I think I've found my "sport". I spend half my time yelling at the tv, and the other half trying to figure out what is going on. That 3 was driving me up the wall.
The really creative part of this sudoku is not just that it looks so amazing its also that you solve it the same way you would fire an arrow. Begin by knocking the arrow at the 2 digit sum, draw back the arrow to the crest of the grip and find the 1 on those thermometers, putting tension on the bow and down the strings by solving down to the last few options for those arrows and back solving the thermometers that make up the grip. Next you aim by circling around the outside and solving the other thermometers, finally the focus turns to the arrow as you solve the spine of the puzzle shortly before the puzzle breaks open, the fletching leaves the string as you solve that original 8/9 pair, and the clues from both sides of the board meet toward the middle as the arrow fires.
This shows how easy we forget "regular sudoku" when the puzzle is creative! haha you spent minutes thinking about the 3 with 3 already on the row but great puzzle! We all love these, please post more "non regular sudokus" :)
Interesting that Math can help to start off. You can write a two-digit number with digits x and y as 10x+y. In this case, the two-digit number plus each digit add to 45, so 10x+y + x + y = 45, or 11x+2y=45; x,y ∈ [1,9]. 2y is even, so x is odd. Therefore, it must be 1 or 3. x=1 causes y to be too large, so x=3, and from there, 2y=12 so y=6. You can also straight up solve that diophantine equation to get x=45+2n and y=-225-11n. The only value of n that makes y in the range [1,9] is n=-21, which gives y=6 and x=3. Bit overkill here, but very useful outside of the context of just this particular puzzle.
yup, spotted that math would easily prove this as well, though i would use a longer method (edit: it was the same formula, wasn't longer. what came to mind was the equation (10x+y) = 45 - x - y Which is actually the same exact thing op did!)
I just though that 45 is a two digit number who adds up to nine. And if we remove two digits from our row, we'd probably be removing 9 from the sum, therefore ending up with 36. And there it was! 😊
I used approximation. I added up 1+9+2+8+3+7+4 and ended up at 34, which told me to move on. So I did a second run where I switched out the 3 for a 5, the three was already present in the calculation and "safe", I replaced with a 5 because it wasn't present in the row. So I had 1+9+2+8+5+7+4=36. More of a lucky guess, I admit.
I was similar when I first started watching these videos and now I managed this one in 28 minutes, still slower than simon but a great improvement. I wonder has watching these vids helped improve your times as well since this comment?
@@lavenderwalrus9875 Yes, definitely! The videos help me recognize patterns and how to approach puzzles in different ways now. I haven’t done a sudoku in a while but my times have definitely improved
The argument for the two arrows is much easier. The arrows have a minimum of 5+6+1+2+1+2 from the columns they are in. The two heads have a maximum of 8+9. This rules out all the numbers you thought about at once. Nice puzzle by Jonas! ( not that I expected anything less.)
I don't know how I found myself here but it was quite entertaining to see a puzzle like this, and to follow along with your train of thought. Great commentary! Well done!
31:20 This was a fantastic puzzle. I had so much fun with all the constraints. I made similar steps to completing the puzzle but I found the 9 in R6C9 thanks to the 9 in C7 and the thermometers. Broke open the left side very nicely with out feeling forced. Very smooth and flowed well. Great find and great video.
Simon, Im watching this channel for about a month and beforehand i didnt even know those types of sudoku existed. Fast forward to right now im just letting you know that i finished this sudoku in about an hour and a half. My internal voice was saying things like "could this ever be an x?/ now imagine this would be x/ this could never be an x, because if it was x, it would in turn break the other parts of the puzzle/what is the absolute minimum we can put in here/ the x fixed the y/ now were cooking with gas/." IN YOUR VOICE. It was like you were guiding me. It helped a lot. It gave me confidence because otherwise i wouldve been stuck in a desperate mindset, not trusting that i can handle this. When i watched you the first time i never wouldve dreamed about ever solving such kind of puzzle
This puzzle worked out really cool (think I got held up plugging in the complementary cells all the time lol). Super cool on the pairs and triples (and I think quadruples in a couple spots, because I was filling in all those cells along the way looking forward to them lol). This Robin Hood's Bow didn't disappoint, lol. Great job, Constructor. 😂
It took me 47 minutes but this was the first puzzle of this style I've been able to solve on this channel. Simon always makes them look so easy. Good job as always cracking the cryptic team. Also to the setter, very enjoyable puzzle!
