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Colin Pedicini - puzzled
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Добавлен 19 апр 2023
Teaching introductory and medium puzzle solving techniques through wordle and sudoku solving.
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Sudoku 2024 08 13 hard - nearly ten minutes!
Просмотров 12День назад
Play it: sudokupad.app/nyt/20240813hard
Wordle 2024 08 16 - lots of color variation
14 дней назад
Lots of variation, but I struggled with this one.
Wordle 2024 08 07 - another LONG one...
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Wordle 2024 08 07 - another LONG one...
Sudoku 2024 08 02 hard - almost ten minutes!
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Sudoku 2024 08 02 hard - almost ten minutes!
Wow…this is incredible I thought it was hard enough doing that once but you’ve done it three times 0-0
got it in 07:55! didn't expect myself to finish within 10 minutes
07:55? Sounds like you need to start a timer for your next challenge-let's see if you can beat your own record!
@@ColinPedicini-puzzled i will keep that in mind xD
How did You know that in R9C3 is 6? In 5:00.
At 2:53 I establish a 16 pair in R2C7 & R3C7. Either way, a 6 is used in one of those two rows, and it points left to eliminate 6 from Region 1, C3. At 4:50 I place a 6 into Region 4. That eliminates a 6 from three more cells in C3. Where would a 6 go in the third column at that point?
Good catch on having me explain it though.
7:30
Excellent!
Under fifteen minutes? Get in there, Colin!
Thanks! Generally I consider 10-15 minutes a good time.
The pencil-marked 4s in Rows 7 and 8 and columns 3 and 6 form an x-wing knocking out the pencil-marked 4 in row 8, column 7. placing the 9 and 4 in box 9.
Good spot! Thanks! (I see this now at 11:42)
solved it in 23:00 exactly, fun puzzle
Excellent! What's your normal range?
what do you mean by "normal range"?
Do you solve these frequently, and if so, what is your usual solve time?
@@ColinPedicini-puzzled oh, hard puzzles like this for me usually take like around 30 minutes or maybe longer on average
11:13 #791
Nice!
14:41 for me.
Excellent!
Thank you so much for the feature! We are always delighted to see people engaging with our puzzles :)
Any time!
2:04 why is the 1 in row 6 column 4 and not column 6?
You're right! Mea culpa. There are in fact two spots for 1 in r6...c4 and c6. Sigh.
audio is a good starting word
That was one of my favorite starting words until that turned out to be the answer one day :-) I’ve also discovered that using four of the five vowels early on kinda limits my options later.
Hi I’m first can u pin me
Glad you're enjoying these.
@@ColinPedicini-puzzled thank u for pinning me it’s only my second time 😀
5:46 for me
Excellent!
Pretty easy, but good fun. Here's a notation-free solution path for a bit of contrast (65 = row 6 column 5): 65, 97, 16, 99, 84, 66 (hidden pair in box), 55 (and again), 64, 52, 53, 96 (restriction in box 2), 95, 75, 85 (UR available, boxes 5 and 8; skipped), 57, 58, 98 (hidden pairs in box; one resolvable), 88, 74, 91, 93, 94, 92, 76, 87, 79, 19, 46, 44, 83, 81, 14, 24, 37, 23, 17, 31, 21, 38, 47, 48, 63, 39, 67, 69, 27, 11, 41, 22, 73, 72, 43, 42, 33, 32, 29.
How could you not see the 2 fours in box 5 row 6?
yeah, and I even had that marked as a triple from about 6' to 33' in box 5. Grr, that's on me. I'll admit, sometimes I scan the row or column but not the box. (Or I do two of row, box, and column, but not all three - hence the "there's a 1!" in the title as that had been placed in column 7 with its own triple. Think Colin, think.
Well-done dude
Thanks! Did you enjoy this one in particular?
You cheated at 16:45 Row 1 column 3 could have been 58. Made your solving a lot easier!
yeah, at 10:11 I missed the 5 in R1C3 and got incredibly lucky. I hadn't even restricted to a box in R2 or R3 yet...
