Thanks for the feature! I wondered if you would appreciate the title, but the reference was actually accidental. I was looking for a punny title that alluded to country road and killers/danger/something like that. Highway to the Danger Zone popped into my head, which I hadn't realised before was from Top Gun, but when I saw the link that sealed the deal.
Preface (written after the rest of the post): This is definitely not a complaint. I got to watch a feature length film with an (in my head) alternate ending. What an awesome experience. @2:02:11 "It must turn...we don't know whether [r9c7] is blue or not." But if it's potentially not blue, doesn't that mean the loop isn't forced to go up? If it's not blue, continuing straight wouldn't tarnish the count of 6 in blue. ... I've now finished the video. And I didn't get a satisfactory answer so I'm going to try to find one. ... Okay, this didn't take long once I knew what to look for. The only sudoku decision based on the line from that point (my given timestamp) on the solve on was the decision to put 5 into r7c6. But you don't need that line to get a 5 there. It's the only place 5 can go in box 8 by sudoku already. Knowing the sudoku path onward puts 7 in r4c7 and 1 in r8c9, the 0 cage right at the end, the cages by the same logic that limited the grey cage.
You are right, and Simon overlooked it (I do this all the time, mind you). You can actually deduce that the >0 cage has a 1 in it at this point, and that extra bit of information lets you know that the loop doesn't go into the blue region there.
2:44:15! This puzzle is 100% the best sudoku I have ever done. I can't imagine what was going on behind Jay Dyer's mind while creating this! I can't put into words how beautiful the logic was and how amazing it felt to finish this fiendishly difficult sudoku that even took Simon 2 hours! This was a SPECTACULAR puzzle.
At 1:33:46 you removed a pencil mark that R3C5 had a minimum value of 4 and penciled 1468 instead. You often remove pencil marks when cleaning up without noting what's there previously. In this case you even restated that that cell can't be a 1 on one of your digressions but leave the pencil mark there. If you had removed it you would have seen that 1 only had one cell in the row and that forced a 1 into orange which forced it to extend right which forced yellow to extend right which forced grey to extend right ...
It's not just Simon. Yesterday, Mark had 7s corner pencil marked in box 4 and completely ignored them over the center pencil marked 7's for what felt like an hour. I might have mentioned it in comment yesterday, but the method he used to get rid of the 6 and 7 in r3c2 would have been necessary whether or not he had already gotten rid of the 7. But, as they both say occasionally, a live solve is going to have oversights and especially when the puzzles are hard enough to make a 2 hour video.
Yeah. I've been screaming about this. It happens all the time to Simon when he "cleans up" pencil mark but end up just further confuse himself with unnecessary information.
I was literally recording my friends a voice message like ten minutes ago, abt how I absolutely love your longer videos, and then I check RUclips and this absolute masterpiece is here
@@grimsqueaker5333 Yeah, read my comment again. I get that it's a Top Gun reference, I'm saying what is it about this puzzle that makes it relevant to be the puzzle title.
Jay Dyer + 2-hour solve - so excited!! Also, as much as I LOVE the song "Danger Zone," this is the first time I have ever seen the lyrics written as, "HIGHWAY to the Danger Zone" and not (as I incorrectly heard, apparently), "I WENT to the Danger Zone." Thirty+ years of listening to this wonderful song and belting out the wrong lyrics at full volume (since I was a small child): Mind. Blown.
There are other setters more prolific on the channel in number-of-puzzles terms but I'll bet if one were to crunch the numbers Jay Dyer is right up near the top in terms of runtime
Wow, mind blown. These Are my very favorite kind of puzzles ... ones so hard I just have to sit back and watch Simon work it all out! Well done Simon, this was fascinating to watch!
Beyond me entirely, this puzzle, but so very enjoyable to watch you solve, Simon. As usual for a region-defining and loop puzzle, your approach is so amazing and impressive. I am very glad when you (or Mark) mention that live solves are not perfect solves. This is very true, yet many commenters on various CtC videos seem to expect that of you (or Mark). I, personally, am never disappointed when you make mistakes, larger or small (either of you) because there is always something to appreciate about how you recover from the mistakes. Whether a pencil mark, an unnecessary proof of something that has already been proven, or an actual mistake in putting digits into the puzzle, it is all perfectly OK with me because I enjoy watching you so much. Thank you for this amazing video and thanks to Jay Dyer for the puzzle. (I'm typing this having had to come back to this video today to finish it, and it is now June 8, the date when one of my two favorite RUclips sudoku solvers was born - Happy Birthday, Simon!)
I don't think anyone expects them t o actually solve perfectly. Real mistakes or rather leaps in the logic should of course be pointed out so that other viewers can understand how to solve the puzzle without those leaps since most of the time there will be some sort of explanation arising. And for other things like missing simple deductions I think it's just natural that once you see them you're itching to fill them in and they keep distracting you until they are filled in. I for one am always yelling at Simon to fill in some easy useless deduction while he goes on a journey to discover some great bits of logic I would've taken hours to figure out, but it is all in jest, of course I am not actually mad at Simon and for me it has become part of the enjoyment of these solves
@@ymiros0953 Yes, I totally get this - and I confess that I very occasionally will say out loud something like, "But column 4 already has a 6 in it!" Not shouting at my screen, you understand, because my husband would look askance at me! And I agree that for many folks the pleasure is, at least in part, in being quicker and smarter than Simon or Mark, and I get that, too. I would not have mentioned this topic in my comment on this video if Simon had not said what he did about live solves. (I also agree that they should follow up a leap of logic or a logical error with a correct explanation - but for me, if it is a puzzle where Simon or Mark would make a logical error, I would probably not be able to follow even a correct logical path, let alone understand and recognize a logical error! So those don't bother me as much as they should, and I take my cue from comments sometimes to discover that there even was a logical error!) Also, and I am sure you picked this up, I really only comment "for myself" - that is, I say the things that struck me, or impressed me or that I enjoyed. 😊
At 2:02:24, how come the loop couldn't continue from the blue cage into box 9? If the next cell was a different colored region the loop could have continued and not been forced up into the
Incorrect deduction at the time, but it didn’t affect the sudoku portion he completed after which would have resolved this by not allowing the 5 to repeat in blue, and the 1 loop clue would have also prevented it.
Agree, at that point it was not clear. Correct deduction would have been that clue value 1 from the grid 9th forced the loop at r9c6 to move upwards. otherwise the loop would have covered more than 1 cell in 9th grid and that would have invalidated clue value 1.
Since this is my first time being able to comment when the video comes out, I want to repeat my suggestion of a Boxing Day (December 26) edition where setters, such as Jay Dyer, Phistomefel, Aad van de Wetering, Rocky Roer, Shye or Tallcat solve puzzles set by Simon and Mark. As Captain Picard would say you have six months to "make it so".