This one was the first I ever saw from you. Made me an instant subscriber. Thank you for taking the time on every puzzle to explain it in a way a total beginner can follow. You are great!
I'm looking through old videos now to see the content before April (when I started following the channel) and I must say this one is the most enjoyable so far.
Me, Last Night: *(cries in mathmatics)* Noooo, I can't do Sudoku! Me, This Morning: *(yelling at the screen)* There's a nine in row six, column nine! It solves the puzzle!!!
Because of your other videos i decided to solve this one my own, before watching: It took me more than 2 hours and I used the video once to slot in the 1 in the middle row (couldn't figure out if it had to be a 1 or 2 on my own) but i solved it and now I feel very proud of myself. thanks for the great content and the inspiration - never thought sudokus could be such fun.
That was honestly the most beautiful one I've seen on the channel so far. The way it solved so nice and symmetrical and the beautiful design to start with. Not too hard but not at all easy.. this was absolutely great :)
here is a routine to find all two digit numbers that is sum of seven different digits: def x(): ret = [] all_sum = sum(range(1,10)) for i in range(1, 10): for j in range(1, 10): if int(str(i) + str(j)) == all_sum - i - j: ret.append((i, j)) return ret print x() prints -> (3, 6)
I used to do a bunch of sudokus when I was in middle/highschool but I never was too well at them, I could get them done but it would take a while. And watching you do these insane looking challenges is making my head hurt. I am blown away with how quick you can rule out everything, and even how you started this one figuring out the right numbers.
This one took me 1 hour and 37 minutes to complete. Even though I did copy what you did in the video for the first 7-8 minutes, I have to say it is much more satisfying to actually attempt this one as opposed to just watching. I also loved how I was able to come up with certain conclusions in a different order than in the video, which made me feel smart for thinking of something faster than Simon for once. Only once or twice though. I'll have to try more of these.
For some reason this was recommended to me by youtube, I saw it and thought I’ll never complete that but let just give it a shot, it took me nearly 2 hours, but I did it, now I can finally go to bed
I had several false starts. I had worked out the 2 in the middle earlier, but I too many false logic turns, but I worked through them. Delightful puzzle. I really enjoyed it.
I actually really liked this one! I feel like this is the first one that I can actually solve by myself on your channel (I've only watched 4-5 videos, but I kind of felt stupid because I didn't know the techniques your were talking about)!
Took me 1 hour and 34 minutes but I made it. I'm so glad to watch the video and see the same process (a lot faster, though). It's a great puzzle, I really love your channel
tmw you calc the 36 by head, meanwhile there's me, calculating it on a note. Did come to the formula 10x+y=45-x-y and yeah, 36 was the only option at that point :p The bowlimb was pretty straightforward. Especially due to the central part being 3 in the same column, forcing there to be 3 different numbers. As a result the diagonals for each was just one higher than the value on the other diagonal. Couldn't figure out on my own which limb was the high limb [3-6] and which was the low limb [2-5]
Superb puzzle! I managed a fair crack at it, but I didn’t quite catch the trick of the “bowstrings”. My attempt focused a little more on the thermometers, which lead me to really appreciate the symmetry of the puzzle. But was neat to see the similarities in our solving journeys! This is was my first attempt at solving a truly numberless sudoku, and I’m thoroughly pleased (even if I didn’t succeed)
This was my second real sudoku I have done the others have been just those easy ones in magazines for kids and I absolutely loved it. took me almost an hour to do it but it was worth it.
