I don't think Simon understands some of our commitments to watching this him and Mark. If they released a 6 hour long video of a magnificent puzzle, I will 100% sit and watch it. Or half a day long. Or even a day and a half. I would definitely watch it all the way through without blinking.
1:18 Please let it be on the channel. For us that don't do sudoku the ruleset is not a problem because when we see you solve it we understand more of it together with you.
Took me over an hour because I didn't properly read the rule about uniqueness on the snakes! Made a world of difference. 77 of your featured puzzles completed
28:35 who else was screaming here for Simon to remember the final rule about the number in the "rock" in the central cell?? It immediately rules out 2-6 from the 26 snake
The 'no 6 in a snake' caught me out too! Was stuck for ages on pairs and triples left, scanning and rescanning. Amazing that a simple part of rule gives the resolution at the end. Great approachable puzzle!
Always amazes me how Simon sometimes instantly notices details that take me 20 minutes to spot. But it does not remove the fun of this awesome puzzle :)
Amazing. I often give so much credit to Simon but should give it to the setters as much or more. I love how there are so many puzzles which have new ideas for the advance rules. Hard enough to think of the rules for bendy x-sum snake puzzles but TheDiMono also set a super clever puzzle based on it.
I really appreciate the thoughtfulness of both of you. It made sense to create the "Wordle in a Minute" challenge. And it makes sense (for RUclips) to not provide too many "customization" features like setting a custom thumbnail. And it is understandable that people wouldn't want a spoiler from the auto-generated thumbnails. So I think recording the video today but only releasing it the day after is a very reasonable and perfectly suited solution.
46:22 for me! I admit I needed Simon's help a few times, though. I just don't see all the same things he does (although I sometimes see things earlier than he does). My last fatal glitch was not seeing that the domino in box 1 that needed to add to 8 couldn't be (1,7) - which Simon saw immediately at 39:47. I'll keep practicing and perhaps eventually I'll humbly approach these higher echelons of genius! Thanks for another great video. I love the X-Snake Sums and the logic that was needed to establish the first cell of each snake. Great fun.
I loved the setting and solving here! I love the rulesets that are almost whole stories with lots of imagery like this. And to make bendy X-sums is cool as well. Great vid as usual!
A beautiful solve for a beautiful puzzle. Right about at 28:00 I started saying, "you can't put a 6 in it," on repeat. You noticed that on another snake at 29:00 so I got a chuckle. Then came back to other one with the realization about 6 a minute later. It was quite amusing to watch, and that is entirely because I am always forgetting effects from complex rules while trying to think through the rest of the puzzle.
That was fun. I normally struggle with the pencil puzzle variants but got through this in 37 minutes which is close enough to Simon's time to count as respectable.
This is such a fun-seeming puzzle. I think I will take my courage in my hands and try it myself after a day or two, when my exact memory of how Simon did it will have faded somewhat. I especially liked that the creation of the snakes did not seem to be terrifically hard - their direction and constraints seem very understandable. Of course, everything is understandable when Simon explains it, demonstrates it, explains it some more, and solves the puzzle with such enjoyment. Thanks, Simon, for this video.
Once I reached the position at 39:39 in the video, it didn't occur to me to try to resolve the 21 snake; instead, I proceeded to finish this one off with some rather Simonesque convoluted logic. First, I noticed that, if r8c3 is not 6, we get deadly 1-4 pairs in c2-3. So, I assumed that r8c3 *isn't* 6, expecting this to break the puzzle, which of course it did: It means that r8c1 = 6, so r4c1 = 5 & r3c1 = 1, which I found made it impossible to fill in all of r1c1, r3c2, & r3c4. Then I realized that the key was a bent triple in boxes 1 & 2: Since r3c2 = 3 or 7, there must be a 1 in either r1c1 or r3c4; r3c1 sees both of those cells, and thus cannot = 1. (The same goes for r1c6, btw. Recognizing either of these quickly leads to the solution.) 😃 Then I just had to check the end of the video to see if Simon also used the bent triple to finish the solve--only to find that he'd used a simpler, more obvious method!🙄
Sudoku Simon! On the 10 clue at the top - "ooh, that can't be 3 any more", you proceed to use geometrical constraints to prove it. Far easier, would have been to use the 35 pair in the row. Why were you trying to put 26 on a snake after working out that the rock was 6? You then pencil-marked a 67 in a box containing a 78 pair, and said you couldn't resolve it. You have eyes Simon, please use them. A very nice puzzle to mark the return of one of my favourite constructors. There's always a sense of fun with a DiMono puzzle, and this was no exception.
Got it in 37:28, and... I used unique solvability. I am both proud of seeing it and ashamed of using it. I didn't see that you could eliminate the 1/7 possibility in the 21 X-Sum, but as it turns out, if r8c1 is a 9, then you get an unresolvable X-Wing of 1's and 4's in rows 5 and 8 and columns 2 and 3.
It's fascinating to see the way Simon's brain works. At 28:26, he doesn't discount the 2+6 adding to 8 combination even though there's the 6 in the center circle. But then 34 seconds later, he realizes that the 6 in the center restricts the yellow 13 snake immediately XD In NO WAY meant as a shot. Just interesting to see how the mind categorizes things.
