Hello, glad you covered this. Designing it was an interesting experience! I had set up the close endpoints with the 2 at first, then took a mental note to put a 5 elsewhere to force the 9 region. I knew that would exactly fit with a 10x10 grid to allow the logic on the bottom at 11:35. I wasn't planning for a minimalist puzzle at that point but I decided to first "solve" the bottom left if I can. That part needed some case distinctions (ruling out double 4s and an extra 2 or 9) but I thought it was tractable enough with a bit of experience and it came out uniquely without cluing. That was when I thought "This could just work!". Regions were forming nicely but the upper right seemed to have a lot of wiggle room still so I tried fitting the 5 in several different cells. I was very happy to eventually get it right. :) That 5 clue is the star of the show. Also, I think Snake Egg initially had a slightly different rule set with areas 1 to N once and then one more region with an unknown size. I didn't want to deal with that at all! If anyone's interested in talking more about puzzles, I can be reached at (edited, I check it more often) tontamuratcan (at) gmail.com. I hope you enjoyed this one. Cheers!
Hi Murat, great to see a reaction from the designer here. I'm enjoying your puzzles a lot, kanka. Is there any way you can teach this stuff, or is it all just trial and error?
Thanks for the puzzle! One of the most satisfying to solve, ever. The lower left corner was awesome, and also how you separated the 5 and 4 box by the diagonal "touch".
The removed so many possibilities, as you say it is the start of the show. 23 minutes, and i was suprised to see how the 9 came about, and then 8 and 3. The final shape of the 5 was not clear at first, but the 67 (that was the 7) was much more restricted once i started to mark it out, and that forced the 5 shape at which point the last were solved. I really enjoyed it.
@@McMxxCiV Thanks a lot, kardeşim! I think most of it is having a plan about how your givens and rules might interact while also having a goal in mind (few clues, symmetry, a smooth solve etc.). I feel that restricting myself in some way helped me much in my designs. Ending up with an attractive puzzle is great but getting there with these self-made obstacles can give you a lot of insight into puzzle genres, improving solving skills as well. My starting advice would be trying to come up with individual clue patterns in your favorite genres, which you could then string together in creative ways. I hope this doesn't sound too generic.
Murat Can T Really fascinating. I’m curious how the logic ultimately shakes out, with this kind of puzzle, which I’ve never seen or heard of before. Say I took a blank 10x10 and drew a valid snake in it, I assume it would it always be possible to give a set of clues to make it uniquely solvable, if you gave all the region sizes. But that would make for a relatively boring solve. So, the real question is, would certain configurations require more given information to solve? Can every valid configuration be solved with just two clues, if the setter chooses the right ones? If not, is there an upper bound to the number of clues that would be required, which is less than nine?
Thanks Kurt. We're thrilled to see you're following the channel! Now if there's any way we could persuade you to make us 15 seconds of intro music... :)
Simon around 21:00: "I can't believe that's possible. I mean, even though we've just done it. That is a work of art." I felt similar about the highly thematic puzzles such as Robin Hood bow or the palindromic Christmas tree, and let's not forget about the all 1-s and 11-s Sudoku we got for 1/11. It's impressive and ridiculous at the same time, how puzzle-setters keep limiting themselves to a specific set of givens - very often not giving any numbers at all - yet still let the other constraints get the puzzle uniquely solvable. It almost feels like witnessing some artist mistakenly enter the puzzles area, but then seeing their puzzles and realising they weren't mistaken in the slightest.
Spot on! Like watching a classic detective story like Agatha Christie's Poirot. Author sets the constraints and our protagonist solves the case pace by pace.
This is fascinating: 4 pieces of information on a 10-by-10 grid that manages to not only create a unique solution, but a satisfying (and not absurdly hard!) one to find.
First time on your channel .. i paused when i saw the puzzle and rules to have a quick think myself... a quick think turned into 5 minutes of agony wondering where to start ( i used to love logic puzzles as a child but haven't dabbled for years) .. the second i solved the top left hand corner, i was giddy with excitement at the nature of the puzzle.. so satisfying to work through it step by step and see it magically appear..
