Thanks for solving the puzzle. It is always a pleasure to see all the joy you have solving puzzles! I see we have some mathematicians in the comments that got the reference from the pigeonhole principle 😉.
Very fun puzzle with fascinating geometry. 👏👏👏 My favourite type. By the way, it allows for a pretty effective application of the *placeholder-digit* technique. You just need to ignore the *black dot* (which is the only disambiguator) until you fill in the whole grid with large-font *placeholders.* Eventually, you will obtain either *r3c8 = 3* (if you started with yellow=4) or *r3c8 = 7* (if you started with yellow=6) The latter is incompatible with the *black dot* and will require you to switch to the alternative configuration by using _y_ = 10 - _x._ You can do that in a blink of an eye, if you know how. See my separate comment for details.
Loved the puzzle, obviously. But can I just say that the new outro variation of the original music is beautiful! I really enjoy the outros now as well, even though the fun is over...
The name of the puzzle is likely a reference to the pigeonhole principle in maths, which states that if m pigeons are put into n holes, with m > n, there must be a hole with multiple pigeons in it. It's quite simple but something that can be used to great effect. In this puzzle this is applicable to the 5s, if a 5 was not on a line, there would be a row/column/box with more than one 5 in it.
It's a testament to how calming and enjoyable these are to watch. I'm also a member of the CTC insomnia cure crew (the CTCICC, if you will) and Simon's videos are huge for me being able to drift off if I'm having a bout of insomnia. I can't do it with any other show, music, or whatnot - just these puzzles. Simon, you're an incredible presenter, and the fact that you have such a calming (some might say soothing) presentation style is incredible. Don't take these comments about insomnia as meaning you're not interesting. On the contrary! You create such a pleasantly engaging video it helps allow an anxious mind to settle. As someone else commented, if I drift off, I simply rewind a few minutes and pick it up in the morning!
As someone who also sometimes falls asleep to these (and other videos), let me say it is not about being boring, quite the opposite. If it's boring I get irritated and less sleepy. To be a good candidate to fall asleep to, a presenter must be interesting enough to hold the attention. Personally, I also find videos where only one person is talking very helpful, and usually in a calm, pleasant way - no surprises just as I'm drifting off. I love your videos, and just go back and watch whatever I missed with my morning coffee.
This seems to be about the 6th favourite puzzle of Simon's this year already!! This suggests to me a livestream at the end of the year highlighting all of Simon's "favourite puzzles of the year" to see if he can determine his actual favourite. I enjoy the amount of enjoyment you get from solving a puzzle with colouring Simon!
@@MariaVlasiou True, but I would be fascinated to see Simon's re-reactions to them and see if their favourite title is retained after reflection and comparison with the other favourites. Wouldn't be upset if they all turned out as favourites. Also definitely chocolate éclair 🤣.
Rules: 04:44 Let's Get Cracking: 06:17 Simon's time: 38m00s Puzzle Solved: 44:17 What about this video's Top Tier Simarkisms?! Bobbins: 3x (12:16, 19:42, 19:42) Three In the Corner: 1x (23:57) And how about this video's Simarkisms?! Ah: 10x (10:37, 13:01, 13:01, 20:51, 20:51, 25:23, 30:09, 33:24, 35:50, 42:14) Brilliant: 6x (01:01, 01:11, 02:46, 03:02, 03:12, 03:12) Hang On: 6x (20:05, 24:19, 28:04, 32:31, 40:49, 40:51) Clever: 5x (07:08, 07:11, 10:45, 19:20, 44:25) By Sudoku: 4x (23:32, 23:41, 34:59, 41:19) Sorry: 3x (10:39, 10:39, 32:57) Beautiful: 3x (15:22, 42:41, 44:10) Goodness: 2x (32:38, 44:52) In the Spotlight: 2x (24:02, 42:19) Stuck: 2x (29:40, 30:16) Deadly Pattern: 2x (43:30, 43:44) Stunning: 2x (44:22, 44:22) Obviously: 2x (09:15, 16:52) Fabulous: 2x (36:22, 42:24) Pencil Mark/mark: 2x (12:00, 31:18) Cake!: 2x (02:48, 02:57) Good Grief: 1x (15:08) Axiomatically: 1x (31:49) The Answer is: 1x (26:02) Out of Nowhere: 1x (23:49) Bingo: 1x (15:17) I Have no Clue: 1x (00:54) First Digit: 1x (39:41) Corollary: 1x (11:19) In Fact: 1x (22:46) Which Means What?: 1x (34:22) Wow: 1x (15:36) Have a Think: 1x (28:04) Nature: 1x (24:33) Most popular number(>9), digit and colour this video: Fifteen (2 mentions) Three (84 mentions) Blue (81 mentions) Antithesis Battles: High (4) - Low (1) Even (6) - Odd (0) White (4) - Black (3) Row (10) - Column (9) 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!
At about 12:20- Bobbins McBobbinsface. A novel varient. Edit: also at about 19:45 Further edit: 24:00 features "Green in the corner". Lots of novel simmarkisms today!
You have a quiet voice and a wholesome character that can calm a person down, or at least they would be able to do so if the videos weren't so amazing. I can't sleep while seeing a clue of sublime genius unravel itself on my screen.
I felt very proud of myself for placing 5s, distinguishing 4-6 coloring, and identifying extreme renbans. But then I got quite stuck :( Time to see how Simon did it. EDIT: It was the logic at 28:30, very clever, but I'm not sure I would have ever spotted it
I got the initial fives almost in the opposite order, by considering that 5s can't appear on the black dot - something Simon is usually much more forthright in telling us!
I've learnt to expect Simon to do things the hard way. I think it helps him with the more difficult puzzles, but does make him over-look simpler paths. Then again, it can really depend on where you start looking and what you are thinking about at the time.
