Speaking of poetry: A fellow named Phistomefel Had a startling secret to tell Said he, "If a thing Should appear on my ring It must sit in a corner as well!"
I actually stopped at this point to come to the comments. I'm glad someone else pointed this sentence out. It's no surprise Simon is such a fan of poetry, because he often comes out with sentences like this one that really show his excellent use of the language.
Loved this puzzle. I was about an hour into it, wondering how I could further disambiguate the Whisper, before spotting the ring, but it still took me another half hour of trying to get the numbers to work before I realized that I'd made a faulty assumption by excluding 6 on the r6 section. Good, solid work left after that, too, all the way to the end. Very well done!
Saw this video, did the puzzle, got reminded of Brian Bilston's poetry, did a quick check on his profile, and realised he was doing a poetry reading in London ... so ended up enjoying that yesterday at The Lexington! This channel continues to enrich my life in countless ways.
Rules: 03:51 Let's Get Cracking: 05:06 Simon's time: 38m57s Puzzle Solved: 44:03 What about this video's Top Tier Simarkisms?! Phistomefel: 6x (05:09, 05:18, 15:24, 25:57, 44:31, 44:45) Three In the Corner: 2x (43:24, 43:51) Bobbins: 1x (28:24) The Secret: 1x (06:37) And how about this video's Simarkisms?! Ah: 15x (06:23, 06:28, 06:30, 08:17, 08:54, 09:10, 09:44, 12:19, 12:51, 13:54, 14:26, 17:18, 27:19, 37:23, 43:51) Hang On: 7x (08:06, 08:17, 08:17, 26:18, 26:18) Sorry: 6x (09:10, 13:17, 14:42, 15:43, 25:44, 28:03) Clever: 5x (06:30, 17:25, 37:07, 43:58, 44:02) Proof: 5x (18:09, 18:12, 18:25, 19:47, 25:51) In Fact: 5x (04:12, 06:23, 19:35, 26:47) Obviously: 4x (09:54, 10:28, 20:29, 45:24) Beautiful: 3x (37:26, 43:56, 44:11) By Sudoku: 3x (11:39, 29:25, 32:04) Naughty: 2x (08:31, 08:33) Brilliant: 2x (02:56, 03:01) Extraordinary: 2x (01:23, 02:08) Elegant: 2x (20:18, 44:16) Gorgeous: 2x (25:25, 25:26) Pencil Mark/mark: 2x (30:55, 31:00) In the Spotlight: 1x (43:54) Stuck: 1x (11:47) Lovely: 1x (00:36) Break the Puzzle: 1x (25:31) Incredible: 1x (25:47) Deadly Pattern: 1x (43:13) Bonkers: 1x (01:54) I've Got It!: 1x (08:27) Whoopsie: 1x (41:56) We Can Do Better Than That: 1x (25:02) Have a Think: 1x (19:17) Nature: 1x (08:56) Unique: 1x (03:34) Most popular number(>9), digit and colour this video: Eleven (8 mentions) One (72 mentions) Blue (16 mentions) Antithesis Battles: High (7) - Low (5) Lower (4) - Higher (3) Highest (2) - Lowest (1) Row (14) - Column (11) FAQ: Q1: You missed something! A1: That could very well be the case! Human speech can be hard to understand for computers like me! Point out the ones that I missed and maybe I'll learn! Q2: Can you do this for another channel? A2: I've been thinking about that and wrote some code to make that possible. Let me know which channel you think would be a good fit!
When I saw the shape of the corner cages and the whisper, it certainly set alarm bells ringing ⏰ (and a Phistomering has to be pretty well telegraphed for _me_ to spot it without help!) Brian Bilston is awesome. Another of his poems that I've seen recently, which I'm sure will resonate with a lot of people at this time of year, is called "Stamps", well worth looking up for a giggle!
Whenever I see the 4 2x2 corners highlighted in any way, my spidey senses start tingling immediately. After figuring out the German whisper line, I instantly calculated the Phistomefel ring...
