Not that I could touch Simon’s ability but I kept thinking there might have been something he could have figured out if considering there are 10 cells in columns6 and 7 between the 2 cages so there must be 1 repeat…didn’t get any further than that but it was a thought. ❤
I thought the same thing about Simons prediction! He is so good at those kind of things. I'd love to see him solve a puzzle without the concern of explaining us anything. I'd bet he would be so much quicker.
Also, would it be a good thing in this puzzle to colour 123, 456, 789 in 3 different colours? At some points I thought it would make it so much easier for Simon.. Also getting rid of other colours and pencil-marks would help him a lot. Sometimes I think he leaves those in for the viewers, but for me at least he doesn't have to! It would help me massively when I try to solve along side Simon!
The easier way to see the 123 domino in box 9 is that there is already a 123 in box 8, so only 2 of the 4 123s in the orange area can go in box 8, so the other 2 must be in box 9.
I think he actually alluded to that earlier in the solve, but then got stuck on the maths of the parallel arrows without thinking about what the actual digits could be due to (shock) sudoku. Bless.
_"Here is a good question [...] Where are 7 and 8 in column 9?"_ (Simon @50:20) Genius‼ This is what I was missing, even though I already had *7* and *8* pencilmarked within the dark green cage... Simple, elegant and beautiful. 👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏
I almost solved it myself. I just needed to hear Simon ask the question "Where do 7 & 8 go in column 9?". That was the step I couldn't quite see for myself, although I worked out the answer having paused the video when the question got asked. I'll settle for that, as it's truly hard, yet remarkable, puzzle.
Simon, you are totally amazing, your perseverance and focus and ability are on display in this sort of puzzle. Though this is totally beyond my own ability, I still feel that I learn important things from watching you work your way through these complicated things. Thanks so much for this video!
Rules: 02:54 Let's Get Cracking: 04:04 Simon's time: 1h24m51s Puzzle Solved: 1:28:55 What about this video's Top Tier Simarkisms?! The Secret: 3x (09:19, 09:23, 09:29) You Rotten Thing: 2x (1:09:30, 1:09:37) Knowledge Bomb: 1x (16:08) And how about this video's Simarkisms?! Hang On: 14x (20:23, 21:04, 24:49, 32:02, 36:05, 46:29, 50:31, 58:20, 1:09:07, 1:11:47, 1:11:56, 1:14:47, 1:17:09, 1:23:19) Sorry: 12x (14:00, 18:24, 23:20, 32:14, 32:49, 37:49, 56:23, 1:04:14, 1:08:55, 1:21:02, 1:21:15, 1:29:08) Pencil Mark/mark: 9x (13:37, 42:37, 47:02, 54:13, 1:02:17, 1:04:14, 1:09:21, 1:15:25, 1:17:48) By Sudoku: 6x (03:51, 20:01, 22:32, 41:48, 1:23:58, 1:27:19) In Fact: 6x (25:43, 32:05, 33:35, 38:42, 42:12, 49:12) Wow: 6x (50:05, 50:05, 50:05, 1:14:00, 1:28:17, 1:28:57) Ah: 6x (05:26, 20:23, 30:21, 32:28, 46:41, 55:43) Weird: 6x (01:36, 01:36, 05:40, 32:19, 37:27, 50:13) Beautiful: 5x (05:37, 05:40, 1:16:25, 1:16:28, 1:28:37) What on Earth: 4x (21:49, 40:01, 1:16:28, 1:20:51) Nonsense: 4x (42:18, 1:15:31, 1:16:46, 1:22:32) Obviously: 4x (03:53, 23:59, 38:02, 1:29:12) Goodness: 3x (12:48, 1:04:53, 1:16:28) Clever: 3x (1:01:00, 1:04:53, 1:25:41) Brilliant: 3x (00:53, 1:29:44, 1:29:47) Surely: 3x (24:28, 56:52, 1:14:18) The Answer is: 2x (51:48, 1:25:14) Stuck: 2x (02:49, 1:28:21) First Digit: 2x (38:07) Come on Simon: 2x (57:36, 1:22:00) What Does This Mean?: 2x (1:05:46, 1:22:59) Triangular Number: 2x (08:45, 19:15) Good Grief: 1x (1:06:49) Useless: 1x (14:13) What a Puzzle: 1x (1:28:13) Bother: 1x (21:14) Naughty: 1x (33:18) Fascinating: 1x (15:52) Astonishing: 1x (1:06:49) Bonkers: 1x (1:10:58) Bizarre: 1x (37:33) Masterpiece: 1x (01:10) Think Harder: 1x (56:32) I've Got It!: 1x (18:40) Grind to a Halt: 1x (24:04) Phone is Buzzing: 1x (55:31) Progress: 1x (13:34) Let's Take Stock: 1x (1:27:50) Next Trick: 1x (1:19:56) Cake!: 1x (02:05) Unique: 1x (1:28:28) Most popular number(>9), digit and colour this video: Eighteen (12 mentions) One (181 mentions) Green (22 mentions) Antithesis Battles: Low (55) - High (10) Even (8) - Odd (0) Higher (4) - Lower (0) Column (29) - Row (16) 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!
