Me watching a 45 min online lecture for uni: "This is so boring, why am I watching this?" Me watching a 90 min video about a man trying to solve a sudoku: "Ah yes, this is a great use of my time"
@@JoeCT22 The video duration is sufficient warning for me, especially since these videos come out quite late on the evenings for me (I’m an hour ahead of the UK).
I spend 10 hours solving puzzle before watching video. It is more fun spotting a lot and watch him struggle. (I still forgot part of solution and I don't spot everything)
Wow, I actually gave it a shot to see how far I could get and ended up solving it in 88 minutes. I'm gonna call that a win and feel good about myself while watching your solve.
me, too. I have stopped watching videos that are under 30 (sometimes even 40) minutes long last year. Over 40 is a watch, over 50 is a must watch, over 1 hour is popcorn time xD
I was really happy to see you place the first digit and make some real progress right away, while still having 1:15 left in the video. I enjoy the puzzles with 45-minute break-ins that collapse immediately after, but it's also nice to see one maintain its difficulty throughout.
1:15:41 With the red 9 in column 7, you still need 2 9s in columns 8 & 9. They must be in the green & grey regions. So they're not in column 6 in the green. Row 4 has a 9 in column 2, so it must be in row 3, still white.
I saw that and didn't even notice the placeable remaining 3's, which is what everyone else is shouting about. But I knew Simon would find another way there.
Well done Simon! I sincerely doubt I could have gotten even one digit in! It was a pleasure to watch all 90 minutes of you cracking this amazing puzzle!!
same here. I really really REALLY want to see someone give an empty 9x9 grid to Simon with only one rule (Sudoku rules do NOT apply) and a short message (here, hotshot! Solve this!). I want to see this so badly :(
Brilliant puzzle. I saw some of the region logic right away, although I highly doubt I would have seen enough of it to solve the whole puzzle. I saw much of the logic around placing the orange 5 very quickly, for instance, although I didn't strictly rule out whether it could be a new region. (That's my primary difficulty with puzzles like these: often I spot a currently-valid arrangement and assume without properly proving that it's the correct one, and sometimes I overlook other valid options.) I also saw how the 8 in the circle interacted with the blue region below it very quickly. Absolutely amazing setting.
@Simon - even though I'm watching this a couple of months late (catching up on the ones I've missed ;D), you definitely don't need to keep apologising for how long these take! Compared to how long it likely takes many of us, for some of these, you're probably completing them far quicker than we are _and_ it's thoroughly enjoyable to watch you work - and, possibly more importantly, EXPLAIN - your way through the whole thing. Glad I found the channel and wholeheartedly enjoy watching you and Mark solve things! (:
I really liked this video. When I saw the run time I was expecting one of the puzzles where it takes half the video to get the first digit, but other than getting stuck for a bit towards the end this one really felt like it was progressing smoothly the whole time.
I love those long videos, I'm always watching them while sitting on my indoor bike. The longer your videos are, the fitter I get. My fitness is in your hands Simon :)
Very enjoyable solve as always. I think what we learned today is the answer to the question "What should I be doing now? Is it more sudoku?" is always yes.
Phistomefel's puzzles are fabulous. Great job Simon. Even though the video was almost an hour and a half, it was thoroughly entertaining. You are the logic master! 🙏
Awesome puzzle and great solve. At 32:00 there is a nice trick with the 26 cell. It is actually the only spot in c4 that can house a 2. r1-2 sees 2:s already, r3-5 are already filled. r6-7 is in the purple which already has a 2, and r8 sees a 2.
It took me 3h, i got stuck a very long time at the end to disambiguate the 6/7/8/9. My mind almost blew out. Beautiful puzzle by the way, Phistomefel is a great puzzle settler.
I love that in the middle of this insane puzzle when your brain must be firing on all cylinders, you still have enough capacity to come up with a title for the video. Very impressive!
I don't understand why r1c1 cannot be 2. If it was part of region continuing to the right and the 2 in r2c1 was part of region continuing down and r2c2 was third different region, then r1c1 could be 2. Am I wrong? Edit: I am an idiot. LoL. Totally forgot that it is sudoku. Facepalm.
