46:40 with lots of help. Very cool puzzle. Bit tricky in some parts. Nice solve by Bremster. Another viewpoint on the dominoes in box 6/9. ( I'll use Bremster's colors for reference). Once you get the V to 1/4. The purple is either 1/9 or 4/6. If they are 4/6 then the yellow domino is 1/9. If that is the case then the digits 1/4/6 have to go into box 3 column 8. Which puts 3 digits into 2 cells because of the existing 9. Hopefully this different viewpoint helps someone 😊.
I am glad you are enjoying these. The puzzle creators got these together so fast because I was disorganised and didn't ask for them until only a couple of days before I needed them. This whole community is amazing.
What a tricky one. 123m for me, and I still needed help with the video for one clue (where 2 goes in box3) which cleared up a lot of pencil marks! Broke through in the end !
At 3:24 BremSter said "there must be an 8 in one of these 2" (r3 c1/2) -- I cannot see why (at that point in the solve) an 8 couldn't go into C1 R1/2. Can somebody explain for me?
Because of the X, r3c1 has to be a 789 chaining off the V in c1. This is because of the 46 pair already in b1; which is the key to this whole elimination. Once there is a 789 in r3c1, what can go on the consecutive dot into r3c2? You can't go down to a 6 because of the 46 pair already in b1, so it must also be from 789. Any consecutive dot must have an even and an odd digit. So the only even digit is 8, so 8 must be in one of those two cells. If it wasn't, you would have only 79 available, which are not consecutive. I hope this helps.
@@debrawilden1971 I thought it would be a dirty trick to put Vs in the grid and have them mean nothing - hmm, maybe you should do that for an April Fools puzzle
While it didn't hurt me too much in the previous puzzle, the special font absolutely wrecked my scanning and I had to give up after nearly 14 minutes and try again with the normal number font. This time I was able to actually scan and finished in 11:40 (conflict checker off), but definitely would have taken at least another 5-10 minutes without my initial attempt. Oh well, it was still a fun puzzle, many thanks to Virtual for it and to BremSter for presenting it (and getting through it with the special font)!
46:40 with lots of help.
Very cool puzzle.
Bit tricky in some parts.
Nice solve by Bremster.
Another viewpoint on the dominoes in box 6/9. ( I'll use Bremster's colors for reference).
Once you get the V to 1/4.
The purple is either 1/9 or 4/6.
If they are 4/6 then the yellow domino is 1/9.
If that is the case then the digits 1/4/6 have to go into box 3 column 8.
Which puts 3 digits into 2 cells because of the existing 9.
Hopefully this different viewpoint helps someone 😊.
I have been waiting for this puzzle pack. Great puzzle
I am glad you are enjoying these. The puzzle creators got these together so fast because I was disorganised and didn't ask for them until only a couple of days before I needed them.
This whole community is amazing.
17:46 not easy, but pencilmark helped me one more time!
Another amazing puzzle!
54:32 quite a battle for me!
29:34 for me today. Very nice puzzle.
this sudoku's title would be more christmassy in spanish
What a tricky one. 123m for me, and I still needed help with the video for one clue (where 2 goes in box3) which cleared up a lot of pencil marks!
Broke through in the end !
That was a trickly puzzle!
15:26 for me
nice puzzle
At 3:24 BremSter said "there must be an 8 in one of these 2" (r3 c1/2) -- I cannot see why (at that point in the solve) an 8 couldn't go into C1 R1/2. Can somebody explain for me?
Because of the X, r3c1 has to be a 789 chaining off the V in c1. This is because of the 46 pair already in b1; which is the key to this whole elimination.
Once there is a 789 in r3c1, what can go on the consecutive dot into r3c2? You can't go down to a 6 because of the 46 pair already in b1, so it must also be from 789. Any consecutive dot must have an even and an odd digit. So the only even digit is 8, so 8 must be in one of those two cells. If it wasn't, you would have only 79 available, which are not consecutive.
I hope this helps.
Completed in 9m37s.
The rules description leaves out the V constraint.
Oops! I didn't even notice!
@@debrawilden1971 I thought it would be a dirty trick to put Vs in the grid and have them mean nothing - hmm, maybe you should do that for an April Fools puzzle
Thanks for letting me know, I will update the puzzle links when I can.
I can't change the video.
While it didn't hurt me too much in the previous puzzle, the special font absolutely wrecked my scanning and I had to give up after nearly 14 minutes and try again with the normal number font. This time I was able to actually scan and finished in 11:40 (conflict checker off), but definitely would have taken at least another 5-10 minutes without my initial attempt. Oh well, it was still a fun puzzle, many thanks to Virtual for it and to BremSter for presenting it (and getting through it with the special font)!
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