What's incredible about this is that it took over two hours and yet Simon never really got stuck. He made relentless progress the entire time. Incredible solve and what a puzzle!
Thank you Simon for featuring this puzzle ! I was a bit surprised to see this video pop up on your channel, because it has quite the unusual use of the grid, and not that "new user-friendly". This is part of a little serie where I use the 11x11 grid with various shading puzzle genres (cave, nurikabe...). About that, I am sure a good part of your viewers would love to see other puzzles genres more often on the channel from time to time. I mean, not only wacky hybrids like mine or others, but totally different puzzle genres like you used to do a few years ago. So here is a idea : what would you think of having a regular special on the channel (say, once a week or every two weeks for example) for non-sudoku puzzles ? You could even make that an event with a vote. Anyway, just an idea. About the title of the puzzle, 9x9 is a reference to the size of the deconstructed sudoku made of the nine 3x3 boxes. Also, yes, the solution is correct ! No possible answer check for this because the endgame is about making the correct shading after completing the digits.
😂Hilarious how Simon solves a digit (at 1:22:45) sometimes that we've all been screaming over for more than 20 minutes in a way you just don't see coming 😄
hi Simon. i jus wanna let you know i’ve been watching your videos for awhile now on and off. it’s been a few months since i’ve seen one actually. but i’ve been in one of my worst depressive episodes in awhile and nothing seemed to bring me calm. until i randomly decided to revisit your page. this video gave me so much hope. i’ve always loved watching you solve a complex sudoku and your positivity is truly infectious. you’re one of my favorite people just for what you do and it would be an honor to attend a party with you and listen to you tell me what you find interesting.
Ignores effect of 2-4 pairs all over the board... Simon "I'm going to colour the 2s and 4s"... Me "Yay, he's finally gonna notice!"... Simon *ignores everything his colouring is now making obvious....
Your ideia in using "n" was pretty smart! You did awesome deductions but the most easy part (sudoku) got missed a little 😅 And was indeed evil to not have the solution!!! Thanks for the solve Simon! 🤗 I did scream a bit but it was a great great time!
Brilliant solve as always, Simon. But you really had me shouting for ages about where 1 went in the 45 cage. Thanks to all involved. Very interesting logic. I learned a lot about deconstruction puzzles from that. But I am glad it was you having to solve it on camera and not me. There were steps that you found that I would never have seen in a month of Sundays...
At exactly 1:00:00, you DO have a way of pencil marking: you can corner mark 7 and 9 over the whole cage. And this would immediately give you the 8 above the cage.
I think Simon may have made a deduction error at 2:03:10. He rules out 2 from R9C11 by assuming that the counting number would be green. But R9C11 could be a gray 2 if box 9 was nestled all the way into the lower-right corner. The gray 2 would be in the top right corner of the box, with two green cells beneath it.
Putting a 2 in R9C11 breaks for a different reason. If it were 2, it would have to be gray, as would R9C10 to avoid a checkerboard. Box 9 would have to be in the lower-right corner. Then the 19 cage would have either two green cells and one gray cell, or vice versa, and there's no way to make two cells add up to 19.
@@kennethjfair He didn't make a deduction error as the 2 can't possibly be grey at that point since all the grey digits in C11 would have to be counted twoards the total (making it >2 obviously). In other words, wherever 2 goes, green goes.
@@Pajser68 Yeah that's how I figured it out at that point too. The far right column already has three grey cells with digits so the 2 has to be in a green cell, meaning it can only go in R10C11
1:52:45 Another way to resolve this part is to ask if the 245 cell in the 45 cage can be a 5. And the answer is no. A 5 there eliminates the possibility of a 5 in box 5 through Sudoku and cage logic. The 24 pairs logic is more sound though and is probably the intended path. Lovely solve, Simon.
i took the same approach, and placed the 5 in the lower right of box 5: because on the other positions, it would either rule itself out of the 45 cage, or make itself appear twice.
It's the wrong assumptions about column one for me 😅 not sure if that's what you're referring to but man... I can't help but wonder how long he will take to correct those
Great video as always. 1:32:30 I’m wondering how you managed to figure out that the 9 digits in the 45 cage you had were the only ones and that there weren’t more in the non-counting color? I didn’t test that theory, but at first glance I wasn’t sure how to rule that possibility out and find the edges of the 6 and 9 cage.