Say "Excuse Me". When you clear your throat!
Thanks for the link. volume is low.
Thanks for the note on the sound levels; I'll work on that.
Love it!
Me too!
i got mad bcs i somehow failed this one, breaking my 40 day streak
What'd you start with?
@@ColinPedicini-puzzled i started with ADIEU but didnt realize that two As would appear so i was stuck ina rut the whole time
It took me 11 mins. no pencil marks
Excellent time!
I gave a thumbs up, but it still showed 0! What gives?
@robertgalebach6227 hm, I'm seeing the same even after refreshing the page.
Looks like this got fixed after a day. Hm. You seeing it too?
16:51 only with the mouse :)
Thank you for watching and leaving a comment! I appreciate your support. And congrats on doing it faster than me! :)
Hey Colin Pedicini, Just stumbled upon your video, and I wanted to drop a quick note to say I really enjoyed it! Thanks for putting out such cool content-I appreciate the effort you put into it. Your Wordle skills are seriously impressive, and it's clear you've got a knack for it. Keep up the great work! By the way, if you're into retro cartoons, I've got a channel that publishes them daily. I think you might dig it, so feel free to check it out if you're interested. Looking forward to more of your videos! Best, @retrocartoons123
Just checked out your content, definitely a unique niche. This'll get me familiar when my wife mentions some of these references (she's more versed in this genre)
Hey mate a did it in 30 min 😭 and it i got like 10 min stuck with something so obvious but a didnt saw it xD GG good puzlzes
Great job on completing the puzzle! It's always satisfying when you finally figure out that one thing you were stuck on. Keep up the good work! Where were you stuck?
Hey Minute 3:25 you got lucky there becouse you actuly need 4578. good job anyway!
@zawis991 you're right, and I stand corrected; at 3:38 I missed the 8 while scanning row 1 column 6 - I think I got confused with box 3. But you're right, I got lucky.
Thanks for watching! I appreciate your feedback.
16:32, would have been a lot quicker if I'd been familiar with how the website worked. There weren't many difficult techniques though, so the puzzle was a little boring.
It's not easy......making that program
@fantacyplay8233 How long did it take you?
@TomBruhh glad you beat me. Do you enjoy f-puzzles ir sudokupad app more?
@@ColinPedicini-puzzled 1 year spent making this program.. and i made solve sudoku program in "Milliseconds"....... it's not easy.......
I like the honesty of your video 😊 You went wrong at the 35.00 point- you found the hidden pair, but then didn’t use it to remove all the other row candidates and then didn’t use the box logic correctly. I’d suggest every time you find a digit or restriction, then see the impact of that on the boxes, rows and columns. I’d also suggest trying Snyder notation only at the beginning, as then it’s often easier to find the pairs and triples without the distraction of all the candidate possibilities. I hope that helps, I used to find the NYT very hard, but I’ve got much quicker and more successful by using Snyder and learning about some of the techniques to scan for.
I'm glad you appreciate the honesty in my videos! Your suggestions are really helpful and I'll definitely try implementing them in my solving techniques. It's great to hear that you've found success with Snyder notation and scanning techniques. Thank you for sharing! Even now, my wife scans better than I do and sometimes when I review a solve before posting, I'll find a given or placed digit I ignored for awhile by only looking at two of row/column/region and not all three. (You managed to land on one of my very early videos about three weeks after I started the channel, I'd like to think I've improved a lot since then. One think I definitely don't do now is fill in every possible candidate for all empty cells first. :) )
All of my videos are in a playlist or two so you can watch as many as you like and see how much I've improved since then and compare with your own solve path.
Your puzzle already solved.. chek your website screenshot
Neat!
@@ColinPedicini-puzzled you want that program?
Solve in a second... ruclips.net/user/shortsl6iz1zoGrOY?si=PznF8fgDkjZqZiiA
Solve in a second? How'd you program to solve that quickly? :)
@@ColinPedicini-puzzled You want that program ? The program capability solve time in Milliseconds.....
