@@FunChatterNo1 I think it's a mixture of solving backwards and idea inception. I myself for the past few months have been delving into this. There are softwares to check for basic sudoku and some specialties. But the rest is handwork.
@@FunChatterNo1 I think for this one he just started with a real sudoku that had the palindromes, then added cages and the thermometer to actually be able to solve it
The fact that every single 3, 6, and 9 was found before a single other digit was solved is nothing short of art. What a wonderful puzzle. For once, I actually feel like Simon didn't appreciate it enough haha.
When Simon accidentally clicked off the website to the RUclips video of him learning how to play guitar (22:50), the like count is 369, coincident? Definitely. Still really cool though.
Anyone else notice that Simon used purple to designate 6 at the very beginning. Then later he didn’t want to use yellow, so he got rid of the purples for 6. And switched the yellow to purple. Ironically, the new purple also ended up being 6.
Was about to comment when I saw him remove the purple from second batch of 6, wish he remembered he removed it from other 6's and apologized to them by repainting originals purple again...
“Guys in this lesson we will explain how purple plus yellow equals nine; how blue plus orange equals nine; and to top it off, how green plus red equals nine”
Just like the Georgian lyricist Jonathan Smith once wrote: 3, 6, 9, stand real fine / Move it to you suck it to me one mo time / Get low, get low, get low, get low / To the windooooooow, to the wall
anyone else like it when he has trouble pronouncing his "threes"? He gets it fine most of the time but relapses now and then. It's just a little bit adorable.
Someone should make a puzzle called "Simon's favorite puzzle", which includes: 1. An extraordinary break-in. 2. Every square of the grid needs to be colored for everything to suddenly fall into place. 3. Phistomephel's ring must be used at some point (preferably early on, so it doesn't mess with the coloring).
Like I say every time Simon uses colors to represent specific unknown values and struggles with "I know this is a purple-green pair but there's no real way to indicate that" it's just more evidence that the ability to use letter variables in pencil marking should be a top priority for the next version of the solving software.
Also being able to change the palette of colors to pick from, or to make them darker and lighter. That would certainly help those who are colorblind with having darker/lighter shades of the same color available so they have more to choose from. Already with some puzzles it'd be helpful to have more than 9 colors....and certainly the means to pencilmark them like the letters or tiny squares suggested.
Simon, I just want to point out some other brilliant things I found with the design of this puzzle. Right from the get-go, I noticed that the design of the palindrome lines meant that it must contain 6(!) unique digits - no number repeats in the palindrome except in its own reflection. Try it yourself, it's really phenomenal. Realising this property of the puzzle gave me the same amazing awe of design that the Miracle Sudoku 2 did with its thermos and anti-knight restraint. Furthermore, upon completing the puzzle, you can see that the 9-shaped palindrome on the left contains the highest 6 digits (4 through 9) and the 6-shaped palindrome on the right contains the lowest 6 digits (1 through 6). Unreal. I've been watching your videos for a couple months now. Once I was confident enough with what I'd learnt from you, I started to try every puzzle myself before watching. I'd say that was around a month ago, and I'm now able to complete around half of them completely on my own... even if some of them take the whole day! So here's a heartfelt thank you from down here in Australia, for getting me hooked on yet another activity within which I can ignite a passion. P.S. My goal is to set my own sudoku puzzles once I'm feel I'm ready to give that a go. I only hope that I can make one which blows the socks off of the testers and you'll have simply no choice but to showcase it on the channel. ;)
even though i’m rather useless with puzzles myself, i love listening to these videos when i’m studying. they’re really relaxing, but so engaging as well. thanks from an ib student in morocco xD
I was just watching this video and became a little confused when Simon couldnt pencilmark 2 colours in the same cell at the beggining 😅 This function is now so frequently used by Simon its hard to believe he could solve puzzles without it several months ago 😂
Highly intelligent puzzle solver: "Oh wow, I've only found 6's and 9's to start with in Stavros96's sudoku titled "Everything is Stavros96" featuring palindromes in the shape of '96'. If, and I say *IF* this is intentional, that is quite brilliant!" Stavros96: Oh, my sweet summer child.