93:24, I didn't feel like watching a two hour video, but I didn't think I could solve this on my own. I basically worked until I hit a wall, took a look to see the next step, and kept going back and forth. There were some jumps in logic I didn't see how I would have figured them out myself and I kept trying to put the size of the box in the cages instead of the number of cells with a line in them.
1:36:33 ... as long as this one took me, I never really felt 'stumped' at any given moment; it was just a series of one small success after another. Truly a work of art; astounding!
@1:51:51 "So the 2 gets thrust onto the right hand side." You could also have gotten that 2 via maths on the purple cage. Putting the 5 there would give purple a shown total of 18 which would put a 1 in r9c4 where it clashes with r7c5.
It could, but Simon is saved by the >0 region (the only region it could be) not being 2, 4, or 6, since it would have to take an even amount of cells in that region to get back to light green.
It could have, but fortunately at this point it doesn't matter much to the solve. Everything Simon does until about 2:06:30 stays the same, but at the end you're left with a choice of whether the
Been starting to try the puzzles before I watch the video, and I so far haven’t managed to get any, but I’m glad to see that on this beast I actually started out with the correct logic (before I messed up somewhere, haha)
Classic Simon taking 10 minutes to rule the 1 out of R3C5 even when he has already said it can't be a 1 and drawn the line longer than length 1 through red.
Took me nearly three hours, but got through it eventually. All the logic steps were fairly simple, just hard to spot among the multitude of possibilities, and this detracts a bit from the fun for me.
Absolutely no chance to solve the puzzle on my own, but seeing every single deduction before Simon does... can anyone understand it??? Brilliant puzzle as always from the one and only JD👍👍👍
Tough but fair puzzle. Very fun - I do enjoy these build your own killers, and this one had some tough deductions, but nothing that felt extreme. I never felt as though I was getting nowhere, even if it took me 90 odd minutes.
Actually you should give it a try. While it does take long I thought there were no extremely difficult deductions. It's just that you need to do tons and tons of small deductions and that will eat up your time.
Honestly, I usually think the same, but I had a go at this one and it was a really good puzzle, I got stuck on one of the very first deductions, but after that it just flowed. Very beautiful puzzle
I just took a long flight and spent 2 hours until I wound up in an unsolvable position from a mistake. I restarted and spent almost 4 more hours but completed the puzzle with no help from the video. It was very satisfying to finally finish! I’m now watching the entire video to see what deductions I beat Simon on and what easy steps took me way too long to find.
Loop puzzles make me feel a bit queasy and given the video length I suspected I might flunk this one. In the end I solved it, and after several sticky phases at the start I gained some momentum in the latter stages. Sudoko logic rather than loop logic helped me. Thanks!
@37:41 "If green goes into blue." I think your selection at this point is misleading you. By including r4c3 in your selection you've inferred that orange can't go into green. I don't see a reason that's not actually a possibility at this point. What's stopping the loop from going yellow->orange-> green->blue? EDIT: @41:45 "We know it's going into yellow because yellow has to go into green." Okay, thanks for explaining that.
Kneel/bow before greatest!!! Wow just wow 1:18....love a good letter/colour hybrid solve but they rarely use it. But to DD a letter /digit mapping based on 1 overlapping digit b/w 2 cells of letter...just wow. Its fun to just follow along and just solve some steps....pause the video get stuck and then watch the greatest
LOL and he calls the >1 (r4c7) ridiculous (or something similar, I'm not watching the 2 hour video again just for a timestamp) too still without acknowledging r8c9. Personally I think r4c7 's even more ridiculous than the >0 in r8c9 because by the time the >1 cage is used in the solve path, it's long not been able to be an actual 1. The >1 and >0 totals could have been eliminated if the rules included "if given" about the cage totals.
So the Simon whose birthday is tomorrow - would that be our much loved sudoku solver extraordinaire, Mr. Anthony himself??? If so I hope you have a fantastic birthday with plenty of chocolate cake! (it is already tomorrow here - midnight - and therefore it’s been tomorrow in the UK for hours).
Wonderfully written!! If indeed his bday...for sure want him to have a wonderful and fabulous day! Love to him, this community and constant joy of solving, along with putting out puzzles daily for us. 🩵💙❤️
At 1:18:00… it's easier to prove that the line visits r2c7 because r12c7 must have a line segment (different cages sharing an edge) and you need to not break the grey total
How is that easier than using the 6 in r1c2, which tells you exactly where the loop goes in blue? (It's not obvious to me why the grey cage total would be broken had the loop gone r2c6-r1c6-r1c7-r1c8?)
More than two hours? Nope! I like Jay's puzzles a lot but I don't think I have the mental storage capacity for this. I'll just watch Simon and probably not even understand every bit of analysis. (btw I'm 70 years old - give me a break!)
Doesn't the loop have to visit every cage? Thanks for the 2 very well presented in-depth answers below. I just simply forgot the cage was almost the whole box. Much like Simon, I appreciate your kindness in dealing with my brain holiday.
It takes exactly one cell from the green cage in box 9 which is on the loop (hence the 1 in the cage) and that cell is r7c7. You have to see every color as a cage and the total is >0 in that green cage (43 total to be exact with 1 cell on the loop). The number in the square refers to the number of cells of that colored cage being on the loop, not to that total of the cage.
I had a tough time keeping this straight in my head too (and so did Simon at times). The number in the corner of the cage isn't the number of loop cells in the cage, it's the cage total. (Also >0 is "greater than zero" and just means any number, provided the other rules are followed; you can't actually get 0 or lower if the rules are followed). It's the value in the cell itself which dictates the number of loop cells in the region. In that example, the cell turned out to be 1 which meant there was 1 loop cell in that cage. This alone requires the loop to pass through every cage. "...which visits each cage exactly once" in the rules is there to say you can't visit a cage more than once.
I did it in 71 minutes. Truly an amazing puzzle, and truly a dreadful puzzle as well, so many times I had to change the coloring of the cages to make sure that I didn't break the 4 color theorem.
@2:07:43 " And yet, it all fits together and [astonishment ands later] we used everything, I mean, we used everything. We used sudoku [audio was to quiet for transcription, but I assume it translates as a complaint about using sudoku to solve a sudoku puzzle], there was killer logic all the time and geometry (set theory on small levels such as "law of leftovers" level) logic." It was intense and beautiful. But we didn't use Schrodinger numbers, did we?
This is one of those "surfing" puzzles. I stand little chance of solving it entirely on my own, so I try to surf the front face of Simon's inspiration. If he starts to get excited about something, I pause the video to see if his "inspiration" inspires me to make further progress with my own solve. 🙂. I was quite pleased that I needed no further assistance after the "where do those two digits [r23c1] go in box 4" at 1:14:55.
3:00 If you want to prompt the apps you need to actually update them. Sudokupad hasn't been update since 2021 on Android which is very poor form when still promoting it. Its essentially abandonware.
Rock hard. I feel like I exerted a lot of effort to get that done. Most troublesome spotting my own incorrect deductions and having to delete my progress. I refused to be beaten even if it took well over 2 hours.
