I'm finally getting to the point that I can start using these videos as 'hints'. Start the puzzle on my own... after a while, get stuck, watch the video until I discover something new, then go back to solving on my own til I get stuck..wash - rinse - repeat. Thank you so much for these. My family thinks I'm crazy for doing these puzzles for "fun". It's nice to have found my people.
That's how I do it also! Great way to close out the evening with a beer/cocktail and sudoku. Guess that makes me a square, but at least I'll have 80 other squares in a grid for a good time....
I’m flabbergasted that the only reason their videos didn’t have chapter markers before now was that Simon and Mark apparently didn’t know they existed! 🤦♂️ All these years I thought it must be a deliberate decision, which I respected.
It’s pretty clear that, despite Simon having near expert level skills in like a dozen different areas (his first career of finance, golf, sudoku, crosswords, now he’s picking up guitar, etc.), he does not learn anything about technology without being dragged into some new knowledge or application. It’s quite amazing that the two of them even figured out how to use OBS in the first place to start the channel years ago.
why would you need "chapters" if it's literally: 1 minute intro, 1 minute say hello, 1 minute read the rules, INDEFINITELY get cracking, last 1 minute: see you soon
I've been watching CtC for quite a while, and used to be a complete sudoku novice. After months of doing the GAS puzzles and watching the channel I've finally gotten to the point where I can tackle some of the puzzles you feature in your videos including this one! Thank you CtC for reigniting my love of puzzles and helping me learn!
I tried to do this puzzle last night and I couldn’t get anything past getting 4! I’m amazed how smart you are and how fluid you make everything with the solve
Lol Make it "Brother Squirrel-- Alexa Play Country Roads?" John Denver will come on.. (Yeah, singin' Country Roads Alabama or something) 😂 Great idea though, I've told Simon he should include "Alexa more," (she's the only one in the room with 'im after all). 😂😂👍
😂 Oh, wait. [[Instead of "Country Roads"]] The way you have it is better ("Brother Squirrel-- Alexa Why aren't you connected to the internet?") That way she'll talk back: *"Oh, but I am connected to the internet."* Hilarious [Do it tomorrow, Simon. ] 😂😂👍☕️☕️(
This puzzle has everything! It's challenging, original and so so much fun, brilliant! Now I have no idea who that Q might be but I suspect that they don't mind at all giving way to this beauty haha.
I watched this almost all the way to the end while flying home from a brief trip to Seattle. It was the perfect way to while away some time, and I am definitely going to try the puzzle soon! I hope that the chapters serve CtC well, Simon (and Mark); I personally happen to love the birthdays and the solving shoutouts as much as the sudoku solves and would never skip them - part of the flavor and culture of the channel. But if you were to mark "poem" in a chapter, I could jump to it and repeat it as much as I wanted with ease. Thanks for the video and for always thinking about how to make CtC better for more people.
Finished all on my own, took about an hour. Solving the path was really neat, felt like the puzzle almost changed genres halfway through where the first half used the circles mainly and the second half used the path itself with limitations on odd digits per row and column. Was quite nice :D
Finally knocked this out, took 94m37s but my goodness what an OUTSTANDING puzzle! Difficult the whole way through without ever feeling intractable, really incredibly well-set. Thank you so much!
While we’re on the topic of ways to improve the viewing experience, it would be great to have some kind of difficulty rating given at the start of puzzles (maybe displayed on screen in post-production?) - there’s been a few puzzles I wish I’d attempted over the last couple of months but 90% of the puzzles you solve would be next to impossible for me (I know video lengths + rules are a decent indicator but it’s not always easy to gauge) Love the content as it is though, and I’m sure I speak for everyone when I say I appreciate you going out of your way to improve your already brilliant videos❤️
I noticed mid solve that you can count the number of evens in the circle clues fully contained in rows 5-8 and get 16, which means everything else has to be odd.
45:30 for me. Some really interesting logic in this one. I followed pretty much the same path as Simon once he started looking at rows 6 and 7 (although I looked for where I could put the 10 odds instead of the 8 evens). And then I saw Daniel Ben-David's comment, noting that it could be made even easier by looking at rows 5-8, where six circles account for all 16 even digits, so the 14 cells not touching one of those circles can all immediately be declared odd. D'oh!