Yeeikes, that was a brilliant Sudoku. Looked very, very difficult and I wonder sometimes how folk like Qodec construct these without spending weeks on them, but well done.
You're not wrong. This version of the puzzle is one that I made a few weeks ago. Made some other versions as well. Only last week did I choose the one in the video for LMD, because I saw no way to improve on it any further.
@@PuzzleQodecSimon seems to mistake the "solves in X days" message, at the end, to be saying how long since the puzzle was first published. An easy misunderstanding, but I've come to realise some puzzles don't get published to LMD for several weeks after they were first created. Hence why he was only getting recommendations for it the past few days. (Truly outstanding puzzle.)
Simon, Simon, Simon... Why on earth don't you follow the same logic with light gray and dark green box as you did with dark gray and dark green box? You would've been able to match the grays with A&C at around 1:08:00 mark...
I do enjoy the explanations that turn a simple statement into something complex. e.g. Add 4 through 9 = Sum of 4, 5, 6, 7, 8 and 9 = Sum of 1 through 9 minus the sum of 1,2 and 3. = The triangular number for 9 minus.... Ah! Thanks for each step being more complicated than the previous one. Now, pause the video to find out what a triangular number is. Got it. So, visualize a triangle with a base of size x. The the number of discrete circles of size x/n where n is the length of the base of the triangle that would pack the area of the triangle most efficiently is the triangular number for x.....or something like that. (Not entirely sure this is correct....as it was just assumed to be intuitive?, I guess?, as there was no explanation.) Easily calculated using the formula ("n + 1 choose 2")....though not easily typed. Finally....um....what was the question?
Simon, Simon, Simon - you weren't wrong at 20:25 - you were right and then torpedoed your logic with your double 4 concerns. You were so close for so long to proving that you couldn't have your (double 1,2 or 3), with a (double 4) in the orange arrows straddling box 8 and 9. 4 of the orange cells are in box 8 where there is already the '
Another way, because of the way the high medium and low digits are distributed in box 8, you will need two medium digits (and two low) to be on the arrows in box 8. That is all the medium digits for the bottom arrows, so since they are in the same box, they can't be the same. A corollary is that the two digits on the arrows in box 9 must be low.
Or simply look at R9C9. It had to be a middle digit all along, because R7C7 and R7C8 contained one middle digit and one high digit (looking at Row 7), so dR9C9 could not be high, and it also could not be low because the arrow in Row 9 had 2 low digits on it and R9C1 is also low. The corollary is that R8C7 and R9C7 are both low, so there is no repeated 4, there is no repeated 3 and one of the circles in box 9 must be a 9.
I finished in 271 minutes. This was a tough one. I actually got the SET Theory trick quite fast. I was avoiding SET Theory for a little bit to focus on the bottom, but once I looked elsewhere, I got and made major progress. I found the hidden cage with an extra 9 in the top left, which was fun to see. Then, my destruction occurred as I was unable to see any major progress. I spent a long time playing with the grid, but kept breaking things. I skimmed the video to see if my progress was matching and saw what I think was my major problem. I mismarked a cell, stating that r5c9 had to be the same as what was in r7c6, completely forgetting about r4c7 as a possibility. That one error ruined a lot of my calculating. Lucky, the important part of proving that the 12 in r5c8 always had to appear in r3c9 was still preserved and made major progress for me. The beginning was fantastic, then I got stuck in the middlegame in some logic loop that I couldn't get out of. Once I broke that, the puzzle finished smoothly. I think my favorite part was ruling out 4 from the 18 cage, due to both the cage below it and the one below that having to contain 4's. I feel like I let the puzzle down a bit. Sorry puzzle, I should have done better in the middle. Great Puzzle!