I don't understand why you thought you had to turn from blue up into light green in box 8 at 2h2min .. you said bc the clue was 6 but that means you can only travel 6 in blue however you could have pushed straight into a new region without turning ...
2:02:12 Couldn't it continue to r9c7 as long as that cell isn't blue? (edit: in practice it can't, because it forces r8c6 to go right, forcing r7c7 to go right as well, and then r7c7 can't attach to the
@1:30:30 you have "quite a good thought actually" (in your words) and show via some cage logic where the 7 must go in box 5, this removing it as a candidate in r3c4... But the 7 in the green cage you made use of for this exact logic already does so by sudoku.
I don't understand the conclusion you come to at 40:00. You repeatedly say that green can't go into orange, but why not? Green to blue doesn't preclude green to orange at all; you say that "green is done" but you haven't produced an entry into green, which could still be from orange. EDIT: Yeah at 37:49 you say "if green goes into blue, orange does not go into green" and I have no idea why you'd deduce that from the available information EDIT 2: I did not connect this back to needing a connection between green and the yellow
Simon missed the obvious in box 1, there has to be a 1 in box 1 that belongs to a cage outside of box 1. None of the 44 cages can have a 1 in them. (20.45 he saw it)
What you seemed to be forgetting at the start was that the cage contains the count of loop cells in the cage, which is obviously no larger than the cage size. Therefore a 1-cell cage can only be 1, a 2-cell cage can be a maximum of 11, a 3-cell cage can be a maximum of 20, 4-cell maxes at 28, etc. This shows why >1, >11 and >28 are important clues. This means that @ 13:42 you can extend orange into R2C2, and green must come around the bottom. The cannot be in the corner which must be in one of the 44 cages, so it's in orange with a 23 in the cage and 89 in R2C2. @ 54:46 where you are trying to make R6C4 the green 3 - that cell cannot be green. Blue must exit to the right, and it cannot be into green (or a short loop would be produced. It must continue to the right, because if it goes up, it again forms a short loop, and if it goes down, it forms too short a line in the >28 cage. Since the loop leaves blue to the right, and can never enter green, not even via one more colour, R6C4 cannot be green. This does mean that R5C4 must be green. This means that R3C3 must be green's 3, and means that the blue in R1 must get its 3 in either box 2, or R2, making the orange loop segment 2 long. @ 1:12:40 - if the red >16 cage is a 1, it must go up into blue, but R1C6 would have to be loop, and can't. Therefore R3C5 is at least 4, so red must take R3C8. It also means blue must continue at least one more, making R1C2 56, and giving a 56 pair in the box, and a 569 triple in R1. 4 can be placed in R1C3, with a 78 pair in R3C1/2, making the 36 cage a 56, creating a 569 triple in box 2. @ 1:28:40 - You can rule 4 out of R1C6. Because the loop can't get to it, 4 would make the cage at least 5 cells, but there's no 2 in it, so the lowest it could be is 13456, which is more than 16. Therefore R1C6 and R2C7 are 3. By sudoku, you can eliminate 5 and 7 from R3C4, and because it sees both of the 48s in green, it can't be 8. Therefore, it's a naked 6. The only place for 1 in box 2 is R3C6. @ 1:39:12 - "I realise I'm probably frustrating many of you" - You're starting to. It's a hard puzzle, but it's the easy stuff you're missing. Maybe your imminent departure is making you lose focus. How can the 16 cage be 4, which would require at least 5 cells that can't include 2? Where does 8 go in green, and what is its impact on R3C4? Where does 1 go in box 2? Then where does 1 go in box 5? @ 1:54:08 ">1 - it's just a quality clue". Yes, and it can't be 3 or 4 cells on the loop, so those loop cells you've just drawn are in that region. The 1 and 3 in C6 means the 28 region, which must therefore take R8C5 and be complete. This includes 1 and 4, so the remainder must be 789, @ 1:56:22 "If this was a 3" - it would be the second 3 in the column. Several times you pointed at the 1 and 3 in the column, then at that cell. I just don't know how you could miss this. If you put a 3 anywhere, remove pencil-marked 3s from everywhere that sees the one you've just placed. That little bit of discipline avoids so much faffing around considering nonsenses. @ 2:04:12 "that's not going to do anything". Apart from completing the puzzle. It means you can make R8C5=9, R7C4=7, R7C1=9 and R8C1=6, R7C7=6. This leaves you with 18 at the end of R8, which is resolved, making the last region have just 1 loop cell. If you look at R5C9, it's a naked 5, making grey a 67 which is resolved to be 7, so the 2 is in grey. It puts 9 in the corner, resolving the 89 pair, and the rest is just mopping up. The 1 cell in the >0 must be the 6, and the whole of that box except the 2 is in the region. This definitely wasn't easy, and I'm not suggesting you should have spotted all of the above, especially my earlier points. I was merely pointing out what you could have spotted. As you went on though, you did start missing more and more obvious stuff, hence the rising frustration. I marvel at Jay's head. How it comes up with such intricate logic is beyond me. Even after watching a few setters' videos, I haven't got a clue how one would approach setting something like this. The logic is so intricately intertwined that unless there's some big trick Jay's spotted, I can't even see how one would start. Jay's definitely one of my favourite setters, because she always brings a degree of elegance, and often a bit of wit to her puzzles. Some of the clues in this, especially the last one, were definitely amusing.
@1:47 R3C4 Finally got rid of that 8....and not in the way that was sitting there for 30 minutes: it sees the 48 pair in the green cage, so can't be an 8. The number of times he glanced at that cell......I was screaming...a lot. lol (Just a few minutes after he first pencilmarks the 8, it's ruled out....around 1:10, though becomes much more obvious once the 48 pair is defined.)
Can someone explain why 1 can't go in r1c1 at @20:40 I'm very confused why that cell has to be in one of the 44 cages Edit: I just read the rules again and now I understand why hahaha
I am a bit shocked it took Simon 13+ minutes to realize the very obvious clue that in box 1, the 1 had to be in a cage other than the 44 cages. That would shave off every second of the first 13 minutes of his solve!
@@57thorns Not really, I realized almost as soon as I was looking at box 1 that the only cage that could contain the 1 was the greater than 11, which since it now has a 1 in it, has to contain 3 digits to reach 12+ and has to be the the marked one and the 2 to it's left, otherwise one of the 44 cages would be unable to leave box 1.
What complicated rules. It seems as if you have to construct the puzzle, rather than solve a completed puzzle. Or, to put it another way, it's a meta-puzzle.
They prefer rulesets that are simpler but (and it seems pretty frequent nowadays) make exceptions for puzzles that have logical solutions that are just frankly video-worthy (based mostly on input from testers, emails and their discord which includes several sudoku master setters and players). It's definitely a meta-puzzle as you've defined the word. I view it more along the lines of several integrated puzzles which require some puzzles to be partially completed to advance other puzzles which require [just repeat from the last word require] till all of them are finished.
