MaizeGator here! Simon, watching you solve puzzles is always a thrill, especially when you are solving my puzzle. Your enthusiasm is so infectious and your intuition is second-to-none, even with a completely unfamiliar ruleset. As usual, you nailed the intended solve path, even though I must admit that I shouted "two 4's can't go next to one another, Simon!" into my computer screen at one point. I knew that you'd circle back around to it eventually :) If anything, you've proved that there were no logical bypasses to that step, which is always great to confirm. Your effusive praise on this puzzle truly made my day! I put my heart into it, as Delray Beach is an extraordinary place. I'm happy to report that it did not suffer significant damage in the recent hurricane, although other area in my home state were not as lucky. My thoughts are with them, and I (we) appreciate the gesture of solidarity. By the way, the shape of the final shading at the end is meant to resemble a rising sun (may require some squinting and imagination). For anyone who enjoyed this one, I've also made another puzzle with almost the same ruleset, except the arrows count ominoes of the OPPOSITE parity (just like the concepts of yin and yang, one cannot exist without the other!). Here is a link: logic-masters.de/Raetselportal/Raetsel/zeigen.php?id=000J65
The reason there is no explanation is that I didn't think of it! But I think it's quite easy to disprove. It would make the arrow below the 2 at least a blue 4 ie four different regions of blue along that right hand stretch of the bottom row. This will surely cause a 2x2 as it won't be possible for two of these adjacent regions not to grow "upwards". Sorry for missing it during the solve.
And he used it to color r7c2 blue to avoid a 2x2 By noting the blue area below had to escape through either r8c3 or r8c4, and being r8c5 an orange 3 pointing to the left, it was necessary that r8c2 was orange
At 1:01:00 he sees that r9c10 is a 2, which makes the two blue cells pointed at by r8c2 part of the same region, making it impossible for that cell to be a 2.
I totally agree. Simon should put a flash in the cell where he starts his explanation, and then be careful to rewind to the point so the flash disappears (or something like that). But he could have seen earlier that r8c2 is not a 2. If r8c2=2 then the 3-clue in r8c5 makes r8c3 and r8c4 orange. And then the question is: where is the second cell in the 2-region? 1)r8c2 and r9c2 joins makes r10c2 a 1-cell blue region, or 2) r8c2 and r7c2 joins, but that leaves 7 blue cells "under" r8c2.
@@karlmortenlunna2417 this is a super good suggestion, especially when you get 'unlucky' and accidentally guess correctly (scare quotes because lots of people label that as getting lucky, but i don't think that fits if your goal is to solve it correctly/thoroughly). a conspicuous marker makes it almost impossible to accidentally leave hypothetical stuff in and unknowingly promote it to proven/established before it's ready. Simon if you are reading: please listen to this guy!
@karlmortenlunna2417 Yep. He didn't unwind his coloring but thankfully the color was right and the proof it wasn't 2 was relatively straightforward if he had done it. I'd love to see a video where this causes Simon to go wrong and spin his wheels for hours. It would be like when Mark can't do a wordle in a minute but more satisfying for sadists.
I rewound it several times trying to figure out what he did say (or meant to say) but even before I heard her respond the first time around I heard Alexa so I had no luck 😅
6:56 She started talking before that - he said it in response to her waking up. What he said was "Anyway, let's 'ave a look ..." - the "let's 'ave" is what prompted her I think.
I really enjoyed that puzzle and solve! It's also fun to have one day a week dedicated to non-sudoku puzzles. As you said Simon, variety is the spice of life. :)
I tried it myself once I saw him take that leap of faith and in the end it DOES fall apart fast - it forces the digit at the bottom to be a four, and there's no way to get four polyominos into the bottom right of the grid without breaking the Yin-Yang. But yeah, he did just jump to that conclusion and got lucky that it was right. ;-)
Simon's explanation from the other comment: The reason there is no explanation is that I didn't think of it! But I think it's quite easy to disprove. It would make the arrow below the 2 at least a blue 4 ie four different regions of blue along that right hand stretch of the bottom row. This will surely cause a 2x2 as it won't be possible for two of these adjacent regions not to grow "upwards". Sorry for missing it during the solve.