@@Coldheart322 Recently (last 2 months or so) I've been giving all of the sudoku's that appear on the channel an honest try, in an effort to see if I could crack the more difficult puzzles as well, instead of just watching Simon do it. What I've discovered is that I can usually find the solve path as quickly as Simon does... until I get stuck in a spot for a massive amount of time (usually 30-50 minutes) where I can't find how to continue and just keep looping over all the stuff I've already checked, re-checking and finding all the simpler logic, while the real key is some difficult deduction that I just fail to spot. Simon continually trying to barge forward and find those hard deductions is actually something I imagine is born from all the experience he has had, and it's usually the best attitude to have. In conclusion, I think he fails to check for simpler logic (naked singles/pairs) because that's often not the way forward, while most of the viewers spot them, because your instinct for where to find the hard deductions is less honed as a beginner. Just a little thought of why Simon often seems to miss the simple paths from own experience (or when he says "you're making me do sudoku so early in the puzzle?" haha)
Take the insomnia remedy as a compliment please! I bet it is not because you are boring, but because your voice is soo soothing. I personally love - especially the film length ones - almost as ASMR in the background as I am working. Also with the risk of being drawn in when the puzzle is just too interesting..
Fun to note how important the black dot is to the unique solvability of this puzzle, since it's the only clue in the puzzle that won't work just as well if you flip the number line (that is to say, replace each digit "n" with its "10 - n" counterpart)...
Yeah. That's how I approached it. I just put 1234 onto the purple line which has a 5 on it in box 7. I thought I'd keep going until it worked or didn't work with box 3. When it didn't work I swapped all the 1s to 9s, 2s to 8s etc.
I’d realised quite early on that the black dot was going to be the disambiguater and was determined not to bifurcate until that point revealed itself. It took me over 2 hours but eventually, using letters once I’d sorted out the highs and lows, it fell into place.
“Thats green in the corner”😂😂😂 I laughed so hard I had to pause the video to get my laugh out and pull myself together before I could continue. Thankyou for that bit of unexpected hilarity 😂
I was paused and stuck until you found the 3 in the corner. It was a glorious moment and it allowed me to finish! another excellent video and excellent puzzle.
2:04:52 - I know that’s quite a long time but I did it unaided and am very happy to have done so. I’m pretty sure I spotted the correct solve path but I’m obviously not as quick as Simon. Edit - Just watched the video and I did in fact solve it in a nearly identical way to Simon! I didn’t separate the 4/6s but other than that exactly the same path! Wow! Where would we be without all the lessons from Simon & Mark!
I’ve taken over 300 minutes to solve a puzzle that Simon solved in 50. Comparing your sudoku skills to Simon is like comparing your swimming speed to an Olympic competitor.
Simon has this nice calming tone to his voice that just makes you relax, so some puzzles get watched twice or more accurately one and a half times. Ann Reardon also has a soothing tone suitable for insomniacs, all help with this is very gratefully received.
The concept of 9 5 digit renbans combined with 9 5's per row, 9 5's per column, 9 5's per box is a very cool idea. You have to think, where else can it be applied? For example the dual version is German Whispers where you can't have a 5.
This will probably sound weird, but the break-in to this puzzle reminded me enormously of Simon placing the 3s in the original miracle sudoku back in 2020.
I did love watching this solve, and actually think that maybe just maybe I could solve it myself. I think I'll put it on my list. Thanks for the video, Simon, and your wonderful use of the word "axiomatic." I used it myself this evening and felt quite posh.
Aaand, here we go with another one of those hunt-and-peck puzzles... I got the initial pattern with the 5s, and the first part of the high/low coloring, but then it ground down to a crawl. It took me more than two hours to whittle the whole grid down to pairs, at which point I could _finally_ fix the parity with the black kropki. My total time was just shy of three hours (175 minutes). I don't know whether to be frustrated by it, or content that I could figure it out at all. I guess it's both, somehow.
23:31. Finding the 5s easy. Finding the 46s also easy. Then used colours to determine highs lows. Although which set was highs and which set lows still unsure. Probably got 60 percent coloured. Then figured out black dot had to be differing high low so either 48 or 36. Then tried to figure out of 36 would break but kept going and puzzle solved. Would have loved to use logic to see how 48 would break, but with solving so quickly I'm taking the W
Only the black dot disambiguates between high and low. I'm using D for green and F for yellow, and in general the letters for their rank or ten minus their rank. (I'm thinking of the letters as their rank, just because it's easier.) 17:50 The line under discussion, I penciled as 5FGHI because the green is my D. 32:00 Thanks, I followed that tactic. Your grey was my GHI, so I let X, Y, and Z be one each of G, H, and I. That allowed me to place C (37, blue) in R2C9 in block 3's line, because it saw all three of X, Y, and Z. I don't think I need X, Y, and Z further. Later: I finally finished the puzzle. At one point, I had to color AB pairs to fix an I. Thanks to the black dot, the letters turned out reversed.
The blue cell could have been either a blue 37 or a blue 28 - but only a blue 28 if the other uncolored cell could be the digit on the blue side of 5 that was between 28 and 46 or you would have a gap in the consecutive digits. i.e., the known blue cell could only be 28 if the other cell was also blue and was 37 but it sees a blue 37 in its column so it could not be blue 37. It could only be grey 37 or blue 28. Therefore the known blue could only be blue 37.
Super fun puzzle! Not one I could have done myself so I really enjoyed watching your solve. Whenever we're doing sudoku with letters and colors, I'm happy 😂
I loved this puzzle! It took me hours because I had to start over twice. I apparently made the same erroneous deduction twice 😆, but I didn't much mind the restarts because I was having so much fun!
I don't know yet how Simon did it, but after that I coloured the highs and low on the renbans when there is only a 4 or a 6... Another mini-puzzle in itself, but I needed letters as well to finish it off 😊
Yippee! My first ever successful solve using the software. Took 4 hours but still good fun. Made a dumb mistake early on which cost about an hour rolling back and forth til I found it.
Great puzzle, was a joy to solve. I couldnt find the "actual" way to disambiguate it but I could deduce but I could deduce that the only thing that could disambiguate the puzzle was the black dot and the way it would disambiguate anything was if the cell below the black dot was a 3.
41:37, my time makes this puzzle seem harder than it really is. For some reason, I thought r2c4 saw all of the cells of the purple line above it (must have knight's move constraint on my mind, lol) and thought I hit a wall. Also, for some reason, I was thinking that if there was a 4 on a line, that line had to have a 3 and vice versa with 6 and 7. No idea where I got that idea from. I really loved the break in using the 5s, then the white dots giving 4,6's. Just did a ton of coloring from there.
I find it interesting that very basic stuff is explained in great detail, more than once, but more complicated stuff isn't explained at all. e.g. @35:02 "Blue 37 must go on this line". Isn't particularly hard to figure out, but does require the combination of several ideas.
