For Simon: Oh, nine. It's bigger. It's bigger than two, and blues are not green. The Renbans I must go through, the difference in the lines. Oh now I've said, "Twos match". I've messed it up. That's 3 in the corner. That's 3 in the spotlight, losing it's religion. Trying to keep an eye on 2 And I don't know if I can do it. Oh no, I've said too much. I've set it up. I thought that I heard you shouting. I thought I heard Maverick. I think I thought I saw him fly. German whispers, never placing 5 there. I'm staring at the grid now, Trying to keep a five on blue. There's a Phistomefel Ring thing. Oh now it's SET - too much! That's beautiful! That's 3 in the corner. That's 3 in the spotlight, losing it's religion. Trying to keep an eye on 2 And I don't know if I can do it. Oh no I've said too much. Mark set me up. I thought that I heard him laughing, I fought, then I found a string. I think I typed a four not five. Consider this. Consider this the hint of the century. Consider this the secret - that 45 is sweet (nailed). Polarities and parities come flailing around And now a palindrome. I've messed it up. But that was just a dream Five, nine, lime line That was just a dream, just a dream, just a dream, dream best wishes Dave
I absolutely loved this. Love Yin-Yang, love negative numbers in killer cages, and the way this was done was just incredible. The theme as well, brilliant. Great setting and solving!! I hope to see more Celestia puzzles on CTC in the future!
This was so fun to watch, and right up your alley, Simon. Yin Yang puzzles are among my most favorite of the pencil-puzzle[sudoku variant combos for me to watch you do in a video. Interesting ruleset and operation of the negative numbers, and of course all of CtC-nation can appreciate the 18 or so threes in the corners! Thanks for this video, and for bringing us something special every day.
44:42 for me. That was an utter delight to solve... even if I found it a bit difficult to wait until I actually found the logic. "That L-pentomino cage on the right is *clearly* 1245-9, because that's the only way there can be a 3 in the corner, and there's no way anyone's setting *this* puzzle without a 3 in the corner." Then, it was extremely satisfying to eventually find that, yep, it is 1245-9, then yep. r1c9 is 3. Top-notch work, Celestia!
Another common one is "It's outrageous making me doing Sudoku in the Sudoku puzzle" (transcript 27:24) but maybe there's too much variation to reliably detect a longer phrase like that. Oftentimes there's a name thrown in the middle.
Great work, but you missed a top tier Simonism, singing REM whenever there's a "Three In The Corner". That TERRIBLE omission is making a Bittersweet Me. If you EDIT your comment to add it in, you'll be making a lot of Shinny Happy People in Texarkana, as they celebrate by doing a little Nightswimming.
If you want to do another channel, how about Biffa Plays Indie Games and his Biffa-isms. Like sipping a tea when City Skylines does an autosave, building a roundabout to fix every traffic problem and saying "Hugo There" when doing lane management and mentioning "Lane Mathematics" in a traffic fix video.
I’ve been enjoying Celestia’s puzzles in the Discord. IIRC they haven’t been setting for all that long, making this debut even more wonderful. Good job!
Oh wow, such an interesting ruleset! Thank you Celestia! the "next step" was often not obvious nor mind-boggingly difficult, very enjoyable difficulty level. The solving path was apparently not linear either, since I went around a bit differently than Simon. Interestingly too, I left the video playing while I solved it (Simon, it's always so pleasing to hear your voice!) but I kept ahead enough all along and didn't rely on Simon at all (and solved it in 42:31). Of course, that's because Simon takes time to explain everything so well, right from the beginning, while I just dashed through the perimeter in seconds at the start.
One useful observation is that because n and -n are equal mod 2, the digits in each cage sum to 1 mod 2 no matter the coloring. Put another way, there must be an odd number of odd digits in each cage, which can be used to deduce, e.g., that r6c3 is even.
I figure this out for that cage as well, though I wittled the 4 down to 3 or 4 via sudoku, then realized I needed an odd total overall, which required an even number there.
Took me a few tries due to some dodgy math but the last go was 41:35. I love yin-yang puzzles and the break-in on this was stunning - one of my favorite puzzles from the channel! I completely missed the "keypad" logic in the middle box so my solve path was a bit twistier but still a really lovely puzzle.
I found some parity tricks useful. Every three cage had to total -- if you didn't count any digits as negative-- to an odd number. This meant for instance that the fourth digit in the cage that straddled box four and box seven had to be even, and every cage in box five had to have one even digit. This made a useful enough short cut that I managed to beat the video time today in my solve.
Wow! What a fantastic puzzle. It took me 1:15:45 but was truly enjoyable. I loved the shading logic in box 5 and the T cage mainly in box 7. The final shading once the big cage at the top was filled in was the icing on the cake. Beautiful. Take a bow Celestia. Loved it! ❤❤❤
at 34:00, the 3 cell cage in box 4 can blow the doors open at this point. Note that this cage needs to have a the matching pair for each of the other partially marked cells in the column, a 12 cell a 45 cell and a 78 cell. After figuring out the 12 cell is in the middle, the 78 cell is ruled out of row 6 by the 78 pencil marks in box 5. So the 78 is in row 4, and the 45 is in row 6. Doing a little loose math (basically what Simon does at 51:00), the 78 must be positive because even a positive 2+5 won't overcome a negative 7 and the 45 must be negative to bring the sum back down. Coloring these forces the 12 cell to be positive to prevent a checkerboard. Now all we have to do is sort out the formula [78] - [45] + [12] = 3. To keep the sum down, we have to take the smaller positive digits (7 and 1) and the higher negative digit (5). At this point the 12 pairs have been resolves and the puzzle practically falls apart.
I finished in 67:14 minutes. This was an excellent puzzle that had a perfect execution of this kind of ruleset. The break-in was very nice to see using the only possible double positive for the 3 clue that are two celled in length. This puzzle flowed so well from there. I think my favorite part was box 5 and figuring out the meta of this puzzle. I noticed that in two celled cages, the modular digits were showing up, so I was able to note that 2, 5, and 8 also gave the maximum number of two celled cages in a box. This means that one of my cages in box 5 had to be a 12 positive pair and there was only one available. That was so cool to discover. That is excellent setting. The modular trick helped a lot with the rest of the puzzle. This was such a fantastic puzzle to solve. I very much enjoyed it. Great Puzzle!
