That was an efficient solve, Simon! Almost all of the instances where you doubted whether a piece of logic was necessary, it was. I enjoyed the video a lot, thank you so much for featuring me again!
A type of puzzle I really enjoy. You can get the outer bounds on large parts of the puzzle and then there are surprising interactions that further constrain things.
As part of my health journey, I've begun walking the treadmill during Simon's solves. Today, I maintained a 3.4 mile/hour pace throughout the video, while watching the video at 1.5 speed, so this worked out to a 2.05 mile puzzle. :)
Loved this. Probably the hardest puzzle I've ever completed on my own, so ridiculously proud of myself. I found the solve very interesting as there never seemed to be one bit of logic that blew the whole thing open, rather it was like picking at a very complicated knot, with tiny gains won just regularly enough to keep me at it. Overall it took me nearly two hours to solve (over a couple of shifts), but time very enjoyably spent. Many thanks to both Simon and setter.
Only took twice the time of Simon to solve it. Was quite tricky and hard but also fair. I don't feel like I needed to jump to incredible heights of deduction and logic to uncover each new step; just the right kind of observation. I find that incredible setting. Very enjoyable puzzle.
I finished in 50:35 minutes. This was an absolutely beautiful puzzle. The way the lines and cages interacted with each other was so beautiful to see. One of my favorite parts include r5c5 and the way it interacted on both lines to force them both. Another favorite part was ruling out 34 from the two celled renban in box 4 by seeing that r5c3 and r4c6 contain a virtual 45 pair that sees that renban. Another favorite part was similar logic to the previous, it was seeing that r6c8 could only be an 8 as 4567 were all ruled out in row 6 by a virtual quad in boxes 4 and 5. Those were so cool to spot and amazing setting that those kinds of logic can jump out. This has to be one of my favorites. Great Puzzle!
I remember that the first two puzzles by Can to feature on the channel had a rather similar structure, and I wondered if he might keep on returning to it. How wrong I was! He's produced an absolute feast of tasty new ideas.
Took me awhile to solve this! Solve Time: 02:58:15 This one was quite tricky, once you started to figure out the patterns of all the cells each cell could see, it started to come together for me.
From 26:50 you can resolve the renban pair on r4c12: For the even digit: a 2 would make a 123 quad in row 4, Both cells see a 67 pair, and both colours of 45. The even must be 8, and 7 is seen in the box, so it must be 89
At around 38:45, when looking at the possibilities for the 15 cage, it is possible to exclude 4 from r2c7 too, making it a 3. If it's not 3, the minimum for three of the cells is 4+5+6, which is already 15, and you still have the 1 or 2 in r3c7 to add to it. Although I don't think it changes the rest of the solve much.
15:40 You can show that there is a five in either R5C7 or R7C5 : there are five structures holding a five in the six boxes 124568. So there must be a five in box 6 or 8 in what is left from the structures in boxes 6 and 8, that is, the cells R5C7 and R7C5.
It seems I'm getting better at the harder puzzles! I was able to complete this one with no assistance in 24:02 (conflict checker off), quite shocked I solved it that fast! 😄 Many thanks to Cane_puzzles for this lovely puzzle!
Michael says at the end that there might have been an easier way of resolving the two (left and upper) renbans. I wonder if his observation at 39:05 that green must be in one of r2c4, r2c5 and r3c6 would have helped. These cells are centre marked 567, while green is already marked 45 in r5c6. Surely that means green is 5, so orange is 4 and we are on the way!
Hmmm, I flew through this one in 23 minutes, which is VERY unusual for me to beat Simons time, and by so much too. I haven't watched the video yet, I thought the logic of interactions between the 3 central renbans was pretty straightforward by just pencil marking and then removing as they became more and more restricted. The only other non-standard logic was seeing how the two 10 cages interacted to force one to be a 46 other than that the sudoku just filled in the rest very quickly.
I had to go doing a double solve to try to discern if the line in r4C7-8 was a 34 or a 56.... 34 ended with a conflict in R1C8 and R5C8 both being a 7 but i needed like 10 steps to discover it...