Got completely stuck on this one, tried for six hours until I had to watch Simon explain the main renban in box6 (at 29:05). Flowed pretty smoothly afterwards, I had most of the rest of the puzzle completely determined with colors by that point. Just a shame I got so bottlenecked at that one part that it made the rest of the puzzle not able to resolve.
Neat puzzle.. we've seen 9x5-length renbans in another puzzle on the channel recently, haven't we? I got monumentally stuck at the end because I talked myself to there only being one way to break the symmetry of the puzzle, and I was close, but not close enough.
Apparently 'renban' is Japanese for 'serial number' so I guess that's where it comes from. (I'm sure someone will correct me if I'm wrong on any of that.)
As far as I know there is a sudoku-like puzzle (which might be Japanese) called Renban where you have to fill an NxN grid (I don't know what does N equal to) such that each row and column contains the digits from 1 N exactly once and if a region is of size M then it contains digits from K to L exactly once in any order, where L - K = M and L >= 1; K
*oof* ... I had a decent start, but then I really bogged down and eventually took to some bifurcation to finish; even after getting to 'a' solution, I then backtracked to prove to myself that all other paths failed ... which took a while. When all was said and done, I clocked in at a time just under two hours (1:50:30). Two straight days where I struggled on the 'Simon' puzzle of the day, though at least I made it through this one (more or less). Nice puzzle!
I managed to solve it myself! (Though I had to get the starting hint that there were 9 renbans.) However, there were 2 places where I decided to brute force a 50/50 on top of a spot of faulty logic (failed to consider some numbers in square 3) though I managed to logic out where all the 4/6 spots figured out some extreme renbans and began coloring in high/low squares were before resorting to the brute force methods. The first one was figuring out which 4/6 was which. It led me into faulty logic, backed up tried again and found myself in another 50/50 (but so close to completion) where i brute forced again, with no more faulty logic. So I'm proud of myself. I want to see how Simon did it and what logic I should have used in the spots I brute forced. My time was 327:55 minutes
I just put 1234 onto the purple line which has a 5 on it in box 7. I thought I'd keep going until it worked or didn't work with box 3. When it didn't work I swapped all the 1s to 9s, 2s to 8s etc.
It "sees" all three grey options by the way it's positioned next to the line in box nine. Since it can't be grey, yellow or green, it's "absolutely" blue.
Because it had to be a gray digit (since the box already got all 3 blue digits elsewhere). Then since the line had blue 37 on it, it couldn’t have a gray 28 on it or it wouldn’t have been consecutive. For example, if you made it a 2, then blue 37 would become a 7 (since blue and gray are opposite polarity) and then you’d have 24567 on the renban, which isn’t consecutive. If you made it an 8, you would get 34568 on the line, which again isn’t consecutive. That cell had to be a gray 37 by sudoku and renban logic, but couldn’t be a 7 because of the black dot, therefore it was a 3. Another way to think about it is if there is a gray 28 on the line, then there also has to be a gray 37 on the line to stay consecutive with 456, but there was no space for another gray digit to be added to the line.
I'm failing to understand here (@33:33). [That line has both a yellow and a green 46] So, I'm thinking it was the same principle as that blue cell that happened on that other line that had "both yellow and green 46." The blue was found to be on that line in r3c6 , and he made that a 37 . [The blue 37 was looking at that other end -- just like in this case] So, why can't you conclude it's "37" like in that other case ealier? [For all intents and purposes blue and grey are interchangeable at this point] So, why not conclude that grey cell (with both 46s on it) isn't 37 like before??
Reference here @27:24 for that "other 37 case." [[Where the blue was found to be on that renban with "both yellow and green 46s," and he made that a "37." Why doesn't that apply here (for that gray cell in r5c2 later).?? [[@33:33 or less ]] Signed, Lost, lol.
Because row 8 column 3 cell is still unknown color at that point. If r8c3 is gray, then either of the gray cells could be 28 or 37, and since neither sees a gray 37, we can’t conclude which one is a gray 37. If r8c3 is blue, then it must be a blue 37 and the other cell would be a gray 37. But since that cell sees a blue 37, it can be concluded that it’s gray, but not which one is 28 and which one is 37.
For lines that contain 5 and a 46 pair if there is known to be only one of blue and grey then they both have to be 37 to keep the line consecutive. If you have 2 blue or 2 grey on the line you can't tell which one is 28 and which is 37 in that color. At this point in the video there was only one cell left of unknown color. If it was blue it had to be 37 and it saw a blue 37 so it had to be grey but its value was ambiguous due to there being 2 grey cells on the line - neither of which saw a grey 28 or grey 37 to disambiguate their nature.
31:03...anyone else see the meme about algebra and the devil? "And then satan said, lets put the alphabet in math" Simon just became the devil of sudoku. 😂😅
This puzzle can be solved a little bit more easily and more quickly by using *placeholder digits* to simplify your notation. *Placeholder digits* are symbols, like *colours* or *letters.* In this case, they stand for either themselves or 10 minus themselves. Notice that in this case *placeholders* are 👉not👈 as powerful as usual, but they do help significantly and they are fun to use. Just try. After placing all fives, use (for instance): *4* instead of yellow *46* *6* instead of green *46* *3* instead of grey *37* *7* instead of blue *37* ... Go on as long as possible ignoring the *black dot,* which is the only disambiguator available in the grid (white dots do not differentiate between N and 10 - N). You will be able to fill in the whole grid with *large-font placeholders.* Eventually, the *black dot* will allow you to switch to real digits. You will obtain either: *r3c8 = 3* (if you started with yellow=4) or *r3c8 = 7* (if you started with yellow=6) If you obtain *r3c8 = 7,* which is incompatible with the *black dot,* just use _y_ = 10 - _x_ to switch to the alternative configuration in a blink of an eye. You might still need *blue* and *grey* (I did) to differentiate more easily between *1-2-3* and *7-8-9,* and you might still need to use *letters* (I did not) to differentiate between flavours of *blue* and *grey,* but you will have fun with *simplified pencilmarking.*
👉In this case,👈 Simon's solve was undoubtedly brilliant, so I believe he was not significantly slowed down by his slightly more intricate pencilmarking. However, in *dozens* of previous CTC videos both Simon and Mark were *hugely* slowed down by *cumbersome* notation that could have been markedly simplified by using *placeholders.*
@@Paolo_De_Leva I appreciate the calmness of this explanation, and I agree with how you would propose to use it, and also with your observation that Simon's method was good in this puzzle. I have been thinking about why I and others don't like this method; as I have commented a few times on other CtC videos about it, I find it to be a bit of a risk that I will become confused about what switches to 10-n I have made and which I have not yet made, so that is one reason I have not tried it. Another concern that I have (and is probably one that other viewers would pick up on) is the similarity of this method to bifurcating. Simon and Mark do not favor bifurcation as a way to solve a puzzle into which beautiful logic has been placed by the creator, and even this method might obscure an aha moment that could possibly come sooner than the black dot (or whatever disambiguating method might be present) is finally able to shed its light. All that aside, I appreciate this video's explanations - thank you.