I found that the best way to start this puzzle was to look at box 9 at the beginning (about when you found the 4), if you look at it carefully, you can put at most 1 odd number in the top left portion of the box, so you need 4 odd numbers in the bottom and right sides of the box, but no matter how you try it you always get one or more stranded odd numbers because of the walls that evens create. So, the bottom three are odd numbers and the other one is on the middle right side. This made it easier to see other clues faster, alas I got stuck twice towards the end (with the logic on boxes 2 and 3 and the 9s that we had to find) and ended up with about an hour of solve time (though I was doing other chores around the house so, it might be lower than that).
Год назад+2
The sound of birds outside are just wonderful in the recent videos.
Simon & Garfunkel - Song for the Asking, if anyone was wondering. My guess at the lyrics was way off, but close enough for the algorithm to know what I was after.
I can just imagine any sudoku setter these days sitting down to start a new puzzle, and just starting by putting a single 3 in the corner and then building off of that.
Great puzzle. I made quite good progress, only had problems with the last section (box 2 and 3) and had to experiment a bit. By the way, it's always great to see and hear how happy Simon is about a 3 in the corner. 🙂🎵🎶
This was actually quite approachable. Definitely took me a couple redos towards the end but it all flowed very nicely. My only wish was that Jeff had included an extra circle in box 3 to help finish it off easier, even though it's not necessary :) 64:22 for me.
79:45 Yours was a much nicer start than mine. I didn't think of those connectivity deductions at the beginning, so I just did a ton of pencil markings until I got the circles half figured out before I was able to see anything from connectivity that could help. I also missed the count of evens/odds in rows 6/7. Great video as always!
I liked how it got tricky toward the very end. So many puzzles completely frontload their challenge, and then it's a cake-walk to the finish after you break-in. Not this one! Great puzzle
Lovely singing Simon! Well done on the chapters, I know other people will appreciate them, even if I like listening to you ramble. Took me about 85 minutes. I got the bottom 6 boxes in about 40 mins and thought I was nearly done, then it took the same time again for the top 3. And I'm still not sure that bit was purely logical or if I got lucky and there were other options I didn't think of and so didn't consider properly. A fun puzzle though, it's my failing not the constructor's.
I got stuck when box 7 made a 2x2 odd connection, and reading the rules, I wasn't sure that was allowed with the phrasing "All cells containing odd digits form a single cell orthogonally-connected region." So it wasn't clear that was actually the solution, I've kept starting over from the beginning thinking I missed something, but kept coming back to that same issue. So I paused, and let Simon figure out to that point and saw he did the same without missing a beat or tried to correct it, so I guess I did misunderstand the rule the way it was described. Edit: I finished the puzzle, and kept reading that rule over and over and I realized... "Duh! it's talking about the region of all the odds being connected, there's not more than one region, it's a single region, not connected by just a single cell, of coarse it could be 2x2 cells as long as all odds are connected orthogonally" wow I felt stupid after reading that several times, like it just didn't click for the life of me. English is weird, and it's my native language!
If you want to go further with your chapter marking, when you do proofs like the phistomefel ring, you could show chapter markings around that section so people who want to skip seeing the proof again can easily do so.
Not sure if anyone has said this approach or not, but I broke into it by considering the set of 36 digits in rows 5, 6, 7 and 8 - which need 20 odd digits - and you find that with only 12 cells not on circles, you need 8 odd digits to be placed within circles in those rows. Therefore all circles must have an odd digit and their odd digits must all be within thise rows (so the 58 circle for instance has to have its 5 in row 5 and not row 4).
glad for video number 2 or 3 of simon's with chapters, i was on the boat with the guy like 3-4 videos ago who asked for it after it was like a 9-ish minute opening and we wanted to just skip to the puzzle.
