Simon's lucky. A few years ago I was running a chess tournament at RAF Cranwell. Everyone was silently thinking and suddenly the building shook with an enormous roar of jet engines. I rushed to the window to see two Eurofighter Typhoons doing a low pass. Apaprently, there was a special parade. The two Typhoons did another pass and then we had peace again...
As a licensed pilot and amateur sudoku solver, I will say I’d rather be flying. There is nothing like the feeling of watching the earth slip away and seeing the sky unfold above you.
@@GunganWorks not if you’re scared of heights. (Idk technically I’m supposed to not be scared up their because my perception is so high up my depth perception is warped and I won’t be scared, but I still get scared on smaller planes so like)
@@justanothergamingyoutuber8179 I am actually scared of heights. But flying is somehow different. Personally, I like small planes. They just feel so alive in the air. You can feel the air currents and how the airplane reacts.
Little known trivia: Mark hires Maverick to fly his plane around with a banner which says: "Simon is solving a sudoku now: Please be quiet so he can concentrate!"
15:15 I literally yelled "No it couldn't, it's blue!" XD I'm just glad I'm finally catching stuff like that; used to be I struggled just to follow half of what Simon was saying in these vids. Nice to have some proof of improvement!
Indeed, that's the thing. Pretty much any puzzle which takes Simon or Mark more than 40 minutes to solve is a puzzle which would take me at least a few hours to solve. But I keep watching, and I can tell that I am getting (slowly) better at some of these.
I love how he uses the Blue logic to rule out Pink and Yellow being the same, but then completely misses the fact the same applies to Green and Yellow, and keeps looking at other patterns... Sometimes he really can't see the forest for the trees.
Rules: 02:52 Let's get cracking: 03:35 And how about this video's Simarkisms?! By sudoku: 13 (21:46, 22:29, 27:47, 28:02, 28:54, 32:38, 39:18, 39:18, 39:33, 45:21, 50:39, 51:47, 1:11:51) Good Grief: 9 (03:55, 16:26, 18:03, 25:44, 56:41, 1:02:11, 1:05:53, 1:13:26, 1:13:30) Sorry: 7 (20:31, 41:44, 56:16, 1:08:30, 1:09:18, 1:14:19, 1:15:18) Maverick: 7 (05:13, 05:28, 11:08, 36:07, 36:07, 43:02, 48:41) Beautiful: 7 (01:20, 29:53, 38:30, 51:32, 51:32, 58:22, 58:58) The Answer is: 5 (09:06, 51:40, 55:58, 59:03, 1:02:21) Stuck: 5 (42:47, 54:34, 1:00:25, 1:05:53, 1:09:22) What on Earth: 4 (03:41, 1:00:32, 1:02:11, 1:03:30) Lovely: 4 (10:46, 10:46, 57:18, 1:07:10) Ridiculous: 4 (26:24, 30:03, 50:18, 50:21) Bobbins: 3 (56:05, 56:05, 56:05) Bother: 3 (18:53, 21:40, 1:03:55) Clever: 3 (16:26, 50:05, 1:15:11) Goodness: 2 (50:01, 1:04:42) Naked Single: 2 (56:43, 1:12:12) Out of Nowhere: 2 (1:03:36, 1:10:13) You Rotten Thing: 2 (56:03, 1:09:31) Extraordinary: 2 (1:14:32, 1:14:35) Going Mad: 2 (17:07, 17:14) Gorgeous: 2 (51:50, 56:46) Knowledge Bomb: 1 (32:13) Apologies: 1 (59:47) Goodliffing: 1 (1:03:23) I Have no Clue: 1 (42:05) Brilliant: 1 (1:13:32) Fascinating: 1 (11:03) Deadly Pattern: 1 (1:01:21) Take a Bow: 1 (1:15:14) FAQ: Q1: What is a Simarkism? A1: A Simarkism is something that Simon and Mark typically or frequently say. Q2: How do you do this so fast? A2: I'm not made of flesh and blood, but of sand ... Q3: Why don't you include 'XX' and 'YY'? A3: Probably it's already on the list, but not mentioned in this video. But if you think it's not, tell me what you'd like me to include and there's a good chance I'll add it! Q4: You missed 'XX' at 'YY:ZZ'! A4: That could very well be the case! Human speech is hard to understand for computers like me, especially British sometimes! Point out the ones that I missed and maybe I'll learn!
I think you need to distinguish between when he follows "by sudoku" with "of all things" and when he doesn't. Or just have an "of all things" category.
@@smylesg Don't want to get too nitty gritty about it, so people can still easily find the "By Sudoku of All Things" mentions by going through the "By Sudoku" timestamps, but I added an "Of All Things" category.
"1's don't deserve colors" is a sentence that made me unbelievably irrationally sad. loved the puzzle and the solve! my jaw was on the floor the whole solve
Not only that, I found giving the ones a colour actually helped me understand what was going on much more clearly. Given Simon’s penchant for colouring, I’m surprised he didn’t do it for the 1s as well.
15:20 - the fourth 10-cage can't be green, because then the new-green-blue would either be in the same column as the pink-blue or in the same box as the original-green-blue, which doesn't work ⇨ the fourth 10-cage is the fourth and final permutation and is a different colour. Once you know that the 4 cages are different, life gets a lot easier if you remove the base colours and just leave the repeating cells coloured.
Me: *sees hour+ CTC video drop* :D :D :D Simon at around the hour mark: "This is going to be more than a hour, and I'm not apologizing for it." Me: *confused Pikachu face* Why would you ever apologize for the treasures that are hour+ videos?"