1:04:56 for me. I did very much enjoy the puzzle, though I'm kicking myself a little for messing up partway through, then just clearing the puzzle and restarting (but not restarting my time, which was intentional).
164:19*, definitely a hard one for me, but I don't think my time was actually 2.5 hours. 😮 "felt" like I spent maybe a half hour working on it off and on, then drove for a while, then spent another hour once I got home.
When you are doing the center pencil mark, you are making an inference about the cell, for instance, r2c4 is 2,3,or 4. When you're doing a corner pencil mark, you are making an inference about a sudoku unit: for instance, the 2 in this box is either in cell 1 or 2. You always do them with respect to the box, so you are saying digit X in a certain box must be in a group of specified places. But you need a way to pencil mark with respect to rows and columns, since logically these are of the same footing as "box logic".
I'm sure Sven can add italic or coloured digits for box corner marks :) Would be fun to have an automatic matching colour selected when you add a box corner mark to a coloured cell
He's the Producer (or something like that) and a host of Dropout TV, a subscription based "TV-show" platform. I don't know if you know College Humour, but a lot of the comedians that worked there are now on Dropout
That was an efficient solve, Simon! Almost all of the instances where you doubted whether a piece of logic was necessary, it was. I enjoyed the video a lot, thank you so much for featuring me again!
Dude, i'm twice as old as you, and barely half as good with logic. Nice puzzle
@@cane_puzzles4203 Kudos Can! I guess you are the living definition of 'Akıl yaşta değil baştadır' So nice to see a your puzzles in such platform.
A type of puzzle I really enjoy. You can get the outer bounds on large parts of the puzzle and then there are surprising interactions that further constrain things.
Please keep creating puzzles! 🙏
As part of my health journey, I've begun walking the treadmill during Simon's solves. Today, I maintained a 3.4 mile/hour pace throughout the video, while watching the video at 1.5 speed, so this worked out to a 2.05 mile puzzle. :)
I've also started to bike on my trainer lately during the solves, ha ha. 18 km for 1h yesterday.
I wonder how long Sam has been watching. Has he been here the whole time?
@@Kairamek hahahahaha I love it!!!
Commenting to bump this comment because it's genius
Was not expecting a Dropout mention! Sam solves sudoku for the next season of Gamechanger?
Loved this. Probably the hardest puzzle I've ever completed on my own, so ridiculously proud of myself. I found the solve very interesting as there never seemed to be one bit of logic that blew the whole thing open, rather it was like picking at a very complicated knot, with tiny gains won just regularly enough to keep me at it. Overall it took me nearly two hours to solve (over a couple of shifts), but time very enjoyably spent.
Many thanks to both Simon and setter.
Same here. I actually felt like a lunatic solving it, the deductions seemed so strange at times I was certain I was doing it wrong!
My fandom streams have crossed in the most unexpected way 😮❤️
Rules: 07:17
Let's Get Cracking: 08:49
What about this video's Top Tier Simarkisms?!
Bobbins: 2x (30:26, 32:35)
Three In the Corner: 2x (20:59, 52:57)
Chocolate Teapot: 1x (32:29)
The Secret: 1x (06:15)
And how about this video's Simarkisms?!