I love how a year ago when I started watching CTC, the very idea would have been ludicrous, but I'm looking at this comment and just nodding now...It's funny thinking about the progression. Remember when "Sudoku with NO Given Digits!" was shocking? or a vid that took 45 minutes was exceptional rather than halfway expected? It's a let down when there's a day with both vids under 30 now :P
This was a nice puzzle. It was really fun to solve it. I solved it in less than 90 minutes. It is unusual for me to solve a puzzle in about the same time as Simon does. This puzzle was not easy but I think it was not extremely difficult either. I have seen much more difficult puzzles in this channel which Simon has smoothly handled in less than an hour. I think Simon is in love with Phistomefel puzzles, and he sometimes overestimates them.
"Create your own irregular sudoku" rulesets are mean because you go to all the trouble of establishing your regions and then you still have to solve a @!#$% irregular sudoku...
Yes please for the "Show More" PS! I would be very interested in a bonus patron video of Phistomefel's latest logic puzzle. aka always yes to more Simon and/or more Phistomefel.
As soon as the purple region came down column 4, the circle at the bottom row of the column was the only place a 2 could go in that column. This marks the first time Simon said “You’re probably seeing something I’m not” that was actually true, after a year and a half of watching CtC ❤️
Very suspenseful, as usual in the combination Phistomefel - Simon. Once virtually all regions were defined (except for the last two cells), I drew the boundaries, removed the colors, and colored the numbers from the remaining group 6789. I'm not saying I was faster than Simon, but it was a good move.
When I do one of these monster Phistomefels, I get half or more through it after hours of fiddling and realize I have no confidence I didn't make some horrible mistake early on and am going to run into a contradiction that invalidates all my work because of some careless mistaken assumption. It's like crossing a desert for the first time and hitting the point where you don't have enough water to turn back safely but are not sure you're still going in the right direction. On the plus side the relief when I actually finish is enormous.
A great puzzle, definitely not too easy-unlike the one that Mark did a few hours later.... [1:23:22-1:23:32] Actually, that 3 in r4c9 is quite important, because it rules out a 6 there. Now, if r6c7 & r8c8 (which must be the same) = 6, there must also be 6's in r7c4, r5c1, & r1c5, and a 6 can't go anywhere in c9-because of that 3. So r6c7 & r8c8 = 8\9, yielding several 8-9 pairs, which crack the puzzle wide open.
Simon at 22:35: "I deninitely have a little inkling of where I should be looking, which is quite handy!" Simon at 1:03:07: "Ahhh, I don't know where to look!" Yes, I went back to look for that first timestamp, you're welcome.
Watched up until 1:18:00 and I am mentally screaming at the screen since a couple of minutes. There has to be one 9 in column 9, and it's either grey or green. There has to be one 9 in column 8, and as it is NOT red, it must be either grey or green. Hence the green 9 is in either column 8 or 9. The only place you can put a 9 in column 6 therefore is the (so far) white r3c6. Imagine, I am seeing something Simon the Wiz is missing!!!
It took me about 75 minutes, and I admit to needing to bifurcate near the end, but I'm nonetheless very pleased with having solved this most insidious puzzle! [Edit: I missed the logic with the 9s near the end]
Weirdly I was watching some old vids from back when you started apologising as the clock ticked past the thirty minute mark. Ooh how the turns have tabled.
I was just thinking the same thing (not actively watching them but thinking about how times have changed. Both the length of time and the # of digits have changed dramatically. Remember the Sudoku with Only Four Digits days?
Assumed this would be impossible when I saw the video length (longest ever?), but found the regions without huge difficulty. The irregular sudoku part was much harder for me. Great puzzle, thanks.
A Cracking the Cryptic livestream would be so great, we could actually shout at our screens and see how fast we can finish such a puzzle together :D But also I see how it could be a terrible experience for Simon/Mark
@@mikepictor Yup. The Phistomefel puzzle I watched right before this had 'Normal sudoku rules apply' but the shaded regions were more like cages; no repeated digits but no specific size implied. And several were size 1 in that puzzle.