Perhaps it is comforting that Simon is running into the same dead ends that I did at the beginning of. The difference is that he doesn’t need me to sort it out for him.
42:17 for me, and kinda proud of myself. I was able to see the pattern with the 5s, which helped me remove the 5s out of the cages & corners of the ring. Deffo a very pretty puzzle!
I finished in 117 minutes. This was a tough one. I knew that I would have to involve the Phistomefel Ring, but I kept delaying it to try and find something else. I was unable to, so I went to the Phstomefel Ring. It started looking interesting once I counted the sums, but it took me a really long time to do the math on it. I struggled for a long time and I don't know why. I'm usually good at math. I think I am having an off day. I slowly worked on what the corners could be and finally got that 34 on the left side was the minimum, but also forced. That helped move things along. I waddled my way into the finish much later. I enjoyed this one and it was fun utilizing the Phistomefel Ring, but I wish I was better at it and could give a better time. Oh well. Great Puzzle!
I think you need to have more of the sudoku solves with subscriber once you come back from holidays, to point out basic digits from the whispers rule or sudoku.
Lovely solve. I picked my daughter up today - lots of driving and seeing family en route, and came back to find the algorithm taking me back to Jay Dyer's Disjunction Function and Simon's solve of that. Such a classy puzzle and a classy solve.
I feel like the logic a little bit "discontinued" at 17:21 and at 23:01 about why the ring needs to be minium. It's the fact that r3c3 and r7c3 can't be 1 and 2 so minium is 3 and 4 which is 7. Then it makes the maximum for r3c7 and r7c7 another 7 (when other digits are already minium) Need some calculation before jumping to conclusion for using minium pair on the line
Very nice. I noticed a small fun deduction that Simon missed. At one point we could see that there were 2 sevens in the Phistomefel ring so we needed to put 2 sevens in the outer cages. We had one placed, and the second could only have gone in the top left. Simon got there another way of course.
I couldn't find R1C5. I found everything before that and once I gave in and watched to there it all unwound. Another little tool in my toolbox. Thanks.
Completely agree. 35:29 for me with a nice smooth solve, except that I'm rather proud that I found the phistomephel ring sum idea so quickly. Never would have found it if it hadn't been for this channel's gently teachings.
If you're just after this week's puzzle, it's worth noting that Rat Run has been releasing every Wednesday on Logic Masters Deutschland (which also means next week's Rat Run is planned to release on a very special day indeed). It's definitely worth looking at the LMD release, since Marty has obviously put a lot of effort into the overall presentation of the series (for example, those small intro 'snippets' that Simon has been showing in recent Rat Run videos). And of course, after solving it, you can still eagerly await Simon's coverage to see how he fares. (Though waiting until Simon's return is certainly an option -- it's nice to have the solving path fresh in your mind if you're following along. Alternatively, you can just solve the puzzle again on that day instead ^_^)
@@TFMurphy I went to LMD to find and solve the puzzle. And now I really, *really* want to see Simon's solve of this one. Ironically, and unexpectedly, the lack of Finkz Friday is even *more* frustrating than if I'd just waited until the video came out first. The final fog reveal had me very confused for a moment. Which no doubt is exactly what Marty intended. 😁
@@dustpan5356 and others - how did you solve RR19? I can't see how to even input the first "digit" as I don't have it available even when enabling the letter tool.
It makes me relieved that Simon missed the same thing as me. I was stuck forever after minimizing the ring. I never went back to the whisper until the very end when I realized that R7C6 couldn't be a 6.
"We're gonna need something to disambiguate the fives and sixes" while the six is in the same column two places below it, is this puzzle's "Simon Moment" for sure.
While i can never solve these on my own without Simons logic getting me far along seeing the phistomefel ring solved at 24:40 and simon not seeing it once he realized where the 3 is on either side of the 8 personally gave me a sense of accomplishment and hurt me as he could have solved the puzzel a few minutes faster.
