Thanks to Simon for solving my puzzle with flying colors! I very much enjoyed your approach to this one. Really lovely guitar intro as well, makes me want to dust my own guitar off.
What a stratospherically elegant and incommensurably cool artwork. I loved solving it from start to end, including the ruleset and the pyrothecnic disambiguation, with the *1-5* cell appearing twice in the same 3-cell cage and the magic repulsive effect of the other 3-cell cages on the digit *8‼* Thank you again for offering us so many *memorable* solving experiences.
More than feeling great about solving some of the puzzles by setters like yourself I just am left in awe of your abilities, creativity and what not. Simple rules and elegant paths!
I have a special love for puzzles and solves that end with every cell colored and/or lettered, and all the numbers get filled in only at the very end. Great puzzle and great video. Thank you.
Same here. but not too often you get both the colors and letters. alot of the knights move constraint puzzles you can fill in the colors before you start deducing the values of the cells. i usually always go far as i can with the coloring before i start deciphering the values of the cells even when its not totally necessary.
There is always something so satisfying completing a coloring puzzle. The best part being figuring the right numbers right at the end and replacing each color by its number.
Rules: 01:10 Let's Get Cracking: 07:23 Simon's time: 37m23s Puzzle Solved: 44:46 What about this video's Top Tier Simarkisms?! The Secret: 5x (07:31, 07:35, 07:46, 07:59, 08:50) Three In the Corner: 1x (28:40) And how about this video's Simarkisms?! Ah: 13x (11:18, 12:26, 12:43, 18:39, 22:03, 26:37, 27:26, 28:02, 32:36, 34:22, 34:22, 38:14, 39:01, 43:03) By Sudoku: 8x (12:05, 15:22, 16:59, 27:32, 32:09, 39:09, 41:52, 42:13) Hang On: 5x (19:37, 22:01, 24:32, 29:36, 33:24) Sorry: 4x (21:02, 30:40, 34:07, 37:49) Lovely: 4x (05:34, 16:09, 44:47, 44:47) In Fact: 4x (15:44, 25:48, 39:29, 45:00) Obviously: 4x (13:05, 13:57, 33:47, 37:05) Cake!: 4x (03:54, 04:15, 04:37, 06:02) Extraordinary: 3x (00:48, 00:48, 00:51) Useless: 2x (36:11, 36:14) The Answer is: 2x (19:59, 27:47) Stuck: 2x (30:09, 35:17) Brilliant: 2x (05:15, 44:51) Think Harder: 2x (25:26, 26:25) Box Thingy: 2x (32:02, 32:05) What Does This Mean?: 2x (08:31, 23:59) Weird: 2x (31:18, 31:18) Nonsense: 1x (25:54) Naughty: 1x (35:31) Gorgeous: 1x (30:04) Shouting: 1x (03:36) Surely: 1x (38:51) Whoopsie: 1x (41:44) We Can Do Better Than That: 1x (23:32) Unstuck: 1x (30:10) Nature: 1x (39:07) Pencil Mark/mark: 1x (12:30) Most popular number(>9), digit and colour this video: Ten (14 mentions) One (32 mentions) Orange (65 mentions) Antithesis Battles: Column (11) - Row (8) 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? A2: I've been thinking about that and wrote some code to make that possible. Let me know which channel you think would be a good fit!
This was so satisfying to watch. I looked at the puzzle and realized the options for the middle digit, and that was about it. As usual, I forgot about the power of colouring. Thank you for showcasing this marvellous puzzle!
Colored and lettered all the cells which took quite a bit longer than Simon of course, while thinking I’m probably missing something simpler and doing it the long way. So I was pleasantly surprised to watch Simon’s take afterwards. First comment in the channel btw, although I’ve been following since covid days. So thank you Simon & Mark for all the videos.