That was my thought at first, too, but because digits cannot repeat in cages, there can only be 9 in the 45 cage, and they must all be of the same shading.
@@murkbaccafett2187 thats what I was missing from that part of the puzzle when I watched him solve it. I couldn't figure out how he assumed there couldn't be more than 9 digits if they were shaded two colors. appreciate the deeper insight.
@@hotwheelsnholdem4873 I had that same question, but I think Simon actually covered that bit of logic much earlier in the video (when he first talked about the 45 box), I had just forgotten about it by that point.
@@milesmatton5601 exactly. Even the non-counting digits cannot repeat in the cage (so all digits have to count, and thus be the same color, in the case of the 45 cage)
I don't know if there's something he saw at that point, but the fact that the 789 in row 2 must be in box 1 means that the 89 in row 4 must be in box 4, and that both cells of the 4 cage have to be in box 4. (He noticed this later, but it was available already.)
@@iabervonYou're right, but I don't think Simon had worked this out at this point, so it does look like he got lucky here. You need to know both green cells are counting before concluding it's a 13 pair, and you only know this after spotting the 89 cell cannot be in box 1.
This puzzle took me 4 hours with a few mistakes that I could check against Simon's solved grid to undo and figure out what I did, and about half of that time was spent pretty close to the end trying to make just one more good deduction. For a 2h video, I was expecting to give up pretty quickly, so great job on the puzzle making me feel able to continue.
Wow, one of the most enjoyable puzzles so far. What an interesting path, never too hard and nearly each step required a different rule to jump over. Great work!
After establishing the position of box 5 at around 1:36:12, you can use the fact that box 5 and the 45-cage contain the same set of digits and have an overlap of 5 digits to pretty much immediately be able to make all the deductions up to 1:53:55.
At ~1:40ish when the cells with digits in the 45 cage get colored purple, I think you can make use of a complete set of 1-9 summing to 45. For example, if cell 4,4 is a 5, there is no place for a 5 to go in the most central of the 3x3 regions. There are probably other things you can do with that as well, but that was the one I was seeing while Simon worked out the purple couldn't be gray. (I haven't watched to the end yet, so hopefully I'm not wrong about this :) )
100:33 Wow. It never quite got brutally difficult at any stage but there was so much to track and follow that it never let up on making you work for every extra colour, box, or number. Some really clever combinations hidden away in unexpected places. Loved it.
It makes me crazy when Simon uses the sets to get a 3 in box 1 but stops and doesn’t look at the rest of the set to see he then gets a 789 triple in box 7. (And does that with other things too. I’m yelling “keep going! Don’t move onto the next thing yet!”) 😂🤦🏻♀️
About 2 hours with a lot of help from the video. Would skip ahead to look at what I needed to think about next, but would do the work from there. Things like the 45 cage stumped me, thinking there were too many options, so not looking into them at all, not realizing they were pretty constrained.
There were so many Simon moments in this video, but I think the one that hurt my soul the most was the completely backwards way he found the 7 in box 5 😂 Love the puzzle, love the solve, but my goodness.
A helpful question to ask, around 1:40:00, is where do the 7 and (24) that are in the 45 cage in box 8, go in box 5? Since they cannot repeat in the 45 cage, they go either side of the 6 in the top row of box 5. And the pencilmarking tells you which way round they go. Edit: I should have kept watching. You got there (at least with the green 24) at 1:51:00.
I solved it in just over 2h, but I needed a bit of help. I thought I had broken it and couldn't figure out anything I was doing wrong. So I had to look at the video. Ends up breaking the puzzle was perfectly fine. It was the 6 cage. I was so accustomed to flipping the colors of the other cells not taking part of the sum in a cage that I didn't realize those other cells could indeed be the same color but not be inside any boxes. Arghh!!! I got caught by the exact same issue with the 10 cage. But at least I had caught on by then. This is a MAD puzzle. lol
Is the box 4 in the most left isn't be possible to be the part of the box because of the number 1 in the killer cage? How the can't deduce it or am I mistake?
I have a problem with the right lower corner. Why can it not be a 2 in the corner, having the box 9 being in the corner? The deduction in the start seemed to be wrong. It was only true for the upper left corner because of the the placing of box 1, and therefore afterwards for the other 2 corners, but not the lower right one. At least by the time he used it at 2:03, it was not for certain, or do I miss something?