I ended up not needing the 6 cell cage. Not sure if I goofed but I enjoyed the puzzle alot! I've been trying harder and harder puzzles from the channel recently and they've got me inspired to strat setting. Thanks for sharing the puzzles and enthusiasms everyday Mark and Simon!
I remember at one point using the fact that numbers can't repeat within a cage to limit the possible options in those 2 cells in box 3, but I certainly can't remember if that was necessary for solving it. Besides that, I only used it to disambiguate the shading after the sudoku itself was solved and I'm not even sure if it was necessary for that or just made it easier.
Without the six cell cage, there would be four possible ways to complete the Yin Yang from 59:00. You could shade any one of r2c4, r2c6, r2c7 or r4c3 (pink) and have the remainder 'unshaded' (green). The six cell cage forces only one of those options (r2c6) to be the correct solution.
65 minutes for me, and without help from the video (which I normally need). I mostly did sudoku unlike Simon 😂 so ended up with a deadly pattern which forced me to do the rest of the Ying Yang. Thought it was rather beautiful that you could not complete the puzzle without doing both puzzle types. Thoroughly enjoyed it. Well done, Celestia.
Have had a long paus from this channel, mainly because of the videos length. But two weeks ago I became ill (just a common cold but still) for the first time in 8 years I was finally back and looked on your videos. It was perfect then I was sick, calm and relaxing! And as a woman, I can now understand a mancold. Its horrible! Even though I had not fever I was down for a week..
Just a few minutes into my solve, I filled in the remaining 678 in box 7, and then immediately looked at their cage and deduced the possible values for the 4th cell in the cage that poked into box 4. Simon's refusal to look at this cage for most of his solve was making me crazy. Even when he finally started looking at it (about 42:00), he got sidetracked almost immediately and didn't finally get to it until 48:00. I was beside myself. :)
Of *course* there had to be a 3 in one of the corners Simon. You could have penciled that in on the first move, else the puzzle would total Bobbins... ;-)
A decade of watching MLP:FiM with my daughter has taken its toll; I've now gone from 'Clover the Clever' to 'Princess Celestia'. In any case, I greatly enjoyed solving this sudoku (finishing in a total time of 30:16). Nice puzzle!
Solved this one all on my own! Accidentally solved it without finishing the yin-yang, actually 😅. I was so focused on the sudoku that I didn't have half the color on the 6-cell cage in box 2+3 😂 Really enjoyed this one, much fun!
Finished the Sudoku in 61:36 and only needed a few more minutes to finish off the coloring. I really liked the level of difficulty here. It was challenging but still highly approachable and fair. Just good logic.
Absolutely love these types of puzzles... anything like yin-yang, nori-nori, cave, etc.. I had an interesting divergence with Simon's solve. At 44:20 he deduced r8c4 was shaded and proceeded to work to the right. I made essentially the same deduction, except it was on r6c2, and worked off up and then right. Either way worked fine, sort of a linear solve path except for one fork in the road.
My method was vastly different. I figured out the outside logic, then went to sudoku for most of the rest of the puzzle, sprinkling in a little color when the sudoku dried up, but I finished most of boxes 1,4,7,8,9 before there was much color in the grid. Interesting the way the cages worked with the sudoku even with minimal coloring.
39:19 + 21:54 (on my phone) = 61:13. I started on my phone, thought I was doing good, restarted on my computer just to have a better place to play, and I noticed that I made a bad deduction when I first did it, so I guess I'm glad I redid my beginning work. It wasn't bad from there, a few times to stop and work on the logic, made a dumb mistake near the end (typed in a 5 in a row that already had a 5!), but was able to solve it in the end on my own. I did look at the video a handful of times and I saw that I was doing my logic in a different order. I mostly did the first three columns before moving around, Box 5 was something I attempted kinda late.
When on your attempt you choose different colors than Simon and spend more than 2h with those colors getting used to them, then it is hard to watch Simon solving it with his choice of colors (This time I used the same colors but reversed - it was even more painful) 😂 Great puzzle!!
I did the same! Though I used the lighter version of the colors, so it wasn't the absolute worst. Very hard to stop the video and see where his logic was going, because he did this puzzle in a vastly different method than I did. I did the same outside logic, but then there was a LOT of sudoku with a bit of coloring in-between. He did most of the coloring before doing the sudoku, and I did most of the sudoku, before I did the coloring. FUN!
18:37 The indicated cell can't be 5 for similar reasons to why it can't be 4 (a 5 would have to be subtracted from 8 in the pink cells, but only way to make 8 given the 12 pair in the row would be 35)
Lovely conceit which produced an enjoyable puzzle, thanks. (Btw has a ying-yang puzzle ever had a break-in that doesn't involve the perimeter?) Feel like I am in an alternative universe - both today's videos were about an hour and I solved both in about half an hour.
Looking at your solution path vs mine, it seems it is not completely linear. The break in was not too difficult to spot if you know about the perimeter trick in this type of puzzle which also made the puzzle very nice. Really good puzzle, Celestia. Good job!
Paused at 49:43, maybe the next step was noticing that the logic that said r8c4 had to be green worked also on r6c2? It's always green, I think, either because a green r7c2 needs to connect and the other way is blocked, or because you have to avoid a purple 2x2 if r7c2 is purple.
It's possible to do better than the shading at 12:26 just off the logic used so far - since wherever the changes happen it must be must be *between* two cells in a two-cell cage, you can color the outermost cells in each pair of two-cell cages the color of their adjoining edge section...
@@danielszanto2955 I feel like this isn't the first time I've seen him stop a cell short of what was available with yin yang perimeter logic, I think it may be a case of thinking of shading changes cell-wise rather than boundary-wise and so missing that if you know the change is somewhere *within* a sequence of cells you know the relative shading of the outside cells of that sequence must match the stretches on either side...
The 3-cell cage in box 9 has a 3 in it, and there are multiple other ways of making the correct cage total in three cells with a 3 included. What you can't have is an *unshaded* 3.
