulty/set theory etc at all? follow up> I've never seen you make a mistake once...do you not post those videos? or do you not make mistakes? would love to see out-takes style vid of you making mistakes and ruining a puzzle if you do I'm sure other people would enjoy seeing that you're human! even if you don't answer love the work, you're a legend!
I'd head straight to UA-cam to watch Simon solve it first
A really nice puzzle. I'm going to watch Simon solve because I found a really cool way to start this and I'm hoping he did the same.
Not sure of my time, probably about an hour.
I felt really smug for finding that break-in but Simon found it much quicker than I did and I have to assume therefore that my solve was much longer than an hour, as previously stated
Wow, you found it! Nevermind how long it took, it’s just amazing!
My strategy, as a 10-stone unathletic troglodyte, would be to request playing tug-of-war instead.
39:32 The 12468 space can't actually be 6 because of the white dot, and 57 already in box 3. :) Not that it seems to matter much at this stage.
I know Simon loves coloring, but using letters works so much better (for me at least)