@@FirHydrntsRFirEaters I finally got the idea. The 45 cage only can contain exactly 9 cells (1 to 9) which only must be in the regions. If there is a 10th digit within the cage, the 10th digit would repeat.
him not seeing the 2/4 pair in row 8 giving him a 7 for such a long time is so him. also the amount of times I said "please do some sudoku in your sudoku puzzle"
I can't help feeling that setting a puzzle for Simon that needs colouring for yin-yang, colouring for chaos construction and colouring for 2s/4s is just trolling! Of course, Simon would find scanning the yin-tang a lot easier if he removed the colouring from 2s/4s once it had done its job, rather than adding it completely unnecessarily to known digits across the grid 🙄
1:32:02 This is just a query for this time frame. Although the deduction of 9 cells are required to be N to get a count of 45 in the cage, however couldn't there be more than 9 cells with N, but only 9 cells of a singular colour? (Just a thought for discussion 😊)
Digits do not repeat in a cage. There was no mention of what colour the digits are so it doesn't matter if one is green and the other grey, they still can't repeat.
33:40.. sorry Simon but this is obvious from this moment. You know the digit in the 1 cage in column 1 cant be in grey now so it has to go in row 10 column 1 or you have too many colour changes.. same as the 2 in column 11 it has to go in row 10.. the rest of both of the cages are grey.. Then you find the 4 cage in column 2.... 😮 I will admit im shouting 😂 Edit... Im at ❤1:03:30 and im not so sure now 😮 this is difficult
A bit worrying for Simon at the end, but glad that it was verified an now integrates a solution (at least for digits). What an amazing puzzle @jacobchristophe1453 !!! Even if parts of the solve path were "linear" (had to be done in some order), it never felt like so. Indeed, so many "next deduction" were an intricate mix of sudoku, yin-yan, cages and deconstruction, and I had to look all over the place for "spooky action at a distance". Such a brilliant setup, work of a genius! Very difficult too (just as I like them!) Took me over 2 hours...
I think it’s possible Simon misspoke at 2:03:10. He claims R9C11 cannot be the 2 because if it were, the digit below it would be green and would count. However, the 2 could be gray, and the box could cover R9-11. Luckily, this is ruled out immediately after as it would cause a checkerboard. I don’t mean to sound rude, I only saw this because I enjoyed watching the whole video!
At 1:59:35, when he says that the change of color can't be in box 6, that also means that the 2 has to be in green, because there are gray digits that don't count. I think he made that deduction in his head, but only said out loud the more local consequence that all of the digits there were gray, and forgot to point out the other consequence a few minutes later when it became relevant.
1:11:22 "One of this has to be 3 by Sudoku". Absolutely not, by sudoku and the 13 pair just above it. Anyway, that brings me right to my comment what I would like to see. Reactions by Simon to his biggest blunders 😆
Now if this is a 5, (which it can’t be because of the 5 already in the row), but if it was a 5 then these 2 add up to 14 which they can’t so this is not a 5. Typical Simon.
At 48-something: Simon deduced something about a square. Then at 49 he deletes that progress by accident when actually thinking about the square below 😭
I think im wrong because im watchig this at 3am but at 1:32:24 simon saying the 6th 3x3 cant come left is wrong, hes making the assumption that all the cells that contain digits in the 45 cage are the same colour but thats not necessaraly true
59:49 for me. What an awesome puzzle!! It seemed almost impossible at first, but I love the way all the different parts interact with each other to make it work.
Apparently I'm good at starting new puzzles with interesting new rulesets, but less good at finishing them. I tried this one for 6 minutes, then got stuck and decided to just watch the video because I have work due today and can't afford a whole evening doing sudoku. My first 6 minutes of solving takes me up to 43:40 jn the video… but that's as far as I got
At 1:16 it is not quite complicated - quite obvious really. If you try to place a box there, then column 4 is broken. Box 1 is screaming to place the digit 3. Then where would the digit 1 go in column 4 if you place the box where you are asking?
at 1:33:00 how did Simon determine there weren't other colors with numbers in them in the 45 region. I feel he either got lucky on this one or I misunderstood something about the logic.
As per the rules: "Digits may not repeat within a cage." Digits of the other shading are ignored as far as the cage sum goes, but this part of the standard killer rule still applies regardless of shading. As you have to use all nine digits to get to the cage total, there can only be nine cells with numbers in within the 45 region, and they all have to be the same shade.