7:00 Remember the rule? That only one odd digit can appear around a circle? Well, the 245 clue in box five has a 5 on it, so the odd digit is accounted for. That means there's one more even digit in that clue. You already have the 2 and a 4. So the last digit needs to be a 6 or 8, and that needs to go along with the 2 you marked. I can't see which digit it is YET but there will be a 26 pair OR a 28 pair in R5C5 + R5C6 That same logic applies to box eights 128 clue. Except there will be a 6 or 4 to go with the 2's.
At 10:51, I don't see why R7C3 could not be even given that one of the three digits in the quadrupole dividing box 7 and 8 is five which is odd? Therefore you could make a "way out" that does not involve R7C3.
Or another way to look at it: If the 5 is on the left of the quad, then you have a wall of blue on the right, and if 5 is on the right then you have a wall of blue on the left. It amounts to the same thing. A single orange in a quad doesn't allow you to traverse the quad with connected oranges.
I usually use the video length to gauge whether I should attempt a puzzle, but this one did me dirty. I found this puzzle to be absolutely brutal, and even with more than a few desperate appeals to Simon, I struggled. Difficult difficult lemon difficult.
As usual, a very long solve, but I'm stubborn. I didn't think about the interaction of the circles in box 7, or the count of even digits, I sort of worked my way through the circle logic slowly. I was able to get box 1 a little easier by thinking about how the 5 and 7 had to connect to the rest of the grid.
Another 4 star puzzle on logic masters germany.. I don't think I heard it's rating in the video That was rough... struggled hard for about an hour on the top 3 boxes I had to poke my head in for inspiration... I skimmed the video to notice you were briefly in the same boat... and you focused on R1C2 ... which got me going once I worked out the logic myself the final break into box 3 took me considerably longer but it was a great puzzle to finish
I'm stuck into the upper three boxes (except for down cols3&4 and around the circle somewhat). Anybody else??! [It's connectivity, isn't it?[ 🤔😂 Good one again ;)) 👍😂
Yeah I was stuck for about 2 hours on the top three boxes. Yes it was connectivity after all, and I finally got it. Then of course we watch Simon. He gets stuck there too...and it takes him about three minutes to work out the exact logic that I spent two hours puzzling over.
Haven't viewed all comments, so apologize if this has been stated. When Simon talked early on of not creating a 2x2, that was correct since the rules said there is to be formed a single ortho-connected region of odd cells. So there can be no 2x2 of odd cells. Once we see that checkerboard forming, we could fill in the even square.
I guess the word single was a very bad term. I see what the creator was meaning-the odds are 'grouped' so they kind of are single. But that is not a correct term because a 2x2 is not single. (Some of these rulesets are increasingly confusing, leading to a challenging solve. I've been with the channel, watching/doing all puzzles since Ap 2020 and some before that.)
_"I hope _*_most_*_ of you are still with me now because I have some birthdays to tell you about"_ (Simon @2:25) Not plausible, I guess. That's when most people is likely to either jump to a different channel or to a different chapter.
@@nod2009 It isn't just that there must be an odd digit, but that the four digits around the 246 circle MUST be 2, 4, 6, and an odd. There is no room left for an 8.
You know you’ve enjoyed yesterday’s pentomino puzzle if in today’s puzzle random sets of five coloured cells suddenly appear as one of twelve letters to you :D
Simon & Garfunkel - Song for the Asking, if anyone was wondering. My guess at the lyrics was way off, but close enough for the algorithm to know what I was after.
A bit under 39 minutes for me, though I needed a bit of help getting started before I could take over on my own. I always enjoy coloring the odds and evens and the logic surrounding those. Great puzzle!
I found that really hard. Three and a half hours... ugh. Like a person noted earlier, I had to use trial and error when I got to the second and third box at the end. Not easy at all.
I'm finally getting to the point that I can start using these videos as 'hints'. Start the puzzle on my own... after a while, get stuck, watch the video until I discover something new, then go back to solving on my own til I get stuck..wash - rinse - repeat. Thank you so much for these. My family thinks I'm crazy for doing these puzzles for "fun". It's nice to have found my people.
That's how I do it also! Great way to close out the evening with a beer/cocktail and sudoku. Guess that makes me a square, but at least I'll have 80 other squares in a grid for a good time....