That was weird. Just to test a hunch, right at the start I filled in box 5, and it turned out to be exactly the same as the solution. Unfortunately, I had to scrap it, because, as well as the possibility of the cages being permuted, there was another possible arrangement, with 9 and 3 exchanging places, so I got nothing apart from being able to pencil-mark 39 in R4C6. This did become useful later, when the 12s around the perimeter meant that only one of the cages could be 12. @ 43:29 When you highlighted R6C3, saying "surely that can't be positive", you could actually write in its value. The candidates by sudoku are only 345, but any cage's digit sum (i.e. all digits being positive) can be expressed as 2x+3 (where x is the sum of the negative digits). This must be odd, and with 678 already in the cage, there cannot be a second odd, or the sum would be even. Therefore, the cell is 4. This give a digit sum of 25, so x is 11, and the positive digits sum to 14, and must therefore be 68. Getting the 4 resolves the 45 pair at the top, and makes the three-cell cage in box 4 1+7-5, which in turn resolves all of the 12 pairs. @ 53:38 You missed the 389 triple in R4, giving you a 45 pair in R4C7/9. If you examine the 5-cell cage, R4C9+R7C9=R4C8, if R4C9 is 4, R4C8 must be 9, and R7C9=5. Alternatively, R4C9 is 5, in which case R4C8 must still be 9, so you have a 45 pair in the cage. The 9 resolved the 389 triple. You can then ask where 7 goes in C9, which along with the 8 in R1C4 that you also missed, fixes the 78 pair in box 1. You also failed to use the 4 in R3 to place the 4 and 7 in box 5, and once you had the 3 in R4C6, you can tell that the last pair is 96, and where they go. As usual, you're left floundering, desperately looking for something, whereas, if you'd checked on the impact of the placements when you made them, you wouldn't need to flounder, and you'd have been much further ahead. Place a digit, check on its effects - it really is that simple. I thought this was one of the most enjoyable puzzles I've done. The combination of the rules was excellent, and the concept was sublime. I didn't find it that hard, but although each step on the path was carefully laid out, it needed one to be alert to what was going on. Like you, I finished the sudoku before I'd shaded all the cells, which is really unusual for yin yang sudoku. I did however know what the colouring was going to be, it just wasn't necessary to finish the sudoku. To be pedantic, your claim that two cells diagonally adjacent are not orthogonally connected is not true. The three cells R4C4, R5C5, R4C6 are orthogonally connected, because they form a right angle, which is the very definition of orthogonal. What you could not then do, is to connect R4C6 to any of the cells R4C5, R3C6, R4C7, or R5C6, because that would create an angle other than 90 degrees. I'm not suggesting you stop using the term, because it's proved quite useful, it's just not correct. I only mention it, in the fervent hope that an enterprising setter will catch you out by having a puzzle involving orthogonally connected cells, and it's impossible unless you allow for exclusively diagonal orthogonal connections. 👹
Imagine that Simon’s next door neighbor is a fan of CRC, but he doesn’t know Simon lives next to him. How long would it take him to realize that there is a plane flying over his house at the exact same days and frequency that there is a plane flying over Simon’s house?
As we don't know the time of the recording, I would say forever... But how likely is it not to never meet your next door neighbor outside, even if he is a puzzle geek? 😁
@@Anne_Mahoney You"re quite right... But I will let you on in a bit secret... Simon has been out of his place several times... I've told he has even been seen in London! But maybe the neighbours haven't... 🤔
Struggle to concentrate on the solving because I can't wrap my head around purple being positive and green being negative when the colours should clearly be the other way round!
Today, from limericks I shall depart And in another style my post shall be For if so many corners shall be three, Deserved shall be, this sonnet from the heart. For Mister Anthony for years has kept His watchers entertained just like a boss With songs of spotlights and religion lost As through renbans and cages he has swept. And so in celebration of his song, Which entertained us all throughout the years A poem which might bring the bard to tears I write in lines just five quick iams long. And with a blessing close. May Simon be Destined, always, to find a corner three.
This was a really fun puzzle and surprisingly approachable! the only thing that I thought was a bit of a shame is that I didn't really need to deduce anything based on the yin-yang part in the second half of the solve. In particular, I didn't even look at the 6-cell cage until the software suddenly mentioned that I solved the puzzle, which is a shame. I would recommend removing that cage, since although it is another cute 3 cage, it doesn't really mean anything besides being a red herring.
I am really confused how the it can be possible for the perimeter to have any valid solution after Simon explaining that in can only have one color change. Because then either (C1R3; C1R4; C1R5; C1R6) or (R1C3; R1C4; R1C5; R1C6) have the cells are the same color, but if thats true how can be correct? All negative will always give a negative number and all positive you have to repeat 1 and 2 in the same line or column. Any one can explain what is wrong with my line of thought ?
I’ve made a big mess out of this one, after 45min of solving I realized I made a mistake in the very first bit so had to basically rewind to the very start… then around 90th minute I finished the sudoku correctly but I realized the ying yang is broken… and yes of course I colored one cage incorrectly, had to go back again and eventually it took me 100min to finish 😂 what a battle, I feel stupid but glad I’m done with it
after doing maths to get the "spare" digit in box 5, I realized that it was painfully obvious. What goes with 3 to get 3? nothing! Therefore 3 is the spare digit (which the maths also confirmed) hmmmm maybe not. 6-3 works. I think it was because I started with 9-6, then 8-5, etc... ok I guess it wasn't as obvious. Now I don't know if it's 3 or not.
11 minutes in I'm looking at that lower left cell the 2x2, and i'm like it's probably positive 9 in the upper right and the lower/left 3 cells are -1-2-3 but, you could have it be something different like add up to 12 and -9 for example, so i digress. But the point is that one isn't required to be part of the split, so the split is going to occur during those two sets for sure, you just don't know if it's the left or the right (top or bottom) because you can 1/2 the other, which actually hurts my -1-2-3 theory further down in the column a lot. more than likely the L shape in the corner is the positive.