Brilliant puzzle! Solved in 85:03, which I was very happy with. I found it helpful to use entropic coloring after the break in. Made it easier to see where cells couldn't be 123 or 78, etc.
The two circles in box 9 must contain a 9! Because else the digits are 7 and 8, such that we have 124 and 134 (125 gives two small repeated digits) on the arrows. But if 1 and 4 are repeated we get 123 on the arrows in box 8, and it collides with the
I'm not going to say how long that took me, because it was a long time, but I got it. Still not sure how I suddenly saw how to make a bunch of progress after a good long time of mostly nothing. Going to be interesting to see the video and see if I was just really slow to make the same deductions or if I missed something in the middle there.
I fumbled with this for some time, figured out the initial set thing with R34/C23, and by some logic was also able to get the constitution but not strict order of the R89 arrows except the 45 pair on C5, even by some logic which I can no longer recall I could almost confidently assert that the arrows couldn't be as low as 16 together. Then some trivial tidbits, but pretty much after that I resorted to watching the video.
22:48, Simon, stop forgetting that a single-digit sum made of 3 non-repeating digits must include two of 123. Two of these are available in b8. That means the only options for r89c7 are from 123.
Very cool. Got the initial set logic very quickly, and I found the constraint in c6-7, but it took me a long time to winnow it down to being exact. Fun solve! 98:41 for me.
I thought a simpler way of getting the idea of the arrows, was that all the low digits in R8 and R9 were done by C7. That meant that R8C9 and R9C9 had to be medium digits and that R7C78 had to have medium/high digits which meant that R89C7 had to both be low digits
There are a few ways to see that the two arrow cells in C7 have to be from 123. One of them is to realise that R9C9 sees a 123 and a 789 tripple. So it must be a 456, therefore finishing a sextuple (how often can you say that?) of 456789 in box 9.
I think the easier way to see those are from 123 is to know there have to be four 123s on the two arrows (two on each) but there are only two available in box 8, given that r7c4 is also a 123. So the other two have to be on the arrows in box 9.
18:44 I think it hadn't been ruled out that apart from the four low digits on the arrows, we could have two fours. Edit: Simon catches it at 20:26. Sorry, haven't said anything, carry on!
Not really, as on of the repeated fours would have to be in box9, but that would leave 3 123's on the arrows plus the one in the cage are too many. He used this logic around 15:30, than had forgotten it. If only he would have flashed the orange arrows in box8...
whenever I see a video this long my goal is just to see if I can discover the break in, and that'll be a win for me - lets see how I do :D edit: well if this is the break in, I'm shocked I found it this quickly... I have almost all the pencil marks in box 7... going to keep going and see if I can solve any of this lol.
I just paused the video -- why do the orange arrows have to have 4 and 5 on them? why can't there be a repeat 4? edit: kept watching and he caught the mistake
20:00 Exactly what I came down to the comments to see if anyone had answered (I'm also surprised he didn't spot the 456 in the bottom right since the other 789 has to be in row 7) ..and the answer is that he quickly realised he made that mistake
Too much for me. Pity ... I did get the initial SET reasoning, and I also got that a 9 had to be in the 18-cage, but after that, the stuff involving column 9 and box 6, just completely eluded me.
dang, you scared me at 20:35, i the time i was already further on (and stuck) on my own solving and was watching the vid to get me unstuck and there i start wondering if there could be a repeated 4 and i would have to restart everything, but it can't be, because of r7c4! can't have three 123 in the arrow of box 8! got me a scare here
isnt Simon made mistake with that cage. He puts corner marking 5 on cage but i think as rule say it is less or equal to 10. This mean 4+6 = 10 is also working. I think he made typo and mean actually 4 not 5.
@@coconuts2513 i dont see any link to infuriating in any comments here. I just watch these videos on time when i solve same sudoku so i just try to understand all steps why. On moment when i written my comment i was somewhere less than 20 min but now i have solved sudoku and also finished video.
1:19:23 for me. Tough puzzle - the logic to make progress was hard most of the way through. You had me a bit worried when you started speculating about a repeated 4 on the lines in boxes 8 and 9 because I didn't, before I remembered that I goodliffed the lines and already knew that it wasn't possible when I got to that point.
52 minutes in. C cant go in r4c6 it places C in r3c5 and breaks box 8. Now that places C in r4 c5. This does things, it places C in r3c6 🎉... Hold on. Huh?