40:00 when you double click on a cell, it selects other cells based on which option is highlighted for entering colours/numbers. If you are on the “corner pencilmark” layout and double click a C-cell, it would highlight all C-cells only. If you are on the “colours” layout then it would highlight all blue cells
21:48 for me - the first thing I thought about when I saw the simple rules and the cages is that someone who is familiar with cages might assume cages can't have repeated digits.
I am the new to varient sudoku solver Simon described! Had a great time noodling my way through the puzzle, and when that center digit showed up as a doubled number on the cage I just went "Ah finally! The boxes are elevens!" I felt very smart and proud of myself. Now, this is usually an issue when I forget the same rule in a killer cage puzzle, but it worked in my favor this time 😂 a very good time!
39:08 Simon often doesn't see the easy way to prove one cell, but that also shows his brilliance. I love watching him outsmart me in every sudoku. However, in my solve I noticed both double blue and green cells in r2 and double orange and black cells in c7. That automatically makes r2c7 purple and proves that it's 1. I funnily enough found out that purple was 1 before finding out r2c7 was purple. The reasoning is that r2c2 and r9c4 are different flavors of blue as Simon wonderfully pointed out. If purple is 5 then r9c4/5 sum to 5, making its blue flavor small. That makes r2c2 big and 5 plus minimum 6 is more than 10, making purple 1.
To be fair, I remember my first time running into a cage sudoku that allowed repeated digits. Because the few killer cage puzzles before that didn't allow repeats, I assumed that rule until watching your solve of the puzzle.
I finished in 46:33 minutes. This was an incredibly fun coloring puzzle. It almost felt impossible at first with only two and three celled cages. Then, I started coloring and everything made sense. I almost thought I broke it at the end when I made r2c7 the same as r5c5. I thought it kicked the color out, but that only applies to standard killer cages. Digits can repeat in this one. Very tricky. The ending was so satisfying, especially using that double color in the three celled cage I just talked about. This was so fun to do. For Simon, I really enjoyed the intro song. Simple Man is one of my favorite songs of all time, so it was great hearing you play it. Great Puzzle!
Solved it in 50:09. It is possible to color the whole grid without adding letters. I discovered the double 1 after coloring all cells and then it was easy to just add the numbers one by one.
The musical intro is beautiful. You know a video is going to be even better than normal when Simon plays his guitar. Can't wait for the stream tonight.
Oh that is a beautiful beautiful puzzle. I doubt if there is a more elegant way to solve it than with colours. A terrific job all round, by both the setter and the solver. It reminded me of the words of another famous puzzle creator, Erno Rubik talking about his cube… “it was wonderful to see how … the colors became mixed, apparently in random fashion. It was tremendously satisfying to watch this color parade. Like after a nice walk when you have seen many lovely sights you decide to go home … it was at that moment that I came face to face with the big challenge: What is the way home?”
Wow! What a brain teaser that was for me! At 165 minutes, not an impressive time, but it was juuuust at the edge of my skill. I felt, I KNEW, I could do it. After a few restarts and some serious head-against-wall moments, I proved myself right. Thanks for the ride!
absolutely loved this puzzle - probably my favorite that i've ever solved!! 1:15:00 for me; i had gotten started on my colors by about 10 mins, got side-tracked trying to color my cages by how many other cages they saw (i.e. how restricted they were). i switched my colors to be by the pair until i got stuck at about 30 mins, where it took me until 50 mins to finally fix my colors in the top half of the board! my logic was not on point today. but absolutely beautiful and so much fun
Simon must have rescued a whole school full of children from a raging fire-storm in a previous life, because NOBODY else would deserve to have puzzles this great constructed explicitly for their pleasure...!
This was an incredible puzzle. I'm still quite a novice at solving sudokus but I did manage to get this one in the end after a couple of hours using all sorts of tricks I've seen here on the channel. Thanks for your videos!!
