Thanks so much for the feature Simon! TBH this is one of my least favorite LMD puzzles of my own so I'm surprised to see it here 😆. Hope you enjoyed it though. I cant wait to watch!
I really like two things about this puzzle - first the way that the logic in the final columns uses the interaction between the rules, and the second is how you have showcased a combination that seems to have a lot of potential. The different colour stars could be used as sandwich ends for a Sudoku, for example. And anything that brings LITS and Star Battle to a wider audience is surely adding joy to the world.
Two puzzles of greatness I tasted. To solve them I thoroughly hasted. I applied all the shading, Star collisions evading, And my entire night has been wasted.
I just realized it's called LITS because those are the only valid tetronimo shapes. Anyway, did the 8x8 in 27:40. I attempted the 12x12, but it was a bit above my abilites.
Yeah, that 8x8 is pretty difficult by itself, unless you know or realise the general thing about 8x8 star battles, involving how each 2x2 can only ever have one star in it. And how you can divide the 8x8 into 16 2x2 blocks, which is exactly how many stars there are.
I saw star battle on this channel before, never heard of lits. This was a very interesting solve to watch. To see Simon's joy when solving the puzzles is wonderful. Thanks for 2 solves this evening 😊
I love starbattle puzzles and this is a double feature double the fun. When i solved this i was always bouncing between starbattle and LITS rules so elegant. Please do more of these puzzles,
Great solve! I went a slightly different route near the end - Once you got the upside-down grey L shape on the bottom right, I kept using process of elimination on the possible shapes/colours of the last 2-3 regions on the right side. It really helps to narrow it down. Then I kinda got stuck, but the "Star" logic you deduced @ 52:45 helped me clarify/disambiguate the final solution.
Wow! Might be my biggest, toughest star battle puzzle completed yet! So glad I gave it a shot. Felt utterly stumped at times, but slowly, gradually, eventually found the next steps. 16:24 for the 8x8, then 50:48 for the 12x12. Incredible puzzle!
I finished the 8x8 in 19:53 minutes and the 12x12 in 112 minutes. I'm glad I did the example puzzle, because I misused a rule and thought it meant both unshaded and shaded couldn't be a 2x2 collection. I felt good after doing the example. After finishing the main course, I don't feel as good. It took me a long time to spot the pathway that was forced thanks to the geometry of those upper regions. Looking back at the pathway, it feels fairly straightforward. I enjoyed both of these, but the main one put me through the ringer. Great Puzzles!
Got the small one done in 53:38 - without knowing the trick for 8×8 star battles (but knowing that there is at most one star in each 2×2). It made me happy to see that Simon also struggled a bit here. For the big one, that 8×8 trick didn't work. I got some progress, then got stuck. Watched the first 3 minutes of Simon's solve, got an idea on how to progress. Near the end I thought I had a dead pattern, but I just missed that one white star was near the options for one of the black ones, and when I spotted it, it resolved it. 152:03, spread over two evenings. Now let me watch how Simon did it.
My coloring for this puzzle: Orange tetrominoes with red stars and green "elsewhere" with yellow stars. Purple for star of unknown color. I start with full grid in purple/white for "can be star" because I enjoy fully pencilmarking puzzles :D
It's rather visually dominating, in my opinion, and - at least in this puzzle - it prevents him from doing certain types of logic like after he (at long last, in typical Simon fashion) places the star in the S-shaped region, he misses out on asking the question of where the green star goes in the region starting r1c11. Doing so would have finished off the stars in the first two regions and made the whole solve a lot simpler.
@@abj136 Serendipitously, the 1289-based notation suggested by the modifications required for answer checks enabled me to enter the information as corner pencil marks. Not ideal, I admit, but practical in this case.
I really enjoyed this, thanks, somewhat to my surprise as not a mad fan of star battle or LITS, but the different types of logic meshed together beautifully.