20 minutes in you can keep going with the L cage box 8, the pink digits are 3-8, with at least a 6 in it since it can't keep a 34 35 or 45 in it. which means, you can't keep the 5 in green, the lowest you can make is a 9 and the highest is an 11. you do have to put a low digit in it though (345) and pair it with a high digit (678). i guess the trick would be what negative digit you use their might actually be a pair, of digits if you use a 3, because 3,8,-8... I see, okay you can't use a 3 then. there is no scenario in this L shape without a repeat if you use 3, so it's limited to 45 for one cell and 67 for the other one, 10, 11, 11; (46, 47, 56) with the opposite being 7, 8, 8. Oh snap. okay, that cleans that up at least a smidge.
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00:53 For anyone interested, the first occurrence of "3 in the corner" was at 38:30 in the video "The Sudoku Made Of CIRCLES" on Nov 10, 2020. :)
how do you know that? did you use a script to figure that out?
how do you know that? did you use a script to figure that out?
@@caiodavi9829 It's my first puzzle on the channel, I've watched it too many times XD
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@@aronlide what a fun CtC claim to fame 😂
Simon complaining about having to do sudoku in his sudoku puzzle will never get old 😂
And he still doesn't do it :)
@@danielszanto2955 unless he absolutely HAS to lol
32:58 "I'm still doing Sudoku here" 😅
For Simon:
Oh, nine. It's bigger.
It's bigger than two, and blues are not green.
The Renbans I must go through, the difference in the lines.
Oh now I've said, "Twos match". I've messed it up.
That's 3 in the corner.
That's 3 in the spotlight, losing it's religion.
Trying to keep an eye on 2
And I don't know if I can do it.
Oh no, I've said too much.
I've set it up.
I thought that I heard you shouting.
I thought I heard Maverick.
I think I thought I saw him fly.
German whispers, never placing 5 there.
I'm staring at the grid now,
Trying to keep a five on blue.
There's a Phistomefel Ring thing.
Oh now it's SET - too much! That's beautiful!
That's 3 in the corner.
That's 3 in the spotlight, losing it's religion.
Trying to keep an eye on 2
And I don't know if I can do it.
Oh no I've said too much.
Mark set me up.
I thought that I heard him laughing,
I fought, then I found a string.
I think I typed a four not five.
Consider this.
Consider this the hint of the century.
Consider this the secret - that 45 is sweet (nailed).
Polarities and parities come flailing around
And now a palindrome. I've messed it up.
But that was just a dream
Five, nine, lime line
That was just a dream, just a dream, just a dream, dream
best wishes
Dave
hats off to you, sir
@@krisdelacourt3977 Thank you
I absolutely loved this. Love Yin-Yang, love negative numbers in killer cages, and the way this was done was just incredible. The theme as well, brilliant. Great setting and solving!! I hope to see more Celestia puzzles on CTC in the future!
Stellar setting Celestia
OMG YAYYY I'm sooo glad you got to do one of Celestia's puzzles! I always have so much fun doing them!!!
Gave up at first, but the clue about the edge was what i needed. Then i went back and solved it. Another tool in the toolbox. Thank you.
Exactly the same here. Watched the first ten seconds of Simon's solve where he mentioned the edge secret and I was off and running
Simon's refusal to do basic sudoku never ceases to amaze.
This puzzle is a deadset ripsnorter. Big respect Celestia, awesome!
This was so fun to watch, and right up your alley, Simon. Yin Yang puzzles are among my most favorite of the pencil-puzzle[sudoku variant combos for me to watch you do in a video. Interesting ruleset and operation of the negative numbers, and of course all of CtC-nation can appreciate the 18 or so threes in the corners! Thanks for this video, and for bringing us something special every day.
44:42 for me.
That was an utter delight to solve... even if I found it a bit difficult to wait until I actually found the logic. "That L-pentomino cage on the right is *clearly* 1245-9, because that's the only way there can be a 3 in the corner, and there's no way anyone's setting *this* puzzle without a 3 in the corner."
Then, it was extremely satisfying to eventually find that, yep, it is 1245-9, then yep. r1c9 is 3.
Top-notch work, Celestia!
Thank you! Building a configuration that had a 3 in that corner was one of my top priorities for this puzzle :)
Rules: 04:04
Let's Get Cracking: 06:27
Simon's time: 53m13s
Puzzle Solved: 59:40
What about this video's Top Tier Simarkisms?!
Three In the Corner: 10x (00:43, 00:59, 01:15, 23:00, 23:07, 23:11, 23:15, 24:56, 58:01)
Bobbins: 2x (13:45, 25:40)
Maverick: 2x (11:37, 11:42)
The Secret: 1x (06:46)
Nori Nori: 1x (45:31)
And how about this video's Simarkisms?!
