This puzzle is incredibly approachable for someone who hasn't done deconstruction puzzles before! It's possible to do this one without the starter Simon used, instead using the rule that cages must have digits from the start.
15:30 finish. I love how the "river" flowed through the puzzle and set the first six boxes immediately. Identifying that all cages needed to have numbers makes quick work of the last three boxes. A very nice puzzle, and not too tricky!
16:15 The way i've always interpreted the rules in deconstruction puzzles is that "cages show the sum of their digits" is a definitive statement to be taken as a given. So if there's a cage with a 29 it has to have at least four cells occupied by regions. The 16 and the 10 have to have at least two cells each in them to meet their defined summed value, and there's only one way to accomplish that for both of them.
Not knowing the trick, I had to look at the solve video up to the point where Simon explained how the six cage had to work, before continuing on my own. My mind didn't fathom the cages might have their cells separated like that, so thanks, Simon, for the video and your (as always) clear way of explaining things. Thank you James, for the puzzle!
32:29. I'm so proud of myself. I don't know (yet) if I followed the same solve path, but I started by looking for cages that needed all their cells to make their totals. Later, I had a scare with the largest 6 cage. Just before that, I had narrowed down the cells on an arrow, reminding myself there could be repeated digits. Then I switched to look at the 3 cells on the 6 cage to see if I could narrow it further than a 123 triple. Then I thought, wait, I didn't account for the possibility of repeats! Spent a moment thinking that I might have to redo the solve, before remembering the rule for cages and that repeats weren't allowed, so I was good.
8:14. A very approachable take on the deconstruction puzzles. Just seeing that 20-cell 6-cage brought a smile to my face before even starting on the solve. 🙂
"Yes, I know: never, ever speak to me at parties; it never goes well." Nothing makes me want to speak to Simon at a party more than when he says this 😅
Someday Simon is going to solve one of these deconstruction puzzles and it will have a 3 in the far corner position of a corner box that is not in its extreme placement (equivalent to r3c1 or r11c9of today's layout) and we will have to have a deep philosophical conversation of what truly counts as a "3 in the corner"
(Also if you do count that situation as songworthy the deconstruction variant rule offers the rare opportunity to set a variant sudoku with up to four "3 in the corner" moments!)
I didn't know the trick for an 11x11 puzzle, but realizing the bottom-left corner cage needed at least 2 digits and just 2 digits was impossible was enough to get me rolling.
00:33:05 - 9% faster! A unicorn! Normally I'm 100-200% slower but this puzzle went way smoother than I expected it to. I immediately jumped on the 6 cage and identified the 5 regions making an L shape in the bottom left corner as the only way the puzzle could be possible, which saved me substantial tine over Simon having to stop and explain to everyone the 9 cells that must be within a region before working his way into it. I didn't even start looking in the top right until I'd sudoku'd out the bottom left, then I looked at the top right and took the 3 cells that had to be in a region, then knowing my 6 cage was solved worked out the three 2x2 boxes that must be in regions, then I was able to place the region in the top right corner because I realized that to try and place it anywhere else would create a situation where I had 8 cells to make 28 and that isn't possible. Then I realized those cages had to reach their sums so I placed the other two regions in the only places that could include the 15 and 16 cages at the now middle fringe created along the 6 cage. Then it was just sudoku to freedom.
Thank you Simon for another great solve. I'd really like for you to display the satisfying "uneven" symmetries in puzzles like these after the solve. I'm sure James Sinclair has put a lot of effort to develop them and those puzzles in which the setters are committed to following through with it are the most satisfying. Cheers from Germany
Well now I've had my puzzle fix. And this one gave us some real kicks. Though the puzzle was swell It was also like Hell For it starts with the river of Syx.