I think here (@1:10:15) those 9s not being in the red in column 8, put the 9s in the green in row 2 (which takes out the 9 in the rest of it) making a 7,8 pair in row3. I think, anyway. [[PS: That "7,8" pair hit a 6,7,8 (in r3c8) over in the red making that a 6. I think again. Good job with that, Simon. :) ]] [[[PPS: Correction: [I backed-out the 2s I had placed too early] that all made a 2678 quadruple in row3 (making a 9 in r3c6) ]] [[[[@1:24:53, it's about time, Whew, lol. Good job though. :) 😅 ]]]]
1:29:07 when happy the Simonus Antoni let's out a cry of victory and puts its arms up to appear bigger and stronger in order to transport its inner feelings to the outside
Late comment but I've just finished watching the video, maybe you'll still see this. The logic with 9's at the end can be sorted by using the columns 7-8-9 cells marked 8/9. If they are all 9 then column 6 needs a 9 and it can't be green. If they are all 8s then column 7 gets a 9 from red, column 9 must have a 9 in grey, and column 8 would be green in row 8. So column 6 would still need a 9 and it still couldn't be green.
Simon struggled an surprising amount with the blue in the bottom left corner (~38:00) r9c1 was always blue, since it can't be red, which he realized for r9c2, but not for the more obvious r9c1. And no matter if the circled cell was a 2 or a 6, blue had to always take the upper 3 cells, either to grow to a 9 cell region and dodging the (not blue) 2, or for fulfilling the blue 6. And earlier he used a line of logic to conclude that r8c3 is not red, but didn't realize that the same logic holds true for every nonblue color
I was having a good time, watching Simon work his way through the puzzle. But then, around 20 minutes in I heard the words. "Now we are cooking with gas". Oh Simon, when will you learn. Don't tempt fate!
9s in R6 are either in C7 or C8. So, 9s in green (box 9) are either in R8C8 or R9C9. Consequently, there are no 9s in green at the bottom of C6. So, 9 in C6 is in R3C6.
I was so excited for seeing something Simon didn't and jumped way to the end before him.... then I couldn't disambiguate my last eight cells and had to backtrack so far. I couldn't figure out what logic game me the move that screwed me up anymore.
Me watching a 45 min online lecture for uni: "This is so boring, why am I watching this?"
Me watching a 90 min video about a man trying to solve a sudoku: "Ah yes, this is a great use of my time"
Literally sat here not writing my dissertation, doing the exact same thing 🤣
well, you've got your priorities right!
I can relate on so many levels!
Sounds about right!
kept me from posting snarky twits to tweeter. so i guess the world is better off.
“Do have a go for yourself”
Woah take it easy Simon, I just want to watch the movie
Also 20:51 *we’re cooking with gas*
Me as video is 1 hour left: “poor Simon”
Should come with the warning “Do not try this at home!”
@@JoeCT22
The video duration is sufficient warning for me, especially since these videos come out quite late on the evenings for me (I’m an hour ahead of the UK).
@@JoeCT22 To be fair, I tried it and really enjoyed it! Took me well over 2 hours, though.
@@Playmaker6174 His optimism in the beginning made me feel so, so bad for him haha...
I expect a lot of apologizing, but we all clicked on an hour and a half video, and we all know what we are getting into!!
1 hour, 23 minutes in and I can finally start looking at something other than the missing threes in Orange and Grey.
Yeah, him trying to solve the high values, when he has limited places to complete the low values (like 3) distracted me greatly.
Simon: Those 3's did nothing!
Me: They got me to stop yelling at the screen...
Phone needs a wipe down. :D
Never noticed the 3 in the circle, took wayyy longer to figure out the coloring in the bottom right corner because of that.
Simon: "apologies if you're seeing something I'm not here"
*me eating cheetos, head empty*
Literally same but im drinking nescafe instead
Well, I spotted the missing threes about half an hour earlier than Simon, but they weren't helping much.
I spend 10 hours solving puzzle before watching video. It is more fun spotting a lot and watch him struggle. (I still forgot part of solution and I don't spot everything)
What a wonderful way to spend 90 minutes.
I can't really get frustrated with Simon for not seeing something on a puzzle that I can't even start.
these days am spending my evenings more on cracking the cryptic than netflix, the movies and episodes here are amazing and thrilling....