it forces a 2x2 in the corner on the bottom row if the arrow cell is 4. (E.X) R11C6(arrow cell)+C7=4 C8+C9=2 C10=4 C11=2 point is C10 and C11 have to be 2 different numbers both having to go up into R10 creating a 2x2. Also note because the 1 arrow R10 C7 makes the R10C7 cell and odd digit greater than 1. pushing an odd digit in R10 C8 which forces both 2's to be in R11. which creates the 2x2 in the corner
32:05 "For all those of you who would write into the comments " when he had already missed one possibility ten minutes before with the 2 in r9c6 😂 We don't make these comments as a critique but because followers of this channel like precision and are interested in the exact series of logical steps which lead to the solution
Totally agree on this. Both Simon and Mark also like to demonstrate the exact solve paths, so - opposed to what you’ll always see in the comments - they sure don’t consider themselves lucky whenever they make mistakes like this and get away with it.
54:05 This is why I think Simon and I would make a great puzzle-solving team. For me, the beginning was incredibly hard, and at the point here where it got really tough for Simon, it became significantly easier for me. You should hit me up, Simon. 😉 Our combined skills would make us unstoppable.
I don't know if it's ever done intentionally, but I love when puzzles like this with ridiculously large areas end up happening to have areas with number sizes that are actually possible to pencil in, like the 19 and 28 in this puzzle ^,^
Just wondering how the 1 at 56:12 was deduced? It looks like it was based on colouring that was put in to try things out at 45:25 (and then the adjacent square was coloured blue to prevent a 2x2 at 50:19, which I think was only deduced based on the orange colouring of its adjacent cell). Suspect that the 3 in the same row could probably have resolved it in the end?
One can deduce it from the 3 in r8c5 and the fact that "B" (at this point not yet discovered by Simon) needs to get out of the bottom left to connect, and cannot pass through an arrow because of it's size. But you're right the deduction was not made properly.
@@noinfo5630 Put differently: if R8C2 were even, then 1) both R8C3 and R8C4 would need to be odd to satisfy the 3 in R8C5 2) R8C2 is a 2 3) We now have an odd number of even cells trapped below these orange cells. The only way to deal with that is to make R8C2 extend downwards, but then R9C2 is cut off and cannot form another even polyomino.
Another way to see that must be odd, is because r9c10 must be 2 (it cannot be 4, because it would be next to the another 4 region). This causes the two blues on the diagonal to be in the same region, and therefore the “1” cannot be 2.
This was absolutely phenomenal! I love these special puzzle Saturdays, and love when they are long videos, as it means they are exceptional puzzles and solves
Delray Beach is indeed on the Atlantic side in South Florida. I live here! We were spared from the worst of Milton’s fury but many were not. 😢 Thanks for the support
Just some arrows and you get those gigantic polyominoes with the strangest shapes connecting areas you wouldn't think could belong to the same polyomino... Superfun puzzle!!!
Thank you so much for the birthday shout out, and you showing my new jumper. Can't wait to finish watching this brilliant video. Thank you for all you do.
Came looking for this comment. He left it coloured odd from a hypothetical scenario at 45:26. I spent the next ten minutes hoping he would notice, but then he used the colouring at 56:13. 😔
At the start the puzzle is pretty hard and all steps seems significant, but small. However, the puzzle really came alive to me when the second big region revealed itself. It was absolute astonishing how and loved how the regions remained present throughout the solve. Indeed an incredibly beautiful puzzle!
A lovely puzzle, thanks. I found it difficult to start, but once I had a toehold it mostly flowed smoothly, even if meanderingly and baffingly at times.
How i am already at 32 minutes... Not realising that birthdays/wedding, rle explanation is all included in that time. (when his cracking starts at minute 12)
This puzzle beat me, it took me an hour to make any progress, and when I finally started building something and I was excited I’ll finish it, after 1.5h of solving I found a mistake I absolutely couldn’t fix - potentially some logical error in the beginning and 1.5h in I wasn’t gonna start it all again 😢
For some reason I got stuck in completely different places than Simon, and had to watch him struggle through something that was obvious to me before breezing through the logic I couldn't see
At 46:44 you erase the digit but not the orange shading. Later you use that shading to justify a bunch of stuff. You never actually disproved that the cell could not be even.
Someone won the Nobel Prize Physics for artificial intelligence, so don't say aloud that you want to shut down Alexia. The game you showed in the intro, is that linked below the video?
