I don’t know if it was a barb at you, Simon, but your extensive explanations are greatly appreciated by me. I’ve learned so very much listening and working along. Lately, I’ve paused and moved forward on puzzles and frequently see the same logic that you see when I resume watching. Your verbosity is greatly appreciated!
I'm sure it was not meant as a barb at all. I think he just wanted to make it clear that he's confident that you could do the puzzle *much* quicker if it wasn't for the extra work you do to explain your logic to the audience.
I am also confident it was meant to distinguish 'time Simon would need to solve this' vs. 'to solve this on the channel, explaining as he goes'. Those explanations are at the heart of the channel and are much-loved. I know I only turn off the sound when I play 'I'll give myself a headstart, and see how long until the master finds something I haven't seen yet', which is an occasionally enjoyable game. Keep up the verbiage!
🤣🤣🤣😳🤦🏼♀️ Yeah... Saw the length, and whipped up a banana bread. Gonna eat while I watch. The odds of me getting ANYWHERE with this puzzle are between zero and none. 🤣
(That said I get why, the titled are definitely tailored towards catching the eye of newcomers seeing videos via the recommendation algorithm, to whom that distinction is more likely to be notable than to subscribers who've seen such things before...)
@@HunterJE Yea, I don't begrudge them their slightly clickbaity titles. Only reason I'm here was a title saying something about knight sudoku that I saw about 18 months ago, and I was like, "WTF is that?" Now I've MADE a bunch of Sudoku with zero given digits and even invented a few different rules of my own.
Me shouting at Simon when he colored r4c6 green when he just finished saying it could be a 1 (which would be blue): “That’s going to be confusing later on…” Simon 5 minutes later: “Why is this cell green? Why can’t it be a 1? Have I lost my marbles?” Me: “I told you! Lol” 😂
I made this reply on another comment, in real-time as I watched that moment: "Like at 56:03 you remember better than he did that he himself had JUST colored as green as a potential example, not as definitive?! 56:38 NO YOU DIDN'T, SIMON! IT WAS JUST AN IF-THIS-WERE-GREEN-AND-LET'S-CHECK-IF-IT-CAN-BE-OR-NOT, FROM 53:40!!! THREE MINUTES AGO, DURING WHICH TIME YOU DIDN'T EVEN GO OFF TO A DIFFERENT PART OF THE SUDOKU, SO HOW DID YOU IMMEDIATELY FORGET?!?!?! ARRRGHHGJJFJDJJSNDNCNCNMF"
It makes me dizzy which is a minor problem. A larger one is that it slows Simon down and he misses easy things. The good thing is that Simon likes colouring and a happy Simon is a joy to watch.
Rules: 02:49 Let's get cracking: 05:15 And how about this video's Simarkisms?! Hang On: 7 (06:32, 20:46, 21:45, 26:03, 49:51, 50:09, 51:52) By sudoku: 6 (16:32, 17:57, 18:14, 45:54, 45:57, 1:02:55) Ridiculous: 4 (05:01, 05:03, 15:48, 29:38) Sorry: 3 (10:41, 10:41, 37:28) I Have no Clue: 3 (36:00, 37:33, 59:58) Stuck: 3 (24:19, 40:45, 58:46) Incredible: 3 (02:02, 02:15, 1:09:46) Elegant: 3 (1:10:26, 1:10:31, 1:10:31) Oh It Can!: 3 (54:08, 54:19, 54:47) Bobbins: 2 (14:56, 1:06:55) What on Earth: 2 (15:45, 58:23) Bother: 2 (15:15, 34:22) Lovely: 2 (1:01:58, 1:08:55) Deadly Pattern: 2 (57:24, 57:32) Come on Simon: 2 (44:54, 1:07:30) Good Grief: 1 (34:38) Knowledge Bomb: 1 (29:23) Secret: 1 (11:23) The Answer is: 1 (59:33) Maverick: 1 (02:31) You Rotten Thing: 1 (54:12) Clever: 1 (1:10:45) Recalcitrant: 1 (55:49) Break the Puzzle: 1 (46:11) Take a Bow: 1 (1:10:58) Discombobulating: 1 (32:08) Nori Nori: 1 (06:56) FAQ: Q1: What is a Simarkism? A1: A Simarkism is something that Simon and Mark typically or frequently say. Q2: How do you do this so fast? A2: I'm not made of flesh and blood, but of sand ... Q3: Why don't you include 'XX' and 'YY'? A3: Probably it's already on the list ('Scooby-Doo' for example), but not mentioned in this video. But if you think it's not, tell me what you'd like me to include and there's a good chance I'll add it! Q4: You missed 'XX' at 'YY:ZZ'! A4: That could very well be the case! Human speech is hard to understand for computers like me, especially British sometimes! Point out the ones that I missed and maybe I'll learn! Q5: Could you turn these statistics into videos? A5: I've been playing around with the idea and I'm open to input as to what people would like to see. Let me know if you are interested in this and/or have suggestions.
Hey Sand! Since you have the "get cracking" part, it would be nice if you could also catch the completion at ruclips.net/video/le1pe4WMGZY/видео.html (1:09:50) and allow some statistics for the solve time/difficulty. We need to persuade them to say a keyword then? I don't see the timer on screen, but it would be nice if the popup actually included the time instead of only saying "stopped". Another thing possibly interesting to catch is longer segments of silence.
I watch these videos Because Of the extensive amounts of explaining, so keep it up Simon! The explaining helps me see new ways of doing things and shows me why they work. Plus it makes a longer video, which I enjoy immensely.
I am feeling immensely proud of myself for *watching* an hour plus sudoko. How proud must you feel for *solving* it in the same time! Lots of respect mate! And thanks for the verbose explanations.
Tried it myself along with you. Messed up four times before finishing, and had to watch a little bit further each time to get tips. I think I've done less than five sudokus in my life, so I wasn't surprised that I'd make desperate erroneous deductions. But it was still surprisingly fun and addicting to play. Thanks for sharing!
i figured by observing that the middle 4 dominoes have to be 1,8 ; 2,7 ; 3,6 ; 4,5, since these and all the othr dominoes have to be the same sum. and only way to make that is if you do the highest total, you can add those by taking the lowest and highest available at the time. feel like you could have gotten that idea at the start too. it was very close. love the solving!!!