I clicked "like" on this limerick -- and then realized that I'd mis-read the last word (I teach classics -- that river is very-familiar). Even cleverer the way you actually wrote it! 😺
I find disconstruction puzzles hideously difficult. So solving this in 00:20:22 shocked me. Multiple moments of chuckling as I went. Had I not learnt the secrets of sodoku from this channel(such as the importance of 9 particular cells out of the 11 x 11), this would be impossible. Brilliant puzzle, looking forwards to watching Simon attempt it.... now.
this is the most beautiful puzzle I have ever seen and I say this with full responsibility as a person who has already solved many wonderful sudokus featured on this channel
My parents always had a subscription to the New York Times. One of may great joys as a child was getting the Sunday Times and trying to find all the Ninas in Al Hirschfeld’s charicatures. I love that your Times calls their little Easter eggs Ninas. It’s a great tribute to Al.
I had to watch this video late due to some busy times this week, but I came back to it with great anticipation because I felt that I could probably solve the puzzle! Thanks to your tips and tricks at the beginning, Simon, and thanks to other deconstruction puzzles I have watched you or Mark solve, I could make my way through this mostly on my own - thank you for all of the great education over the time I have been watching! (I was sure you were going to say that all of the gray cells were 'quorate' but you never did - so I filled it in for you in my own mind, one of the words you taught me!)
wow, James is on fire! that was brilliant and so fun. I think approachable puzzles have somehow gotten a bad name, but I personally don't have time to struggle with an hour long (or longer) puzzle every day, so it's nice to have easier puzzles that are also still fantastically beautiful. thanks James and Simon
18:43 for me - Once I start with the theorem that for an 11x11 deconstruction, you can place one cell that must be somewhere in each 3x3 box, I saw that 3 of those lied within the 6 cage, and combined that with the fact that every cage must be reached in part by a 3x3 box in some way, the positioning of the 3x3 boxes was easy and felt very natural.
I didn't know the trick, but it still only took me 60 min - and placing the boxes was easier because I didn't doubt the rules the way Simon did. After so many recent hard puzzles, it was a much needed boost to solve an easier one. Many thanks to James Sinclair and CTC for this diversion.
I forgot that cages cannot contain the same number, which made the solve A LOT more difficult, but I made it in the end! Love these more human puzzles!
i followed this rule correctly all the way to the end but for the 28 cage i somehow forgot about it and then had 2 possible solutions that both would work and it took me way too long to figure out what my mistake was. strange thing is that i thought "i probably missed it because it's so stretched and going through 3 boxes and whatnot" but not for a second did i doubt that the 6 cage had to be 1/2/3.. odd how the mind works sometimes
64:51 Got the 3x3 regions pretty easily but had to rewind the Sudoku a couple of times due to some sort mistakes. Pretty approachable. Thanks James for a very enjoyable puzzle.
Finished in 21:58. Fun constraint. Pretty straightforward once you figure out where each 3x3 box is. But then again, I've been doing killer sudokus since the first year of the pandemic.
I've actually completed most of the first 6 boxes before continuing to top right of the board. Also I'm probably not the only person to state this but I'm happy not being as smart as Simon. No need to overthink everything, just flowing through the puzzle smoothly. But of course I do understand that it's all natural for him. Beautiful and very enjoyable solve! My second deconstruction puzzle solve, first being Fog Deconstructed by (no surprise) James Sinclair as well. However this one's definitely easier, this one took me just a little over 2h while the other one 6h+ over 4 day period. Cheers!
Very nice flow, I liked it! Was easier than it seemed at first, and I didn't start with the 6 cage. Instead... ... ... spoilers below ... ... I started with the 15 cage on the bottom left. Then it just flowed... on the easy side I'd say, but nothing too obvious, nice setup! and I was wondering why Simon wasn't catching up with me (as I played the video along). He just forgot to finish the 6 cage as early as possible ;) ...
36:32 normally I'm rubbish at these deconstruction puzzles, but this one was quite approachable and very fun. About half the time was spent finding the regions and the other half filling them in. Beautiful puzzle.
