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Stick to puzzles and leave the politics to others?

Not too difficult. 9 mins.

I think I started with 8 in block 2 (sets up a 5 & 8 pair in box 1), followed by the 2 and 4 as the video. I went wrong on this one no less than 3 times which made it really frustrating, and I couldn't see what the errors were, so what did I learn from it? The 4th attempt was successful, but by then I had to write in pairs and bi-value cells for a painstaking methodical approach. Being unable to sleep during the night I picked up a book of Killers, and did two of the 'tricky' ones notation free, so evidently I was more wide awake then than a few hours earlier!

A real brain teaser today. 12 minutes, no pencil marks.

At the 16:19 mark, there is a 5,6,7 triple in Row 3 at Cols 2, 4, and 9. This allows placement of the 4 at R3C8. Prior to that, I had also filled in the 2 in Box 1, the 2,6,8 in Box 4, and the 2,8 in Box 6. Those placements were made using the unique 2,8 rectangle in Boxes 4 and 6. Placement of the 4 at R3C8 didn't finish it up for me. I recall there was something else clever that was needed after that, but I don't remember at this point what it was. This one was very challenging to do without marks, for me at least.

An interesting one that they called EASY, but it took me 6 minutes.

At 22:52, you had a BUG+1 on the top row, making R1C3 an 8. That's how I solved it.

As for your political views, you live in California, you can't help it. You probably want Gruesome Newsom to be president.

Nightmare news is my new favorite phrase - says it all sadly - really interesting puzzle thank you

Thanks brother

No pencil marks needed, so reasonably easy. 9 minutes.

Trump has already lost one nominee, Gaetz as AG. There are three GOP Senators,, all members of the Senate appropriation committe, Lisa Murkowski, Susan Collins and Mitch McConnell, who led the resistance by saying Heel No ! Despite strong pressure by non other than "God" himslef, Musk. And it begins to look as the birth of a resistance movement against extreme nominations. It only remains to be seen how far they will go.

Nothing for me to write home about for me, that's for sure. Over half an hour, admittedly NF but over two or three sessions!

Failed,not my cup of tea.

Interesting

An interesting one today. 9 minutes.

The ultimate brain teaser. My longest ever. 19 minutes, no pencil marks.

Nice one .. little bit easy 👍🏻

I could not help but see a "NY Timish" feature to this rather easy puzzle that allowed for a quick start with the 695 from row 3 forming a triple in the upper part of block 1, with the 6 being in r2c3 and the 59 in the upper middle column and the resulting 34 in the lower row...

Nice sir ji.

Strange. there are a couple of numbers that can be filled out in box 1 straight away (which when filled in gives a 5 in R1 and sorts C7), but still wanting at point of using candidates. Also C7 fills out fairly easily. Also it is strange I took 17 minutes the first time, I did it again and spent 24 on it!

Don't be so hard on my good friend Nigel, he is just a good Christian :)

This was fun, although not easy. 8 minuutes.

Well done buddy. I saw the 5's early and enjoyed how you worked methodically then when you got them I went "Yes, here we go... lol.

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Not that difficult today. 10 minutes, no pencil marks

15th minute: you can make so much more progress by simply placing the 3 in r3c5 ! Other flurry of easy placements follow... eg 3 in r4c6 and r6c1

The silver lining of tariff based economies have been the disasters of a decades long poverty ridden depression in the later part of the XIXth century and th crash of 1929 and subsequent depression that was not an insignificant factor in the political mood that led to WW II. Thanks for wishing us this as a cure to consumers' appetites. I don't know if this is meant by algorythms creating those puzzles, but I find it fascinating how frequent solutions depend on, or is facilitated by, potential UR conflicts. So again today, when the puzzle becomes more difficult in the situation you had in the 8th minute of the video, a quick and easy solution driven by a UR potential in the 2nd and 3rd columns of rows 1 and 5. As you identified early, row 5 has a certain 29 pair. Row 9 has a known matching positions in either col 2 or 3. So, already, you know that the 2 cannot join those 9s. We also know that r1c4 is a 24 bi-value cell and that r1c3 and r3c3 are a pair of 8s. At that stage, you still cannot immediately solve this. You have easy placements to do like 48 in the middle row of block 6, and hence 1 in r4c9 and 7 in r6c9, 7 in r5c5 and 1 in r6c6, etc. Ultimately, you will know that the 2 and 4 cannot both be in the lower row of block 1 , so one of them will have to join the 9 in the upper row, and the obvious choice will be the 4 due to the UR rule. Good puzzle today, but still relatively easy to solve in the end thanks to this UR situation.