A fun solve to watch. Star Battle is an interesting puzzle that I!d probably enjoy getting into, but the more complex ones don’t seem like the best place to start. With the LITS, I feel like the letter tool could have been helpful here, marking I, L, S, T when you know what tetrominos are possible or required in any region.
Hah! Was feeling good that I finished the puzzle in 45 minutes and the video was 1 hour, then realized id' done the 8x8. So tried the full puzzle and it took over 3 hours. The realized Simon did BOTH in 1 hour. But I've never done starbattle or lits, so glad I did it. Thanks!
Very nice, and interesting how the constraints change from 8x8 to 12x12: mostly just fitting stars in for smaller, and making the tetrominoes connect for larger.
22:54 for the easy one - very enjoyable. 3:07:56 for the big one. I kept having to rewind when it crashed but I got there in the end: I’m relatively new to this type of puzzle though. Finisher 1000!!!
I thought I was a fool when it took me 30 minutes to solve the example puzzle, but I'm glad to see it wasn't actually that easy after all. Glad to learn that 2x2 trick too, I made really hard work of it not knowing that trick.
I found star scanning getting a bit tough using only red pen tool. About half way through I switched to using 3 colors. Red X for no star, blue O for unshaded stars and black O for shaded stars. It helped tremendously to finish the puzzle!
Really great puzzle. Sven, pretty pretty please add some star battle shapes to your awesome software. A small dot or diamond for cells without a star and perhaps a large star shape. The X and O being the same size takes away from the viewing experience.
It’s very interesting to me how simon’s brain defaults to his favourite, star battle, and only goes to LITS if completely stuck. Mine did the opposite. Lovely puzzle
49:16, I tried entering the digits bother ways and it said it was wrong both times, but it matched the solution in the video, so I'm calling it good. I play LITS and star battle puzzles from time to time, am "okay" at both, combining the two was rough. Especially since I could mark that a cell couldn't have a star on a tetrominoe, but that didn't mean it couldn't have a star OFF a tetrominoe and vice versa. Good thing I could concentrate on the LITS part at first and do most of that before moving on. Oh, and 7:01 on the practice one.
42:01 When you stopped doing shading and started doing star battle i said "NOOOOO..." Because you were right at the cusp of solving some logic in R9C9 and R10C10. The tetromino from row 10 in column 9 cannot be an I tetromino. It can only be an L tetromino. The effect of this is that R11C10 is a GREEN cell because otherwise you'd get a 2x2. If the L tetromino takes R12C10 then you can't get out. It therefore HAS to take R10C10! And that has huge effects on the biggest region where most of the cells turn green in the top. And looking at rows 2, 3 and 4. You have two shaded stars in those rows and you will need a third. So whichever way you go with the only three remaining tetrominoes, they have to reach at least row 4. And you should also be mindful of the fact you have zero shaded cells in columns 11 and 12. At least one cell needs to be part of a tetromino in column 12. Your options are quite restricted when you start fiddling with ti.
Definitely and early follow along after I was only able to place 3 shades and and X... That L play in the middle , would never be able to see which was the key to breaking the puzzle after that didn't have to look at the solve till the end.
@@CrackingTheCryptic It may be obvious but I would pay currency for that product. I’ve already gone through every puzzle in Star Battle Go including the extra ones.
I think you will have to ask AFrayedKnot to set the inaugural puzzle in this app. Perhaps the app could include a new variation on the number pad specifically designed for star battles. Pen tool just feels a little clunky on these puzzles.
I do queens every day but didnt know the suduko legend himself was setting them! I'm no puzzle genius but even i find them a bit easy so maybe they'll add a star battle expansion 😄
There's two solutions to the puzzle; most of the board stays the same, but the S piece in the bottom right moves up and to the left. Instead of being in columns 11 and 12, it's in columns 9 and 10. This, in turn, changes the position of 2 black stars; the one in the S we moved goes one space left to column 10. Meanwhile, the star in the L piece above it (columns 10 and 11) moves from its spot in column 10 over to the right in column 11. This is why it wasn't declared as correct when you did it... and since the website uses your version of the solution, it now believes that my version of the solution isn't correct. This was a wild twist to the puzzle that I did not see coming. EDIT: TFMurphy spotted a conflicting white star in column 12 that breaks my solve. Still, the idea of a star battle having two solutions is interesting.