I remember noticing that. He didn't hesitate to eliminate the possibility of a 6 from the yellow 13 snake, yet neglected that rule so many other times.
This was a very hard solve for me, so I am very proud. I had most of the snakes-parts 10 minutes in, but then I was wrestling with b6&9 for ages. I probably missed some easy spot, even though I came to a point, where I thought I had analyzed all revealed parts thoroughly through. Big fun to see the rest unfold after I nailed the 8 in b9.
20:00 There weren't so many possibilities to exhaust but you can determine which cell is snake in box 5 without exhausting them using checker coloring - if you take an odd number of orthogonal steps on a checkerboard from a given starting point you will always land on the same color square, so therefore the head of a 5-length snake must be the same color as the tail (and while the rules as-written technically would allow the one cell in the box to not be the head, that obviously wouldn't be possible in the available off-color cell since it's mid-edge and so would be a dead end)
26:26 why can’t the 5 go top left of that box? EDIT: never mind, there’s a 5,7 pair above the top left, blocking 5. Missed it as I’m watching on my phone and the pencil marking is really small, lol.
took me just a hair under 50 minutes, so not too shabby! fabulous puzzle, i do enjoy shifting back and forth between sudoku and space-filling sorts of rules :)
Whew! Finished it in 112:22 over the course of two days. I didn't think I was going to get it but I kept finding little things. My path had me both starting and ending with finding a bent triple. Not easy!
26:26... Something useful, look at the >7 clue, what is the longest that snake can be? 6, therefore you can reduce that blue box to 2 or 5 because it can not fit 7,8, or 9 because of all the green blocks in the way. 28:28 ... "6s can not go in snakes" "I can put a 2,6 in this snake"... yup you can definitely put a number you can't put into the snake into the snake... That is probably exactly the reason that rule is there to make a unique solution by nullifying the option of a 2/6 pair ... To lazy to check but I bet if 6 wasn't blocked out from that snake via the rules it might have multiple solutions.
This was a really cool sudoku. My only issue is that he says they are racing toward the rock in the middle but a couple of them (the 10 snake and the 6 snake) are actually not moving in the direction, which would have made this something I'd never be able to complete because I'd keep trying to ensure they were actually moving in that direction.
10:47 you mention in the rules the are racing "TOWARDS" the rock. So, can the 2/4 go up? I'm assuming this breaks the puzzle. But the rules are confusing. Those words are either unneeded or confusing.
Hello, so I have been doing these fun puzzles for a bit now, but I realized I jumped ahead, I don't know all the techniques and tricks you need to do that "fundemntal" sudoko stuff, it takes me the most time now even after figuring out a way to get things going, does anyone know of good resrouces where one can practice techniques? reading about them was not as helpful as I had hoped.
This channel and particularly Simon's videos will certainly help you. You need to give it some time though before you can get familiar with different techniques. Also, don't hesitate to join this Channel's Discord server. It's a great community with setters and solvers always ready to help each other!
The hosts on this channel do try to explain bits of logic to you, but they are not really a how-to-solve channel, per se. It's more of a learn-by-observing-and-doing format here. For detailed instruction, I recommend the *Sudoku Swami* . He has a great series of tutorials that explain all the major kinds of logical patterns in a very comprehensible way (although he does get quite repetitive, and maybe a bit arrogant, in my opinion). There are also any number of good sudoku-focused websites, with good text-and-imaged based rundowns on patterns and techniques, and sudoku solvers and other helper apps. Any number of them will pop up if you search for the name of a technique, such as "sudoku swordfish".
Accidentally solved it on hard mode. Missed the restriction that digits do not repeat within snakes and it's still uniquely solvable, however, it did take me 61 minutes.
Very much enjoyed the video, though for me the yellow cells and green cells look very similar. I know some puzzles essentially require the use of all 9 colors, but when possible it might be a good idea to avoid yellow on green in the future?
Scott Strosahl also does a daily wordle YT Short video, I wonder if he also delays them by a day, but I do know that his thumbnails for those don't tend to be the solution, I think? So maybe ask him if he's doing anything to control that.
15:09... Or an easier way of seeing is can't be 3 is the fact you already had a 3,5 pair in that row which forced it to be a 2,8 pair because 3 was already taken.
I am new to watching your channel, although I have seen quite a few this week. I would like to understand how you figured out which snake touched the rock. I missed the logic there. I followed a lot of the rest of your explanations. Thank you for the fun of watching you solve these puzzles.
He got a 3-5 pair in the pink and yellow snakes tails, so one of these snakes had to be 5-cells long and that one would have to extend into box 5 Then he got a 3 placed in r9c5 so the pink snake at the top was the 5-cell one to touch the rock
Do the snakes have to move towards the rock. Or can they go away from it. Can't find a solution if they have to move towards it. IE can the 13 move to the left at the start. The rules are not clear enough on the limits of the puzzle.