Somehow convinced myself that it each small arrow had to have a 1 and a 2 and broke the puzzle. Made it on the second try - just wanted to thank you for putting these videos out, fell in love with sudoko variants because of them!
I did that too, but since i ignored my addition facts it didnt stop me. Got every other number placed correctly but the strings and the 12 pairs Simon saved till the end.
That one was a toughy. When I finished I had 1:10:47 on my timer but I got horribly messed up in my first run and just completely reset the run at like the 35 minute mark. So all in all took me like an hour 45.
guy youre the best i love ur explainations because i understand everything you do and explain but otherwise i dont have the persistance to finish any of them
Great puzzle, although it did take me 57 minutes... wish I had been able to spot the limitations with the two symmetrical arrows much sooner; I really need more practice with these variants. Looking forward to more fun videos, thank you once again.
Took me 38:07 but I was eating and reading emails... However, after starting with this site over three week ago and only having ever done regular sudoku, I think my skills are getting there so that I can solve tougher puzzles. Starting to crack the beginnings of the medium ones now, but the really hard ones I need Simon's or Mark's help sometimes...
4 months later retrying the puzzle. 15.20 question coming in mind. Did i really forgot how i solved this the first time? I kinda remember the experience but nothing else. Brain. What a funny little thing
The pair of single cell bubbles add up to at most 17. The pair of cells extending along each arrow on the next row add up to at least 3. The next pair of cells along each arrow on the next row further also add up to at least 3. Therefore, the pair of cells at the end of each arrow add up to at most 11.
Hooh boy, this is the puzzle from this channel that I've actually completed. It was off and on, so I don't know how long I actually spent on it, but the timer ran over two hours. `>.> Well, I've never claimed to be good at puzzles.
Puzzle was quite good. Spending any time analyzing a 3 in the bulb of the large thermometer (9 cell) is a good example of how to bumble ones way towards a solution. Lots of wasted motion in this solution. Does praising the puzzle to the heavens make solving it appear more of an accomplishment? This puzzle gave up its secrets without a whimper.
The fact that at the time of this comment, this video has a mere 650 likes but over 12k views blows my mind. There should be an equal amount of likes to the current number of views at all times. What a puzzle! LIKE THIS VIDEO!! :)
I love your videos (new to them) and I'm really looking to buy an app of yours. But id love if your apps had a variety of these puzzles and not refined to sandwich or normal.
The middle line Problem can be solved easily with math. Just make it the formula 45 - x - y = 10x + y then it becomes -> 45 = 11x + 2y and here you just try out various integers for x and the only one that works is a 3, giving you x=3 and y=6 immediately
I got to 12:41 on my own, but didn't make the connection that the 1 and 2 must go in those two leftmost boxes, then went on to delineate the possibilities in the thermometers and got stuck. After coming back to the video and seeing the 1 and 2 pieces though, I was able to work the rest out after about an hour and a half...maybe a little more. I feel pretty proud though, I don't have much sudoku experience, and I normally just get impatient and look up the answers. UPDATE: After having watched the rest of the video, I can see how my inexperience with Sudoku really hampered me, You immediately saw patterns that I only came around to identifying after I had essentially brute forced all the possible values of the thermometer. Even then, I didn't really spot most of them, I had to color a lot of boxes in search of a specific digit to identify when many of them had been solved.
After several retries while I was attempting this, I realized that once you figure out there's a 2 on the 5 arrow, and a 1 on the 6 arrow, you can fill in the entirety of both arrows and their circles. The only way you could get 8 from 6 and a 1 is with another 1, but the only way to get a 9 from a 5 and a 2 is with another 1. Therefore, the 5 arrow has to equal 8, and the 6 arrow has to equal 9, and there's only one way to do that with the numbers you already have. Basically, you can solve the 8 and 9 issue much faster than expected. Idk thought it was interesting
I had many attempts that failed because I assumed that the arrows had to have both the 1 and the 2 on them. It seemed apparent that 5+1+2=8 and 6+1+2=9. I didn't think it could work as 5+2+2 and 6+1+1.