Well I tried working the 5 rule with the german whisper, since the corners aren't on the german whisper you can have a 5 in the boxes... At least I couldn't prove that wrong (I had no idea about the other theory so I started to try and solve the puzzle without it... had to come back here for help lol
36:14 ... and now I got a poem in my head: Hickory Dickory Doc, Finkz ran up this clock, Because she took a break from experiments this week and also didn't feel like rhyming or finishing a silly poem Nice puzzle!
41:25 for me. I knew I could've gotten it much faster by using the Phistomefel ring, but avoided it for like 10 minutes because I wanted to see if I could do it with basic sudoku alone.
Speaking of poetry in CtC, I was trying to find a poem that I think Simon read about yetis. Depending on where you put the spaces, the poem read differently. Either as a human being scared of a yeti, or vice versa. My google-fu failed me. Does anybody know the poem, poet or where to find it?
31:41, I don't know how I got the break in because I did math to figure out what the minimum I could put in the Phistomefel Ring and it blew away the total of the cages, decided to start putting in digits manually anyway, and somehow got that value down to 69 (nice).
So much brilliant solving... and then he puts in a 58 pair at 36:44 that could be solved immediately -- and he doesn't solve it until 43:00 through a far more complicated way. And he actually could have placed 5 in box 9 at 36:05 and thus avoided the 58 pair.
I don't know the parity yet, so I used off-colors to highlight every other cell on the whisper. Noticed the cages in the corner. My initial reaction, "This is looking a little Phistomefelian." Let's see if I'm right. 71 minutes later. Yep, very Phistomefel. Very mathy. Loved it. A+
I thought the poem in question was a little corny, but I'm sure he has a bunch of refugees staying in his home sharing his food, so he's not a hypocrite at least.
Possibly. I do note that they didn't have twelve apps two years ago. I have no clue about editing TH-cam, so I have no idea how easy it would be to retro-fit the relevant card at the beginning which shows that info.
Well when he solves the puzzle it says how many have solved (in 66 days). I assume that means that the puzzle was released 66 days prior to the recording. I also happened to solve the puzzle and for me it says 89.3 days. Therefore I assume if the “days” counter works how I think it works then this video was recorded 23 days ago. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
10:04 If blue is high ... then please change it to orange, and use blue for low. That is the convention that Mark also follows (has something to do with temperature).
I know I'm in the minority, but please leave some joy for us! :) Blue photons have higher energy than red or yellow so it is quite logical to use it for high numbers/digits.
@@danielszanto2955I did not know that but it might be the solution to my concern and confusion about their fairly regular use of those same two colours both for high/low and odd/even. If we allocate blue for high and yellow for low (incidentally the Ukrainian flag, so an extra aude-memoire), then we could have orange for odd (both starting with 'o'), and maybe green for even (both ending in 'n'). Of course, if we then get a snake and sea, we are lost. I think I spend too much time on this channel!
1:00:22. It took me half an hour to think about using the Phistomefel Ring. Then, sure enough, Simon sees that immediately, so he was ready to use it when he got to the point in the solve where it's relevant.
I think I get the ring strategy now: it's not that the "ring" and "corner" regions have the same "sets" (aka. digits/candidates) as each other but rather that they must have the same SUM: c3+c7+r3+r7 = b1+b3+b7+b9, and when you subtract the common cells from both sides you are left with sum(square ring) = sum(corner regions). In most cases, once you've deduced some more restrictions on which digits are candidates for what, THEN you can start applying more fun logic.
@@tremkl That is true, same digits mean the same sums, but I do not (at this point) trust the reverse. And to be fair, I haven't watched a rigorous description/proof of _how_ it works, to trust that it does work.