I've been watching your videos for quite some time now and I absolutely adore them. I started out having never done an abnormal sudoku before and I would try to solve it with assistance from the video. Slowly I started needing less and less help and after a month or so I was able to get the 20 min puzzles consistently in an hour or two on my own. Its been a few months now and this is the first puzzle I got on my own with the video being over an hour. It took me nearly three hours on and off but I eventually got it. Keep up the amazing content!
"Do have a go" Ummm If Phistomefel found it challenging then I'll need several lifetimes. This is me content with simply cosying up with hot chocolate and snacks to watch a fine CTC movie....
Certainly the hardest puzzle I’ve managed to solve on my own. Quickly got the right idea for the break in, but it was a real challenge to keep up with my coloring scheme. Total time closer to three hours, don’t know exactly as I took breaks and left the timer running. So satisfying when it all came together.
Awfully proud of my 95 minute time on this one after watching Simon's solve. I think most of the difference was it took me about 20 minutes of looking around before I spotted the 8 in box 5.
these long videos are my favorites. they go by so quickly and the time is spent doing something fun instead of boring. I probably couldn't solve even the hard level sudoku in a magazine but following along with this is quickly becoming my go to. thanks for posting these!
Great solve. It would have taken me at least 10x as long to start thinking about repeat digits. I saw at 15:10 you miss that there are _two_ blue cells looking at that bottom cage which solves the mystery of whether it's green.
So much 🧡 for this puzzle! Simon's witty comments, his being able to immediately calculate knight's moves while keeping crayon box of colors in mind constantly...entertainment at it's finest!
Rather than colour the tens, I coloured the individual digits, which I think helped at the start. The clearer colouring made it easier to see that each L-shaped cage was a different composition The breakthrough came when the top one had all three cells appearing in one of the others. This meant that it had to be 235 (all of the other 3-cell options include a 1, a 235, and a unique digit from 467). By duplicating the 235s to their respective mirrors in the other cages, I was able to get my first digits, a couple of 1s. I was also able to work out which cells were the 235s, which were the 1s, and which were the 467s. After that, it fell apart... in my dreams! This was relentless. Only in the very late stages did it really start to get easy. I think towards the end, Simon's brain was perhaps a bit fried, and he was missing some fairly obvious things, but he had been filming a hard puzzle continuously for over an hour, so I'll let him off today. Some of the commentary was very entertaining, although I couldn't help but wonder how our blind comrade coped with lines like "this is a red, blue, 7 combination". This was an incredible construction. To be so tightly constrained that every tiny gain had to be teased out of it, and for this to go so far into the solve, is pretty remarkable. I'll file this one under E for exquisite torture.
Simon, you are such a lovely person and this solve was incredible. Thank you for always showcasing beautiful puzzles for us to enjoy! Can't wait to see you enjoy the last area of the Witness, or move to Baba is you. The beauty in both of those games is like these great sudokus for me. I am glad you also appreciate these great minds who set out to frustrate us with their brilliance xD Keep it up!
When I read "The Best Thing I Have Done In My Life!", I knew I had to solve it, howsoever long it takes. To be fair, it was exacting even after all the plays, i.e. the cages, were done. Brilliant Puzzle. Thanks Simon.
(21:00) - Identifying Tripple 10 cage : The 4 ways of creating 10 with 3 squares is - 1,2,7 1,3,6 1,4,5 and 2,3,5. And finding repeated digits between them shows that only 1 set has all 3 repeated = 2,3,5. Thus, the purple ten cage is a 2,3,5 combination. Also, since the other three 10 cages are different, 1 is in all the other three 10 cages. By sudoku and knights move, the only place a 1 can go is in the black squares and one of the green squares R3C1-2.
15:15 in the video, that's like, a completely new type of blindness, you have the blue pencilmarked right there, in the same box, and a blue cell looking directly at it, I sometimes think that Simon is just messing with us...
the puzzle name inspired me to keep trying whne I got stuck instead of going back to the video (like I usually do) - and I cannot believe it but I solved it -- Simon, you are an inspiration -- keep making content you have found your calling
What an absolute marvel of setting prowess. Carefully, piece by piece, it reveals its secrets. Incredible job Simon, thank you for your impressive solve!
A small point, but at 19:50, once all three values in the purple ten cage have been determined to repeat in one of the other ten cages, then it has to be 2-3-5 because no other combination for three-cell tens involves three repeaters, the other combinations each feature one of 4, 6 or 7 which don't appear in any other combination. A great solve.
That was so hard I've had to screen shot and print so I can take it work tomorrow. I'm going to advertise the channel to see if I'm not on my own because I can and I want to. My head at the mo is mashed. I love this channel so much so I will say thank you Simon and Mark again. Respect to all of you because your keeping me sane. I hope you get me because I don't know how you even did this 1. Norri Norri. Bobbins and brilliance.
"I know people will get cross if I don't do this properly" referring to filling out colours. You know us so well! Brilliant puzzle with a satisfying conclusion.
Paused the video, gave it a try, I figured out the logic on the repeated digit and made some headway, but got very muddled on implementing it. Pleasure to see you manage it.
Feel like this reached a point towards the end where all the known information was actually recorded in numerical pencil marks and the insistence on keeping up with coloring just made it a lot harder to scan...
Yes, as soon as all the 10 cages became fully pencil marked, it devolves into a simple (hah!) anti-knight puzzle and colours can be removed, but we know Simon loves his colours so who are we to argue :)
Amazing puzzle!! Probably the best puzzle I have ever solved with zero help. I often struggle with puzzles Simon solves where the video length is less than half of this one, so it feels like quite the achievement. Definitely took me a couple of hours or more, but solving this and then watching Simon's solve has made my day!