We'll look back on this as the last of the phistomefel solve videos short enough not to require a mandatory meal break.
I’m using this as background noise while cooking
... with gas?
@@johnglass6725 with gas.
@@aamocryp noice
Great use of colour in this episode, as a colourblind person I had no issue keeping the region separate, thank you.
1:25:43 These are the moments
Im here for those moments of real joy
Simon, with a third the grid coloured: "We're cooking with gas!"
The video: *still has an hour to go*
Narrator: We were not.
rip lmao
Kevan Brighting's voice is heard. "Simon was not aware how much time he was yet to spend pushing buttons" 😁
90 min phistomefel puzzle... Ready for a nice evening :)
Wow, I actually gave it a shot to see how far I could get and ended up solving it in 88 minutes. I'm gonna call that a win and feel good about myself while watching your solve.
"What am I missing?" He asks for the 1000th time
"The 3 in grey!" I shout back again
Sees a new CTC video is up... it's 90 minutes long. Sigh... Guess I'll get the popcorn... again.
I freaking love Simon's long solves.
me, too. I have stopped watching videos that are under 30 (sometimes even 40) minutes long last year. Over 40 is a watch, over 50 is a must watch, over 1 hour is popcorn time xD
Took an hour just to define the regions, and every cell felt hard earned. Wonderful!
I just want to know who makes the thumbnails. They are brilliant!
We do them ourselves :)
Uau, i though somebody helped you with it, you really do a nice work!
now I'm curious which takes longer the thumbnail or the solve?
Now i just imagine simon and mark having photoshootings posing for the thumbnails.
@@CrackingTheCryptic The question is, do you do each other's or your own videos? Either way, top job.
I love how he talked about the Blue 2 for ages and as soon as he finally figures out the blue and orange cages he forgets about the 2 entirely 😂
Yeah, my thoughts too.
I understand you are in a hurry Simon but please pause to reflect that you finally have your elusive blue 2.
what a magnificent puzzle, and what a magnificent solve. Thank you Phistomephel, and thank you Simon.
I love seeing the euphoria in Simon when he figures something out and completes puzzles.
If I see phistomefel and an hour + long video my day has been made!
same here. This guy (phistomefel) has got some brutal puzzles, ie the types of puzzles that make Simon cry and make me happy xD
I was really happy to see you place the first digit and make some real progress right away, while still having 1:15 left in the video. I enjoy the puzzles with 45-minute break-ins that collapse immediately after, but it's also nice to see one maintain its difficulty throughout.
"We're cooking with gas now"
_Looks at time remaining_ : 20:54 out of 1:29:52
lmao
1:15:41 With the red 9 in column 7, you still need 2 9s in columns 8 & 9. They must be in the green & grey regions. So they're not in column 6 in the green. Row 4 has a 9 in column 2, so it must be in row 3, still white.
I saw that and didn't even notice the placeable remaining 3's, which is what everyone else is shouting about. But I knew Simon would find another way there.
Well done Simon! I sincerely doubt I could have gotten even one digit in! It was a pleasure to watch all 90 minutes of you cracking this amazing puzzle!!
The most special about these videos is that 1 hour in I'm getting sad that it is ging to end soon.
same here. I really really REALLY want to see someone give an empty 9x9 grid to Simon with only one rule (Sudoku rules do NOT apply) and a short message (here, hotshot! Solve this!). I want to see this so badly :(
Maybe next April...
Exactly my thinking!
30:00 "Where does 2 go in column 4?" The first time screaming at the screen.
@@jeromel2308 omg the last 3s. I was shouting so long at Simon to write in those last threes
Waiting to get into surgery with a 1 1/2 h video from Simon - I diden’t feel the boredom and hunger for 1 second. I Thank you very much. 🌻🌻🌻
Brilliant puzzle. I saw some of the region logic right away, although I highly doubt I would have seen enough of it to solve the whole puzzle. I saw much of the logic around placing the orange 5 very quickly, for instance, although I didn't strictly rule out whether it could be a new region. (That's my primary difficulty with puzzles like these: often I spot a currently-valid arrangement and assume without properly proving that it's the correct one, and sometimes I overlook other valid options.) I also saw how the 8 in the circle interacted with the blue region below it very quickly. Absolutely amazing setting.