Damn, your Wordle streak is longer than my Duolingo streak!
Thank you so much! I've been putting in a lot of effort to maintain this Wordle streak. Keep practicing on Duolingo and you'll get there too!
@@ColinPedicini-puzzledYou're welcome
Bruh thats my name
Well, I guess we both have great taste in names. Bruhs unite! :-)
lol@@ColinPedicini-puzzled
I can give you 1 tip always guess audio first since it has so many vowels
Thanks! I used to do that until AUDIO was the answer one day. :) (Note: ADIEU and OUIJA also have four vowels like AUDIO.) One thing I noticed was all the vowels limited my other guesses as I have been playing this in hard mode.
Suggestion: turn the sound up on this one.
This came from one of my other channels.
This is my wife solving a medium for the first time :-)
This came from one of my other channels. She’ll keep trying the mediums. :)
Saving all those kids from saying "omg first i saw this in my reccomentations"
Nice :)
At 29:00 there is only one 4 in row 8
you're right.
Wh
Hi!
Where's the link to play the puzzle? This looks unsolvable. R8C3 and R8C6 look like they both need to be an 8.
missingdeck.net/brassica-collection and look for "Absolute GAS"
R8C3 and R8C6 are not both 8. Look at the lengths of the thermometers in the left columns and middle columns. Those tell you the order of digits down those thermos (and consequently the one in the right columns as well)
Hint: What digits must go in R1C1 and R9C3? (That fills the left thermo). Once deduced, given R1C1, what must go in R1C4 and R8C6 to fill the middle thermo?
Solution path at 34:34 - or if you want to watch the first half of my logical mistakes ;-)
My wife of @21stCenturyInklings has an explanation for the stuffed animal. See "Unveiling the Nano Survival Kit: The Ultimate Secret to Writing A Novel" starting at 2:41 of that one, ruclips.net/video/T_OdwSJOCJc/видео.html
I can't see the word at the end, the End Cards are blocking it.
Fixed.
Thank you so much @@ColinPedicini-puzzled
This was a pretty good medium level by the NY Times. Even if I did col 9 in just a few moments, followed by col 1, which became easy once the 9 was placed in r1c9, there was still quite a bit of disambiguation to do that was not immediately evident.
Mostly what I noticed also.
Good start with the strong advances in the horizontal range of blocks 4-5-6. Just a suggestion regarding the situation you were in at 5 minutes: take the longer view to examine the consequences of the progress you have made. You have a powerful abundance of digits in blocks 5 and 8 below the very empty block 2. The remarkable thing is that you have 234 all confined as a triple to the right-hand side of block 2. This now gives you the 8 in r6c6, the 6 in r6c5 and the 9 in r4c4, etc. This was a very nice puzzle, not without challenge.
I’ve been doing some of that in the more recent puzzles that I was able to solve, I did notice a few triples in some of the more recent ones :-)
Love your vids keep it up
Thanks for the support! :)
This is one of the most difficult NY Times Medium I have seen recently. You must not miss out on the few given digits at the start: My starting path: 4 in r2c6, 8 in r1c2, 7 in r1c8 (because the 7s are now restricted to row 3 in box 1); 6 in r3c7 (because the 6s are restricted to the right flank in box 6 below); % in r1c7 (a naked 5 if you account for all the interceps including the ghost 6 in row 1 of box 2) 5 IN R2C4 AND 2 IN R2C1, ETC. Other difficult spots ahead. I finished it in 20 minutes notation free. Quite fun.
I haven’t seen any that were quite that difficult recently, but there’s been a few that were close, in my view.
When the NY Times saus "Easy", they mean it ! 3minutes.
Three minutes is a good benchmark for me on easy puzzle to know if I was scanning the board right, etc.
Today's game: figure out how often I ignore givens. (My wife was laughing with me when we reviewed the solve later)
Sudoku is like so many things in sport, such as a golf swing, throwing a baseball, etc. Follow-through is so important :)