I got lost right at the beginning. I don't understand how you determined that that middle 2 polyomino had to go up. It has to see two polyominos below itself but that could include its own. So the cell right below the 2 could be a 2 as part of itself.
and at 56:26 he says it's odd but the whole time it's only because he tried something out and forgot to remove the odd coloring when he was done with that. So even the blue he assigned above that was based on something that was not certain yet.
Nice puzzle, though I didn't manage it on my own. I got stuck several times, mostly because I couldn't imagine any way something could connect, or missed an option. Watches Simon until the next deduction I missed (and read the comment explaining why c6r11 couldn't be a 4), then continued on my own, several times. After half of the video I got the rest by myself. Took 225:25 in total, spread over two days. Occasionally Simon found a more complicated way to disprove certain numbers, but I won't complain.
Wow I tried to start this and did quite well I think but I somehow just didn't think about the fact that the numbers could go higher than 9 so this attempt is lost for now I guess
21:26 Er, yes, two different from each other, but the first may be its own." 31:58 "It must work the other way." Unless... there is a third way. Well, it was the the second way. I guess the third way (where the 2 between the ones at the start would be part of a domino with a cell below it instead of above ir) would have run into a problem with a 4 in the arrow on the sixth cell of the bottom row (had to be even and larger than 2). I see you mention that in an other reply.
Simon is a much better solver than me, certainly with sudoku. But this puzzle was frustrating to watch. Never yelled at my screen this much. - even in row 11 had to be 2, was shouting that for several minutes. You also put a five pencil mark in the bottom corner while row 11 only had 5 orange cells so impossible. Then yelled for half an hour that you cannot make the 24 in colom 10 a four because no two regions of the same size can touch You colored row 8 colom 2 orange for explanation but left it orange and used that later on to put in a 1. Turned out to be correct but was from a mistake Vertical even in central colom couldnt be more than 4. Orange had to get out from the left and the massive even had to get over the top also. And yes I understand it is different to solve while explaining your thoughts but sometimes it seems like you forget the basic rules making things needlessly complicated. I do agree with Simon that it is a great puzzle and very fun to solve.
I have but a singular question to ask. Why does double clicking the top-left or bottom-right cell also highlight the other? Or rather, what property do they share? It's just weird.
You also incorrectly colored a cell orange in column 2 while showing something and then later used that coloring to make it a 1. I didn't see any easy way to prove that.
arrow cell in r9 c10 he has pencil marked as 2 or a 4. you can disprove the 4 because the 3 green cells in R9 C2,3,4 cant be only 2 separate polymos. its hard to see because you have to look at the arrow in R8C3 where you would need one of the polymos to escape. the lowest number would be 6 because you would need to place 2 in R9,10 C2 and 4s where simon has the red line marked. There are only 5 cells that arrow sees that are not odd. In turn because it cant be 4 and has to be 2 in the arrow inr9c10 all 3 cells in R9C2,3,4 have to all be in the same polymo. which forces the 1 in R7C2
Just noticed an easier way to narrow down the Arrow cell to a 2 in R9 C10. the 4 Blue cells under that arrow are all in the same regiion and there are 4 of them. and the arrow cell cant go higher than 4 so it makes them separate from the arrow. meaning the arrow cell cant be 4 because of the ruleset cant have 2 regions touch each other of the same size. meaning it has to be a 2 and then those 3 cells all have to be in the same in region in R9 C2,3,4.
@@spin-rg9ib Ya, I knew that was a 2, which makes the two blue cells on the diagonal on the left connected. Making both blue and orange one region each. Completely obvious looking back at it now.
The rules as stated are fine. A number can be 10 or more - if the rules stipulated "digit" then yes, it would be incorrect as you couldn't have a nineteenomino.
For anyone attempting this puzzle, the "checker" doesn't work properly, I'm not sure why but sometimes it'll say the puzzle is wrong and sometimes it'll say its right, even when you take a stage of the puzzle the checker says is correct, and just change out a string of numbers - the checker will say the new partially complete puzzle is also right
SudokuPad does not check numbers larger than 9. If you are finding that any number works in a particular cell, it just means that cell is larger than 9 in the finished solution.
Sigh, another one of those where you must “fill each cell with a number equal to the size of its polyomino”, and you can only put a 1-9 (or a 0) on the cells, so you can't solve the puzzle if you follow the instructions. 😠
I'm sorry to say, but the solution is NOT correct. The 19 cage contains 20 cells, so it has still to be divided! Nevertheless, beautiful puzzle and good solve video. Simon can explain the solving path in a very clear way!