I’m flabbergasted that the only reason their videos didn’t have chapter markers before now was that Simon and Mark apparently didn’t know they existed! 🤦♂️ All these years I thought it must be a deliberate decision, which I respected.
It was a deliberate decision not to know about them
It’s pretty clear that, despite Simon having near expert level skills in like a dozen different areas (his first career of finance, golf, sudoku, crosswords, now he’s picking up guitar, etc.), he does not learn anything about technology without being dragged into some new knowledge or application. It’s quite amazing that the two of them even figured out how to use OBS in the first place to start the channel years ago.
Chapters FTW! 👐
@n99 really?
why would you need "chapters" if it's literally: 1 minute intro, 1 minute say hello, 1 minute read the rules, INDEFINITELY get cracking, last 1 minute: see you soon
I've been watching CtC for quite a while, and used to be a complete sudoku novice. After months of doing the GAS puzzles and watching the channel I've finally gotten to the point where I can tackle some of the puzzles you feature in your videos including this one! Thank you CtC for reigniting my love of puzzles and helping me learn!
I always love to see the child-like glee on Simon’s face when he gets a 3 in the corner.
Ditto!
I tried to do this puzzle last night and I couldn’t get anything past getting 4! I’m amazed how smart you are and how fluid you make everything with the solve
listening to Simon sing and play the guitar made me so happy and brought me a lot of peace. thank you for that Simon.
I have no idea why Simon wouldn't want to read out the pseudonym "Brother Squirrel -- Alexa Why Aren't You Connected to the Internet?"
🤣
Lol
Make it "Brother Squirrel-- Alexa Play Country Roads?"
John Denver will come on..
(Yeah, singin' Country Roads Alabama or something)
😂
Great idea though, I've told Simon he should include "Alexa more," (she's the only one in the room with 'im after all).
😂😂👍
😂
Oh, wait.
[[Instead of "Country Roads"]]
The way you have it is better ("Brother Squirrel-- Alexa Why aren't you connected to the internet?")
That way she'll talk back:
*"Oh, but I am connected to the internet."*
Hilarious
[Do it tomorrow, Simon. ]
😂😂👍☕️☕️(
Should spell it Aleccsah 🤣
YES, SIMON.
[He solved all the puzzles]
You need to read out his WHOLE MONIKER.
He earned that.
Do it TOMORROW
[it was EARNED]
😂
The little fireworks in the app when you get the 3 in the corner absolutely brought joy to my day 😊
Love the inclusion of the chapters! It's weird, but it actually makes the intros feel more cozy and enjoyable for me ^_^
Truly a remarkable puzzle and solution. You never fail to impress! Cheers.
I liked the new beginning format, going straight to the puzzle
This puzzle has everything! It's challenging, original and so so much fun, brilliant!
Now I have no idea who that Q might be but I suspect that they don't mind at all giving way to this beauty haha.
Lovely puzzle indeed with the ruleset.
Can't wait to see what puzzle of yours Simon does in near future!! 😁
I think we might be able to figure that out. You are very gracious!
haha I see what you've done there ...
I'm always surprised how Simon is able to ignore the obvious sudoku and still get the solution with a more complicated strategy
Rules: 05:13
Let's Get Cracking: 05:35
Simon's time: 41m25s
Puzzle Solved: 47:00
What about this video's Top Tier Simarkisms?!
Maverick: 3x (07:55, 07:58, 13:59)
Three In the Corner: 2x (46:16, 46:50)
Bobbins: 1x (08:15)
And how about this video's Simarkisms?!