This was a challenge and a half! I started the same way Simon did, figuring out which 3 celled 10's had to be different, but I had to recolor my board three times to keep track of things, once to start, once when I realized I could identify identical cells more or less so I gave each of the 1234567's their own color, and after a long while I decided the colors were just tripping me out so by the time I got to the cage in box 6 I just erased the whole thing... Only to shortly later have to start coloring 78's pairs to track the end. Very fun puzzle, I can't imagine how much trouble went into setting this because the path to solve it was wild
Yes, I scrapped my colouring about half way through, only to re-colour the 78 pairs :) I love that this indicates there are set pathways to solving these puzzles. Well done.
Got the start from eliminating places where a 1 can go in the 4 10-cages. Was left with the places where Simon put the 1 and the non-1-contaiing cage as the top-right. Aaaaand got stuck there :) Still pretty pleased.
I got slightly farther in, but I somehow incorrectly deduced that the bottom cage cannot be a 235 cage and must have had a one. I returned to this video after one hour on the timer, and skipped around a bit until I saw the issue, but I'm not sure I can fix my error without losing too much progress to not lose motivation.
This bugged me because Simon just established 2 times before that blue couldnt go in yellow 😅 But still didnt see that green couldnt be yellow, only via the more complicated Simon-way 💪 But its all okay, cause I couldnt even have found out what he found out to break in. This is way above my level.
Or more exactly, theoretically he could have used that at 15:05, as the blue cell can't be in the upper two of the 10 cage due to box, and not in the lower one, as blue has to be in column 1 for box 7
This was hands down the hardest Sudoku puzzle I've ever solved. Spent like 4-5 hours on it... and now I feel like Picasso. Thanks for the daily puzzles!
Thank you for showcasing yet another amazing sudoku! Like others have already said, for this particular puzzle there is a certain point where the colouring seems to become more of a hindrance than a help... I don't think anyone would have minded if you had removed the colouring altogether and continued with regular pencil marking.
Historically I've only ever played a casual 'easy' sudoku. It's never been a particular interest. I think randomly the algorithm drove me to this channel, and your personality was what made me stay. I just tried this puzzle, it's the first one of this difficulty I've ever tried. It took me almost 9 hours, with at least two logical blunders I had to discover and unwind, but I completed it. I don't know what this channel has done to me, but I think I love puzzles now? Haha
This really is an incredible work of art. It took me over an hour (I clocked in at 1:11:01), but it was SO worth it. One of the most beautiful solves I've ever actually accomplished. Simply stunning!
I wouldn't say solving this was the best thing I have done in my life, it's not even the best thing I've done while fully clothed, but it's one of the best mental workouts I've ever given myself. Towards the end it veered towards masochism as I missed at least one knight's move restriction.
Hugely satisfying to actually manage this one. Just had to keep hoping I hadn't made a mistake as I got further into it - the combinations of colours and number labelling got a bit complicated. Restarted several times just to be sure of my logic. Always good to have Simon's video to confirm my completed grid and give hints if I do get stuck.
That moment when yellow changed from meaning a ten cage type to meaning a value in a cell. 😬 That was a dangerous move. Specifically putting the yellow into box 3.
Me mind blown after 3 colours. Simon mind blown after 7 colours. Ergo Simon’s mind has at least 4 degrees of blowness from mine. Head still spinning. Great work Simon. 👏👏
Goodness gracious. Any video you do that's over an hour long is one I don't dare attempt. I'd be here for a week at least, still a bit beyond me. Loved this, definitely struggled a bit here and there to follow the logic but maybe it's because I'm still half asleep 🤣 Wonderful solve. It's been a while since I watched the channel, just been catching up over the last few days on alot of videos I've missed over the last several months, nothing like a good puzzle video binge 😄
36:04 "...the orange and the Maveric!" Love that sideways glance! Maveric is undeniably the most famous pilot that's totally oblivious of his internet fame!
6:06 Sorry Simon. I paused the video randomly and when I played it again, it sounded like a fart. Gave me a good laugh. Also, well done. You and Mark do a great job solving and all the setters are stunningly brilliant to create these.
128 mins for me... Really clever puzzle.. I have to admit i did of colour but finding that symmetry with the boxes of 3s. That was very clever. Bravo =)
Just a phenomenal puzzle and solve - I really enjoyed watching it! At 1:06:50, where Simon was a bit stuck in Box 9, his "Goodliffe" pencil marks could have helped. The bottom four cells had 2/5/6/9 corner-marked, so he could actually place the 1 at that point, which would have helped in other places.
46:18. A great performance and god bless obsessive coloring. I can almost tell how this was set, too, and it's a beautiful puzzle, absolutely one of the best of the year. The four cages are set so that they are forced to be different in an elegant way, and their compositions mean that the puzzle DOESN'T allow you tell which 1-x-x cage is where, and in fact the puzzle would solve symmetrically if you continued from there, regardless of how many three cell 10 cages you'd add. That's why the two-cell cages are there. Because of the way they pair, they allow, one of them, to distinguish which cage is which, and the other to divide the unused 8 and 9 so they don't form a deadly pattern around the grid. It's absolutely stunning setting, and what's more, you can entirely feel for it as you solve. Top notch.
To be fair, Simon gives himself an unnecessary headache by colouring the cages and then double colouring the repeated digits in them. I managed to do this puzzle in just over 46 minutes, simply colour the digits in each cage that repeat, then work from there.
The web app could use more colors for these kind of puzzles... Loved this one, the coloring part was so fun, I kept doing it forward for a while when solving it, even though I knew the numbers for the colors. In the end it was the most satisfying select all of each color and fill in the numbers :D
Wowza !! What a thorough use of knight's move. To be honest I was a bit sceptical about solving this one due to its rating and the some comments which deemed this one highly difficult but I went with Jeet Sampat's worldview and gave it a go. After 2 and half hours I can say it was a good decision. Highly recommend this puzzle to anyone reading if they are in doubt give it a chance it just keeps in giving. Looking forward to more puzzles from FryTheGuy. Keep on Cracking. Now shall enjoy Simon solve it and find the 3 in the corner (Edit: Was the song not in the meta 1 year ago ?)