Amazing symmetry in the solve, with the cages being used at the beginning to get the first digits, then coming back in the end to finally disambiguate the colors and lead to the solve. What a puzzle!
An idea for pencilmarking dominos like the Green/purple one at the beginning: label them like you did, and then pencilmark a zero to indicate the possibility to interchange. With the new software, zero is possible to write in after all, so why not use it to your advantage?
If pencilmarking colors wasnt doable in the software because of logistics, they should at least provide the option for two-tone cells, where both colors shows as a triangle.
@@averygaron994 Surely the easiest is just to allow letters in the grid (both as main digits and pencil marks) and then use these rather than colours. the ease with which you could solve these sorts of puzzles if you could pencil mark an AB pair for example, is mindblowing
You get exactly the same effect as colors if you could enter ordered pairs. Instead of having blue and yellow 78 pairs, you just need to be able to type in 87 and 78 and have them show up in that order.
Simon - when you said “Blue, blue” I was 2 seconds ahead of you on “Barney McGrew” - probably the only time I have ever been ahead of you on a serious solve! Thank you for a marvellous video!
If there's ever an update to the software, making an option to "corner mark" different colors might be helpful! It would make the opening green/purple pair a bit easier to hold onto
Same could be solved by adding the ability to use letter variables in pencil marks, which would work better than shading in a lot of the contexts we see shading used on these puzzles (with added benefit of eliminating colorblind concerns)
I agree with the letters idea, I guess there's probably a reason to restrict it to a specific set of characters, but having the alphabet available as well as the digits 1-9 (and zero) would come in very handy sometimes when two cells are the same but their value is not known, or in some puzzles where clues are given as letters in/outside the grid.
@@felipevasconcelos6736 potentially. I find myself selecting a single cell or a string of cells a lot more often than many separated cells. Might be annoying to always have to clear a selection. But hey, not sure CtC reads chats within chats so..😄
It’s really awesome watching you solve a sudoku with colors and being able to follow along. Even though I currently can not do this by myself, the way you explain keeps me engaged and “solving it with you”!!
lol! When Simon said 'Blue, blue..." my mind filled in "...Barney, McGrew, Cuthbert, Dibble, Grub" just a fraction of a second ahead of Simon saying the same. Thanks Simon, that is the first time I have truly laughed out loud for a very long time!
This one was absolutely incredible! I was straight up hootin' and hollerin' and pounding my thighs as I noticed new logic unfolding. As always, your enthusiasm is infectious, and I'm glad my Sudoku skills have improved so that I can better appreciate and share in the joy that comes from solving puzzles like this. 😄
3 года назад
14:50 I had never thought that one day I would try so hard to talk to someone in a pre-recorded video.
These videos help me go to sleep, not because it's boring, just cause he has such a nice voice :) Makes me want to get better at sudoku! It's really fascinating to watch!
Lovely puzzle. Took me a looooong while to figure out that I should be doing sudoku with colours and not numbers and then started making predictable progress. Really enjoyed it.
That was a really beautiful puzzle, I think my favorite yet. Steadily building up the pairs and working through the threes/sixes/nines before the dam breaks at the end felt amazing, real kudos to the setter.
I FRICKEN' KNEW IT!!! It was only gonna solve 3s, 6s and 9s for the whole thing, and everything else was going to be in a state of being either one or another number, and the thermometers would allow you you to fill it ALL in at the very end by telling you which one was larger!!! YAAAASSSSS!!!!!
Simon: "I'm gonna turn these yellow cells into purple cells, so I don't confuse them with the cursor" The cells: *are actually purple* (Because you know, purple was 6)
So this is what is like to love Simon and the passion he has, and also logic puzzles. Then however not understanding the colors and not understanding a bit of the logic. Sudoku has become damned chess level intricate.