Love a region building puzzle! This flowed incredibly well, I love that 6 cage but also special shout out to the 8 cage in R4C3 and R5C3. I put a 7 in the wrong spot at the start and had to go all the way back from the end and redo from there, but 23m48s very happy with that.
The way that I worked out the locations of the boxes was a little different. I saw that the most boxes you could put above the 6 cage was three, so there needed to be six boxes below the 6 cage in order to make nine total, and there's only one way to place those six boxes.
Amazing puzzle. It flowed so well. I am so impressed with the people who can do that. I have contemplated setting a puzzle but getting logic to flow like this is so daunting to me. Got a 21:13. Also, Simon. the fact that you can call that cryptic crossword solve a fail, you have to give yourself a little bit of credit. I never noticed the misspelling, because frankly, I am pleased when I get a single answer on my own without you walking me through the logic, and I've been watching for ages.
9:33 - I think there's a slightly better variant of this explanation. You start by establishing that any 3x3 box in the grid will overlap exactly one of the green cells. You then go on to say for the sake of argument that you pick a green cell to contain, and show that the next 3x3 box must contain one of the remaining eight green cells, and state that this continues until all green cells are contained. I think this last step can be replaced. Any 3x3 box contains exactly one green cell. 3x3 boxes do not overlap, so each 3x3 box contains a different green cell. There are nine green cells, and nine boxes. It follows that every green cell will be contained by a box. (it follows because the nine boxes will contain a total of exactly nine green cells, there exist exactly nine green cells, and there's only one way to choose a set of 9 objects out of a set of 9 objects).
Aside from needing to frantically check different points of the video to see where I went wrong and discovering I had placed a 345 triple into a row that had a 4 in it, this puzzle went very smoothly. Great logic, fun solve, still managed to get it in 43 minutes despite about 10 minutes of being on the wrong path, very fun way to spend the hour.
50:25 Which is quite quick for me. I always have to do a bunch of mental math for killer sudoku. It is not difficult it is just a bit slow for me. Someday I will have to sit down and memorize the more common 3 and four cell combos and all the various triangle numbers forwards and backwards. I think that would help me a lot on these type puzzles. This puzzle would have been much easier had I known off the top of my head that the triangle number for 7 was 28. I looked at those 2 numbers noticed that 28 divided by 7 was 4, a middle-y number, and figured there were a bunch of options, nope 1-7.
18:35 for me (conflict checker off), this was a really fun puzzle and flowed really well! My time would have been a bit faster, but like Simon I repeated a digit in one of the boxes near the end and had to backtrack a bit to fix it. 😅 Props to James for a great puzzle!
25:55, which is probably the fastest I’ve ever solved relative to the video length. Very enjoyable puzzle! Some of Simon’s delay was not trusting the rules as written. I immediately jumped on the border cages, which I knew had to contain real cells. I forgot to use the row/column 3/6/9 rule, which slowed me down a bit.
I'm thinking a puzzle maker needs to come up with a 12 X 12 deconstructed puzzle and name it "Just to screw with Simon's trick" 🙃 Took me ages to do this one but I got there with no video help.
46:21, a most respectable time for me. Still having a bit of trouble with noticing required sums, though - I needed the prompt from Simon to notice that once the 16 cages were incorporated, they were by necessity also solved.
@@DarklordZagarna Why would you think you could exclude a cage entirety, though? The rules are very clear. "Cages show the sum of their digits". Not much ambiguity there.
@@RichSmith77 Responding to multiple people saying "this is unclear" by saying "no, you're wrong, it's clear" is both annoying and also futile. Something that a nontrivial number of people don't understand is by definition unclear, regardless of whether you personally think that it's easy to understand.
My time for this puzzle was 16:45, solver number 6675. Definitely one of the easier 11x11 construction puzzles I've done, which I think is attributable to a setter who is careful about dropping clues in just the right places to lead you through if you can spot them.
The error that caused the solve to go wrong around the 30 minute mark involved misscanning the 1 in box 3 as being in the 28 cage and therefore removing 1 from the pencil marked options in box 2...