😊I am daily taking a screen short to copy in my notebook and then I am solving within one or 2 hours.😊

My start was 5+6 in box 4 gives a 5+6 pair in column 1

Good one 👌🏻

minute 15, we need 3,4,5,6,7 in column 1, then 5, 6 only can go in R1C2 and R1C8, so we only need 3,4,7 and we can write 7 in R1C5 and so on

Very nice.

A brain teaser. 11 minutes, no pencil marks.

You forgot to act on the impact of the 19 in column 5. With a 19 bi-value cell in r3c5, the 6 must be in r3c8. This simple placement gets you going (starting with 8 in r3c9)

Quite easy

Not too difficult. 8 minutes.

This is a great channel or whatever, thanks for doing this, I’m hooked on these puzzles

Nice for a medium. 7 minutes.

I did your pre-pencil mark portion , that was really beginners' sudoku, in under 5 minutes. I decided I would STICK to my notation free game when I got to the STICKING phase of the puzzle. That proved to be a challenge to my old, weakening, brain. It took me all of 17 more minutes to finish what I had started in 5 minutes ! Until I determined that I had 4 and 8 below the 9 in the middle column ofblock 2 ! Painful, but a good exercise :)

At 13m14s, dealing with the potential 67 UR in the central vertical chute, ousting 67 from cell r1c4, you realise that the cell is a 15 and conclude: that won't help. This is quite an extraordinary statement: knowing a cell is a bi-value cell is always a powerful restriction. At that stage, easy finish using another UR, your specialty: 19 pair down in the lower row of block 9.; a 11 in the matching position in the lower row of block 6; the 9s cannot join the 1s there under pain of a UR. Hence 9 in r6c6, 5 above that 9, puzzle done. I was slow doing it, albeit no real difficulty: 16 minutes notation free.

Hard

I decided to try this starting at 13 minutes above. 7 minutes, no pencil marks.

A puzzle that needs to be looked at with attention. Column 3 seems unpromising, except that you have myriads of digits creating interceptions from a series of very busy rows. So, rows 5 and 8 are both 78 bi-value cells, which ends up placing the 2 in r1c3, r2c9 and r3c5, which basically takes care of the puzzle.

Too easy, 7 minutes

The quickest start is the 6 and 9 in box 9

Fun puzzle with a quick buildup start in block 9's left side: pair of 13 in the middle row, pair of 27 in the upper row, and hence, from left to right in row 9: 4,5 and 8. With that in store, you can notice among other things that column 3 has the 8 in row 7, a 47 pair in rows 2 and 8, and a 25 pair in rows 5 and 6. Still some work to do, but you have quite a nice framework of retrictions to make further progress. P.S.: I did not specify that the immediate impact of having a 47 in r8c3 was to place a 2 in r8c1, because I thought it was too obvious, but.... Your comments on micro-studies are interesting. But another common sense issue that would require an impossible macro stdy is whethe r the utopia coming mostly, but not exclusively, from the left that it is up to the State to practice social engineering as if people were pawns that must be dirrected to the State idea of what is good for them, is something that must be discarded entirely. As I am writing this, fond memories of reading Aldous Huxley come to mind.

At 18:00, the naked 4 at R4C4 was the next step for me. That allowed me to fill out Col 5. Don't recall what came next, but remember it being easy.

11 minutes, no pencil marks