Do the middle ones like the 13 have to go straight up. The rules are very badly stated. Can there be more than one in the middle or can only one touch the rock? None of this is stated clearly. People shouldn't have to assume.
The two cells snake from the top right is racing AWAY from the rock. Isn't this a break of the "The snakes are racing to the grey rock in the centre of the pit (grid!)"?
@@ajaxmajor Since it couldn't be a one cell snake, by a certain point it couldn't be 2, 3 or 4 either, due to other digits in the grid, and couldn't be 6 because 6 was the rock digit. It was then forced to be 5 cells that could only be drawn one way. It's final interaction with the puzzle was that you couldn't put 6 in any of those five snake cells.
31:27 finish. I completely missed r1c1 preventing it from being a 1-7 pair in the 21 clue. Instead I spotted the bent triple in r1c1, r3c1, and r3c7, eliminating a 7 from r3c2. Oops! Another fun puzzle to get me thinking!
I didn't read the rules carefully and did not catch that the digit in the stone can't appear in any of the snakes. After 1,5+ hours of desperation I looked at Simons solve for help and got the missing ruleset. It was therefore rather frustrating solve but I only have myself to blame. I was a nice puzzle regardless
Today's Sudoku-In-A-Song: Su Do Ku Bins booby bobbins bins Comma comma bins booby bobbins bins Comma comma bins booby bobbins bins Sudoku is hard to do Don't take that square away from me Cos my snake must be of length three Therefore this square must be blue Sudoku is hard to do (apologies to Neil Sedaka)
Alas, I almost solved the puzzle, but i realized I broke it right at the end, because I misunderstood the Greater Than sign as a Less Than sign. So, I ended at 54:23 in.
I just started watching, and Simon pencil-marked a cell with everything excluding 1???? Did I literally die while in the bathroom? Because I can't imagine any alternative to that for why Simon would have performed such a pencil-mark.
'wonders if we will ever see a normal sudoku again' :p - Normal 'just digit' sudoku seem way too easy now after doing a lot of these no given digit variations - even The NY Times hard sudoku takes only a few minutes to solve
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Nice puzzle, great solve. But, your typos are driving me crazy. Are you doing this on purpose? ;-)
That was a brilliant puzzle which I very much enjoyed. The only thing that bothers me with these colouring puzzles is your reluctance to use yellow. I don't think it is a problem for colour blindness but I could be wrong. Please, more yellow, especially in preference to grey.
I can tell yellow from green just fine, but there are colour-blind people who can't. There's already a comment before yours on this very puzzle, by Matthew Bouyack, stating he wishes Simon would try to avoid using green and yellow, wherever possible. I've seen other people say they cannot tell blue and purple apart. Simple fact is he's never going to be able to please everyone with his colour choices.
@@RichSmith77 fair enough. Yellow is my favourite colour on this palette. I fortunately am not colourblind so it's hard for me to fully appreciate the issue.
ruclips.net/video/FR5IWoCgYnE/видео.html I don't understand the justification for removing '1' here. Why can't '1' be anywhere in the 19 x-snake and in the central cell at the same time?
Is it me, or were the instructions slightly misleading? They said the snakes are racing to the rock, implying they were taking the shortest possible route to the middle... but they don't all...
@@andrewpalmer5189 Yeah, I got what you meant. I was just being a bit facetious. The mental image I had of rigidly straight snakes jetting around was too amusing not to post. 🐍 For a more serious reply, I don't think it's misleading. "Racing" does not necessarily imply taking a straight-line course, especially if you are imagining squirmy creatures like snakes, and a field full of rocks. I read it as them all searching semi-blindly for a route that would take them to the center. And the rules do flat-out say that the paths are "bendy", so you have to assume they could wander in any direction. There's no need to complicate it beyond that.
I hate the new Shorts format. RUclips's forté is long-format video, and trying to piggyback its own attempt at a TikTok clone on top of it is stupid. At the very least the shorts should be split off as a separate, dedicated service.
Hi Simon. A few points about the Wordle videos. Firstly, the video images themselves often give away the actual guess or a lot of correct letters, which seems a shame. Second, the videos were far better in their old format. It is much harder to pause in shorts and it also makes the image issue worse, since the videos are so unreliable that you often have to go back and re-click on them. Finally, is there any way of separating the Wordle videos from the main content, it would definitely make things easier to see/find. You may want to pass this on to Mark as well, for his info. Thanks.
For your first point, hasn't he just explained that they cannot choose the thumbnail of a short video? Which is why Mark posts his Wordle shorts the next day to make sure he doesn't spoil anyone who would want to try it themselves.
@@pouletbelette That’s kind of what I was getting at. The videos were initially in the usual format but there was a problem with image spoilers even then (I’m not at all familiar with the term ‘thumbnail’), presumably because of the intended conversion to ‘short’ format. It’s a nuisance for anyone who wants to watch the video and guess themselves, no matter what day it is for.