There are some sudoku designs u try and some u wanna try. Think I've only done 2 of these 11x11 find 3x3s. And therevw been under 5 nonfog ones i didn't want to try. this looks like it's a watch only even tho it's YY
interestingly was able to solve the big version (but only with checking in with simon a few times since i made some major logic errors like assuming every non digit cell in the 45 cage had to be the opposite color for a bit)
I’m only one hour and 12 minutes in but I just have to say something now that I’m thinking about it. If you finish the puzzle that’s lucky. That bottom left box where you were trying to decide where the one by green and gray fell is the one I had a problem with.the one could have been in a green in the bottom left corner of that box with the gray square above it
What's incredible about this is that it took over two hours and yet Simon never really got stuck. He made relentless progress the entire time. Incredible solve and what a puzzle!
That's why the difficulty is pretty fair. It's not a crazy hard puzzle, it's just a long one.
Secretly hoping Simon starts regular sudokus in future by typing an N into all 81 cells.
Thank you Simon for featuring this puzzle ! I was a bit surprised to see this video pop up on your channel, because it has quite the unusual use of the grid, and not that "new user-friendly". This is part of a little serie where I use the 11x11 grid with various shading puzzle genres (cave, nurikabe...).
About that, I am sure a good part of your viewers would love to see other puzzles genres more often on the channel from time to time. I mean, not only wacky hybrids like mine or others, but totally different puzzle genres like you used to do a few years ago. So here is a idea : what would you think of having a regular special on the channel (say, once a week or every two weeks for example) for non-sudoku puzzles ? You could even make that an event with a vote. Anyway, just an idea.
About the title of the puzzle, 9x9 is a reference to the size of the deconstructed sudoku made of the nine 3x3 boxes.
Also, yes, the solution is correct ! No possible answer check for this because the endgame is about making the correct shading after completing the digits.
Great puzzle 👍. I too enjoy other puzzle types and would vote for that.
You want total instead of sum here, as you can have just one digit in a cage. A sum by definition adds two or more digits together.
Soooooo is Simon's solution correct?
@@tabris1135 yea this. could have just said "and btw its correct" or something close
so was the solution right or what? that would have been nice to say to clear it up
😂Hilarious how Simon solves a digit (at 1:22:45) sometimes that we've all been screaming over for more than 20 minutes in a way you just don't see coming 😄
And he puts in a 39 pair and doesn’t look across the row to get digits in box 7.
But the other deductions are way above my pay grade.
I scream even more when he doesn’t say “oh that’s been available for ages hasn’t it”
hi Simon. i jus wanna let you know i’ve been watching your videos for awhile now on and off. it’s been a few months since i’ve seen one actually. but i’ve been in one of my worst depressive episodes in awhile and nothing seemed to bring me calm. until i randomly decided to revisit your page. this video gave me so much hope. i’ve always loved watching you solve a complex sudoku and your positivity is truly infectious. you’re one of my favorite people just for what you do and it would be an honor to attend a party with you and listen to you tell me what you find interesting.
55:47 'so that allows us to rethink what we though, the thing that we were thinking about before.'
Couldnt have said it better!
that may be the most emphatic "YOU ROTTEN THING!" I've ever heard Simon utter!
Simon, you mad lad! Over two hours? I might need to go find some popcorn for this long of a video!
Change it to 2 x speed. I only watch videos on double speed
Do have a go.
No, thank you Simon. I'd rather lose sleep watching you think
"So do have a go"
Sure. Yeah. If it's OK with you I think I won't, actually 😂
Ignores effect of 2-4 pairs all over the board... Simon "I'm going to colour the 2s and 4s"... Me "Yay, he's finally gonna notice!"... Simon *ignores everything his colouring is now making obvious....
Your ideia in using "n" was pretty smart!
You did awesome deductions but the most easy part (sudoku) got missed a little 😅
And was indeed evil to not have the solution!!!
Thanks for the solve Simon! 🤗
I did scream a bit but it was a great great time!
this is the absolute perfect video to listen to during my shift at work today!
A big Thank You to Sanda & Nala for the fun and challenging puzzles that are available for free on the Patreon page!
Absolutely. They were a brilliant set and utterly beautifully presented.
~46 min The top left 89 can't join 789 triple up to it, so the upper 3*3 box is fixed helping further deductions
Ah, that helps confirm the premature 4=1+3 (as opposed to a singular 4) assumption that Simon seems to make next.