A suggestion for the next version of the software: Corner markings of little color rectangles. Then you can mark "blue or green" on a single square. Also increase the number of colors a bit more.
I just started watching this channel a couple weeks ago and I just had my first moment where I spotted something really important before Simon did. I’m learning 😆
Wow. That. Is. Just. Incredible. Now i need to watch the video to see Simon's face when he sees what's going on. Seriously one of the best puzzles I've ever completed.
Amazingly, a lot of the ideas I had about this Sudoku (especially in the first 20 minutes), Simon also had about 10 seconds later... including the "blue, blue, barney mcgrew, cuthbert dibble and grubb" line :) (Edited to add: even at 47 minutes out of a 49.5 minute video, the only digits placed were 3s, 6s and 9s - amazing!)
32:18 Putting 12 in R1C2 makes a 12 pair in the column and resolves R3C2 to a 3. Immediately huge progress. Simonitis columnensis perpetua. We love you, Simon!!! [added in edit:] 40:10 A deep theorem proved by St Anthony puts a 3 in R3C2. Russell & Whitehead's Principia Mathematica takes a few hundred pages to prove that 1+1=2. We may have seen the opening of a wholly new perspective on variant Sudoku here. If you have the choice between trivial sudoku and revelatory colouring, go for the colouring every day of the week and twice on Sunday. I apologise, Simon. It's not sarcasm but deep deep admiration. Your brain is a joy to share with you.
I struggle with classic sudoku on my own, but when i watch cracking the cryptic, suddenly im a genius bc im pointing out shit simon's missing xD It's literally only bc he overthinks and i can only see obvious things, but for a bit i can pretend to be smart lol
What a wonderful puzzle. I didn't do it seriously since I had the app and your video open to get me started but still this was a blast. And you indeed only get 9s, 6s, 3s and colours until the very end ^^
I solved along as I usualy do, unpausing the video when I get stuck, but I managed to make a mess out of the mixed color/pencilmark notation and noticed only when I was 3/4 through, so I just ragequit and watched Simon instead. The skill required to juggle the restrictions, particularly the ones that cannot be expressed cleanly in notation, is amazingly subtle and hard to appreciate until you try it yourself.
Thank you, Cracking the Cryptic for the fun content you create on daily basis. Thank you for entering the puzzles into the software and providing an opportunity to try them. I wonder, if it is possible to ad the possibility to ad letters as options into the grid (a-i), as placeholder so to say. That way you (or we) could say col 1 has to start with a, b and c instead of green-purple pair and red.
46:05 is my time. The extremely late disambiguation was frustrating, but fun at the same time. I didn't use as many colours. I used the same colour for the 12's as I did for the 78's. It also indicated which ones belonged together in the cages. Was hoping Simon would look at the 6 palindrome earlier. I thought it was funny that he doubted his colouring. Never doubt your colouring skills, Simon. Go all in :)
45:33 I was screaming at the screen when he put the 6 in: "the thermo is now a 4-5, red-green pair and the thermo tells you green is 5 red is 4, I REPEAT GREEN IS 5 RED IS 4"
I know this is a pretty obvious observation, but the coolest thing was that the whole time, you were only adding 3s 6s and 9s to the puzzle (all multiples of three, and and 2/3 being factors of 96), not being able to disambiguate any other numbers. But then as soon as you placed the last 6, and had every single 3 6 and 9 placed, the rest of the puzzle solved within seconds. I thought that was so cool. Major props to Stavros; what a beautiful, beautiful puzzle
[Sudoku competition starts]
Simon, holding 9 highlighters: Let's get cracking
It would be amusing to see a pen and paper solve of something as complicted as this. I struggle to get two pencil marks in the same box these days!
Woah, thanks for the feature! Glad to see this one get featured so quick! Time to see Simon attack it!
I always wonder: How does one produce a sudoku? Is there a software for this? I cannot even think how to "solve it backwards".