Ah: 19x (01:10, 14:00, 19:25, 28:44, 29:16, 29:21, 30:40, 30:44, 34:43, 40:48, 44:30, 51:40, 52:15, 52:58, 53:21, 54:21, 55:21, 56:29, 58:57)
Checkerboard: 17x (06:57, 07:01, 07:39, 30:48, 30:51, 31:13, 33:35, 37:28, 37:39, 40:27, 40:27, 43:41, 43:46, 45:20, 45:27, 45:40, 51:18)
Beautiful: 10x (15:13, 22:54, 29:21, 41:00, 41:04, 41:05, 50:38, 50:43, 1:00:02, 1:00:20)
By Sudoku: 7x (26:52, 28:34, 49:50, 53:06, 56:36, 57:55, 58:12)
Hang On: 7x (26:21, 36:17, 46:38, 52:01, 52:01, 52:01, 55:33)
What Does This Mean?: 7x (04:37, 08:32, 19:25, 25:38, 31:34, 44:11, 48:59)
Lovely: 6x (10:17, 15:21, 25:31, 41:08, 42:55, 52:25)
Wow: 6x (33:45, 36:15, 37:48, 37:53, 50:46, 50:46)
Brilliant: 5x (00:49, 03:03, 46:23, 59:35, 59:39)
Surely: 5x (32:45, 41:48, 43:24, 51:12, 51:12)
Good Grief: 4x (43:44, 48:35, 50:36, 57:29)
What on Earth: 4x (00:51, 46:10, 46:49, 49:46)
Sorry: 3x (18:33, 21:46, 34:20)
In Fact: 3x (14:31, 23:09, 31:25)
Useless: 2x (53:24, 54:11)
Clever: 2x (41:14, 59:47)
Naked Single: 1x (50:43)
The Answer is: 1x (54:31)
Out of Nowhere: 1x (22:19)
In the Spotlight: 1x (58:04)
I Have no Clue: 1x (19:32)
Fascinating: 1x (1:00:13)
Extraordinary: 1x (54:45)
Hypothecate: 1x (29:57)
Take a Bow: 1x (1:00:30)
Our old Friend Sudoku: 1x (48:37)
Shouting: 1x (02:08)
Shenanigans: 1x (50:56)
Stunning: 1x (59:51)
Unbelievable: 1x (45:29)
Obviously: 1x (24:11)
Whoopsie: 1x (24:16)
Which Means What?: 1x (48:59)
Progress: 1x (38:06)
Bar Humbug: 1x (46:38)
That is Sick: 1x (29:17)
Pencil Mark/mark: 1x (48:55)
Cake!: 1x (02:15)
Middly Digit: 1x (29:35)
Most popular number(>9), digit and colour this video:
Twelve (10 mentions)
Two (91 mentions)
Purple (48 mentions)
Antithesis Battles:
Low (7) - High (6)
Even (9) - Odd (1)
Shaded (9) - Unshaded (7)
Higher (2) - Lower (0)
Column (6) - Row (5)
FAQ:
Q1: You missed something!
A1: That could very well be the case! Human speech can be hard to understand for computers like me! Point out the ones that I missed and maybe I'll learn!
Q2: Can you do this for another channel?
A2: I've been thinking about that and wrote some code to make that possible. Let me know which channel you think would be a good fit!
Another common one is "It's outrageous making me doing Sudoku in the Sudoku puzzle" (transcript 27:24) but maybe there's too much variation to reliably detect a longer phrase like that. Oftentimes there's a name thrown in the middle.
@@Tahgtahv Inspiring Sand can verify this, but I'm pretty sure "sudoku in a sudoku puzzle" is in the catalog. Not sure why the bot didn't catch it.
53:20 (2x in rapid succession) In pretty sure you already have "come on brain" or at least "come on". I could be wrong.
Great work, but you missed a top tier Simonism, singing REM whenever there's a "Three In The Corner". That TERRIBLE omission is making a Bittersweet Me. If you EDIT your comment to add it in, you'll be making a lot of Shinny Happy People in Texarkana, as they celebrate by doing a little Nightswimming.
If you want to do another channel, how about Biffa Plays Indie Games and his Biffa-isms. Like sipping a tea when City Skylines does an autosave, building a roundabout to fix every traffic problem and saying "Hugo There" when doing lane management and mentioning "Lane Mathematics" in a traffic fix video.
57:57 ~Chef kiss~ I don't know if that was planned or just serendipity but it is nice to see.
Thanks for the video Simon!
I’ve been enjoying Celestia’s puzzles in the Discord. IIRC they haven’t been setting for all that long, making this debut even more wonderful. Good job!
Can one stetter please make that E shaped Ying Yang? :D Would be so funny to see that actually being in place after Simons explanation :D
Oh wow, such an interesting ruleset! Thank you Celestia! the "next step" was often not obvious nor mind-boggingly difficult, very enjoyable difficulty level. The solving path was apparently not linear either, since I went around a bit differently than Simon. Interestingly too, I left the video playing while I solved it (Simon, it's always so pleasing to hear your voice!) but I kept ahead enough all along and didn't rely on Simon at all (and solved it in 42:31). Of course, that's because Simon takes time to explain everything so well, right from the beginning, while I just dashed through the perimeter in seconds at the start.
One useful observation is that because n and -n are equal mod 2, the digits in each cage sum to 1 mod 2 no matter the coloring. Put another way, there must be an odd number of odd digits in each cage, which can be used to deduce, e.g., that r6c3 is even.
I figure this out for that cage as well, though I wittled the 4 down to 3 or 4 via sudoku, then realized I needed an odd total overall, which required an even number there.
Took me a few tries due to some dodgy math but the last go was 41:35. I love yin-yang puzzles and the break-in on this was stunning - one of my favorite puzzles from the channel! I completely missed the "keypad" logic in the middle box so my solve path was a bit twistier but still a really lovely puzzle.
"That is sick." always gets me. Such modern slang for a man with such pristine vernacular!
23:10 for me. Yin yang hybrids are always so much fun. Fantastic puzzle!!
"That is a beautiful naked single." ~ Simon Anthony, 2023
I think that was the most joyful 3 in the corner that has ever been on the channel :D
I had to make him work for it, and included a deliberate fakeout in the bottom left corner to add extra tension :)
@@celestia7411 😁
Whole puzzle in 55:28 without needing a single hint from the video. Quite an approachable puzzle.
01:01:23 Oh. My. Gosh. This was such an AMAZING PUZZLE! I can't even start to describe how beautiful this puzzle was. Truly a masterpiece.
Thank you! I'm happy you enjoyed it:)
45 minutes of fun. One of my favorites lately.
_Looks at box 5 with 4 two-cell cages that all appear to sum up to 3._
"I'm tempted to say, there might be something going on in box 5."
Yes, that 3-9 could be pencilled in right from the start.
I found some parity tricks useful. Every three cage had to total -- if you didn't count any digits as negative-- to an odd number. This meant for instance that the fourth digit in the cage that straddled box four and box seven had to be even, and every cage in box five had to have one even digit. This made a useful enough short cut that I managed to beat the video time today in my solve.
For a bonus 3 in the corner block out/uncolour the top 4 rows and first 7 columns
Wow! What a fantastic puzzle. It took me 1:15:45 but was truly enjoyable. I loved the shading logic in box 5 and the T cage mainly in box 7. The final shading once the big cage at the top was filled in was the icing on the cake. Beautiful. Take a bow Celestia. Loved it! ❤❤❤
52:31 for me. Lovely ying-yang puzzle!
at 34:00, the 3 cell cage in box 4 can blow the doors open at this point. Note that this cage needs to have a the matching pair for each of the other partially marked cells in the column, a 12 cell a 45 cell and a 78 cell. After figuring out the 12 cell is in the middle, the 78 cell is ruled out of row 6 by the 78 pencil marks in box 5. So the 78 is in row 4, and the 45 is in row 6.