I think they've used the term "chaos construction" previously to describe this type of puzzle, where you have to construct the region's or cages based on other clues in the grid. (Unless that's specifically where you have to construct the region's - not sure now.)
Wow! It took Simon less than 30 minutes to make a two hour video unwatchable by turning the puzzle into a mess of lines, crosses and circles. Once again ...
I see what you're saying (hard to read pencil marks underneath and such). That's all fine if you're solving in private, then you can have a copy of a 9x9 grid on a second screen or on paper to draw your lines and such.......but try doing that while you"re making a video for an audience or livestreaming a solve......Good luck trying it :)
I had to remove my like? I was going to agree with you about excess marks but even generously interpreting "less than 30 minutes" from "Let's get cracking," and not from the beginning of the video doesn't give an excess of crosses or naughts. First line: @24:33. A required segment of the solution. First circle @25:11 a required cell in the loop. @27:12 he put in a cross that could have been removed nearly immediately. And the circle in r9c4 barely needed to be there. I've gone through to 46:03. The cross in r9c3 and the naught in r9c4 are the only superfluous ones in the grid. There is no way I can agree that these 2 cells which are reasonably legible as a 2 and empty are in any way impeding your enjoyment. Why would I even think about agreeing? I didn't take into account the timeframe specified. I felt the sentiment if it had been said later in the video (at least per obstruction of pencil marks).
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Me to wife: Want to watch a movie tonight?
Wife: Sure. What did you have in mind?
Me: It's complicated....
Simon: I have to leave the house in two hours.
*Jay Dyer has entered the chat*
Thanks for the feature! I wondered if you would appreciate the title, but the reference was actually accidental. I was looking for a punny title that alluded to country road and killers/danger/something like that. Highway to the Danger Zone popped into my head, which I hadn't realised before was from Top Gun, but when I saw the link that sealed the deal.
What an unbelievable puzzle - I feel so proud of solving it, I can't imagine how you'd set something like this!
Incredible puzzle
took me a little over 3 hours. Gotta say I just love your puzzles :)
Preface (written after the rest of the post): This is definitely not a complaint. I got to watch a feature length film with an (in my head) alternate ending. What an awesome experience.
@2:02:11 "It must turn...we don't know whether [r9c7] is blue or not." But if it's potentially not blue, doesn't that mean the loop isn't forced to go up? If it's not blue, continuing straight wouldn't tarnish the count of 6 in blue. ...
I've now finished the video. And I didn't get a satisfactory answer so I'm going to try to find one. ... Okay, this didn't take long once I knew what to look for. The only sudoku decision based on the line from that point (my given timestamp) on the solve on was the decision to put 5 into r7c6. But you don't need that line to get a 5 there. It's the only place 5 can go in box 8 by sudoku already. Knowing the sudoku path onward puts 7 in r4c7 and 1 in r8c9, the 0 cage right at the end, the cages by the same logic that limited the grey cage.
You are right, and Simon overlooked it (I do this all the time, mind you). You can actually deduce that the >0 cage has a 1 in it at this point, and that extra bit of information lets you know that the loop doesn't go into the blue region there.
@@jvitanza8483 Now I’m trying to figure out Marks 27:00ish fiasco from yesterday.
2:44:15! This puzzle is 100% the best sudoku I have ever done. I can't imagine what was going on behind Jay Dyer's mind while creating this! I can't put into words how beautiful the logic was and how amazing it felt to finish this fiendishly difficult sudoku that even took Simon 2 hours! This was a SPECTACULAR puzzle.
This is definitely one of the hardest puzzles I've ever seen on the channel
when i see a 2 hours video then Simon says: do have a go
me to my brain: don't even try to have a go.
This was definitely one of the most beautiful sudoku puzzles I've come across.
At 1:33:46 you removed a pencil mark that R3C5 had a minimum value of 4 and penciled 1468 instead. You often remove pencil marks when cleaning up without noting what's there previously. In this case you even restated that that cell can't be a 1 on one of your digressions but leave the pencil mark there. If you had removed it you would have seen that 1 only had one cell in the row and that forced a 1 into orange which forced it to extend right which forced yellow to extend right which forced grey to extend right ...
It's not just Simon. Yesterday, Mark had 7s corner pencil marked in box 4 and completely ignored them over the center pencil marked 7's for what felt like an hour. I might have mentioned it in comment yesterday, but the method he used to get rid of the 6 and 7 in r3c2 would have been necessary whether or not he had already gotten rid of the 7. But, as they both say occasionally, a live solve is going to have oversights and especially when the puzzles are hard enough to make a 2 hour video.
Yeah. I've been screaming about this. It happens all the time to Simon when he "cleans up" pencil mark but end up just further confuse himself with unnecessary information.
I was literally recording my friends a voice message like ten minutes ago, abt how I absolutely love your longer videos, and then I check RUclips and this absolute masterpiece is here
It is top gun. Sung by Kenny Loggins Danger zone is the official song. Theme to both movies. Absolutely great song!!
Archer has an episode where he seeks kenny loggins to play at lanas baby shower 😂😂 yeah its the top gun song
Yep. That's where I get the Danger Zone references too.
I got that it's a Top Gun reference which is broadly relevant to CtC, but what did it have to do with this specific puzzle?l
@@terracottapie the name of the puzzle is Danger Zone, which is also the name of the theme song from Top Gun.
@@grimsqueaker5333 Yeah, read my comment again. I get that it's a Top Gun reference, I'm saying what is it about this puzzle that makes it relevant to be the puzzle title.
Rules: 04:34
Let's Get Cracking: 08:15
What about this video's Top Tier Simarkisms?!
Maverick: 7x (00:31, 00:31, 01:16, 28:13, 30:01, 30:01, 1:44:25)
Bobbins: 3x (1:14:39, 1:25:14, 1:48:25)
Three In the Corner: 3x (28:01, 28:11, 1:58:36)
The Secret: 2x (10:53, 11:03)
Chocolate Teapot: 1x (51:44)
And how about this video's Simarkisms?!