Thanks for giving Caren the message, Simon. And "Thursday afternoon murder club" made me laugh! 😺
Brilliant solve as always, Simon. But you really had me shouting for ages about where 1 went in the 45 cage. Thanks to all involved. Very interesting logic. I learned a lot about deconstruction puzzles from that. But I am glad it was you having to solve it on camera and not me. There were steps that you found that I would never have seen in a month of Sundays...
At exactly 1:00:00, you DO have a way of pencil marking: you can corner mark 7 and 9 over the whole cage. And this would immediately give you the 8 above the cage.
Simon knew that but he refuses to take the easy way, that's how good he is at sudoku!
Box 7 and 8 called and asked for Simmon to do Sudoku.
Poor Simon's horror at the end is so funny.
I think Simon may have made a deduction error at 2:03:10. He rules out 2 from R9C11 by assuming that the counting number would be green. But R9C11 could be a gray 2 if box 9 was nestled all the way into the lower-right corner. The gray 2 would be in the top right corner of the box, with two green cells beneath it.
Putting a 2 in R9C11 breaks for a different reason. If it were 2, it would have to be gray, as would R9C10 to avoid a checkerboard. Box 9 would have to be in the lower-right corner. Then the 19 cage would have either two green cells and one gray cell, or vice versa, and there's no way to make two cells add up to 19.
@@kennethjfair He didn't make a deduction error as the 2 can't possibly be grey at that point since all the grey digits in C11 would have to be counted twoards the total (making it >2 obviously). In other words, wherever 2 goes, green goes.
@@Pajser68 Yeah that's how I figured it out at that point too. The far right column already has three grey cells with digits so the 2 has to be in a green cell, meaning it can only go in R10C11
@@Pajser68 thanks! I was having some doubts here, came to the comments, and was not disappointed ;)
Simon gives an explanation for why he knows it's a green 2 at 2:02:40. (There's already counting grey cells in the 2-cage).
@1:11:20 "One of these is a 3, that seems to be true, by sudoku." Miss-scan? You're missing a 6 in the column, not a 3.
What a brilliant puzzle - and a brilliant soulution. I enjoyed watching every second of this
1:52:45 Another way to resolve this part is to ask if the 245 cell in the 45 cage can be a 5. And the answer is no. A 5 there eliminates the possibility of a 5 in box 5 through Sudoku and cage logic. The 24 pairs logic is more sound though and is probably the intended path. Lovely solve, Simon.
i took the same approach, and placed the 5 in the lower right of box 5:
because on the other positions, it would either rule itself out of the 45 cage, or make itself appear twice.
Simon completely forgetting the thing he deduced at the start is driving me crazy
It's the wrong assumptions about column one for me 😅 not sure if that's what you're referring to but man... I can't help but wonder how long he will take to correct those
@@JohnDBlue what wrong assumption do you mean?
My screaming moment is 1:11:49 where Simon pencil marks 3 in the bottom of column 2 when he already has a 13 pair 😬
Great video as always.
1:32:30 I’m wondering how you managed to figure out that the 9 digits in the 45 cage you had were the only ones and that there weren’t more in the non-counting color? I didn’t test that theory, but at first glance I wasn’t sure how to rule that possibility out and find the edges of the 6 and 9 cage.
I think you are right about your observation at this stage on the puzzle. I stumbled upon it by myself.
That was my thought at first, too, but because digits cannot repeat in cages, there can only be 9 in the 45 cage, and they must all be of the same shading.
@@murkbaccafett2187 thats what I was missing from that part of the puzzle when I watched him solve it. I couldn't figure out how he assumed there couldn't be more than 9 digits if they were shaded two colors. appreciate the deeper insight.
@@hotwheelsnholdem4873 I had that same question, but I think Simon actually covered that bit of logic much earlier in the video (when he first talked about the 45 box), I had just forgotten about it by that point.
@@milesmatton5601 exactly. Even the non-counting digits cannot repeat in the cage (so all digits have to count, and thus be the same color, in the case of the 45 cage)
46:48 why couldn't it be a single 4 and the other cell outside with no digit?
I don't know if there's something he saw at that point, but the fact that the 789 in row 2 must be in box 1 means that the 89 in row 4 must be in box 4, and that both cells of the 4 cage have to be in box 4. (He noticed this later, but it was available already.)
@@iabervonYou're right, but I don't think Simon had worked this out at this point, so it does look like he got lucky here. You need to know both green cells are counting before concluding it's a 13 pair, and you only know this after spotting the 89 cell cannot be in box 1.