An easier way of ruling Blue out of r6c6 at 46:14 is "Where can Blue go in R4?" This is also true for r6 and orange, c4 with purple, and c6 with green.
This was by far the hardest Sudoku I have ever solved. I haven't done too many but I have a feeling that even if I had this would top them all. Without your channel, the tutorials I took in as entertainment, and an extensive use of the coloring system, I would never have made it. Kudos to my wife for helping out as well. She keeps me grounded and stops me from going too far down rabbit trails.( She also makes me tidy up my colors all the time, which helps tremendously. Don't tell her I said that.)
At 43:40, a simpler way to prove that R3C6 and R6C6 can not be blue is considering that this forces R3C5 and R6C6 to be the same digit, which breaks R4 of the puzzle, since that digit can not appear in it: in fact, R6C6 sees R4C7 by knight's move and R4C6 and R4C4 by sudoku, while R3C5 sees R4C3 by knight's move. Btw, you and Mark are doing a massive job here on Cracking the Cryptic, and i'm happy to say to you what you told Aad in the previous video: take a bow! Jacopo from Italy
I must be getting better at these difficult ones because I find myself yelling at the screen. "What you are looking for is right there!". Equally frustrating is when Simon then realizes it and takes it a step further than I did in terms of logic or he solves it in some superwhammidine way.
40:07 - ...if r4c12 are orange and r6c89 are purple, r34c8 have no color! So neither r6c4 can't be be blue! Simples! He just had to check what color could r34c8 be if that were the case, not r89c4! I'm not sure how it helps, but would at least finish that thought he had about r6c4 being blue or not and help rule it not-blue! Edit - combined with 45:44, it rules blue out of both r6c4 and r6c6!
Now that I've gone over it a few times, I think I've cast aspersions on the innocent...bobbins. After Simon proves that c5r89, c5r12 have to be a solid domino color, he goes on to fill in the numbers. He never quite turns the puzzle 90 degrees to see the rule also applies to r5c12 and r5c89. When he finds the 8 by cropkey dot (r7c7) I realized that a knight's move prevented the 8 from residing in r5c8 and thus disambiguating the colors in that domino. However, the 8 can escape to c9! He marks it but I totally missed it. I was still with him most of the way but my leap of logic could've gotten me into trouble if the 8 had been in c9 all along and the domino blue. Sorry Simon.
Almost two hours but i managed to do it myself! Whew, so proud. I can feel my wits has expanded so much thanks to this channel and thanks to all your marvellous and patient explanations, Simon! There was a time I wouldn't have even attempted such sudoku...
This solve was absolutely brilliant to watch. The minute you said the dominoes had to be 9, 10, or 11, I immediately realised it was 9, paused the video, and figured out the top and bottom kropkis straight away. Then I got as far as the initial 8 and got stuck for 20 minutes before giving up and coming back to watch you do it.
My coloring was 8-color: I used red-orange for one domino, yellow-green for a second, blue-purple for a third, and the two greys (light and dark) for the fourth ... and black for the last digit. Worked well for me.
Back in the day, prevailing wisdom was that a sudoku had to start with about 17 digits. Then CtC arrived on the scene. After some time, "a sudoku with only 4 given digits" was considered to be extraordinary, but solvable. A month ago, "a sudoku with zero given digits" was considered to be extraordinary, but solvable. Today, sudokus with zero given digits are being solved every day. Truly, we live in remarkable times.
I trust Simon to reveal everything to me. If he said: "In my next magic rick I will reveal how Quantum theorie and Gravity work together" I am certain he will win the Nobel Prize:
At 41:00, an easier way to break through is to think about column 6 in relation to column 4. We know that both blue cells in box 2 are in row 3, and both blue cells in box 5 are in row 4 (because the blue cell in the cage in box 2 can only go in box 5 in row 4, joining its partner in that row.) But because there is a kropki dot in column 6, we cannot have two blue digits in those two cells. 1-8 is not a valid combination for white or black kropki dots. Therefore, there is definitely at least one blue in column 4, and therefore the cage at the bottom of column 4 is not blue. Still a great solve, Simon! I actually managed to beat your time today, but I think only because I don't have to stop and explain things to an audience. I love your videos!
73:39 but so happy to have finished it. It took me ages to figure out that r8c5 and r8c6 had to match either (r5c3 and r5c4) or (r5c6 and r5c7) Then I could see that only one of the three possible cage totals had two combinations to match the kropki dot pairs. Now I get to watch Simon work his magic.
Great puzzle, great solve! Love the fact that such a beautiful solution can come from such a beautiful picture. Like the solve is about as pretty as the alignment of the cages themselves
I dont know if other people find it annoying, but I personally enjoy Simon's "Extensive amount of explanations". When I started watching this channel, I couldn't finish even the easiest Sudokus i found. Now, Im able to do "Expert" lvl sudoku in the app I play and I can even efficiently do those 16x16 Numbers and Letters Sudokus that the app has. I love this channel a lot, and while I know that I personally am not at the lvl Simon is in able to complete all these wonderful puzzles these people make, I hope to continue watching and learning from him for years to come!
Word bubbles with parenthetical notes are amazing. Would absolutely love to see either Simon or Mark add commentary to their own or each other's videos. 😀
Honestly the resources (like colour coordinated explanations) on this channel give me the push needed to go from stuff like puzzler magazine to harder and more abstact forms of sudoku and I couldn't be more grateful!!
What a beautifully looking masterpiece this was, thanks RockyRoer! ♥ A few weeks ago I only attempted videos which were around 30 min long. Being able to solve this without Simon's help feels like a huge achievement for me, even if it took me hours.^^
40:17 This chain of logic actually does rule out blue being in that square. The cage in row 6 would be purple, the cage in column 2 would be green, that causes the cage in row 4 to be orange, and now the cage in column 8 is broken. So you could have ruled out that one box slightly earlier, though it wouldn't have helped you solve the puzzle any faster.