Genius 👌
@@FunChatterNo1 I think it's a mixture of solving backwards and idea inception. I myself for the past few months have been delving into this. There are softwares to check for basic sudoku and some specialties. But the rest is handwork.
This was a very special puzzle, a real joy. Thanks!
@@FunChatterNo1 I think for this one he just started with a real sudoku that had the palindromes, then added cages and the thermometer to actually be able to solve it
The fact that every single 3, 6, and 9 was found before a single other digit was solved is nothing short of art. What a wonderful puzzle.
For once, I actually feel like Simon didn't appreciate it enough haha.
And all the digits in the 9 were in the range 4-9. And all the digits in the 6 palindrome were in the range 1-6.
When Simon accidentally clicked off the website to the RUclips video of him learning how to play guitar (22:50), the like count is 369, coincident? Definitely. Still really cool though.
And that the first 3 is in a corner!
"If this is a blue-9 pair then 9 is not equal to yellow"
got me cracked alright. that's how he gets cracking i guess
Please - no spoilers =P
"This is a nine-blue pair"
And I lost it.
This is not the first time color-number pairs appeared
please keep this at 69 likes or get to 96 likes
@@micehunter1370 Saw it at 95. Did my duty.
Apparently 9 is not equal to yellow too
He got me at orange pears.
Can I just appreciate the fact, that Simon gave a like to a video of this guy teaching a guitar?
How many likes were there? Coincidence? I think not. I'm certain that's God's work.
Anyone else notice that Simon used purple to designate 6 at the very beginning. Then later he didn’t want to use yellow, so he got rid of the purples for 6. And switched the yellow to purple. Ironically, the new purple also ended up being 6.
Was about to comment when I saw him remove the purple from second batch of 6, wish he remembered he removed it from other 6's and apologized to them by repainting originals purple again...
Alternate title: British man creates a new from of math involving colors as variables
Und zerefore, Pink to "The smell of bacon" divided by "Sticky"...
“Guys in this lesson we will explain how purple plus yellow equals nine; how blue plus orange equals nine; and to top it off, how green plus red equals nine”
Coincidentally sudoku solving is what a mathematician would call a graph colouring problem
I think there is already some historical precedent for using colors as variables, before letters even.
Substituting colors or even shapes as variables is the same as anything else. Nothing new here.
Wow. I was actually emotionally invested in each new reveal being a 3, 6 or 9, not one of the lesser, inferior, betrayer numbers! What a work of art.
"if you want to know the keys to the universe, think 3 6 9"
46:44 Wow, the whole puzzle is just 3, 6 and 9 so far. Kudos to stavros96 for the setting!
Just like the Georgian lyricist Jonathan Smith once wrote:
3, 6, 9, stand real fine /
Move it to you suck it to me one mo time /
Get low, get low, get low, get low /
To the windooooooow, to the wall
"Light grey is not 3"
Love him or hate him he's spitting facts.
Jokes on him, in my solve light gray was in fact 3.
@@BlueCyann barbaric
"...15 is not the same as 9 or 6."
- Simon Anthony 'Former world championship team sudoku competitor'
12:33
You gotta love Simon's trademark giggle - I'm calling it the "Flurry of Activity" giggle.
anyone else like it when he has trouble pronouncing his "threes"? He gets it fine most of the time but relapses now and then. It's just a little bit adorable.
Someone should make a puzzle called "Simon's favorite puzzle", which includes:
1. An extraordinary break-in.
2. Every square of the grid needs to be colored for everything to suddenly fall into place.
3. Phistomephel's ring must be used at some point (preferably early on, so it doesn't mess with the coloring).
10:19: "You can't put 9 in a cage, ever"
- All the 9s out there are cheering and free their brothers of Simon's last presentation "Encaged 9"
“Here is when it’s gonna get really spicy” 😂😂
"This triple is (wait for it) an orange - light gray - dark gray triple"
Wonderful puzzle, completely lost for most of the time but really entertaining
I loved the fact that the 6 was still purple
Like I say every time Simon uses colors to represent specific unknown values and struggles with "I know this is a purple-green pair but there's no real way to indicate that" it's just more evidence that the ability to use letter variables in pencil marking should be a top priority for the next version of the solving software.
