📕Get my FREE Solving Guide that will help you solve over 80% of all Sudoku puzzles🧩to include NYT Hard👉👉www.buymeacoffee.com/timberlakeB/e/125822 Timestamps 0:00 Intro 00:18 It’s Solving Time 01:21 Puzzle Story 03:34 BONUS Tip 04:00 Question Of The Day 04:21 Setting Up Amazing Trick 08:30 Amazing Trick Revealed
Give up? I didn't dare to try it 😅 But after you solve the start and pencilmark the 123 I knew what was the trick! So I give it a try. Hehe It was nice puzzle and I had fun watching you too! ☺
That was kinda cool. That 9 broke the puzzle open. I ended up with more 23 pairs than I should have had and then colored those and and realized I missed some. The colors made it stand out nicely. Even in standard sudoku like this, colors often help. Thanks.
I've been watching your channel, so I took the same path as you - except that I couldn't remember how a trivalue oddagon works after I recognized the pattern. I tried the whole branching sequence (there are 4 choices) of colour assignments before placing the 9. I was pretty sure that the odd-man-out had to break the pattern, but wanted to refresh my memory about the reasoning. I think that the computer solvers that actually look for patterns (rather than the ones that just Bowman's Bingo through the whole puzzle) will pretty soon start looking for Trivalue Oddagon/Thor's Hammer. It seems to be pretty popular with the setters lately. And then the human solvers will learn it - and a puzzle like this won't be Extreme any more.
I agree. I haven't run across any solvers yet that look for this, but I am sure I will soon. Great job solving this one. There is nothing wrong with running through all the variations again.
I had the same issue that Ke9tv had. I thought I remembered enough to give this puzzle a go, but got bogged down with multi-coloring all over the place. Solve time was almost 1 1/2 hours, not counting having to watch the video. I should know enough now to solve this type of puzzle next time, but with my memory, I doubt it.
8:51 That 1239 cell sees 123 in other directions so wouldn't it end up as 9 by default? Okay that one helped me collapse the puzzle. I almost made a mistake so I looked into the video and saw that only. Starting to get better with extreme sudoku. The sudoku website itself has extreme but it's more similar towards NYT so it's not that much of a challenge. This one is.
Nice job! I am glad you are seeing improvement in solving these types of puzzles. Are there any other strategies you would like to see featured on this channel?
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Timestamps
0:00 Intro
00:18 It’s Solving Time
01:21 Puzzle Story
03:34 BONUS Tip
04:00 Question Of The Day
04:21 Setting Up Amazing Trick
08:30 Amazing Trick Revealed
Give up? I didn't dare to try it 😅
But after you solve the start and pencilmark the 123 I knew what was the trick! So I give it a try. Hehe
It was nice puzzle and I had fun watching you too! ☺
What did I do to finish the puzzle? I kept watching the video.
That was kinda cool. That 9 broke the puzzle open.
I ended up with more 23 pairs than I should have had and then colored those and and realized I missed some. The colors made it stand out nicely. Even in standard sudoku like this, colors often help.
Thanks.
You are welcome! Glad you liked the video and the strategy. How often do you play Sudoku?
I've been watching your channel, so I took the same path as you - except that I couldn't remember how a trivalue oddagon works after I recognized the pattern. I tried the whole branching sequence (there are 4 choices) of colour assignments before placing the 9. I was pretty sure that the odd-man-out had to break the pattern, but wanted to refresh my memory about the reasoning.
I think that the computer solvers that actually look for patterns (rather than the ones that just Bowman's Bingo through the whole puzzle) will pretty soon start looking for Trivalue Oddagon/Thor's Hammer. It seems to be pretty popular with the setters lately. And then the human solvers will learn it - and a puzzle like this won't be Extreme any more.
I agree. I haven't run across any solvers yet that look for this, but I am sure I will soon. Great job solving this one. There is nothing wrong with running through all the variations again.
I had the same issue that Ke9tv had. I thought I remembered enough to give this puzzle a go, but got bogged down with multi-coloring all over the place. Solve time was almost 1 1/2 hours, not counting having to watch the video. I should know enough now to solve this type of puzzle next time, but with my memory, I doubt it.
8:51 That 1239 cell sees 123 in other directions so wouldn't it end up as 9 by default?
Okay that one helped me collapse the puzzle. I almost made a mistake so I looked into the video and saw that only. Starting to get better with extreme sudoku. The sudoku website itself has extreme but it's more similar towards NYT so it's not that much of a challenge. This one is.
Nice job! I am glad you are seeing improvement in solving these types of puzzles. Are there any other strategies you would like to see featured on this channel?
@SmartHobbies I think I've seen them all but I'm willing to see more!
@ Challenge accepted. There are a few strategies I’ve never featured that I make a few videos about this next year.
I want to break the symmetry with the low numbers.
Did not put in 6s in square 5
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