MaizeGator here! Simon, watching you solve puzzles is always a thrill, especially when you are solving my puzzle. Your enthusiasm is so infectious and your intuition is second-to-none, even with a completely unfamiliar ruleset. As usual, you nailed the intended solve path, even though I must admit that I shouted "two 4's can't go next to one another, Simon!" into my computer screen at one point. I knew that you'd circle back around to it eventually :) If anything, you've proved that there were no logical bypasses to that step, which is always great to confirm.
Your effusive praise on this puzzle truly made my day! I put my heart into it, as Delray Beach is an extraordinary place. I'm happy to report that it did not suffer significant damage in the recent hurricane, although other area in my home state were not as lucky. My thoughts are with them, and I (we) appreciate the gesture of solidarity.
By the way, the shape of the final shading at the end is meant to resemble a rising sun (may require some squinting and imagination).
For anyone who enjoyed this one, I've also made another puzzle with almost the same ruleset, except the arrows count ominoes of the OPPOSITE parity (just like the concepts of yin and yang, one cannot exist without the other!). Here is a link: logic-masters.de/Raetselportal/Raetsel/zeigen.php?id=000J65
My parents lived in Delray. Thanks for the 💜
@@vjtocco brilliant indeed
There is no explanation for why the 2 Filomino cannot go down.
The reason there is no explanation is that I didn't think of it! But I think it's quite easy to disprove. It would make the arrow below the 2 at least a blue 4 ie four different regions of blue along that right hand stretch of the bottom row. This will surely cause a 2x2 as it won't be possible for two of these adjacent regions not to grow "upwards". Sorry for missing it during the solve.
Yes, I think it was a mistake. But that path can be quickly disproved.
Thank you for both the comment and the reply. I was playing along and saw that and immediately went to the comments to check.
there are actually ways to fill the 4 without creating 2x2
I had the same question, and saw later that it could not work with the bottom row.
45:25 you color r8c2 orange for demonstration but don't uncolor it afterwards. At 56:13 you use it's color to determine it's a 1.
And he used it to color r7c2 blue to avoid a 2x2
By noting the blue area below had to escape through either r8c3 or r8c4, and being r8c5 an orange 3 pointing to the left, it was necessary that r8c2 was orange
At 1:01:00 he sees that r9c10 is a 2, which makes the two blue cells pointed at by r8c2 part of the same region, making it impossible for that cell to be a 2.
I totally agree. Simon should put a flash in the cell where he starts his explanation, and then be careful to rewind to the point so the flash disappears (or something like that). But he could have seen earlier that r8c2 is not a 2. If r8c2=2 then the 3-clue in r8c5 makes r8c3 and r8c4 orange. And then the question is: where is the second cell in the 2-region? 1)r8c2 and r9c2 joins makes r10c2 a 1-cell blue region, or 2) r8c2 and r7c2 joins, but that leaves 7 blue cells "under" r8c2.
@@karlmortenlunna2417 this is a super good suggestion, especially when you get 'unlucky' and accidentally guess correctly (scare quotes because lots of people label that as getting lucky, but i don't think that fits if your goal is to solve it correctly/thoroughly). a conspicuous marker makes it almost impossible to accidentally leave hypothetical stuff in and unknowingly promote it to proven/established before it's ready. Simon if you are reading: please listen to this guy!
@karlmortenlunna2417 Yep. He didn't unwind his coloring but thankfully the color was right and the proof it wasn't 2 was relatively straightforward if he had done it.
I'd love to see a video where this causes Simon to go wrong and spin his wheels for hours. It would be like when Mark can't do a wordle in a minute but more satisfying for sadists.
6:58
Simon: "... and let's talk to Alexa"
Alexa awakens and starts speaking.
Simon: "I didn't say her name!"
I rewound it several times trying to figure out what he did say (or meant to say) but even before I heard her respond the first time around I heard Alexa so I had no luck 😅
6:56 She started talking before that - he said it in response to her waking up. What he said was "Anyway, let's 'ave a look ..." - the "let's 'ave" is what prompted her I think.
I really enjoyed that puzzle and solve! It's also fun to have one day a week dedicated to non-sudoku puzzles. As you said Simon, variety is the spice of life. :)
At 21:32, why couldn't the 2 grow down and point towards itself?