Ah: 13x (11:05, 12:08, 16:07, 16:07, 16:48, 21:06, 27:19, 40:18, 42:30, 46:43, 46:43, 48:56, 51:48)
By Sudoku: 9x (16:39, 19:54, 28:24, 33:16, 33:33, 39:33, 48:54, 49:19, 53:00)
In Fact: 8x (03:04, 11:05, 12:21, 15:13, 16:42, 23:22, 27:49, 36:54)
Obviously: 7x (05:56, 08:28, 09:07, 13:29, 14:32, 38:28, 41:33)
Pencil Mark/mark: 6x (13:06, 13:08, 18:00, 20:16, 21:31, 47:41)
Sorry: 5x (11:56, 23:55, 32:35, 39:19, 54:13)
Incredible: 5x (00:43, 01:21, 02:47, 02:47, 05:48)
Hang On: 5x (16:07, 18:01, 19:05, 23:22, 34:49)
Nature: 5x (09:59, 19:43, 23:25, 50:51, 54:13)
Lovely: 4x (06:00, 06:27, 22:33, 40:04)
Whoopsie: 4x (23:03, 23:05, 44:19, 51:10)
Beautiful: 3x (26:00, 43:05, 54:27)
Brilliant: 3x (04:36, 54:32, 54:35)
Cake!: 3x (04:41, 05:56, 06:53)
Goodness: 2x (24:53, 50:10)
The Answer is: 2x (22:43, 43:34)
Shouting: 2x (04:27, 04:29)
Magnificent: 2x (04:09, 53:22)
Weird: 2x (14:44, 43:36)
Good Grief: 1x (47:08)
Bother: 1x (38:15)
Clever: 1x (54:00)
Missing Something: 1x (07:07)
Stuck: 1x (39:24)
Horrible Feeling: 1x (44:25)
Fascinating: 1x (02:39)
Going Mad: 1x (18:09)
Hypothecate: 1x (22:11)
Think Harder: 1x (30:32)
Phone is Buzzing: 1x (54:13)
Almost Interesting: 1x (31:40)
Thingy Thing: 1x (41:59)
Most popular number(>9), digit and colour this video:
Ten (8 mentions)
Five (125 mentions)
Blue (32 mentions)
Antithesis Battles:
High (2) - Low (2)
Higher (2) - Lower (0)
Lowest (2) - Highest (1)
Outside (2) - Inside (0)
Black (8) - White (0)
Row (16) - Column (12)
FAQ:
Q1: You missed something!
A1: That could very well be the case! Human speech can be hard to understand for computers like me! Point out the ones that I missed and maybe I'll learn!
Q2: Can you do this for another channel?
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Only took twice the time of Simon to solve it. Was quite tricky and hard but also fair. I don't feel like I needed to jump to incredible heights of deduction and logic to uncover each new step; just the right kind of observation. I find that incredible setting. Very enjoyable puzzle.
Would be so cool to see you invited onto DropoutTV sometime, you both should reach out to Sam.
I finished in 50:35 minutes. This was an absolutely beautiful puzzle. The way the lines and cages interacted with each other was so beautiful to see. One of my favorite parts include r5c5 and the way it interacted on both lines to force them both. Another favorite part was ruling out 34 from the two celled renban in box 4 by seeing that r5c3 and r4c6 contain a virtual 45 pair that sees that renban. Another favorite part was similar logic to the previous, it was seeing that r6c8 could only be an 8 as 4567 were all ruled out in row 6 by a virtual quad in boxes 4 and 5. Those were so cool to spot and amazing setting that those kinds of logic can jump out. This has to be one of my favorites. Great Puzzle!
There was some very elegant logic in this one, thanks, I certainly did enjoy it.
I remember that the first two puzzles by Can to feature on the channel had a rather similar structure, and I wondered if he might keep on returning to it. How wrong I was! He's produced an absolute feast of tasty new ideas.
38.29 for me. Somehow I thought 3 plus 8 was 12. I loved the break in.
Very beautiful puzzle.
Took me awhile to solve this! Solve Time: 02:58:15 This one was quite tricky, once you started to figure out the patterns of all the cells each cell could see, it started to come together for me.
From 26:50 you can resolve the renban pair on r4c12:
For the even digit: a 2 would make a 123 quad in row 4,
Both cells see a 67 pair, and both colours of 45.
The even must be 8, and 7 is seen in the box, so it must be 89
I found some of the logic of the puzzle early but couldn't figure out the implications. Wonderful puzzle and lovely job Simon!
At around 38:45, when looking at the possibilities for the 15 cage, it is possible to exclude 4 from r2c7 too, making it a 3.
If it's not 3, the minimum for three of the cells is 4+5+6, which is already 15, and you still have the 1 or 2 in r3c7 to add to it.