In Fact: 12x (12:36, 12:36, 12:47, 12:51, 13:01, 13:41, 21:43, 22:44, 25:52, 28:39, 32:01, 44:47)
Sorry: 8x (00:56, 00:58, 17:39, 18:29, 18:58, 25:54, 31:33, 35:15)
Hang On: 8x (06:48, 11:13, 16:35, 16:35, 16:35, 29:49, 29:49, 41:08)
Ah: 7x (07:35, 12:03, 26:07, 29:58, 38:29, 40:38, 41:06)
Lovely: 5x (01:59, 23:08, 27:14, 41:43, 43:26)
Brilliant: 5x (03:18, 03:20, 03:29, 46:55, 47:28)
By Sudoku: 5x (23:13, 24:31, 27:54, 28:52, 29:54)
Clever: 4x (11:00, 11:03, 21:18, 47:55)
Obviously: 4x (03:18, 06:09, 11:22, 20:07)
Shouting: 3x (02:40, 02:41, 03:03)
What on Earth: 2x (16:27, 31:52)
Pencil Mark/mark: 2x (29:54, 30:22)
Good Grief: 1x (13:56)
Goodness: 1x (21:39)
Apologies: 1x (04:58)
The Answer is: 1x (18:15)
In the Spotlight: 1x (46:53)
Beautiful: 1x (21:08)
Ridiculous: 1x (11:54)
Of All Things: 1x (23:13)
Full stop: 1x (47:31)
Phone is Buzzing: 1x (26:27)
Sting in the Tail: 1x (38:32)
Cake!: 1x (02:43)
Unique: 1x (16:27)
Most popular digit and colour this video:
One (66 mentions)
Orange (68 mentions)
Antithesis Battles:
Odd (78) - Even (55)
Row (29) - Column (17)
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Q1: You missed something!
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@@MikehMike01 It's a bot, friend. Says so right there. The programmer has a hobby though. It's making bots.
Thanks bot!
I watched this almost all the way to the end while flying home from a brief trip to Seattle. It was the perfect way to while away some time, and I am definitely going to try the puzzle soon! I hope that the chapters serve CtC well, Simon (and Mark); I personally happen to love the birthdays and the solving shoutouts as much as the sudoku solves and would never skip them - part of the flavor and culture of the channel. But if you were to mark "poem" in a chapter, I could jump to it and repeat it as much as I wanted with ease. Thanks for the video and for always thinking about how to make CtC better for more people.
The 3 in the corner for the finish was great :)
One of the gems in our little corner of the Internet.
@@2beinteresting 😊
Finished all on my own, took about an hour. Solving the path was really neat, felt like the puzzle almost changed genres halfway through where the first half used the circles mainly and the second half used the path itself with limitations on odd digits per row and column. Was quite nice :D
Finally knocked this out, took 94m37s but my goodness what an OUTSTANDING puzzle! Difficult the whole way through without ever feeling intractable, really incredibly well-set. Thank you so much!
While we’re on the topic of ways to improve the viewing experience, it would be great to have some kind of difficulty rating given at the start of puzzles (maybe displayed on screen in post-production?) - there’s been a few puzzles I wish I’d attempted over the last couple of months but 90% of the puzzles you solve would be next to impossible for me (I know video lengths + rules are a decent indicator but it’s not always easy to gauge)
Love the content as it is though, and I’m sure I speak for everyone when I say I appreciate you going out of your way to improve your already brilliant videos❤️
I don’t think 432 likes is fitting for this with +8000 views. You get a guitar intro, a very happy man and all the cracking good stuff. Like, like 👍🏻
Is no one gonna talk about Simon’s beautiful singing at the start?
I will! ❤❤❤Simon’s singing and guitar playing!!
@@longwaytotipperary we ALWAYS LOVE his singing and strumming his guitar!! 🙂😀💜🩵💙
@@davidrattner9 yes, we do!! ❤️
One of my absolutely favorite song as well 🙂
I mean, there were only 3 comments before yours. It is beautiful though.
What is the song he plays at the beginning??? It was gorgeous
I noticed mid solve that you can count the number of evens in the circle clues fully contained in rows 5-8 and get 16, which means everything else has to be odd.
Nice catch! Yeah, that would have made things easier.
Great catch!
This ruleset needs to be incluided in a fog of war puzzel. It might put Simon into a bliss coma though.
45:30 for me. Some really interesting logic in this one.
I followed pretty much the same path as Simon once he started looking at rows 6 and 7 (although I looked for where I could put the 10 odds instead of the 8 evens).