61 minutes. That was really enjoyable! I definitely found it productive to start off with placeholder letters right at the beginning. Later on I replaced E and F in box 5 with an EF pair so I could mark the rest against each other (they turned out to be 4 and 7). The discovery of two I (the center digit) in a cage unwound everything so delightfully.
That was one of the best endings I've seen, just being able to get all the numbers at once. Wow. Takes a skilled setter too to make a puzzle like that where you don't find out what the sum of each cage is until close to the end.
Ah, it's been a while since I've done a really good coloring puzzle. That was delightful. Thanks to Juggler for this lovely construction, and Simon for an excellent solve!
This puzzle demonstrates a growing frustration I have with how complex the rules on some puzzles have got. While this one has a pretty basic set of rules, it needed to have the rule "digits can repeat in cages if allowed by other rules" - purely because 99.9% of the time we encounter cage-rules, we're told digits can't repeat. I've seen so many other puzzles where rules like white/black dots are used, and it doesn't explicitly say whether the negative constraint exists or not.
Brilliant puzzle and great solve. Solved it in 31:03. At the beginning of the channel this would have been much more difficult to solve, but now with both coloring and letters available, it is much easier.
Solved it eventually, but only after I went down a huge rabbit hole of eliminating what Simon has as purple from the 3 cell cage. Instructions should really say that cages can have repeated digits (I think of the default as them not able to have them.) I'd rather have a good rule set than making it shorter for the purpose of making it seem cooler. Ended up watching the video and once I saw that Simon had the same question. Only difference is that Simon's a lot more confident that he didn't screw up than I am.
Managed to solve this one without following along to Simon. Gonna watch his solve still, just to see if I made things more difficult for myself than need be. I'm glad I basically started the same... although I did color the center box and then did the center with the 45 - 4x(9...11) values. Lol. Almost had the same colors as Simon too. Only a bit more pastel and I did put the center box in grey instead of one of the boxes. Then I used placeholders A, B and C up to I. Had that inkling and tingling feeling that we would have a cage that repeated the center cell-159. Normally cage rules explicitly state repeats are forbidden, not mentioning those means they are allowed. Plus they'd do great to disambiguate.
What a colourful puzzle. I had also started with 5 colors and letters, which really confused me. So I decided to use 9 colors without letters, which ended up working better. A great adventure.
Oh, I solved this one yesterday! I did get the rules wrongly by assuming cages don't repeat, so I ended up redoing the puzzle thrice (and arriving at the same thing) before noticing what I was missing :')
Beautiful puzzle. I got it in 02:57:24, which is really pretty good based on my usual times. As others, I love coloring puzzles. I did do an unnecessary reset after seeing two cages with red/pink/X where X was different and thinking I'd broken it, before later realising that pink could be two different digits in the two places.
Great puzzle, I took a couple of hours and I almost restarted the puzzle, but I could unblock the missolve with a short solve from the beginning. This puzzle is approachable and a great challenge for beginners (and experts alike). I did have fun solving the final digits after doing the entire puzzle with the letter tool. Those trionimos were helpful ;)
39:54, finally a respectable time, or at least faster than Simon for once. Found the cage repeat and thought I'd broken things for a second. Very cool to do all the coloring first.
I used 9 colours in r6, recognising that there were 4 distinct dominoes and they all had to be one of those 4. I think using two colours for each domino instead of one made it A LOT easier. I assigned a colour to the centre square as well, so when it appeared twice in the same triomino, it caused all the values to unravel - I'd almost solved the sudoku with colours alone by that point, just a few of the dominoes were ambiguous which way round they were, resolved by the other two triominoes once values were assigned.
Beautiful puzzle, I loved solving it. Took me a while to find a good place to start the colouring (maybe I missed some options on my earlier attempts) but got there in the end :)
Immensely enjoyable, this one. Great flow, and a plethora of Eurekas to be had. Also a great solve, thank you! Although the double 15 was available much earlier, that square sees two of every color... :-)
Love the intro! Simple Man is such a beautiful song. I hope you’re a Lynyrd Skynyrd fan too ❤. Tuesdays Gone is my fav from them and also has a gorgeous intro. Frankly they have a lot of great intros. I play the piano and I would love to be able to play the solo from I Know a Little Also great solving - I love the coloring/alphabet puzzles.