@@emilywilliams3237 It is not at all bi-fork-ation. It is *by definition* mono-fork-ation‼️ You only walk through one *prong* of the fork, while if you don't use *placeholders* you walk through *both* at the same time, which is not a smart call since the two prongs (i.e. logic pahts) are totally symmetric. You will never need to restart from scratch, not even if you initially choose the "wrong" logic prong. You will not lose any *aha moment.* You will just see it more clearly‼ No risk to be confused by the conversion to 10 - N. It is needed only *once,* and only if you are not lucky with your initial choice. In this case, at the very end of your solve, as already explained above.
Learning how to use *placeholder digits* is useful. It is an extremely powerful 💪💪💪 notation technique. It is *frequently* appliable in puzzles based on German whispers, renbans or rotationally symmetric clues. You can learn more about it by watching an enlightening CTC video by *Mark,* called _Mmm ... Muffins_ (8 october 2021)
WHAT A PUZZLE! I broke down my time stamps because I was curious not just in my total time, but when I made each breakthrough. 9:00 - 5's solved 20:00 - "Polarity" discovered 55:00 - Box 3 solved 69:34 - Puzzle solved
I really don't understand your compulsion to over-complicate your colouring. Every time you do it, you struggle to spot what would be really obvious with simple colouring. Why distinguish between yellow and grey? The only difference is that yellow is a 46, but you've pencil-marked 46 into the cell anyway. Just put "46" in the yellow squares, and make all greys yellow. That leaves you with just two colours to worry about, representing highs and lows, and lets you more easily spot when you've got all of a colour in a row/column/box. Very nice colouring puzzle, requiring most of the grid to be coloured before revealing which was which.
Similarly to yesterday’s puzzle, Simon’s not really consequent when it comes to using letters for pencil marks. Only using corner marks makes it more difficult than necessary, why not use center pencil marks or even full size letters the same as you would use numbers?
The middle box must have a 5 on a renban line(9 renban lines in the puzzle each 5 long),. If there is a 5 on r6c3 or r6c7 it would a 5 from being placed in the middle box.
Thanks for solving the puzzle. It is always a pleasure to see all the joy you have solving puzzles!
I see we have some mathematicians in the comments that got the reference from the pigeonhole principle 😉.
Congratulations my good friend. A well deserved feature.
This is a good video for those who would like to know more about it: ruclips.net/video/TCZ3YwbcDaw/видео.html
Very fun puzzle with fascinating geometry. 👏👏👏 My favourite type.
By the way, it allows for a pretty effective application of the *placeholder-digit* technique. You just need to ignore the *black dot* (which is the only disambiguator) until you fill in the whole grid with large-font *placeholders.* Eventually, you will obtain either
*r3c8 = 3* (if you started with yellow=4)
or
*r3c8 = 7* (if you started with yellow=6)
The latter is incompatible with the *black dot* and will require you to switch to the alternative configuration by using _y_ = 10 - _x._ You can do that in a blink of an eye, if you know how.
See my separate comment for details.
Thanks for sharing this puzzle - it is a pleasure to watch Simon have fun, isn't it?
Loved the puzzle, obviously. But can I just say that the new outro variation of the original music is beautiful! I really enjoy the outros now as well, even though the fun is over...
The name of the puzzle is likely a reference to the pigeonhole principle in maths, which states that if m pigeons are put into n holes, with m > n, there must be a hole with multiple pigeons in it. It's quite simple but something that can be used to great effect.
In this puzzle this is applicable to the 5s, if a 5 was not on a line, there would be a row/column/box with more than one 5 in it.
You got me! 😅
Your videos are also a cure for my insomnia, not because you're boring, but because they relax me and stop me from thinking about unpleasant things.
Same here. My anxiety always spikes when I try to sleep, but these videos are incredibly relaxing and distract me from bad lines of thought
It's a testament to how calming and enjoyable these are to watch. I'm also a member of the CTC insomnia cure crew (the CTCICC, if you will) and Simon's videos are huge for me being able to drift off if I'm having a bout of insomnia. I can't do it with any other show, music, or whatnot - just these puzzles.
Simon, you're an incredible presenter, and the fact that you have such a calming (some might say soothing) presentation style is incredible. Don't take these comments about insomnia as meaning you're not interesting. On the contrary! You create such a pleasantly engaging video it helps allow an anxious mind to settle.
As someone else commented, if I drift off, I simply rewind a few minutes and pick it up in the morning!
Exactly!!!
I love his voice almost as ASMR in the background while I work too!
Same i always watch a ctc to go to sleep but I always make sure to pick up where I left off the previous night so im not missing any good solves :^)
As someone who also sometimes falls asleep to these (and other videos), let me say it is not about being boring, quite the opposite. If it's boring I get irritated and less sleepy. To be a good candidate to fall asleep to, a presenter must be interesting enough to hold the attention. Personally, I also find videos where only one person is talking very helpful, and usually in a calm, pleasant way - no surprises just as I'm drifting off. I love your videos, and just go back and watch whatever I missed with my morning coffee.
This seems to be about the 6th favourite puzzle of Simon's this year already!! This suggests to me a livestream at the end of the year highlighting all of Simon's "favourite puzzles of the year" to see if he can determine his actual favourite. I enjoy the amount of enjoyment you get from solving a puzzle with colouring Simon!
Cruel! Chocolate ice cream? Chocolate mousse? Chocolate ganash cake? Chocolate éclair? Chocolate profiteroles?
How can one choose a favourite?!