@ Every single time Simon proves it, which is a lot, he proves they are the exact same digits. 4 sets of them digits 1-9 must have identical contents. If you remove the contents of the select cells from both sets, then they must still have identical digits. Therefore, the finished sets have the same digits. It is only the proof that they are the same digits that make them have the same sum. Nothing about the proof has anything to do with the sum of the cells.
This is a number channel, but did you just expose me to a new word? “Yonths”! Is that a proper word, a slang term, or a Simonism? And I would assume the definition is a long period of time which could be either months or years. I might try to start using it myself.
“I’ll go and hang my head in shame!” While being, at every moment, entirely brilliant. You are a treasure, Simon.
Speaking of poetry:
A fellow named Phistomefel
Had a startling secret to tell
Said he, "If a thing
Should appear on my ring
It must sit in a corner as well!"
Brilliant!
Bravo!
I don't know why but I like this poem
I know why @@jimi02468
"I wish something disambiguated this 56 pair" with a 6 glaring at it killed me :D great solve!
🤣 Playback time @40:49
🤣🤣 that's "text-book" Simon for you..
R8 C6 did a lot of work in this puzzle too. It could also resolve the 56 pairs but then it resolves the 89 pairs.
“It would’ve been a clever thought to have had. And I wish I’d had it.” And of course you did have it. You are hilarious, Simon.
I actually stopped at this point to come to the comments. I'm glad someone else pointed this sentence out. It's no surprise Simon is such a fan of poetry, because he often comes out with sentences like this one that really show his excellent use of the language.
Thanks for the feature! Good catch on the 1234 in column 7.
Loved this puzzle. I was about an hour into it, wondering how I could further disambiguate the Whisper, before spotting the ring, but it still took me another half hour of trying to get the numbers to work before I realized that I'd made a faulty assumption by excluding 6 on the r6 section. Good, solid work left after that, too, all the way to the end. Very well done!
Saw this video, did the puzzle, got reminded of Brian Bilston's poetry, did a quick check on his profile, and realised he was doing a poetry reading in London ... so ended up enjoying that yesterday at The Lexington! This channel continues to enrich my life in countless ways.
This has got to be puzzle of the year. I loved it.
Hope you are having a marvelous holiday Simon and so thankful you weren’t ill. ❤
By the way, when I was testing the puzzle, I, also, forgot to finish the German Whispers, causing headaches. Can't even solve my own puzzle properly.😅
Rules: 03:51
Let's Get Cracking: 05:06
Simon's time: 38m57s
Puzzle Solved: 44:03
What about this video's Top Tier Simarkisms?!
Phistomefel: 6x (05:09, 05:18, 15:24, 25:57, 44:31, 44:45)
Three In the Corner: 2x (43:24, 43:51)
Bobbins: 1x (28:24)
The Secret: 1x (06:37)
And how about this video's Simarkisms?!
Ah: 15x (06:23, 06:28, 06:30, 08:17, 08:54, 09:10, 09:44, 12:19, 12:51, 13:54, 14:26, 17:18, 27:19, 37:23, 43:51)
Hang On: 7x (08:06, 08:17, 08:17, 26:18, 26:18)
Sorry: 6x (09:10, 13:17, 14:42, 15:43, 25:44, 28:03)
Clever: 5x (06:30, 17:25, 37:07, 43:58, 44:02)
Proof: 5x (18:09, 18:12, 18:25, 19:47, 25:51)
In Fact: 5x (04:12, 06:23, 19:35, 26:47)
Obviously: 4x (09:54, 10:28, 20:29, 45:24)
Beautiful: 3x (37:26, 43:56, 44:11)
By Sudoku: 3x (11:39, 29:25, 32:04)
Naughty: 2x (08:31, 08:33)
Brilliant: 2x (02:56, 03:01)
Extraordinary: 2x (01:23, 02:08)
Elegant: 2x (20:18, 44:16)
Gorgeous: 2x (25:25, 25:26)
Pencil Mark/mark: 2x (30:55, 31:00)
In the Spotlight: 1x (43:54)
Stuck: 1x (11:47)
Lovely: 1x (00:36)
Break the Puzzle: 1x (25:31)
Incredible: 1x (25:47)
Deadly Pattern: 1x (43:13)
Bonkers: 1x (01:54)
I've Got It!: 1x (08:27)
Whoopsie: 1x (41:56)
We Can Do Better Than That: 1x (25:02)
Have a Think: 1x (19:17)
Nature: 1x (08:56)
Unique: 1x (03:34)
Most popular number(>9), digit and colour this video:
Eleven (8 mentions)
One (72 mentions)
Blue (16 mentions)
Antithesis Battles:
High (7) - Low (5)
Lower (4) - Higher (3)
Highest (2) - Lowest (1)
Row (14) - Column (11)
FAQ:
Q1: You missed something!