Logical "error" at 18:45... the snake isn't connected yet - so the square left of the 5 would have to be snake. Argument still holds true because that would mean the empty area would have to extend downward of the 5 thus connecting to the blue area you highlighted in a different way.
I spotted that too, but as you mention it would extend the 3 area he had to another 7. He mention that too as a secondary reason, although it was in fact the only reason to proceed the way he did.
@@williamestey7294 He does mistakenly select an extra cell, but still even with that cell being grey, you will have no way to expand the 5 region without touching the "blues", therefore making it too big to be 5. I think that's what he meant, but his brain was just working faster than his mouth and mouse (wink).
This is a really interesting demonstration of information compression. Using a simple set of rules, 100 pieces of information (the 10x10 grid) can be reduced to 4 pieces of information, losslessly!
@@kane2742 Do conversion rules count? Unless there's only this one configuration that can be solved like this, having the rules is kinda like knowing the decompression algorithm, right?
Bloody hell, when I first looked at the puzzle I could not imagine that this could possibly have a unique solution. But then I tried it, and got the solution within 19 minutes. Once you get started, it really explains itself nicely. Awesome puzzle.
First time doing a snake egg puzzle. Took me about 10 minutes. So elegant and so few pieces at the start! It's really fun to see how it unfolds itself to the whole board from a corner!
A rare occasion where I managed to solve a puzzle in less time than the video! 15 minutes, for me. After the very beginning, I jumped over to the 5, and managed to get it from there. Wonderful!
I really enjoyed the logic of this puzzle, and look forward to trying some on my own in the future. I have to say, Simon, your explanations of your reasonings are so good! Really easy to follow and make perfect sense. Thank you so much
Beautiful puzzle. Something that was missed in the end 19:20 is that the whichever of those two squares of 7 is blue both of the two adjacent squares to the right must always be gray for snake to connect. A bit quicker solution this way but well done nonetheless!
23:00 exactly! What a beautiful puzzle! EDIT: It should be noted this was my first Snake Egg puzzle, ever! I just discovered the necessary logic on the fly. What an incredible introduction to the genre of puzzle!
I honestly didn't think this would be possible for me but ended up solving it in 38min. I had never seen nor heard of this puzzle before, and as someone with almost no puzzle experience outside of sudoku and its variants, I feel like 38min was an accomplishment
Simon, I have to say, more than I enjoy the puzzles, I enjoy watching YOUR enjoyment of the puzzles. Your face just lights up whenever you spot a trick that's "absolutely brilliant!", like a kid on Christmas Morning.
Me (and all the other colour-blind subscribers): “he’s chosen blue for the numbered regions... please don’t choose grey for the snake, please don’t choose grey for the snake!”
I'm colorblind and I didn't have any problem with the blue and grey. The color combinations I have trouble with on their app are 5&9, 6&7, and 4&8 (this one's the worst).
@@StroSolves Well, yeah. I am usually using only 9,8 and 7 exactly for that reason. In dire straits, I use 1 and 2 for some extra marking. I am not really colorblind, I have a strong(ish) red-green defficiency (probably what you have Scott). I think that Glenn has some kind of more severe condition.
I actually don’t have tritonopia (the type of colour-blindness that usually affects blues) and yet In The web app the blue and grey are problematic for me. I agree though, the other pairings mentioned here are just unusable for anyone deutans (red/green colour-blind). I’ve suggested an option to add patterns or alter the colours but haven’t heard back.