@@TFMurphy Well damn, I didn't even see that. Everything else fit, so I hadn't even considered that diagonal to be an issue. Good eye, that white star literally can't go anywhere else so there's no possible way for it to work.
In a Jay Dyer puzzle with the long, equal sum line, I had to fill in the blanks with 0. Perhaps you should use 1s for stars and 0s for the rest of the puzzle or something similar.
Solving puzzles in the most convoluted way possible instead of the sudoku or "stardoku" way is one of the reasons this channel is so wildly popular. Any computer can solve puzzles flawlessly and quickly.
@@hesberados1202 a lot of times Mark and Simon will ignore a pencilmark that conflicts with a given digit and find a complicated way to determine that cell.
Perfect example at 50:33 where Simon goes all round the houses to prove that R7C9 isn’t a gray/grey star when there’s already a star at the bottom of the column! EDIT: He finally realizes after three minutes and apologies in the most Simon way imaginable; I’m me. Never change Simon. Never change!
1:11:41 for the example puzzle, and my logic was really clunky and inelegant (pick a square, try to prove that it can't be a certain color, rinse and repeat). something about this ruleset just doesn't gel with me for some reason, not even gonna bother with the bigger puzzle. (edit: never mind, got some tips from simon's solve of the example puzzle and managed to solve the 12x12 in 51:57)
Hey Simon, I've been watching your solves for about 2 years and pretty much every video Maverick gets a mention. Sometimes we can hear him, too. Could you say a sentence or two about him during one of your solves? I feel like I missed his introduction and by now I'm really wanting to know more about him.
I believe it's unlikely to actually be the same pilot every time. He just refers to any plane flying by as being flown by "Maverick". I remember Simon making reference to the scene in Top Gun, where Maverick does a low flypast of the control tower, when a plane flew particularly close to his home once, when recording. "He" has become an unseen third member of the channel ever since, as a channel meme.
@@madsli it’s a reference to one of his old videos a couple years ago. Nori nori is a puzzle genre. IIRC When he repeated it a bunch, he noticed he was saying it too much. And now when he repeats himself he’ll occasionally toss in a “nori nori”
It was in a video from February 2021 called "Every Step In This Puzzle Seems Impossible!". I'd post a link, but RUclips seems to delete my comments even with RUclips links these days. (I think Nori Nori means something in Japanese, but I forget what.)
Starting about minute 52 it gets to be annoying because he has so many "gimme" stars available. Even at 1:01 after he fills a bunch of them in, there are still more gimmes.
"This cell can't be grey, because in this case we will connect an eye to an eye, and this cell also can't be grey, because it will connect an ass to a ass" Alternative sudokus have gone too far💀💀💀
Thanks so much for the feature Simon!
TBH this is one of my least favorite LMD puzzles of my own so I'm surprised to see it here 😆.
Hope you enjoyed it though. I cant wait to watch!
Very interesting puzzles
Amazing puzzles!
I really like two things about this puzzle - first the way that the logic in the final columns uses the interaction between the rules, and the second is how you have showcased a combination that seems to have a lot of potential. The different colour stars could be used as sandwich ends for a Sudoku, for example. And anything that brings LITS and Star Battle to a wider audience is surely adding joy to the world.
I loved the start and the flow through till the last section and then I got lost made an error and had ro watch the amazing Simon in awe
@@MarkBennet10001funny you mention this. I have made a LITS sudoku that was featured on CTC a couple years ago 😂
Wow. The example puzzle was interesting enough. It feels like we've been truly spoiled rotten today. What a great day
51:40 Hilarious to watch Simon wondering if this could be a gray star 🤣
in the column with another grey star xD yeah, made me cross with him as well
Two puzzles of greatness I tasted.