48:26 for me. What a beautiful puzzle. When I fully understood the whole break-in I had to stop for a second to appreciate the fact that it actually worked. From there it wasn’t easy to finish it either, but I managed to get to the end without guessing or bifurcating.
didnt expect myself to be watching a puzzle master beat a sudoku with no digits while shiny hunting in pokemon with a 70's japanese jazz playlist on at 10:07 at night on a saturday i wouldnt have it any other way falling in love with this content
I started this video 3 days ago now. And I'm happy to be able to finish watching it now after finally solving it after 3 days of thinking over it. It's fascinating to watch how relatively easily you handled this puzzle compared to myself. I didn't use all the same logic and I had to resort to using chains, which I know you don't like, but I'm still happy that I was at least able to get through the solve.
Wow, what a puzzle. Really elegant and superbly set up. Absolutely one of the best i've seen lately. And Simon solve, wow! Must feel good to be that capable. Your proudness and gin tonic are totally deserved!
I don't think anyone would have a go about your explanations; they are more likely to be in awe of your ability to do both at the same time. Outstanding solve of an outstanding puzzle.
I think I noticed an easier way to deduce, that blue can not be in c6r6 at 46:16 in the video: - The question I asked: Where does the blue from c5r3 go in row 4? It can't go into either box 4 or box 6, because of the knights move restraint and the other cells already being colored in. So it has to go into box 5, specifically in c4r3 or c6r3. Consequently, there are already both blues in somewhat known positions in box 5 I'm mostly still a novice in these sudokus, so if I'm correct with my deduction I'm pretty happy with it - Simons way of disproving the possibility of blue in c6r6 is kind of monstrous to me, to think through that many moves. Really fascinating Edit: Oh. I literally wrote this comment 3 seconds too early. There's the red speech bubble explaining just that ^_^;.. But hey, I'm happy with having spotted that :)
Amazing puzzle. Here is how I did the difficult part at 46:00. If r6c6 is blue then box 6 tells us it has to be 8. Then the cage in column 2 is green, the cage in column 8 is orange, and the cage in row 4 has no fill.
i know this video is old so you probably on't see this but this was the first non-GAS puzzle i attempted... it took me 211 min... thanks for all you do i love it
Yeah - at 48:00 you can work out box5 for rows 4,6 and columns 4,6 as they pertain to the colors. For example, row 4 column 4 is a blue purple cell. But that’s only slightly easier to see than what he found. Neat setting this one.
50:20 Quicker way to IDing this blue domino (and indeed the three rotationally equivalent dominoes) is to note that its row already has yellow, pink, and green and there's an orange domino in the box...
What a wonderful puzzle and solve! You can get the blue pair locked into r4 of the central box because you can get 4 blues locked into boxes 4 and 6 r5 and r6. Now making box 8 a blue cage will force a 18 pair on the kropki. Therefore the box 8 cage is green!
What a puzzle! It took me 4 attempts to get the final digits in (knights moves can be rather misleading) but I got there in the end!!! In terms of suggestions for alternative methods in the middle part of the solve, I focused on where 8 could go in box 8. Either it had to go in cell 4 or 7 of the bottom left cage or it was forced into the 6th cell of the box. Placing 8 in either of cells 4 or 7 forces a 1 into the cage with the 8, in order to add to 9. This forces the lower cage in column 5 to be a 2,7 cage (since 1 and 8 both see that cage so are removed as possible options) and the higher cage to be the 1,8 cage. This in turn forces the colours of the cages in boxes 2 and 7 (since both 1,8 cages must be the same colour), while also placing a 1 or 8 in cell 9 of box 2. This cell sees a 2,7 pair, so 1 is quickly ruled out and the 8 has to accompany a 4. But this causes a contradiction, since the digit 1 is now ruled out of every cell in row 4 (resolving the 1,8 pair gives an 8 in cell 2 of box 5). Thus, cell 6 of box 8 has to be an 8. Many thanks to RockyRoer and to Simon for another brilliant puzzle/solve! :)
As someone who has only solved regular sudokus in the past, this was an insane step up in difficulty! It took me between 3 to 4 hours... But oh boy was it satisfying when things started falling into place! Edit: I watched the video now. This man is a wizard. Bravo.
A slightly easier deduction at 46:20 is to think that if R3C6 was blue, then R4C6 HAS to be orange, as 1/8 can ONLY connect with a 2/7 (as the 9 is already taken) This orange in R4C6 runs into failures faster than the blue in R6C6
When Simon got stuck in the middle looking at the blue in the corner I was thinking about the colors of the petals. In each of the quadrants the petals had to be either the same color or different and be the same in the other quadrants. In both cases the corner of the middle box had to be the colour of one of the adjacent boxes and so that cell in the bottom right could never be blue. Of course I hadn’t realized why that not being blue was in any way important. Great puzzle!
I love watching the videos when I spot something Simon hasn’t. Then he does something that takes me 5 mins to wrap my brain around. Like a game of leapfrog.
Like at 56:03 you remember better than he did that he himself had JUST colored as green as a potential example, not as definitive?! 56:38 NO YOU DIDN'T, SIMON! IT WAS JUST AN IF-THIS-WERE-GREEN-AND-LET'S-CHECK-IF-IT-CAN-BE-OR-NOT, FROM 53:40!!! THREE MINUTES AGO, DURING WHICH TIME YOU DIDN'T EVEN GO OFF TO A DIFFERENT PART OF THE SUDOKU, SO HOW DID YOU IMMEDIATELY FORGET?!?!?! ARRRGHHGJJFJDJJSNDNCNCNMF
Gosh, I love watching these 9000 IQ puzzles. Serious respect to setter and solver alike. 99.9999% of the time I watch and then click 'like', but for this one I couldn't help but pre-emptively click 'like' after the logic at the 30:00-ish mark. WOW!!!!
At 45:00 there is - in my opinion and If I am correct - a quite elegant way to resolve it: If r6c6 ist blue, you can go with the Dominos around the clock and will not work out. 2 Dominos bottom right have to be purple 2 Dominos top right have to be orange 2 Dominos top left Green 2 Dominos bottom left blue Which does Not work, with c6r6 blue.
@11:25 Once again I must humbly request we get Letters added to the software at some point for the purposes of substitution. Coloring alone is a very painful method for trying to keep track of things like halves of dominoes assigned other colors.
Somehow I saw the editing explanation that Simon provided right away. I was literally screaming for 10 minutes “Simon please ask the question: where does blue go in row 4. It has to be inside box 5”.