That was awesome to watch. No way I could start it but good fun to watch and I could at least spend a while shouting at the screen (only because it's magically easier to see stuff when someone else I playing it). But what a puzzle. Mind bending.
I'm heartened to see Simon's colouring got as out of control as mine! It took me 4hrs, but I got there in the end, and didn't break anything. Thanks a lot to FryTheGuy for this one.
21:00 The moment the purple cage got three different doubled colored cells it HAS TO be 2,3,5 (only combination whose all 3 digits repeat in othe combinations), and threrefore all no purple cages MUST NOT have 3 double colored digits, instead must have one triple colored digit (a 1) a double colored one (2, 3 or 5) and an unique cell (4, 6 or 7). And by tripled colored I mean, I colored common digits as the color that digit appear in another cage i.e. if the 1 has all three colors that not purple.
Wonderful puzzle! I just don't understand why Simon keeps colouring a digit after he knows what digit it is. That's when I remove that colour so the remaining colouring still carries some information that is not in the pencilled digits.
Simon: "I know people will be cross if I don't finish the color scheme fully" *casually leaves the 7/9 pair in column 1 unchanged*. Absolutely great work though, truly, one of the few remaining logicians!
33:07 "It's either green, orange or yellow. Now, it's not yellow because we know we have a red digit in yellow. So if it was yellow you would have two reds in row two. Now, it's not green, because green reflects into blue. This is just made sentences!" Don't worry, Simon, we're pretty used to your colorful madness now ;)
I tried this before watching and was able to get most of it, and most of the things I got stuck on were just me missing something obvious I saw right away when I was watching the video. It's the first one here I was able to solve almost entirely on my own. I was a little confused when I entered the wrong solution for the last few numbers and it told me I was right though. I assume it only checks normal sudoku rules and not the knights move rules.
I was watching several of these in bed on my tablet, fell asleep sometime during this one, and woke up to hear "And the other color is 2" which really confused me, thinking "Wait... Two's not a color!" :-D
Wow, I'm actually surprised to see it being solved this way; my solution was way different. And I thought the path should be approximately the same... I didn't even realized there are 4 ways to make 10 of 3 digits. I was looking for a place to set 1 inside cages. The further solution seems differentish too
at 20:15 - yes you do - in two different ways: 1.) the blue/green cell can't be in the top two yellow cells cause it is the same box, and it can't be in the bottom cell cause there are already a position in col 1 box 7 for a blue, or 2.) if they were the same then the top pink cage would have two (and therefore three) similar digits to green and that is not true.
I love those rare moments when I get to feel smart--aka Simon trying to figure out if the green 10-cage and the yellow 10-cage can be the same, while completely overlooking the blue cell that has to go in green and by sudoku absolutely can't go in yellow.
About spoiling in the livestream: this is not a problem, when the audiance knows as little about the puzzles as or even less than simon. In that case riddling along with Simon is part of the fun. Therefor I suggest playing some Sodukos or playing 5D chess with multiverse timetravel (perhaps the chess problems).
Maverick: "Every time I'm flying past that guy's house, he's talking to his computer and solving sudokus! I can't believe it!"
Simon's lucky. A few years ago I was running a chess tournament at RAF Cranwell. Everyone was silently thinking and suddenly the building shook with an enormous roar of jet engines. I rushed to the window to see two Eurofighter Typhoons doing a low pass. Apaprently, there was a special parade. The two Typhoons did another pass and then we had peace again...
As a licensed pilot and amateur sudoku solver, I will say I’d rather be flying. There is nothing like the feeling of watching the earth slip away and seeing the sky unfold above you.
Maverick: Let's turn around and double check if this strange guy is still starring on his screen...
@@GunganWorks not if you’re scared of heights. (Idk technically I’m supposed to not be scared up their because my perception is so high up my depth perception is warped and I won’t be scared, but I still get scared on smaller planes so like)
@@justanothergamingyoutuber8179 I am actually scared of heights. But flying is somehow different.
Personally, I like small planes. They just feel so alive in the air. You can feel the air currents and how the airplane reacts.
Little known trivia: Mark hires Maverick to fly his plane around with a banner which says:
"Simon is solving a sudoku now: Please be quiet so he can concentrate!"
That has been in my brain canon for the last few weeks. Not the banner. But that Mark hired him just to torment Simon.
@@beachboy0277 Are we sure it's not Mark?
@@jimmytwoguys Markrick? XD
15:15 I literally yelled "No it couldn't, it's blue!" XD I'm just glad I'm finally catching stuff like that; used to be I struggled just to follow half of what Simon was saying in these vids. Nice to have some proof of improvement!
Same!
He kept getting sidetracked with different logic and I just wanted him to finish going down those 4 cages.
I was doing the same with the 4's at the one hour mark. It does feel good being able to see improvement. :D
Indeed, that's the thing. Pretty much any puzzle which takes Simon or Mark more than 40 minutes to solve is a puzzle which would take me at least a few hours to solve. But I keep watching, and I can tell that I am getting (slowly) better at some of these.
I love how he uses the Blue logic to rule out Pink and Yellow being the same, but then completely misses the fact the same applies to Green and Yellow, and keeps looking at other patterns... Sometimes he really can't see the forest for the trees.
I love how he calls every new cage "The ten cage".
Rules: 02:52
Let's get cracking: 03:35
And how about this video's Simarkisms?!