Ah: 27x (08:57, 18:58, 21:18, 21:41, 26:10, 27:15, 27:15, 32:20, 39:36, 46:20, 48:25, 1:03:14, 1:04:07, 1:08:03, 1:09:16, 1:14:08, 1:21:23, 1:22:22, 1:25:14, 1:30:19, 1:36:04, 1:40:32, 1:47:35, 2:02:32, 2:05:38, 2:06:03, 2:08:17)
Hang On: 20x (16:24, 16:32, 16:32, 16:34, 21:18, 29:33, 29:33, 29:33, 29:33, 33:44, 1:00:32, 1:06:16, 1:09:03, 1:16:55, 1:18:13, 1:18:13, 1:43:37, 1:47:27, 2:01:17, 2:01:20)
Sorry: 16x (32:20, 50:55, 51:00, 1:09:06, 1:10:20, 1:18:38, 1:19:43, 1:26:41, 1:33:22, 1:39:14, 1:46:28, 1:46:54, 1:53:19, 1:57:02, 1:57:11, 1:57:13)
By Sudoku: 9x (31:07, 43:49, 43:49, 1:05:00, 1:11:08, 1:17:41, 1:27:56, 1:33:12, 2:03:38)
In Fact: 9x (08:41, 08:41, 16:16, 16:16, 27:54, 1:06:06, 1:18:27, 1:22:32, 1:34:48)
Obviously: 9x (30:01, 33:25, 53:46, 54:01, 57:43, 1:36:43, 1:52:09, 1:57:13, 1:59:08)
Beautiful: 8x (22:00, 22:41, 26:24, 41:06, 1:47:35, 1:48:05, 1:53:28, 2:07:49)
Wow: 5x (53:19, 1:07:38, 1:24:59, 1:47:27, 1:56:57)
Stuck: 4x (1:25:51, 1:49:16, 1:51:02, 1:56:57)
What Does This Mean?: 4x (30:39, 1:41:48, 2:00:57, 2:06:43)
Clever: 3x (1:14:16, 1:55:29, 2:07:44)
I Have no Clue: 3x (20:30, 50:27)
Lovely: 3x (27:26, 1:18:37, 2:06:13)
Brilliant: 3x (08:09, 20:28, 28:09)
Surely: 3x (44:18, 45:51, 1:33:27)
That's Huge: 3x (1:41:08, 2:01:39, 2:01:39)
Pencil Mark/mark: 3x (09:04, 1:29:33, 1:33:52)
Cake!: 3x (02:20, 02:25, 03:09)
Goodness: 2x (57:04, 2:07:27)
Incredible: 2x (00:38, 00:38)
Shouting: 2x (02:40, 33:49)
Whoopsie: 2x (55:52, 1:10:48)
Nature: 2x (37:54, 53:46)
What on Earth: 1x (1:12:11)
Apologies: 1x (1:58:50)
Nonsense: 1x (1:25:12)
Bingo: 1x (1:48:14)
In the Spotlight: 1x (28:04)
Horrible Feeling: 1x (1:13:12)
Ridiculous: 1x (1:07:40)
Astonishing: 1x (2:07:49)
Going Mad: 1x (1:50:54)
Discombobulating: 1x (01:17)
Bonkers: 1x (06:05)
Phone is Buzzing: 1x (30:41)
Progress: 1x (1:30:11)
Plonk: 1x (1:55:51)
Phone is Going Nuts: 1x (1:32:48)
Most popular number(>9), digit and colour this video:
Sixteen (27 mentions)
One (151 mentions)
Green (105 mentions)
Antithesis Battles:
Even (13) - Odd (0)
Higher (2) - Lower (0)
Black (6) - White (1)
Row (10) - Column (9)
FAQ:
Q1: You missed something!
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Q2: Can you do this for another channel?
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6:58 Maybe if we add it here, Simon will remember to "restart my (his) device" sometime when he's not recording.
7 Mavericks? 😂
Chocolate teapot? :D
Jay Dyer + 2-hour solve - so excited!! Also, as much as I LOVE the song "Danger Zone," this is the first time I have ever seen the lyrics written as, "HIGHWAY to the Danger Zone" and not (as I incorrectly heard, apparently), "I WENT to the Danger Zone." Thirty+ years of listening to this wonderful song and belting out the wrong lyrics at full volume (since I was a small child): Mind. Blown.
i went back to listen to the song. and i can see how you were confused. i can literally hear him say it both ways
There are other setters more prolific on the channel in number-of-puzzles terms but I'll bet if one were to crunch the numbers Jay Dyer is right up near the top in terms of runtime
Wow, mind blown. These Are my very favorite kind of puzzles ... ones so hard I just have to sit back and watch Simon work it all out! Well done Simon, this was fascinating to watch!
Beyond me entirely, this puzzle, but so very enjoyable to watch you solve, Simon. As usual for a region-defining and loop puzzle, your approach is so amazing and impressive. I am very glad when you (or Mark) mention that live solves are not perfect solves. This is very true, yet many commenters on various CtC videos seem to expect that of you (or Mark). I, personally, am never disappointed when you make mistakes, larger or small (either of you) because there is always something to appreciate about how you recover from the mistakes. Whether a pencil mark, an unnecessary proof of something that has already been proven, or an actual mistake in putting digits into the puzzle, it is all perfectly OK with me because I enjoy watching you so much. Thank you for this amazing video and thanks to Jay Dyer for the puzzle. (I'm typing this having had to come back to this video today to finish it, and it is now June 8, the date when one of my two favorite RUclips sudoku solvers was born - Happy Birthday, Simon!)
I don't think anyone expects them t o actually solve perfectly. Real mistakes or rather leaps in the logic should of course be pointed out so that other viewers can understand how to solve the puzzle without those leaps since most of the time there will be some sort of explanation arising. And for other things like missing simple deductions I think it's just natural that once you see them you're itching to fill them in and they keep distracting you until they are filled in. I for one am always yelling at Simon to fill in some easy useless deduction while he goes on a journey to discover some great bits of logic I would've taken hours to figure out, but it is all in jest, of course I am not actually mad at Simon and for me it has become part of the enjoyment of these solves
@@ymiros0953 Yes, I totally get this - and I confess that I very occasionally will say out loud something like, "But column 4 already has a 6 in it!" Not shouting at my screen, you understand, because my husband would look askance at me! And I agree that for many folks the pleasure is, at least in part, in being quicker and smarter than Simon or Mark, and I get that, too. I would not have mentioned this topic in my comment on this video if Simon had not said what he did about live solves. (I also agree that they should follow up a leap of logic or a logical error with a correct explanation - but for me, if it is a puzzle where Simon or Mark would make a logical error, I would probably not be able to follow even a correct logical path, let alone understand and recognize a logical error! So those don't bother me as much as they should, and I take my cue from comments sometimes to discover that there even was a logical error!) Also, and I am sure you picked this up, I really only comment "for myself" - that is, I say the things that struck me, or impressed me or that I enjoyed. 😊
122:19 for me. I am pleased that I can finish this puzzle without any help! I got so much joy on solving it!
At 2:02:24, how come the loop couldn't continue from the blue cage into box 9? If the next cell was a different colored region the loop could have continued and not been forced up into the
Because 5 would be repeated
Incorrect deduction at the time, but it didn’t affect the sudoku portion he completed after which would have resolved this by not allowing the 5 to repeat in blue, and the 1 loop clue would have also prevented it.
Agree, at that point it was not clear. Correct deduction would have been that clue value 1 from the grid 9th forced the loop at r9c6 to move upwards. otherwise the loop would have covered more than 1 cell in 9th grid and that would have invalidated clue value 1.
He was correct. I just thought it was a bit of a hasty decision.
