Thanks for the feature! You wrapped your head around all the tricky maths bits, as I suspected you would... Apologies, I thought I had updated the rules to say 'numbers' everywhere instead of digits; glad that didn't hold you up, and you correctly inferred what I meant, not what I wrote 😅
I got all kinds of confused before I saw that the double-double-double string of X-sum clues are in a cage… realising that none of that string could repeat, and remembering that the normal sudoku rules only apply within the grid, helped a lot! [spoiler: 2 and 4 can never be X-sum clues, eliminating 2 from the cage also eliminates 1, 3 cannot be in the cage because it creates duplication problems in box 6, and beginning the double-double-double sequence with anything greater than 5 breaks the secret].
This one broke my brain a bit. Kept getting stuck, watching a bit of Mark's solve before realizing something I'd missed and going back to continue my solve. I did finally make it through without any hints from Mark's solve and finished in 33:59 (conflict checker off). Many thanks to randall for a very cool but challenging puzzle!
Rules: 02:47 Let's Get Cracking: 05:07 What about this video's Top Tier Simarkisms?! Knowledge Bomb: 3x (02:15, 04:58, 06:16) The Secret: 2x (06:16, 12:08) And how about this video's Simarkisms?! Ah: 5x (09:10, 12:17, 20:59, 28:14, 34:23) Clever: 4x (00:19, 34:29, 47:36, 48:24) Bother: 3x (17:39, 30:52, 43:33) By Sudoku: 3x (24:20, 40:06, 44:03) Hang On: 3x (08:55, 10:33, 32:08) Goodness: 2x (21:04, 28:59) In Fact: 2x (23:32, 33:36) Obviously: 2x (02:06, 47:43) Wow: 2x (37:45, 48:18) *****ing: 2x (38:09, 43:33) Sorry: 1x (48:35) Stuck: 1x (37:07) Brilliant: 1x (11:03) Approachable: 1x (24:14) Progress: 1x (25:23) Wake Up: 1x (31:34) Weird: 1x (04:20) Most popular number(>9), digit and colour this video: Ten (24 mentions) Three (98 mentions) Black (9 mentions) Antithesis Battles: Low (12) - High (8) Even (4) - Odd (0) Lower (2) - Higher (0) Outside (11) - Inside (1) Black (9) - White (3) Row (24) - Column (9) 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!
26:06 for me. It is really weird that the numbers outside the grid on the left side mess with the check, but not the numbers on the other 3 sides. I mean, ... Progress?
Thanks for the feature! You wrapped your head around all the tricky maths bits, as I suspected you would... Apologies, I thought I had updated the rules to say 'numbers' everywhere instead of digits; glad that didn't hold you up, and you correctly inferred what I meant, not what I wrote 😅
Thanks, I loved solving this one 🙂
I love the Radom position Mark and Simon are in each thumbnail
Mark is fairly consistently being a goose in the lower left corner on a brown background.
I was screaming that the 18 would give you the 6 in box 2 for so long... would have solved easier
He never saw it 😭
I got all kinds of confused before I saw that the double-double-double string of X-sum clues are in a cage… realising that none of that string could repeat, and remembering that the normal sudoku rules only apply within the grid, helped a lot! [spoiler: 2 and 4 can never be X-sum clues, eliminating 2 from the cage also eliminates 1, 3 cannot be in the cage because it creates duplication problems in box 6, and beginning the double-double-double sequence with anything greater than 5 breaks the secret].
This one broke my brain a bit. Kept getting stuck, watching a bit of Mark's solve before realizing something I'd missed and going back to continue my solve. I did finally make it through without any hints from Mark's solve and finished in 33:59 (conflict checker off). Many thanks to randall for a very cool but challenging puzzle!
That was very impressive, Mark. Not your granddad's German Whispers, for sure. I loved watching you solve it - thanks!
I'm not understanding why the numbers on the right black dots have to always increase and why couldn't they be 6-12-24-12 for exemple
the 4 numbers are encased in a cage and numbers cannot repeat in a cage
They are in a cage so no repeats are allowed. 🙂
Rules: 02:47
Let's Get Cracking: 05:07
What about this video's Top Tier Simarkisms?!
Knowledge Bomb: 3x (02:15, 04:58, 06:16)
The Secret: 2x (06:16, 12:08)
And how about this video's Simarkisms?!
Ah: 5x (09:10, 12:17, 20:59, 28:14, 34:23)
Clever: 4x (00:19, 34:29, 47:36, 48:24)
Bother: 3x (17:39, 30:52, 43:33)
By Sudoku: 3x (24:20, 40:06, 44:03)
Hang On: 3x (08:55, 10:33, 32:08)
Goodness: 2x (21:04, 28:59)
In Fact: 2x (23:32, 33:36)
Obviously: 2x (02:06, 47:43)
Wow: 2x (37:45, 48:18)
*****ing: 2x (38:09, 43:33)
Sorry: 1x (48:35)
Stuck: 1x (37:07)
Brilliant: 1x (11:03)
Approachable: 1x (24:14)
Progress: 1x (25:23)
Wake Up: 1x (31:34)
Weird: 1x (04:20)
Most popular number(>9), digit and colour this video:
Ten (24 mentions)
Three (98 mentions)
Black (9 mentions)
Antithesis Battles:
Low (12) - High (8)
Even (4) - Odd (0)
Lower (2) - Higher (0)
Outside (11) - Inside (1)
Black (9) - White (3)
Row (24) - Column (9)
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!
30:33 ... I fared surprisingly well on this one
Nice puzzle!
26:06 for me. It is really weird that the numbers outside the grid on the left side mess with the check, but not the numbers on the other 3 sides. I mean, ... Progress?
18:55
no, you also have to consider 7 & 9 (5 fails easily).
well, they all fail easily, but should at least be mentioned
18:53 you were lucky. becouse "black dot digits" didnt matter if the partner can be 10,12,14...
but the logic that it cant be bigger than 3 stands.
Read the rules 3 times
Totally missed that numbers outside the grid could be up to 45
Nice solve from Mark
62:36 for me.
I was hoping you'd spot the x-wing on 5s in boxes 1 and 7. That would have forced the row 4 x-sum.
Alittle frustrated mark didn’t find the 6 in the corner by completing the 18 sum with a 3 digit
I thought digits in a black dot, not numbers...
24:25 for over 18 minutes, you could place a 4 in R4C1 by noticing that the 5 in box 4 must be in column 2, which helps resolve a few numbers.
And here im asking why a digit cant repeat on 4 cell ratios...need new glasses
Oh, finally I saw it too, thanks to your comment 😄
The rules should say values, not digits. 10, 20, 40 and so on are values, not digits.
Yes, that was my mistake. I've updated it on LMD.
37 minutes