If this had been taken into account, box 1 would have been marked already
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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!
This puzzle took me 4 hours with a few mistakes that I could check against Simon's solved grid to undo and figure out what I did, and about half of that time was spent pretty close to the end trying to make just one more good deduction. For a 2h video, I was expecting to give up pretty quickly, so great job on the puzzle making me feel able to continue.
imagine having spent 2 hours to solve the puzzle and it doesn't include the solution
Wow, one of the most enjoyable puzzles so far. What an interesting path, never too hard and nearly each step required a different rule to jump over. Great work!
What a brilliant setting!.. one of the best puzzles I have seen..
After establishing the position of box 5 at around 1:36:12, you can use the fact that box 5 and the 45-cage contain the same set of digits and have an overlap of 5 digits to pretty much immediately be able to make all the deductions up to 1:53:55.
59:17 for me :)
Idk if I just saw stuff faster than Simon but I'm very surprized I was this quick. What a solve. 🎉
Me yelling for ages “those can’t be 3. There’s a 1-3 pair above them. SIMON, DO YOUR SUDOKU!”
4:44:34 - Solver 999 - That was very difficult, but I got there in the end!
You should have waited 10 sec to finish your puzzle 😂
Not at all. l like 999 better and I’ve had two 666s in recent weeks too! 😈
Simon: I have not got a Scooby Doo.
Me: Ruh roh!
It took me only 12 hours. However it was the most fun one since a long time. Well done.
love Simon missing that 6 at 44:09 was already green if he used deadly pattern logic with the top, right and top right cells xD
At ~1:40ish when the cells with digits in the 45 cage get colored purple, I think you can make use of a complete set of 1-9 summing to 45. For example, if cell 4,4 is a 5, there is no place for a 5 to go in the most central of the 3x3 regions. There are probably other things you can do with that as well, but that was the one I was seeing while Simon worked out the purple couldn't be gray. (I haven't watched to the end yet, so hopefully I'm not wrong about this :) )
100:33
Wow. It never quite got brutally difficult at any stage but there was so much to track and follow that it never let up on making you work for every extra colour, box, or number. Some really clever combinations hidden away in unexpected places. Loved it.
Entertaining concept, thanks. Juggling the YY, regions and cages did mess with my head somewhat, but it's a rare pleasant treat to beat Simon's time.
It makes me crazy when Simon uses the sets to get a 3 in box 1 but stops and doesn’t look at the rest of the set to see he then gets a 789 triple in box 7. (And does that with other things too. I’m yelling “keep going! Don’t move onto the next thing yet!”) 😂🤦🏻♀️
Simon's childlike whimsy is my favorite part of every video. Please never change Simon.
Perfect example here 34:00
About 2 hours with a lot of help from the video. Would skip ahead to look at what I needed to think about next, but would do the work from there. Things like the 45 cage stumped me, thinking there were too many options, so not looking into them at all, not realizing they were pretty constrained.
There were so many Simon moments in this video, but I think the one that hurt my soul the most was the completely backwards way he found the 7 in box 5 😂 Love the puzzle, love the solve, but my goodness.
It’s so funny to me in a 2 hour+ solve time that Simon acts like the choice of color is the hardest thing about the puzzle 😂
A helpful question to ask, around 1:40:00, is where do the 7 and (24) that are in the 45 cage in box 8, go in box 5?
Since they cannot repeat in the 45 cage, they go either side of the 6 in the top row of box 5. And the pencilmarking tells you which way round they go.
Edit: I should have kept watching. You got there (at least with the green 24) at 1:51:00.
39:18 no, it’s not perverse 😀 you missed the checkerboard so the colour was defined.
At 28 mns now and I already feel like I'm watching World Series Finale, sudoku vs Simon
Pleased to do this in under nine hours. The 45 cage was beautiful.
This is the first puzzle i solved which Simon used more than 2 hours. I use more than 90 mins. very good setting.
I have arrived at the same solution, logically without bifurcations, so I hope we're all right here :D
I solved it in just over 2h, but I needed a bit of help. I thought I had broken it and couldn't figure out anything I was doing wrong. So I had to look at the video. Ends up breaking the puzzle was perfectly fine. It was the 6 cage. I was so accustomed to flipping the colors of the other cells not taking part of the sum in a cage that I didn't realize those other cells could indeed be the same color but not be inside any boxes. Arghh!!! I got caught by the exact same issue with the 10 cage. But at least I had caught on by then. This is a MAD puzzle. lol
Is the box 4 in the most left isn't be possible to be the part of the box because of the number 1 in the killer cage? How the can't deduce it or am I mistake?