A1: That could very well be the case! Human speech can be hard to understand for computers like me! Point out the ones that I missed and maybe I'll learn!
Q2: Can you do this for another channel?
A2: I've been thinking about that and wrote some code to make that possible. Let me know which channel you think would be a good fit!
When I saw the shape of the corner cages and the whisper, it certainly set alarm bells ringing ⏰ (and a Phistomering has to be pretty well telegraphed for _me_ to spot it without help!)
Brian Bilston is awesome. Another of his poems that I've seen recently, which I'm sure will resonate with a lot of people at this time of year, is called "Stamps", well worth looking up for a giggle!
Whenever I see the 4 2x2 corners highlighted in any way, my spidey senses start tingling immediately. After figuring out the German whisper line, I instantly calculated the Phistomefel ring...
Perhaps it is comforting that Simon is running into the same dead ends that I did at the beginning of. The difference is that he doesn’t need me to sort it out for him.
Took me roughly with a couple of advanced sudoku facts that I just happened to know
Will have to see how Simon did it so quickly with such ease
You're wonderful Simon! Thank you!❤
As soon as I saw the name of the puzzle, I knew it was about the Phistomefel ring. It is a RINGing clock for a reason
I’m not at all up on poetry so thank you for introducing me to Brian Bilston. ‘Refugees’ really is something. And who doesn’t love cheese?
Thank you for providing the proof, I was stuck on this for a while
42:17 for me, and kinda proud of myself. I was able to see the pattern with the 5s, which helped me remove the 5s out of the cages & corners of the ring. Deffo a very pretty puzzle!
I finished in 117 minutes. This was a tough one. I knew that I would have to involve the Phistomefel Ring, but I kept delaying it to try and find something else. I was unable to, so I went to the Phstomefel Ring. It started looking interesting once I counted the sums, but it took me a really long time to do the math on it. I struggled for a long time and I don't know why. I'm usually good at math. I think I am having an off day. I slowly worked on what the corners could be and finally got that 34 on the left side was the minimum, but also forced. That helped move things along. I waddled my way into the finish much later. I enjoyed this one and it was fun utilizing the Phistomefel Ring, but I wish I was better at it and could give a better time. Oh well. Great Puzzle!
Wow, I wished my alarm clock could also be set for nine o'clock every morning... ;-)
Elegantly simple. 👏👏👏👏👏
A full week of "normal" sudoku. What a treat !!!
I hope Simon is on holiday or something pleasant and not ill.
He said he was on holiday in the crossword video he posted today.
34:15 Always love the Phistomefel ring in a puzzle!
I think you need to have more of the sudoku solves with subscriber once you come back from holidays, to point out basic digits from the whispers rule or sudoku.
Wonderful puzzle with a very helpful ring......
That was a blast! Thank you for taxing my brain! ❤
I agree, WE WANT FINKZ!
Simon spends 5 minutes proving phistomephel, identifying no 5's in the ring, then continues to consider if 5's can go in the corner boxes 🤦🏻♂️
Lovely solve. I picked my daughter up today - lots of driving and seeing family en route, and came back to find the algorithm taking me back to Jay Dyer's Disjunction Function and Simon's solve of that. Such a classy puzzle and a classy solve.