@@MariaVlasiou True, but I would be fascinated to see Simon's re-reactions to them and see if their favourite title is retained after reflection and comparison with the other favourites. Wouldn't be upset if they all turned out as favourites. Also definitely chocolate éclair 🤣.
"I only drink out of my three favourite mugs, but if I'm drinking out of you, you are _definitely_ one of my favourite mugs..."
Simon & Mark make me feel like a mug on a daily basis. 😁
39:40 Simon: „That’s the first digit in the grid“
5‘s: „Are we a joke to you?“😢
😂
Rules: 04:44
Let's Get Cracking: 06:17
Simon's time: 38m00s
Puzzle Solved: 44:17
What about this video's Top Tier Simarkisms?!
Bobbins: 3x (12:16, 19:42, 19:42)
Three In the Corner: 1x (23:57)
And how about this video's Simarkisms?!
Ah: 10x (10:37, 13:01, 13:01, 20:51, 20:51, 25:23, 30:09, 33:24, 35:50, 42:14)
Brilliant: 6x (01:01, 01:11, 02:46, 03:02, 03:12, 03:12)
Hang On: 6x (20:05, 24:19, 28:04, 32:31, 40:49, 40:51)
Clever: 5x (07:08, 07:11, 10:45, 19:20, 44:25)
By Sudoku: 4x (23:32, 23:41, 34:59, 41:19)
Sorry: 3x (10:39, 10:39, 32:57)
Beautiful: 3x (15:22, 42:41, 44:10)
Goodness: 2x (32:38, 44:52)
In the Spotlight: 2x (24:02, 42:19)
Stuck: 2x (29:40, 30:16)
Deadly Pattern: 2x (43:30, 43:44)
Stunning: 2x (44:22, 44:22)
Obviously: 2x (09:15, 16:52)
Fabulous: 2x (36:22, 42:24)
Pencil Mark/mark: 2x (12:00, 31:18)
Cake!: 2x (02:48, 02:57)
Good Grief: 1x (15:08)
Axiomatically: 1x (31:49)
The Answer is: 1x (26:02)
Out of Nowhere: 1x (23:49)
Bingo: 1x (15:17)
I Have no Clue: 1x (00:54)
First Digit: 1x (39:41)
Corollary: 1x (11:19)
In Fact: 1x (22:46)
Which Means What?: 1x (34:22)
Wow: 1x (15:36)
Have a Think: 1x (28:04)
Nature: 1x (24:33)
Most popular number(>9), digit and colour this video:
Fifteen (2 mentions)
Three (84 mentions)
Blue (81 mentions)
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High (4) - Low (1)
Even (6) - Odd (0)
White (4) - Black (3)
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At about 12:20- Bobbins McBobbinsface. A novel varient. Edit: also at about 19:45
Further edit: 24:00 features "Green in the corner". Lots of novel simmarkisms today!
Good bot
"And that's our first digit in the puzzle"
All 5s are looking at each other, sad they aren't recognised by Simon :(
You have a quiet voice and a wholesome character that can calm a person down, or at least they would be able to do so if the videos weren't so amazing. I can't sleep while seeing a clue of sublime genius unravel itself on my screen.
Simon's enthusiasm for puzzles with logic that requires colouring is quite infectious :D
I felt very proud of myself for placing 5s, distinguishing 4-6 coloring, and identifying extreme renbans. But then I got quite stuck :( Time to see how Simon did it.
EDIT: It was the logic at 28:30, very clever, but I'm not sure I would have ever spotted it
Same here for the first part, starting to watch now
24:00 i mean look at his eyes when he sings the song. How can you not love Simon.
I got the initial fives almost in the opposite order, by considering that 5s can't appear on the black dot - something Simon is usually much more forthright in telling us!
Same here!
I was wondering why Simon kept ignoring the black dot.
I've learnt to expect Simon to do things the hard way. I think it helps him with the more difficult puzzles, but does make him over-look simpler paths. Then again, it can really depend on where you start looking and what you are thinking about at the time.
He was a bit tight-lipped with secret sharing today.. we must not be his favourite people?
@@Coldheart322 Recently (last 2 months or so) I've been giving all of the sudoku's that appear on the channel an honest try, in an effort to see if I could crack the more difficult puzzles as well, instead of just watching Simon do it.
What I've discovered is that I can usually find the solve path as quickly as Simon does... until I get stuck in a spot for a massive amount of time (usually 30-50 minutes) where I can't find how to continue and just keep looping over all the stuff I've already checked, re-checking and finding all the simpler logic, while the real key is some difficult deduction that I just fail to spot.
Simon continually trying to barge forward and find those hard deductions is actually something I imagine is born from all the experience he has had, and it's usually the best attitude to have.
In conclusion, I think he fails to check for simpler logic (naked singles/pairs) because that's often not the way forward, while most of the viewers spot them, because your instinct for where to find the hard deductions is less honed as a beginner.
Just a little thought of why Simon often seems to miss the simple paths from own experience
(or when he says "you're making me do sudoku so early in the puzzle?" haha)
Adorable mug!
A delightful diversion, thanks.
3’s, D’s, & Greens in the corner. What a treat.
Take the insomnia remedy as a compliment please! I bet it is not because you are boring, but because your voice is soo soothing.
I personally love - especially the film length ones - almost as ASMR in the background as I am working. Also with the risk of being drawn in when the puzzle is just too interesting..
That’s green in the corner 😂😂😂❤it!
Fun to note how important the black dot is to the unique solvability of this puzzle, since it's the only clue in the puzzle that won't work just as well if you flip the number line (that is to say, replace each digit "n" with its "10 - n" counterpart)...
Yeah. That's how I approached it. I just put 1234 onto the purple line which has a 5 on it in box 7. I thought I'd keep going until it worked or didn't work with box 3. When it didn't work I swapped all the 1s to 9s, 2s to 8s etc.
I’d realised quite early on that the black dot was going to be the disambiguater and was determined not to bifurcate until that point revealed itself. It took me over 2 hours but eventually, using letters once I’d sorted out the highs and lows, it fell into place.
“Thats green in the corner”😂😂😂
I laughed so hard I had to pause the video to get my laugh out and pull myself together before I could continue.
Thankyou for that bit of unexpected hilarity 😂
the let's get kraken mug made me 'crack' up 😂
I was paused and stuck until you found the 3 in the corner. It was a glorious moment and it allowed me to finish! another excellent video and excellent puzzle.