13:55: "... but I think that could be orange": Well, we know one thing for sure: if it is orange, it has to be orange A. If it were orange B, where would orange A in the box go? Not in column 4, that's for sure. Not in r8c5/6, because that would make it part of a domino, so the other part of the domino would have to be orange as well, resulting in three orange cells in box 8. Not in r9c6 for the reason Simon explained. So the remaining orange would have to be in r7c5 or r7c6. Both of those see the orange A in box 9, so that means only orange B could ever be in either of those cells
Thanks to Simon for solving my puzzle with flying colors! I very much enjoyed your approach to this one. Really lovely guitar intro as well, makes me want to dust my own guitar off.
What a stratospherically elegant and incommensurably cool artwork. I loved solving it from start to end, including the ruleset and the pyrothecnic disambiguation, with the *1-5* cell appearing twice in the same 3-cell cage and the magic repulsive effect of the other 3-cell cages on the digit *8‼*
Thank you again for offering us so many *memorable* solving experiences.
"Flying" pretty colours
Thank you for this puzzle, and thank you Simon for a very enjoyable solve!
@@Paolo_De_Levawhat an eloquent response!
More than feeling great about solving some of the puzzles by setters like yourself I just am left in awe of your abilities, creativity and what not. Simple rules and elegant paths!
There is nothing more satisfying than not getting a digit for an hour and then being done 15 seconds later lol
I have a special love for puzzles and solves that end with every cell colored and/or lettered, and all the numbers get filled in only at the very end. Great puzzle and great video. Thank you.
This one reminds me of the Rainbow Windmill one,
(Simon solved on 16 April 2023) which was one of my favorites.
Same here. but not too often you get both the colors and letters. alot of the knights move constraint puzzles you can fill in the colors before you start deducing the values of the cells. i usually always go far as i can with the coloring before i start deciphering the values of the cells even when its not totally necessary.
There is always something so satisfying completing a coloring puzzle. The best part being figuring the right numbers right at the end and replacing each color by its number.
42:06 Missed opportunity to sing "That's D in corner, That's D in the spotlight, losing its religion" 😂😂😂
HAH!
trying to keep N I on U
THAT'S EXACTLY WHAT I WAS THINKING
Rules: 01:10
Let's Get Cracking: 07:23
Simon's time: 37m23s
Puzzle Solved: 44:46
What about this video's Top Tier Simarkisms?!
The Secret: 5x (07:31, 07:35, 07:46, 07:59, 08:50)
Three In the Corner: 1x (28:40)
And how about this video's Simarkisms?!
Ah: 13x (11:18, 12:26, 12:43, 18:39, 22:03, 26:37, 27:26, 28:02, 32:36, 34:22, 34:22, 38:14, 39:01, 43:03)
By Sudoku: 8x (12:05, 15:22, 16:59, 27:32, 32:09, 39:09, 41:52, 42:13)
Hang On: 5x (19:37, 22:01, 24:32, 29:36, 33:24)
Sorry: 4x (21:02, 30:40, 34:07, 37:49)
Lovely: 4x (05:34, 16:09, 44:47, 44:47)
In Fact: 4x (15:44, 25:48, 39:29, 45:00)
Obviously: 4x (13:05, 13:57, 33:47, 37:05)
Cake!: 4x (03:54, 04:15, 04:37, 06:02)
Extraordinary: 3x (00:48, 00:48, 00:51)
Useless: 2x (36:11, 36:14)
The Answer is: 2x (19:59, 27:47)
Stuck: 2x (30:09, 35:17)
Brilliant: 2x (05:15, 44:51)
Think Harder: 2x (25:26, 26:25)
Box Thingy: 2x (32:02, 32:05)
What Does This Mean?: 2x (08:31, 23:59)
Weird: 2x (31:18, 31:18)
Nonsense: 1x (25:54)
Naughty: 1x (35:31)
Gorgeous: 1x (30:04)
Shouting: 1x (03:36)
Surely: 1x (38:51)
Whoopsie: 1x (41:44)
We Can Do Better Than That: 1x (23:32)
Unstuck: 1x (30:10)
Nature: 1x (39:07)
Pencil Mark/mark: 1x (12:30)
Most popular number(>9), digit and colour this video:
Ten (14 mentions)
One (32 mentions)
Orange (65 mentions)
Antithesis Battles:
Column (11) - Row (8)
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?