I really wanted to solve this one myself because I quickly found the very beautiful break-in, and after breaking it once I managed to do it (nowhere near Simon‘s time though). A very, very entertaining and beautifully designed puzzle!
I solved it eventually, but I was stuck at the spot you reached at the 23:00 mark. Your epiphany at the 26:21 got me moving again, and from there I solved it without any more hints. Took me forever, but I got there. The decision you took at the one hour mark, to start marking the polarity of the color codes? I did that from almost the very beginning, but I applied it to all four colors, not just the orange. I'm not sure that helped me as much as doing a single color helped you. "This has been quite a difficult puzzle" YES
1:41:25 That was a hell of a ride. Didn't realize that the knight's rule could resolve this aweful uniquenes-crushing pairs and almost gave up after 80 minutes. That would have been a shame.
There was a point where I was looking at r3c5 and asking where blue went in r3 and r4. With the kropki dot keeping them from both being in c6, it seemed to make the blue green Domino in c4 turn green to great impact.
Late to the party, but MUCH earlier in the solve you can sort out that the outer pairs in row 5 and in column 5 (r1/2c5,r8/9c5, r5c1/2,r5c8/9) must all be (colored) pairs. That helps a lot. Take Box 2 and call the r2c3/4 pair RED, the r3/4c5 pair BLUE and the r1/2c6 pair BLACK. Using the knights constraint, it's fairly easy to see all three pair must be different (the Red and Blue cells inside the box see all the other cells.) Note that both the cells from Blue and Red outside the box, both see the "plus" of cells inside the box, cannot be the non-paired cell in r1c4 and cannot be the black r1c6 cell. Therefore they must be in r3c4 and r3c6 in some order. We now have 2 of Red, Blue and Black inside the box, so the last two cells r1c5 and r2c5 must be the last pair. You can then apply this to the Box 4, 6 and 8 by rotational symmetry.
Wow what a stunning puzzle, Rocky roer, I was continuously struggling how to identify on the page my reasoning so I didn't loose my place but in the end it falls into place and hopefully I learned something about marking!
Someone explain the logic at 29:30. He says the cages can't be 10 because the kropki dots can't sum to 10. But that doesn't mean anything. The constraint isn't that the dots will also add to 10. The two dots together in this case would have to sum to 20 and that can be done easily with consecutive dots. If blue and orange are 20, the yellow is 5, and the 4 remaining cells need to add to 20. Blue = 28, orange = 19, dot1 = 34, dot2 = 67, yellow = 5. Now it may be the cages aren't 10, but this logic is illogical.
At 26:22 he deduced that the uncaged dominoes in column 5 can't mix and match purple and green digits, because that would break the ambiguous cages in boxes 2 and 8. One domino must be both greens and the other must be both purples, so both green and purple have to be compatible with kropki dots.
Had this one on the go for several days. Missed some stuff (and didn't appreciate the significance of some things I did spot), started off with 4 colours but it was only when I switched to 8 that I made some progress. Clever the way it works out that 9 is the only possible total.
I've never watched a Ctacking The Cryptic video before, but I saw that he could finish the colour symmetry with relation to the blue 8 and was begging for him to fill them in for like 20 minutes straight. I'm new to this kind of stuff but if I'm seeing things Cryptic hasn't, then I guess some day I might stand a chance at solving stuff like this myself 😁
Just FYI, your "Extensive amount of explaining" is the reason why I watch these videos every day.
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I don’t know if it was a barb at you, Simon, but your extensive explanations are greatly appreciated by me. I’ve learned so very much listening and working along. Lately, I’ve paused and moved forward on puzzles and frequently see the same logic that you see when I resume watching. Your verbosity is greatly appreciated!
I'm sure it was not meant as a barb at all. I think he just wanted to make it clear that he's confident that you could do the puzzle *much* quicker if it wasn't for the extra work you do to explain your logic to the audience.
I am also confident it was meant to distinguish 'time Simon would need to solve this' vs. 'to solve this on the channel, explaining as he goes'. Those explanations are at the heart of the channel and are much-loved. I know I only turn off the sound when I play 'I'll give myself a headstart, and see how long until the master finds something I haven't seen yet', which is an occasionally enjoyable game. Keep up the verbiage!
"I have no idea how are we gonna solve it."
"Anyway, do have a go.'
Let's see... Simon has no idea... over an hour long on the video... I think I'm just going to sit back and enjoy watching him figure it out.
🤣🤣🤣😳🤦🏼♀️
Yeah...
Saw the length, and whipped up a banana bread.
Gonna eat while I watch.
The odds of me getting ANYWHERE with this puzzle are between zero and none.
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5:00
Simon's explanations are likely the single most important factor for this channel's continued growth.
"The Sudoku With Zero Given Digits" Doesn't narrow it down much these days lol
Yeah was going to say, feels like the wrong choice of article...
(That said I get why, the titled are definitely tailored towards catching the eye of newcomers seeing videos via the recommendation algorithm, to whom that distinction is more likely to be notable than to subscribers who've seen such things before...)
@@HunterJE Yea, I don't begrudge them their slightly clickbaity titles.
Only reason I'm here was a title saying something about knight sudoku that I saw about 18 months ago, and I was like, "WTF is that?"
Now I've MADE a bunch of Sudoku with zero given digits and even invented a few different rules of my own.
True, but there was no digits of any kind here, no cage sums, little killers etc, probably what they ment
They'll progress through "Yet Another Sudoku With Zero Given Digits" and end up on "Just Another Sudoku With Zero Given Digits"
Well done, sir! Your extensive explanations and elation when closing in on the solution are what makes you so watchable. Please don’t ever change.
ditto
Me shouting at Simon when he colored r4c6 green when he just finished saying it could be a 1 (which would be blue): “That’s going to be confusing later on…”
Simon 5 minutes later: “Why is this cell green? Why can’t it be a 1? Have I lost my marbles?”
Me: “I told you! Lol” 😂
I made this reply on another comment, in real-time as I watched that moment: "Like at 56:03 you remember better than he did that he himself had JUST colored as green as a potential example, not as definitive?! 56:38 NO YOU DIDN'T, SIMON! IT WAS JUST AN IF-THIS-WERE-GREEN-AND-LET'S-CHECK-IF-IT-CAN-BE-OR-NOT, FROM 53:40!!! THREE MINUTES AGO, DURING WHICH TIME YOU DIDN'T EVEN GO OFF TO A DIFFERENT PART OF THE SUDOKU, SO HOW DID YOU IMMEDIATELY FORGET?!?!?! ARRRGHHGJJFJDJJSNDNCNCNMF"
wow, some people get very animated about these videos.