@@joelstevens5670 if I understand you correctly and you want to guess the word, you should go on to wordle each day rather than relying on the short. You can watch the short the next day to see how Mark's attempt compares to your own. That's what I do anyway. x
@@orosma868 Thanks for your helpful comment. You are right of course, I’m just a bit slow to download things like apps due to my struggles with tech and confidence. I wasn’t expecting anything either as more often than not there isn’t a perfect answer (as is again the case). But at least it does give me something to consider. Thanks again. :)
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Thank you for the feature! It is always humbling to see one of my puzzles appear on the channel. I'm glad you enjoyed it!
Everything is Wrogn is one of my favorite puzzles too. Nice job, DiMono!
Snake Pit is pretty fun too! 👍👍👍
Nice puzzle 😎.
Thanks for this puzzle - very elegant, as Simon says.
Great puzzle - I would have called it Fertilisation
I don't think Simon understands some of our commitments to watching this him and Mark. If they released a 6 hour long video of a magnificent puzzle, I will 100% sit and watch it. Or half a day long. Or even a day and a half. I would definitely watch it all the way through without blinking.
Same, except I'd have to blink. Pollen makes my eyes water.
@@longwaytotipperary If I blink and feel I missed something interesting (saying oops or something), I will always rewind.
@@timothybexon6171 👍
@@longwaytotipperary haha
I'd watch that too. In pieces, but yes I would
“Everything is wrogn” was a top 5 puzzle all time. Loved that one
the puzzle was called 'pretty little liars' and the 2nd one was chaotic wrogn
1:18 Please let it be on the channel. For us that don't do sudoku the ruleset is not a problem because when we see you solve it we understand more of it together with you.
Correct timestamp: 1:18
At 15:05, there was a 3,5 pair in the row, but love Simon's roundabout way of finding the answer anyway!
Was about to say the same thing.
I was hoping during his pause he would notice it but he found out the answer in a different form!! XD
Rules: 02:38
Let's Get Cracking: 05:18
Simon's time: 35m17s
Puzzle Solved: 40:35
What about this video's Top Tier Simarkisms?!
Scooby-Doo: 1x (22:18)
Phistomefel: 1x (01:18)
And how about this video's Simarkisms?!
Snake: 74x (00:56, 01:04, 01:08, 02:36, 02:44, 02:49, 03:10, 03:25, 03:44, 03:45, 03:45, 04:00, 04:12, 04:15, 04:18, 04:25, 04:27, 04:36, 04:41, 04:49, 04:53, 05:01, 06:01, 08:03, 08:08, 08:10, 08:17, 08:33, 08:48, 09:29, 09:40, 09:47, 09:47, 10:20, 10:30, 10:32, 11:01, 11:15, 11:31, 11:41, 11:48, 11:53, 11:57, 11:59, 12:10, 12:46, 14:15, 14:55, 17:46, 17:46, 19:19, 19:22, 22:00, 22:59, 24:37, 25:52, 26:34, 26:54, 30:11, 30:57, 31:12, 32:10, 32:39, 32:44, 34:56, 37:46, 37:52, 39:20, 39:26, 39:30, 40:53, 40:58, 41:00, 41:03)
Ah: 13x (02:16, 06:52, 07:30, 10:40, 11:26, 13:38, 16:50, 25:21, 28:19, 28:53, 28:54, 33:15, 37:43)
Beautiful: 6x (10:43, 29:58, 38:15, 39:49, 40:35, 41:06)
Hang On: 6x (02:42, 03:08, 09:33, 18:43, 27:20, 35:56)
Lovely: 4x (17:56, 21:01, 24:49, 25:37)
By Sudoku: 4x (21:49, 25:00, 26:40, 28:35)
Good Grief: 3x (03:20, 29:34, 40:13)
Sorry: 3x (16:23, 20:15, 37:24)
Going Mad: 3x (23:35, 23:50)
Touch Itself: 2x (01:09, 04:12)
Gorgeous: 2x (31:08, 40:41)
Bother: 1x (33:02)
The Answer is: 1x (34:37)
Clever: 1x (20:56)
Missing Something: 1x (35:16)
Naughty: 1x (11:53)
Ridiculous: 1x (04:03)
Magnificent: 1x (00:50)
In Fact: 1x (36:09)
We Can Do Better Than That: 1x (33:06)
Wrogn: 1x (00:39)
Thingy Thing: 1x (25:10)
Pencil Mark/mark: 1x (19:12)
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One (71 mentions)
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“not that helpful” is both a Sim- and a Mark-ism, is it not?
Was there really not a single bobbins?
True, I am kind of sad “bobbins” has all but desappear, it was sounding more british, childish and funny to my ears than their new favorite, “bother”…
@@tessabrisac7423 I haven't heard an arch bobbins in a long time either.
Spelled "wrong" incorrectly
Took me over an hour because I didn't properly read the rule about uniqueness on the snakes! Made a world of difference.
77 of your featured puzzles completed
Love how DiMono combines the rules along the way to make a great puzzle.
28:35 who else was screaming here for Simon to remember the final rule about the number in the "rock" in the central cell?? It immediately rules out 2-6 from the 26 snake
And six seconds later he remembers the rule on the other snake. T_T
The 'no 6 in a snake' caught me out too! Was stuck for ages on pairs and triples left, scanning and rescanning. Amazing that a simple part of rule gives the resolution at the end. Great approachable puzzle!