Sorry, I didn't think of it as a possibility at the time. I've posted one possible explanation of why it doesn't work in another comment.
ditto
I tried it myself once I saw him take that leap of faith and in the end it DOES fall apart fast - it forces the digit at the bottom to be a four, and there's no way to get four polyominos into the bottom right of the grid without breaking the Yin-Yang. But yeah, he did just jump to that conclusion and got lucky that it was right. ;-)
Simon's explanation from the other comment: The reason there is no explanation is that I didn't think of it! But I think it's quite easy to disprove. It would make the arrow below the 2 at least a blue 4 ie four different regions of blue along that right hand stretch of the bottom row. This will surely cause a 2x2 as it won't be possible for two of these adjacent regions not to grow "upwards". Sorry for missing it during the solve.
it forces a 2x2 in the corner on the bottom row if the arrow cell is 4. (E.X) R11C6(arrow cell)+C7=4 C8+C9=2 C10=4 C11=2 point is C10 and C11 have to be 2 different numbers both having to go up into R10 creating a 2x2. Also note because the 1 arrow R10 C7 makes the R10C7 cell and odd digit greater than 1. pushing an odd digit in R10 C8 which forces both 2's to be in R11. which creates the 2x2 in the corner
32:05 "For all those of you who would write into the comments " when he had already missed one possibility ten minutes before with the 2 in r9c6 😂
We don't make these comments as a critique but because followers of this channel like precision and are interested in the exact series of logical steps which lead to the solution
Totally agree on this. Both Simon and Mark also like to demonstrate the exact solve paths, so - opposed to what you’ll always see in the comments - they sure don’t consider themselves lucky whenever they make mistakes like this and get away with it.
There’s another one in 46:44, Simon colored r9c2 orange and used it in further logic despite still not knowing whether it’s odd or even.
Simon,
You are a rare humble diamond.
Best of luck with the ambition. You and Mark are a couple of the few who deserve it.
Take care,
Peter
Thank you for your early birthday wishes! 🎉
This is Vera from Heidelberg.
Very proud to be mentioned by you ❤
54:05 This is why I think Simon and I would make a great puzzle-solving team. For me, the beginning was incredibly hard, and at the point here where it got really tough for Simon, it became significantly easier for me.
You should hit me up, Simon. 😉 Our combined skills would make us unstoppable.
I don't know if it's ever done intentionally, but I love when puzzles like this with ridiculously large areas end up happening to have areas with number sizes that are actually possible to pencil in, like the 19 and 28 in this puzzle ^,^
Just wondering how the 1 at 56:12 was deduced? It looks like it was based on colouring that was put in to try things out at 45:25 (and then the adjacent square was coloured blue to prevent a 2x2 at 50:19, which I think was only deduced based on the orange colouring of its adjacent cell). Suspect that the 3 in the same row could probably have resolved it in the end?
One can deduce it from the 3 in r8c5 and the fact that "B" (at this point not yet discovered by Simon) needs to get out of the bottom left to connect, and cannot pass through an arrow because of it's size.
But you're right the deduction was not made properly.
@@noinfo5630 Put differently: if R8C2 were even, then
1) both R8C3 and R8C4 would need to be odd to satisfy the 3 in R8C5
2) R8C2 is a 2
3) We now have an odd number of even cells trapped below these orange cells. The only way to deal with that is to make R8C2 extend downwards, but then R9C2 is cut off and cannot form another even polyomino.
Another way to see that must be odd, is because r9c10 must be 2 (it cannot be 4, because it would be next to the another 4 region). This causes the two blues on the diagonal to be in the same region, and therefore the “1” cannot be 2.
This was absolutely phenomenal! I love these special puzzle Saturdays, and love when they are long videos, as it means they are exceptional puzzles and solves
Delray Beach is indeed on the Atlantic side in South Florida. I live here! We were spared from the worst of Milton’s fury but many were not. 😢 Thanks for the support
Just some arrows and you get those gigantic polyominoes with the strangest shapes connecting areas you wouldn't think could belong to the same polyomino... Superfun puzzle!!!
I would greatly appreciateit if you could remove the colour lines once you solved the polyominoes. Otherwise, great puzzle
Thank you so much for the birthday shout out, and you showing my new jumper. Can't wait to finish watching this brilliant video. Thank you for all you do.