To solve them I thoroughly hasted.
I applied all the shading,
Star collisions evading,
And my entire night has been wasted.
I just realized it's called LITS because those are the only valid tetronimo shapes.
Anyway, did the 8x8 in 27:40. I attempted the 12x12, but it was a bit above my abilites.
There's an alternative version called LOITS that does allow 2×2s, and includes the O-tetromino as well.
Yeah, that 8x8 is pretty difficult by itself, unless you know or realise the general thing about 8x8 star battles, involving how each 2x2 can only ever have one star in it.
And how you can divide the 8x8 into 16 2x2 blocks, which is exactly how many stars there are.
I actually did it, the second one that is. I barely ever finish the puzzles in these videos but i loved this ruleset. 52mins!
I saw star battle on this channel before, never heard of lits. This was a very interesting solve to watch. To see Simon's joy when solving the puzzles is wonderful. Thanks for 2 solves this evening 😊
Great thumbnail, decomposing as if after some issue with Microsoft
AI art goes hard
Have been out to We Will Rock You at our local secondary school (nailed it), and came back to see this joyous puzzle ... what an evening
This is the first time I've come across LITS puzzles, and it was wonderful to hear you work through it!
This is an amazing ruleset. I would love to see a combination of LITS & Star Battle again in future videos. Absolutely loved it.
You had a write in star in row 6 for such a long time it was painful to watch. So of course it's the very last cell you fill in. Classic Simon.
I love when you guys do other puzzles. Still love sudoku but the diversity of puzzles is certainly welcome, at least by me
Absolutely incredible puzzles! It's amazing how both flow naturally to a solution, but in completely different (and sometimes opposite) ways.
Absolutely love this rule set, it can surely have many follow up puzzles and I look forward to trying many of them.
I love starbattle puzzles and this is a double feature double the fun. When i solved this i was always bouncing between starbattle and LITS rules so elegant. Please do more of these puzzles,
Great solve! I went a slightly different route near the end - Once you got the upside-down grey L shape on the bottom right, I kept using process of elimination on the possible shapes/colours of the last 2-3 regions on the right side. It really helps to narrow it down. Then I kinda got stuck, but the "Star" logic you deduced @ 52:45 helped me clarify/disambiguate the final solution.
Wow! Might be my biggest, toughest star battle puzzle completed yet! So glad I gave it a shot. Felt utterly stumped at times, but slowly, gradually, eventually found the next steps. 16:24 for the 8x8, then 50:48 for the 12x12. Incredible puzzle!
I finished the 8x8 in 19:53 minutes and the 12x12 in 112 minutes. I'm glad I did the example puzzle, because I misused a rule and thought it meant both unshaded and shaded couldn't be a 2x2 collection. I felt good after doing the example. After finishing the main course, I don't feel as good. It took me a long time to spot the pathway that was forced thanks to the geometry of those upper regions. Looking back at the pathway, it feels fairly straightforward. I enjoyed both of these, but the main one put me through the ringer. Great Puzzles!
Got the small one done in 53:38 - without knowing the trick for 8×8 star battles (but knowing that there is at most one star in each 2×2). It made me happy to see that Simon also struggled a bit here.
For the big one, that 8×8 trick didn't work. I got some progress, then got stuck. Watched the first 3 minutes of Simon's solve, got an idea on how to progress. Near the end I thought I had a dead pattern, but I just missed that one white star was near the options for one of the black ones, and when I spotted it, it resolved it. 152:03, spread over two evenings. Now let me watch how Simon did it.
My coloring for this puzzle:
Orange tetrominoes with red stars and green "elsewhere" with yellow stars. Purple for star of unknown color.
I start with full grid in purple/white for "can be star" because I enjoy fully pencilmarking puzzles :D
At around 52:00 instead of going on a bifurcation rampage the much cleaner approach is to ask where and how the two remaining regions connect.