Always amazes me how Simon sometimes instantly notices details that take me 20 minutes to spot. But it does not remove the fun of this awesome puzzle :)
And then other times, takes twenty minutes to spot details you spot instantly. *cough* that placeable 3 in box 9 *cough*
Amazing. I often give so much credit to Simon but should give it to the setters as much or more. I love how there are so many puzzles which have new ideas for the advance rules. Hard enough to think of the rules for bendy x-sum snake puzzles but TheDiMono also set a super clever puzzle based on it.
19:39
Some exquisite logic and baaic maths deductions on this and the use of the "rock" was a very clever touch.
I really appreciate the thoughtfulness of both of you. It made sense to create the "Wordle in a Minute" challenge. And it makes sense (for RUclips) to not provide too many "customization" features like setting a custom thumbnail. And it is understandable that people wouldn't want a spoiler from the auto-generated thumbnails. So I think recording the video today but only releasing it the day after is a very reasonable and perfectly suited solution.
46:22 for me! I admit I needed Simon's help a few times, though. I just don't see all the same things he does (although I sometimes see things earlier than he does). My last fatal glitch was not seeing that the domino in box 1 that needed to add to 8 couldn't be (1,7) - which Simon saw immediately at 39:47. I'll keep practicing and perhaps eventually I'll humbly approach these higher echelons of genius! Thanks for another great video. I love the X-Snake Sums and the logic that was needed to establish the first cell of each snake. Great fun.
I loved the setting and solving here! I love the rulesets that are almost whole stories with lots of imagery like this. And to make bendy X-sums is cool as well. Great vid as usual!
A beautiful solve for a beautiful puzzle. Right about at 28:00 I started saying, "you can't put a 6 in it," on repeat. You noticed that on another snake at 29:00 so I got a chuckle. Then came back to other one with the realization about 6 a minute later. It was quite amusing to watch, and that is entirely because I am always forgetting effects from complex rules while trying to think through the rest of the puzzle.
i was doing the same thing 🤣
That was fun. I normally struggle with the pencil puzzle variants but got through this in 37 minutes which is close enough to Simon's time to count as respectable.
This is such a fun-seeming puzzle. I think I will take my courage in my hands and try it myself after a day or two, when my exact memory of how Simon did it will have faded somewhat. I especially liked that the creation of the snakes did not seem to be terrifically hard - their direction and constraints seem very understandable. Of course, everything is understandable when Simon explains it, demonstrates it, explains it some more, and solves the puzzle with such enjoyment. Thanks, Simon, for this video.
Once I reached the position at 39:39 in the video, it didn't occur to me to try to resolve the 21 snake; instead, I proceeded to finish this one off with some rather Simonesque convoluted logic. First, I noticed that, if r8c3 is not 6, we get deadly 1-4 pairs in c2-3. So, I assumed that r8c3 *isn't* 6, expecting this to break the puzzle, which of course it did: It means that r8c1 = 6, so r4c1 = 5 & r3c1 = 1, which I found made it impossible to fill in all of r1c1, r3c2, & r3c4. Then I realized that the key was a bent triple in boxes 1 & 2: Since r3c2 = 3 or 7, there must be a 1 in either r1c1 or r3c4; r3c1 sees both of those cells, and thus cannot = 1. (The same goes for r1c6, btw. Recognizing either of these quickly leads to the solution.) 😃
Then I just had to check the end of the video to see if Simon also used the bent triple to finish the solve--only to find that he'd used a simpler, more obvious method!🙄
Excellent solve! I was very proud of myself though noticing when there couldn't be a 6 in a snake before Simon did multiple times :)
Yes. Gave me the feeling of cleverness. Then I'm reminded about how far I'd get on my own.
@@ronjohnson6916 haha same, I couldn't even start this kind of puzzle
33:50 the way you said Obvious sounded like a certain someone, very appropriate in a snake puzzle!
I love that at the beginning at least, some of the logic Simon used to start the snakes off reminded me a lot of Nurikabe.
7:57 the >7 can't be nine cells long because it has to miss at least one digit. :-)
Mark would have gotten it right.
Sudoku Simon! On the 10 clue at the top - "ooh, that can't be 3 any more", you proceed to use geometrical constraints to prove it. Far easier, would have been to use the 35 pair in the row. Why were you trying to put 26 on a snake after working out that the rock was 6? You then pencil-marked a 67 in a box containing a 78 pair, and said you couldn't resolve it. You have eyes Simon, please use them.
A very nice puzzle to mark the return of one of my favourite constructors. There's always a sense of fun with a DiMono puzzle, and this was no exception.
Got it in 37:28, and... I used unique solvability. I am both proud of seeing it and ashamed of using it. I didn't see that you could eliminate the 1/7 possibility in the 21 X-Sum, but as it turns out, if r8c1 is a 9, then you get an unresolvable X-Wing of 1's and 4's in rows 5 and 8 and columns 2 and 3.