My brain decided to interpret "misscanning" as "miss-canning" (i.e. [mis-] + [canning]) in spite of English, and I just spent a minute trying to figure out what cans had to do with what Simon did.
For me, 39:38, with a rather haphazard application of the "digits don't repeat in cages" part of the rules, and with being a bit confused at the start how so many cages crammed into a particular corner of the grid.
Finished in 36:23. Finding the boxes was surprisingly quick, but I ended the puzzle with two 2s in box 5, which messed things up a little. Took a few minutes to find that, but the fix was (luckily) quite simple
25:00 You don't have to assume cages must contain digits to construct the boxes in the top right. Any placement that leaves a 16 or 10 cage blank would place too many digits in the 28 cage
91:11, I didn't know the trick, but didn't find it terribly difficult without it. I did assume all cages had to be filled, and used that fact to make my boxes.
One day there's going to be an 11 x 11 deconstruction puzzles where all 9 boxes form a regular sudoku grid in one corner. I made this puzzle a *lot* harder by forgetting the digits in the 6 cage all saw each other! Doh!!
for those wondering, the mistake was at 34:30 "the 1s here so we can't use it again", but he points to a 1 that wasn't in the same cage
Yes, I saw that, too. He mistook the 1 as being in the 28 cage instead of the 5 - and ended up with two 5s in the 28 cage.
Just got around to this and 22:51 was my time, lovely logic with so many small yet elegant steps to the solution.
This puzzle is incredibly approachable for someone who hasn't done deconstruction puzzles before! It's possible to do this one without the starter Simon used, instead using the rule that cages must have digits from the start.
14:27! I really enjoyed this puzzle, I always love when Deconstruction puzzles are shown on the channel!
15:30 finish. I love how the "river" flowed through the puzzle and set the first six boxes immediately. Identifying that all cages needed to have numbers makes quick work of the last three boxes. A very nice puzzle, and not too tricky!
16:15 The way i've always interpreted the rules in deconstruction puzzles is that "cages show the sum of their digits" is a definitive statement to be taken as a given. So if there's a cage with a 29 it has to have at least four cells occupied by regions. The 16 and the 10 have to have at least two cells each in them to meet their defined summed value, and there's only one way to accomplish that for both of them.
Not knowing the trick, I had to look at the solve video up to the point where Simon explained how the six cage had to work, before continuing on my own. My mind didn't fathom the cages might have their cells separated like that, so thanks, Simon, for the video and your (as always) clear way of explaining things. Thank you James, for the puzzle!
32:29. I'm so proud of myself. I don't know (yet) if I followed the same solve path, but I started by looking for cages that needed all their cells to make their totals. Later, I had a scare with the largest 6 cage. Just before that, I had narrowed down the cells on an arrow, reminding myself there could be repeated digits. Then I switched to look at the 3 cells on the 6 cage to see if I could narrow it further than a 123 triple. Then I thought, wait, I didn't account for the possibility of repeats! Spent a moment thinking that I might have to redo the solve, before remembering the rule for cages and that repeats weren't allowed, so I was good.
8:14.
A very approachable take on the deconstruction puzzles. Just seeing that 20-cell 6-cage brought a smile to my face before even starting on the solve. 🙂
Lovely puzzle. I like the 11x11 format. 23:39 for me.
"Yes, I know: never, ever speak to me at parties; it never goes well." Nothing makes me want to speak to Simon at a party more than when he says this 😅
Someday Simon is going to solve one of these deconstruction puzzles and it will have a 3 in the far corner position of a corner box that is not in its extreme placement (equivalent to r3c1 or r11c9of today's layout) and we will have to have a deep philosophical conversation of what truly counts as a "3 in the corner"
(Also if you do count that situation as songworthy the deconstruction variant rule offers the rare opportunity to set a variant sudoku with up to four "3 in the corner" moments!)