Predicting the reason for that silly
Not that I could touch Simon’s ability but I kept thinking there might have been something he could have figured out if considering there are 10 cells in columns6 and 7 between the 2 cages so there must be 1 repeat…didn’t get any further than that but it was a thought. ❤
❤ watching Simon solve you puzzle!!
Absolutely fantastic and brilliant from you!! Just phenomenal setting!!
I thought the same thing about Simons prediction! He is so good at those kind of things. I'd love to see him solve a puzzle without the concern of explaining us anything. I'd bet he would be so much quicker.
Also, would it be a good thing in this puzzle to colour 123, 456, 789 in 3 different colours? At some points I thought it would make it so much easier for Simon.. Also getting rid of other colours and pencil-marks would help him a lot. Sometimes I think he leaves those in for the viewers, but for me at least he doesn't have to! It would help me massively when I try to solve along side Simon!
The easier way to see the 123 domino in box 9 is that there is already a 123 in box 8, so only 2 of the 4 123s in the orange area can go in box 8, so the other 2 must be in box 9.
I think he actually alluded to that earlier in the solve, but then got stuck on the maths of the parallel arrows without thinking about what the actual digits could be due to (shock) sudoku. Bless.
Alternatively, r9c9 can’t be 123, since they must all be in orange in row 9, so where do 123 go in box 9?
Exactly. I didn’t even attempt this puzzle - seemed too hard for me but when I was watching I saw that right away.
At 25:25 I've been trying to shout that to Simon for some minutes now, being frustrated that he can't hear me
_"Here is a good question [...] Where are 7 and 8 in column 9?"_ (Simon @50:20)
Genius‼ This is what I was missing, even though I already had *7* and *8* pencilmarked within the dark green cage... Simple, elegant and beautiful.
👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏
I almost solved it myself.
I just needed to hear Simon ask the question "Where do 7 & 8 go in column 9?". That was the step I couldn't quite see for myself, although I worked out the answer having paused the video when the question got asked. I'll settle for that, as it's truly hard, yet remarkable, puzzle.
Me too.
Yup, got stuck there myself. Not sure how Simon sees these things.
What a solve of such a beauty of a puzzle. Kudos to both Simon and Qodec. Great ruleset incorporated into this!!
Simon, you are totally amazing, your perseverance and focus and ability are on display in this sort of puzzle. Though this is totally beyond my own ability, I still feel that I learn important things from watching you work your way through these complicated things. Thanks so much for this video!
Rules: 02:54
Let's Get Cracking: 04:04
Simon's time: 1h24m51s
Puzzle Solved: 1:28:55
What about this video's Top Tier Simarkisms?!
The Secret: 3x (09:19, 09:23, 09:29)
You Rotten Thing: 2x (1:09:30, 1:09:37)
Knowledge Bomb: 1x (16:08)
And how about this video's Simarkisms?!
Hang On: 14x (20:23, 21:04, 24:49, 32:02, 36:05, 46:29, 50:31, 58:20, 1:09:07, 1:11:47, 1:11:56, 1:14:47, 1:17:09, 1:23:19)
Sorry: 12x (14:00, 18:24, 23:20, 32:14, 32:49, 37:49, 56:23, 1:04:14, 1:08:55, 1:21:02, 1:21:15, 1:29:08)
Pencil Mark/mark: 9x (13:37, 42:37, 47:02, 54:13, 1:02:17, 1:04:14, 1:09:21, 1:15:25, 1:17:48)
By Sudoku: 6x (03:51, 20:01, 22:32, 41:48, 1:23:58, 1:27:19)
In Fact: 6x (25:43, 32:05, 33:35, 38:42, 42:12, 49:12)
Wow: 6x (50:05, 50:05, 50:05, 1:14:00, 1:28:17, 1:28:57)
Ah: 6x (05:26, 20:23, 30:21, 32:28, 46:41, 55:43)
Weird: 6x (01:36, 01:36, 05:40, 32:19, 37:27, 50:13)
Beautiful: 5x (05:37, 05:40, 1:16:25, 1:16:28, 1:28:37)
What on Earth: 4x (21:49, 40:01, 1:16:28, 1:20:51)
Nonsense: 4x (42:18, 1:15:31, 1:16:46, 1:22:32)
Obviously: 4x (03:53, 23:59, 38:02, 1:29:12)
Goodness: 3x (12:48, 1:04:53, 1:16:28)
Clever: 3x (1:01:00, 1:04:53, 1:25:41)
Brilliant: 3x (00:53, 1:29:44, 1:29:47)
Surely: 3x (24:28, 56:52, 1:14:18)