Simon doing phisto? Damn straight! And a chance to see more for Patrons? Yes please!
@Simon - even though I'm watching this a couple of months late (catching up on the ones I've missed ;D), you definitely don't need to keep apologising for how long these take! Compared to how long it likely takes many of us, for some of these, you're probably completing them far quicker than we are _and_ it's thoroughly enjoyable to watch you work - and, possibly more importantly, EXPLAIN - your way through the whole thing. Glad I found the channel and wholeheartedly enjoy watching you and Mark solve things! (:
Simon’s cheers at the end always make me so happy. Also I would love to see more Phistomefel puzzles on patreon :)
*1:55** **_Rules_*
*2:50** **_"Let's get cracking"_*
*5:53** **_First Digit_*
*10:00** **_Simon forgets one of the key rules: Red can't be Purple!_*
I really liked this video. When I saw the run time I was expecting one of the puzzles where it takes half the video to get the first digit, but other than getting stuck for a bit towards the end this one really felt like it was progressing smoothly the whole time.
"I feel like I'm wasting all your times now by just being a bit th... silly" @1:21:49
If these get any longer they’ll need to be divided into episodes. Looking forward to this.
LOL
95:25 for me. Incredible that a puzzle like this exists. Loved every minute of solving this.
I love learning tips and trips and how soothing Simon's voice is
I love those long videos, I'm always watching them while sitting on my indoor bike. The longer your videos are, the fitter I get. My fitness is in your hands Simon :)
Very enjoyable solve as always. I think what we learned today is the answer to the question "What should I be doing now? Is it more sudoku?" is always yes.
Phistomefel's puzzles are fabulous. Great job Simon. Even though the video was almost an hour and a half, it was thoroughly entertaining.
You are the logic master! 🙏
This thumbnail/video length/constructor combination made me ridiculously happy, as soon as I saw it. 😁
Awesome puzzle and great solve. At 32:00 there is a nice trick with the 26 cell. It is actually the only spot in c4 that can house a 2. r1-2 sees 2:s already, r3-5 are already filled. r6-7 is in the purple which already has a 2, and r8 sees a 2.
This is the first time I have ever seen Simon so excited.
Simon's euphoria @125:44 is epic!
It took me 3h, i got stuck a very long time at the end to disambiguate the 6/7/8/9. My mind almost blew out. Beautiful puzzle by the way, Phistomefel is a great puzzle settler.
I love that in the middle of this insane puzzle when your brain must be firing on all cylinders, you still have enough capacity to come up with a title for the video. Very impressive!
I don't understand why r1c1 cannot be 2. If it was part of region continuing to the right and the 2 in r2c1 was part of region continuing down and r2c2 was third different region, then r1c1 could be 2. Am I wrong?
Edit: I am an idiot. LoL. Totally forgot that it is sudoku. Facepalm.
Lol had the same problem, but I realized before hitting send :D
I really enjoyed this puzzle. Watching Simon solve is always a treat
We're almost there boys. We're almost to the 2 hour solve
I love how a year ago when I started watching CTC, the very idea would have been ludicrous, but I'm looking at this comment and just nodding now...It's funny thinking about the progression. Remember when "Sudoku with NO Given Digits!" was shocking? or a vid that took 45 minutes was exceptional rather than halfway expected? It's a let down when there's a day with both vids under 30 now :P
@@ellaenchanted2399 Yeah, these days I'm like "Oh, a given digit. How generous of them" lol
@@crowdozer :)
This felt like 2 insanely hard puzzles in the price of one. Congrats on solving it!
This was a nice puzzle. It was really fun to solve it. I solved it in less than 90 minutes. It is unusual for me to solve a puzzle in about the same time as Simon does. This puzzle was not easy but I think it was not extremely difficult either. I have seen much more difficult puzzles in this channel which Simon has smoothly handled in less than an hour. I think Simon is in love with Phistomefel puzzles, and he sometimes overestimates them.
