I finished in 72 minutes. I really mucked this one up. I, first, forgot about the rule that snakes can't enter circles, so that cost me a good 15 minutes. I, then, made my worst error, which was as soon as I got that 2 belonged in r5c3, I wrongly assumed that rc3 must be a 1. I had completely forgotten that 4 was an option. I had repeated that mistake three times as I tried to figure out where I went wrong. That took too long to spot. Otherwise, this was a fun puzzle. I like the rulesets where you have to decide between two things as you are solving. Great Puzzle!
I found "One snake contains either all high digits (6,7,8,9) or all low digits (1,2,3,4), and the other all odd digits or all even digits." rather ambiguous. The way mark explains it, I might have used "only" where it now reads "all"
When there are a lot of rules I always end up forgetting some of them. So was also the case here, as I realized when I started watching Mark after I had given up.
That was great fun, and the way that the green snake was discovered to be low digits was a very rewarding conclusion. I guess part of the reason why the purple snake hugs the diagonal is that if you've got to get between opposite corners of the grid and you can only use 5 different digits then it really limits your options for creating long loops across the grid.
Though not a short ruleset, all of the rules are standard for the markings in the grid. The snake rule is really interesting to think about, and I will think about it independently in a day or two when I try this puzzle myself. It's great that you feature debuts and young constructors, Mark (and Simon) on the channel - I imagine it is a thrill to have a puzzle showcased and I love the encouragement such an event must give them. I laughed at "I'm not going to say where purple goes next until I've thought about it, a rare departure for me." I admire your ability to keep up talking about the puzzle while solving it, and certainly you cannot think about things before speaking them very often, since it is necessary (apparently) to not allow any silence to interrupt the video! I love all of your explanations and your thinking-out-loud moments, Mark. Thanks for this great video.
Took me over twice Mark's time, but I really liked being able to solve one! I ended up getting rid of the snake coloring once I had completed the snakes and used lines instead, so I could use colors for even/odd. I really do love the shorter solves!
very nice puzzle, especially enjoyed the fact that it lends itself to my tendency to overcolour everything and then solve by removing impossible colours as i go. congrats on the feature, little apprentice. i look forward to your journey to setting mastery :).
Rules: 01:50 Let's Get Cracking: 03:49 What about this video's Top Tier Simarkisms?! Phistomefel: 2x (00:54, 01:04) And how about this video's Simarkisms?! Snake: 27x (00:41, 02:01, 02:07, 02:09, 02:14, 02:23, 02:42, 02:42, 02:54, 03:05, 03:05, 03:09, 03:47, 04:45, 04:51, 06:06, 07:54, 11:51, 13:39, 13:59, 14:20, 18:14, 18:14, 19:43, 19:48, 21:28, 21:33) Ah: 7x (04:24, 04:55, 06:12, 07:03, 08:18, 09:50, 16:23) In Fact: 4x (13:25, 17:18, 20:15, 21:43) Sorry: 3x (04:49, 06:12, 07:51) Touch Itself: 3x (02:20, 02:25, 02:31) Stuck: 2x (10:15, 13:18) Obviously: 2x (04:55, 12:58) Uniqueness: 2x (18:00, 18:07) Naughty: 1x (00:45) Lovely: 1x (21:28) Fascinating: 1x (00:18) By Sudoku: 1x (16:05) Bonkers: 1x (01:11) Intriguing: 1x (19:26) Progress: 1x (07:51) Pencil Mark/mark: 1x (06:58) Weird: 1x (06:47) Most popular number(>9), digit and colour this video: Ten, Fourteen, Thirty Five, Seventy Eight (2 mentions) One (40 mentions) Green (40 mentions) Antithesis Battles: High (13) - Low (10) Odd (33) - Even (21) White (12) - Black (3) Row (5) - Column (4) 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 23:33. I spent over half the time trying to figure out which snake could be which, but was looking at the wrong places. Once you figure out which snake can be which, it becomes very straightforward to solve. Fun puzzle!