"The sponge is a waste of calories"....no truer statement has ever been said!! 😂
Somehow I missed that. Timestamp please?
@@flobiish Obviously in the birthday announcements, 2:30
@@ymiros0953 Thanks. Often I skip straight to the rules.
Since this is my first time being able to comment when the video comes out, I want to repeat my suggestion of a Boxing Day (December 26) edition where setters, such as Jay Dyer, Phistomefel, Aad van de Wetering, Rocky Roer, Shye or Tallcat solve puzzles set by Simon and Mark. As Captain Picard would say you have six months to "make it so".
93:24, I didn't feel like watching a two hour video, but I didn't think I could solve this on my own. I basically worked until I hit a wall, took a look to see the next step, and kept going back and forth. There were some jumps in logic I didn't see how I would have figured them out myself and I kept trying to put the size of the box in the cages instead of the number of cells with a line in them.
Ready for the movie! 🍿🍷
🍫 🫖 🛋️
this was my first 2 hour solve I saw on this channel. It was of course amazing
1:36:33 ... as long as this one took me, I never really felt 'stumped' at any given moment; it was just a series of one small success after another.
Truly a work of art; astounding!
@1:51:51 "So the 2 gets thrust onto the right hand side." You could also have gotten that 2 via maths on the purple cage. Putting the 5 there would give purple a shown total of 18 which would put a 1 in r9c4 where it clashes with r7c5.
Way at the end, at 2:02:15, could the loop not continue to the right into a different colored region?
It could, but Simon is saved by the >0 region (the only region it could be) not being 2, 4, or 6, since it would have to take an even amount of cells in that region to get back to light green.
Simon got lucky there
I thought the same.
No, because every region contains a cage and so there was only the one region remaining.
It could have, but fortunately at this point it doesn't matter much to the solve. Everything Simon does until about 2:06:30 stays the same, but at the end you're left with a choice of whether the
Been starting to try the puzzles before I watch the video, and I so far haven’t managed to get any, but I’m glad to see that on this beast I actually started out with the correct logic (before I messed up somewhere, haha)
A Jay Dyer puzzle that Simon takes 2 hours to complete! I don't think I will be taking that one on! 😂😂
Classic Simon taking 10 minutes to rule the 1 out of R3C5 even when he has already said it can't be a 1 and drawn the line longer than length 1 through red.
Also I lost count of how many times he ruled out R6C3 being “purple” (pink).
1:43:30 … "if thiis was a 6 it would have to take those two cells" … which would put two 6s in the same cage
@1:42:57 I'm guessing you timestamped where you paused to type your comment.
The incomparable Jay Dyer.
Took me nearly three hours, but got through it eventually. All the logic steps were fairly simple, just hard to spot among the multitude of possibilities, and this detracts a bit from the fun for me.
Absolutely no chance to solve the puzzle on my own, but seeing every single deduction before Simon does... can anyone understand it??? Brilliant puzzle as always from the one and only JD👍👍👍
Similar for me. I think it’s because he talks you through it so well. I can easily follow his thoughts and go from there
Great puzzle and video; well done Jay and Simon
Tough but fair puzzle. Very fun - I do enjoy these build your own killers, and this one had some tough deductions, but nothing that felt extreme. I never felt as though I was getting nowhere, even if it took me 90 odd minutes.
2 hours? There's no point even attempting this one
As I saw the video duration I decided to enjoy watching Simon discover the logical steps this time and not give it a try, myself.
Actually you should give it a try. While it does take long I thought there were no extremely difficult deductions. It's just that you need to do tons and tons of small deductions and that will eat up your time.
Honestly, I usually think the same, but I had a go at this one and it was a really good puzzle, I got stuck on one of the very first deductions, but after that it just flowed.
Very beautiful puzzle
I just took a long flight and spent 2 hours until I wound up in an unsolvable position from a mistake.
I restarted and spent almost 4 more hours but completed the puzzle with no help from the video. It was very satisfying to finally finish!
I’m now watching the entire video to see what deductions I beat Simon on and what easy steps took me way too long to find.
Simon's family/friends: Why are you so late?
Simon: Jay Dyer puzzle
Simon's family/friends: Ah, ok.
This was fascinating but very, very tough!
Loop puzzles make me feel a bit queasy and given the video length I suspected I might flunk this one. In the end I solved it, and after several sticky phases at the start I gained some momentum in the latter stages. Sudoko logic rather than loop logic helped me. Thanks!
One of my favourite puzzles. Very long, but not too hard.
@37:41 "If green goes into blue." I think your selection at this point is misleading you. By including r4c3 in your selection you've inferred that orange can't go into green. I don't see a reason that's not actually a possibility at this point. What's stopping the loop from going yellow->orange-> green->blue?
EDIT: @41:45 "We know it's going into yellow because yellow has to go into green." Okay, thanks for explaining that.
1:46:57 That digit would have been easier to find. If you out an 8 in r3c4, the 48 pair in green would both have been 4s.
Kneel/bow before greatest!!! Wow just wow 1:18....love a good letter/colour hybrid solve but they rarely use it.
But to DD a letter /digit mapping based on 1 overlapping digit b/w 2 cells of letter...just wow.
Its fun to just follow along and just solve some steps....pause the video get stuck and then watch the greatest
9:57 Simon: ...ludicrously small amount of information
LOL and he calls the >1 (r4c7) ridiculous (or something similar, I'm not watching the 2 hour video again just for a timestamp) too still without acknowledging r8c9. Personally I think r4c7 's even more ridiculous than the >0 in r8c9 because by the time the >1 cage is used in the solve path, it's long not been able to be an actual 1. The >1 and >0 totals could have been eliminated if the rules included "if given" about the cage totals.
the exclamation 'whoopsie' comes so natural to you, Simon
So the Simon whose birthday is tomorrow - would that be our much loved sudoku solver extraordinaire, Mr. Anthony himself??? If so I hope you have a fantastic birthday with plenty of chocolate cake! (it is already tomorrow here - midnight - and therefore it’s been tomorrow in the UK for hours).
I recently saw a video dated 11 months ago where Simon mentioned it was his birthday. If it isn't his birthday 'tomorrow'it certainly is close❤
Wonderfully written!! If indeed his bday...for sure want him to have a wonderful and fabulous day! Love to him, this community and constant joy of solving, along with putting out puzzles daily for us. 🩵💙❤️
@@grimsqueaker5333 I think there’s a good chance that is correct.
@@davidrattner9 Emily made a comment a few days ago that his birthday is this week.
@@davidrattner9 yes 💛🧡❤️🩷
At 1:18:00… it's easier to prove that the line visits r2c7 because r12c7 must have a line segment (different cages sharing an edge) and you need to not break the grey total
How is that easier than using the 6 in r1c2, which tells you exactly where the loop goes in blue?
(It's not obvious to me why the grey cage total would be broken had the loop gone r2c6-r1c6-r1c7-r1c8?)
110:02 for me. Beautiful puzzle!