The best sentence I heard this month: 'its more extreme on the green side of five'
😄
I laughed so hard at your comment.
2:04:52 - I know that’s quite a long time but I did it unaided and am very happy to have done so. I’m pretty sure I spotted the correct solve path but I’m obviously not as quick as Simon.
Edit - Just watched the video and I did in fact solve it in a nearly identical way to Simon! I didn’t separate the 4/6s but other than that exactly the same path! Wow! Where would we be without all the lessons from Simon & Mark!
I’ve taken over 300 minutes to solve a puzzle that Simon solved in 50. Comparing your sudoku skills to Simon is like comparing your swimming speed to an Olympic competitor.
“That’s why Rebecca goes to sleep” could be a new catchphrase.
What a fun coloring extravaganza! I enjoyed solving this one. :-)
Simon has this nice calming tone to his voice that just makes you relax, so some puzzles get watched twice or more accurately one and a half times. Ann Reardon also has a soothing tone suitable for insomniacs, all help with this is very gratefully received.
The concept of 9 5 digit renbans combined with 9 5's per row, 9 5's per column, 9 5's per box is a very cool idea.
You have to think, where else can it be applied? For example the dual version is German Whispers where you can't have a 5.
Hey, I wanna solve THAT now!
I always love a Miky puzzle. Great job!!
Thanks for the kind words! 😊
This will probably sound weird, but the break-in to this puzzle reminded me enormously of Simon placing the 3s in the original miracle sudoku back in 2020.
I'm a bit behind with puzzles....not weird at all. I had exactly the same thought!
I did love watching this solve, and actually think that maybe just maybe I could solve it myself. I think I'll put it on my list. Thanks for the video, Simon, and your wonderful use of the word "axiomatic." I used it myself this evening and felt quite posh.
Love how you constantly cherish Simon's vocabulary usage. 😁
@@davidrattner9 haha I do love a good word! And it goes to show how rich this channel is!
@@davidrattner9 ditto!
Aaand, here we go with another one of those hunt-and-peck puzzles...
I got the initial pattern with the 5s, and the first part of the high/low coloring, but then it ground down to a crawl. It took me more than two hours to whittle the whole grid down to pairs, at which point I could _finally_ fix the parity with the black kropki. My total time was just shy of three hours (175 minutes).
I don't know whether to be frustrated by it, or content that I could figure it out at all. I guess it's both, somehow.
23:31. Finding the 5s easy. Finding the 46s also easy. Then used colours to determine highs lows. Although which set was highs and which set lows still unsure. Probably got 60 percent coloured. Then figured out black dot had to be differing high low so either 48 or 36. Then tried to figure out of 36 would break but kept going and puzzle solved. Would have loved to use logic to see how 48 would break, but with solving so quickly I'm taking the W
You're very welcome, Simon. Glad you like it.
You are so smart. Your chanel is really good. Thank you for your videos. I have such a good time watching those 👍
Only the black dot disambiguates between high and low. I'm using D for green and F for yellow, and in general the letters for their rank or ten minus their rank. (I'm thinking of the letters as their rank, just because it's easier.)
17:50 The line under discussion, I penciled as 5FGHI because the green is my D.
32:00 Thanks, I followed that tactic. Your grey was my GHI, so I let X, Y, and Z be one each of G, H, and I. That allowed me to place C (37, blue) in R2C9 in block 3's line, because it saw all three of X, Y, and Z. I don't think I need X, Y, and Z further.
Later: I finally finished the puzzle. At one point, I had to color AB pairs to fix an I. Thanks to the black dot, the letters turned out reversed.
What is the logic at 29:00 for placing the 37 pair? Why can't it also be 28?
The blue cell could have been either a blue 37 or a blue 28 - but only a blue 28 if the other uncolored cell could be the digit on the blue side of 5 that was between 28 and 46 or you would have a gap in the consecutive digits. i.e., the known blue cell could only be 28 if the other cell was also blue and was 37 but it sees a blue 37 in its column so it could not be blue 37. It could only be grey 37 or blue 28. Therefore the known blue could only be blue 37.
@@afanofosc ta a lot!
Super fun puzzle! Not one I could have done myself so I really enjoyed watching your solve. Whenever we're doing sudoku with letters and colors, I'm happy 😂
50:19! This was extremely lovely!
115:35 for me. Wow that was a fun one !
Love the Let's Get Kraken mug! :D
I loved this puzzle! It took me hours because I had to start over twice. I apparently made the same erroneous deduction twice 😆, but I didn't much mind the restarts because I was having so much fun!
"D in the corner," deserves the song way more than, "green in the corner." haha
47:05 for me. I had to slow down when I was tearing through the puzzle so I could stop and see how to disambiguate between the two runs.
I only managed to get the 5s and coloured 4-6 pairs. Couldn't figure out the rest but that was a nice mini-puzzle in itself.
I don't know yet how Simon did it, but after that I coloured the highs and low on the renbans when there is only a 4 or a 6... Another mini-puzzle in itself, but I needed letters as well to finish it off 😊
That is an awesome mug!
Very beautiful puzzle.
Yippee! My first ever successful solve using the software. Took 4 hours but still good fun. Made a dumb mistake early on which cost about an hour rolling back and forth til I found it.
29:30 - Row 3 column 6 - The blue must be 37 so the other is 2378. Surely it can be 2378?
Blue 28 or grey 37
I really like this puzzle. 5 is my favorite sudoku number and it’s good to see it get some attention. (Is that weird?) 🤔
Not weird at all!!! Makes you part of who you are. 🙂
@@davidrattner9 🤗😊
Great puzzle, was a joy to solve. I couldnt find the "actual" way to disambiguate it but I could deduce but I could deduce that the only thing that could disambiguate the puzzle was the black dot and the way it would disambiguate anything was if the cell below the black dot was a 3.
55:44 for me. i made too many mistakes for it to be a good time. But solved it and it counts too.
41:37, my time makes this puzzle seem harder than it really is. For some reason, I thought r2c4 saw all of the cells of the purple line above it (must have knight's move constraint on my mind, lol) and thought I hit a wall. Also, for some reason, I was thinking that if there was a 4 on a line, that line had to have a 3 and vice versa with 6 and 7. No idea where I got that idea from.
I really loved the break in using the 5s, then the white dots giving 4,6's. Just did a ton of coloring from there.