A2: I've been thinking about that and wrote some code to make that possible. Let me know which channel you think would be a good fit!
This was so satisfying to watch. I looked at the puzzle and realized the options for the middle digit, and that was about it. As usual, I forgot about the power of colouring.
Thank you for showcasing this marvellous puzzle!
We really just narrowly missed getting a once in a lifetime "that's E in the corner, that's E in the spotlight" song, unbelievable.
We have had that, at least once, I believe. 😸🎶
Colored and lettered all the cells which took quite a bit longer than Simon of course, while thinking I’m probably missing something simpler and doing it the long way. So I was pleasantly surprised to watch Simon’s take afterwards.
First comment in the channel btw, although I’ve been following since covid days. So thank you Simon & Mark for all the videos.
40:00 when you double click on a cell, it selects other cells based on which option is highlighted for entering colours/numbers. If you are on the “corner pencilmark” layout and double click a C-cell, it would highlight all C-cells only. If you are on the “colours” layout then it would highlight all blue cells
Sven is the hero we deserve and need.
@@nathanmays7926 best part is this is not a new thing its been in there for many months simon just never knew
Doing god's work
So happy he completed the colors first before inputting the numbers that was so satisfying lol
love Simon playing the song Simple Man in the intro for the puzzle with the simplest ruleset. he's so clever
21:48 for me - the first thing I thought about when I saw the simple rules and the cages is that someone who is familiar with cages might assume cages can't have repeated digits.
If its needed:
Then you could replace : normal with killer.
I am the new to varient sudoku solver Simon described! Had a great time noodling my way through the puzzle, and when that center digit showed up as a doubled number on the cage I just went "Ah finally! The boxes are elevens!" I felt very smart and proud of myself.
Now, this is usually an issue when I forget the same rule in a killer cage puzzle, but it worked in my favor this time 😂 a very good time!
That is a wonderful “aha!”moment indeed
Welcome to the devious and delightful world of variant sudoku! 😊
That was so satisfying that it all solved so quickly at the end and not until all the letters and numbers had been placed. Very pleasing!
39:08 Simon often doesn't see the easy way to prove one cell, but that also shows his brilliance. I love watching him outsmart me in every sudoku. However, in my solve I noticed both double blue and green cells in r2 and double orange and black cells in c7. That automatically makes r2c7 purple and proves that it's 1.
I funnily enough found out that purple was 1 before finding out r2c7 was purple. The reasoning is that r2c2 and r9c4 are different flavors of blue as Simon wonderfully pointed out. If purple is 5 then r9c4/5 sum to 5, making its blue flavor small. That makes r2c2 big and 5 plus minimum 6 is more than 10, making purple 1.
i love how the colours in the 3 cages solve like 9->8->7->6. its beautiful
Took me 58 minutes, but the fact that I finished it without hints at all is what I'm really proud of doing.
To be fair, I remember my first time running into a cage sudoku that allowed repeated digits. Because the few killer cage puzzles before that didn't allow repeats, I assumed that rule until watching your solve of the puzzle.