38:16 ... I must say, I greatly enjoyed solving this one.
Nice puzzle!
It's fascinating to see the way Simon's brain works. At 28:26, he doesn't discount the 2+6 adding to 8 combination even though there's the 6 in the center circle. But then 34 seconds later, he realizes that the 6 in the center restricts the yellow 13 snake immediately XD
In NO WAY meant as a shot. Just interesting to see how the mind categorizes things.
I remember noticing that. He didn't hesitate to eliminate the possibility of a 6 from the yellow 13 snake, yet neglected that rule so many other times.
This was a very hard solve for me, so I am very proud. I had most of the snakes-parts 10 minutes in, but then I was wrestling with b6&9 for ages. I probably missed some easy spot, even though I came to a point, where I thought I had analyzed all revealed parts thoroughly through. Big fun to see the rest unfold after I nailed the 8 in b9.
Oooh, I just logged my solve of this one at LMD. Great puzzle! 😁
20:00 There weren't so many possibilities to exhaust but you can determine which cell is snake in box 5 without exhausting them using checker coloring - if you take an odd number of orthogonal steps on a checkerboard from a given starting point you will always land on the same color square, so therefore the head of a 5-length snake must be the same color as the tail (and while the rules as-written technically would allow the one cell in the box to not be the head, that obviously wouldn't be possible in the available off-color cell since it's mid-edge and so would be a dead end)
25:07 - Because we can't put six in the thingy thing...
And *that* is why I watch these!
Otherwise how would I have known.
26:26 why can’t the 5 go top left of that box?
EDIT: never mind, there’s a 5,7 pair above the top left, blocking 5. Missed it as I’m watching on my phone and the pencil marking is really small, lol.
I really enjoyed this puzzle!!! Did have to restart once, and spent quite a while disambiguating at the end, but I did it!!
took me just a hair under 50 minutes, so not too shabby! fabulous puzzle, i do enjoy shifting back and forth between sudoku and space-filling sorts of rules :)
22:14 for me. Awesome ruleset, I enjoyed this puzzle a lot!
Beautiful way to disambiguate the end. I figured there would be a deadly pattern resolved by the rock digit, but this was way more clever
Whew! Finished it in 112:22 over the course of two days. I didn't think I was going to get it but I kept finding little things. My path had me both starting and ending with finding a bent triple. Not easy!
That took me like 3 hours. I can't wait to watch the video and find out what I missed that made it so much harder for me.
26:26... Something useful, look at the >7 clue, what is the longest that snake can be? 6, therefore you can reduce that blue box to 2 or 5 because it can not fit 7,8, or 9 because of all the green blocks in the way.
28:28 ... "6s can not go in snakes" "I can put a 2,6 in this snake"... yup you can definitely put a number you can't put into the snake into the snake... That is probably exactly the reason that rule is there to make a unique solution by nullifying the option of a 2/6 pair ... To lazy to check but I bet if 6 wasn't blocked out from that snake via the rules it might have multiple solutions.
"the snakes race towards the rock" would imply to me that the snakes can't move away from it like the 6 clue or the 10 clue in the top left.
Loved it! Needed Simon's help a couple of times, but otherwise it fell out nicely.
This was a really cool sudoku. My only issue is that he says they are racing toward the rock in the middle but a couple of them (the 10 snake and the 6 snake) are actually not moving in the direction, which would have made this something I'd never be able to complete because I'd keep trying to ensure they were actually moving in that direction.
10:47 you mention in the rules the are racing "TOWARDS" the rock. So, can the 2/4 go up? I'm assuming this breaks the puzzle. But the rules are confusing. Those words are either unneeded or confusing.
Other people can't play the game if they don't know the rules. It's not fun watching the puzzle answers to decipher the rule set.
“All the pretty visitors came and waved their arms and cast the shadow of a Snake Pit on the wall”
Confirmed. It will take me twice as long because of constant pauses and rewinding (toddlers and puzzles mix poorly) but I will watch it.
Amazing puzzle. And I’m so proud to have solved it with a path that exactly matched Simon’s (albeit a little slower).
Hello, so I have been doing these fun puzzles for a bit now, but I realized I jumped ahead, I don't know all the techniques and tricks you need to do that "fundemntal" sudoko stuff, it takes me the most time now even after figuring out a way to get things going, does anyone know of good resrouces where one can practice techniques? reading about them was not as helpful as I had hoped.
Look at the earliest videos and the playlist about sudoku techniques
This channel and particularly Simon's videos will certainly help you. You need to give it some time though before you can get familiar with different techniques. Also, don't hesitate to join this Channel's Discord server. It's a great community with setters and solvers always ready to help each other!
Go to Discord and you will certainly get a full training, either in the GAS daily puzzles or the conversations in the past puzzle-hunts!
Thank you everyone who answered, you're too kind, I will join the discord
The hosts on this channel do try to explain bits of logic to you, but they are not really a how-to-solve channel, per se. It's more of a learn-by-observing-and-doing format here. For detailed instruction, I recommend the *Sudoku Swami* . He has a great series of tutorials that explain all the major kinds of logical patterns in a very comprehensible way (although he does get quite repetitive, and maybe a bit arrogant, in my opinion).