I felt so bad for him at that moment haha.
Even if it’s long I love the “extensive amount of explaining” it’s very helpful
I love predicting Simon's color choices. Nailed it today with purple, blue, green, then orange.
I wouldve said Yellow instead of Orange 💔
@@martinap863 I got it all but I guessed red instead of orange!
I appreciate that Simon continues his coloring long after it stops being needed. I'm always curious how the coloring will look when fully expanded.
he did need to split the cage colours up, the 18 and 27 would have opened the puzzle
It makes me dizzy which is a minor problem. A larger one is that it slows Simon down and he misses easy things. The good thing is that Simon likes colouring and a happy Simon is a joy to watch.
Love your “extensive explaining”. It is what makes this channel great.
Rules: 02:49
Let's get cracking: 05:15
And how about this video's Simarkisms?!
Hang On: 7 (06:32, 20:46, 21:45, 26:03, 49:51, 50:09, 51:52)
By sudoku: 6 (16:32, 17:57, 18:14, 45:54, 45:57, 1:02:55)
Ridiculous: 4 (05:01, 05:03, 15:48, 29:38)
Sorry: 3 (10:41, 10:41, 37:28)
I Have no Clue: 3 (36:00, 37:33, 59:58)
Stuck: 3 (24:19, 40:45, 58:46)
Incredible: 3 (02:02, 02:15, 1:09:46)
Elegant: 3 (1:10:26, 1:10:31, 1:10:31)
Oh It Can!: 3 (54:08, 54:19, 54:47)
Bobbins: 2 (14:56, 1:06:55)
What on Earth: 2 (15:45, 58:23)
Bother: 2 (15:15, 34:22)
Lovely: 2 (1:01:58, 1:08:55)
Deadly Pattern: 2 (57:24, 57:32)
Come on Simon: 2 (44:54, 1:07:30)
Good Grief: 1 (34:38)
Knowledge Bomb: 1 (29:23)
Secret: 1 (11:23)
The Answer is: 1 (59:33)
Maverick: 1 (02:31)
You Rotten Thing: 1 (54:12)
Clever: 1 (1:10:45)
Recalcitrant: 1 (55:49)
Break the Puzzle: 1 (46:11)
Take a Bow: 1 (1:10:58)
Discombobulating: 1 (32:08)
Nori Nori: 1 (06:56)
FAQ:
Q1: What is a Simarkism?
A1: A Simarkism is something that Simon and Mark typically or frequently say.
Q2: How do you do this so fast?
A2: I'm not made of flesh and blood, but of sand ...
Q3: Why don't you include 'XX' and 'YY'?
A3: Probably it's already on the list ('Scooby-Doo' for example), but not mentioned in this video. But if you think it's not, tell me what you'd like me to include and there's a good chance I'll add it!
Q4: You missed 'XX' at 'YY:ZZ'!
A4: That could very well be the case! Human speech is hard to understand for computers like me, especially British sometimes! Point out the ones that I missed and maybe I'll learn!
Q5: Could you turn these statistics into videos?
A5: I've been playing around with the idea and I'm open to input as to what people would like to see. Let me know if you are interested in this and/or have suggestions.
Not even one 'beautiful'?! This puzzle must be rubbish! 🤣
This is insane. Great job Computer San(d).
Thanks for this! I get really frustrated listening to the introduction. As much care as Simon puts into it, I prefer to skip straight to the puzzle.
Hey Sand! Since you have the "get cracking" part, it would be nice if you could also catch the completion at ruclips.net/video/le1pe4WMGZY/видео.html (1:09:50) and allow some statistics for the solve time/difficulty. We need to persuade them to say a keyword then? I don't see the timer on screen, but it would be nice if the popup actually included the time instead of only saying "stopped".
Another thing possibly interesting to catch is longer segments of silence.
Q: What do you use as an example is Scooby-Doo *is* in the video?
With phrases like "where does red trim go in this box" we see Simon's coloring has become even crazier than was though possible
Any more and you'd think he was an interior decorator.😋
I'm going to use that idea in other, less complicated puzzles.
"Simon Anthony, take a Gin and Tonic" gave me a good chuckle. Fantastic solve, Simon!
Considering he records early in the day... Epic.
@@amoswittenbergsmusings You have to admit, it was a well-earned gin and tonic.
I watch these videos Because Of the extensive amounts of explaining, so keep it up Simon! The explaining helps me see new ways of doing things and shows me why they work. Plus it makes a longer video, which I enjoy immensely.
I come for the usual extensive amount of explaining.
I am feeling immensely proud of myself for *watching* an hour plus sudoko.
How proud must you feel for *solving* it in the same time!
Lots of respect mate! And thanks for the verbose explanations.
The extensive amount of explaining is one of the reasons I watch your videos, please continue!
Tried it myself along with you. Messed up four times before finishing, and had to watch a little bit further each time to get tips. I think I've done less than five sudokus in my life, so I wasn't surprised that I'd make desperate erroneous deductions. But it was still surprisingly fun and addicting to play. Thanks for sharing!
@40:08 the logic about pairs in the remaining white cells does apply to row 5. The logic didn't require the kropki dots to work
i love how attached you got to the colors after an hour of solving the puzzle based on colors. Great solve!
A long video just means it's entertaining for longer. Don't worry too much about it being longer than most videos.
i figured by observing that the middle 4 dominoes have to be 1,8 ; 2,7 ; 3,6 ; 4,5, since these and all the othr dominoes have to be the same sum.
and only way to make that is if you do the highest total, you can add those by taking the lowest and highest available at the time. feel like you could
have gotten that idea at the start too. it was very close. love the solving!!!
An easier way of ruling Blue out of r6c6 at 46:14 is "Where can Blue go in R4?" This is also true for r6 and orange, c4 with purple, and c6 with green.
Yep… that was the intended question to consider. :-)
46:20 yay! he saw it in the edit. 👍
@@dibenp i also lost my mind at that moment
This was by far the hardest Sudoku I have ever solved. I haven't done too many but I have a feeling that even if I had this would top them all.
