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I do love coming across these videos that I somehow missed on the day. Thanks for the suggestion. Quite often, I can't get anywhere with Shye's puzzles, but I found the trick with this one. Or rather, Shye cleverly pointed to the trick (28 = row 2 column 8): 28 (hidden DRE and DCE), 16, 49, 77, 54, 36, 35, 96, 72, 53, 47, 18, 57 (hidden pair in box; one resolvable), 58, 95, 41, 68 (hidden DCE, owing to hidden DRE in bottom band), 67, 22, 19, 17, 11, 37, 24, 63, 56, 51, 23, 92, 62, 42, 33, 31, 32, 25, 34, 29, 39, 97, 87, 74, 46, 99, 83, 93, 86, 65, 66, 75, 88, 78, 81, 72, 84, 45, 44.
Shye, thank you for sharing it with us, and thank you for joining us in the comment section. This solve was an amazing lesson for me. It's so obvious in hindsight, but I would have never imagined using 8 cells in 2 squares to solve the top right corner. I think that the problem with many tutorials is that they never go into depth for how the principles work...or how a principle can be used backwards. I had stopped playing this for a long time due to frustration. I tried again recently, and I accidentally learned a thing, which blew my mind, and it inspired me to try again to learn about ALSs. What an exciting world!
I'm watching the video after being stumped. I know that something is to be made of the 1-6 digits, and also 7-9. 8 in block 3 must be in column 9, while 9 in block 3 must be in row 1. The 6s are distributed in the slot-machine pattern, and there are a pair of useless complementary finned swordfish. Useless was my first thought. My second thought was, unless one wanted to avoid the swordfish, perhaps for uniqueness. So I tried placing the 6 in the fin, and eventually broke the puzzle. Then I returned to the alternative, removing 6 from the fin and applying the full swordfish. Unfortunately, I'm still stuck. 5:40 When you focused on R2C8, I promptly stopped the video, returned to my grid, and placed the 7. That released just about everything. 7:40 Block 2, placing 7 and 8. I placed the 8 earlier in my solve, in the fin, when I decided that the swordfish was real. The 7 is placed in one of the swordfish cells, breaking up (bypassing? resolving?) the swordfish. I went to that video you linked, at the end of this video. I recognized the puzzle, that I'd done twice before, as well as my comments -- "finned swordfish of doom". I had something in the back of my mind about avoiding unwanted swordfish.
The 7 really unravels this whole puzzle, which was Shye’s intention. The other puzzle was quite harder. I like “finned swordfish of doom”. It was a tough strategy to find in that one.
Some time learning is better. Just only one 7 cracked whole too hard puzzle. Getting the 7 is great learn. I filled No's in all cells not even got single pairs also, there are full of no's, because I stopped and watched vedio. I spotted 789 in r2c8.felt shame, at the same time happy to get something learn. Very good puzzle, and very very nice solve. Thankyou❤
Please could you speak more clearly. Already in this video's first minute there were several places where your speech is so slurred or indistinct that it is not clear what you were saying.
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Those Snyder chains feel SO good when I've been staring at a puzzle for days and gotten nowhere.
Created blind spots, doesn’t it?
I do love coming across these videos that I somehow missed on the day. Thanks for the suggestion. Quite often, I can't get anywhere with Shye's puzzles, but I found the trick with this one. Or rather, Shye cleverly pointed to the trick (28 = row 2 column 8):
28 (hidden DRE and DCE),
16, 49, 77, 54, 36,
35, 96, 72, 53, 47,
18, 57 (hidden pair in box; one resolvable),
58, 95, 41, 68 (hidden DCE, owing to hidden DRE in bottom band),
67, 22, 19, 17, 11,
37, 24, 63, 56, 51,
23, 92, 62, 42, 33,
31, 32, 25, 34, 29,
39, 97, 87, 74, 46,
99, 83, 93, 86, 65,
66, 75, 88, 78, 81,
72, 84, 45, 44.
Nice job Julian. I thought this was her more clever creations, and easiest, from a solving perspective.
lovely solve! just what i was hoping to show, not every puzzle which is impervious to snyder notation is necessarily a monster :3
I loved this one Shye. You definitely provide that “A-ha!” moment.
Shye, thank you for sharing it with us, and thank you for joining us in the comment section.
This solve was an amazing lesson for me. It's so obvious in hindsight, but I would have never imagined using 8 cells in 2 squares to solve the top right corner.
I think that the problem with many tutorials is that they never go into depth for how the principles work...or how a principle can be used backwards.
I had stopped playing this for a long time due to frustration. I tried again recently, and I accidentally learned a thing, which blew my mind, and it inspired me to try again to learn about ALSs.
What an exciting world!
This was awesome, indeed!
Glad you liked it, George!
Awesome!
Glad you loved it. Did you catch the little trick before watching?
I'm watching the video after being stumped. I know that something is to be made of the 1-6 digits, and also 7-9. 8 in block 3 must be in column 9, while 9 in block 3 must be in row 1. The 6s are distributed in the slot-machine pattern, and there are a pair of useless complementary finned swordfish. Useless was my first thought. My second thought was, unless one wanted to avoid the swordfish, perhaps for uniqueness. So I tried placing the 6 in the fin, and eventually broke the puzzle. Then I returned to the alternative, removing 6 from the fin and applying the full swordfish. Unfortunately, I'm still stuck.
5:40 When you focused on R2C8, I promptly stopped the video, returned to my grid, and placed the 7. That released just about everything.
7:40 Block 2, placing 7 and 8. I placed the 8 earlier in my solve, in the fin, when I decided that the swordfish was real. The 7 is placed in one of the swordfish cells, breaking up (bypassing? resolving?) the swordfish.
I went to that video you linked, at the end of this video. I recognized the puzzle, that I'd done twice before, as well as my comments -- "finned swordfish of doom". I had something in the back of my mind about avoiding unwanted swordfish.
The 7 really unravels this whole puzzle, which was Shye’s intention. The other puzzle was quite harder. I like “finned swordfish of doom”. It was a tough strategy to find in that one.
Some time learning is better. Just only one 7 cracked whole too hard puzzle. Getting the 7 is great learn.
I filled No's in all cells not even got single pairs also, there are full of no's, because I stopped and watched vedio.
I spotted 789 in r2c8.felt shame, at the same time happy to get something learn.
Very good puzzle, and very very nice solve. Thankyou❤
Great job finding that 7. It was the key to the whole puzzle.
Wow, that was a bit of a bear to get started. Strange that Hudoku only has it rated as a medium. Now onto the show 😃
Crazy how hard it seems at first.
Please could you speak more clearly. Already in this video's first minute there were several places where your speech is so slurred or indistinct that it is not clear what you were saying.
Thank you so much for watching and for the feedback. I will work on slowing down the speech and being more clear in my videos. I appreciate this.