Yeah that's rough guys. I being luckily not deficient was annoyed enough that he chose blue for ruling out areas, grey (as in a greyed out option) or red (as in stop) is much better symbolism imo, though I guess blue for you is a greyed out option Glenn... In case you were curious Scott, 5&9 are purple & light blue, 6&7 are orange & red, and 4&8 are light green & yellow. Just in case that gives you some insight you don't already have of your condition :) I could probably get more specific with the colours but I imagine that's not very helpful.. ehh may as well, the green could be called lime, the purple a slightly darker magenta, and the blue is close to cyan. Oh btw the red and orange, being the worst for you, is even similar enough for me when put into the grid that I tend to use orange only in special scenarios. I'm really curious if there's two colours that just about everybody would be able to distinguish, no matter the condition (excluding monochromacy :/ )... I'm thinking blue a red would be distinguishable from each other with either condition, based on the small amount of research I just did.
Hi! I just solved this one before actually watching your solve it! I actually managed to deduce that there will be a 7 for the 5 one to be actually 5. It’s amazing how different approaches will lead to the same solution.
I haven't tried this puzzle but I have been amazed by this solution... It is indeed a brilliant puzzle, thanks for showing it. I have never seen anything similar before
Really liked this! Not too much look ahead required, and it was usually logical where to find the next step. Easily doable on the app. Done in about 20 minutes.
I gave it a try before watching the video, it's a very interesting puzzle that ended up being easier than it looked, the logic used is very reminiscent of fence puzzles
Very lovely puzzle!! Did it in 17:11 which was just barely faster than Simon, I feel so proud haha. I'm not typically a fan of this type of topological puzzle because they tend to involve more guess-and-check or dodgy reasoning, but this had an absolutely lovely and clear logical solve path. Bravo.
I love to see that your thought process while solving this was so different from mine. I focused much less on the snake and more on fitting in the numbers and was able to reason it out that way instead.
Great puzzle. After watching another snake video of Simon, I tried this one myself and got it finished easily with a lot of fun. Unfortunately, the web app's check function states the solution is wrong, even for the correct solution - you should update the software.
Hello! You might enjoy these snake variations: www.gmpuzzles.com/blog/category/loop/snake/ The most recent pentosnake has similar rules with one(!) clue. There's also another snake egg with two clues.
Oh this was fun! Bent my brain in a whole new direction. My only complaint is that it didn't take long enough, I felt like it was too easy once you understood how the lines worked together. Without watching the video past the rules part, my time was 16:01. Great work!
I found a slightly easier way to do it from about 17:00 on, which is to realize that the outside region containing r8c7, r8c8 must be of size 4. That's by eliminating the other possibilities for size 4. Specifically the region containing r10c10 can't be of size 4. (Reasoning: Assume it is. Then the snake has to cap it with r8c10 and avoiding making a 1-region or a 2-region on the right side of the puzzle, so the snake must run up along the right side of the puzzle, which breaks the 5 region). Then knowing it's size 4, you basically wrap the snake around it and get a lot of squares fast.
I remember our class doing a very similar puzzle at university and working it out the same way. It was fascinating at the time just as this puzzel was fascinating.
This puzzle is ridiculously easy because the snake has very strict rules it must follow. Nailed it in under 10 minutes. I'm honestly surprised Cryptic took so long to solve the bottom left unless he was just discribing it for people watching. I'd imagine most people got that part in a few seconds. This puzzle reminds me a lot of the logic that goes into solving Minesweeper.
Makes sense in way though. Puzzle and strategy require very similar skills, mainly your brain and seeing how every move you make interacts on the future. For starcraft of course you add the mechanical skill to make it as fast-paced as it is.
Simon can you put the "create new puzzle" mode on the web app. I am so used to app you guys made, other programs or apps make me frustrated. There are older puzzles more than 1 year on your channel but I haven't played. I tried playing those on other apps but gave up because they lack features as corner marking, center markings and easy cell selection.
For viewers who likes to read comment before watching the video, please try to solve the puzzle on your own first. This puzzle is one of a kind and you will regret not to try solve it first before watching the amazing process of solving this puzzle
Great puzzle. I got it on my own, but was disappointed that the "check puzzle" functionality doesn't seem to work, since it's coded to check for normal sudoku rules.