I spent a little over an hour on this, making great progress, feeling really proud of myself... until I realised I'd broken the puzzle somewhere. Sadly closed the tab and came back to watch the professionals.
What I do when I run into that issue is I watch the video with my solve on the side and figure out where I went wrong. I then pause the video, fix the mistake, and keep going. Helps me learn both from the added practice of finishing the puzzle, and realizing the type of mistake I made so I can remember to watch for it in the future.
Never in my life I would have thought i could enjoy watching somebody else doing a sudoku.
Thank you for proving me wrong.
I've never done sudoku or even thought about it, but I watched half an hour of this last night
Yo i acttualy cant agree more
I so agree! I'm feeling a bit down, and this so far was really therapeutic :D
It's weird but I'm not complaining
I like the use of the thermometer rules to rule out a three at the front of the bow, even though there was a three in the row already
I only just realised tge 3 was in the row already, and thought of it just like he did xD
Also more elegant of a solve
That 3 was bugging me. Why don't he notice it yet.
He never did though
@@gujigujiuncle2638 thats the beauty of this channel and sudoku, everyone sees stuff differently and at a different time
I think I've found my "sport". I spend half my time yelling at the tv, and the other half trying to figure out what is going on.
That 3 was driving me up the wall.
That was driving me crazy listening to him deduce that. I was like LOOK IN THE ROW!
The really creative part of this sudoku is not just that it looks so amazing its also that you solve it the same way you would fire an arrow. Begin by knocking the arrow at the 2 digit sum, draw back the arrow to the crest of the grip and find the 1 on those thermometers, putting tension on the bow and down the strings by solving down to the last few options for those arrows and back solving the thermometers that make up the grip. Next you aim by circling around the outside and solving the other thermometers, finally the focus turns to the arrow as you solve the spine of the puzzle shortly before the puzzle breaks open, the fletching leaves the string as you solve that original 8/9 pair, and the clues from both sides of the board meet toward the middle as the arrow fires.
thats pretty deep
whoa calm down
this is totally retarded
Erdnussbube Wym lol that’s totally genius
Poetry
something quite aesthetically pleasing about this one, really enjoyed it.. even tho i just spent 40 minutes solving it when i should be working haha
Kurt Hugo Schneider the legend himself
Shouldn't you be putting more baby powder on your drums?
(just messing with you. Love your work!)
Crossover I wasn’t expecting
Wut the heck?!
I wasn't expecting to find you here.
"A surprise, sure, but a welcome one."
Thanks for solving! Glad you enjoyed the puzzle :)
Well done mate!
Good work. Solving this is difficult enough, I can't imagine how hard it must've been coming up with this.
Awesome puzzle!
This shows how easy we forget "regular sudoku" when the puzzle is creative! haha you spent minutes thinking about the 3 with 3 already on the row but great puzzle! We all love these, please post more "non regular sudokus" :)
Interesting that Math can help to start off. You can write a two-digit number with digits x and y as 10x+y. In this case, the two-digit number plus each digit add to 45, so 10x+y + x + y = 45, or 11x+2y=45; x,y ∈ [1,9]. 2y is even, so x is odd. Therefore, it must be 1 or 3. x=1 causes y to be too large, so x=3, and from there, 2y=12 so y=6.
You can also straight up solve that diophantine equation to get x=45+2n and y=-225-11n. The only value of n that makes y in the range [1,9] is n=-21, which gives y=6 and x=3. Bit overkill here, but very useful outside of the context of just this particular puzzle.
This is a genius bit of maths, well spotted
yup, spotted that math would easily prove this as well, though i would use a longer method
(edit: it was the same formula, wasn't longer. what came to mind was the equation
(10x+y) = 45 - x - y
Which is actually the same exact thing op did!)
thanks, I wish I would've heard about diophantine equations earlier.