It would also make explaining sudoku "math" like the phistomaphel ring much simpler
Either that, or the ability to put tiny colored squares to annotate more than one possible color.
Also being able to change the palette of colors to pick from, or to make them darker and lighter. That would certainly help those who are colorblind with having darker/lighter shades of the same color available so they have more to choose from. Already with some puzzles it'd be helpful to have more than 9 colors....and certainly the means to pencilmark them like the letters or tiny squares suggested.
At this point of time it's possible to highlight a square with all 9 different colours... go Sven!
@@lalalalalalalalal567all 27 now! The future is bright!
Simon, I just want to point out some other brilliant things I found with the design of this puzzle.
Right from the get-go, I noticed that the design of the palindrome lines meant that it must contain 6(!) unique digits - no number repeats in the palindrome except in its own reflection. Try it yourself, it's really phenomenal. Realising this property of the puzzle gave me the same amazing awe of design that the Miracle Sudoku 2 did with its thermos and anti-knight restraint.
Furthermore, upon completing the puzzle, you can see that the 9-shaped palindrome on the left contains the highest 6 digits (4 through 9) and the 6-shaped palindrome on the right contains the lowest 6 digits (1 through 6). Unreal.
I've been watching your videos for a couple months now. Once I was confident enough with what I'd learnt from you, I started to try every puzzle myself before watching. I'd say that was around a month ago, and I'm now able to complete around half of them completely on my own... even if some of them take the whole day! So here's a heartfelt thank you from down here in Australia, for getting me hooked on yet another activity within which I can ignite a passion.
P.S. My goal is to set my own sudoku puzzles once I'm feel I'm ready to give that a go. I only hope that I can make one which blows the socks off of the testers and you'll have simply no choice but to showcase it on the channel. ;)
Yes, I was noticing that too. And once you had placed a 9 in the left palindrome then there were no longer any place for it in the right one.
I just wanted to say that this comment was lovely and it made me smile :)
@@rosegoldberg2469 Thanks Rose, glad I could make you smile. I hope you have a wonderful day!
We should try to find Simon some more puzzles that require coloring, he gets so excited every time 😅
I know it's stupid, but I just love it when Simon says something like "This is a 9-blue pair", puts a huge smile on my face
even though i’m rather useless with puzzles myself, i love listening to these videos when i’m studying. they’re really relaxing, but so engaging as well. thanks from an ib student in morocco xD
Except i can't tear my eyes off the screen for even a second
Fellow IB student here, hope studies are well!
The software is crying out for a way to have multiple colors in a square
ooh, did they add that recently?
@@RilianSharp That has since became a feature yes!
I was just watching this video and became a little confused when Simon couldnt pencilmark 2 colours in the same cell at the beggining 😅 This function is now so frequently used by Simon its hard to believe he could solve puzzles without it several months ago 😂
In a rare turn of events, I solved this one myself -- in 96 minutes 😁
ah, almost, it took me 100 minutes aahah
Highly intelligent puzzle solver: "Oh wow, I've only found 6's and 9's to start with in Stavros96's sudoku titled "Everything is Stavros96" featuring palindromes in the shape of '96'. If, and I say *IF* this is intentional, that is quite brilliant!"
Stavros96: Oh, my sweet summer child.
Amazing symmetry in the solve, with the cages being used at the beginning to get the first digits, then coming back in the end to finally disambiguate the colors and lead to the solve. What a puzzle!
Really terrific. The quality of puzzles is so high, and so consistent. Wow!
I love how excited Simon gets about coloring. And he’s always so good about coloring within the lines. Lol
One of my favorite puzzles in the 6 months I've been on this channel. Good job, Simon!
Simon! You are a brilliant entertainer, perceptive puzzle solver and much more clever than you want us to believe! Thank you for the content!