The top right area can be reasoned more intuitively if you notice the ends coming out of the 5 has to separate the 4 and 5 regions, meaning the side next to the 7 region has to make a slight detour to corner it off. The restrictions for the 5 and 6 region should push a solution from there pretty quickly.
Awsome Puzzle, and awesome solving. You missed an apparent logic around the bottom right corner in the end. (Once you knew that the upper area was size 7, the lower right had to be size 6 pretty quickly, and there was always only one way to achieve that.) I envy you for being able to solve such things.
The checker on the puzzle site you sent doesn't seem to be working. I spent a good 5 minutes trying to work out why my solution was wrong, and then jumped to see your solution here and it is the same
Hello, glad you covered this. Designing it was an interesting experience! I had set up the close endpoints with the 2 at first, then took a mental note to put a 5 elsewhere to force the 9 region. I knew that would exactly fit with a 10x10 grid to allow the logic on the bottom at 11:35. I wasn't planning for a minimalist puzzle at that point but I decided to first "solve" the bottom left if I can. That part needed some case distinctions (ruling out double 4s and an extra 2 or 9) but I thought it was tractable enough with a bit of experience and it came out uniquely without cluing. That was when I thought "This could just work!". Regions were forming nicely but the upper right seemed to have a lot of wiggle room still so I tried fitting the 5 in several different cells. I was very happy to eventually get it right. :) That 5 clue is the star of the show.
Also, I think Snake Egg initially had a slightly different rule set with areas 1 to N once and then one more region with an unknown size. I didn't want to deal with that at all!
If anyone's interested in talking more about puzzles, I can be reached at (edited, I check it more often) tontamuratcan (at) gmail.com. I hope you enjoyed this one. Cheers!
Hi Murat, great to see a reaction from the designer here. I'm enjoying your puzzles a lot, kanka. Is there any way you can teach this stuff, or is it all just trial and error?
Thanks for the puzzle! One of the most satisfying to solve, ever. The lower left corner was awesome, and also how you separated the 5 and 4 box by the diagonal "touch".
The removed so many possibilities, as you say it is the start of the show. 23 minutes, and i was suprised to see how the 9 came about, and then 8 and 3. The final shape of the 5 was not clear at first, but the 67 (that was the 7) was much more restricted once i started to mark it out, and that forced the 5 shape at which point the last were solved.
I really enjoyed it.
@@McMxxCiV Thanks a lot, kardeşim! I think most of it is having a plan about how your givens and rules might interact while also having a goal in mind (few clues, symmetry, a smooth solve etc.). I feel that restricting myself in some way helped me much in my designs. Ending up with an attractive puzzle is great but getting there with these self-made obstacles can give you a lot of insight into puzzle genres, improving solving skills as well. My starting advice would be trying to come up with individual clue patterns in your favorite genres, which you could then string together in creative ways. I hope this doesn't sound too generic.
Murat Can T Really fascinating.
I’m curious how the logic ultimately shakes out, with this kind of puzzle, which I’ve never seen or heard of before.
Say I took a blank 10x10 and drew a valid snake in it, I assume it would it always be possible to give a set of clues to make it uniquely solvable, if you gave all the region sizes. But that would make for a relatively boring solve.
So, the real question is, would certain configurations require more given information to solve? Can every valid configuration be solved with just two clues, if the setter chooses the right ones? If not, is there an upper bound to the number of clues that would be required, which is less than nine?
At first this puzzle looked impossible but actually the path is so restricted and the solve wasn't that hard.. I'd love to see more puzzles like this
My thought exactly. Didnt know you subscribed to this channel. Feels amazing to see you in here.
Lovely to see such a big RUclipsr interacting on the platform in such an authentic way!
P.s love your covers ❤️
Just about to post that same comment.