He got a bit lost in the sauce and confused by all the pencil marks but that's what we like about him
I like Simon's notation for stars, using the Pen tool.
It's rather visually dominating, in my opinion, and - at least in this puzzle - it prevents him from doing certain types of logic like after he (at long last, in typical Simon fashion) places the star in the S-shaped region, he misses out on asking the question of where the green star goes in the region starting r1c11. Doing so would have finished off the stars in the first two regions and made the whole solve a lot simpler.
@@wordclover but what notation would enable doing that? I feel maybe Sudokupad is limited this way.
@@abj136 Serendipitously, the 1289-based notation suggested by the modifications required for answer checks enabled me to enter the information as corner pencil marks. Not ideal, I admit, but practical in this case.
I really enjoyed this, thanks, somewhat to my surprise as not a mad fan of star battle or LITS, but the different types of logic meshed together beautifully.
A fun solve to watch. Star Battle is an interesting puzzle that I!d probably enjoy getting into, but the more complex ones don’t seem like the best place to start. With the LITS, I feel like the letter tool could have been helpful here, marking I, L, S, T when you know what tetrominos are possible or required in any region.
Hah! Was feeling good that I finished the puzzle in 45 minutes and the video was 1 hour, then realized id' done the 8x8. So tried the full puzzle and it took over 3 hours. The realized Simon did BOTH in 1 hour. But I've never done starbattle or lits, so glad I did it. Thanks!
Very nice, and interesting how the constraints change from 8x8 to 12x12: mostly just fitting stars in for smaller, and making the tetrominoes connect for larger.
8:14 & 29:14
Both exceptionally clever puzzles woth lovely interplay between the different rules.
22:54 for the easy one - very enjoyable.
3:07:56 for the big one. I kept having to rewind when it crashed but I got there in the end: I’m relatively new to this type of puzzle though. Finisher 1000!!!
Not really seen this type of puzzle before, it was very interesting to watch.
This was a lot of fun. Doing both puzzles - they are quite different for the same constraints.
I thought I was a fool when it took me 30 minutes to solve the example puzzle, but I'm glad to see it wasn't actually that easy after all. Glad to learn that 2x2 trick too, I made really hard work of it not knowing that trick.
Got it in 01:19:16. Wow, what an amazing puzzle. I loved this one, more like this please!!!
Wouldn't have minded if the example puzzle was a video of it's own, that one was pretty nice to watch, and the large puzzle was genious as well :D
6:08 and 22:06 for me. Fantastic puzzles, loved them!!
I found star scanning getting a bit tough using only red pen tool. About half way through I switched to using 3 colors. Red X for no star, blue O for unshaded stars and black O for shaded stars. It helped tremendously to finish the puzzle!
I love star battle!! So happy to see you playing it again 😁
Quite a challenge! My times today:
8x8 - 14:35, solver number 2430
12x12 - 49:29, solver number 2227.
Solved both of them on my own. Truly fun puzzles to solve.
Really great puzzle. Sven, pretty pretty please add some star battle shapes to your awesome software. A small dot or diamond for cells without a star and perhaps a large star shape. The X and O being the same size takes away from the viewing experience.
It’s very interesting to me how simon’s brain defaults to his favourite, star battle, and only goes to LITS if completely stuck. Mine did the opposite. Lovely puzzle
I want to try these LITS Star Battle now... ^^ Fascinating video as always!! =)
AfrayedKnot is just a legendary puzzle maker!
Thank you Simon for the double feature today!!
Thanks for working through the example.
So glad you did both!
Apparently it helps me to read the rules! I knew each region had two different coloured stars, but I didn't consider rows/columns.
49:16, I tried entering the digits bother ways and it said it was wrong both times, but it matched the solution in the video, so I'm calling it good.