1:36:30 "I don't know what that means, but I know it's true" I'll use this on my data analysis from now on
Leave it to Simon to disambiguate the 89 in box 4 in the most round about way possible 30-40 minutes after it was obvious from the easy way. Sudoku.
Simon you are absolutely my favorite jiggery poker. You're a 45 out of 10.
I have a problem with the right lower corner. Why can it not be a 2 in the corner, having the box 9 being in the corner? The deduction in the start seemed to be wrong. It was only true for the upper left corner because of the the placing of box 1, and therefore afterwards for the other 2 corners, but not the lower right one.
At least by the time he used it at 2:03, it was not for certain, or do I miss something?
1:32:21 Why can not come left? Only yin or yang in the cage counting to the sum.
I came here to ask the same question, thanks!
@@FirHydrntsRFirEaters I finally got the idea. The 45 cage only can contain exactly 9 cells (1 to 9) which only must be in the regions. If there is a 10th digit within the cage, the 10th digit would repeat.
Question: can there be infinitely many sudoku variants?
him not seeing the 2/4 pair in row 8 giving him a 7 for such a long time is so him. also the amount of times I said "please do some sudoku in your sudoku puzzle"
So, so enjoyable ❤
I can't help feeling that setting a puzzle for Simon that needs colouring for yin-yang, colouring for chaos construction and colouring for 2s/4s is just trolling!
Of course, Simon would find scanning the yin-tang a lot easier if he removed the colouring from 2s/4s once it had done its job, rather than adding it completely unnecessarily to known digits across the grid 🙄
1:32:02 This is just a query for this time frame. Although the deduction of 9 cells are required to be N to get a count of 45 in the cage, however couldn't there be more than 9 cells with N, but only 9 cells of a singular colour? (Just a thought for discussion 😊)
Digits do not repeat in a cage. There was no mention of what colour the digits are so it doesn't matter if one is green and the other grey, they still can't repeat.
@randomstrategy7679 Yup, now that makes totaly sense, Thanks Heaps!
33:40.. sorry Simon but this is obvious from this moment. You know the digit in the 1 cage in column 1 cant be in grey now so it has to go in row 10 column 1 or you have too many colour changes.. same as the 2 in column 11 it has to go in row 10.. the rest of both of the cages are grey..
Then you find the 4 cage in column 2.... 😮
I will admit im shouting 😂
Edit... Im at ❤1:03:30 and im not so sure now 😮 this is difficult
It seems as if the addition of the red lines may have confused the program and resulted in the solution check issue.
"Why is it called a 9x9?"
I imagine because it's a deconstructed 9x9 grid (as opposed to a deconsructed 4x4 grid used in the example at 10:00).
1:40 Blue 24 can be solved: if it is in row 5 on the left, then it is out of the 45 cage, which can't be
A bit worrying for Simon at the end, but glad that it was verified an now integrates a solution (at least for digits). What an amazing puzzle @jacobchristophe1453 !!! Even if parts of the solve path were "linear" (had to be done in some order), it never felt like so. Indeed, so many "next deduction" were an intricate mix of sudoku, yin-yan, cages and deconstruction, and I had to look all over the place for "spooky action at a distance". Such a brilliant setup, work of a genius! Very difficult too (just as I like them!) Took me over 2 hours...
I think it’s possible Simon misspoke at 2:03:10. He claims R9C11 cannot be the 2 because if it were, the digit below it would be green and would count. However, the 2 could be gray, and the box could cover R9-11. Luckily, this is ruled out immediately after as it would cause a checkerboard.
I don’t mean to sound rude, I only saw this because I enjoyed watching the whole video!
At 1:59:35, when he says that the change of color can't be in box 6, that also means that the 2 has to be in green, because there are gray digits that don't count. I think he made that deduction in his head, but only said out loud the more local consequence that all of the digits there were gray, and forgot to point out the other consequence a few minutes later when it became relevant.
He mentions at 2:02:40 that, because he already has grey counting digits in the final column, the 2 has to be green.