And then I saw Daniel Ben-David's comment, noting that it could be made even easier by looking at rows 5-8, where six circles account for all 16 even digits, so the 14 cells not touching one of those circles can all immediately be declared odd. D'oh!
I found that the best way to start this puzzle was to look at box 9 at the beginning (about when you found the 4), if you look at it carefully, you can put at most 1 odd number in the top left portion of the box, so you need 4 odd numbers in the bottom and right sides of the box, but no matter how you try it you always get one or more stranded odd numbers because of the walls that evens create. So, the bottom three are odd numbers and the other one is on the middle right side. This made it easier to see other clues faster, alas I got stuck twice towards the end (with the logic on boxes 2 and 3 and the 9s that we had to find) and ended up with about an hour of solve time (though I was doing other chores around the house so, it might be lower than that).
The sound of birds outside are just wonderful in the recent videos.
The closed captioning translated Simon’s intro as “Foreign music”. 😂
Simon & Garfunkel - Song for the Asking, if anyone was wondering. My guess at the lyrics was way off, but close enough for the algorithm to know what I was after.
I can just imagine any sudoku setter these days sitting down to start a new puzzle, and just starting by putting a single 3 in the corner and then building off of that.
Great puzzle. I made quite good progress, only had problems with the last section (box 2 and 3) and had to experiment a bit. By the way, it's always great to see and hear how happy Simon is about a 3 in the corner. 🙂🎵🎶
These puzzles are my daily de-stressing activities. Thank you for making them so accessible!
This was actually quite approachable. Definitely took me a couple redos towards the end but it all flowed very nicely. My only wish was that Jeff had included an extra circle in box 3 to help finish it off easier, even though it's not necessary :) 64:22 for me.
Thank you for the chapters and the up front ruleset overview!
Fantastic rule set - what fun!
Lovely puzzle with some very interesting logic, thanks. I liked the way you have to switch between path logic, quad logic and sudoku.
❤ the singing ❤the song ❤ the guitar playing ❤ the blue shirt !!
Constantly adore your enthusiasm, heart usage and love for simple things this channel brings on a daily basis. 🥰
@@davidrattner9 & I adore your support and encouragement for all things CTC (and my comments ☺️)🥰
79:45
Yours was a much nicer start than mine. I didn't think of those connectivity deductions at the beginning, so I just did a ton of pencil markings until I got the circles half figured out before I was able to see anything from connectivity that could help. I also missed the count of evens/odds in rows 6/7. Great video as always!
It took me 86:35 but I managed to solve it without hints! Feeling rather proud of myself after that :)
I liked how it got tricky toward the very end.
So many puzzles completely frontload their challenge, and then it's a cake-walk to the finish after you break-in. Not this one!
Great puzzle
Am so strange, I get so happy when I notice something before Simon and it is like 5-10min before then I get so happy :)
Wow your guitar playing keeps getting better and better !
Yay, suggested adding chapters a few days ago and got my wish, thnx a lot.
Lovely singing Simon!
Well done on the chapters, I know other people will appreciate them, even if I like listening to you ramble.
Took me about 85 minutes. I got the bottom 6 boxes in about 40 mins and thought I was nearly done, then it took the same time again for the top 3. And I'm still not sure that bit was purely logical or if I got lucky and there were other options I didn't think of and so didn't consider properly. A fun puzzle though, it's my failing not the constructor's.
feels like Jeff wanted to put "all even cells are orthogonally connected to an edge" and "there's no 2x2 of even cells" as well
What a delightful puzzle 🫶🏻
took me an hour and a half, but a really great puzzle. i loved this idea!!
I got stuck when box 7 made a 2x2 odd connection, and reading the rules, I wasn't sure that was allowed with the phrasing "All cells containing odd digits form a single cell orthogonally-connected region." So it wasn't clear that was actually the solution, I've kept starting over from the beginning thinking I missed something, but kept coming back to that same issue. So I paused, and let Simon figure out to that point and saw he did the same without missing a beat or tried to correct it, so I guess I did misunderstand the rule the way it was described.