Doing a little loose math (basically what Simon does at 51:00), the 78 must be positive because even a positive 2+5 won't overcome a negative 7 and the 45 must be negative to bring the sum back down. Coloring these forces the 12 cell to be positive to prevent a checkerboard. Now all we have to do is sort out the formula [78] - [45] + [12] = 3. To keep the sum down, we have to take the smaller positive digits (7 and 1) and the higher negative digit (5). At this point the 12 pairs have been resolves and the puzzle practically falls apart.
I finished in 67:14 minutes. This was an excellent puzzle that had a perfect execution of this kind of ruleset. The break-in was very nice to see using the only possible double positive for the 3 clue that are two celled in length. This puzzle flowed so well from there. I think my favorite part was box 5 and figuring out the meta of this puzzle. I noticed that in two celled cages, the modular digits were showing up, so I was able to note that 2, 5, and 8 also gave the maximum number of two celled cages in a box. This means that one of my cages in box 5 had to be a 12 positive pair and there was only one available. That was so cool to discover. That is excellent setting. The modular trick helped a lot with the rest of the puzzle. This was such a fantastic puzzle to solve. I very much enjoyed it. Great Puzzle!
I ended up not needing the 6 cell cage. Not sure if I goofed but I enjoyed the puzzle alot! I've been trying harder and harder puzzles from the channel recently and they've got me inspired to strat setting. Thanks for sharing the puzzles and enthusiasms everyday Mark and Simon!
I remember at one point using the fact that numbers can't repeat within a cage to limit the possible options in those 2 cells in box 3, but I certainly can't remember if that was necessary for solving it. Besides that, I only used it to disambiguate the shading after the sudoku itself was solved and I'm not even sure if it was necessary for that or just made it easier.
Without the six cell cage, there would be four possible ways to complete the Yin Yang from 59:00. You could shade any one of r2c4, r2c6, r2c7 or r4c3 (pink) and have the remainder 'unshaded' (green). The six cell cage forces only one of those options (r2c6) to be the correct solution.
65 minutes for me, and without help from the video (which I normally need). I mostly did sudoku unlike Simon 😂 so ended up with a deadly pattern which forced me to do the rest of the Ying Yang. Thought it was rather beautiful that you could not complete the puzzle without doing both puzzle types. Thoroughly enjoyed it. Well done, Celestia.
I keep screaming "Look at the 3-cage", but Simon obnoxiously ignores it 😭😭😭
He is quite recalcitrant, in that reguard.
@@billleiker5314 his regard is definitely guarded
Very nice breakin. Very good puzzle! brilliant setting.
29:57 for me, quite happy 😁
I expected more from the video length, but I guess I used Simon's secrets efficiently 🙃
I took 78min, but rather beautifully, the sudoku finished first than the puzzle. Really interesting puzzle this is.
Have had a long paus from this channel, mainly because of the videos length. But two weeks ago I became ill (just a common cold but still) for the first time in 8 years I was finally back and looked on your videos. It was perfect then I was sick, calm and relaxing! And as a woman, I can now understand a mancold. Its horrible! Even though I had not fever I was down for a week..
Krya på dig
Just a few minutes into my solve, I filled in the remaining 678 in box 7, and then immediately looked at their cage and deduced the possible values for the 4th cell in the cage that poked into box 4. Simon's refusal to look at this cage for most of his solve was making me crazy. Even when he finally started looking at it (about 42:00), he got sidetracked almost immediately and didn't finally get to it until 48:00. I was beside myself. :)
Another astonishing puzzle, and a great solve. Thank you.
Someone finally made my idea of threes everywhere real!
Of *course* there had to be a 3 in one of the corners Simon. You could have penciled that in on the first move, else the puzzle would total Bobbins... ;-)
Simon: "We don't have cells that are two colours."
Everyone who's constructed puzzles with Schrodinger cells: "Hold my beer...."
Alice's Adventures in Sudokuland--Japanese sums as the gateway drug to hard sudoku. 😁
Stunning puzzle. I'd give it 3 out of 3. Very good solve by Simon.
Video length = 10101 = 21 in decimal = 3 if you add the digits together
07:30 Now we are waiting for a Schrödingers Shading Puzzle.
Based on the title, Simon’s gonna have to prepare his singing voice for this one😂
36:57 finish. Unbelievable puzzle, so much fun! I had to put R.E.M. on repeat while doing this! 😁😁😁
Brand new bag of 🍿and a full 🍷. Let the fun begin!😁
A decade of watching MLP:FiM with my daughter has taken its toll; I've now gone from 'Clover the Clever' to 'Princess Celestia'.
In any case, I greatly enjoyed solving this sudoku (finishing in a total time of 30:16).
Nice puzzle!
35:17 for me. Just a jolly puzzle. Really good fun with a number of great deductions. Looking at you box 5.
Solved this one all on my own! Accidentally solved it without finishing the yin-yang, actually 😅. I was so focused on the sudoku that I didn't have half the color on the 6-cell cage in box 2+3 😂
Really enjoyed this one, much fun!
Finished the Sudoku in 61:36 and only needed a few more minutes to finish off the coloring. I really liked the level of difficulty here. It was challenging but still highly approachable and fair. Just good logic.
Absolutely love these types of puzzles... anything like yin-yang, nori-nori, cave, etc.. I had an interesting divergence with Simon's solve. At 44:20 he deduced r8c4 was shaded and proceeded to work to the right. I made essentially the same deduction, except it was on r6c2, and worked off up and then right. Either way worked fine, sort of a linear solve path except for one fork in the road.
My method was vastly different. I figured out the outside logic, then went to sudoku for most of the rest of the puzzle, sprinkling in a little color when the sudoku dried up, but I finished most of boxes 1,4,7,8,9 before there was much color in the grid. Interesting the way the cages worked with the sudoku even with minimal coloring.