By sudoku: 13 (21:46, 22:29, 27:47, 28:02, 28:54, 32:38, 39:18, 39:18, 39:33, 45:21, 50:39, 51:47, 1:11:51)
Good Grief: 9 (03:55, 16:26, 18:03, 25:44, 56:41, 1:02:11, 1:05:53, 1:13:26, 1:13:30)
Sorry: 7 (20:31, 41:44, 56:16, 1:08:30, 1:09:18, 1:14:19, 1:15:18)
Maverick: 7 (05:13, 05:28, 11:08, 36:07, 36:07, 43:02, 48:41)
Beautiful: 7 (01:20, 29:53, 38:30, 51:32, 51:32, 58:22, 58:58)
The Answer is: 5 (09:06, 51:40, 55:58, 59:03, 1:02:21)
Stuck: 5 (42:47, 54:34, 1:00:25, 1:05:53, 1:09:22)
What on Earth: 4 (03:41, 1:00:32, 1:02:11, 1:03:30)
Lovely: 4 (10:46, 10:46, 57:18, 1:07:10)
Ridiculous: 4 (26:24, 30:03, 50:18, 50:21)
Bobbins: 3 (56:05, 56:05, 56:05)
Bother: 3 (18:53, 21:40, 1:03:55)
Clever: 3 (16:26, 50:05, 1:15:11)
Goodness: 2 (50:01, 1:04:42)
Naked Single: 2 (56:43, 1:12:12)
Out of Nowhere: 2 (1:03:36, 1:10:13)
You Rotten Thing: 2 (56:03, 1:09:31)
Extraordinary: 2 (1:14:32, 1:14:35)
Going Mad: 2 (17:07, 17:14)
Gorgeous: 2 (51:50, 56:46)
Knowledge Bomb: 1 (32:13)
Apologies: 1 (59:47)
Goodliffing: 1 (1:03:23)
I Have no Clue: 1 (42:05)
Brilliant: 1 (1:13:32)
Fascinating: 1 (11:03)
Deadly Pattern: 1 (1:01:21)
Take a Bow: 1 (1:15:14)
FAQ:
Q1: What is a Simarkism?
A1: A Simarkism is something that Simon and Mark typically or frequently say.
Q2: How do you do this so fast?
A2: I'm not made of flesh and blood, but of sand ...
Q3: Why don't you include 'XX' and 'YY'?
A3: Probably it's already on the list, but not mentioned in this video. But if you think it's not, tell me what you'd like me to include and there's a good chance I'll add it!
Q4: You missed 'XX' at 'YY:ZZ'!
A4: That could very well be the case! Human speech is hard to understand for computers like me, especially British sometimes! Point out the ones that I missed and maybe I'll learn!
I think you need to distinguish between when he follows "by sudoku" with "of all things" and when he doesn't. Or just have an "of all things" category.
@@smylesg Don't want to get too nitty gritty about it, so people can still easily find the "By Sudoku of All Things" mentions by going through the "By Sudoku" timestamps, but I added an "Of All Things" category.
I think "...ask a question" (9:00) should be added, Simon asks us a lot of questions. Too bad I rarely know the answer.
The rare triple Bobbins!
What about "one of these two squares" haha
Simon: I can't consider that green and yellow are different cages.
Blue: Am I a joke to you?
we all know the 400k video is a Q&A, but the 500k video is going to have to be Simon solving a puzzle in Maverick's plane.
While buzzing Mark's house during the solve.
Or Maverick shows up at Marks door.
"1's don't deserve colors" is a sentence that made me unbelievably irrationally sad. loved the puzzle and the solve! my jaw was on the floor the whole solve
Not only that, I found giving the ones a colour actually helped me understand what was going on much more clearly. Given Simon’s penchant for colouring, I’m surprised he didn’t do it for the 1s as well.
@@brendonmurley8276 Yes well, he colored 8 different digits already. Really made the ones stand out actually, identified without a color as they were.
Found your comment after laughing and saying "You're so mean!" out aloud.
Well, actually the ones got their own color: white.
@@rotatingmind this has haunted me for two years and your comment made me feel better, thank u
15:20 - the fourth 10-cage can't be green, because then the new-green-blue would either be in the same column as the pink-blue or in the same box as the original-green-blue, which doesn't work ⇨ the fourth 10-cage is the fourth and final permutation and is a different colour.
Once you know that the 4 cages are different, life gets a lot easier if you remove the base colours and just leave the repeating cells coloured.
Me: *sees hour+ CTC video drop* :D :D :D
Simon at around the hour mark: "This is going to be more than a hour, and I'm not apologizing for it."
Me: *confused Pikachu face* Why would you ever apologize for the treasures that are hour+ videos?"
Q: What did the Simon say to the Maverick?
A: "Gosh, that has flown by."
I've been watching your videos for quite some time now and I absolutely adore them. I started out having never done an abnormal sudoku before and I would try to solve it with assistance from the video. Slowly I started needing less and less help and after a month or so I was able to get the 20 min puzzles consistently in an hour or two on my own. Its been a few months now and this is the first puzzle I got on my own with the video being over an hour. It took me nearly three hours on and off but I eventually got it. Keep up the amazing content!
"Do have a go" Ummm If Phistomefel found it challenging then I'll need several lifetimes. This is me content with simply cosying up with hot chocolate and snacks to watch a fine CTC movie....
i just bought popcorn for this video :)
yes the mood. why bother solving when you can just enjoy Simon beautifully solve the puzzle?
Same here! 😉
Actually I am not that good and managed to solve it in something like 3 hours so everybody should at least try.
It took me almost 9 hours, but it was the first difficult sudoku I ever tried. Basically if you have perseverance, you can get there haha.
It took me yellow-blue minutes to solve this. Love the knight move's puzzles!
Certainly the hardest puzzle I’ve managed to solve on my own. Quickly got the right idea for the break in, but it was a real challenge to keep up with my coloring scheme. Total time closer to three hours, don’t know exactly as I took breaks and left the timer running. So satisfying when it all came together.