The Answer is: 2x (51:48, 1:25:14)
Stuck: 2x (02:49, 1:28:21)
First Digit: 2x (38:07)
Come on Simon: 2x (57:36, 1:22:00)
What Does This Mean?: 2x (1:05:46, 1:22:59)
Triangular Number: 2x (08:45, 19:15)
Good Grief: 1x (1:06:49)
Useless: 1x (14:13)
What a Puzzle: 1x (1:28:13)
Bother: 1x (21:14)
Naughty: 1x (33:18)
Fascinating: 1x (15:52)
Astonishing: 1x (1:06:49)
Bonkers: 1x (1:10:58)
Bizarre: 1x (37:33)
Masterpiece: 1x (01:10)
Think Harder: 1x (56:32)
I've Got It!: 1x (18:40)
Grind to a Halt: 1x (24:04)
Phone is Buzzing: 1x (55:31)
Progress: 1x (13:34)
Let's Take Stock: 1x (1:27:50)
Next Trick: 1x (1:19:56)
Cake!: 1x (02:05)
Unique: 1x (1:28:28)
Most popular number(>9), digit and colour this video:
Eighteen (12 mentions)
One (181 mentions)
Green (22 mentions)
Antithesis Battles:
Low (55) - High (10)
Even (8) - Odd (0)
Higher (4) - Lower (0)
Column (29) - Row (16)
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!
No Bobbins McBobbinsface? 😭
I like Simon, he's a good egg.
20:00 row 7 already have 3 123. row 9 and column 9 cannot be 123. So both orange in box 9 should be 123. So 4 cannot repeat.
Wonderful puzzle! Took me over 3 hours, but I’m very proud of even that!
Yeeikes, that was a brilliant Sudoku. Looked very, very difficult and I wonder sometimes how folk like Qodec construct these without spending weeks on them, but well done.
You're not wrong. This version of the puzzle is one that I made a few weeks ago. Made some other versions as well. Only last week did I choose the one in the video for LMD, because I saw no way to improve on it any further.
@@PuzzleQodecSimon seems to mistake the "solves in X days" message, at the end, to be saying how long since the puzzle was first published. An easy misunderstanding, but I've come to realise some puzzles don't get published to LMD for several weeks after they were first created. Hence why he was only getting recommendations for it the past few days.
(Truly outstanding puzzle.)
Jim! That’s me 😅
If you ever come to Vegas again, please let me know and I’ll give you a list of places to eat and visit!
Happy birthday!
Simon, Simon, Simon... Why on earth don't you follow the same logic with light gray and dark green box as you did with dark gray and dark green box? You would've been able to match the grays with A&C at around 1:08:00 mark...
48:49 for me. Absolutely love when puzzles are hard but the general direction of the puzzle is clear and the ruleset is simple.
Beautiful, breathtaking and brilliant. Thank you.
I do enjoy the explanations that turn a simple statement into something complex.
e.g.
Add 4 through 9
= Sum of 4, 5, 6, 7, 8 and 9
= Sum of 1 through 9 minus the sum of 1,2 and 3.
= The triangular number for 9 minus....
Ah! Thanks for each step being more complicated than the previous one.
Now, pause the video to find out what a triangular number is.
Got it. So, visualize a triangle with a base of size x. The the number of discrete circles of size x/n where n is the length of the base of the triangle that would pack the area of the triangle most efficiently is the triangular number for x.....or something like that. (Not entirely sure this is correct....as it was just assumed to be intuitive?, I guess?, as there was no explanation.) Easily calculated using the formula ("n + 1 choose 2")....though not easily typed.
Finally....um....what was the question?
Simon, Simon, Simon - you weren't wrong at 20:25 - you were right and then torpedoed your logic with your double 4 concerns. You were so close for so long to proving that you couldn't have your (double 1,2 or 3), with a (double 4) in the orange arrows straddling box 8 and 9.
4 of the orange cells are in box 8 where there is already the '
Another way, because of the way the high medium and low digits are distributed in box 8, you will need two medium digits (and two low) to be on the arrows in box 8. That is all the medium digits for the bottom arrows, so since they are in the same box, they can't be the same. A corollary is that the two digits on the arrows in box 9 must be low.