There are also any number of good sudoku-focused websites, with good text-and-imaged based rundowns on patterns and techniques, and sudoku solvers and other helper apps. Any number of them will pop up if you search for the name of a technique, such as "sudoku swordfish".
Gosh, this is a whole lot easier when you notice that clue about the rock *digit* not being in any snake. :) 48:48
Accidentally solved it on hard mode. Missed the restriction that digits do not repeat within snakes and it's still uniquely solvable, however, it did take me 61 minutes.
23:38 "I hope it's not an ACTUAL poltergeist."
Who else hears “wrogn” in their head whenever Simon says the word “wrong”?✋
🙋♂️
100% yes
Very much enjoyed the video, though for me the yellow cells and green cells look very similar. I know some puzzles essentially require the use of all 9 colors, but when possible it might be a good idea to avoid yellow on green in the future?
Scott Strosahl also does a daily wordle YT Short video, I wonder if he also delays them by a day, but I do know that his thumbnails for those don't tend to be the solution, I think? So maybe ask him if he's doing anything to control that.
15:09... Or an easier way of seeing is can't be 3 is the fact you already had a 3,5 pair in that row which forced it to be a 2,8 pair because 3 was already taken.
Simon definitely pretends that he doesn't see things. Definitely. I have no doubts now. Haha.
20:25 it is a matter of parity, r4c5 is on an even rows, so an odd snake from the r1c5 can't reach it.
I am new to watching your channel, although I have seen quite a few this week. I would like to understand how you figured out which snake touched the rock. I missed the logic there. I followed a lot of the rest of your explanations. Thank you for the fun of watching you solve these puzzles.
He got a 3-5 pair in the pink and yellow snakes tails, so one of these snakes had to be 5-cells long and that one would have to extend into box 5
Then he got a 3 placed in r9c5 so the pink snake at the top was the 5-cell one to touch the rock
Finds the 6 in the rock. Instantly forgets that 6 cannot be in the snakes.
Do the snakes have to move towards the rock. Or can they go away from it. Can't find a solution if they have to move towards it.
IE can the 13 move to the left at the start. The rules are not clear enough on the limits of the puzzle.
Do the middle ones like the 13 have to go straight up. The rules are very badly stated. Can there be more than one in the middle or can only one touch the rock? None of this is stated clearly. People shouldn't have to assume.
What is the "triangle number trick"?
The two cells snake from the top right is racing AWAY from the rock. Isn't this a break of the "The snakes are racing to the grey rock in the centre of the pit (grid!)"?
Same with the two cells snake from top left.
Man I love everything is wrogn to this day that was the most rewarding solve I’ve done
the >7 clue didn't actually have a purpose right? I don't think it helped with any snake formation or uniqueness unless i missed something
It needed to be a snake with more than one cell.
@@jamescoates9923 I guess it ruled 1 out of that cell but I don't think it interacted with the rest of the grid in other ways
@@ajaxmajor Since it couldn't be a one cell snake, by a certain point it couldn't be 2, 3 or 4 either, due to other digits in the grid, and couldn't be 6 because 6 was the rock digit. It was then forced to be 5 cells that could only be drawn one way. It's final interaction with the puzzle was that you couldn't put 6 in any of those five snake cells.
These rules are so complicated. Even with Simon doing the sudoku I still have problems fully understanding this.
31:27 finish. I completely missed r1c1 preventing it from being a 1-7 pair in the 21 clue. Instead I spotted the bent triple in r1c1, r3c1, and r3c7, eliminating a 7 from r3c2. Oops! Another fun puzzle to get me thinking!
Great puzzle, great solve. But why aren't the snakes green? I thought that green was the universal snake color.
This is the second video I've seen in which Mark's refused to colour the snakes green.
If anyone is interested, the puzzle solves even if you mistakenly read the bottom left rule as
Fascinating rule set
32:29 Yes you do, there’s a 7-8 pair in box 6. 😂
I didn't read the rules carefully and did not catch that the digit in the stone can't appear in any of the snakes. After 1,5+ hours of desperation I looked at Simons solve for help and got the missing ruleset.
It was therefore rather frustrating solve but I only have myself to blame. I was a nice puzzle regardless
40:19 for me, quite a smooth solve
I'd like to state for the record that Everything is Wrogn was only a 48 minute video, 7 minutes longer than this one.
I thought you were going to play a cover to everything in its right place lol.
Today's Sudoku-In-A-Song:
Su Do Ku
Bins booby bobbins bins
Comma comma bins booby bobbins bins
Comma comma bins booby bobbins bins
Sudoku is hard to do
Don't take that square away from me
Cos my snake must be of length three
Therefore this square must be blue
Sudoku is hard to do
(apologies to Neil Sedaka)
Alas, I almost solved the puzzle, but i realized I broke it right at the end, because I misunderstood the Greater Than sign as a Less Than sign. So, I ended at 54:23 in.