I play LITS and star battle puzzles from time to time, am "okay" at both, combining the two was rough. Especially since I could mark that a cell couldn't have a star on a tetrominoe, but that didn't mean it couldn't have a star OFF a tetrominoe and vice versa. Good thing I could concentrate on the LITS part at first and do most of that before moving on.
Oh, and 7:01 on the practice one.
that is a super cool puzzle, i like these probably more than sudoku!
27:46 “There’s definitely a gray L in the S”
I’m 43, but I chuckled like a 13 year old boy.
Very cool graphic of Simon for the video
42:01 When you stopped doing shading and started doing star battle i said "NOOOOO..."
Because you were right at the cusp of solving some logic in R9C9 and R10C10.
The tetromino from row 10 in column 9 cannot be an I tetromino. It can only be an L tetromino.
The effect of this is that R11C10 is a GREEN cell because otherwise you'd get a 2x2.
If the L tetromino takes R12C10 then you can't get out. It therefore HAS to take R10C10!
And that has huge effects on the biggest region where most of the cells turn green in the top.
And looking at rows 2, 3 and 4. You have two shaded stars in those rows and you will need a third. So whichever way you go with the only three remaining tetrominoes, they have to reach at least row 4. And you should also be mindful of the fact you have zero shaded cells in columns 11 and 12. At least one cell needs to be part of a tetromino in column 12.
Your options are quite restricted when you start fiddling with ti.
the ruleset of the puzzle in the link has an addition to place numbers for getting a solution. This was loads of fun 😄👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻
Definitely and early follow along after I was only able to place 3 shades and and X...
That L play in the middle , would never be able to see which was the key to breaking the puzzle after that didn't have to look at the solve till the end.
45:20 "Look at the S, where does the green star in the S"😄
Why not just to fill in the digits to confirm the solution is correct. From example puzzle the digits were provided, and they still work for 12*12 one
1:00:19 Good thinking Simon
Finished in 30:00 flat by following along with the video.
Please please please make a Star Battle App!
How many of you would be interested?
@@CrackingTheCryptic It may be obvious but I would pay currency for that product. I’ve already gone through every puzzle in Star Battle Go including the extra ones.
I think you will have to ask AFrayedKnot to set the inaugural puzzle in this app. Perhaps the app could include a new variation on the number pad specifically designed for star battles. Pen tool just feels a little clunky on these puzzles.
I do queens every day but didnt know the suduko legend himself was setting them! I'm no puzzle genius but even i find them a bit easy so maybe they'll add a star battle expansion 😄
14:53 and 38:12 for me. amazing puzzles.
There's two solutions to the puzzle; most of the board stays the same, but the S piece in the bottom right moves up and to the left. Instead of being in columns 11 and 12, it's in columns 9 and 10. This, in turn, changes the position of 2 black stars; the one in the S we moved goes one space left to column 10. Meanwhile, the star in the L piece above it (columns 10 and 11) moves from its spot in column 10 over to the right in column 11.
This is why it wasn't declared as correct when you did it... and since the website uses your version of the solution, it now believes that my version of the solution isn't correct. This was a wild twist to the puzzle that I did not see coming.
EDIT: TFMurphy spotted a conflicting white star in column 12 that breaks my solve. Still, the idea of a star battle having two solutions is interesting.
Unfortunately, it breaks the rule that stars can't be next to each other: you've left no place to put the white star in column 12.
@@TFMurphy Well damn, I didn't even see that. Everything else fit, so I hadn't even considered that diagonal to be an issue. Good eye, that white star literally can't go anywhere else so there's no possible way for it to work.
In a Jay Dyer puzzle with the long, equal sum line, I had to fill in the blanks with 0. Perhaps you should use 1s for stars and 0s for the rest of the puzzle or something similar.
1 for black stars and 0 for white stars, if the software reads zeros in a usually Sudoku grid? ^^
X's look more like stars and it's throwing me off! haha
Apart from the fact that i love Maverick at this point, i bet you have noise cancellation because i hardly hear anything most of the time!
