Just solved this from the Artisanal Sudoku site, noted the shoutout to BremSter and immediately came to watch after my solve. 🙂 Wonderful puzzle, did it in 11:06, flowed so smoothly! Many props to James for this puzzle and for reaching 100 releases of Artisanal Sudoku!
That was a nice puzzle. I was a little sad I didn't get my head round the breakin when I attempted it (I just didn't see it at all) so was great to have your solve! Many thanks (and in general thanks for all the puzzles and solves, I just don't comment on a lot of them but I try to remember to always give the likes ;-) ).
I Goodliffed the thermos so I found the center 456 rather quickly, and after the 24568 quint in the center and corners, I could very much just reduce thermos using the nabner lines. But that was a lot of mechanical reductions. Alternating the nabner lines (when the center could not pick up a digit) also helped a lot.
Had a couple false starts, first by skimming the instructions too quickly (trying to make the lines consecutive instead of non-consecutive), then by thinking the non-consecutive lines must be all odd or all even. (While that does fit, it is not the only way those lines can work.) Finally started asking the right questions by goodliffing the two L shaped thermos and asking where 1 and 9 can go on the diagonals. Once I got on the right track, it all went pretty smoothly. Really nice puzzle and fun solve. About 27 1/2 minutes for me, including my errors, of course.
looks incredibly hard, but this is james sinclair, so just follow the trail of bread crumbs. still, this is not a beginner puzzle. advice: don't overthink it. just apply basic sudoku and variant logic.
At first I thought this is easy. What is on the middle? Five. Then I did a bit more and didn't work. Why I put five in the middle? I thought would be odd. Why? My mistake, I imagine one line with all even digits so got it wrong. But fortunally it was just the start, so I clean almost everything (minus the cages) and pencilmark the 2 big thermos. And I did it! Yey. Besides my mistake got it quickly and nicely. Hope you are having a nice vacation! See you tomorrow 🦒🤗
Just solved this from the Artisanal Sudoku site, noted the shoutout to BremSter and immediately came to watch after my solve. 🙂 Wonderful puzzle, did it in 11:06, flowed so smoothly! Many props to James for this puzzle and for reaching 100 releases of Artisanal Sudoku!
nice puzzle and solving
20:14 here, fun break in :)
That was a nice puzzle. I was a little sad I didn't get my head round the breakin when I attempted it (I just didn't see it at all) so was great to have your solve! Many thanks (and in general thanks for all the puzzles and solves, I just don't comment on a lot of them but I try to remember to always give the likes ;-) ).
14:45 to solve. A superb puzzle after the tricky break in. Thanks Bremster
24:29 for me.
Only a lil help.
Nice fun puzzle.
Never felt stuck.
Watching rest of solve to see how to improve.
19 for me, really liked the nabner lines with the limited corners. Once you can locate a digit on one, the neighbouring digits flow to the other.
51:07. Took a while for brain to get rule for the lines. Then speedy.
I Goodliffed the thermos so I found the center 456 rather quickly, and after the 24568 quint in the center and corners, I could very much just reduce thermos using the nabner lines. But that was a lot of mechanical reductions.
Alternating the nabner lines (when the center could not pick up a digit) also helped a lot.
Btw I was number 47 in 7.7 days. This puzzle deserves more attention.
I completely forgot the nabner lines and it took me 80 minutes, but I did it the exact same way.
Had a couple false starts, first by skimming the instructions too quickly (trying to make the lines consecutive instead of non-consecutive), then by thinking the non-consecutive lines must be all odd or all even. (While that does fit, it is not the only way those lines can work.) Finally started asking the right questions by goodliffing the two L shaped thermos and asking where 1 and 9 can go on the diagonals. Once I got on the right track, it all went pretty smoothly. Really nice puzzle and fun solve. About 27 1/2 minutes for me, including my errors, of course.
looks incredibly hard, but this is james sinclair, so just follow the trail of bread crumbs. still, this is not a beginner puzzle.
advice: don't overthink it. just apply basic sudoku and variant logic.
At first I thought this is easy. What is on the middle? Five. Then I did a bit more and didn't work. Why I put five in the middle? I thought would be odd. Why? My mistake, I imagine one line with all even digits so got it wrong.
But fortunally it was just the start, so I clean almost everything (minus the cages) and pencilmark the 2 big thermos. And I did it! Yey. Besides my mistake got it quickly and nicely.
Hope you are having a nice vacation! See you tomorrow 🦒🤗
24:28 ;)
The kids totally messed up my time. Awesome puzzle though!
Hey, took me only 15 minutes. After the break in, it just crumbled.