I find it interesting that very basic stuff is explained in great detail, more than once, but more complicated stuff isn't explained at all.
e.g. @35:02 "Blue 37 must go on this line". Isn't particularly hard to figure out, but does require the combination of several ideas.
I thought he described it quite clearly at that point in the video.
I loved the excitement he got when he got the green in the corner which could also work with the song 🤣🤣🤣
Act 1 Starts about 4:35.
Act 2 Starts at 15:21. All the 5s have been placed and spoilers, all white dots are next to fives.
about 24 minutes in, the Yellow/Green indications of 4/6 that the white dots necessitate, oh boy, it's quite the show.
Very fun puzzle! Not easy but pretty enjoyable. The name "pigeonhole" is a big hint!
Got completely stuck on this one, tried for six hours until I had to watch Simon explain the main renban in box6 (at 29:05). Flowed pretty smoothly afterwards, I had most of the rest of the puzzle completely determined with colors by that point. Just a shame I got so bottlenecked at that one part that it made the rest of the puzzle not able to resolve.
Neat puzzle.. we've seen 9x5-length renbans in another puzzle on the channel recently, haven't we?
I got monumentally stuck at the end because I talked myself to there only being one way to break the symmetry of the puzzle, and I was close, but not close enough.
51:38 for me. Brilliant puzzle!
Apparently 'renban' is Japanese for 'serial number' so I guess that's where it comes from. (I'm sure someone will correct me if I'm wrong on any of that.)
As far as I know there is a sudoku-like puzzle (which might be Japanese) called Renban where you have to fill an NxN grid (I don't know what does N equal to) such that each row and column contains the digits from 1 N exactly once and if a region is of size M then it contains digits from K to L exactly once in any order, where L - K = M and L >= 1; K
Simon: “How do we stop this one being green?”
Me: 🎶it’s not easy being green🎶
A puzzle so wonderful it got not only one song but two
It took me so long to find everything that I'm sure there's another way to do it. Finished in 58:55, gonna check the video for the proper solution now
35:50 #6,294 of things you'll hear ONLY on this channel: "Then we get like an X-Wing of blue 3 7s that we can't fix."
Also, where is the 3 in the corner confetti gone?
*oof* ... I had a decent start, but then I really bogged down and eventually took to some bifurcation to finish; even after getting to 'a' solution, I then backtracked to prove to myself that all other paths failed ... which took a while. When all was said and done, I clocked in at a time just under two hours (1:50:30).
Two straight days where I struggled on the 'Simon' puzzle of the day, though at least I made it through this one (more or less).
Nice puzzle!
I managed to solve it myself! (Though I had to get the starting hint that there were 9 renbans.) However, there were 2 places where I decided to brute force a 50/50 on top of a spot of faulty logic (failed to consider some numbers in square 3) though I managed to logic out where all the 4/6 spots figured out some extreme renbans and began coloring in high/low squares were before resorting to the brute force methods. The first one was figuring out which 4/6 was which. It led me into faulty logic, backed up tried again and found myself in another 50/50 (but so close to completion) where i brute forced again, with no more faulty logic. So I'm proud of myself. I want to see how Simon did it and what logic I should have used in the spots I brute forced. My time was 327:55 minutes
I just put 1234 onto the purple line which has a 5 on it in box 7. I thought I'd keep going until it worked or didn't work with box 3. When it didn't work I swapped all the 1s to 9s, 2s to 8s etc.
Simon, You are not a cure for insomnia, you are a conduit of puzzling ASMR.
Totally lost with the 4-6:s. And i can't follow the logic around 26:00 - 27:00.
Some puzzles are just too hard...
Finished in 28:32 by following along with the video.
Hey,i i have bought your sudoku games on steam - is it any way to reset progress? i've played it some time ago but want to start from scratch
Why not just use all green and all yellow? Much easier to follow. Nice puzzle!
22:40 Simon declares that r8c8 is "absolutely blue". Why?
It "sees" all three grey options by the way it's positioned next to the line in box nine. Since it can't be grey, yellow or green, it's "absolutely" blue.
@@lynnaekruis499 ah, yes, of course. Many thx.
I didn’t understand the logic at 39:42 on why row 3 column 8 had to be a 3 and not a 2 or 8… I’m still trying to learn 😅😅
Because it had to be a gray digit (since the box already got all 3 blue digits elsewhere). Then since the line had blue 37 on it, it couldn’t have a gray 28 on it or it wouldn’t have been consecutive.
For example, if you made it a 2, then blue 37 would become a 7 (since blue and gray are opposite polarity) and then you’d have 24567 on the renban, which isn’t consecutive. If you made it an 8, you would get 34568 on the line, which again isn’t consecutive. That cell had to be a gray 37 by sudoku and renban logic, but couldn’t be a 7 because of the black dot, therefore it was a 3.
Another way to think about it is if there is a gray 28 on the line, then there also has to be a gray 37 on the line to stay consecutive with 456, but there was no space for another gray digit to be added to the line.
Thank you for taking the time to explain. It totally makes sense now !! 😊
I'm failing to understand here (@33:33).
[That line has both a yellow and a green 46]
So, I'm thinking it was the same principle as that blue cell that happened on that other line that had "both yellow and green 46."
The blue was found to be on that line in r3c6 , and he made that a 37 .
[The blue 37 was looking at that other end -- just like in this case]
So, why can't you conclude it's "37" like in that other case ealier?
[For all intents and purposes blue and grey are interchangeable at this point]
So, why not conclude that grey cell (with both 46s on it) isn't 37 like before??
Reference here @27:24 for that "other 37 case."
[[Where the blue was found to be on that renban with "both yellow and green 46s," and he made that a "37."
Why doesn't that apply here (for that gray cell in r5c2 later).??
[[@33:33 or less ]]
Signed,
Lost, lol.
@33:58
I see, one of those two gray cells are a 37.
I guess.
I don't know lol
😂🤔🤔
Because row 8 column 3 cell is still unknown color at that point. If r8c3 is gray, then either of the gray cells could be 28 or 37, and since neither sees a gray 37, we can’t conclude which one is a gray 37.
If r8c3 is blue, then it must be a blue 37 and the other cell would be a gray 37. But since that cell sees a blue 37, it can be concluded that it’s gray, but not which one is 28 and which one is 37.