More than two hours? Nope! I like Jay's puzzles a lot but I don't think I have the mental storage capacity for this. I'll just watch Simon and probably not even understand every bit of analysis. (btw I'm 70 years old - give me a break!)
I literally only know that Kenny Loggins sang Danger Zone because of Archer.
1:44:00
Another reason for cage 19 not to be 4-cell pink region is that u could never draw 2 loop cells within the shape of region.
Doesn't the loop have to visit every cage?
Thanks for the 2 very well presented in-depth answers below. I just simply forgot the cage was almost the whole box. Much like Simon, I appreciate your kindness in dealing with my brain holiday.
It takes exactly one cell from the green cage in box 9 which is on the loop (hence the 1 in the cage) and that cell is r7c7. You have to see every color as a cage and the total is >0 in that green cage (43 total to be exact with 1 cell on the loop). The number in the square refers to the number of cells of that colored cage being on the loop, not to that total of the cage.
I had a tough time keeping this straight in my head too (and so did Simon at times).
The number in the corner of the cage isn't the number of loop cells in the cage, it's the cage total. (Also >0 is "greater than zero" and just means any number, provided the other rules are followed; you can't actually get 0 or lower if the rules are followed).
It's the value in the cell itself which dictates the number of loop cells in the region. In that example, the cell turned out to be 1 which meant there was 1 loop cell in that cage. This alone requires the loop to pass through every cage.
"...which visits each cage exactly once" in the rules is there to say you can't visit a cage more than once.
At 2:02:13 can someone explain the logic behind "the line must turn because this is a 6"? Couldn't r9c7 not be blue thus invalidating the 6 logic?
I prefer u to see the comment from Adrian Grey. It is easier to understand
It is under the question from David Berardo
I did it in 71 minutes. Truly an amazing puzzle, and truly a dreadful puzzle as well, so many times I had to change the coloring of the cages to make sure that I didn't break the 4 color theorem.
If you do manage to break the four colour theorem, be sure to let the mathematics world know. I think fame and (possibly) fortune will follow.
1:16:15 Quit too soon with the lettering, marking C in box 2 (r3c56) would have saved some headache later on!
@2:07:43 " And yet, it all fits together and [astonishment ands later] we used everything, I mean, we used everything. We used sudoku [audio was to quiet for transcription, but I assume it translates as a complaint about using sudoku to solve a sudoku puzzle], there was killer logic all the time and geometry (set theory on small levels such as "law of leftovers" level) logic." It was intense and beautiful.
But we didn't use Schrodinger numbers, did we?
This is one of those "surfing" puzzles.
I stand little chance of solving it entirely on my own, so I try to surf the front face of Simon's inspiration. If he starts to get excited about something, I pause the video to see if his "inspiration" inspires me to make further progress with my own solve. 🙂.
I was quite pleased that I needed no further assistance after the "where do those two digits [r23c1] go in box 4" at 1:14:55.
I had to do that on the "easy" puzzles this week...
At the start of the video Simon says "ai have 1hr 48mins until I need to leave.'
*Looks at length of video*
Oh dear. 😅
3:00 If you want to prompt the apps you need to actually update them. Sudokupad hasn't been update since 2021 on Android which is very poor form when still promoting it. Its essentially abandonware.
Rock hard. I feel like I exerted a lot of effort to get that done.
Most troublesome spotting my own incorrect deductions and having to delete my progress. I refused to be beaten even if it took well over 2 hours.
I don't understand why you thought you had to turn from blue up into light green in box 8 at 2h2min .. you said bc the clue was 6 but that means you can only travel 6 in blue however you could have pushed straight into a new region without turning ...
"Do have a go"
*Looks at the duration* 0.0
I think you can take this one, Simon.😆
2:02:12 Couldn't it continue to r9c7 as long as that cell isn't blue?
(edit: in practice it can't, because it forces r8c6 to go right, forcing r7c7 to go right as well, and then r7c7 can't attach to the
How do I draw lines in the software?
@1:30:30 you have "quite a good thought actually" (in your words) and show via some cage logic where the 7 must go in box 5, this removing it as a candidate in r3c4... But the 7 in the green cage you made use of for this exact logic already does so by sudoku.
I suppose an interstate highway could be considered a "country road" in a sense...
I don't understand the conclusion you come to at 40:00. You repeatedly say that green can't go into orange, but why not? Green to blue doesn't preclude green to orange at all; you say that "green is done" but you haven't produced an entry into green, which could still be from orange.
EDIT: Yeah at 37:49 you say "if green goes into blue, orange does not go into green" and I have no idea why you'd deduce that from the available information
EDIT 2: I did not connect this back to needing a connection between green and the yellow
Simon missed the obvious in box 1, there has to be a 1 in box 1 that belongs to a cage outside of box 1. None of the 44 cages can have a 1 in them. (20.45 he saw it)
One day, Simon is gonna be too old to solve expert-level logic-puzzles, but that day is NOT TODAY...! AMAZING PUZZLE ALERT...!
That one day will likely be when he is about 112!
Its 1 am and I think I won't get through this tonight!
Have to leave in 1hr45min ... in a 2hr10min video. Not looking good :)
73:28 for me. Fantastic puzzle!!
What you seemed to be forgetting at the start was that the cage contains the count of loop cells in the cage, which is obviously no larger than the cage size. Therefore a 1-cell cage can only be 1, a 2-cell cage can be a maximum of 11, a 3-cell cage can be a maximum of 20, 4-cell maxes at 28, etc. This shows why >1, >11 and >28 are important clues.
This means that @ 13:42 you can extend orange into R2C2, and green must come around the bottom. The cannot be in the corner which must be in one of the 44 cages, so it's in orange with a 23 in the cage and 89 in R2C2.
@ 54:46 where you are trying to make R6C4 the green 3 - that cell cannot be green. Blue must exit to the right, and it cannot be into green (or a short loop would be produced. It must continue to the right, because if it goes up, it again forms a short loop, and if it goes down, it forms too short a line in the >28 cage. Since the loop leaves blue to the right, and can never enter green, not even via one more colour, R6C4 cannot be green. This does mean that R5C4 must be green. This means that R3C3 must be green's 3, and means that the blue in R1 must get its 3 in either box 2, or R2, making the orange loop segment 2 long.
@ 1:12:40 - if the red >16 cage is a 1, it must go up into blue, but R1C6 would have to be loop, and can't. Therefore R3C5 is at least 4, so red must take R3C8. It also means blue must continue at least one more, making R1C2 56, and giving a 56 pair in the box, and a 569 triple in R1. 4 can be placed in R1C3, with a 78 pair in R3C1/2, making the 36 cage a 56, creating a 569 triple in box 2.
@ 1:28:40 - You can rule 4 out of R1C6. Because the loop can't get to it, 4 would make the cage at least 5 cells, but there's no 2 in it, so the lowest it could be is 13456, which is more than 16. Therefore R1C6 and R2C7 are 3. By sudoku, you can eliminate 5 and 7 from R3C4, and because it sees both of the 48s in green, it can't be 8. Therefore, it's a naked 6. The only place for 1 in box 2 is R3C6.
