Thank you for featuring the puzzle, and thank you also to Qodec and Nell Gwyn for testing. The Bow tie is green because I guessed (wrongly) that you might own a green bow tie. I’ll guess better next time 😅 Once again enthusiastic congratulations on 600K… and thank you so much for your kind words. It really is a tremendous honor to celebrate (and cerebrate !) with you
“It could be we’re not a million miles away” - nope, only 600,000 miles 😂 But seriously, you did great, my dear friend. It was delightful from start to finish
Leave it to Simon to find the hardest way possible to factorize 600,000. 10 * 10 * 10 * 10 * 10 * 6 and then factor each of those. At any rate, congrats again on this amazing victory.
Of course this can be done much simpler. First convert the decimal number to binary, then count all the trailing zeros as the exponent for the prime factor 2. Convert the residue number to base 3 and then count the trailing zeros again as exponent for the prime factor 3, etc.
Absolutely hilarious. Simon, we love you, but that was absurd ❤ And no, no notebook needed, because you can simply read the prime factors of 600,000: 2*3*(2*5)^5. But far less amusing if he notices that 😉
*In the voice of Attenborough* And here we see a two and a three canoodling, rather agressively, as is their nature. Later, the three will retract to the corner, while the two will scurry away, hiding from the eight. - Congratulations CTC!
Congrats on 600k I don't normally comment a lot but I've been watching the channel for over a year, and I gotta say, my love for sudoku has never been bigger you guys will hit a million subs one day
I am very rarely a 'shout at the screen' person, but when he was asking about the nature of those purple digits, I was very satisfied in shouting about where three might go in box 4. (Its always sudoku).
Congratulations on 600k!🎉 And Maverick with a belated congratulations 😂 Also, The Ramones did a song called Rockaway Beach. I think that’s where the 2 and 3 do their aggressive canoodling.
Started following you just before covid after finding videos on how to find x-wings. Couldn't imagine what a journey it would become. Glad to have been able to follow it ❤
I remember those…that and Simon explaining tricks of killer sudoku. I didn’t understand it back then, now thanks in huge part to these two I can solve so many other puzzles.
Fantastic puzzle! Characteristically quirky and detailed right to the end. Needed Simon's help to get going but then I was away. Loved how the thermometer bulb resolved.
55:38 Congratulations on your 600k subs! For me there were lots of hidden triples and quads. Love being part of the community and attempting the daily puzzles, and the very very rare besting of Simon’s time.
Congratulations Simon, on reaching this milestone! 🎉🎊🎆 You deserve this success and much more. As one of your 600,000 favorite people, may I return the favor and say that you are one of mine and I love spending some of each day watching your videos!
Congratulations on 600k! Between crosswords, sudoku, many different kids of pencil, logic and word puzzles, and even puzzle video games... it has been amazing to see this channel grow into a celebration of puzzling at its purest. This channel and community is a gem in the sea of TH-cam, and I hope you'll keep growing and spreading the love of simple, good-natured puzzles.
It's only appropriate that the celebration puzzle would be solved using the hardest route whenever it was possible :) Much love and congratulations for achieving 600k milestone and I'm pretty sure 1 Million is just around the corner :)
I remember being here when you guys were under 400k! Congrats on yet another super deserved milestone and thanks for becoming such a huge part of my and so many people’s lives!
🍾 Congratulations on 600,000 subscribers 🍾 It feels like a very long time ago that I joined that select group in May 2020. And this puzzle was a fitting tribute to the community that you have built in that time. It was tough, it took me 2 hours (not helped by forgetting the negative XV constraint for a long time), but I'm very glad to have persevered and completed the puzzle without any assistance from the video.
Simon! I checked your solution against all of the rules and it works out. No dominoes adding to 5 or 10, green bow tie multiplies to 600,000, all cages are correct, so you are clear!
Congratulations on 600K subs! I've been following this channel for at least 4 years, and I am so fortunate to see each milestone achieved in this channel from 300K, 400K, 500K and now 600K!
Magnifecent accomplishment to get to 600,000!! 🎉🎉 Thank you to all the fabulous setters that have helped this channel and community grow to where it is!!
I finished in 89 minutes. I thought the bowtie was going to be an easy start, but I couldn't spot anything as I went way over using the maximum digits. It wasn't until I had a strange thought to use the factors of 600,000, that it started to show itself, surprising me. From there, it was a lot of fun cracking the puzzle. Great Puzzle! Congratulations on the 600,000 subscribers! What an incredible achievement!