I finished in 46:33 minutes. This was an incredibly fun coloring puzzle. It almost felt impossible at first with only two and three celled cages. Then, I started coloring and everything made sense. I almost thought I broke it at the end when I made r2c7 the same as r5c5. I thought it kicked the color out, but that only applies to standard killer cages. Digits can repeat in this one. Very tricky. The ending was so satisfying, especially using that double color in the three celled cage I just talked about. This was so fun to do. For Simon, I really enjoyed the intro song. Simple Man is one of my favorite songs of all time, so it was great hearing you play it. Great Puzzle!
Thank you for putting in the extra effort at the end. It makes for a satisfying finish.
Solved it in 50:09.
It is possible to color the whole grid without adding letters.
I discovered the double 1 after coloring all cells and then it was easy to just add the numbers one by one.
I always love color-first numbers-after-solving puzzles
Wow! How many puzzles do we come across with not a single clue number anywhere to be seen? Such elegance!
I like this one especially because numberless grids can tend to have quite complex logic to the break-in, but this one is very natural and simple
The musical intro is beautiful. You know a video is going to be even better than normal when Simon plays his guitar. Can't wait for the stream tonight.
Oh that is a beautiful beautiful puzzle. I doubt if there is a more elegant way to solve it than with colours.
A terrific job all round, by both the setter and the solver.
It reminded me of the words of another famous puzzle creator, Erno Rubik talking about his cube… “it was wonderful to see how … the colors became mixed, apparently in random fashion. It was tremendously satisfying to watch this color parade. Like after a nice walk when you have seen many lovely sights you decide to go home … it was at that moment that I came face to face with the big challenge: What is the way home?”
34:23 - This was after a complete restart when my colouring failed but… THAT WAS ABSOLUTELY BRILLIANT!!! One of my favourite puzzles of the year.
solved in 32:30! I got a little bit tripped up by the repeated diget in the cage, my killer (sudoku) instincts got the best of me haha
okay, that gituar solo in the beginning was the most wholesome thing I heard in a loooong time. thank you
Wow! What a brain teaser that was for me! At 165 minutes, not an impressive time, but it was juuuust at the edge of my skill. I felt, I KNEW, I could do it. After a few restarts and some serious head-against-wall moments, I proved myself right. Thanks for the ride!
These are my favorite types of sudoku
absolutely loved this puzzle - probably my favorite that i've ever solved!! 1:15:00 for me; i had gotten started on my colors by about 10 mins, got side-tracked trying to color my cages by how many other cages they saw (i.e. how restricted they were). i switched my colors to be by the pair until i got stuck at about 30 mins, where it took me until 50 mins to finally fix my colors in the top half of the board! my logic was not on point today. but absolutely beautiful and so much fun
84:14, loads of fun, and for the first time I did not need any hints from Simon: so proud!
Fantastic finish, very satisfying seeing all the cells marked and getting the double click flurry!
Simon must have rescued a whole school full of children from a raging fire-storm in a previous life, because NOBODY else would deserve to have puzzles this great constructed explicitly for their pleasure...!
34:28 clear for me, was lots of fun coloring and then doing math on the 3-cell cages to convert those colors to numbers, a real joy!
This was an incredible puzzle. I'm still quite a novice at solving sudokus but I did manage to get this one in the end after a couple of hours using all sorts of tricks I've seen here on the channel. Thanks for your videos!!
Wow, I solved it!!
I can absolutely say for certain that that was thanks to this channel.
You made me smarter! ❤
61 minutes. That was really enjoyable! I definitely found it productive to start off with placeholder letters right at the beginning. Later on I replaced E and F in box 5 with an EF pair so I could mark the rest against each other (they turned out to be 4 and 7). The discovery of two I (the center digit) in a cage unwound everything so delightfully.
love how pleased Simon is with himself
That was one of the coolest puzzles I've ever seen.
Finished in 19:55. Absolutely love puzzle with coloring and simple rules like this one!