Awfully proud of my 95 minute time on this one after watching Simon's solve. I think most of the difference was it took me about 20 minutes of looking around before I spotted the 8 in box 5.
Finishing watching/understanding till the end is the best thing I have done in my life
these long videos are my favorites. they go by so quickly and the time is spent doing something fun instead of boring. I probably couldn't solve even the hard level sudoku in a magazine but following along with this is quickly becoming my go to. thanks for posting these!
Great solve. It would have taken me at least 10x as long to start thinking about repeat digits. I saw at 15:10 you miss that there are _two_ blue cells looking at that bottom cage which solves the mystery of whether it's green.
So much 🧡 for this puzzle! Simon's witty comments, his being able to immediately calculate knight's moves while keeping crayon box of colors in mind constantly...entertainment at it's finest!
Rather than colour the tens, I coloured the individual digits, which I think helped at the start. The clearer colouring made it easier to see that each L-shaped cage was a different composition The breakthrough came when the top one had all three cells appearing in one of the others. This meant that it had to be 235 (all of the other 3-cell options include a 1, a 235, and a unique digit from 467). By duplicating the 235s to their respective mirrors in the other cages, I was able to get my first digits, a couple of 1s. I was also able to work out which cells were the 235s, which were the 1s, and which were the 467s. After that, it fell apart... in my dreams!
This was relentless. Only in the very late stages did it really start to get easy. I think towards the end, Simon's brain was perhaps a bit fried, and he was missing some fairly obvious things, but he had been filming a hard puzzle continuously for over an hour, so I'll let him off today. Some of the commentary was very entertaining, although I couldn't help but wonder how our blind comrade coped with lines like "this is a red, blue, 7 combination".
This was an incredible construction. To be so tightly constrained that every tiny gain had to be teased out of it, and for this to go so far into the solve, is pretty remarkable. I'll file this one under E for exquisite torture.
42:08 - I was sooooo expecting to hear you drop an 'F-Bomb' there :D - Would of been so out of character, but been amazingly awesome! haha
"Do give it a go"
I look at the time and decide "let's not".
😂
I didn't have my own cup of hot chocolate, but I must say it was a marvelous puzzle. Kudos to FryTheGuy and to you Simon for solving this.
Simon, you are such a lovely person and this solve was incredible. Thank you for always showcasing beautiful puzzles for us to enjoy! Can't wait to see you enjoy the last area of the Witness, or move to Baba is you. The beauty in both of those games is like these great sudokus for me. I am glad you also appreciate these great minds who set out to frustrate us with their brilliance xD Keep it up!
When I read "The Best Thing I Have Done In My Life!", I knew I had to solve it, howsoever long it takes. To be fair, it was exacting even after all the plays, i.e. the cages, were done. Brilliant Puzzle. Thanks Simon.
(21:00) - Identifying Tripple 10 cage : The 4 ways of creating 10 with 3 squares is - 1,2,7 1,3,6 1,4,5 and 2,3,5. And finding repeated digits between them shows that only 1 set has all 3 repeated = 2,3,5. Thus, the purple ten cage is a 2,3,5 combination.
Also, since the other three 10 cages are different, 1 is in all the other three 10 cages. By sudoku and knights move, the only place a 1 can go is in the black squares and one of the green squares R3C1-2.
15:15 in the video, that's like, a completely new type of blindness, you have the blue pencilmarked right there, in the same box, and a blue cell looking directly at it, I sometimes think that Simon is just messing with us...
What a crazy (and colorful!) puzzle! Thanks for the 75 minutes of entertainment, Simon. :)
the puzzle name inspired me to keep trying whne I got stuck instead of going back to the video (like I usually do) - and I cannot believe it but I solved it -- Simon, you are an inspiration -- keep making content you have found your calling
What an absolute marvel of setting prowess. Carefully, piece by piece, it reveals its secrets. Incredible job Simon, thank you for your impressive solve!
A small point, but at 19:50, once all three values in the purple ten cage have been determined to repeat in one of the other ten cages, then it has to be 2-3-5 because no other combination for three-cell tens involves three repeaters, the other combinations each feature one of 4, 6 or 7 which don't appear in any other combination. A great solve.
That was so hard I've had to screen shot and print so I can take it work tomorrow. I'm going to advertise the channel to see if I'm not on my own because I can and I want to. My head at the mo is mashed. I love this channel so much so I will say thank you Simon and Mark again. Respect to all of you because your keeping me sane. I hope you get me because I don't know how you even did this 1. Norri Norri. Bobbins and brilliance.
33:31 "A sequence of mad sentences"
This is a precursor to when he plays Baba is You
"I know people will get cross if I don't do this properly" referring to filling out colours. You know us so well! Brilliant puzzle with a satisfying conclusion.
Simon, I love this channel. You’re great.
Paused the video, gave it a try, I figured out the logic on the repeated digit and made some headway, but got very muddled on implementing it. Pleasure to see you manage it.
Another family sized video? We’re getting spoiled and I love it!
the yellow, the orange, and the maverick!
LMAO That sounds like it needs to be a movie.
That was a lovely hour and a quarter and a beautiful patchwork quilt at the end!
Simon failing to spot at about 52 minutes that resolving the 1-9 10 cage in box 6 disambiguates black as 8 is classic.
Feel like this reached a point towards the end where all the known information was actually recorded in numerical pencil marks and the insistence on keeping up with coloring just made it a lot harder to scan...
Yes, as soon as all the 10 cages became fully pencil marked, it devolves into a simple (hah!) anti-knight puzzle and colours can be removed, but we know Simon loves his colours so who are we to argue :)
Coloring beds removed after they’ve served their purpose.
had to remove to solve actually.... head started to hurt with so much coloring
Amazing puzzle!! Probably the best puzzle I have ever solved with zero help. I often struggle with puzzles Simon solves where the video length is less than half of this one, so it feels like quite the achievement. Definitely took me a couple of hours or more, but solving this and then watching Simon's solve has made my day!