I just started watching, and Simon pencil-marked a cell with everything excluding 1???? Did I literally die while in the bathroom? Because I can't imagine any alternative to that for why Simon would have performed such a pencil-mark.
He did it as a very deliberate joke at Mark's expense, though.
cool puzzle dimono
there you go again, doing sudoku in a sudoku puzzle
What do we do now? For the love of sudoku, look at the row and column after marking a digit!
11:19+20:00 for me. i was reading the rules so i paused. i forgot to turn it off
'wonders if we will ever see a normal sudoku again' :p - Normal 'just digit' sudoku seem way too easy now after doing a lot of these no given digit variations - even The NY Times hard sudoku takes only a few minutes to solve
Nice puzzle, great solve. But, your typos are driving me crazy. Are you doing this on purpose? ;-)
That was a brilliant puzzle which I very much enjoyed. The only thing that bothers me with these colouring puzzles is your reluctance to use yellow. I don't think it is a problem for colour blindness but I could be wrong. Please, more yellow, especially in preference to grey.
I can tell yellow from green just fine, but there are colour-blind people who can't. There's already a comment before yours on this very puzzle, by Matthew Bouyack, stating he wishes Simon would try to avoid using green and yellow, wherever possible. I've seen other people say they cannot tell blue and purple apart. Simple fact is he's never going to be able to please everyone with his colour choices.
@@RichSmith77 fair enough. Yellow is my favourite colour on this palette. I fortunately am not colourblind so it's hard for me to fully appreciate the issue.
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I don't understand the justification for removing '1' here. Why can't '1' be anywhere in the 19 x-snake and in the central cell at the same time?
Because the rules of the puzzle say so. If a digit is in the central cell, the rock, it can't be on any snake.
That's the last line of the ruleset stating that the digit in the central cell is not allowed to appear in any snake cell :)
@@glennmelven3414 Ah, forgot about that. Thanks!
Nice! 1:00:04 for me. That was hard.
wtf, why did Simon choose green for the spaces the snakes cannot be in?!
Is it me, or were the instructions slightly misleading? They said the snakes are racing to the rock, implying they were taking the shortest possible route to the middle... but they don't all...
Just how often do you see snakes that stay perfectly straight, even when "racing"? 😉
@@davidh.4944 Sorry, what I meant was that, by way of example, the one in the top right starts to head away, i.e. entirely in the other direction.
@@andrewpalmer5189 Yeah, I got what you meant. I was just being a bit facetious. The mental image I had of rigidly straight snakes jetting around was too amusing not to post. 🐍
For a more serious reply, I don't think it's misleading. "Racing" does not necessarily imply taking a straight-line course, especially if you are imagining squirmy creatures like snakes, and a field full of rocks. I read it as them all searching semi-blindly for a route that would take them to the center.
And the rules do flat-out say that the paths are "bendy", so you have to assume they could wander in any direction. There's no need to complicate it beyond that.
the title... the flashbacks...
oh no....
49min. I am happy with that.
28:25 was painful to watch poor Simon
RUclips needs to come up with RUclips Longs, not Shorts.
I hate the new Shorts format. RUclips's forté is long-format video, and trying to piggyback its own attempt at a TikTok clone on top of it is stupid. At the very least the shorts should be split off as a separate, dedicated service.
@@davidh.4944 I'm right there with you, David. Right there with you.
Only one snake gets to enjoy the six, hihihihi
Oops... I solved the puzzle as if the bottom left clue was
Shoudn‘t the snake touch the Rock orthogonally?
24:36 nice
So bottom blue turned out to be 22.
Too much worrying about snake colors and whether they could bump into each other, when it's actually not allowed for any of them to touch. 😛
Hi Simon. A few points about the Wordle videos. Firstly, the video images themselves often give away the actual guess or a lot of correct letters, which seems a shame. Second, the videos were far better in their old format. It is much harder to pause in shorts and it also makes the image issue worse, since the videos are so unreliable that you often have to go back and re-click on them. Finally, is there any way of separating the Wordle videos from the main content, it would definitely make things easier to see/find. You may want to pass this on to Mark as well, for his info. Thanks.
For your first point, hasn't he just explained that they cannot choose the thumbnail of a short video? Which is why Mark posts his Wordle shorts the next day to make sure he doesn't spoil anyone who would want to try it themselves.
@@pouletbelette That’s kind of what I was getting at. The videos were initially in the usual format but there was a problem with image spoilers even then (I’m not at all familiar with the term ‘thumbnail’), presumably because of the intended conversion to ‘short’ format. It’s a nuisance for anyone who wants to watch the video and guess themselves, no matter what day it is for.
@@joelstevens5670 if I understand you correctly and you want to guess the word, you should go on to wordle each day rather than relying on the short. You can watch the short the next day to see how Mark's attempt compares to your own. That's what I do anyway. x
@@orosma868 Thanks for your helpful comment. You are right of course, I’m just a bit slow to download things like apps due to my struggles with tech and confidence. I wasn’t expecting anything either as more often than not there isn’t a perfect answer (as is again the case). But at least it does give me something to consider. Thanks again. :)