Edit: I finished the puzzle, and kept reading that rule over and over and I realized... "Duh! it's talking about the region of all the odds being connected, there's not more than one region, it's a single region, not connected by just a single cell, of coarse it could be 2x2 cells as long as all odds are connected orthogonally" wow I felt stupid after reading that several times, like it just didn't click for the life of me. English is weird, and it's my native language!
Maverick has turned into a set of loud birds and he's up to his usual disruptive antics again.
At 39:00, why do you have to connect box 1 and 4? Can't they be disconnected as long as box 5 connects to box 2 and box 2 connects to box 1 and 3?
There’s not enough odd cells available in column 5 to connect box 1 to box 5 via box 2.
If you want to go further with your chapter marking, when you do proofs like the phistomefel ring, you could show chapter markings around that section so people who want to skip seeing the proof again can easily do so.
Not sure if anyone has said this approach or not, but I broke into it by considering the set of 36 digits in rows 5, 6, 7 and 8 - which need 20 odd digits - and you find that with only 12 cells not on circles, you need 8 odd digits to be placed within circles in those rows. Therefore all circles must have an odd digit and their odd digits must all be within thise rows (so the 58 circle for instance has to have its 5 in row 5 and not row 4).
glad for video number 2 or 3 of simon's with chapters, i was on the boat with the guy like 3-4 videos ago who asked for it after it was like a 9-ish minute opening and we wanted to just skip to the puzzle.
Brilliant puzzle!
5:05:27!!! That was BRUTAL!!! For me anyway. Now to watch Simon show me how easy it is!
"Q" has a flavour of James Bond - looking forward to a dangerous puzzle sometime soon ...
I had Star Trek in mind more than Bond when he said that.
43:01 (over multiple sessions) ... a most interesting take on the genre
Nice puzzle!
Thank you for the chapter markers!
7:00 Remember the rule? That only one odd digit can appear around a circle?
Well, the 245 clue in box five has a 5 on it, so the odd digit is accounted for. That means there's one more even digit in that clue.
You already have the 2 and a 4. So the last digit needs to be a 6 or 8, and that needs to go along with the 2 you marked.
I can't see which digit it is YET but there will be a 26 pair OR a 28 pair in R5C5 + R5C6
That same logic applies to box eights 128 clue. Except there will be a 6 or 4 to go with the 2's.
7:54 and that now paid off for box eight. There's a 24 pair in R8C4+R8C5 because the 128 clue can no longer possibly contain a 6.
Finished in 29:36 with help from the video.
I would very much appreciate if you always include the solution in the web app, so I could be sure I got it correctly after I solve it.
Simon is so delightful.
Being an impatient person, I salute the addition of chapters.
Solved in 33:22. The key into this puzzle is the restriction on odds equally being a restriction on evens.
At 10:51, I don't see why R7C3 could not be even given that one of the three digits in the quadrupole dividing box 7 and 8 is five which is odd? Therefore you could make a "way out" that does not involve R7C3.
Since each quad can have at most 1 odd digit the 5 is not sufficient to provide a way out since the odd digits have to be orthogonally connected.
Or another way to look at it:
If the 5 is on the left of the quad, then you have a wall of blue on the right, and if 5 is on the right then you have a wall of blue on the left.
It amounts to the same thing. A single orange in a quad doesn't allow you to traverse the quad with connected oranges.
Ah, yes, read the rules. This is not normal quadruple rules
Love the chapters, great decision
I don't think I've ever seen him end a puzzle with a 3 in a corner until now!
thanks for the chapters, couldn't solve it, too lazy to keep trying
thanks for sharing
As my wife hears almost every night, I was grumbling about chapters. Thank you!!!
I usually use the video length to gauge whether I should attempt a puzzle, but this one did me dirty. I found this puzzle to be absolutely brutal, and even with more than a few desperate appeals to Simon, I struggled. Difficult difficult lemon difficult.
Very nice!
Placing a 4 around 8:30 means you can place a 6 in the 568 clue, if you follow the 6s and in each row they must be in.
As usual, a very long solve, but I'm stubborn. I didn't think about the interaction of the circles in box 7, or the count of even digits, I sort of worked my way through the circle logic slowly. I was able to get box 1 a little easier by thinking about how the 5 and 7 had to connect to the rest of the grid.