In a gloomy world your love for your hobby and your infectious enthusiasm for sudoku is a joy to watch!
An idea for pencilmarking dominos like the Green/purple one at the beginning: label them like you did, and then pencilmark a zero to indicate the possibility to interchange. With the new software, zero is possible to write in after all, so why not use it to your advantage?
It would also be nice if you could just pencilmark colors. That comes up more often than you'd think
If pencilmarking colors wasnt doable in the software because of logistics, they should at least provide the option for two-tone cells, where both colors shows as a triangle.
I was thinking the same thing! either that or if the software allowed for variables to be entered that'd be great.
@@averygaron994 Surely the easiest is just to allow letters in the grid (both as main digits and pencil marks) and then use these rather than colours. the ease with which you could solve these sorts of puzzles if you could pencil mark an AB pair for example, is mindblowing
You get exactly the same effect as colors if you could enter ordered pairs. Instead of having blue and yellow 78 pairs, you just need to be able to type in 87 and 78 and have them show up in that order.
Simon - when you said “Blue, blue” I was 2 seconds ahead of you on “Barney McGrew” - probably the only time I have ever been ahead of you on a serious solve! Thank you for a marvellous video!
Watching Simon (who occasionally forgets to do Sudoku) playing Sudoku... 😂 "Absolutely lovely"
If there's ever an update to the software, making an option to "corner mark" different colors might be helpful! It would make the opening green/purple pair a bit easier to hold onto
And a "shift" button for a mobile device to highlight disconnected cells at once
Same could be solved by adding the ability to use letter variables in pencil marks, which would work better than shading in a lot of the contexts we see shading used on these puzzles (with added benefit of eliminating colorblind concerns)
I agree with the letters idea, I guess there's probably a reason to restrict it to a specific set of characters, but having the alphabet available as well as the digits 1-9 (and zero) would come in very handy sometimes when two cells are the same but their value is not known, or in some puzzles where clues are given as letters in/outside the grid.
@@philm5872, I’d appreciate that very much, but maybe making the selection persistent, with a “clear selection” button would work even better.
@@felipevasconcelos6736 potentially. I find myself selecting a single cell or a string of cells a lot more often than many separated cells. Might be annoying to always have to clear a selection. But hey, not sure CtC reads chats within chats so..😄
Always a fan of coloring puzzles, especially in the new software with the added colors it's so nice
I absolutely adore how happy sudoku makes this man
That's the most beautiful sudoku puzzle I've ever seen. Bravo Stavros96!
It’s really awesome watching you solve a sudoku with colors and being able to follow along. Even though I currently can not do this by myself, the way you explain keeps me engaged and “solving it with you”!!
"Blue is fascinating. Good grief!" 🤣
lol! When Simon said 'Blue, blue..." my mind filled in "...Barney, McGrew, Cuthbert, Dibble, Grub" just a fraction of a second ahead of Simon saying the same. Thanks Simon, that is the first time I have truly laughed out loud for a very long time!
This one was absolutely incredible! I was straight up hootin' and hollerin' and pounding my thighs as I noticed new logic unfolding. As always, your enthusiasm is infectious, and I'm glad my Sudoku skills have improved so that I can better appreciate and share in the joy that comes from solving puzzles like this. 😄
14:50 I had never thought that one day I would try so hard to talk to someone in a pre-recorded video.
What a nice puzzle, 84 minutes for me, I've coloured all the pairs before putting them in. So satisfying...
Going back and watching episodes I’ve missed or rewatching and marveling at how much Sven has added to the software over time. Love you Simon et al!
40:30 Ah, a classic 3-Orange deadly pattern
I received so much satisfaction watching the colors turn into numbers en masse at the end.
Love watching u solving the puzzles been watching all of them
Simon: "there is an orange in this sudoku puzzle"
Computer *Windows had stopped working*
These videos help me go to sleep, not because it's boring, just cause he has such a nice voice :)
Makes me want to get better at sudoku! It's really fascinating to watch!