I didn't know the trick for an 11x11 puzzle, but realizing the bottom-left corner cage needed at least 2 digits and just 2 digits was impossible was enough to get me rolling.
22:36 for me. "Brilliant" is the correct phrase! Kind Comment.
00:33:05 - 9% faster! A unicorn! Normally I'm 100-200% slower but this puzzle went way smoother than I expected it to. I immediately jumped on the 6 cage and identified the 5 regions making an L shape in the bottom left corner as the only way the puzzle could be possible, which saved me substantial tine over Simon having to stop and explain to everyone the 9 cells that must be within a region before working his way into it. I didn't even start looking in the top right until I'd sudoku'd out the bottom left, then I looked at the top right and took the 3 cells that had to be in a region, then knowing my 6 cage was solved worked out the three 2x2 boxes that must be in regions, then I was able to place the region in the top right corner because I realized that to try and place it anywhere else would create a situation where I had 8 cells to make 28 and that isn't possible. Then I realized those cages had to reach their sums so I placed the other two regions in the only places that could include the 15 and 16 cages at the now middle fringe created along the 6 cage. Then it was just sudoku to freedom.
Thank you Simon for another great solve.
I'd really like for you to display the satisfying "uneven" symmetries in puzzles like these after the solve. I'm sure James Sinclair has put a lot of effort to develop them and those puzzles in which the setters are committed to following through with it are the most satisfying.
Cheers from Germany
36:03 for me, this was a really fun puzzle and the break in was hilarious!
Well now I've had my puzzle fix.
And this one gave us some real kicks.
Though the puzzle was swell
It was also like Hell
For it starts with the river of Syx.
I clicked "like" on this limerick -- and then realized that I'd mis-read the last word (I teach classics -- that river is very-familiar). Even cleverer the way you actually wrote it! 😺
16:32 simple but great puzzle
38:21 - I loved that one. All the logic flowed beautifully.
I find disconstruction puzzles hideously difficult. So solving this in 00:20:22 shocked me. Multiple moments of chuckling as I went. Had I not learnt the secrets of sodoku from this channel(such as the importance of 9 particular cells out of the 11 x 11), this would be impossible. Brilliant puzzle, looking forwards to watching Simon attempt it.... now.
this is the most beautiful puzzle I have ever seen and I say this with full responsibility as a person who has already solved many wonderful sudokus featured on this channel
My parents always had a subscription to the New York Times. One of may great joys as a child was getting the Sunday Times and trying to find all the Ninas in Al Hirschfeld’s charicatures. I love that your Times calls their little Easter eggs Ninas. It’s a great tribute to Al.
24:49! Delightful puzzle, not too hard
solved in 11:43 - good and approachable deconstruction
I had to watch this video late due to some busy times this week, but I came back to it with great anticipation because I felt that I could probably solve the puzzle! Thanks to your tips and tricks at the beginning, Simon, and thanks to other deconstruction puzzles I have watched you or Mark solve, I could make my way through this mostly on my own - thank you for all of the great education over the time I have been watching! (I was sure you were going to say that all of the gray cells were 'quorate' but you never did - so I filled it in for you in my own mind, one of the words you taught me!)
wow, James is on fire! that was brilliant and so fun. I think approachable puzzles have somehow gotten a bad name, but I personally don't have time to struggle with an hour long (or longer) puzzle every day, so it's nice to have easier puzzles that are also still fantastically beautiful. thanks James and Simon
30 minutes for me.... oh boy, this was a fun one!
26:56 for me. I normally don't care much for deconstruction puzzles, but this one was fun.
18:02 For me, this felt very approachable with the immediate break-in and all, despite how daunting a deconstruction sudoku can be
First ever deconstruction puzzle I've attempted (very grateful for incredible education regarding secrets) 27:35, also first time beating Simon!!