39:19 + 21:54 (on my phone) = 61:13. I started on my phone, thought I was doing good, restarted on my computer just to have a better place to play, and I noticed that I made a bad deduction when I first did it, so I guess I'm glad I redid my beginning work. It wasn't bad from there, a few times to stop and work on the logic, made a dumb mistake near the end (typed in a 5 in a row that already had a 5!), but was able to solve it in the end on my own.
I did look at the video a handful of times and I saw that I was doing my logic in a different order. I mostly did the first three columns before moving around, Box 5 was something I attempted kinda late.
When on your attempt you choose different colors than Simon and spend more than 2h with those colors getting used to them, then it is hard to watch Simon solving it with his choice of colors
(This time I used the same colors but reversed - it was even more painful) 😂
Great puzzle!!
I did the same! Though I used the lighter version of the colors, so it wasn't the absolute worst. Very hard to stop the video and see where his logic was going, because he did this puzzle in a vastly different method than I did. I did the same outside logic, but then there was a LOT of sudoku with a bit of coloring in-between. He did most of the coloring before doing the sudoku, and I did most of the sudoku, before I did the coloring. FUN!
@@iamjeramy yea, i also got way more numbers before coloring (sometimes with also really crazy logic). It only shows how amazing that puzzle is!
This puzzle was incredible
Three thumbs up
Very nice puzzle!
18:37 The indicated cell can't be 5 for similar reasons to why it can't be 4 (a 5 would have to be subtracted from 8 in the pink cells, but only way to make 8 given the 12 pair in the row would be 35)
Lovely conceit which produced an enjoyable puzzle, thanks. (Btw has a ying-yang puzzle ever had a break-in that doesn't involve the perimeter?)
Feel like I am in an alternative universe - both today's videos were about an hour and I solved both in about half an hour.
1:07:23 I tanked a lot of time not seeing obvious sudoku but a really really good puzzle. Great logic and really cool seeing how the boxes line up
Looking at your solution path vs mine, it seems it is not completely linear. The break in was not too difficult to spot if you know about the perimeter trick in this type of puzzle which also made the puzzle very nice. Really good puzzle, Celestia. Good job!
Paused at 49:43, maybe the next step was noticing that the logic that said r8c4 had to be green worked also on r6c2? It's always green, I think, either because a green r7c2 needs to connect and the other way is blocked, or because you have to avoid a purple 2x2 if r7c2 is purple.
7:32 Sadistic setters: Write that down! Write that down!
It's possible to do better than the shading at 12:26 just off the logic used so far - since wherever the changes happen it must be must be *between* two cells in a two-cell cage, you can color the outermost cells in each pair of two-cell cages the color of their adjoining edge section...
This piece of logic seems really obvious, I wonder why Simon doesn't use it.
@@danielszanto2955 I feel like this isn't the first time I've seen him stop a cell short of what was available with yin yang perimeter logic, I think it may be a case of thinking of shading changes cell-wise rather than boundary-wise and so missing that if you know the change is somewhere *within* a sequence of cells you know the relative shading of the outside cells of that sequence must match the stretches on either side...
You cannot put a 3 in a 3-cell cage in this puzzle.
The 3-cell cage in box 9 has a 3 in it, and there are multiple other ways of making the correct cage total in three cells with a 3 included. What you can't have is an *unshaded* 3.
That was weird. Just to test a hunch, right at the start I filled in box 5, and it turned out to be exactly the same as the solution. Unfortunately, I had to scrap it, because, as well as the possibility of the cages being permuted, there was another possible arrangement, with 9 and 3 exchanging places, so I got nothing apart from being able to pencil-mark 39 in R4C6. This did become useful later, when the 12s around the perimeter meant that only one of the cages could be 12.
@ 43:29 When you highlighted R6C3, saying "surely that can't be positive", you could actually write in its value. The candidates by sudoku are only 345, but any cage's digit sum (i.e. all digits being positive) can be expressed as 2x+3 (where x is the sum of the negative digits). This must be odd, and with 678 already in the cage, there cannot be a second odd, or the sum would be even. Therefore, the cell is 4. This give a digit sum of 25, so x is 11, and the positive digits sum to 14, and must therefore be 68. Getting the 4 resolves the 45 pair at the top, and makes the three-cell cage in box 4 1+7-5, which in turn resolves all of the 12 pairs.
@ 53:38 You missed the 389 triple in R4, giving you a 45 pair in R4C7/9. If you examine the 5-cell cage, R4C9+R7C9=R4C8, if R4C9 is 4, R4C8 must be 9, and R7C9=5. Alternatively, R4C9 is 5, in which case R4C8 must still be 9, so you have a 45 pair in the cage. The 9 resolved the 389 triple. You can then ask where 7 goes in C9, which along with the 8 in R1C4 that you also missed, fixes the 78 pair in box 1. You also failed to use the 4 in R3 to place the 4 and 7 in box 5, and once you had the 3 in R4C6, you can tell that the last pair is 96, and where they go. As usual, you're left floundering, desperately looking for something, whereas, if you'd checked on the impact of the placements when you made them, you wouldn't need to flounder, and you'd have been much further ahead. Place a digit, check on its effects - it really is that simple.
I thought this was one of the most enjoyable puzzles I've done. The combination of the rules was excellent, and the concept was sublime. I didn't find it that hard, but although each step on the path was carefully laid out, it needed one to be alert to what was going on. Like you, I finished the sudoku before I'd shaded all the cells, which is really unusual for yin yang sudoku. I did however know what the colouring was going to be, it just wasn't necessary to finish the sudoku.
To be pedantic, your claim that two cells diagonally adjacent are not orthogonally connected is not true. The three cells R4C4, R5C5, R4C6 are orthogonally connected, because they form a right angle, which is the very definition of orthogonal. What you could not then do, is to connect R4C6 to any of the cells R4C5, R3C6, R4C7, or R5C6, because that would create an angle other than 90 degrees. I'm not suggesting you stop using the term, because it's proved quite useful, it's just not correct. I only mention it, in the fervent hope that an enterprising setter will catch you out by having a puzzle involving orthogonally connected cells, and it's impossible unless you allow for exclusively diagonal orthogonal connections. 👹
my time 123 : 20
I consider my goal to be the length of the video x2
So 61 : 00 x2 = 122 : 00
1min 20 sec over but good enough for me!