That was hard, to the extent that I had to watch some of the video, and it took two days... I had an idea for the bowtie but it never crossed my mind to seek for the prime factors. I was thinking of 11th root of 600k which would make the average digit approximately 3,352 which wasn't far off because in the finished puzzle I get 4 as the average, and there was only one high digit while the rest were middling or low. Congrats again!
I'm amazed he did all that math in his head. I spent 40 minutes in a very complicated and colourful Excel-sheet reaching the conclusions he found in 10 minutes just looking at the puzzle and his ceiling :)
Great puzzle and congratulations on the 600K! Been watching since the beginning of the pandemic ❤. I think many people started watching and doing Sudoku at the time... Crazy to think that something good came out of it, but I'm honestly glad it did. ... Hmm I can see how this is might be seen as a controversial comment, so I'm gonna add "one" more thing: I'm pretty sure you would have reached it (and will surpass even 1M Subs (2, 3??^^)) anyway, without that terrible thing to have happened to the world and I'm deeply sorry for everyone who was/is affected by it directly or indirectly. That being said, your channel helped many people (including me) getting through those hard times. I truly appreciate the hard work you guys put into this channel! ❤ Your charisma, wit, calmness, incredible logical skills, and beginner-friendly explanations even after years, all while showing so much humility and respect to the creators and your viewers is what truly sets you apart. Keep up the good work. Love you guys
Congratulations! I celebrated with you by solving this one on my own, which I could not have done without your many videos explaining the secret(s) of sudoku! Thanks!
One thing that has remained constant with Simon throughout 600,000 subscribers is that he always manages to do things in the most difficult way possible 😁. The prime factors of 600000 are 6 x 10^5 = 2 x 3 x 2^5 x 5^5 , or combining to give 2^6 x 3 x 5^5 . Keep up the marvelous consistency 😝, and congratulations on 600,000 subs 🎉!
I'm not sure why I was recommended this channel all those months ago, but it's been a fun little treat as background noise while I write, congrats on the subscribers ❤
kind of a missed opportunity in the rule set though, it should have been: "Cells separated by a V sum to 5. Cells separated by an X sum to 10. All the Xs and Vs are given."
Got stuck for about an hour so I just threw some digits into the cages to see what would break. It turned out to be correct! So I "solved" the puzzle, but have no clue as to the actual solution path!
Congrats on the 600k! So happy for you guys ❤ I'm from the Covid wave of subscrivers (jee it's been 4 years 😮) and your videos are the one piece of routine that didn't change for me in those years. I wish you two never ciese to amaze at the face of beautiful logic. Salut!
just amazing that simon starts with dividing by 5 rather than noting that 600,000 is 6 times 100,000, and that 100,000 is 10 to the power 5, and 10 is 5 times 2. What would be the fun in doing things the easy way.
An easier way to get the prime factors: there are 5 zeroes, that gives you 5 fives and 5 twos. 6 left, so one more two and one more three. So: 2⁶×3¹×5⁵.
I feel special after googling the "factorization of 60000" and finding out besides the prime factors, that all the 60 divisors of it sum to 196812, which is my year of birth followed by my month of birth. What a coincidence. Then realizing it wasn't 60000, it was 600000. Anyway, this isn't about me, though it is about all of us subscribers. It must feel unreal for both of you, Simon and Mark. I guess that number of subscribers feels unreal, like a product of your imagination, while it is - as we alll know now - a product of 2,2,2,2,2,2,3,5,5,5,5, and 5.
65:03, not easy to see some of the logic (I kept notes on a piece of paper!), but I enjoyed doing the math and using that to eliminate digits from certain cells.
Thank you for featuring the puzzle, and thank you also to Qodec and Nell Gwyn for testing. The Bow tie is green because I guessed (wrongly) that you might own a green bow tie. I’ll guess better next time 😅
Once again enthusiastic congratulations on 600K… and thank you so much for your kind words. It really is a tremendous honor to celebrate (and cerebrate !) with you
“It could be we’re not a million miles away” - nope, only 600,000 miles 😂
But seriously, you did great, my dear friend. It was delightful from start to finish
55:32 don’t feel bad about the “3 in box 4” escaping your notice. It was specifically designed to do exactly that 😂
Brillant puzzle, thanks to both and cheers for the new milestone!