1:11:22 "One of this has to be 3 by Sudoku". Absolutely not, by sudoku and the 13 pair just above it. Anyway, that brings me right to my comment what I would like to see. Reactions by Simon to his biggest blunders 😆
Jeez, how am I gonna solve this? Is there a consolation puzzle?
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Now if this is a 5, (which it can’t be because of the 5 already in the row), but if it was a 5 then these 2 add up to 14 which they can’t so this is not a 5. Typical Simon.
i wonder if it doesn't like the red lines in it. could that be why it thinks it is wrong??
At 48-something: Simon deduced something about a square. Then at 49 he deletes that progress by accident when actually thinking about the square below 😭
Edit: Yay, Simon realises at 55!
2:14:40: Best and worst Simon reaction at the same time!
I think im wrong because im watchig this at 3am but at 1:32:24 simon saying the 6th 3x3 cant come left is wrong, hes making the assumption that all the cells that contain digits in the 45 cage are the same colour but thats not necessaraly true
I need to buy more popcorn
Simon: ice got a 234 triple here. Me: no simon youve got a 24 pair and a 3 . 😅
59:49 for me. What an awesome puzzle!! It seemed almost impossible at first, but I love the way all the different parts interact with each other to make it work.
The 37 pair in row 3 was solved the minute you put the 7 into the 45 cage, and would have saved a lot of time.
And this is why I watch these at 2x speed.
someone needs to give Simon shading that checkerboards in exactly 1 2x2 space just to mess with 'im some day XD
and it's not right cuz of the 19 cage with the 9, 3, 4, and 7 in it
Apparently I'm good at starting new puzzles with interesting new rulesets, but less good at finishing them.
I tried this one for 6 minutes, then got stuck and decided to just watch the video because I have work due today and can't afford a whole evening doing sudoku.
My first 6 minutes of solving takes me up to 43:40 jn the video… but that's as far as I got
47:06 you skipped the possibility that the green domino is a 4 and an empty square. You didn't show that both cells must be numbers.
46:45 Bad logic on the 4-cage. Didn't prove that both cells had to contain digits, but got away with it.
Box 9 is missing its right border; you cannot unsee it.
At 1:16 it is not quite complicated - quite obvious really. If you try to place a box there, then column 4 is broken. Box 1 is screaming to place the digit 3. Then where would the digit 1 go in column 4 if you place the box where you are asking?
at 1:33:00 how did Simon determine there weren't other colors with numbers in them in the 45 region. I feel he either got lucky on this one or I misunderstood something about the logic.
As per the rules: "Digits may not repeat within a cage." Digits of the other shading are ignored as far as the cage sum goes, but this part of the standard killer rule still applies regardless of shading. As you have to use all nine digits to get to the cage total, there can only be nine cells with numbers in within the 45 region, and they all have to be the same shade.
@@goleyeath Thanks, yep I definitely forgot about that. This ruleset with the ying-yang and the killer cages messed with my brain quite a bit.
At 44:00 - Maverick is trying to call you.
What a cool but weird puzzle, I was also sitting at the end with all the digits placed but still trying to figure out the shading lol. 83:09 for me
There are some sudoku designs u try and some u wanna try. Think I've only done 2 of these 11x11 find 3x3s. And therevw been under 5 nonfog ones i didn't want to try. this looks like it's a watch only even tho it's YY
This one was absolutely brutal. I'm glad I managed to solve it, but it took me 2h38m =/
It seems that the link to the puzzle is broken. Not that I would try it myself.
Fascinating to watch a masterful solve. although I did watch it chunks. As a minor criticism, I find your obsessive concern for colour blind people (
You could have given the same suggestion in a much less aggressive way.
I tried the 5x5 version and i'm completely stumped already oof
interestingly was able to solve the big version (but only with checking in with simon a few times since i made some major logic errors like assuming every non digit cell in the 45 cage had to be the opposite color for a bit)
I’m only one hour and 12 minutes in but I just have to say something now that I’m thinking about it. If you finish the puzzle that’s lucky. That bottom left box where you were trying to decide where the one by green and gray fell is the one I had a problem with.the one could have been in a green in the bottom left corner of that box with the gray square above it
He already had a 1 pencil-marked in row 9, to the right, contributing to the 1-cage total. That ruled out 1 from r9c1.
Christounet. Take a bow 🎉
Sorry for shouting at the screen for 30 minutes to be wrong. Hope i can be forgiven 😊
i was solving fine until for curiosity i put check and marked my 9 at R1C4 wrong, i guess i give up.