@ 1:39:12 - "I realise I'm probably frustrating many of you" - You're starting to. It's a hard puzzle, but it's the easy stuff you're missing. Maybe your imminent departure is making you lose focus. How can the 16 cage be 4, which would require at least 5 cells that can't include 2? Where does 8 go in green, and what is its impact on R3C4? Where does 1 go in box 2? Then where does 1 go in box 5?
@ 1:54:08 ">1 - it's just a quality clue". Yes, and it can't be 3 or 4 cells on the loop, so those loop cells you've just drawn are in that region. The 1 and 3 in C6 means the 28 region, which must therefore take R8C5 and be complete. This includes 1 and 4, so the remainder must be 789,
@ 1:56:22 "If this was a 3" - it would be the second 3 in the column. Several times you pointed at the 1 and 3 in the column, then at that cell. I just don't know how you could miss this. If you put a 3 anywhere, remove pencil-marked 3s from everywhere that sees the one you've just placed. That little bit of discipline avoids so much faffing around considering nonsenses.
@ 2:04:12 "that's not going to do anything". Apart from completing the puzzle. It means you can make R8C5=9, R7C4=7, R7C1=9 and R8C1=6, R7C7=6. This leaves you with 18 at the end of R8, which is resolved, making the last region have just 1 loop cell. If you look at R5C9, it's a naked 5, making grey a 67 which is resolved to be 7, so the 2 is in grey. It puts 9 in the corner, resolving the 89 pair, and the rest is just mopping up. The 1 cell in the >0 must be the 6, and the whole of that box except the 2 is in the region.
This definitely wasn't easy, and I'm not suggesting you should have spotted all of the above, especially my earlier points. I was merely pointing out what you could have spotted. As you went on though, you did start missing more and more obvious stuff, hence the rising frustration.
I marvel at Jay's head. How it comes up with such intricate logic is beyond me. Even after watching a few setters' videos, I haven't got a clue how one would approach setting something like this. The logic is so intricately intertwined that unless there's some big trick Jay's spotted, I can't even see how one would start. Jay's definitely one of my favourite setters, because she always brings a degree of elegance, and often a bit of wit to her puzzles. Some of the clues in this, especially the last one, were definitely amusing.
@1:47 R3C4 Finally got rid of that 8....and not in the way that was sitting there for 30 minutes: it sees the 48 pair in the green cage, so can't be an 8.
The number of times he glanced at that cell......I was screaming...a lot. lol
(Just a few minutes after he first pencilmarks the 8, it's ruled out....around 1:10, though becomes much more obvious once the 48 pair is defined.)
Who else watches for his voice as backround noise??
2 hours.!?
Are you kidding me?
Lol.
Ain't no way I'm going near that one on my own.
Good luck, though.
😲😂👍🏻👍🏽😎☕️☕️☕️☕️(
Everytime i hear danger zone i just think about the danger zone in cooking where you can get bacteria in your food.
The Mercury thing makes sense. When Earth and Mars are on opposite sides of the sun, they're both closer to Mercury than they are each other.
The good news : I was able to solve it!
The bad news : It took me 617:40 and now both of me are paranoid : (
Another round of my favorite game: guess which color Simon uses next 😁
I'm kinda curious, do the setters featured on the channel get paid a portion of the earnings coming in from the videos?
I cut short a lot of your agonising around the 1h30 mark by thinking about the contents of the 16 region in box 2/3.
1:20:03 nice.
1:20:47 nice!
1:20:59 Nice. Nice! NICE!
Not me sending you the same mercury fact 😭😭
Still waiting for special appearance of the Maverick on camera from Simon. Maybe on 1M viewers milestone?
Can someone explain why 1 can't go in r1c1 at @20:40 I'm very confused why that cell has to be in one of the 44 cages
Edit: I just read the rules again and now I understand why hahaha
That >0 clue was just a comedy bit.
I am a bit shocked it took Simon 13+ minutes to realize the very obvious clue that in box 1, the 1 had to be in a cage other than the 44 cages. That would shave off every second of the first 13 minutes of his solve!
Right, is say cover the _entire_ grid. (which I missed) However, there is still the question of r3c1 that has to be resolved.
@@57thorns Not really, I realized almost as soon as I was looking at box 1 that the only cage that could contain the 1 was the greater than 11, which since it now has a 1 in it, has to contain 3 digits to reach 12+ and has to be the the marked one and the 2 to it's left, otherwise one of the 44 cages would be unable to leave box 1.
What complicated rules. It seems as if you have to construct the puzzle, rather than solve a completed puzzle. Or, to put it another way, it's a meta-puzzle.
They prefer rulesets that are simpler but (and it seems pretty frequent nowadays) make exceptions for puzzles that have logical solutions that are just frankly video-worthy (based mostly on input from testers, emails and their discord which includes several sudoku master setters and players). It's definitely a meta-puzzle as you've defined the word. I view it more along the lines of several integrated puzzles which require some puzzles to be partially completed to advance other puzzles which require [just repeat from the last word require] till all of them are finished.
I think they've used the term "chaos construction" previously to describe this type of puzzle, where you have to construct the region's or cages based on other clues in the grid. (Unless that's specifically where you have to construct the region's - not sure now.)
Movie night!
me screaming for hours that r3c4 can't be an 8 because of the 48 pair in green...
Ugh, costed me 5 precious hours. I'll remember next time I have to look out for Sudoku more...
Wow! It took Simon less than 30 minutes to make a two hour video unwatchable by turning the puzzle into a mess of lines, crosses and circles. Once again ...
By all means, make a video showing us how YOU would have done it. 🙄🙄🙄🙄
I see what you're saying (hard to read pencil marks underneath and such). That's all fine if you're solving in private, then you can have a copy of a 9x9 grid on a second screen or on paper to draw your lines and such.......but try doing that while you"re making a video for an audience or livestreaming a solve......Good luck trying it :)
It was not unwatchable. The lines, crosses and circles are part of solving the puzzle.
I had to remove my like? I was going to agree with you about excess marks but even generously interpreting "less than 30 minutes" from "Let's get cracking," and not from the beginning of the video doesn't give an excess of crosses or naughts. First line: @24:33. A required segment of the solution. First circle @25:11 a required cell in the loop. @27:12 he put in a cross that could have been removed nearly immediately. And the circle in r9c4 barely needed to be there.
I've gone through to 46:03. The cross in r9c3 and the naught in r9c4 are the only superfluous ones in the grid. There is no way I can agree that these 2 cells which are reasonably legible as a 2 and empty are in any way impeding your enjoyment.
Why would I even think about agreeing? I didn't take into account the timeframe specified. I felt the sentiment if it had been said later in the video (at least per obstruction of pencil marks).