Leave it to Simon to find the hardest way possible to factorize 600,000. 10 * 10 * 10 * 10 * 10 * 6 and then factor each of those. At any rate, congrats again on this amazing victory.
Of course this can be done much simpler. First convert the decimal number to binary, then count all the trailing zeros as the exponent for the prime factor 2. Convert the residue number to base 3 and then count the trailing zeros again as exponent for the prime factor 3, etc.
This was rather amusing.
Followed by the hardest way to note it down for later
@@averygaron994 Absolutely bonkers that he refuses to use a notepad of some kind. Wastes so much time.
Absolutely hilarious. Simon, we love you, but that was absurd ❤
And no, no notebook needed, because you can simply read the prime factors of 600,000: 2*3*(2*5)^5.
But far less amusing if he notices that 😉
*In the voice of Attenborough* And here we see a two and a three canoodling, rather agressively, as is their nature. Later, the three will retract to the corner, while the two will scurry away, hiding from the eight. - Congratulations CTC!
Congrats on 600k
I don't normally comment a lot but I've been watching the channel for over a year, and I gotta say, my love for sudoku has never been bigger
you guys will hit a million subs one day
I am very rarely a 'shout at the screen' person, but when he was asking about the nature of those purple digits, I was very satisfied in shouting about where three might go in box 4. (Its always sudoku).
Congratulations, it's a pretty sneaky step.
Simon looking dapper for a special occasion. Congratulations to both Simon and Mark. Nice guys do deserve to succeed.
Congratulations to Mark and Simon for this milestone! This channel, without a doubt is my favourite channel on TH-cam!
I'm proud to be 0.00016666666666667% of what got you to 600k.
Me too!
Aren't we all!
Congratulations on 600k!🎉
And Maverick with a belated congratulations 😂
Also, The Ramones did a song called Rockaway Beach. I think that’s where the 2 and 3 do their aggressive canoodling.
I recognise the name of Far Rockaway. It's where the great Richard Feynman grew up and attended high school.
Started following you just before covid after finding videos on how to find x-wings. Couldn't imagine what a journey it would become. Glad to have been able to follow it ❤
I remember those…that and Simon explaining tricks of killer sudoku. I didn’t understand it back then, now thanks in huge part to these two I can solve so many other puzzles.
This is a bit of a beast of a puzzle with very different interactions of rules than is usual. Perfect for the occasion.
Fantastic puzzle! Characteristically quirky and detailed right to the end. Needed Simon's help to get going but then I was away. Loved how the thermometer bulb resolved.
Wonderful news, the 600k deserves many congratulations CtC and community.
I've watching this channel for almosy 2 years an very happy to see the growth
55:38 Congratulations on your 600k subs! For me there were lots of hidden triples and quads. Love being part of the community and attempting the daily puzzles, and the very very rare besting of Simon’s time.
Congrats on 600k! Much love from all of us who enjoy your videos in a daily basis.
Congratulations Simon, on reaching this milestone! 🎉🎊🎆 You deserve this success and much more. As one of your 600,000 favorite people, may I return the favor and say that you are one of mine and I love spending some of each day watching your videos!
Congratulations on 600k! Between crosswords, sudoku, many different kids of pencil, logic and word puzzles, and even puzzle video games... it has been amazing to see this channel grow into a celebration of puzzling at its purest. This channel and community is a gem in the sea of TH-cam, and I hope you'll keep growing and spreading the love of simple, good-natured puzzles.
🎉🎉🎉 congratulations! 🎉🎉🎉 Thank you for all the joy, the fun, the help and the introduction into a wonderful world and community! 💜
It's only appropriate that the celebration puzzle would be solved using the hardest route whenever it was possible :) Much love and congratulations for achieving 600k milestone and I'm pretty sure 1 Million is just around the corner :)
Congrats! 🎉 You've meant so much to so many of us, I'm very happy to see you reach new milestones!
Congrats on 600k! You both deserve this success and much more. Thank you for everything you do for us. You're both a bright light in the world. 💖🥰
Technically an XV sudoku with a negative constraint lol
I remember being here when you guys were under 400k! Congrats on yet another super deserved milestone and thanks for becoming such a huge part of my and so many people’s lives!
🍾 Congratulations on 600,000 subscribers 🍾 It feels like a very long time ago that I joined that select group in May 2020.