I just though that 45 is a two digit number who adds up to nine. And if we remove two digits from our row, we'd probably be removing 9 from the sum, therefore ending up with 36. And there it was! 😊
I used approximation. I added up 1+9+2+8+3+7+4 and ended up at 34, which told me to move on. So I did a second run where I switched out the 3 for a 5, the three was already present in the calculation and "safe", I replaced with a 5 because it wasn't present in the row. So I had 1+9+2+8+5+7+4=36. More of a lucky guess, I admit.
At 7:02, I can't be the only shouting at the screen that it can't be a 3 as there's already a 3 in the row LOL
You were not.
Then you remember that's the only part where you're seeing stuff he doesn't :^)
@@CeilingPanda nope, at 19:14, 4 5 6, the 6 is already in that row. It was impossible for the middle was a 4.
Yesssss. The 3s were definitely making me verbalize. "C'mon, just put a three!"
I mean you can see from the start that that can only be a 1 since there are 4 on each side and the sum must be
I finally tried a puzzle instead of just watching you solve it, I got it in 1:38:24. Lots of room for improvement!!!
I was similar when I first started watching these videos and now I managed this one in 28 minutes, still slower than simon but a great improvement. I wonder has watching these vids helped improve your times as well since this comment?
@@lavenderwalrus9875 Yes, definitely! The videos help me recognize patterns and how to approach puzzles in different ways now. I haven’t done a sudoku in a while but my times have definitely improved
I really appreciate both your expression of your thought process during the puzzle as well as your appreciation of the puzzle design
The argument for the two arrows is much easier. The arrows have a minimum of 5+6+1+2+1+2 from the columns they are in. The two heads have a maximum of 8+9. This rules out all the numbers you thought about at once. Nice puzzle by Jonas! ( not that I expected anything less.)
Thats what I thought too.
I couldn't rule out 5+3+1=9 for one of the arms, initially
"I'm just being shouted at." That's nice :D
I don't know how I found myself here but it was quite entertaining to see a puzzle like this, and to follow along with your train of thought. Great commentary! Well done!
I love watching Simon get excited. :)
I finally completed after 4 hours and 30 min. Now I can watch the video.
Quarantine-stories. Really satisfying to solve "before" him
@@katana5097 yeah I am not as good as him but at least a complete these puzzles. Now I'm beginning to feel like a sudoku god, sudoku god.
samee
This comment makes me feel a little bit better lol. I did 4h50m ... cx
31:20 This was a fantastic puzzle. I had so much fun with all the constraints. I made similar steps to completing the puzzle but I found the 9 in R6C9 thanks to the 9 in C7 and the thermometers. Broke open the left side very nicely with out feeling forced. Very smooth and flowed well. Great find and great video.
Simon, Im watching this channel for about a month and beforehand i didnt even know those types of sudoku existed. Fast forward to right now im just letting you know that i finished this sudoku in about an hour and a half. My internal voice was saying things like "could this ever be an x?/ now imagine this would be x/ this could never be an x, because if it was x, it would in turn break the other parts of the puzzle/what is the absolute minimum we can put in here/ the x fixed the y/ now were cooking with gas/." IN YOUR VOICE. It was like you were guiding me. It helped a lot. It gave me confidence because otherwise i wouldve been stuck in a desperate mindset, not trusting that i can handle this. When i watched you the first time i never wouldve dreamed about ever solving such kind of puzzle
This is the first one I could actually solve on my own! Was really fun
I'm coming here from the future (3-3-2022), and I laughed when he was worried about the length of this video! He had no idea what was coming! LOL
This puzzle worked out really cool (think I got held up plugging in the complementary cells all the time lol).
Super cool on the pairs and triples (and I think quadruples in a couple spots, because I was filling in all those cells along the way looking forward to them lol).
This Robin Hood's Bow didn't disappoint, lol.
Great job, Constructor. 😂
It took me 47 minutes but this was the first puzzle of this style I've been able to solve on this channel. Simon always makes them look so easy. Good job as always cracking the cryptic team. Also to the setter, very enjoyable puzzle!