Finished in 81:40. I kind of hated the puzzle at the start, because I didn't understand it. Once I understood it, I loved it. 😀 Very nice logic.
yea i kept messing up early on too i would have faired much better with a warm up puzzle before doing this one
I for one greatly enjoy the non-Sodoku Saturdays!! I am especially a fan of philomino puzzles. Thank you for the wonderful videos ☺️
41:37 for me. What a fantastic puzzle!! Loved it!
At 56:13, it is not necessarily odd.
Came looking for this comment. He left it coloured odd from a hypothetical scenario at 45:26. I spent the next ten minutes hoping he would notice, but then he used the colouring at 56:13. 😔
At the start the puzzle is pretty hard and all steps seems significant, but small.
However, the puzzle really came alive to me when the second big region revealed itself. It was absolute astonishing how and loved how the regions remained present throughout the solve. Indeed an incredibly beautiful puzzle!
In elf the few times where I was actually able to scream at my screen and for my logic to actually be right xD
Absolutely lovely puzzle
A lovely puzzle, thanks. I found it difficult to start, but once I had a toehold it mostly flowed smoothly, even if meanderingly and baffingly at times.
How i am already at 32 minutes...
Not realising that birthdays/wedding, rle explanation is all included in that time.
(when his cracking starts at minute 12)
This puzzle beat me, it took me an hour to make any progress, and when I finally started building something and I was excited I’ll finish it, after 1.5h of solving I found a mistake I absolutely couldn’t fix - potentially some logical error in the beginning and 1.5h in I wasn’t gonna start it all again 😢
For some reason I got stuck in completely different places than Simon, and had to watch him struggle through something that was obvious to me before breezing through the logic I couldn't see
Been watching for quite a spell... Love the non-Sudoku Saturday's!
Well if it isn't my favourite new setter! cannot wait to see what's in store
At 46:44 you erase the digit but not the orange shading. Later you use that shading to justify a bunch of stuff. You never actually disproved that the cell could not be even.
I failed to break in and gave up... Still love these non sudoku puzzles!
I got the break in but didn't understand that the numbers could go higher than 9. Rough mistake😑
Let's Get Cracking: 12:10
Simon's time: 1h20m15s
Puzzle Solved: 1:32:25
What about this video's Top Tier Simarkisms?!
Bobbins: 4x (16:48, 32:04, 32:26, 1:23:58)
Three In the Corner: 3x (11:06, 1:21:43)
The Secret: 3x (03:00, 04:08, 13:44)
And how about this video's Simarkisms?!
In Fact: 12x (02:24, 24:16, 29:25, 1:03:34, 1:08:25, 1:08:33, 1:13:52, 1:14:16, 1:19:36, 1:20:29, 1:25:34, 1:26:10)
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The 1 in the corner was there since time began
Someone won the Nobel Prize Physics for artificial intelligence, so don't say aloud that you want to shut down Alexia. The game you showed in the intro, is that linked below the video?
47:00 It has to get out and touch it's friends?
I should be smart enough to realize that if the video is this long that I have no chance.
I got lost right at the beginning. I don't understand how you determined that that middle 2 polyomino had to go up. It has to see two polyominos below itself but that could include its own. So the cell right below the 2 could be a 2 as part of itself.
and at 56:26 he says it's odd but the whole time it's only because he tried something out and forgot to remove the odd coloring when he was done with that. So even the blue he assigned above that was based on something that was not certain yet.
Nice puzzle, though I didn't manage it on my own.
I got stuck several times, mostly because I couldn't imagine any way something could connect, or missed an option. Watches Simon until the next deduction I missed (and read the comment explaining why c6r11 couldn't be a 4), then continued on my own, several times. After half of the video I got the rest by myself. Took 225:25 in total, spread over two days.
Occasionally Simon found a more complicated way to disprove certain numbers, but I won't complain.
lol I love that even the example puzzles now have 3 in the corner
What a callback on the Stonehenge Steelers! Iykyk
Great title for this week after Palm Beach areas got hit by a few tornados this week due to the hurricane.
Question: how to you reach for the rest of the letter in the letter tool?
Wow I tried to start this and did quite well I think but I somehow just didn't think about the fact that the numbers could go higher than 9 so this attempt is lost for now I guess
i renamed mine to answer to "echo" and it stops a lot of false triggers
Totally love it.
21:26 Er, yes, two different from each other, but the first may be its own."
31:58 "It must work the other way." Unless... there is a third way.