Pencil-Mark would be so proud of you!
I feel like the logic a little bit "discontinued" at 17:21 and at 23:01 about why the ring needs to be minium.
It's the fact that r3c3 and r7c3 can't be 1 and 2 so minium is 3 and 4 which is 7.
Then it makes the maximum for r3c7 and r7c7 another 7 (when other digits are already minium)
Need some calculation before jumping to conclusion for using minium pair on the line
Very nice. I noticed a small fun deduction that Simon missed. At one point we could see that there were 2 sevens in the Phistomefel ring so we needed to put 2 sevens in the outer cages. We had one placed, and the second could only have gone in the top left. Simon got there another way of course.
Never been so early to one! Cant wait to see how you solve this one!
I couldn't find R1C5. I found everything before that and once I gave in and watched to there it all unwound. Another little tool in my toolbox. Thanks.
VERY fun, though I ended up doing the last parts somehow backwards finding crazy quadruples and quintuples
20:29 for me. I was hoping for a rat run puzzle today, guess it'll have to wait. Hope you're enjoying your holiday, Simon!
Gonzalo what happened?! Usually I see you post times in the wickedly absurd range of sub 10 mins or something! 😉
I'm always super impressed ❤️
27:25 for me. Wonderful puzzle with a great flow (once you get on the solve path).
Completely agree. 35:29 for me with a nice smooth solve, except that I'm rather proud that I found the phistomephel ring sum idea so quickly. Never would have found it if it hadn't been for this channel's gently teachings.
RIP all the people waiting for Finkz!
Came to say the same! Where is TGIF??? 😢😢😢
If you're just after this week's puzzle, it's worth noting that Rat Run has been releasing every Wednesday on Logic Masters Deutschland (which also means next week's Rat Run is planned to release on a very special day indeed). It's definitely worth looking at the LMD release, since Marty has obviously put a lot of effort into the overall presentation of the series (for example, those small intro 'snippets' that Simon has been showing in recent Rat Run videos). And of course, after solving it, you can still eagerly await Simon's coverage to see how he fares. (Though waiting until Simon's return is certainly an option -- it's nice to have the solving path fresh in your mind if you're following along. Alternatively, you can just solve the puzzle again on that day instead ^_^)
@ Yup, solved it this morning. I enjoy solving then watching Simon have a go. Was an excellent puzzle this week, as usual!
@@TFMurphy I went to LMD to find and solve the puzzle.
And now I really, *really* want to see Simon's solve of this one.
Ironically, and unexpectedly, the lack of Finkz Friday is even *more* frustrating than if I'd just waited until the video came out first.
The final fog reveal had me very confused for a moment.
Which no doubt is exactly what Marty intended. 😁
@@dustpan5356 and others - how did you solve RR19? I can't see how to even input the first "digit" as I don't have it available even when enabling the letter tool.
yeah this was one where it was quite easy to do the maths wrong. broke it a couple of times trying to solve this
It makes me relieved that Simon missed the same thing as me. I was stuck forever after minimizing the ring. I never went back to the whisper until the very end when I realized that R7C6 couldn't be a 6.
"We're gonna need something to disambiguate the fives and sixes" while the six is in the same column two places below it, is this puzzle's "Simon Moment" for sure.
🤣 Playback time @40:49
While i can never solve these on my own without Simons logic getting me far along seeing the phistomefel ring solved at 24:40 and simon not seeing it once he realized where the 3 is on either side of the 8 personally gave me a sense of accomplishment and hurt me as he could have solved the puzzel a few minutes faster.
The way I filled in the last 2 cages was to use the remaining digits from the ring.
From a proposal to a cheese poem. Amazing.
At 33:40, I was missing this for like 10 minutes before finally solving. Everything else fell into place within 1 minute after that.