Thanks Kurt. We're thrilled to see you're following the channel! Now if there's any way we could persuade you to make us 15 seconds of intro music... :)
KHS
Nothing better than “That’s impossible” 20 minutes later “done!” This puzzle makes me feel smart, but really it’s the setter who is smart
Simon around 21:00: "I can't believe that's possible. I mean, even though we've just done it. That is a work of art."
I felt similar about the highly thematic puzzles such as Robin Hood bow or the palindromic Christmas tree, and let's not forget about the all 1-s and 11-s Sudoku we got for 1/11.
It's impressive and ridiculous at the same time, how puzzle-setters keep limiting themselves to a specific set of givens - very often not giving any numbers at all - yet still let the other constraints get the puzzle uniquely solvable. It almost feels like witnessing some artist mistakenly enter the puzzles area, but then seeing their puzzles and realising they weren't mistaken in the slightest.
Spot on! Like watching a classic detective story like Agatha Christie's Poirot. Author sets the constraints and our protagonist solves the case pace by pace.
This is fascinating: 4 pieces of information on a 10-by-10 grid that manages to not only create a unique solution, but a satisfying (and not absurdly hard!) one to find.
First time on your channel .. i paused when i saw the puzzle and rules to have a quick think myself... a quick think turned into 5 minutes of agony wondering where to start ( i used to love logic puzzles as a child but haven't dabbled for years) .. the second i solved the top left hand corner, i was giddy with excitement at the nature of the puzzle.. so satisfying to work through it step by step and see it magically appear..
Logical "error" at 18:45... the snake isn't connected yet - so the square left of the 5 would have to be snake. Argument still holds true because that would mean the empty area would have to extend downward of the 5 thus connecting to the blue area you highlighted in a different way.
Awesome puzzle though. Amazing with how little information one's able to form a unique solution. Thanks for the solve.
I spotted that too, but as you mention it would extend the 3 area he had to another 7. He mention that too as a secondary reason, although it was in fact the only reason to proceed the way he did.
I think that he meant that as part of the implication: if the snake came straight down, then all those (would) have to be blue
Cory Ellis No his demonstration is flawed logic. The left of the preset 5 would have been grey and in his test.
@@williamestey7294 He does mistakenly select an extra cell, but still even with that cell being grey, you will have no way to expand the 5 region without touching the "blues", therefore making it too big to be 5. I think that's what he meant, but his brain was just working faster than his mouth and mouse (wink).
This is a really interesting demonstration of information compression. Using a simple set of rules, 100 pieces of information (the 10x10 grid) can be reduced to 4 pieces of information, losslessly!
It's a bit more than four pieces of information though, if you count the rules.
@@kane2742 Do conversion rules count? Unless there's only this one configuration that can be solved like this, having the rules is kinda like knowing the decompression algorithm, right?
Bloody hell, when I first looked at the puzzle I could not imagine that this could possibly have a unique solution. But then I tried it, and got the solution within 19 minutes. Once you get started, it really explains itself nicely. Awesome puzzle.
First time doing a snake egg puzzle. Took me about 10 minutes.
So elegant and so few pieces at the start!
It's really fun to see how it unfolds itself to the whole board from a corner!
A rare occasion where I managed to solve a puzzle in less time than the video! 15 minutes, for me. After the very beginning, I jumped over to the 5, and managed to get it from there. Wonderful!
32:11 for me, first snake egg puzzle, I'm amazed this puzzle has a unique solution, incredible.
I really enjoyed the logic of this puzzle, and look forward to trying some on my own in the future. I have to say, Simon, your explanations of your reasonings are so good! Really easy to follow and make perfect sense. Thank you so much
Beautiful puzzle. Something that was missed in the end 19:20 is that the whichever of those two squares of 7 is blue both of the two adjacent squares to the right must always be gray for snake to connect. A bit quicker solution this way but well done nonetheless!
Thank you SO much for this lovely puzzle solve. Given the paucity of givens, truly astonishing how many deductions are supplied by the restrictions!
23:00 exactly! What a beautiful puzzle!