Without your channel, the tutorials I took in as entertainment, and an extensive use of the coloring system, I would never have made it. Kudos to my wife for helping out as well. She keeps me grounded and stops me from going too far down rabbit trails.( She also makes me tidy up my colors all the time, which helps tremendously. Don't tell her I said that.)
At 43:40, a simpler way to prove that R3C6 and R6C6 can not be blue is considering that this forces R3C5 and R6C6 to be the same digit, which breaks R4 of the puzzle, since that digit can not appear in it: in fact, R6C6 sees R4C7 by knight's move and R4C6 and R4C4 by sudoku, while R3C5 sees R4C3 by knight's move. Btw, you and Mark are doing a massive job here on Cracking the Cryptic, and i'm happy to say to you what you told Aad in the previous video: take a bow!
Jacopo from Italy
I must be getting better at these difficult ones because I find myself yelling at the screen. "What you are looking for is right there!". Equally frustrating is when Simon then realizes it and takes it a step further than I did in terms of logic or he solves it in some superwhammidine way.
I'm watching him do it, and I don't know how he did it!
40:07 - ...if r4c12 are orange and r6c89 are purple, r34c8 have no color! So neither r6c4 can't be be blue! Simples! He just had to check what color could r34c8 be if that were the case, not r89c4! I'm not sure how it helps, but would at least finish that thought he had about r6c4 being blue or not and help rule it not-blue! Edit - combined with 45:44, it rules blue out of both r6c4 and r6c6!
Now that I've gone over it a few times, I think I've cast aspersions on the innocent...bobbins.
After Simon proves that c5r89, c5r12 have to be a solid domino color, he goes on to fill in the numbers. He never quite turns the puzzle 90 degrees to see the rule also applies to r5c12 and r5c89. When he finds the 8 by cropkey dot (r7c7) I realized that a knight's move prevented the 8 from residing in r5c8 and thus disambiguating the colors in that domino. However, the 8 can escape to c9! He marks it but I totally missed it.
I was still with him most of the way but my leap of logic could've gotten me into trouble if the 8 had been in c9 all along and the domino blue.
Sorry Simon.
Even Maverick knew how hard this one was, didn’t want to be a distraction today.
Almost two hours but i managed to do it myself! Whew, so proud. I can feel my wits has expanded so much thanks to this channel and thanks to all your marvellous and patient explanations, Simon! There was a time I wouldn't have even attempted such sudoku...
Dude, that was awesome. 69:30. Pretty happy about that actually. The funniest thing about this puzzle is that I coloured it WAAAAAY more than Simon!
Yay - a feature length video !! Putting this off till later - when I can watch with 🍿 and 🍷 !! 😄
I've got to say that your channel single-handedly made me fond of sudokus. It's very pleasing following you along
This solve was absolutely brilliant to watch. The minute you said the dominoes had to be 9, 10, or 11, I immediately realised it was 9, paused the video, and figured out the top and bottom kropkis straight away.
Then I got as far as the initial 8 and got stuck for 20 minutes before giving up and coming back to watch you do it.
That might be the best hour plus I have spent on the internet in a very long time, Maybe ever! Thank you Simon. Thank you Cracking the Cryptic.
Watching your videos really helps me through tough days. My dad and I are currently in an argument and watching you has kept me sane
My coloring was 8-color: I used red-orange for one domino, yellow-green for a second, blue-purple for a third, and the two greys (light and dark) for the fourth ... and black for the last digit. Worked well for me.
I think Simon would've made progress faster had he used 8 colors
Back in the day, prevailing wisdom was that a sudoku had to start with about 17 digits. Then CtC arrived on the scene. After some time, "a sudoku with only 4 given digits" was considered to be extraordinary, but solvable. A month ago, "a sudoku with zero given digits" was considered to be extraordinary, but solvable. Today, sudokus with zero given digits are being solved every day.
Truly, we live in remarkable times.
I trust Simon to reveal everything to me. If he said: "In my next magic rick I will reveal how Quantum theorie and Gravity work together" I am certain he will win the Nobel Prize:
My best idea for that: The Planklength is not invariable :D and Gravitation is only a Part of a bigger More variable Interactions :D
At 41:00, an easier way to break through is to think about column 6 in relation to column 4. We know that both blue cells in box 2 are in row 3, and both blue cells in box 5 are in row 4 (because the blue cell in the cage in box 2 can only go in box 5 in row 4, joining its partner in that row.) But because there is a kropki dot in column 6, we cannot have two blue digits in those two cells. 1-8 is not a valid combination for white or black kropki dots. Therefore, there is definitely at least one blue in column 4, and therefore the cage at the bottom of column 4 is not blue.
Still a great solve, Simon! I actually managed to beat your time today, but I think only because I don't have to stop and explain things to an audience. I love your videos!
73:39 but so happy to have finished it.
It took me ages to figure out that r8c5 and r8c6 had to match either (r5c3 and r5c4) or (r5c6 and r5c7)
Then I could see that only one of the three possible cage totals had two combinations to match the kropki dot pairs.
Now I get to watch Simon work his magic.
I absolutely love your explanations. It has really helped me as a solver.
I enjoy the explanations. They are helping me tackle harder puzzles.
Great puzzle, great solve! Love the fact that such a beautiful solution can come from such a beautiful picture. Like the solve is about as pretty as the alignment of the cages themselves
I dont know if other people find it annoying, but I personally enjoy Simon's "Extensive amount of explanations".
When I started watching this channel, I couldn't finish even the easiest Sudokus i found. Now, Im able to do "Expert" lvl sudoku in the app I play and I can even efficiently do those 16x16 Numbers and Letters Sudokus that the app has. I love this channel a lot, and while I know that I personally am not at the lvl Simon is in able to complete all these wonderful puzzles these people make, I hope to continue watching and learning from him for years to come!
Word bubbles with parenthetical notes are amazing. Would absolutely love to see either Simon or Mark add commentary to their own or each other's videos. 😀
Honestly the resources (like colour coordinated explanations) on this channel give me the push needed to go from stuff like puzzler magazine to harder and more abstact forms of sudoku and I couldn't be more grateful!!