18:43 for me - Once I start with the theorem that for an 11x11 deconstruction, you can place one cell that must be somewhere in each 3x3 box, I saw that 3 of those lied within the 6 cage, and combined that with the fact that every cage must be reached in part by a 3x3 box in some way, the positioning of the 3x3 boxes was easy and felt very natural.
26:44 for me. Nice puzzle!
I didn't know the trick, but it still only took me 60 min - and placing the boxes was easier because I didn't doubt the rules the way Simon did. After so many recent hard puzzles, it was a much needed boost to solve an easier one. Many thanks to James Sinclair and CTC for this diversion.
A new episode of CtC and a lovely cup of tea, absolute favourite way to start the day!
25:57. Beat Simon's time, a rare feat for me. I found this rule set pretty natural to wrap my mine around.
20 minute puzzle for me. I always enjoy this sort of deconstruction puzzle, and having one that is genuinely quite approachable is nice.
26:54 for me. This was a fun one. I'm not great at these kinds of puzzles but this one really is very approachable.
I just had an awesome idea for a varient of this puzzle, the puzzle could be "restitched" back to a normal sudoku grid and still be valid.
That 6 cage really made me laugh. It really was approachable. Quite easy but great fun.
21:49 for me! Really nice puzzle this one! I laughed so hard when I noticed that 6 cage that forced all the regions =))))
I've not done a puzzle like this before and managed it in 46 minutes. Definitely a nice introduction to this sort of puzzle.
I forgot that cages cannot contain the same number, which made the solve A LOT more difficult, but I made it in the end! Love these more human puzzles!
i followed this rule correctly all the way to the end but for the 28 cage i somehow forgot about it and then had 2 possible solutions that both would work and it took me way too long to figure out what my mistake was. strange thing is that i thought "i probably missed it because it's so stretched and going through 3 boxes and whatnot" but not for a second did i doubt that the 6 cage had to be 1/2/3.. odd how the mind works sometimes
That was a fun puzzle to solve, and I definitely needed the lessons from previous CtC 11x11 puzzles to solve this one. Thanks!
10:17 for me. Great puzzle!!
64:51 Got the 3x3 regions pretty easily but had to rewind the Sudoku a couple of times due to some sort mistakes. Pretty approachable. Thanks James for a very enjoyable puzzle.
Finished in 21:58. Fun constraint. Pretty straightforward once you figure out where each 3x3 box is. But then again, I've been doing killer sudokus since the first year of the pandemic.
Really nice puzzle. I kept forgetting the non-repeating digits in cages spanning the void, that held me back much more than it ought to have 😅
Simon breaking the puzzle once makes me feel better about breaking it many, many times.
I've actually completed most of the first 6 boxes before continuing to top right of the board. Also I'm probably not the only person to state this but I'm happy not being as smart as Simon. No need to overthink everything, just flowing through the puzzle smoothly. But of course I do understand that it's all natural for him. Beautiful and very enjoyable solve! My second deconstruction puzzle solve, first being Fog Deconstructed by (no surprise) James Sinclair as well. However this one's definitely easier, this one took me just a little over 2h while the other one 6h+ over 4 day period. Cheers!
Very nice flow, I liked it! Was easier than it seemed at first, and I didn't start with the 6 cage. Instead...
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I started with the 15 cage on the bottom left. Then it just flowed... on the easy side I'd say, but nothing too obvious, nice setup! and I was wondering why Simon wasn't catching up with me (as I played the video along). He just forgot to finish the 6 cage as early as possible ;)
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A really fun and smooth puzzle, you can really feel the geometric and logical considerations the setter put into its construction
36:32 normally I'm rubbish at these deconstruction puzzles, but this one was quite approachable and very fun. About half the time was spent finding the regions and the other half filling them in. Beautiful puzzle.
Love a region building puzzle! This flowed incredibly well, I love that 6 cage but also special shout out to the 8 cage in R4C3 and R5C3. I put a 7 in the wrong spot at the start and had to go all the way back from the end and redo from there, but 23m48s very happy with that.