Lovely puzzle. Took me a looooong while to figure out that I should be doing sudoku with colours and not numbers and then started making predictable progress. Really enjoyed it.
This was absolute madness and i enjoyed every second of it
That poor 12 pair in column 2 sure was completely overlooked, and it would have been so helpful.
yup. he was so into coloring the cells i think he forgot it was still sudoku and not nonogram.
Not to brag, but I correctly....
...predicted which colours Simon would use for the "6" palindrome xD
Plot twist: purple is purple!
Easy. Elegant. 40min on a relaxed tempo. Very enjoyable puzzle.
46:12 "This square. What the h... What is that?"
Nice correction.xDD
“Have I sown the seeds of my own demise?” Lol
That was a really beautiful puzzle, I think my favorite yet. Steadily building up the pairs and working through the threes/sixes/nines before the dam breaks at the end felt amazing, real kudos to the setter.
Multicolor mode has been a lifesaver!! I love coloring sudokus
Left side: Skittles colours
Right side: Metallic colours.
I FRICKEN' KNEW IT!!! It was only gonna solve 3s, 6s and 9s for the whole thing, and everything else was going to be in a state of being either one or another number, and the thermometers would allow you you to fill it ALL in at the very end by telling you which one was larger!!! YAAAASSSSS!!!!!
Oh no
_[flips the grid 180 degrees and it still says "96"]_
Thank God
Plus the rotational symmetry of 96 sort of fits with the symmetry of palindromes
Just look at the sudoku through the mirror to see the nice 69.
@@niluscvp Are you sure about that
@@niluscvp, that would result in something like “ae”, not “69”.
My first reaction was "aw, too bad it's not 69" ... maybe that is something that's wrong with *me* :D
Simon: "I'm gonna turn these yellow cells into purple cells, so I don't confuse them with the cursor"
The cells: *are actually purple*
(Because you know, purple was 6)
So this is what is like to love Simon and the passion he has, and also logic puzzles. Then however not understanding the colors and not understanding a bit of the logic.
Sudoku has become damned chess level intricate.
How you kept that all straight in your head was unbelievable, and the best part of the puzzle!
Great puzzle right down Simons street for a terrific enthusiastic solve
Loved it
Thanks guys
I love when he quotes black ops 😂 “the numbers mason what do they mean”
I couldn't believe it XD
Thank you dearly for colouring in the rest of the 3s really made my day
A suggestion for the next version of the software: Corner markings of little color rectangles. Then you can mark "blue or green" on a single square. Also increase the number of colors a bit more.
Loved that! Absolutely BRILLIANT!!!
What a lovely puzzle. Frankly mindboggling.
I just started watching this channel a couple weeks ago and I just had my first moment where I spotted something really important before Simon did. I’m learning 😆
Gotta love the setting at 46:51, with all 3, 6 and 9 filled into the grid.
Wow. One of the best puzzles I've ever seen on this channel
i do enjoy these and can only wish that I could be able to do one myself! you make it look, relatively, easy!
I used to do paint by numbers when I was a child. I never expected to see one in a world class sudoku video. Awesome!
Wow. That. Is. Just. Incredible. Now i need to watch the video to see Simon's face when he sees what's going on. Seriously one of the best puzzles I've ever completed.
I only found this channel recently and it is always interesting seeing the problems that resulted in the various features of your software.
This just made me smile and I'm still smiling!
Amazingly, a lot of the ideas I had about this Sudoku (especially in the first 20 minutes), Simon also had about 10 seconds later... including the "blue, blue, barney mcgrew, cuthbert dibble and grubb" line :) (Edited to add: even at 47 minutes out of a 49.5 minute video, the only digits placed were 3s, 6s and 9s - amazing!)
Wow that was a truly beautiful puzzle!! The flow of it felt amazing to work through. Favourite one I've played so far :)
Found out purple in the grey nine is six, removes the color so he can reuse it in the grey six. Finds out purple is six again. Love it!