Bravo Rocky and Simon!
What a beautifully looking masterpiece this was, thanks RockyRoer! ♥ A few weeks ago I only attempted videos which were around 30 min long. Being able to solve this without Simon's help feels like a huge achievement for me, even if it took me hours.^^
This is the first over hour long solve I was able to solve completely without watching parts of the video for help. Yay for me.
40:17 This chain of logic actually does rule out blue being in that square. The cage in row 6 would be purple, the cage in column 2 would be green, that causes the cage in row 4 to be orange, and now the cage in column 8 is broken. So you could have ruled out that one box slightly earlier, though it wouldn't have helped you solve the puzzle any faster.
Never apologise for long videos, Simon! My excitement level rises the longer the video is 😊
48:26 for me. What a beautiful puzzle. When I fully understood the whole break-in I had to stop for a second to appreciate the fact that it actually worked. From there it wasn’t easy to finish it either, but I managed to get to the end without guessing or bifurcating.
didnt expect myself to be watching a puzzle master beat a sudoku with no digits while shiny hunting in pokemon with a 70's japanese jazz playlist on at 10:07 at night on a saturday
i wouldnt have it any other way
falling in love with this content
i was about to sing "i can be brown, I can be blue, I can be violet sky" when simon is coloring the 4 mid boxes
I started this video 3 days ago now. And I'm happy to be able to finish watching it now after finally solving it after 3 days of thinking over it. It's fascinating to watch how relatively easily you handled this puzzle compared to myself. I didn't use all the same logic and I had to resort to using chains, which I know you don't like, but I'm still happy that I was at least able to get through the solve.
Wow, what a puzzle. Really elegant and superbly set up. Absolutely one of the best i've seen lately. And Simon solve, wow! Must feel good to be that capable. Your proudness and gin tonic are totally deserved!
Absolutely nuts, zero digits and that rule set. 8) nice solve 👌
I don't think anyone would have a go about your explanations; they are more likely to be in awe of your ability to do both at the same time. Outstanding solve of an outstanding puzzle.
I think I noticed an easier way to deduce, that blue can not be in c6r6 at 46:16 in the video:
- The question I asked: Where does the blue from c5r3 go in row 4? It can't go into either box 4 or box 6, because of the knights move restraint and the other cells already being colored in. So it has to go into box 5, specifically in c4r3 or c6r3. Consequently, there are already both blues in somewhat known positions in box 5
I'm mostly still a novice in these sudokus, so if I'm correct with my deduction I'm pretty happy with it - Simons way of disproving the possibility of blue in c6r6 is kind of monstrous to me, to think through that many moves. Really fascinating
Edit: Oh. I literally wrote this comment 3 seconds too early. There's the red speech bubble explaining just that ^_^;.. But hey, I'm happy with having spotted that :)
Amazing puzzle. Here is how I did the difficult part at 46:00. If r6c6 is blue then box 6 tells us it has to be 8. Then the cage in column 2 is green, the cage in column 8 is orange, and the cage in row 4 has no fill.
i know this video is old so you probably on't see this but this was the first non-GAS puzzle i attempted... it took me 211 min... thanks for all you do i love it
Yeah - at 48:00 you can work out box5 for rows 4,6 and columns 4,6 as they pertain to the colors. For example, row 4 column 4 is a blue purple cell. But that’s only slightly easier to see than what he found. Neat setting this one.
50:20 Quicker way to IDing this blue domino (and indeed the three rotationally equivalent dominoes) is to note that its row already has yellow, pink, and green and there's an orange domino in the box...
Zero digits is a lot for these puzzles
Next time, we need to have negative amount of digits!
It was an extensive amount of digits.
@@ritchards I'm really worried now someone's going to find a bizarre ruleset soon to make negative amounts of digits. Taken digits?
What a wonderful puzzle and solve! You can get the blue pair locked into r4 of the central box because you can get 4 blues locked into boxes 4 and 6 r5 and r6. Now making box 8 a blue cage will force a 18 pair on the kropki. Therefore the box 8 cage is green!
I love how you explain while playing, cus I'm from Brazil and it's amazing to understand everything you thought while solving puzzles
What a puzzle! It took me 4 attempts to get the final digits in (knights moves can be rather misleading) but I got there in the end!!! In terms of suggestions for alternative methods in the middle part of the solve, I focused on where 8 could go in box 8. Either it had to go in cell 4 or 7 of the bottom left cage or it was forced into the 6th cell of the box. Placing 8 in either of cells 4 or 7 forces a 1 into the cage with the 8, in order to add to 9. This forces the lower cage in column 5 to be a 2,7 cage (since 1 and 8 both see that cage so are removed as possible options) and the higher cage to be the 1,8 cage. This in turn forces the colours of the cages in boxes 2 and 7 (since both 1,8 cages must be the same colour), while also placing a 1 or 8 in cell 9 of box 2. This cell sees a 2,7 pair, so 1 is quickly ruled out and the 8 has to accompany a 4. But this causes a contradiction, since the digit 1 is now ruled out of every cell in row 4 (resolving the 1,8 pair gives an 8 in cell 2 of box 5). Thus, cell 6 of box 8 has to be an 8. Many thanks to RockyRoer and to Simon for another brilliant puzzle/solve! :)
With a grid that symmetrical, the middle square not being 5 was honestly one of the biggest surprises I've seen on this channel
That was incredible. I love how you take the time to walk through every step logically. Incredible solve!
I almost want a print of that solve to hang on a wall, what a piece of art with the way you've colored it!
As someone who has only solved regular sudokus in the past, this was an insane step up in difficulty! It took me between 3 to 4 hours... But oh boy was it satisfying when things started falling into place!
Edit: I watched the video now. This man is a wizard. Bravo.
Honestly it's Simon's personality and how great he explains stuff is why his so great! Obviously cause his smart to
A slightly easier deduction at 46:20 is to think that if R3C6 was blue, then R4C6 HAS to be orange, as 1/8 can ONLY connect with a 2/7 (as the 9 is already taken) This orange in R4C6 runs into failures faster than the blue in R6C6
When Simon got stuck in the middle looking at the blue in the corner I was thinking about the colors of the petals. In each of the quadrants the petals had to be either the same color or different and be the same in the other quadrants. In both cases the corner of the middle box had to be the colour of one of the adjacent boxes and so that cell in the bottom right could never be blue. Of course I hadn’t realized why that not being blue was in any way important.