This one was the first I ever saw from you. Made me an instant subscriber. Thank you for taking the time on every puzzle to explain it in a way a total beginner can follow. You are great!
I'm looking through old videos now to see the content before April (when I started following the channel) and I must say this one is the most enjoyable so far.
its 3 am, wtf am I doing here, I dont even know how to solve a normal sudoku puzzle
Welcome to RUclips at night
sudoku are just logic puzzles ... if you can put a jigsaw puzzle together you can do sudoku ....
@@0623kaboom Jigsaw puzzles is more intuitive than sudoku. You need to understand the fundamental of sudoku in order to do it
I fell asleep to one of those episodes last night
Me, Last Night:
*(cries in mathmatics)* Noooo, I can't do Sudoku!
Me, This Morning:
*(yelling at the screen)* There's a nine in row six, column nine! It solves the puzzle!!!
Because of your other videos i decided to solve this one my own, before watching:
It took me more than 2 hours and I used the video once to slot in the 1 in the middle row (couldn't figure out if it had to be a 1 or 2 on my own) but i solved it and now I feel very proud of myself.
thanks for the great content and the inspiration - never thought sudokus could be such fun.
That was honestly the most beautiful one I've seen on the channel so far. The way it solved so nice and symmetrical and the beautiful design to start with. Not too hard but not at all easy.. this was absolutely great :)
here is a routine to find all two digit numbers that is sum of seven different digits:
def x():
ret = []
all_sum = sum(range(1,10))
for i in range(1, 10):
for j in range(1, 10):
if int(str(i) + str(j)) == all_sum - i - j:
ret.append((i, j))
return ret
print x()
prints -> (3, 6)
Great one, I seem to enjoy these thermo puzzles the most. I had to brute force the start and get a small hint to get going :)
I used to do a bunch of sudokus when I was in middle/highschool but I never was too well at them, I could get them done but it would take a while. And watching you do these insane looking challenges is making my head hurt. I am blown away with how quick you can rule out everything, and even how you started this one figuring out the right numbers.
I've been binging this channel and seen a lot of great puzzles. This one is definitely up there with "The Miracle." The design is so inspired.
finally, a sudoku that steals from the rich, and gives to the poor!
This one took me 1 hour and 37 minutes to complete. Even though I did copy what you did in the video for the first 7-8 minutes, I have to say it is much more satisfying to actually attempt this one as opposed to just watching. I also loved how I was able to come up with certain conclusions in a different order than in the video, which made me feel smart for thinking of something faster than Simon for once. Only once or twice though. I'll have to try more of these.
this way above my pay grade. kudos to you.
I'm loving these as I'm solving them with you while you're doing them , excellent !
second video of your i have seen and i gotta say watching someone solve a sudoku is surprisingly fun.
I tried it now before seeing the video, and it took me an hour to just get 4 numbers, and another hour to finish the resolution, it's so amazing
For some reason this was recommended to me by youtube, I saw it and thought I’ll never complete that but let just give it a shot, it took me nearly 2 hours, but I did it, now I can finally go to bed
Thank you, I managed to do it myself in under 25min, I loved every second of it.
I had several false starts. I had worked out the 2 in the middle earlier, but I too many false logic turns, but I worked through them. Delightful puzzle. I really enjoyed it.
I didn't even know this kind of sudoku existed. Took me two and a half hour to solve this. I might want more.
I actually really liked this one! I feel like this is the first one that I can actually solve by myself on your channel (I've only watched 4-5 videos, but I kind of felt stupid because I didn't know the techniques your were talking about)!
I got it in 52 minutes. Then I saw you clear it in 25... Nicely done!
thoroughly enjoyed this one. i think this is the best puzzle from this channel that i've managed to solve! :)
Fabulous, both your amazing skills and the creators. i’m in love all over again
Took me 1 hour and 34 minutes but I made it. I'm so glad to watch the video and see the same process (a lot faster, though). It's a great puzzle, I really love your channel
I loved this one - it was really quite a lot of fun!