That was really fun. Lost out to Simon by 14 seconds. :D
Was the 8 clue in the 58 quad required?
Song in the beginning sounded beautiful :)
Another 4 star puzzle on logic masters germany.. I don't think I heard it's rating in the video
That was rough... struggled hard for about an hour on the top 3 boxes
I had to poke my head in for inspiration... I skimmed the video to notice you were briefly in the same boat... and you focused on R1C2 ... which got me going once I worked out the logic myself
the final break into box 3 took me considerably longer but it was a great puzzle to finish
82:46 I got stuck too many times... But I am glad I went on, because it's a very nice puzzle !
75 min, proud of doing a puzzle by simon with 48min video
Love the chapters
My 3 in the corner gave me fireworks! Wonder why this didn't happen for Mark the other day, nor Simon today.
I'm stuck into the upper three boxes (except for down cols3&4 and around the circle somewhat).
Anybody else??!
[It's connectivity, isn't it?[
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Good one again
;)) 👍😂
Yeah I was stuck for about 2 hours on the top three boxes. Yes it was connectivity after all, and I finally got it. Then of course we watch Simon. He gets stuck there too...and it takes him about three minutes to work out the exact logic that I spent two hours puzzling over.
Haven't viewed all comments, so apologize if this has been stated. When Simon talked early on of not creating a 2x2, that was correct since the rules said there is to be formed a single ortho-connected region of odd cells. So there can be no 2x2 of odd cells. Once we see that checkerboard forming, we could fill in the even square.
And now I see at the end that there is not that single connected region in box 7 and up at the top also. Hm.
I guess the word single was a very bad term. I see what the creator was meaning-the odds are 'grouped' so they kind of are single. But that is not a correct term because a 2x2 is not single. (Some of these rulesets are increasingly confusing, leading to a challenging solve. I've been with the channel, watching/doing all puzzles since Ap 2020 and some before that.)
The guitar skills are improving.
Looks like tons of fun, but I'd never have figured out the "number of evens in 2 rows" restriction
_"I hope _*_most_*_ of you are still with me now because I have some birthdays to tell you about"_ (Simon @2:25)
Not plausible, I guess. That's when most people is likely to either jump to a different channel or to a different chapter.
What is the name of the song in the intro? :)
I didn't get the argument at 22:48 . Why can't r7c9 be an 8?
Because r67c89 must contain a 2, 4, and 6, and by even count the remaining digit must be odd.
@matthewcharlap7785 , i agree, but it was a 2-8 pair (so even) and he says that there must be an odd digit, so it cannot be 8. I still don't get it.
@@nod2009 It isn't just that there must be an odd digit, but that the four digits around the 246 circle MUST be 2, 4, 6, and an odd. There is no room left for an 8.
@@matthewcharlap7785 you are absolutely right. Thanks
46:34 for me. Lovely puzzle!
39:43 Why can't it connect via r4c5?
Ah, okay--not enough odds left in the middle column.
You know you’ve enjoyed yesterday’s pentomino puzzle if in today’s puzzle random sets of five coloured cells suddenly appear as one of twelve letters to you :D
79:32 brilliant puzzle
Simon, I know that this is very different from your usual intros, but would you consider presenting your new clock at the start of a video? 😅
15:05 Where's Quasiwalldo?
❤❤❤❤❤💯❤❤❤💯💯💯💯💯💯 for chapters...
I am giving likes for the next couple weeks just for having chapters!
Video length: 48:48
My time: 48:40
gotya!
Simon & Garfunkel - Song for the Asking, if anyone was wondering. My guess at the lyrics was way off, but close enough for the algorithm to know what I was after.
A bit under 39 minutes for me, though I needed a bit of help getting started before I could take over on my own. I always enjoy coloring the odds and evens and the logic surrounding those. Great puzzle!
I almost got it , then messed somthign up that I couldn't figure out without watching the video.
I found that really hard. Three and a half hours... ugh. Like a person noted earlier, I had to use trial and error when I got to the second and third box at the end. Not easy at all.