Come 'round now and gather togither. I'll play a love song on my zither. Of the love we have seen Twixt snakes purple and green As along the diagonal they slither. Technically, my mom owns the zither, but theremin doesn't rhyme with slither.
I missed the rule about gray circles being odd for a very long time, so it took me an hour and a half with a lucky guess that I later was able to go back and prove very quickly once I saw that rule!
After 45 minutes I had finally figured out the snake parities, but somehow got the 19 in the corner backward and broke it. I'm having a hard time keeping focus on the restrictions and don't feel like restarting, so I'm passing on completing this one.
Finished in 24:54. Finished the snakes and then got terribly stuck, having pencilmarked every box - I was completely blind to the white dot in column 9 for several minutes! 😢
I can’t figure out why you should come here to protest instantly, before trying to make sense of the rules. If you can solve puzzles, I bet you can solve the few ambiguities of the rulesets redaction, in the exact same cracking spirit?
"They want to give you a challenge, but they want you to win" is a nice way of thinking about it. I like that quote.
I finished in 72 minutes. I really mucked this one up. I, first, forgot about the rule that snakes can't enter circles, so that cost me a good 15 minutes. I, then, made my worst error, which was as soon as I got that 2 belonged in r5c3, I wrongly assumed that rc3 must be a 1. I had completely forgotten that 4 was an option. I had repeated that mistake three times as I tried to figure out where I went wrong. That took too long to spot. Otherwise, this was a fun puzzle. I like the rulesets where you have to decide between two things as you are solving. Great Puzzle!
Yay, enjoying the shorter video's to catch up on the backlog I need to watch. ❤
I found "One snake contains either all high digits (6,7,8,9) or all low digits (1,2,3,4), and the other all odd digits or all even digits." rather ambiguous. The way mark explains it, I might have used "only" where it now reads "all"
When there are a lot of rules I always end up forgetting some of them. So was also the case here, as I realized when I started watching Mark after I had given up.
That was great fun, and the way that the green snake was discovered to be low digits was a very rewarding conclusion.
I guess part of the reason why the purple snake hugs the diagonal is that if you've got to get between opposite corners of the grid and you can only use 5 different digits then it really limits your options for creating long loops across the grid.
Though not a short ruleset, all of the rules are standard for the markings in the grid. The snake rule is really interesting to think about, and I will think about it independently in a day or two when I try this puzzle myself. It's great that you feature debuts and young constructors, Mark (and Simon) on the channel - I imagine it is a thrill to have a puzzle showcased and I love the encouragement such an event must give them. I laughed at "I'm not going to say where purple goes next until I've thought about it, a rare departure for me." I admire your ability to keep up talking about the puzzle while solving it, and certainly you cannot think about things before speaking them very often, since it is necessary (apparently) to not allow any silence to interrupt the video! I love all of your explanations and your thinking-out-loud moments, Mark. Thanks for this great video.
Fun puzzle. I made a silly blunder with one of the white dots which really held me up. Got there in the end.
Took me over twice Mark's time, but I really liked being able to solve one! I ended up getting rid of the snake coloring once I had completed the snakes and used lines instead, so I could use colors for even/odd. I really do love the shorter solves!
I was on fire with this one at only 17 minutes! Cool!
That was superb. Very clever puzzle.
very nice puzzle, especially enjoyed the fact that it lends itself to my tendency to overcolour everything and then solve by removing impossible colours as i go. congrats on the feature, little apprentice. i look forward to your journey to setting mastery :).
41 minutes! I love puzzles with lots of rules like this. The logic is more fun for me that way.
Rules: 01:50
Let's Get Cracking: 03:49
What about this video's Top Tier Simarkisms?!
Phistomefel: 2x (00:54, 01:04)
And how about this video's Simarkisms?!