EDIT: It should be noted this was my first Snake Egg puzzle, ever! I just discovered the necessary logic on the fly. What an incredible introduction to the genre of puzzle!
I honestly didn't think this would be possible for me but ended up solving it in 38min. I had never seen nor heard of this puzzle before, and as someone with almost no puzzle experience outside of sudoku and its variants, I feel like 38min was an accomplishment
Simon, I have to say, more than I enjoy the puzzles, I enjoy watching YOUR enjoyment of the puzzles. Your face just lights up whenever you spot a trick that's "absolutely brilliant!", like a kid on Christmas Morning.
Never watched anything of yours before but this was quite fun, what a cool puzzle. Props to the creator as well.
Put this in the league of greatest logic puzzles of all time.
Simon, if you need a break from Sudoku but also need to publish, come back to these types. It's just amazing
Always enjoy solving all the logic puzzles you upload. Keep up the great work!
Me (and all the other colour-blind subscribers): “he’s chosen blue for the numbered regions... please don’t choose grey for the snake, please don’t choose grey for the snake!”
I'm colorblind and I didn't have any problem with the blue and grey. The color combinations I have trouble with on their app are 5&9, 6&7, and 4&8 (this one's the worst).
@@StroSolves Well, yeah. I am usually using only 9,8 and 7 exactly for that reason. In dire straits, I use 1 and 2 for some extra marking. I am not really colorblind, I have a strong(ish) red-green defficiency (probably what you have Scott). I think that Glenn has some kind of more severe condition.
I actually don’t have tritonopia (the type of colour-blindness that usually affects blues) and yet In The web app the blue and grey are problematic for me. I agree though, the other pairings mentioned here are just unusable for anyone deutans (red/green colour-blind). I’ve suggested an option to add patterns or alter the colours but haven’t heard back.
Yeah that's rough guys. I being luckily not deficient was annoyed enough that he chose blue for ruling out areas, grey (as in a greyed out option) or red (as in stop) is much better symbolism imo, though I guess blue for you is a greyed out option Glenn...
In case you were curious Scott, 5&9 are purple & light blue, 6&7 are orange & red, and 4&8 are light green & yellow. Just in case that gives you some insight you don't already have of your condition :) I could probably get more specific with the colours but I imagine that's not very helpful.. ehh may as well, the green could be called lime, the purple a slightly darker magenta, and the blue is close to cyan. Oh btw the red and orange, being the worst for you, is even similar enough for me when put into the grid that I tend to use orange only in special scenarios.
I'm really curious if there's two colours that just about everybody would be able to distinguish, no matter the condition (excluding monochromacy :/ )... I'm thinking blue a red would be distinguishable from each other with either condition, based on the small amount of research I just did.
Hi! I just solved this one before actually watching your solve it! I actually managed to deduce that there will be a 7 for the 5 one to be actually 5. It’s amazing how different approaches will lead to the same solution.
I haven't tried this puzzle but I have been amazed by this solution... It is indeed a brilliant puzzle, thanks for showing it. I have never seen anything similar before
Really liked this! Not too much look ahead required, and it was usually logical where to find the next step. Easily doable on the app. Done in about 20 minutes.
Great puzzle! I'd love to see more similar puzzles on the channel!
Excellent, were can I get more of these?
I gave it a try before watching the video, it's a very interesting puzzle that ended up being easier than it looked, the logic used is very reminiscent of fence puzzles
It's incredible! Can you do more snake egg puzzles? Also, would appreciate a playlist of all your non-Sudoku puzzles.
Damn, that was a good puzzle. I'm flabbergasted that it has a unique solution with so little info, but there it is. It's impressive.
Wow, that was a fun puzzle! Would love to see more of this type :)
Really cool puzzle! The solution feels like it comes out of nowhere but never leaves you stuck for very long
This has got to be one of the coolest puzzles ive ever seen. :o
Very lovely puzzle!! Did it in 17:11 which was just barely faster than Simon, I feel so proud haha. I'm not typically a fan of this type of topological puzzle because they tend to involve more guess-and-check or dodgy reasoning, but this had an absolutely lovely and clear logical solve path. Bravo.