It was soooo satisfying at the end. Like a reverse color by numbers.
32:18 Putting 12 in R1C2 makes a 12 pair in the column and resolves R3C2 to a 3. Immediately huge progress. Simonitis columnensis perpetua. We love you, Simon!!!
[added in edit:] 40:10 A deep theorem proved by St Anthony puts a 3 in R3C2.
Russell & Whitehead's Principia Mathematica takes a few hundred pages to prove that 1+1=2. We may have seen the opening of a wholly new perspective on variant Sudoku here. If you have the choice between trivial sudoku and revelatory colouring, go for the colouring every day of the week and twice on Sunday.
I apologise, Simon. It's not sarcasm but deep deep admiration. Your brain is a joy to share with you.
Can we just appreciate that this guy is playing sudoku with colours?
I love how quickly it unwinds at the end.
Everything becomes clear after you see 369
A brilliant sudoku today! Enjoyed watching you solve it.
I struggle with classic sudoku on my own, but when i watch cracking the cryptic, suddenly im a genius bc im pointing out shit simon's missing xD It's literally only bc he overthinks and i can only see obvious things, but for a bit i can pretend to be smart lol
Still one of the most brilliant puzzles, after three years. I am glad it was included in volume 2 of *CTC Greatest Hits.*
Love the trip to trumpton refrenece in the middle of solving!
36:20 was that a CoD reference?
What a wonderful puzzle. I didn't do it seriously since I had the app and your video open to get me started but still this was a blast. And you indeed only get 9s, 6s, 3s and colours until the very end ^^
I solved along as I usualy do, unpausing the video when I get stuck, but I managed to make a mess out of the mixed color/pencilmark notation and noticed only when I was 3/4 through, so I just ragequit and watched Simon instead. The skill required to juggle the restrictions, particularly the ones that cannot be expressed cleanly in notation, is amazingly subtle and hard to appreciate until you try it yourself.
Thank you, Cracking the Cryptic for the fun content you create on daily basis. Thank you for entering the puzzles into the software and providing an opportunity to try them. I wonder, if it is possible to ad the possibility to ad letters as options into the grid (a-i), as placeholder so to say. That way you (or we) could say col 1 has to start with a, b and c instead of green-purple pair and red.
46:05 is my time. The extremely late disambiguation was frustrating, but fun at the same time. I didn't use as many colours. I used the same colour for the 12's as I did for the 78's. It also indicated which ones belonged together in the cages. Was hoping Simon would look at the 6 palindrome earlier. I thought it was funny that he doubted his colouring. Never doubt your colouring skills, Simon. Go all in :)
I'm glad you fixed the color problem you used to have.
You could put "0" in the colored cells that could be one of 2 colors.
"I only have Light Grey left". Meanwhile, mark is still not using that black coloring which work surprisingly well in the new software.
45:33 I was screaming at the screen when he put the 6 in:
"the thermo is now a 4-5, red-green pair and the thermo tells you green is 5 red is 4, I REPEAT GREEN IS 5 RED IS 4"
I know this is a pretty obvious observation, but the coolest thing was that the whole time, you were only adding 3s 6s and 9s to the puzzle (all multiples of three, and and 2/3 being factors of 96), not being able to disambiguate any other numbers. But then as soon as you placed the last 6, and had every single 3 6 and 9 placed, the rest of the puzzle solved within seconds. I thought that was so cool. Major props to Stavros; what a beautiful, beautiful puzzle
I would never expect a call of duty reference, really made me chuckle
AND a Trumpton Fire Brigade reference.
When was the CoD reference?
@@markscottuk THE NUMBERS MASON??? WHAT DO THEY MEAN??? (The first Black Ops iirc.)
@@markscottuk 36:19. "The numbers Mason, what do they mean?" is a reference to the first CoD: Black Ops.
I love to think that this man who I assume is in his fifties has played black ops 1
Flawless solve... my blood pressure remained stable. Beautifully done!