This was very fun. It's amazing how many time things just flowed nicely.
What's crazy about these. There are geniuses solving them, but the people who come up with them are even more genius in many respects.
tmw you calc the 36 by head, meanwhile there's me, calculating it on a note.
Did come to the formula 10x+y=45-x-y and yeah, 36 was the only option at that point :p
The bowlimb was pretty straightforward. Especially due to the central part being 3 in the same column, forcing there to be 3 different numbers.
As a result the diagonals for each was just one higher than the value on the other diagonal.
Couldn't figure out on my own which limb was the high limb [3-6] and which was the low limb [2-5]
I did enjoy it. Thank you Simon!
thanks for the distraction and the work for my quarantaine brain
What a gorgeous puzzle! Almost symmetric, but the tiny asymmetries produce a unique solution :D
You; according to Pythagorean theorem calculus log 72 to the thirty-seventh power, this square cannot be a 3
Me; theres already a 3 in the row
Took me 1 hour an 10 mins to complete it but it felt like a minute, the best way to pass time in quarentine!!
Did it! It took my 2 and a half hours, but I did it and I loved every minute of it. Time to get faster at these... after I get some sleep :P
A cracking puzzle, not one I would tackle though but lovely to watch you solve it.
Superb puzzle!
I managed a fair crack at it, but I didn’t quite catch the trick of the “bowstrings”.
My attempt focused a little more on the thermometers, which lead me to really appreciate the symmetry of the puzzle.
But was neat to see the similarities in our solving journeys!
This is was my first attempt at solving a truly numberless sudoku, and I’m thoroughly pleased (even if I didn’t succeed)
Very cool puzzle. Great solve.
This was my second real sudoku I have done the others have been just those easy ones in magazines for kids and I absolutely loved it. took me almost an hour to do it but it was worth it.
Don't worry your weather could be worse! Freezing rain here and then a foot of snow on top, brrr.
Nice puzzle!
Somehow convinced myself that it each small arrow had to have a 1 and a 2 and broke the puzzle. Made it on the second try - just wanted to thank you for putting these videos out, fell in love with sudoko variants because of them!
I did the same exact thing.
I did that too, but since i ignored my addition facts it didnt stop me. Got every other number placed correctly but the strings and the 12 pairs Simon saved till the end.
That one was a toughy. When I finished I had 1:10:47 on my timer but I got horribly messed up in my first run and just completely reset the run at like the 35 minute mark. So all in all took me like an hour 45.
guy youre the best i love ur explainations because i understand everything you do and explain but otherwise i dont have the persistance to finish any of them
Great puzzle, although it did take me 57 minutes... wish I had been able to spot the limitations with the two symmetrical arrows much sooner; I really need more practice with these variants.
Looking forward to more fun videos, thank you once again.
I love how passionate you are
Good solve.
Thank you.
Took me 38:07 but I was eating and reading emails... However, after starting with this site over three week ago and only having ever done regular sudoku, I think my skills are getting there so that I can solve tougher puzzles. Starting to crack the beginnings of the medium ones now, but the really hard ones I need Simon's or Mark's help sometimes...
Solved this one with a break in the middle, so don't have a time, but a really nice puzzle! all the symmetries made this one really pleasing.
Great puzzle, thanks for sharing it !
Took an hour and a quarter for me, very nice puzzle :)
I just happened upon you somehow, and I'm so happy I did; I loved this!
I'm so happy yt recommended this video to me! I am now subscribed.
4 months later retrying the puzzle.
15.20
question coming in mind. Did i really forgot how i solved this the first time? I kinda remember the experience but nothing else. Brain. What a funny little thing
The design so beautiful
this is still the best, a work of art
“If I do put a three in here”... in that cell which is in the same row as the 3 and 6 you’ve already put in, right? :)
I like the way this puzzle cascaded.
Easily the best channel on youtube
That puzzle was a beast.
The pair of single cell bubbles add up to at most 17.