Great puzzle and really nice explanation along the way! Simon is truly amazing.
Holy crap I got it in about an hour! Didn’t cheat by watching at all! Awesome puzzle!
16:22, really cool for my first snake egg!
Truly amazing to watch this unfold... Honestly didn't think I would've been this captivated
I love this puzzle! Everything is followed by logic, no guessing is needed
I love to see that your thought process while solving this was so different from mine. I focused much less on the snake and more on fitting in the numbers and was able to reason it out that way instead.
Amazing puzzle. Like you said, so little information, and yet you can make a very intresting (and hard) puzzle. Great channel.
Great puzzle. After watching another snake video of Simon, I tried this one myself and got it finished easily with a lot of fun. Unfortunately, the web app's check function states the solution is wrong, even for the correct solution - you should update the software.
I'd love to see more of these, and even more so, would love to have an app and/or Web app to be able to do more of these. Truly fantastic
I really loved this style of puzzle even though I needed help to get through it. Where can I find more of these? My internet search came up blank
Hello! You might enjoy these snake variations: www.gmpuzzles.com/blog/category/loop/snake/ The most recent pentosnake has similar rules with one(!) clue. There's also another snake egg with two clues.
Oh this was fun! Bent my brain in a whole new direction. My only complaint is that it didn't take long enough, I felt like it was too easy once you understood how the lines worked together.
Without watching the video past the rules part, my time was 16:01.
Great work!
Stumbled across this. Amazing
So sweet. I agree, beautiful piece of work
This was an amazing puzzle to solve. The snake ones are the best.
Great puzzle, brilliant talk through the solve :D
I found a slightly easier way to do it from about 17:00 on, which is to realize that the outside region containing r8c7, r8c8 must be of size 4. That's by eliminating the other possibilities for size 4. Specifically the region containing r10c10 can't be of size 4. (Reasoning: Assume it is. Then the snake has to cap it with r8c10 and avoiding making a 1-region or a 2-region on the right side of the puzzle, so the snake must run up along the right side of the puzzle, which breaks the 5 region).
Then knowing it's size 4, you basically wrap the snake around it and get a lot of squares fast.
13:30, I love discovering new puzzle types
what program are you using?
I remember our class doing a very similar puzzle at university and working it out the same way. It was fascinating at the time just as this puzzel was fascinating.
Cure vs Serral!! I think it's amazing that you're a fan of StarCraft, kind of a rate thing to see these days even in gaming circles
The best solvers probably could do this puzzle amazingly fast.
This puzzle is ridiculously easy because the snake has very strict rules it must follow. Nailed it in under 10 minutes. I'm honestly surprised Cryptic took so long to solve the bottom left unless he was just discribing it for people watching. I'd imagine most people got that part in a few seconds. This puzzle reminds me a lot of the logic that goes into solving Minesweeper.
very intimidating at the start, really fun once it got going. wouldn't mind seeing more of these. this one took me 35 minutes
9:53
I've found snake egg puzzles tricky previously but this was a very smooth solve.
This is amazing it is like minesweeper but you never get stuck where you have to guess. I want 1000s of these.
I have vision problems. I was unable to follow your solution because there was insufficient contrast between the 2 colors you used.
If you watch til the end he marks the nonsnake squares with numbers and then you can see
Super fun puzzle! Can you do more of these and other "Inside/Outside" puzzles?
What an amazing puzzle! Managed it in 9:30 - it all seemed to fall into place very visually. Thanks for sharing
Agreed. I was stunned that this could have a unique solution, but it all just fell into place very linearly for a solve time of 9:42
Wow it's the first puzzle from this channel I've done faster than in the video :D
"I can't claim complete innocence when it comes to snake eggs." 2:46
Such fun we had drawing a snake
The amusement we had wasn't fake
And a puzzle this great
We should all celebrate.
