Thanks for the feature. I enjoyed it immensely and it was the best birthday present. Im watching it first thing in the morning on my birthday and watching the waves crash on the west coast of the USA and having a few laughs at your expense about r3c3. Thanks, Puzzle Patzer.
Excellent puzzle, lots of fun. Solved it in 28:37. Your notation gets confusing sometimes. The digits you write in a cell sometimes indicate all the digits that can go into a cell or all the places a particular digit can go in a block. This was especially confusing at 37:38 in block 6. It is better to distinguish the two, e.g. by using Snyder notation (using digits in the corner of the cell to indicate all the places a digit can go in a block). When you get stuck, it can help to write in all candidates that can go in a cell. This would have sped you up several times in the solve. E.g. at 13:22 the cell r4c3 became a naked single (28 can't go there b/c of the 5, 369 because of the column and 47 because of the 7 next to it). But you never noticed it and placed the 1 by eliminating it from r4c1 at 18:22. Similarly, at 31:19 you placed 5 to r2c2, leaving only 3 possible options in column 2, so in particular r3c2 can only be 369 at this point, but both 3 and 6 would create 3 and 6 next to each other with r4c2, so r3c2 must be 9.
@@qovro 🐸Since I switched to Sudoku Maker there are so many more possibilities. Puzzle Patzer previously solved “Poet himself” where I figured out how to make the black Kropki dots into black cats.🐈⬛
Thanks for the feature. I enjoyed it immensely and it was the best birthday present. Im watching it first thing in the morning on my birthday and watching the waves crash on the west coast of the USA and having a few laughs at your expense about r3c3. Thanks, Puzzle Patzer.
I'm glad that you enjoyed it! I did make a dog's breakfast out of it 😄.
Enjoy your day!
Excellent puzzle, lots of fun. Solved it in 28:37.
Your notation gets confusing sometimes. The digits you write in a cell sometimes indicate all the digits that can go into a cell or all the places a particular digit can go in a block. This was especially confusing at 37:38 in block 6. It is better to distinguish the two, e.g. by using Snyder notation (using digits in the corner of the cell to indicate all the places a digit can go in a block). When you get stuck, it can help to write in all candidates that can go in a cell. This would have sped you up several times in the solve. E.g. at 13:22 the cell r4c3 became a naked single (28 can't go there b/c of the 5, 369 because of the column and 47 because of the 7 next to it). But you never noticed it and placed the 1 by eliminating it from r4c1 at 18:22. Similarly, at 31:19 you placed 5 to r2c2, leaving only 3 possible options in column 2, so in particular r3c2 can only be 369 at this point, but both 3 and 6 would create 3 and 6 next to each other with r4c2, so r3c2 must be 9.
Thanks for the tips! I'll try to stick to the notation convention in the future.
It is a great puzzle and that's a really good time.
That was a really fun puzzle! (and I remembered the negative constraint this time so it only took me 29:43) 😄
Lol, yeah it helps, doesn't it? 😄
Frogs are much cuter than kropki dots.
Absolutely! 🐸
@@qovro 🐸Since I switched to Sudoku Maker there are so many more possibilities. Puzzle Patzer previously solved “Poet himself” where I figured out how to make the black Kropki dots into black cats.🐈⬛