Well I tried working the 5 rule with the german whisper, since the corners aren't on the german whisper you can have a 5 in the boxes... At least I couldn't prove that wrong (I had no idea about the other theory so I started to try and solve the puzzle without it... had to come back here for help lol
I can't understand why at 22:59 you are sure to minimize
41:18 for me. I noticed Phistomefel straight away, but still took some time to make use of it.
36:14 ... and now I got a poem in my head:
Hickory Dickory Doc,
Finkz ran up this clock,
Because she took a break from experiments this week and also didn't feel like rhyming or finishing a silly poem
Nice puzzle!
00:47:41, brilliant puzzle
41:25 for me. I knew I could've gotten it much faster by using the Phistomefel ring, but avoided it for like 10 minutes because I wanted to see if I could do it with basic sudoku alone.
There was a time when Uncle Simon used scrabble tiles to explain Phistomefel Ring
Still today's or tonight's puzzle meaning that Simon is still on a vacation. Hopefully he's back by Christmas.
45:33 for me - got so distracted by the phistomefel ring at the start that I ignored the 23 cage for far too long.
Finished in 31:13 with help from the video.
Speaking of poetry in CtC, I was trying to find a poem that I think Simon read about yetis. Depending on where you put the spaces, the poem read differently. Either as a human being scared of a yeti, or vice versa.
My google-fu failed me.
Does anybody know the poem, poet or where to find it?
31:41, I don't know how I got the break in because I did math to figure out what the minimum I could put in the Phistomefel Ring and it blew away the total of the cages, decided to start putting in digits manually anyway, and somehow got that value down to 69 (nice).
00:38:54 for me. Wonderful puzzle, even with no cupcake :) Kind comment.
So is that 9:00 or is it 11:45? Can't tell since the 'hands' are the same length. :P
If it was 11:45 the hour hand would only be 3/4th the way from 11 to 12.
Solved it in 22 mins 31 secs and really enjoyed each moment of solving this
We need an update on yesterday's question, if it was answered to the satisfaction of the author of the poem on his birthday.
So much brilliant solving... and then he puts in a 58 pair at 36:44 that could be solved immediately -- and he doesn't solve it until 43:00 through a far more complicated way.
And he actually could have placed 5 in box 9 at 36:05 and thus avoided the 58 pair.
Simon ignoring Sudoku on box 4 xD
As well as traditional Finkz Friday
42m. Nice puzzle. Phestomefel.
I don't know the parity yet, so I used off-colors to highlight every other cell on the whisper. Noticed the cages in the corner. My initial reaction, "This is looking a little Phistomefelian." Let's see if I'm right.
71 minutes later. Yep, very Phistomefel. Very mathy. Loved it. A+
I ❤ Brian Bilston!!
I thought the poem in question was a little corny, but I'm sure he has a bunch of refugees staying in his home sharing his food, so he's not a hypocrite at least.
Believe he has read Brian Bilston before on the channel. Yes..he is an exceptional poet. ❤😊
@@davidrattner9yep! I first heard of Brian Bilston from Simon a while back! I really like his poems!!❤️❤️
The poem story at the beginning implies this was recorded more than 2 years ago!
Possibly. I do note that they didn't have twelve apps two years ago. I have no clue about editing TH-cam, so I have no idea how easy it would be to retro-fit the relevant card at the beginning which shows that info.
@williammorris7279 good point! perhaps there are some templates they overlay before uploading or something similar
Well when he solves the puzzle it says how many have solved (in 66 days).
I assume that means that the puzzle was released 66 days prior to the recording.
I also happened to solve the puzzle and for me it says 89.3 days. Therefore I assume if the “days” counter works how I think it works then this video was recorded 23 days ago. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
@tornadre Well spotted! And congratulations on your solve.
No Finkz!
Based on yesterday’s video I thought the days of prerecorded videos were over, and we could watch a fresh rat run today… apparently not :(
10:04 If blue is high ... then please change it to orange, and use blue for low. That is the convention that Mark also follows (has something to do with temperature).