16:17 Just judging by the video length, most misleading "reasonable start" ever XD
"Create your own irregular sudoku" rulesets are mean because you go to all the trouble of establishing your regions and then you still have to solve a @!#$% irregular sudoku...
Yes please for the "Show More" PS! I would be very interested in a bonus patron video of Phistomefel's latest logic puzzle. aka always yes to more Simon and/or more Phistomefel.
Actually, we thank you for getting stuck there in the end, it meant we got more of Cracking the Cryptic :)
As soon as the purple region came down column 4, the circle at the bottom row of the column was the only place a 2 could go in that column. This marks the first time Simon said “You’re probably seeing something I’m not” that was actually true, after a year and a half of watching CtC ❤️
Very suspenseful, as usual in the combination Phistomefel - Simon. Once virtually all regions were defined (except for the last two cells), I drew the boundaries, removed the colors, and colored the numbers from the remaining group 6789. I'm not saying I was faster than Simon, but it was a good move.
When I do one of these monster Phistomefels, I get half or more through it after hours of fiddling and realize I have no confidence I didn't make some horrible mistake early on and am going to run into a contradiction that invalidates all my work because of some careless mistaken assumption. It's like crossing a desert for the first time and hitting the point where you don't have enough water to turn back safely but are not sure you're still going in the right direction. On the plus side the relief when I actually finish is enormous.
The Red5 reference was perfect
Wonderful puzzle and my first time beating Simon! And on a hard puzzle too! I am quite excited.
A great puzzle, definitely not too easy-unlike the one that Mark did a few hours later....
[1:23:22-1:23:32] Actually, that 3 in r4c9 is quite important, because it rules out a 6 there. Now, if r6c7 & r8c8 (which must be the same) = 6, there must also be 6's in r7c4, r5c1, & r1c5, and a 6 can't go anywhere in c9-because of that 3. So r6c7 & r8c8 = 8\9, yielding several 8-9 pairs, which crack the puzzle wide open.
Managed to solve it without Simon's help! Took me four hours though... Splendid puzzle!
Simon at 22:35: "I deninitely have a little inkling of where I should be looking, which is quite handy!"
Simon at 1:03:07: "Ahhh, I don't know where to look!"
Yes, I went back to look for that first timestamp, you're welcome.
Watched up until 1:18:00 and I am mentally screaming at the screen since a couple of minutes. There has to be one 9 in column 9, and it's either grey or green. There has to be one 9 in column 8, and as it is NOT red, it must be either grey or green. Hence the green 9 is in either column 8 or 9. The only place you can put a 9 in column 6 therefore is the (so far) white r3c6.
Imagine, I am seeing something Simon the Wiz is missing!!!
It took me about 75 minutes, and I admit to needing to bifurcate near the end, but I'm nonetheless very pleased with having solved this most insidious puzzle!
[Edit: I missed the logic with the 9s near the end]
if you are talking about the 9s in the green region he did the same logic i did but backwards so i had to pause and rewatch a few times
"I really hope this isn't going to be monstrously hard" said Simon, an hour into the puzzle, still half an hour from the finish...
Yeah a phistomefel puzzle!
Again, Thumbnail game is 10/10. Simon is certainly a green blade.
Weirdly I was watching some old vids from back when you started apologising as the clock ticked past the thirty minute mark. Ooh how the turns have tabled.
I was just thinking the same thing (not actively watching them but thinking about how times have changed. Both the length of time and the # of digits have changed dramatically. Remember the Sudoku with Only Four Digits days?
Holy smokes, what a solve! Simon is a freaking genius.
Can we have full appreciation for the term "muff it up"!? 😂 I haven't heard that for years, it needs to make a comeback.
1:29:06
When the match takes forever to end but some guy says "easy!" thats how they look like lol
Assumed this would be impossible when I saw the video length (longest ever?), but found the regions without huge difficulty. The irregular sudoku part was much harder for me. Great puzzle, thanks.
1:23:11 yes, I have in fact been shouting about that for over half an hour.
A Cracking the Cryptic livestream would be so great, we could actually shout at our screens and see how fast we can finish such a puzzle together :D But also I see how it could be a terrible experience for Simon/Mark
As a patron, I do enjoy it when you debase and demean yours-, sorry I mean do bonus phistomefel for us
I can't believe I watched the whole thing. But I was enthralled.