I'll go get us some coffee and cake.
Thanks for highlighting this nice puzzle. It reminds me of the best of 10x10 Nurikabe (which I've played a lot of because of Nikoli's app).
13:40 final time. So much fun after trying phistomefel's insane snake egg sudoku!
Wow! I enjoyed a lot! Pretty simple idea, and few givens made it truly beautiful
Didn't know you were into starcraft :D
When does he mention Starcraft?
Look closer where he explains the rules
Makes sense in way though. Puzzle and strategy require very similar skills, mainly your brain and seeing how every move you make interacts on the future. For starcraft of course you add the mechanical skill to make it as fast-paced as it is.
Do you mean the window tab that says "[TvZ]"? Does that mean Terran versus Zerg?
@@rjohnson8ball yes Cure play terran and Serral plays zerg
Initially it looked impossible to even get started, but logic leads you all the way thru the puzzle.
Very well explained it was amazing !
20:48, super fun puzzle but a bit tricky at the end!
Simon can you put the "create new puzzle" mode on the web app. I am so used to app you guys made, other programs or apps make me frustrated. There are older puzzles more than 1 year on your channel but I haven't played. I tried playing those on other apps but gave up because they lack features as corner marking, center markings and easy cell selection.
great
What a great puzzle, I'd love to see more!
For viewers who likes to read comment before watching the video, please try to solve the puzzle on your own first. This puzzle is one of a kind and you will regret not to try solve it first before watching the amazing process of solving this puzzle
That's a great puzzle thank you for showing me, greetings from Poland I love your work
Seems the puzzle is like 100 times harder to create than solve.
very neat simple variant
32:54 pretty cool puzzle
An absolutely gorgeous puzzle but well out of my pay grade. 😊
Great puzzle. I got it on my own, but was disappointed that the "check puzzle" functionality doesn't seem to work, since it's coded to check for normal sudoku rules.
nice one, even if I thought "this is impossible" at first, I did it in 27 minutes. I like to solve more logical puzzles.
Amazing puzzle. I wouldn't have gotten past step 2
Starcraft and sudoku, seems connected. Did You play it also on ladder?
Loved it. I solved it before you tarted and ones I found out the solution I was like mind blowing.
It was a lovely puzzle, took me about 17 minutes to solve.
The top right area can be reasoned more intuitively if you notice the ends coming out of the 5 has to separate the 4 and 5 regions, meaning the side next to the 7 region has to make a slight detour to corner it off. The restrictions for the 5 and 6 region should push a solution from there pretty quickly.
Yooo nice Starcraft vid in your chrome tabs, sudoku and Starcraft, what a legend
That was beautiful how with just 2 digits and start/goal points whole field can be filled
Great puzzle again, but when are you going to start commentating starcraft matches?
I don't understand this reference
@@sjoerdglaser2794 one of the open browser tabs in the begging of the video had a StarCraft match up.
:o I really liked this puzzle, solved it in 14:35 minutes.
Nice puzzle, I got stuck @17:00 and bailed out :)
I ended up solving the upper right corner before the lower left. Good puzzle
One of the only times I've solved something within a similar amount of time as Simon (still a little over, 26 minutes...). I'll call it a success lol.
The puzzle was very impressive, but also fun to see that you're an SC2 fan 😄
Awsome Puzzle, and awesome solving. You missed an apparent logic around the bottom right corner in the end. (Once you knew that the upper area was size 7, the lower right had to be size 6 pretty quickly, and there was always only one way to achieve that.) I envy you for being able to solve such things.
The checker on the puzzle site you sent doesn't seem to be working. I spent a good 5 minutes trying to work out why my solution was wrong, and then jumped to see your solution here and it is the same
Very interesting. I struggled to tell the difference in the blue an grey though. Maybe consider colours with a bit more contrast please.
What colours on the app have appropriate contrast?