Well, it was the the second way. I guess the third way (where the 2 between the ones at the start would be part of a domino with a cell below it instead of above ir) would have run into a problem with a 4 in the arrow on the sixth cell of the bottom row (had to be even and larger than 2).
I see you mention that in an other reply.
At 1:28:30, the explanation why r2c2 must be 2 is very short (although it is correct).
Simon is a much better solver than me, certainly with sudoku. But this puzzle was frustrating to watch. Never yelled at my screen this much.
- even in row 11 had to be 2, was shouting that for several minutes.
You also put a five pencil mark in the bottom corner while row 11 only had 5 orange cells so impossible.
Then yelled for half an hour that you cannot make the 24 in colom 10 a four because no two regions of the same size can touch
You colored row 8 colom 2 orange for explanation but left it orange and used that later on to put in a 1. Turned out to be correct but was from a mistake
Vertical even in central colom couldnt be more than 4. Orange had to get out from the left and the massive even had to get over the top also.
And yes I understand it is different to solve while explaining your thoughts but sometimes it seems like you forget the basic rules making things needlessly complicated.
I do agree with Simon that it is a great puzzle and very fun to solve.
20 minutes to close off the 4 region in the bottom right... 😅
I have but a singular question to ask. Why does double clicking the top-left or bottom-right cell also highlight the other? Or rather, what property do they share? It's just weird.
Alexa wakes up when you say Let's.
I'm at 1:15:00 and thinking, "this can't possibly be the correct solution," so I guess I'm happy I didn't attempt it.
You also incorrectly colored a cell orange in column 2 while showing something and then later used that coloring to make it a 1. I didn't see any easy way to prove that.
You get it from determining r9c10 is 2.
arrow cell in r9 c10 he has pencil marked as 2 or a 4. you can disprove the 4 because the 3 green cells in R9 C2,3,4 cant be only 2 separate polymos. its hard to see because you have to look at the arrow in R8C3 where you would need one of the polymos to escape. the lowest number would be 6 because you would need to place 2 in R9,10 C2 and 4s where simon has the red line marked. There are only 5 cells that arrow sees that are not odd. In turn because it cant be 4 and has to be 2 in the arrow inr9c10 all 3 cells in R9C2,3,4 have to all be in the same polymo. which forces the 1 in R7C2
Just noticed an easier way to narrow down the Arrow cell to a 2 in R9 C10. the 4 Blue cells under that arrow are all in the same regiion and there are 4 of them. and the arrow cell cant go higher than 4 so it makes them separate from the arrow. meaning the arrow cell cant be 4 because of the ruleset cant have 2 regions touch each other of the same size. meaning it has to be a 2 and then those 3 cells all have to be in the same in region in R9 C2,3,4.
@@spin-rg9ib Ya, I knew that was a 2, which makes the two blue cells on the diagonal on the left connected. Making both blue and orange one region each. Completely obvious looking back at it now.
Timestamps, for anyone interested:
45:26 Colours cell orange, as a hypothetical.
56:15 Uses the colour to deduce it's odd.
Petition to reword Fillomino rules to:
*_"Each cell has a value corresponding to its region size"_*
(since you can't write numbers greater than 9)
The rules as stated are fine. A number can be 10 or more - if the rules stipulated "digit" then yes, it would be incorrect as you couldn't have a nineteenomino.
Just north of Boca Raton
93:20 for me
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For anyone attempting this puzzle, the "checker" doesn't work properly, I'm not sure why but sometimes it'll say the puzzle is wrong and sometimes it'll say its right, even when you take a stage of the puzzle the checker says is correct, and just change out a string of numbers - the checker will say the new partially complete puzzle is also right
SudokuPad does not check numbers larger than 9. If you are finding that any number works in a particular cell, it just means that cell is larger than 9 in the finished solution.
@@vjtocco ohhhhhhhhhhhhhh hahaha fair point
No sudoku. :(
It’s no sudoku saturday
Sigh, another one of those where you must “fill each cell with a number equal to the size of its polyomino”, and you can only put a 1-9 (or a 0) on the cells, so you can't solve the puzzle if you follow the instructions. 😠
I'm sorry to say, but the solution is NOT correct. The 19 cage contains 20 cells, so it has still to be divided! Nevertheless, beautiful puzzle and good solve video. Simon can explain the solving path in a very clear way!
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I count 19 19s in the final grid :)
Count again.
How can you be so confidently wrong? You have to have counted them more than once, no?