Finding the pointing 5s in box 1 gave me the position of the 5 in box 3 and collapsed the puzzle after a long struggle. You had the fives when you pencil marked the top of box 1 but you deleted them because there were so many possible digits. Nice solve. Thanks!
26:56 without the conflict checker on Have you ever done the same puzzle with and without the conflict checker? I imagine the only way to really do that effectively would be to have a significant amount of time between the two solves.
I haven't. I did do one puzzle in this series without conflict checker just as a demonstration, but I spend a lot of time on several videos every day and I don't want to get stuck for a while on an obvious deduction.
Interesting to see people think this was a hard one - I needed help to see the 17 pair but after that it fell into place. I find some other ones with hidden triples much more challenging
Today's puzzle was humbling. That unrealized 5 was what KO'ed me and caused me to punt to the video. That is not a sharp tool in my toolbox and need to learn how to recognize those better.
There was actually another way to spot that 5. After the 17 pair was marked in box 1, two 5's crossing allow a corner mark of 5's in the top row of box 1. That corner mark then places squares in box 3.
@@XJWill1 GREAT call, that would've done it. When I am wholly stuck I go back to pair scanning to see if something is newly realized, and I could have caught it there.
Was trickier than the usual. 678 triple in row 3 was crucial to create 17 pair in box 1 row 2, leading to a single 4 in R1C7, then thereafter no any other trick needed. Yeah was challenging 😢
This one just seemed to lack any elegance. A couple of the naked singles were not too bad, but the one you really needed was not easy to find at all. I can't give the video a thumbs down because you stuck with it (better than I did - I broke it more than once and finally gave up, watching the whole video instead of letting it run on mute in the background) but I'd definitely give the puzzle a thumbs down. Nothing really there to learn or discover. Just brute force.
Finding the pointing 5s in box 1 gave me the position of the 5 in box 3 and collapsed the puzzle after a long struggle. You had the fives when you pencil marked the top of box 1 but you deleted them because there were so many possible digits. Nice solve. Thanks!
26:56 without the conflict checker on
Have you ever done the same puzzle with and without the conflict checker?
I imagine the only way to really do that effectively would be to have a significant amount of time between the two solves.
I haven't. I did do one puzzle in this series without conflict checker just as a demonstration, but I spend a lot of time on several videos every day and I don't want to get stuck for a while on an obvious deduction.
This one was trickier than usual, didn’t want to give up
Yeah, it just kept fighting!
It took me a few minutes to spot the two naked singles next to each other in Box 3 Row 3. It was a nice, steady solve after that. (23:52)
Interesting to see people think this was a hard one - I needed help to see the 17 pair but after that it fell into place. I find some other ones with hidden triples much more challenging
After the 17 pair in box 1 where does 5 go in box 1?? Was a little tricky but naked singles got the puzzle collapsing
Puzzle solved in 6:20
I've found the last few days quite tricky because of all the hidden singles
I actively enjoy tricky, but this just felt like a grind today
This puzzle was hard!
Crazy puzzles recently!
Today's puzzle was humbling. That unrealized 5 was what KO'ed me and caused me to punt to the video. That is not a sharp tool in my toolbox and need to learn how to recognize those better.
Yeah it was definitely a tough spot!
There was actually another way to spot that 5. After the 17 pair was marked in box 1, two 5's crossing allow a corner mark of 5's in the top row of box 1. That corner mark then places squares in box 3.
@@XJWill1 GREAT call, that would've done it. When I am wholly stuck I go back to pair scanning to see if something is newly realized, and I could have caught it there.
Was trickier than the usual. 678 triple in row 3 was crucial to create 17 pair in box 1 row 2, leading to a single 4 in R1C7, then thereafter no any other trick needed. Yeah was challenging 😢
Tough one.
finding the hidden 68 pair in row one is the key to crack the puzzle, not really a hard one.
Sorry, hidden pair 68 in row three.
This one just seemed to lack any elegance. A couple of the naked singles were not too bad, but the one you really needed was not easy to find at all. I can't give the video a thumbs down because you stuck with it (better than I did - I broke it more than once and finally gave up, watching the whole video instead of letting it run on mute in the background) but I'd definitely give the puzzle a thumbs down. Nothing really there to learn or discover. Just brute force.