The way that I worked out the locations of the boxes was a little different. I saw that the most boxes you could put above the 6 cage was three, so there needed to be six boxes below the 6 cage in order to make nine total, and there's only one way to place those six boxes.
Amazing puzzle. It flowed so well. I am so impressed with the people who can do that. I have contemplated setting a puzzle but getting logic to flow like this is so daunting to me. Got a 21:13.
Also, Simon. the fact that you can call that cryptic crossword solve a fail, you have to give yourself a little bit of credit. I never noticed the misspelling, because frankly, I am pleased when I get a single answer on my own without you walking me through the logic, and I've been watching for ages.
9:33 - I think there's a slightly better variant of this explanation. You start by establishing that any 3x3 box in the grid will overlap exactly one of the green cells. You then go on to say for the sake of argument that you pick a green cell to contain, and show that the next 3x3 box must contain one of the remaining eight green cells, and state that this continues until all green cells are contained. I think this last step can be replaced.
Any 3x3 box contains exactly one green cell. 3x3 boxes do not overlap, so each 3x3 box contains a different green cell. There are nine green cells, and nine boxes. It follows that every green cell will be contained by a box. (it follows because the nine boxes will contain a total of exactly nine green cells, there exist exactly nine green cells, and there's only one way to choose a set of 9 objects out of a set of 9 objects).
The first deconstruction puzzle that I've been able to solve 31m51s. I saw the 6-cage trick right away. Great puzzle, thanks!
Aside from needing to frantically check different points of the video to see where I went wrong and discovering I had placed a 345 triple into a row that had a 4 in it, this puzzle went very smoothly. Great logic, fun solve, still managed to get it in 43 minutes despite about 10 minutes of being on the wrong path, very fun way to spend the hour.
50:25 Which is quite quick for me. I always have to do a bunch of mental math for killer sudoku. It is not difficult it is just a bit slow for me. Someday I will have to sit down and memorize the more common 3 and four cell combos and all the various triangle numbers forwards and backwards. I think that would help me a lot on these type puzzles. This puzzle would have been much easier had I known off the top of my head that the triangle number for 7 was 28. I looked at those 2 numbers noticed that 28 divided by 7 was 4, a middle-y number, and figured there were a bunch of options, nope 1-7.
Very nice 👍🏻 And if I hadn’t have a typo inbetween I would have done it in a decent time 😅
18:35 for me (conflict checker off), this was a really fun puzzle and flowed really well! My time would have been a bit faster, but like Simon I repeated a digit in one of the boxes near the end and had to backtrack a bit to fix it. 😅 Props to James for a great puzzle!
Fantastic puzzle!
Does anyone’s else think Simon actually lives in a hangar at the airport?
He needs to point the camera at Maverick once. He could just have a sound machine over there!!!
got it in 19:27, almost felt like that circles puzzle where we were just filling in digits haha
41 minutes for me, got stuck a couple of times but it mostly flowed very nicely!
25:55, which is probably the fastest I’ve ever solved relative to the video length. Very enjoyable puzzle! Some of Simon’s delay was not trusting the rules as written. I immediately jumped on the border cages, which I knew had to contain real cells. I forgot to use the row/column 3/6/9 rule, which slowed me down a bit.
Very enjoyable to watch Simon solve the puzzle. 😁
I'm thinking a puzzle maker needs to come up with a 12 X 12 deconstructed puzzle and name it "Just to screw with Simon's trick" 🙃
Took me ages to do this one but I got there with no video help.
21:29 for me
nice puzzle
46:21, a most respectable time for me. Still having a bit of trouble with noticing required sums, though - I needed the prompt from Simon to notice that once the 16 cages were incorporated, they were by necessity also solved.
Quite surprised that I finished this in only 20 minutes, very approachable for those experienced with killer sudokus!
I thought it was really funny how Simon was scared of following the rules to place the last 3 boxes using the cage totals
I know. How does he think a cage has a total if it doesn't contain any digits?
