18:22 for me. I noticed on beginning that 8 cage is seeing entire renban and 5 cell renban must have 5. So 8 cage must be 134 what also tells us renban is 56789.
I didn't make the mistake of leaving the 5 out of the renban, but was unable to come to the same conclusions as you did, so maybe didn't go back far enough. Or perhaps I'm just missing something else.
30:25 First time I was ever faster than @sudokusleuth ! Without the renban mishap I doubt this would have happened so now I'm hoping to someday get a faster time without misfortune on his solve. Still a fun puzzle and video
Incidentally, at the point where you placed the 2 in r8c5 I went a different way and placed a 8 in r5c8. Slightly more straightforward because all other candidates were removed by sudoku and knights move.
18:22 for me. I noticed on beginning that 8 cage is seeing entire renban and 5 cell renban must have 5. So 8 cage must be 134 what also tells us renban is 56789.
That was exactly my break in too and quickly after that, the 11 cage had to be 7 4.
wow what an amazing puzzle! I never wanted it to end :) My break in was realising that the renban had to have 5 on it and none of the 8 cage.
Was thinking, when a 5 pencil mark will makes its return to a 5cells renban.
It took a while!
Slow and steady wins the race. 55 minutes
the Cage in box 1 sees all of that top renban which limited the renban and the cage. Then also solved the three 4s.
Really good
Glad you think so!
Dont have words to describe how much I liked this puzzle. Took me 17:34 to solve it, and was upset when that happened as I wanted to play some more.
About 40 minutes (I left timer going after starting and doing something else). Breakthrough for me was resolving R7C7.
28:39 ... kept getting stuck at the same place and restarting. Watched the video for a clue and realized a silly mistake I'd been making.
Took me about 10 min longer than you because I didn't spot that 6 trick at the beginning. Nice find and great puzzle.
Nice job!
I didn't make the mistake of leaving the 5 out of the renban, but was unable to come to the same conclusions as you did, so maybe didn't go back far enough. Or perhaps I'm just missing something else.
30:25 First time I was ever faster than @sudokusleuth ! Without the renban mishap I doubt this would have happened so now I'm hoping to someday get a faster time without misfortune on his solve. Still a fun puzzle and video
Incidentally, at the point where you placed the 2 in r8c5 I went a different way and placed a 8 in r5c8. Slightly more straightforward because all other candidates were removed by sudoku and knights move.
Some tough deductions in this one. Challenging and fun! My time today was 21:23, solver number 834.
solver 647. 25:16