I know I'm in the minority, but please leave some joy for us! :) Blue photons have higher energy than red or yellow so it is quite logical to use it for high numbers/digits.
@@danielszanto2955I did not know that but it might be the solution to my concern and confusion about their fairly regular use of those same two colours both for high/low and odd/even. If we allocate blue for high and yellow for low (incidentally the Ukrainian flag, so an extra aude-memoire), then we could have orange for odd (both starting with 'o'), and maybe green for even (both ending in 'n'). Of course, if we then get a snake and sea, we are lost. I think I spend too much time on this channel!
I've never understood the need to slavishly follow a colouring system in sudoku. All that matters is that they are different.
@@TheEricthefruitbat Please do not fret if you don't understand. You very possibly know things I don't.
46.32 for me.
hmmm looks like Simon's not fully back? I'm so confused, he's not using his new Blue in this video so this must still be from awhile ago
It wasn't until the 3 in the corner song that I noticed it was another pre-record!
38:56 for me
nice puzzle
Scanning is still terrible 😢😊
Ah, so Simon is human after all😄
1:00:22. It took me half an hour to think about using the Phistomefel Ring. Then, sure enough, Simon sees that immediately, so he was ready to use it when he got to the point in the solve where it's relevant.
00:22:17
The three-in-the-corner song should be “O, Christmas Three”.
I think I get the ring strategy now: it's not that the "ring" and "corner" regions have the same "sets" (aka. digits/candidates) as each other but rather that they must have the same SUM: c3+c7+r3+r7 = b1+b3+b7+b9, and when you subtract the common cells from both sides you are left with sum(square ring) = sum(corner regions). In most cases, once you've deduced some more restrictions on which digits are candidates for what, THEN you can start applying more fun logic.
They *do* have the same digits.
They are the exact same digits, but that’s not always immediately helpful. But since they have identical digits, they must have identical sums.
@@tremkl That is true, same digits mean the same sums, but I do not (at this point) trust the reverse. And to be fair, I haven't watched a rigorous description/proof of _how_ it works, to trust that it does work.
@ Every single time Simon proves it, which is a lot, he proves they are the exact same digits. 4 sets of them digits 1-9 must have identical contents. If you remove the contents of the select cells from both sets, then they must still have identical digits. Therefore, the finished sets have the same digits. It is only the proof that they are the same digits that make them have the same sum. Nothing about the proof has anything to do with the sum of the cells.
I love the poem, too. Now to watch the rest of the video.
Interesting looking puzzle, but sad to see no finkz. I could listen to Simon read poems for hours.
Another old puzzle, no Christmas 3.
The poem was a bit cheesy.
Simon needs to work on his row and column scanning, he consistently scans one after discovering a digit and then misses the other!
28:38 for me
21:48 this time for me
16:01 for me
27:18 for me.
Another prerecorded video, honestly where is Simon?😢
New York, I believe.
Has our beloved rat taken the holidays already?
Use columns 1289 as orange and boxes 46 and rows 37 as blue, remove the common digits.
2 is staring down column 3, forcing row 7. Row 7, column 7 and 2 work together on box 9.
Where art thou, Simon?
The 'clever' version of Phistomefel compares Row 3, Box 4, Box 6 and Row 7 with Columns 1,2,,8 and 9. (as Simon discovered at the end)
Came here to say this.
I’m curious how many videos don’t happen because Simon couldn’t solve the puzzle 🤔
This is a number channel, but did you just expose me to a new word? “Yonths”! Is that a proper word, a slang term, or a Simonism? And I would assume the definition is a long period of time which could be either months or years.
I might try to start using it myself.
yonths!!
That poem is a bit cheesy.
It's funny how often pun wars develop with a cheese theme 🧀
162 solves and only 3 likes - the least you can do is leave a like imo
What a *ahem* cheesy poem. It is very gouda.