He explained that, he had a puzzle where if there were not any digits you ignored the killer cage.@@RichSmith77
There's some ambiguity there-- I also was unsure whether you could exclude a cage entirely. The rules could be made a bit clearer on that point.
@@DarklordZagarna Why would you think you could exclude a cage entirety, though? The rules are very clear. "Cages show the sum of their digits". Not much ambiguity there.
@@RichSmith77 Responding to multiple people saying "this is unclear" by saying "no, you're wrong, it's clear" is both annoying and also futile. Something that a nontrivial number of people don't understand is by definition unclear, regardless of whether you personally think that it's easy to understand.
My time for this puzzle was 16:45, solver number 6675. Definitely one of the easier 11x11 construction puzzles I've done, which I think is attributable to a setter who is careful about dropping clues in just the right places to lead you through if you can spot them.
25 min for me, nice flow, love the partial cages.
The error that caused the solve to go wrong around the 30 minute mark involved misscanning the 1 in box 3 as being in the 28 cage and therefore removing 1 from the pencil marked options in box 2...
My brain decided to interpret "misscanning" as "miss-canning" (i.e. [mis-] + [canning]) in spite of English, and I just spent a minute trying to figure out what cans had to do with what Simon did.
34:30 for everyone interested in the exact moment.
Good morning from New Zealand!! Loved this puzzle - 12.09 for me today! - Cassadilla, Morena David!
For me, 39:38, with a rather haphazard application of the "digits don't repeat in cages" part of the rules, and with being a bit confused at the start how so many cages crammed into a particular corner of the grid.
This was fun, but that 6 cage is so powerful that it becomes highly approchable.
This one really clicked for me. Not too hard but it felt very rewarding to break in because it felt impossible at a glance.
Lots of fun to solve! 42:22 for me, but I'm at work and have my attention split between Sudoku and customers. 😅
Sven's killer calculator going crazy: offering to put 10 and 11 in cages!!
@16:23 “we’re going a bit ham on the pencil marks” 😂
8:33 for me. 1:18 figuring the cage placements and then the rest. suprisingly easy.
Finished in 36:23. Finding the boxes was surprisingly quick, but I ended the puzzle with two 2s in box 5, which messed things up a little. Took a few minutes to find that, but the fix was (luckily) quite simple
I immediately see that after Simon puts in the green cells that have to be in cages, that the 6-cage has all the digits in can possibly have.
And now a minute later he sees it.
45 mins here but a good chunk of that was me not realising all cages needed to have digits DOH!
You and Simon both made that mistake, so no worries there.
@@christophercordes951 Yeah that did make me feel a little better about it!
Finished in 25:31 with help from the video: I needed to be told the 11x11 secret, then I got stuck on the three top right boxes.
Hi Simon! My boyfriend turns 24 years old tomorrow. He is a big fan of yours! Every night he watches your videos!
If not give Simeon name how he going to congratulations?
Don't forget to tell him your boyfriend's name lol
I didn't know I had a girlfriend
18:35 today, an approachable deconstruction is a cool idea
51:59, much enjoyed :)
26:18 🎶"Box 3 in the corner..."🎶
25:00 You don't have to assume cages must contain digits to construct the boxes in the top right. Any placement that leaves a 16 or 10 cage blank would place too many digits in the 28 cage
61 minutes
Very nice.
I love how it looks like a stone that's just had an explosive set off in its top right corner!
91:11, I didn't know the trick, but didn't find it terribly difficult without it. I did assume all cages had to be filled, and used that fact to make my boxes.
37 minutes, really nice puzzle :)
One day there's going to be an 11 x 11 deconstruction puzzles where all 9 boxes form a regular sudoku grid in one corner.
I made this puzzle a *lot* harder by forgetting the digits in the 6 cage all saw each other! Doh!!
14:20 for me. Fairly straightforward if you know the 11x11 “secret”.
The Concise Ninas are discussed by a group in the Crossword Club forum; the more the merrier!