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Although I appreciate the effort (uploading, editing, etc), camera angles were horrible, there was no explanation of why competitors were starting at different times, no commentary..... it was really poor viewing.

The instructions on this puzzle say the snake cannot touch orthogonally which I had to look up but basically means adjacent. It says it can touch diagonally. So how can two sides of a square in the snake be touching in your example here? Edit: typing it out helped me figure it out. I wasn't connecting the fact it can't "touch" orthogonally

Thank you for video.

Nice a cave.

Hello, Thomas. thank you for creating wonderful videos with extremely useful advices. So then, how about the Suguru puzzle? Cuz, there is one hard suguru in the WPC - 2022 which name is Suguru (Toroidal+Liar). I am still trying to figure it out. Can you give some advices for that one or make a short video?

For what does " un-un " stands for? Behind Tantan?

wow, the finishing part is really eye-opening.

Congrats to the winners. Apologies for the vertical rotation. My phone was not accepting horizontal in advanced settings and we needed to go live quickly. This was our first experiment with a fairly successful playoff format and we'll improve videography at future events.

Live puzzling starts at 43:15

恭喜戴潭潭夺冠！！！！

Congratulations, Tantan!

Superb!

Nice and smooth puzzle. I discovered Aqre recently and it's very interesting :) Thank you for your videos on the topic!

whats the logical reason for the no 2x2 rule

Wow, Chat GPT can be harsh. I was very impressed with your long line of biotech contributions, although I too am mostly familiar with your puzzle stuff. Google's Bard is much nicer. It knew about your work with sequencing DNA and personalized medicine and concluded with "Snyder's work is making a difference in the world. His research is helping to advance science and his writing is helping people to learn about problem-solving. He is a true inspiration to people in many different fields.", which I totally agree with. Bummed I couldn't make it out to NPL this year (I also don't like flats) hopefully I'll meet you at some puzzle event in the future. P.S. Chat GPT and Bard still don't know who I am.

Great walk-through MCT. I really liked this puzzle, but struggled mightily at some key points. Your comments starting at 1:24 and at 5:46 were both illuminating. Your explanations are thorough, logical, and very helpful. (I'm way behind in my puzzling and just finally got to this one now.)

Why did you pair up R10C9 and R11C9? You kinda skipped over that part 28:46

Thank you for sharing (and for inspiring). Random aside: it's quite normal and common in videogames for players to stockpile consumable inventory items and then never use them out of fear of not having them when they're actually needed. I even know of one game that can reward players with a passive stat boost for doing so. So don't think that bit unusual.

I spent over 5 minutes solely on figuring out how to fill in the 19 square without regard for the rest of the puzzle. Just the patterns behind it were stubbornly hidden from me.

is it possible to export that to the CTC App?

"Snyder Notation" Changed the coarse of history.

I’ve written a few Aqre puzzles myself. I don’t know whether or not they’re as magical as those by Eric Fox and others, but they’ve been accepted for publication (well, some of them), so we’ll see! Thanks for the solves :)

Welcome back! I didn't realize how new Aqre puzzles are, but I've solve all of the aqres linked on gmpuzzles and quite like them.

Missed you and your videos! Welcome back!

thankkk you so muchhhhhhhhhhh this video

Great job, as usual. The (1,3) pairs had been waiting at the bottom left corner since 6:20 , forcing r2c1 to become a 2.

This totally blew my mind💫

I got as far as "these people's names are fake, and their initials being A through J means something". I would never have made any of the other free associations involved.

Thanks for another interesting video - I always enjoy getting insight into puzzle setting and solving. I haven't done very many surplus/deficit sudokus so it's good to see someone going about solving one to see how the logic differs to other sudokus where digits don't repeat at all anywhere in the grid.

Really enjoyable once again, & great visual themes, especially the Battleship Sudoku with the shape of the given digits.

I would love to see you play minesweeper!!😁

Thanks for continuing to delve into the journey of GM Puzzles. Fascinating to hear how your thoughts and of course how you break down the solve path for these puzzles.

26:30 : omg that true

Fantastic solving again! The negative constraint is very powerful and lets you set unique puzzles with very few givens.

I'm glad you watched 'The Genius' series. By the way, you said you watched ALL THREE seasons(1:26), but the Korean season actually has FOUR!

Great stuff! Really enjoyed listening to how you set and solve the arrow sudoku. I, too, sometimes consider putting in more givens than are required for a unique solution in order to improve aesthetics & visual appeal/theme.

At 3:03 you say "it's not gonna be a division". Couldn't it be 12 = (3/2)*(3+5)? If I'm not mistaken, the rules do not state that at every step there has to be an integer result.

Thanks again for 2 more great solves. I quite like the geometry of the star battle puzzle, which makes for a lovely start by restricting a certain number to stars in smaller regions within each bold outlined region. I, too, like thermos as you can quite often have clueless puzzles like the one in the video, or puzzles with very few given digits.

Thank-you for continuing to provide an insight into how a great setter and solver thinks. I particularly love tight-fit sudoku since I came across it in the WPF contests in 2022 because you can have varying ranges of digits and yet provide a fun satisfying solve in a relatively smaller sudoku grid. I also appreciate the aesthetics of a well-designed puzzle and I really enjoy every GM puzzle I see having a very clear visual theme in the way clues and given digits are placed, which inspires me to continue setting similarly aesthetically pleasing puzzles.

The sudoku solve is truly fascinating. As a novice setter, I appreciate more and more the aesthetics of a well-designed puzzle and the corner arrangement in this sudoku is beautiful. Definitely looking forward to the entire series to see the journey of GM Puzzles over time and what is on the horizon for 2023 and beyond!

In the language of Douglas Adams: maybe the earth went yesterday from not an entry to Mostly Harmless. I need to build trust that we can still be insignificant because the first sense of mostly harmless feels small but the universe needs absolute zero. Cooler even than the vastness of space.

This puzzle flows so beautifully

I love to use the Snyder Notation. It also helps me solve many Latin Square puzzles like Skyscrapers or TomTom.

When I started as a solver, I remember you posted sudokus on a different website and I was amazed at the aesthetics that your puzzles offered. I always tried my best to solve the puzzles under grandmaster timings. At times I was successful and at times I missed out narrowly. It was really fun times. Thank you so much for the lovely puzzles that we grew up solving.

Ooh a Phistomefel ring!

Very interesting. Fascinating to watch you use the notation which has assumed your name.

loved this style of video and looking forward to more like it!