The pair of cells extending along each arrow on the next row add up to at least 3.
The next pair of cells along each arrow on the next row further also add up to at least 3.
Therefore, the pair of cells at the end of each arrow add up to at most 11.
It took me almost 20h and ... still no result :) I like this one very lot.
I knew that Simon has a tunnel vision but I laughed my head off at 7:37? "If I put 3 in here?" You have two 3's on the row!
After each number placed me: makes sense! before that: Here are no more moves available XD
I don't care if it's hard or easy, it was absolutely fun and joy to solve this. Took me over a half an hour
Hooh boy, this is the puzzle from this channel that I've actually completed. It was off and on, so I don't know how long I actually spent on it, but the timer ran over two hours. `>.> Well, I've never claimed to be good at puzzles.
Puzzle was quite good. Spending any time analyzing a 3 in the bulb of the large thermometer (9 cell) is a good example of how to bumble ones way towards a solution. Lots of wasted motion in this solution. Does praising the puzzle to the heavens make solving it appear more of an accomplishment? This puzzle gave up its secrets without a whimper.
The fact that at the time of this comment, this video has a mere 650 likes but over 12k views blows my mind. There should be an equal amount of likes to the current number of views at all times.
What a puzzle! LIKE THIS VIDEO!! :)
I love the massive fill of boxes at 13:50
Amazed I got it in under an hour
56:44 - brilliant puzzle
This took me forever, but it's a really beautiful grid
I love your videos (new to them) and I'm really looking to buy an app of yours. But id love if your apps had a variety of these puzzles and not refined to sandwich or normal.
The middle line Problem can be solved easily with math.
Just make it the formula 45 - x - y = 10x + y
then it becomes -> 45 = 11x + 2y
and here you just try out various integers for x and the only one that works is a 3, giving you x=3 and y=6 immediately
I loved this way too much, but why am I watching it at this hour
Took me 1:26 to make it (had to check a bit of the video near the end). Good puzzle!
That was beautiful to watch.
I got to 12:41 on my own, but didn't make the connection that the 1 and 2 must go in those two leftmost boxes, then went on to delineate the possibilities in the thermometers and got stuck. After coming back to the video and seeing the 1 and 2 pieces though, I was able to work the rest out after about an hour and a half...maybe a little more.
I feel pretty proud though, I don't have much sudoku experience, and I normally just get impatient and look up the answers.
UPDATE: After having watched the rest of the video, I can see how my inexperience with Sudoku really hampered me, You immediately saw patterns that I only came around to identifying after I had essentially brute forced all the possible values of the thermometer. Even then, I didn't really spot most of them, I had to color a lot of boxes in search of a specific digit to identify when many of them had been solved.
This took me 1hour and 17 mins to complete and I still had to look at the video for help to start and when I got lost
After several retries while I was attempting this, I realized that once you figure out there's a 2 on the 5 arrow, and a 1 on the 6 arrow, you can fill in the entirety of both arrows and their circles. The only way you could get 8 from 6 and a 1 is with another 1, but the only way to get a 9 from a 5 and a 2 is with another 1. Therefore, the 5 arrow has to equal 8, and the 6 arrow has to equal 9, and there's only one way to do that with the numbers you already have. Basically, you can solve the 8 and 9 issue much faster than expected. Idk thought it was interesting
I had many attempts that failed because I assumed that the arrows had to have both the 1 and the 2 on them. It seemed apparent that 5+1+2=8 and 6+1+2=9. I didn't think it could work as 5+2+2 and 6+1+1.
I spent a little over an hour on this, making great progress, feeling really proud of myself... until I realised I'd broken the puzzle somewhere. Sadly closed the tab and came back to watch the professionals.
What I do when I run into that issue is I watch the video with my solve on the side and figure out where I went wrong. I then pause the video, fix the mistake, and keep going. Helps me learn both from the added practice of finishing the puzzle, and realizing the type of mistake I made so I can remember to watch for it in the future.