This was a challenge and a half!
I started the same way Simon did, figuring out which 3 celled 10's had to be different, but I had to recolor my board three times to keep track of things, once to start, once when I realized I could identify identical cells more or less so I gave each of the 1234567's their own color, and after a long while I decided the colors were just tripping me out so by the time I got to the cage in box 6 I just erased the whole thing... Only to shortly later have to start coloring 78's pairs to track the end.
Very fun puzzle, I can't imagine how much trouble went into setting this because the path to solve it was wild
Yes, I scrapped my colouring about half way through, only to re-colour the 78 pairs :) I love that this indicates there are set pathways to solving these puzzles. Well done.
These videos are fascinating. An hour flies by.
Thank you for finishing the coloring, my brain really needed that :)
Got the start from eliminating places where a 1 can go in the 4 10-cages. Was left with the places where Simon put the 1 and the non-1-contaiing cage as the top-right. Aaaaand got stuck there :) Still pretty pleased.
I got slightly farther in, but I somehow incorrectly deduced that the bottom cage cannot be a 235 cage and must have had a one.
I returned to this video after one hour on the timer, and skipped around a bit until I saw the issue, but I'm not sure I can fix my error without losing too much progress to not lose motivation.
20:00 Green and yellow also can't be the same because as just established yellow can't contain blue
This bugged me because Simon just established 2 times before that blue couldnt go in yellow 😅 But still didnt see that green couldnt be yellow, only via the more complicated Simon-way 💪
But its all okay, cause I couldnt even have found out what he found out to break in. This is way above my level.
Or more exactly, theoretically he could have used that at 15:05, as the blue cell can't be in the upper two of the 10 cage due to box, and not in the lower one, as blue has to be in column 1 for box 7
Blue without yellow makes not green. Mad
Great puzzle! Very intricate beginning, I loved it.
Simon: makes a 5 minutes deduction that i barely follow
Simon: so green is different from yellow!
Me: God that's true!
This was hands down the hardest Sudoku puzzle I've ever solved. Spent like 4-5 hours on it... and now I feel like Picasso. Thanks for the daily puzzles!
Thank you for showcasing yet another amazing sudoku! Like others have already said, for this particular puzzle there is a certain point where the colouring seems to become more of a hindrance than a help... I don't think anyone would have minded if you had removed the colouring altogether and continued with regular pencil marking.
Really tough one but again I'm amazed by the Simon's way of thinking. Thank you FryTheGuy.
Historically I've only ever played a casual 'easy' sudoku. It's never been a particular interest. I think randomly the algorithm drove me to this channel, and your personality was what made me stay.
I just tried this puzzle, it's the first one of this difficulty I've ever tried. It took me almost 9 hours, with at least two logical blunders I had to discover and unwind, but I completed it.
I don't know what this channel has done to me, but I think I love puzzles now? Haha
This really is an incredible work of art.
It took me over an hour (I clocked in at 1:11:01), but it was SO worth it. One of the most beautiful solves I've ever actually accomplished.
Simply stunning!
I wouldn't say solving this was the best thing I have done in my life, it's not even the best thing I've done while fully clothed, but it's one of the best mental workouts I've ever given myself. Towards the end it veered towards masochism as I missed at least one knight's move restriction.
The hardest puzzle on this channel I've actually managed to solve, what a beauty!
Hugely satisfying to actually manage this one. Just had to keep hoping I hadn't made a mistake as I got further into it - the combinations of colours and number labelling got a bit complicated. Restarted several times just to be sure of my logic. Always good to have Simon's video to confirm my completed grid and give hints if I do get stuck.
I really enjoy knights move/similar constraints in a puzzle. This was a great watch
That moment when yellow changed from meaning a ten cage type to meaning a value in a cell. 😬
That was a dangerous move. Specifically putting the yellow into box 3.
Me mind blown after 3 colours. Simon mind blown after 7 colours. Ergo Simon’s mind has at least 4 degrees of blowness from mine. Head still spinning. Great work Simon. 👏👏
Goodness gracious. Any video you do that's over an hour long is one I don't dare attempt. I'd be here for a week at least, still a bit beyond me. Loved this, definitely struggled a bit here and there to follow the logic but maybe it's because I'm still half asleep 🤣
Wonderful solve. It's been a while since I watched the channel, just been catching up over the last few days on alot of videos I've missed over the last several months, nothing like a good puzzle video binge 😄
36:04 "...the orange and the Maveric!" Love that sideways glance!
Maveric is undeniably the most famous pilot that's totally oblivious of his internet fame!
Oh boy here we go... one of the craziest and most incredible puzzles I’ve ever dared to try is here. Grab some snacks now :)
6:06
Sorry Simon. I paused the video randomly and when I played it again, it sounded like a fart. Gave me a good laugh.
Also, well done. You and Mark do a great job solving and all the setters are stunningly brilliant to create these.
Got it. Fun one, but THE CROSS from the other day is still the most well-crafted I've ever seen.
128 mins for me... Really clever puzzle.. I have to admit i did of colour but finding that symmetry with the boxes of 3s. That was very clever. Bravo =)
Just a phenomenal puzzle and solve - I really enjoyed watching it!
At 1:06:50, where Simon was a bit stuck in Box 9, his "Goodliffe" pencil marks could have helped. The bottom four cells had 2/5/6/9 corner-marked, so he could actually place the 1 at that point, which would have helped in other places.