22:50 finish. I also did a double take when I saw the duplicate number in the cage, but went with it. A very colorful puzzle!
That was one of the best endings I've seen, just being able to get all the numbers at once. Wow. Takes a skilled setter too to make a puzzle like that where you don't find out what the sum of each cage is until close to the end.
Ah, it's been a while since I've done a really good coloring puzzle. That was delightful. Thanks to Juggler for this lovely construction, and Simon for an excellent solve!
00:36:55 for me. Loved how such a simple rule set can be used to create such a great puzzle! Kind comment.
Thx Simon you made me smile today :)
This was excellent, as an only occasional watcher and even rarer successful solver, this was the best I’ve done so far
A round of applause to you, Simon. A fantastic solve.
I stared at this thing for an hour and barely got anywhere, it's so cool how you solved it
I can confidently say, you are the coolest to me, as well!
This puzzle demonstrates a growing frustration I have with how complex the rules on some puzzles have got. While this one has a pretty basic set of rules, it needed to have the rule "digits can repeat in cages if allowed by other rules" - purely because 99.9% of the time we encounter cage-rules, we're told digits can't repeat.
I've seen so many other puzzles where rules like white/black dots are used, and it doesn't explicitly say whether the negative constraint exists or not.
"Do what the rules say. Don't do what the rules don't say."
I've never attempted a sudoku puzzle and yet I've watched hours of this channel because if Simon.
Brilliant puzzle and great solve. Solved it in 31:03. At the beginning of the channel this would have been much more difficult to solve, but now with both coloring and letters available, it is much easier.
What a brilliant and satisfying puzzle !! Loved it absolutely..😊😊
Simple and smart. That's the way we like it !
12:22 for me. Really enjoyed it, fantastic puzzle!!
Fabulous Fun! Thanks to setter and solver - magnificent pairing. it lit up my day. :)
That was such a satisfying solve once things started to fall into place.
Solved it eventually, but only after I went down a huge rabbit hole of eliminating what Simon has as purple from the 3 cell cage. Instructions should really say that cages can have repeated digits (I think of the default as them not able to have them.) I'd rather have a good rule set than making it shorter for the purpose of making it seem cooler. Ended up watching the video and once I saw that Simon had the same question. Only difference is that Simon's a lot more confident that he didn't screw up than I am.
Managed to solve this one without following along to Simon. Gonna watch his solve still, just to see if I made things more difficult for myself than need be. I'm glad I basically started the same... although I did color the center box and then did the center with the 45 - 4x(9...11) values. Lol. Almost had the same colors as Simon too. Only a bit more pastel and I did put the center box in grey instead of one of the boxes. Then I used placeholders A, B and C up to I.
Had that inkling and tingling feeling that we would have a cage that repeated the center cell-159. Normally cage rules explicitly state repeats are forbidden, not mentioning those means they are allowed. Plus they'd do great to disambiguate.
What a really nice puzzle. I really liked the propagation decision at the end. really brought a razzmatazz to the whole thing
That was a beautiful solve, what a puzzle
The double one key was awesome lol, loved how chuffed you were about the prospect of a double click fest 😂
Very satisfying, learned lots from this one
What a colourful puzzle. I had also started with 5 colors and letters, which really confused me. So I decided to use 9 colors without letters, which ended up working better. A great adventure.
Oh, I solved this one yesterday! I did get the rules wrongly by assuming cages don't repeat, so I ended up redoing the puzzle thrice (and arriving at the same thing) before noticing what I was missing :')
What an absolute masterpiece!
I seldom understand the workings out but every time I’m mesmerised and love watching 👏🏽
‘The coloring is strong in this one’.
Fantastic!
Beautiful puzzle. I got it in 02:57:24, which is really pretty good based on my usual times. As others, I love coloring puzzles. I did do an unnecessary reset after seeing two cages with red/pink/X where X was different and thinking I'd broken it, before later realising that pink could be two different digits in the two places.
