A much easier way to see that red is 123, is: The red cells in box 5 are consecutive, and see a full 6-cell Renban, so they are “extreme”: 123 or 789. 8 is green, so red must be 123, and the Renban is another 456789.
19:07 a lot of pencilmarks were made, and one wrong made all wrong, but I didn't had to comeback a lot 😬 It was fun. But it wasn't easy for you... 😅 I like that, even when it is hard you dont give up! Thanks 🤗
Good one. I spent far too long trying to resolve all the 5/7 pairs by concentrating too much on box 4 when there was a 4 on a white dot in box 3 just shouting at me to place the 5 lol.
I got a really quick time. But when I went back to remind myself how I had figured out the 57 in your green section (coincidentally also green in mine) by stepping back through the process, I discovered that I had removed 8 as a possibility in r5c1, but I don't see how I could logically make that conclusion. So I guess I got lucky. What I decided to do was continue my clock from where I had finished from the point at which i made the mistake, and continue on to the end from there. On my second run-through, I didn't resolve the 57 until much later, very close to the end of the puzzle. My final time was 24:43, solver number 349. (Original solve time: 11:02, "solver" number 310.)
I found it very useful, after working out the braiding, to work on the black Kropki dots in box 7, and the 2-cell renbans in box 1. That allowed me, I think for the very first time, to best Sleuth's time by a few minutes (not that many!) However, I'll confess that it seemed "obvious" to me for a little while the the three "strands of the braid were 123, 456, 789. Of course, something being "obvious" is no guarantee of its truth. Nerd-ism of the day: to "prove" something did not originally mean to "justify it by rigorous logical argument". This is seen in the many Germanic & Slavic languages where a word similar to "prove" means "to attempt":or "to test" something. Ex. in German "probieren", in Ukrainian, "vyprovubaty"., in Esperanto "provi". So originally "to prove" something meant "to try something out in order to see if it works. This insight makes sense of the sayings "the exception that PROVES the rule" (that is, it TESTS the rule to see if it holds) and "the proof of the pudding lies in the eating". Long story short: I "proved" that the middle triplet in the above Sudoku was not 456 by jumping to the unfounded conclusion that it was 456, trying it out, and having it blow up in my face. Not elegant 😞
Thanks for pointing out the roping. I didn’t see that. Great puzzle. ❤
That was such a brilliant puzzle!!!!
A much easier way to see that red is 123, is: The red cells in box 5 are consecutive, and see a full 6-cell Renban, so they are “extreme”: 123 or 789. 8 is green, so red must be 123, and the Renban is another 456789.
Wow. I finished in only 14:09. Saw the roping instantly.
Took a while for it to click for me but happy to get it solved. Fun solve. 41 min
Great one Thank you
Glad you enjoyed it
That was a fun puzzle! 21:32 for me. 😄
19:07 a lot of pencilmarks were made, and one wrong made all wrong, but I didn't had to comeback a lot 😬
It was fun. But it wasn't easy for you... 😅 I like that, even when it is hard you dont give up!
Thanks 🤗
16:04 for my time. very nice puzzle to end the day.
Just 9 minutes! Sleuth took too long to avoid placing 9 on all Renbans, and thus having ropes equivalents in all 6 boxes
Good one. I spent far too long trying to resolve all the 5/7 pairs by concentrating too much on box 4 when there was a 4 on a white dot in box 3 just shouting at me to place the 5 lol.
16:14 to solve. Awesome puzzle
26:01 for me
I got a really quick time. But when I went back to remind myself how I had figured out the 57 in your green section (coincidentally also green in mine) by stepping back through the process, I discovered that I had removed 8 as a possibility in r5c1, but I don't see how I could logically make that conclusion. So I guess I got lucky. What I decided to do was continue my clock from where I had finished from the point at which i made the mistake, and continue on to the end from there.
On my second run-through, I didn't resolve the 57 until much later, very close to the end of the puzzle. My final time was 24:43, solver number 349. (Original solve time: 11:02, "solver" number 310.)
I found it very useful, after working out the braiding, to work on the black Kropki dots in box 7, and the 2-cell renbans in box 1. That allowed me, I think for the very first time, to best Sleuth's time by a few minutes (not that many!) However, I'll confess that it seemed "obvious" to me for a little while the the three "strands of the braid were 123, 456, 789. Of course, something being "obvious" is no guarantee of its truth.
Nerd-ism of the day: to "prove" something did not originally mean to "justify it by rigorous logical argument". This is seen in the many Germanic & Slavic languages where a word similar to "prove" means "to attempt":or "to test" something. Ex. in German "probieren", in Ukrainian, "vyprovubaty"., in Esperanto "provi". So originally "to prove" something meant "to try something out in order to see if it works. This insight makes sense of the sayings "the exception that PROVES the rule" (that is, it TESTS the rule to see if it holds) and "the proof of the pudding lies in the eating". Long story short: I "proved" that the middle triplet in the above Sudoku was not 456 by jumping to the unfounded conclusion that it was 456, trying it out, and having it blow up in my face. Not elegant 😞
Not my smoothest solve my a long shot 😃
Looks like we had our "first time" together. You always remember your first ;-)