46:18. A great performance and god bless obsessive coloring. I can almost tell how this was set, too, and it's a beautiful puzzle, absolutely one of the best of the year. The four cages are set so that they are forced to be different in an elegant way, and their compositions mean that the puzzle DOESN'T allow you tell which 1-x-x cage is where, and in fact the puzzle would solve symmetrically if you continued from there, regardless of how many three cell 10 cages you'd add. That's why the two-cell cages are there. Because of the way they pair, they allow, one of them, to distinguish which cage is which, and the other to divide the unused 8 and 9 so they don't form a deadly pattern around the grid. It's absolutely stunning setting, and what's more, you can entirely feel for it as you solve. Top notch.
I spent the better part of my night solving this puzzle. The break-in was wonderful
To be fair, Simon gives himself an unnecessary headache by colouring the cages and then double colouring the repeated digits in them. I managed to do this puzzle in just over 46 minutes, simply colour the digits in each cage that repeat, then work from there.
Simon: "I think I might have gone crazy. That's disappointing, isn't it."
(Ok, slightly out of context.)
Can't believe I watched this entire thing g and enjoyed every moment
The web app could use more colors for these kind of puzzles... Loved this one, the coloring part was so fun, I kept doing it forward for a while when solving it, even though I knew the numbers for the colors. In the end it was the most satisfying select all of each color and fill in the numbers :D
NOt sure which is better, the quality of the puzzle or the quality of the solve. together a great watch!
Wowza !! What a thorough use of knight's move. To be honest I was a bit sceptical about solving this one due to its rating and the some comments which deemed this one highly difficult but I went with Jeet Sampat's worldview and gave it a go. After 2 and half hours I can say it was a good decision. Highly recommend this puzzle to anyone reading if they are in doubt give it a chance it just keeps in giving. Looking forward to more puzzles from FryTheGuy. Keep on Cracking. Now shall enjoy Simon solve it and find the 3 in the corner (Edit: Was the song not in the meta 1 year ago ?)
Watching a grown man solve a numbers puzzle using colors will always be my favorite break time activity.
That was awesome to watch. No way I could start it but good fun to watch and I could at least spend a while shouting at the screen (only because it's magically easier to see stuff when someone else I playing it). But what a puzzle. Mind bending.
this is the first time I've genuinely been unable to follow the entire logic on one of these, incredible stuff
I'm heartened to see Simon's colouring got as out of control as mine! It took me 4hrs, but I got there in the end, and didn't break anything. Thanks a lot to FryTheGuy for this one.
21:00 The moment the purple cage got three different doubled colored cells it HAS TO be 2,3,5 (only combination whose all 3 digits repeat in othe combinations), and threrefore all no purple cages MUST NOT have 3 double colored digits, instead must have one triple colored digit (a 1) a double colored one (2, 3 or 5) and an unique cell (4, 6 or 7).
And by tripled colored I mean, I colored common digits as the color that digit appear in another cage i.e. if the 1 has all three colors that not purple.
Great puzzle & wonderful quilting!
Broke: Watching a movie
Woke: Watching 2 hours of sudoku solves back to back
You have it wrong, Maverick is just cheering you on.
I feel like this is the most I've yelled at a video of yours. I love knights move and cage puzzles
The break-in is an ingenious chain of logic.
Wonderful puzzle! I just don't understand why Simon keeps colouring a digit after he knows what digit it is. That's when I remove that colour so the remaining colouring still carries some information that is not in the pencilled digits.
Yes, it is the single one feature of his videos that make me think I am way smarter than he is... :-)
"That was really not easy".
No kidding, Simon! That was ah-ston-ish-ing.
And I mean it ;)
Simon: "I know people will be cross if I don't finish the color scheme fully" *casually leaves the 7/9 pair in column 1 unchanged*. Absolutely great work though, truly, one of the few remaining logicians!
33:07 "It's either green, orange or yellow. Now, it's not yellow because we know we have a red digit in yellow. So if it was yellow you would have two reds in row two. Now, it's not green, because green reflects into blue. This is just made sentences!"
Don't worry, Simon, we're pretty used to your colorful madness now ;)
yeah... got it.. only got stuck with the 235 in r2c4 but figured everything else out myself... feeling accomplished now:)
I tried this before watching and was able to get most of it, and most of the things I got stuck on were just me missing something obvious I saw right away when I was watching the video. It's the first one here I was able to solve almost entirely on my own. I was a little confused when I entered the wrong solution for the last few numbers and it told me I was right though. I assume it only checks normal sudoku rules and not the knights move rules.
I hope Maverick doesn't stop flying his plane. The sound on the video just wouldn't be right without it at this stage.
I was watching several of these in bed on my tablet, fell asleep sometime during this one, and woke up to hear "And the other color is 2" which really confused me, thinking "Wait... Two's not a color!" :-D
Wow, I'm actually surprised to see it being solved this way; my solution was way different.
And I thought the path should be approximately the same...
I didn't even realized there are 4 ways to make 10 of 3 digits.
I was looking for a place to set 1 inside cages.
The further solution seems differentish too
28:20 I spent 70 minutes getting to this part and SImon found the 1 instantly after putting the pair in!
at 20:15 - yes you do - in two different ways: 1.) the blue/green cell can't be in the top two yellow cells cause it is the same box, and it can't be in the bottom cell cause there are already a position in col 1 box 7 for a blue, or 2.) if they were the same then the top pink cage would have two (and therefore three) similar digits to green and that is not true.
I love those rare moments when I get to feel smart--aka Simon trying to figure out if the green 10-cage and the yellow 10-cage can be the same, while completely overlooking the blue cell that has to go in green and by sudoku absolutely can't go in yellow.
About spoiling in the livestream: this is not a problem, when the audiance knows as little about the puzzles as or even less than simon. In that case riddling along with Simon is part of the fun. Therefor I suggest playing some Sodukos or playing 5D chess with multiverse timetravel (perhaps the chess problems).