Snake: 27x (00:41, 02:01, 02:07, 02:09, 02:14, 02:23, 02:42, 02:42, 02:54, 03:05, 03:05, 03:09, 03:47, 04:45, 04:51, 06:06, 07:54, 11:51, 13:39, 13:59, 14:20, 18:14, 18:14, 19:43, 19:48, 21:28, 21:33)
Ah: 7x (04:24, 04:55, 06:12, 07:03, 08:18, 09:50, 16:23)
In Fact: 4x (13:25, 17:18, 20:15, 21:43)
Sorry: 3x (04:49, 06:12, 07:51)
Touch Itself: 3x (02:20, 02:25, 02:31)
Stuck: 2x (10:15, 13:18)
Obviously: 2x (04:55, 12:58)
Uniqueness: 2x (18:00, 18:07)
Naughty: 1x (00:45)
Lovely: 1x (21:28)
Fascinating: 1x (00:18)
By Sudoku: 1x (16:05)
Bonkers: 1x (01:11)
Intriguing: 1x (19:26)
Progress: 1x (07:51)
Pencil Mark/mark: 1x (06:58)
Weird: 1x (06:47)
Most popular number(>9), digit and colour this video:
Ten, Fourteen, Thirty Five, Seventy Eight (2 mentions)
One (40 mentions)
Green (40 mentions)
Antithesis Battles:
High (13) - Low (10)
Odd (33) - Even (21)
White (12) - Black (3)
Row (5) - Column (4)
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!
I believe this could work well for a smaller channel called drspectred (otherwise known as Balatro University)
Finished in 23:33. I spent over half the time trying to figure out which snake could be which, but was looking at the wrong places. Once you figure out which snake can be which, it becomes very straightforward to solve.
Fun puzzle!
Come 'round now and gather togither.
I'll play a love song on my zither.
Of the love we have seen
Twixt snakes purple and green
As along the diagonal they slither.
Technically, my mom owns the zither, but theremin doesn't rhyme with slither.
19:37
Very cute and surprisingly qpproachable puzzle. 👍
I missed the rule about gray circles being odd for a very long time, so it took me an hour and a half with a lucky guess that I later was able to go back and prove very quickly once I saw that rule!
Wow, difficult but I managed it. I think I have an affinity for coloring in.
35:56 - Very nice
After 45 minutes I had finally figured out the snake parities, but somehow got the 19 in the corner backward and broke it. I'm having a hard time keeping focus on the restrictions and don't feel like restarting, so I'm passing on completing this one.
I loved this puzzle.
Solved it with some hints from the video.
Finished in 17:32 with help from the video.
31:59 for me
nice puzzle
Under an hour for me ☺️
Made a mistake about 20min in and broke the puzzle. Restarted and solved in 14:17
Sorry but "all" even/odd or high/low digits should be rephrased to "only/exclusively" or something.
Yes, that confused me as well when first reading the rules. Surprised to not see more discussion on that in the comments.
I should read the entire rules.... I ignored the circles are odd rule....
Finished in 24:54. Finished the snakes and then got terribly stuck, having pencilmarked every box - I was completely blind to the white dot in column 9 for several minutes! 😢
29.55 for me.
44:33 with a lot of looks at the video because of dumb mistakes I kept making.
14:03 for me
You are a snake.
BUT
You can't touch yourself (even diagonally).
Do you press the button?
The purple cells are blue
In the video they are purple, in the software they are blue.
@@diederikvandedijk They are #E89DF3 in the software. That's a light purple as far as I'm concerned.
Cute. 20:24
The rules contradicts themselves... How can one snake have all low digits and other all even if they don't overlap? That makes no sense.
not all even digits in the puzzle ... just that all the digits on a snake share a similarity
@@mussoletart8485 then it should've stated "only"
I can’t figure out why you should come here to protest instantly, before trying to make sense of the rules. If you can solve puzzles, I bet you can solve the few ambiguities of the rulesets redaction, in the exact same cracking spirit?
32:27 for me and solver #2272.
21:16 fpr me. too tired to think. once you get which is which it is 5 minute max of filling in the numbers.
Wonderful puzzle.
15:05 for me
10:19 for me. Very nice puzzle!
20:42 for me. Nice puzzle!
Nice! 46:38 for me. #5792