Truly incredible!!!! 🎉
Lovely guitar intro! Lovely puzzle! I particularly enjoy puzzles that do a magic trick at the end!!!
Finished in 42:05 with help from the video.
Simon sings and solves Sudokus Sundays have to be a thing❤
It's Monday! But I guess that wouldn't alliterate right.
@pseudomonad Mark makes music and molves Mudokus Monday
Surely it should be 'Simon strums and .....' in this case as he did not actually sing
Need to see the full cover now Simon, that was amazing
A good old coloring puzzle, lots of fun.
Great puzzle, I took a couple of hours and I almost restarted the puzzle, but I could unblock the missolve with a short solve from the beginning. This puzzle is approachable and a great challenge for beginners (and experts alike). I did have fun solving the final digits after doing the entire puzzle with the letter tool. Those trionimos were helpful ;)
39:54, finally a respectable time, or at least faster than Simon for once. Found the cage repeat and thought I'd broken things for a second. Very cool to do all the coloring first.
I used 9 colours in r6, recognising that there were 4 distinct dominoes and they all had to be one of those 4. I think using two colours for each domino instead of one made it A LOT easier. I assigned a colour to the centre square as well, so when it appeared twice in the same triomino, it caused all the values to unravel - I'd almost solved the sudoku with colours alone by that point, just a few of the dominoes were ambiguous which way round they were, resolved by the other two triominoes once values were assigned.
Beautiful puzzle, I loved solving it. Took me a while to find a good place to start the colouring (maybe I missed some options on my earlier attempts) but got there in the end :)
24:56 for me. Loved this one. Really fun!
Wonderful again. Thanks
Wow, it was amazing try to figure out this sudoku!
Another wonderful number by color by Simon.
Coloring puzzles like this one are fun!
Video starts at 6:48
I just failed to break into this after seeing it on James Sinclair’s newsletter.
I open up my phone and this video pops up😂😂
I forget that Simon plays the guitar. Always a lovely surprise to hear it in the intro
That was IMMENSLY satisfying. I actually differentiated the separate digits of each color from the start/ Otherwise, it was the same.
Immensely enjoyable, this one. Great flow, and a plethora of Eurekas to be had. Also a great solve, thank you! Although the double 15 was available much earlier, that square sees two of every color... :-)
*Rhyming Rules*
Rules as normal;
cage totals uniformal.
Wouldn't "rules as normal" then mean that "digits cannot repeat in a cage" though?
@@RynneChan404 Maybe? I don't know. It's six words, two of which rhyme, some corners were cut. Feel free to refer to the official non-rhyming rules.
@@RynneChan404 No. Cages usually relate to their sums. It's an extra constraint to have distinct digits in the cages.
I think this one was extremely good at making me solve pretzels in a different way.
Love the intro! Simple Man is such a beautiful song. I hope you’re a Lynyrd Skynyrd fan too ❤. Tuesdays Gone is my fav from them and also has a gorgeous intro. Frankly they have a lot of great intros. I play the piano and I would love to be able to play the solo from I Know a Little Also great solving - I love the coloring/alphabet puzzles.
25.02 for me this time, surprised I was even able to finish it! Thanks for the puzzle!
13:55: "... but I think that could be orange":
Well, we know one thing for sure: if it is orange, it has to be orange A.
If it were orange B, where would orange A in the box go? Not in column 4, that's for sure. Not in r8c5/6, because that would make it part of a domino, so the other part of the domino would have to be orange as well, resulting in three orange cells in box 8. Not in r9c6 for the reason Simon explained. So the remaining orange would have to be in r7c5 or r7c6. Both of those see the orange A in box 9, so that means only orange B could ever be in either of those cells
Beautifully done, this took me hours on a huge printed off copy with lots of messy notes in pen
This was a fun one!
60:34 Always love a coloring puzzle.
"I'm gonna give the other orange the color of B."
i love these sentences