Although I don't think it changes the rest of the solve much.
this ones a toughie! solved in 1:52:38
15:40 You can show that there is a five in either R5C7 or R7C5 : there are five structures holding a five in the six boxes 124568. So there must be a five in box 6 or 8 in what is left from the structures in boxes 6 and 8, that is, the cells R5C7 and R7C5.
There is no 5 in those cells in the solution. You overlooked that two of the structures you mention can share a 5.
It seems I'm getting better at the harder puzzles! I was able to complete this one with no assistance in 24:02 (conflict checker off), quite shocked I solved it that fast! 😄 Many thanks to Cane_puzzles for this lovely puzzle!
Great solve per usual ❤ Zetamath is streaming…will peek at what he’s solving today
Michael says at the end that there might have been an easier way of resolving the two (left and upper) renbans. I wonder if his observation at 39:05 that green must be in one of r2c4, r2c5 and r3c6 would have helped. These cells are centre marked 567, while green is already marked 45 in r5c6. Surely that means green is 5, so orange is 4 and we are on the way!
r3c6 is centre marked with 456 though, not 567. So if that was green, green could still be 4.
So it is!
Who’s Michael?!
1:49:36 lovely puzzle. Row 4 caused me a lot of trouble but was able to solve it in the end
Awesome jewel‼
“Published 8sec ago” is a new record of early - looking forward ❤
45:31 ... youth will be served, and solvers will be served by said youth
Nice puzzle!
Amazing looking puzzle.
Also was a very different world when Simon was 16.
Hmmm, I flew through this one in 23 minutes, which is VERY unusual for me to beat Simons time, and by so much too. I haven't watched the video yet, I thought the logic of interactions between the 3 central renbans was pretty straightforward by just pencil marking and then removing as they became more and more restricted. The only other non-standard logic was seeing how the two 10 cages interacted to force one to be a 46 other than that the sudoku just filled in the rest very quickly.
Does anybody else play the game of "guess what colour Simon is going to pick"? I'm relatively successful at it!
I had to go doing a double solve to try to discern if the line in r4C7-8 was a 34 or a 56.... 34 ended with a conflict in R1C8 and R5C8 both being a 7 but i needed like 10 steps to discover it...
My brain is also obtuse Simon
"I got 5 on it"
1:04:56 for me. I did very much enjoy the puzzle, though I'm kicking myself a little for messing up partway through, then just clearing the puzzle and restarting (but not restarting my time, which was intentional).
164:19*, definitely a hard one for me, but I don't think my time was actually 2.5 hours. 😮 "felt" like I spent maybe a half hour working on it off and on, then drove for a while, then spent another hour once I got home.
When you are doing the center pencil mark, you are making an inference about the cell, for instance, r2c4 is 2,3,or 4. When you're doing a corner pencil mark, you are making an inference about a sudoku unit: for instance, the 2 in this box is either in cell 1 or 2. You always do them with respect to the box, so you are saying digit X in a certain box must be in a group of specified places. But you need a way to pencil mark with respect to rows and columns, since logically these are of the same footing as "box logic".
I'm sure Sven can add italic or coloured digits for box corner marks :) Would be fun to have an automatic matching colour selected when you add a box corner mark to a coloured cell
24:30 U learn what Simon was doing when he was 16 :D
Isn't Simon wrong at 28:30 ? Ok i was writing and example and inmediatly saw I was wrong haha
Solved this a couple of days ago. I loved it. You are in for a treat.
24:57 for me. Not too difficult, but not too easy either.
That was a weird spot. Wow
(Is this related to a particular timestamp in the video?)
00:52:41
My solve was all about 4-5
Must admit I've never heard of Sam Rike?
He's the Producer (or something like that) and a host of Dropout TV, a subscription based "TV-show" platform. I don't know if you know College Humour, but a lot of the comedians that worked there are now on Dropout
Oddly easy puzzle. Not sure time. I was doing other stuff.
41:42 for me.
24:58 for me. should have done better
14:38 for me. Nice puzzle!
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"When I was 17.... I stayed up listening to Queen"
Simpsons did it!
ayyyyy r4c8 free Palestine