For lines that contain 5 and a 46 pair if there is known to be only one of blue and grey then they both have to be 37 to keep the line consecutive. If you have 2 blue or 2 grey on the line you can't tell which one is 28 and which is 37 in that color. At this point in the video there was only one cell left of unknown color. If it was blue it had to be 37 and it saw a blue 37 so it had to be grey but its value was ambiguous due to there being 2 grey cells on the line - neither of which saw a grey 28 or grey 37 to disambiguate their nature.
20:33 for me. Great puzzle!!
Of course it’s one of Simon’s favorite puzzles if he gets to color it in
A quick google search to answer your question of why we call them Renban Lines says that Renban (連番) means “Serial number”
I thought I would solve this very quickly because I noticed the trick with the 5s early. It took me quite a long time after that😅.
31:03...anyone else see the meme about algebra and the devil?
"And then satan said, lets put the alphabet in math"
Simon just became the devil of sudoku. 😂😅
This puzzle can be solved a little bit more easily and more quickly by using *placeholder digits* to simplify your notation.
*Placeholder digits* are symbols, like *colours* or *letters.* In this case, they stand for either themselves or 10 minus themselves.
Notice that in this case *placeholders* are 👉not👈 as powerful as usual, but they do help significantly and they are fun to use. Just try.
After placing all fives, use (for instance):
*4* instead of yellow *46*
*6* instead of green *46*
*3* instead of grey *37*
*7* instead of blue *37*
...
Go on as long as possible ignoring the *black dot,* which is the only disambiguator available in the grid (white dots do not differentiate between N and 10 - N). You will be able to fill in the whole grid with *large-font placeholders.* Eventually, the *black dot* will allow you to switch to real digits. You will obtain either:
*r3c8 = 3* (if you started with yellow=4)
or
*r3c8 = 7* (if you started with yellow=6)
If you obtain *r3c8 = 7,* which is incompatible with the *black dot,* just use _y_ = 10 - _x_ to switch to the alternative configuration in a blink of an eye.
You might still need *blue* and *grey* (I did) to differentiate more easily between *1-2-3* and *7-8-9,* and you might still need to use *letters* (I did not) to differentiate between flavours of *blue* and *grey,* but you will have fun with *simplified pencilmarking.*
👉In this case,👈 Simon's solve was undoubtedly brilliant, so I believe he was not significantly slowed down by his slightly more intricate pencilmarking.
However, in *dozens* of previous CTC videos both Simon and Mark were *hugely* slowed down by *cumbersome* notation that could have been markedly simplified by using *placeholders.*
@@Paolo_De_Leva I appreciate the calmness of this explanation, and I agree with how you would propose to use it, and also with your observation that Simon's method was good in this puzzle. I have been thinking about why I and others don't like this method; as I have commented a few times on other CtC videos about it, I find it to be a bit of a risk that I will become confused about what switches to 10-n I have made and which I have not yet made, so that is one reason I have not tried it. Another concern that I have (and is probably one that other viewers would pick up on) is the similarity of this method to bifurcating. Simon and Mark do not favor bifurcation as a way to solve a puzzle into which beautiful logic has been placed by the creator, and even this method might obscure an aha moment that could possibly come sooner than the black dot (or whatever disambiguating method might be present) is finally able to shed its light. All that aside, I appreciate this video's explanations - thank you.
@@emilywilliams3237 It is not at all bi-fork-ation. It is *by definition* mono-fork-ation‼️
You only walk through one *prong* of the fork, while if you don't use *placeholders* you walk through *both* at the same time, which is not a smart call since the two prongs (i.e. logic pahts) are totally symmetric.
You will never need to restart from scratch, not even if you initially choose the "wrong" logic prong.
You will not lose any *aha moment.* You will just see it more clearly‼
No risk to be confused by the conversion to 10 - N. It is needed only *once,* and only if you are not lucky with your initial choice. In this case, at the very end of your solve, as already explained above.
Learning how to use *placeholder digits* is useful.
It is an extremely powerful 💪💪💪 notation technique. It is *frequently* appliable in puzzles based on German whispers, renbans or rotationally symmetric clues.
You can learn more about it by watching an enlightening CTC video by *Mark,* called _Mmm ... Muffins_ (8 october 2021)
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It seems if you deduce the dot combination to be 4:2, you can get the puzzle down to 3 squares before you realize that you royally screwed up…
WHAT A PUZZLE! I broke down my time stamps because I was curious not just in my total time, but when I made each breakthrough.
9:00 - 5's solved
20:00 - "Polarity" discovered
55:00 - Box 3 solved
69:34 - Puzzle solved
I really don't understand your compulsion to over-complicate your colouring. Every time you do it, you struggle to spot what would be really obvious with simple colouring. Why distinguish between yellow and grey? The only difference is that yellow is a 46, but you've pencil-marked 46 into the cell anyway. Just put "46" in the yellow squares, and make all greys yellow. That leaves you with just two colours to worry about, representing highs and lows, and lets you more easily spot when you've got all of a colour in a row/column/box.
Very nice colouring puzzle, requiring most of the grid to be coloured before revealing which was which.
42:04 for me.
Sad music after a beautiful solve?
Similarly to yesterday’s puzzle, Simon’s not really consequent when it comes to using letters for pencil marks. Only using corner marks makes it more difficult than necessary, why not use center pencil marks or even full size letters the same as you would use numbers?
Did...did you say Bobbins McBobbinsface?
comes from: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boaty_McBoatface
I don't think I've ever seen the nightmare constraint on this channel.
I think it happened once, a few weeks (months?) ago, and “knightmare” appeared in the title of the puzzle, solved by Mark, if I am not mistaken…
This is the Best Mug Shot Ever!!!!! 😁😁😁 (yes I know)
The deduction that starts att 11:17... I could not follow the logic.
The middle box must have a 5 on a renban line(9 renban lines in the puzzle each 5 long),. If there is a 5 on r6c3 or r6c7 it would a 5 from being placed in the middle box.
It's too bad that 'Losing My Religion' was not on R.E.M.'s 'Green' album.
I find the weak assonance enjoyed by ''three'' and ''green'', scant excuse for an REM dirge.
I predict you'll have a puzzle that could re-use this title in exactly 269 days
Ah, the downsides of becoming famous! Now Simon's getting mugged by his viewers!
Took me four hours, but I did it!
連番 (renban) -- Lit. Serial Number