I find seeing you look for the target strategy at the beginning helpful. Reveals your thought process. Way more instructive than a direct walkthrough. Of course, when you get stuck for a long time, cutting out a long hangup like you did on Death Star is always possible.
I enjoyed this one and managed so solve it on my own using the 2 Y-rings. I got the naked 2 that you got stuck on quite quickly and so I didn’t get bogged down. The previous 2 gospels both stumped me. Looking forwards to the next advanced puzzles. Just hope they are solvable for me. Rob
2:20 "I don't think the corners are super-interesting today." Famous last words. 11:20 I found a couple positions, probably accidental and superfluous, while solving. Early, I found a finned swordfish in 5s, which allowed me to place 5 in R4C9. Much later, when I had most of the grid centermarked -- after the two square 456 Y-wings -- R8C8 had 17. A 7 led to another Y-wing in blocks 2 and 5, removing a couple 1s. 15:30 The 25-pair in block 3, column 8 might help. In fact, block 3 has three bivalue cells.
Took me 48 mins, but this is the first sudoku from the Gospel that I've solved by myself! Dammit, I saw something, so I kept looking until it made sense 💪 I didn't notice they were those wings, but I came to the same conclusion using AICs. Thanks for pointing out the obvious for me 👍😂 For the feedback moving forward, I definitely prefer natural solves rather than walkthrough solves. I don't mind it when you take a little while finding what is supposed to be found. Baring in mind that some of the upcoming techniques you haven't learnt yet, out of your suggestions I would much prefer you look up the technique used, how it works and then try to find it yourself (while bringing us along of course). Then only when you've found it, either naturally or by finding out, tell us what the technique is, where it is and how works etc. Hope that helps 👍
Fun thing I noticed, Philip put a symmetrical naked single 8 in r4c7 to match that r7c4 naked single 2. Both are available when you get the 3 in r7c7, so I think that's meant to be the hint.
All I needed on this one was a couple of Y-wings. Not quite as tough as yesterday. Took a while to find the appropriate pairs for the wing, but doable. Still, took me over 30 minutes and a quick hint from the video for the 6s in box 7 that I missed.
He didn't mark anything saying that. The remark "3 is only here" was targeted at the two corner cells r7c7 and R9c9. If he thought r8c8 wasn't 3, 3 would have been placed at that point.
@HotelPapa100 is right, I just meant that of those two highlighted cells, 3 was in only one of them. If I thought 3 was only there in the box I would have placed it.
I find seeing you look for the target strategy at the beginning helpful. Reveals your thought process. Way more instructive than a direct walkthrough.
Of course, when you get stuck for a long time, cutting out a long hangup like you did on Death Star is always possible.
I enjoyed this one and managed so solve it on my own using the 2 Y-rings. I got the naked 2 that you got stuck on quite quickly and so I didn’t get bogged down. The previous 2 gospels both stumped me.
Looking forwards to the next advanced puzzles. Just hope they are solvable for me.
Rob
2:20 "I don't think the corners are super-interesting today." Famous last words.
11:20 I found a couple positions, probably accidental and superfluous, while solving. Early, I found a finned swordfish in 5s, which allowed me to place 5 in R4C9. Much later, when I had most of the grid centermarked -- after the two square 456 Y-wings -- R8C8 had 17. A 7 led to another Y-wing in blocks 2 and 5, removing a couple 1s.
15:30 The 25-pair in block 3, column 8 might help. In fact, block 3 has three bivalue cells.
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Took me 48 mins, but this is the first sudoku from the Gospel that I've solved by myself! Dammit, I saw something, so I kept looking until it made sense 💪 I didn't notice they were those wings, but I came to the same conclusion using AICs. Thanks for pointing out the obvious for me 👍😂
For the feedback moving forward, I definitely prefer natural solves rather than walkthrough solves. I don't mind it when you take a little while finding what is supposed to be found. Baring in mind that some of the upcoming techniques you haven't learnt yet, out of your suggestions I would much prefer you look up the technique used, how it works and then try to find it yourself (while bringing us along of course). Then only when you've found it, either naturally or by finding out, tell us what the technique is, where it is and how works etc. Hope that helps 👍
Fun thing I noticed, Philip put a symmetrical naked single 8 in r4c7 to match that r7c4 naked single 2. Both are available when you get the 3 in r7c7, so I think that's meant to be the hint.
That was great. I finally understand these Y Wing things.
Awesome!
All I needed on this one was a couple of Y-wings. Not quite as tough as yesterday. Took a while to find the appropriate pairs for the wing, but doable. Still, took me over 30 minutes and a quick hint from the video for the 6s in box 7 that I missed.
At 4:25 why isn't R8C8 possibly a 3?
He didn't mark anything saying that. The remark "3 is only here" was targeted at the two corner cells r7c7 and R9c9.
If he thought r8c8 wasn't 3, 3 would have been placed at that point.
@HotelPapa100 is right, I just meant that of those two highlighted cells, 3 was in only one of them. If I thought 3 was only there in the box I would have placed it.