Solving puzzles in the most convoluted way possible instead of the sudoku or "stardoku" way is one of the reasons this channel is so wildly popular. Any computer can solve puzzles flawlessly and quickly.
Agreed. I love watching for new episodes of _Simon does things the hard way._
What do you mean by sudoku or stardoku way ?
@@hesberados1202 a lot of times Mark and Simon will ignore a pencilmark that conflicts with a given digit and find a complicated way to determine that cell.
Perfect example at 50:33 where Simon goes all round the houses to prove that R7C9 isn’t a gray/grey star when there’s already a star at the bottom of the column!
EDIT: He finally realizes after three minutes and apologies in the most Simon way imaginable; I’m me. Never change Simon. Never change!
Simon doesn't have a Logic Masters account?!?!?!
That was my reaction, too.
I considered trying this puzzle but the 8×8 example gave me such a hard time by itself that I decided not to embarass myself with the big thing, haha
Two LITS Battle puzzles in one video. This was a total treat!
What a delight!
1:11:41 for the example puzzle, and my logic was really clunky and inelegant (pick a square, try to prove that it can't be a certain color, rinse and repeat). something about this ruleset just doesn't gel with me for some reason, not even gonna bother with the bigger puzzle. (edit: never mind, got some tips from simon's solve of the example puzzle and managed to solve the 12x12 in 51:57)
I like when a puzzle looks impossible and slowly unreveals.
A tough one, nice job!
Hey Simon, I've been watching your solves for about 2 years and pretty much every video Maverick gets a mention. Sometimes we can hear him, too. Could you say a sentence or two about him during one of your solves? I feel like I missed his introduction and by now I'm really wanting to know more about him.
I think it's just a reference to Top Gun and the fact he lives close to an airport... :)
I believe it's unlikely to actually be the same pilot every time. He just refers to any plane flying by as being flown by "Maverick".
I remember Simon making reference to the scene in Top Gun, where Maverick does a low flypast of the control tower, when a plane flew particularly close to his home once, when recording. "He" has become an unseen third member of the channel ever since, as a channel meme.
Was this terrible? I'm afraid not.
But I'm not afrayedknot.
I'm just someone sitting on the couch thinking this was an amazing puzzle.
This is what Linkedin Queens should be
At 43:00 why couldn't that be a T tetromino?
Very nice puzzle. My time was 84 min.
Star battle variants on the channel and on GAPP the same day, yay!
21:41 A 12x12 puzzle - that’s gross.
I see what you did there 😉
1:14 They put news on paper now? :P
Wow that thumbnail is sick! Is it AI generated or did someone make that? :o
what a pretty thumbnail
What does Simon actually mean when he says "nori nori"
@@madsli it’s a reference to one of his old videos a couple years ago. Nori nori is a puzzle genre. IIRC When he repeated it a bunch, he noticed he was saying it too much. And now when he repeats himself he’ll occasionally toss in a “nori nori”
It was in a video from February 2021 called "Every Step In This Puzzle Seems Impossible!".
I'd post a link, but RUclips seems to delete my comments even with RUclips links these days.
(I think Nori Nori means something in Japanese, but I forget what.)
This one
ruclips.net/video/NCUveHxyZZo/видео.html
Starting about minute 52 it gets to be annoying because he has so many "gimme" stars available. Even at 1:01 after he fills a bunch of them in, there are still more gimmes.
Hi everyone
It took me too long to realize tetris is named after tetromino.
It took me until your comment. (Unless I once knew and forgot.)
"This cell can't be grey, because in this case we will connect an eye to an eye, and this cell also can't be grey, because it will connect an ass to a ass"
Alternative sudokus have gone too far💀💀💀
Hi Simon, you should do another of my starbattle sudoku variants :)
Greetings from Austria, Osh.
There is a yet unsolved extra hard one called "LAML" on LMD
Star Battle Advanced.
56:59 for me
82 minutes