Or simply look at R9C9. It had to be a middle digit all along, because R7C7 and R7C8 contained one middle digit and one high digit (looking at Row 7), so dR9C9 could not be high, and it also could not be low because the arrow in Row 9 had 2 low digits on it and R9C1 is also low. The corollary is that R8C7 and R9C7 are both low, so there is no repeated 4, there is no repeated 3 and one of the circles in box 9 must be a 9.
Well done Simon, this a highly impressive solve of a very tricky puzzle.
I finished in 271 minutes. This was a tough one. I actually got the SET Theory trick quite fast. I was avoiding SET Theory for a little bit to focus on the bottom, but once I looked elsewhere, I got and made major progress. I found the hidden cage with an extra 9 in the top left, which was fun to see. Then, my destruction occurred as I was unable to see any major progress. I spent a long time playing with the grid, but kept breaking things. I skimmed the video to see if my progress was matching and saw what I think was my major problem. I mismarked a cell, stating that r5c9 had to be the same as what was in r7c6, completely forgetting about r4c7 as a possibility. That one error ruined a lot of my calculating. Lucky, the important part of proving that the 12 in r5c8 always had to appear in r3c9 was still preserved and made major progress for me. The beginning was fantastic, then I got stuck in the middlegame in some logic loop that I couldn't get out of. Once I broke that, the puzzle finished smoothly. I think my favorite part was ruling out 4 from the 18 cage, due to both the cage below it and the one below that having to contain 4's. I feel like I let the puzzle down a bit. Sorry puzzle, I should have done better in the middle. Great Puzzle!
Brilliant puzzle! Solved in 85:03, which I was very happy with. I found it helpful to use entropic coloring after the break in. Made it easier to see where cells couldn't be 123 or 78, etc.
The two circles in box 9 must contain a 9! Because else the digits are 7 and 8, such that we have 124 and 134 (125 gives two small repeated digits) on the arrows. But if 1 and 4 are repeated we get 123 on the arrows in box 8, and it collides with the
Qodec on a Friday night brilliant.
Amazing puzzle and amazing solve.
Wow, what a ggreat puzzle. Almost managed it on my own, with just a little help from my friend....
Qodec's features on the channel are always my favourite, but I might be a touch bias lol
I'm not going to say how long that took me, because it was a long time, but I got it. Still not sure how I suddenly saw how to make a bunch of progress after a good long time of mostly nothing. Going to be interesting to see the video and see if I was just really slow to make the same deductions or if I missed something in the middle there.
That was a really fun puzzle to solve. Just the Goldilocks difficulty level for me. Most enjoyable.
I fumbled with this for some time, figured out the initial set thing with R34/C23, and by some logic was also able to get the constitution but not strict order of the R89 arrows except the 45 pair on C5, even by some logic which I can no longer recall I could almost confidently assert that the arrows couldn't be as low as 16 together. Then some trivial tidbits, but pretty much after that I resorted to watching the video.
Finished in 24:57 by following along with the video.
46:20 I feel strangely convinced that the solution is going to hinge on middly digits now
Codec. I need a long vacation after that! Masochism comes to mind 😂 Brilliant puzzle
@PuzzleQodec
22:48, Simon, stop forgetting that a single-digit sum made of 3 non-repeating digits must include two of 123. Two of these are available in b8. That means the only options for r89c7 are from 123.
Overall it was a brilliant solve, but this overlooked fact probably turned it from an hour long video to a 90 minute video.
He was still over complicating it when he had 456 pencil-marked into the bottom of c5. I may have shouted. 😂
85:23 for me. I'm not even gonna lie, I'm not quite sure how I solved it, but I somehow did.
1:26:08 I don't understand why the 18 pairs in box 4&5 are resolved. EDIT: 8 in R9C2, my bad.
Incredible solve & puzzle. Thanks for sharing
Very cool. Got the initial set logic very quickly, and I found the constraint in c6-7, but it took me a long time to winnow it down to being exact. Fun solve! 98:41 for me.
Great puzzle.
I thought a simpler way of getting the idea of the arrows, was that all the low digits in R8 and R9 were done by C7. That meant that R8C9 and R9C9 had to be medium digits and that R7C78 had to have medium/high digits which meant that R89C7 had to both be low digits
The 4 could also repeat in the orange cells... Keeping the total to 15
Too tired to give this one a go, but spotted some things - it looks amazing
Looking forward to R7C6 in box 9 (as already coloured)
Superb puzzle - really nice solve
There are a few ways to see that the two arrow cells in C7 have to be from 123. One of them is to realise that R9C9 sees a 123 and a 789 tripple. So it must be a 456, therefore finishing a sextuple (how often can you say that?) of 456789 in box 9.