And this puzzle was a fitting tribute to the community that you have built in that time. It was tough, it took me 2 hours (not helped by forgetting the negative XV constraint for a long time), but I'm very glad to have persevered and completed the puzzle without any assistance from the video.
Took me 30min … to realize Simon is wearing a bow tie! Congratulation for 600k! 🎉
Congratulations, Simon and Mark!
The 3-7 pairs really hid well from him a lot of the time, didn't they XD
Congratulations on 600k! Well deserved to all involved!! Thoroughly enjoy the videos and positivity they show! Onto the next milestone! 🎉
Here from when we were about 20 000 and then it felt like such an amazing thing!
Congrats and 600 000 thanks, Mark and Simon!
Simon! I checked your solution against all of the rules and it works out. No dominoes adding to 5 or 10, green bow tie multiplies to 600,000, all cages are correct, so you are clear!
Congratulations on 600K subs! I've been following this channel for at least 4 years, and I am so fortunate to see each milestone achieved in this channel from 300K, 400K, 500K and now 600K!
So very happy for you guys! Love being a part of this.
Congrats on 600,000 subscribers very glad to be part of it and I hope you get more which clearly will happen!
Magnifecent accomplishment to get to 600,000!! 🎉🎉
Thank you to all the fabulous setters that have helped this channel and community grow to where it is!!
Huge well done on reaching 600,000! Thank you for getting me started in my cryptic solving journey. Truly deserve this amazing milestone, 1M next! 🎉
Well done Simon and Mark! What a treasure you are to the world! Continue to use the gifts and talents God has given you for His honor and glory.
I finished in 89 minutes. I thought the bowtie was going to be an easy start, but I couldn't spot anything as I went way over using the maximum digits. It wasn't until I had a strange thought to use the factors of 600,000, that it started to show itself, surprising me. From there, it was a lot of fun cracking the puzzle. Great Puzzle!
Congratulations on the 600,000 subscribers! What an incredible achievement!
You are quite welcome Simon. You have been around long enough for quite the milestones in my life and especially when the pandemic was rampant
That was hard, to the extent that I had to watch some of the video, and it took two days... I had an idea for the bowtie but it never crossed my mind to seek for the prime factors. I was thinking of 11th root of 600k which would make the average digit approximately 3,352 which wasn't far off because in the finished puzzle I get 4 as the average, and there was only one high digit while the rest were middling or low.
Congrats again!
I'm amazed he did all that math in his head. I spent 40 minutes in a very complicated and colourful Excel-sheet reaching the conclusions he found in 10 minutes just looking at the puzzle and his ceiling :)
Well deserved. You make puzzle-solving enjoyable.
Great puzzle and congratulations on the 600K! Been watching since the beginning of the pandemic ❤. I think many people started watching and doing Sudoku at the time... Crazy to think that something good came out of it, but I'm honestly glad it did.
... Hmm I can see how this is might be seen as a controversial comment, so I'm gonna add "one" more thing:
I'm pretty sure you would have reached it (and will surpass even 1M Subs (2, 3??^^)) anyway, without that terrible thing to have happened to the world and I'm deeply sorry for everyone who was/is affected by it directly or indirectly.
That being said, your channel helped many people (including me) getting through those hard times.
I truly appreciate the hard work you guys put into this channel! ❤
Your charisma, wit, calmness, incredible logical skills, and beginner-friendly explanations even after years, all while showing so much humility and respect to the creators and your viewers is what truly sets you apart. Keep up the good work. Love you guys
All of this. Not controversial and beautifully said
Gotta keep those canoodling twos and threes separate lol! Congrats on 600,000!!!
CONGRATULATIONS !!! Now for the million.
Had a crack at this puzzle, and made some initial deductions, but got no further.
Congrats on 600k, chaps!
Watched the whole video. Congrats on 600k!
Wahay. Congratulations guys. Been following you for years, well deserved.
Congratulations from Norway and thanks for improving our mental health!
Fellow Norwegian here saying congratulations ❤️
Congratulations, I feel honored to be part of this!
There will be a few more as well! Many congratulations
20:17
Many congratulations on your well-deserved milestone. May it be just one of many more such round numbers to be met along the way.
Congratulations! I celebrated with you by solving this one on my own, which I could not have done without your many videos explaining the secret(s) of sudoku! Thanks!