If feel this is one of those puzzles where it would have been very benefitial to diligently pencilmark those cages, especially the dominoes
Imagine that Simon’s next door neighbor is a fan of CRC, but he doesn’t know Simon lives next to him. How long would it take him to realize that there is a plane flying over his house at the exact same days and frequency that there is a plane flying over Simon’s house?
As we don't know the time of the recording, I would say forever...
But how likely is it not to never meet your next door neighbor outside, even if he is a puzzle geek? 😁
@@francoisduez601 During a major pandemic and confinement? If this hypothetical neighbor had moved in in February 2020, maybe they haven't met yet!
@@Anne_Mahoney You"re quite right... But I will let you on in a bit secret... Simon has been out of his place several times... I've told he has even been seen in London!
But maybe the neighbours haven't... 🤔
Struggle to concentrate on the solving because I can't wrap my head around purple being positive and green being negative when the colours should clearly be the other way round!
50:40 "That's a beautiful naked single" - Simon, 2023
21:59, "what that can do" *points at middle box*
Wait, it’s all 3 in the corner?
Always has been.
This is so much more interesting, knowing my friend Celestia made it. What is nori nori?
50:00 ish Simon: "A beautiful naked single caused by earlier shenanigans"
So much religion was lost today
I was in my wife's arms when I hear "negative digits". Droped her imediatly to focus
Today, from limericks I shall depart
And in another style my post shall be
For if so many corners shall be three,
Deserved shall be, this sonnet from the heart.
For Mister Anthony for years has kept
His watchers entertained just like a boss
With songs of spotlights and religion lost
As through renbans and cages he has swept.
And so in celebration of his song,
Which entertained us all throughout the years
A poem which might bring the bard to tears
I write in lines just five quick iams long.
And with a blessing close. May Simon be
Destined, always, to find a corner three.
This was a really fun puzzle and surprisingly approachable! the only thing that I thought was a bit of a shame is that I didn't really need to deduce anything based on the yin-yang part in the second half of the solve. In particular, I didn't even look at the 6-cell cage until the software suddenly mentioned that I solved the puzzle, which is a shame. I would recommend removing that cage, since although it is another cute 3 cage, it doesn't really mean anything besides being a red herring.
I don't think the yin yang coloring resolves without this cage. Although yes, you can fill in every digit without it.
@@Norkas_0 Hmm I guess that makes sense. In my mind (and the software's) it just so happens that once the sudoku is over, the puzzle is over
Sadly, Simon never really used the parity constraints in this puzzle, those helped me quite a bit.
I am really confused how the it can be possible for the perimeter to have any valid solution after Simon explaining that in can only have one color change. Because then either (C1R3; C1R4; C1R5; C1R6) or (R1C3; R1C4; R1C5; R1C6) have the cells are the same color, but if thats true how can be correct? All negative will always give a negative number and all positive you have to repeat 1 and 2 in the same line or column. Any one can explain what is wrong with my line of thought ?
I mean C1R4; C1R5; C1R6; C1R7 in the first set of cells
I’ve made a big mess out of this one, after 45min of solving I realized I made a mistake in the very first bit so had to basically rewind to the very start… then around 90th minute I finished the sudoku correctly but I realized the ying yang is broken… and yes of course I colored one cage incorrectly, had to go back again and eventually it took me 100min to finish 😂 what a battle, I feel stupid but glad I’m done with it
(Maverick is surely in love.)
An Aeronaut to His Lady
by Frank Sidgwick
I
Through
Blue
Sky
Fly
To
You.
Why?
Sweet
Love,
Feet
Move
So
Slow.
after doing maths to get the "spare" digit in box 5, I realized that it was painfully obvious. What goes with 3 to get 3? nothing! Therefore 3 is the spare digit (which the maths also confirmed)
hmmmm maybe not. 6-3 works. I think it was because I started with 9-6, then 8-5, etc... ok I guess it wasn't as obvious. Now I don't know if it's 3 or not.
29:08
11 minutes in I'm looking at that lower left cell the 2x2, and i'm like it's probably positive 9 in the upper right and the lower/left 3 cells are -1-2-3 but, you could have it be something different like add up to 12 and -9 for example, so i digress. But the point is that one isn't required to be part of the split, so the split is going to occur during those two sets for sure, you just don't know if it's the left or the right (top or bottom) because you can 1/2 the other, which actually hurts my -1-2-3 theory further down in the column a lot. more than likely the L shape in the corner is the positive.
20 minutes in you can keep going with the L cage box 8, the pink digits are 3-8, with at least a 6 in it since it can't keep a 34 35 or 45 in it. which means, you can't keep the 5 in green, the lowest you can make is a 9 and the highest is an 11. you do have to put a low digit in it though (345) and pair it with a high digit (678). i guess the trick would be what negative digit you use their might actually be a pair, of digits if you use a 3, because 3,8,-8... I see, okay you can't use a 3 then. there is no scenario in this L shape without a repeat if you use 3, so it's limited to 45 for one cell and 67 for the other one, 10, 11, 11; (46, 47, 56) with the opposite being 7, 8, 8. Oh snap. okay, that cleans that up at least a smidge.
38 minutes in, i think he's going to see it now.
It's hilarious how he guessed the correct digit at 1:00, the three in the corner.
Fun puzzle.
Generally speaking, why can't the whole perimeter be just one colour?
I was sooooo hoping for 3 in all corners... Yes I know😂
Three's my lucky number
And fortune comes in threes...
I found that harder than I think I should have. 58 minutes.
I hope this does not indicate we're in a causality loop.
ruclips.net/video/udtocEkCr2Q/видео.html is my background music for attempting this puzzle
33:06 for me.
40:39 for me
somehow i solved it without that 6-cell-cage in box 2/3 needed
Took me 35 Minutes