You say right away that circles can't have a 1, but the rules as expressed don't prohibit 1 cell regions.
Oh right, the unstated part of the rules is that they have to be 9 cell regions. Therefore 1 is not possible. I assumed they could be of any size!
"Normal sudoku rules apply" AKA all regions are 9 cells.
@@conankingofcool I have seen irregular sudokus puzzles that didn't have 9 cell regions, that still said "Regular rules apply".
@@mikepictor Yup. The Phistomefel puzzle I watched right before this had 'Normal sudoku rules apply' but the shaded regions were more like cages; no repeated digits but no specific size implied. And several were size 1 in that puzzle.
I think here (@1:10:15) those 9s not being in the red in column 8, put the 9s in the green in row 2 (which takes out the 9 in the rest of it) making a 7,8 pair in row3.
I think, anyway.
[[PS: That "7,8" pair hit a 6,7,8 (in r3c8) over in the red making that a 6.
I think again. Good job with that, Simon. :) ]]
[[[PPS: Correction: [I backed-out the 2s I had placed too early] that all made a 2678 quadruple in row3 (making a 9 in r3c6) ]]
[[[[@1:24:53, it's about time, Whew, lol. Good job though. :) 😅 ]]]]
You know it's a good puzzle when Simon channels his inner tennis player with his 'come on's and shaking of the fists to celebrate a point(-ing digit)!
Wow, I did this. Never mind the time.
Finding the regions is my new favourite.
Awesome Puzzle - it took me ages to solve!
Lovely to see Simon struggle a bit as well. ;)
so excited for a long video !
Fascinating! This Phistomefel knows his shit... and always makes Simon mad. I love it xD
1:25:45 here we see a rare species called Simonus from the Antonus family in its natural habitant
1:29:07 when happy the Simonus Antoni let's out a cry of victory and puts its arms up to appear bigger and stronger in order to transport its inner feelings to the outside
Late comment but I've just finished watching the video, maybe you'll still see this. The logic with 9's at the end can be sorted by using the columns 7-8-9 cells marked 8/9. If they are all 9 then column 6 needs a 9 and it can't be green. If they are all 8s then column 7 gets a 9 from red, column 9 must have a 9 in grey, and column 8 would be green in row 8. So column 6 would still need a 9 and it still couldn't be green.
Simon struggled an surprising amount with the blue in the bottom left corner (~38:00) r9c1 was always blue, since it can't be red, which he realized for r9c2, but not for the more obvious r9c1. And no matter if the circled cell was a 2 or a 6, blue had to always take the upper 3 cells, either to grow to a 9 cell region and dodging the (not blue) 2, or for fulfilling the blue 6.
And earlier he used a line of logic to conclude that r8c3 is not red, but didn't realize that the same logic holds true for every nonblue color
Simon: "we're off to a reasonable start"
Me: nope there's an hour of the video left
MoT: why were you late for your appointment?
Simon : I was doing a sudoku.
"Do have a go" hahhahaha best joke of this movie
I was having a good time, watching Simon work his way through the puzzle. But then, around 20 minutes in I heard the words. "Now we are cooking with gas".
Oh Simon, when will you learn. Don't tempt fate!
I hope one day we'll be able to watch some of these episodes in movie theathers.
Simon: I didn't spot that
Me: *Signature look of superiority*
"I am actually off to a reasonable start" - Simon 16:15 into a 90 min solve
9s in R6 are either in C7 or C8. So, 9s in green (box 9) are either in R8C8 or R9C9. Consequently, there are no 9s in green at the bottom of C6. So, 9 in C6 is in R3C6.
I was so excited for seeing something Simon didn't and jumped way to the end before him.... then I couldn't disambiguate my last eight cells and had to backtrack so far. I couldn't figure out what logic game me the move that screwed me up anymore.
1:25:40 is the timestamp where Simon finds true peace after all the suffering. The "Yes!" That slew this devil.
The latest software lets you put in the puzzle constraints. Mark's been using this update for a week now.
loved it, the excitement at the end was fantastic, yyeeesss, yeeeahhh
Loved this puzzle!