Great puzzle!
Beautiful Symmetry! [I will admit, as a fellow math educator, I tend to bask in the reflected glory of Rocky Roer's creations.]
I love watching the videos when I spot something Simon hasn’t. Then he does something that takes me 5 mins to wrap my brain around. Like a game of leapfrog.
Like at 56:03 you remember better than he did that he himself had JUST colored as green as a potential example, not as definitive?! 56:38 NO YOU DIDN'T, SIMON! IT WAS JUST AN IF-THIS-WERE-GREEN-AND-LET'S-CHECK-IF-IT-CAN-BE-OR-NOT, FROM 53:40!!! THREE MINUTES AGO, DURING WHICH TIME YOU DIDN'T EVEN GO OFF TO A DIFFERENT PART OF THE SUDOKU, SO HOW DID YOU IMMEDIATELY FORGET?!?!?! ARRRGHHGJJFJDJJSNDNCNCNMF
That was absolutely magnificent
Gosh, I love watching these 9000 IQ puzzles. Serious respect to setter and solver alike. 99.9999% of the time I watch and then click 'like', but for this one I couldn't help but pre-emptively click 'like' after the logic at the 30:00-ish mark. WOW!!!!
At 45:00 there is - in my opinion and If I am correct - a quite elegant way to resolve it:
If r6c6 ist blue, you can go with the Dominos around the clock and will not work out.
2 Dominos bottom right have to be purple
2 Dominos top right have to be orange
2 Dominos top left Green
2 Dominos bottom left blue
Which does Not work, with c6r6 blue.
@11:25 Once again I must humbly request we get Letters added to the software at some point for the purposes of substitution. Coloring alone is a very painful method for trying to keep track of things like halves of dominoes assigned other colors.
@20:10 I will count that as +1 vote from Simon for adding Letters to the software. ;D
36:17 solved for me. I can't believe I'm able to solved this half of Simon time!
I think he could have done it quicker but got caught up in coloring instead of sudoku. I wasn't able to finish this one at all, LOL.
Somehow I saw the editing explanation that Simon provided right away. I was literally screaming for 10 minutes “Simon please ask the question: where does blue go in row 4. It has to be inside box 5”.
at 1hr 1min.. the world is saved by more colouring - a classic Simon solve - loved it :)
I'm watching at 45:39 and just thinking: "Colour more Simon" 🤣
I love this channel 😁
32:10 missed opportunity to say "discombobbinated" :)
I love this channel. By the time I attempt and finish one puzzle, there are 5 new ones posted!
I really wanted to solve this one myself because I quickly found the very beautiful break-in, and after breaking it once I managed to do it (nowhere near Simon‘s time though). A very, very entertaining and beautifully designed puzzle!
Your "extensive amount of explaining" is why I keep coming back.
I solved it eventually, but I was stuck at the spot you reached at the 23:00 mark. Your epiphany at the 26:21 got me moving again, and from there I solved it without any more hints. Took me forever, but I got there. The decision you took at the one hour mark, to start marking the polarity of the color codes? I did that from almost the very beginning, but I applied it to all four colors, not just the orange. I'm not sure that helped me as much as doing a single color helped you.
"This has been quite a difficult puzzle" YES
1:41:25
That was a hell of a ride. Didn't realize that the knight's rule could resolve this aweful uniquenes-crushing pairs and almost gave up after 80 minutes. That would have been a shame.
There was a point where I was looking at r3c5 and asking where blue went in r3 and r4. With the kropki dot keeping them from both being in c6, it seemed to make the blue green Domino in c4 turn green to great impact.
I spent a very long time proving you couldn't three-colour the dominos before remembering the knights move.
Late to the party, but MUCH earlier in the solve you can sort out that the outer pairs in row 5 and in column 5 (r1/2c5,r8/9c5, r5c1/2,r5c8/9) must all be (colored) pairs. That helps a lot.
Take Box 2 and call the r2c3/4 pair RED, the r3/4c5 pair BLUE and the r1/2c6 pair BLACK.
Using the knights constraint, it's fairly easy to see all three pair must be different (the Red and Blue cells inside the box see all the other cells.)
Note that both the cells from Blue and Red outside the box, both see the "plus" of cells inside the box, cannot be the non-paired cell in r1c4 and cannot be the black r1c6 cell. Therefore they must be in r3c4 and r3c6 in some order. We now have 2 of Red, Blue and Black inside the box, so the last two cells r1c5 and r2c5 must be the last pair. You can then apply this to the Box 4, 6 and 8 by rotational symmetry.
I am astounded that this was even possible! Simon's magic was flowing!
Wow what a stunning puzzle, Rocky roer, I was continuously struggling how to identify on the page my reasoning so I didn't loose my place but in the end it falls into place and hopefully I learned something about marking!
The extensive amount of explaining is my favorite
"We've achieved a great deal of colouring." Often a sign of a good day.
Someone explain the logic at 29:30. He says the cages can't be 10 because the kropki dots can't sum to 10. But that doesn't mean anything. The constraint isn't that the dots will also add to 10. The two dots together in this case would have to sum to 20 and that can be done easily with consecutive dots. If blue and orange are 20, the yellow is 5, and the 4 remaining cells need to add to 20. Blue = 28, orange = 19, dot1 = 34, dot2 = 67, yellow = 5. Now it may be the cages aren't 10, but this logic is illogical.
At 26:22 he deduced that the uncaged dominoes in column 5 can't mix and match purple and green digits, because that would break the ambiguous cages in boxes 2 and 8. One domino must be both greens and the other must be both purples, so both green and purple have to be compatible with kropki dots.
Had this one on the go for several days. Missed some stuff (and didn't appreciate the significance of some things I did spot), started off with 4 colours but it was only when I switched to 8 that I made some progress. Clever the way it works out that 9 is the only possible total.
I've never watched a Ctacking The Cryptic video before, but I saw that he could finish the colour symmetry with relation to the blue 8 and was begging for him to fill them in for like 20 minutes straight. I'm new to this kind of stuff but if I'm seeing things Cryptic hasn't, then I guess some day I might stand a chance at solving stuff like this myself 😁