I quickly saw that if a 4 is doubled then that means that 1,2,3 are all on the arrows in box 8... which would leave the
I think the easier way to see those are from 123 is to know there have to be four 123s on the two arrows (two on each) but there are only two available in box 8, given that r7c4 is also a 123. So the other two have to be on the arrows in box 9.
9 low digits had been identified in the lower 3 boxs very early.
18:44 I think it hadn't been ruled out that apart from the four low digits on the arrows, we could have two fours. Edit: Simon catches it at 20:26. Sorry, haven't said anything, carry on!
Not really, as on of the repeated fours would have to be in box9, but that would leave 3 123's on the arrows plus the one in the cage are too many. He used this logic around 15:30, than had forgotten it. If only he would have flashed the orange arrows in box8...
whenever I see a video this long my goal is just to see if I can discover the break in, and that'll be a win for me - lets see how I do :D
edit: well if this is the break in, I'm shocked I found it this quickly... I have almost all the pencil marks in box 7... going to keep going and see if I can solve any of this lol.
I think there is a 2nd set opportunity involving cold 67 and rows 89 at least.
I just paused the video -- why do the orange arrows have to have 4 and 5 on them? why can't there be a repeat 4? edit: kept watching and he caught the mistake
20:00 Exactly what I came down to the comments to see if anyone had answered (I'm also surprised he didn't spot the 456 in the bottom right since the other 789 has to be in row 7)
..and the answer is that he quickly realised he made that mistake
Too much for me.
Pity ... I did get the initial SET reasoning, and I also got that a 9 had to be in the 18-cage, but after that, the stuff involving column 9 and box 6, just completely eluded me.
11:27 why can’t the
He knew there was a 4 in the
dang, you scared me at 20:35, i the time i was already further on (and stuck) on my own solving and was watching the vid to get me unstuck and there i start wondering if there could be a repeated 4 and i would have to restart everything, but it can't be, because of r7c4! can't have three 123 in the arrow of box 8! got me a scare here
isnt Simon made mistake with that cage. He puts corner marking 5 on cage but i think as rule say it is less or equal to 10. This mean 4+6 = 10 is also working.
I think he made typo and mean actually 4 not 5.
Luckily he notices at 21:05 before he uses it for any deductions
He typos pencil marks all the time. It's infuriating.
infuriating is quite strong language for someone merely watching a video solve of a sudoku 😂
@@thecaneaterEveryone makes mistakes.
@@coconuts2513 i dont see any link to infuriating in any comments here. I just watch these videos on time when i solve same sudoku so i just try to understand all steps why. On moment when i written my comment i was somewhere less than 20 min but now i have solved sudoku and also finished video.
Isn't there a second instance of SET in the puzzle? Columns 67 and rows 89?
14pair is not working as it forces to plaxe on arrows into box 8 1234 and this mean we have nothing left to place into that 1 cell cage
Is it just me or have their videos' audio mixing lately been really low/quiet?
1:19:23 for me. Tough puzzle - the logic to make progress was hard most of the way through.
You had me a bit worried when you started speculating about a repeated 4 on the lines in boxes 8 and 9 because I didn't, before I remembered that I goodliffed the lines and already knew that it wasn't possible when I got to that point.
Blue cant be 78. 125 and 124 put 2 3s in c1 and 134 and 124 put 5 1234s in box 8.
99 minutes
91:36 for me
1:13:00, yes simon, haha. C is not 4 5 or 6
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52 minutes in. C cant go in r4c6 it places C in r3c5 and breaks box 8.
Now that places C in r4 c5.
This does things, it places C in r3c6 🎉... Hold on. Huh?
No no… look at 9 in C9…
Mr. Broken Record checking in. Unnecessary colors obscuring box boundaries make another puzzle solve so difficult. To whit around 39:28 with the 9’s.
69:21 for me
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lol 25:00 you cannot repeat 3....
Scream if you're shouting about a 9 in r1c6's killer
No I'm screaming about the 3 in box 3
andb 32:00 you invent letters to suduko... makes no sense i dont understand but your head is very wide