One thing that has remained constant with Simon throughout 600,000 subscribers is that he always manages to do things in the most difficult way possible 😁. The prime factors of 600000 are 6 x 10^5 = 2 x 3 x 2^5 x 5^5 , or combining to give 2^6 x 3 x 5^5 . Keep up the marvelous consistency 😝, and congratulations on 600,000 subs 🎉!
Finished in 49:36. Lovely logic in the ruleset to disambiguate the fatal pairs.
Fun puzzle!
Another awesome milestone reached! Thanks for the great content.
Haven't even checked the puzzle out yet. Congratulations from a long time subscriber.
congratulations!!! you both are the best and my every evening program since shortly before 400'000
Maybe the sudoku app should have a small bit of space on the side for notes and math, so you don't need to write it in the grid?
That would be amazing, i always have to solve puzzles with a pen and paper haha
I'm not sure why I was recommended this channel all those months ago, but it's been a fun little treat as background noise while I write, congrats on the subscribers ❤
Well done on 600,000, this channel always makes a bad day good and a good day great.
Well done. I was around your 25,000th subscriber. I've had a ball watching your daily evolution into compelling youtubers.
Lots of love,
Peter
kind of a missed opportunity in the rule set though, it should have been:
"Cells separated by a V sum to 5. Cells separated by an X sum to 10. All the Xs and Vs are given."
Got stuck for about an hour so I just threw some digits into the cages to see what would break. It turned out to be correct! So I "solved" the puzzle, but have no clue as to the actual solution path!
Congrats on reaching 600k. That's a monumental milestone.
Congratulations on the 600 thousand subscribers!
Cheers from Brazil!
Congrats guys🎉 im so happy for you all!
Congratz for the 600000 subs. Nice puzzle to celebrate with.
Congratulations on 600K. Amazing milestone.
Congrats on the 600k! So happy for you guys ❤
I'm from the Covid wave of subscrivers (jee it's been 4 years 😮) and your videos are the one piece of routine that didn't change for me in those years. I wish you two never ciese to amaze at the face of beautiful logic. Salut!
Congratulations on the 600K. Haven't seen the video yet, but the puzzle was fun.
Congrats on the 600k. You will be at 1,000,000 this time next year
WOOOOOO! Congrats guys!
Congratulations! Amazing content and amazing subscribers!
Congrats on 600k🥳🥳🥳🎉🎉🎉
just amazing that simon starts with dividing by 5 rather than noting that 600,000 is 6 times 100,000, and that 100,000 is 10 to the power 5, and 10 is 5 times 2. What would be the fun in doing things the easy way.
Congratulations guys for the massive achievement.
Congratulations on the 600k
An easier way to get the prime factors: there are 5 zeroes, that gives you 5 fives and 5 twos. 6 left, so one more two and one more three. So: 2⁶×3¹×5⁵.
I feel special after googling the "factorization of 60000" and finding out besides the prime factors, that all the 60 divisors of it sum to 196812, which is my year of birth followed by my month of birth. What a coincidence. Then realizing it wasn't 60000, it was 600000. Anyway, this isn't about me, though it is about all of us subscribers.
It must feel unreal for both of you, Simon and Mark. I guess that number of subscribers feels unreal, like a product of your imagination, while it is - as we alll know now - a product of 2,2,2,2,2,2,3,5,5,5,5, and 5.
The sum of the factors of 600,000 maps onto the exact day that I turned 12 years old :D 1984248
Congratulations! Well deserved! :)
Congratulations! The best sudoku channel❤🎉
Congrats on hitting 600K!
Perhaps my brain works differently to Simon, but I just went:
600,000
=6 and five 10s
=2*3 and five (2*5)s :)
Congratulations on the 600k subscribers!!
Congratulations!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Well Deserved!
That was fun and not easy at all IMO. Congrats on 600k!
congratulations
Congrats on 600k!!
Congrats on 600k 🎉
25:49 for me. Congrats again on 600k, you guys deserve it so much!!
Favorite CtC video ever...if only for the Hong Kong Phooey reference.
Congrats, guys! 🎉🎉🎉
I find it funny how long it took for Simon to look at the 6 cage, congratulations Simon
1:04:00 Love a good Hong Kong Phooey reference.
Congratulations! :)
He threw in a Hong Kong Phooey reference. Awesome.
65:03, not easy to see some of the logic (I kept notes on a piece of paper!), but I enjoyed doing the math and using that to eliminate digits from certain cells.
Good!
Oh wow! Congrats on 600k!