Thank you for the feature! Simon, you nailed all the logical steps in this quite well. The break-in to this is definitely not something most would expect.
I did not use the coloured *sextuple,* but my logic path was beautiful all the same. It was nice to discover, by watching the video, that an even more elegant break-in was available. Thank you for this radically innovative beauty.
A cute bit of logic on the top grey line is that, whenever a digit repeats, that digit must "rope" and repeat twice, same as it happens with its endpoints So it's endpoint must be 7, 5 or 3 (1, 2 or 3 repeating digits) before any other restrictions apply It's very neat
I found the restriction of 57 on that orange line early. The roping of such a line must have 1, 2, or 3 repeats per box. If there is a repeated digit, it will repeat in all three boxes.
The runtime of this video almost led me to not try it, but I gave it a go, and managed to finish it in just over an hour! I love how this functions as two different puzzles, one to find the endpoints, then the next to fill in the lines. The break-in with the 5-6-7s was great and I figured it out pretty quickly, but it took me quite a bit after that (wasn't paying attention to sudoku), but I was very happy when I managed to topple the last domino (I think there was a naked single in there somewhere that sorted it out for me). Great puzzle!
I'm new to this channel, and sodoku. Never thought I would derive any entertainment out of watching somebody solve a sodoku style puzzle but this was thoroughly fascinating!
This was so interesting to watch you solve, Simon. I tried the puzzle myself before watching the video in order to see how the lines worked. I was able to pencil-mark all of the dots at the ends of the lines, but did not see the significance of the long gray line at all - and decided to watch your solve instead of faffing about on my own. I am glad I did - very nice, and I love how you discovered the workings of the lines. Thanks!
I finished in 66 minutes. Despite having such a simple ruleset, this one was surprisingly difficult. You have to pretty good at your scanning to find the next steps. I quite liked how the geometry led to the break-in of r6c4 unable to be 4,5,6, and 7. Great Puzzle!
your braid gameplay was better than you could expect for some pretty complex puzzles and platforming. especially with little gaming experience you did well
Genius naming as well as incredible setting. Not only does it look like a circuit board, but the break in to the puzzle is realizing that all the little circuits interact with each other and that's central to the entire puzzle working!
Thanks to TH-cam's broken ad-delivery system, I wasn't able to watch past the 20 minute mark, so I've no idea if my method was the same as yours. I coloured the blobs which had to be different. This gave me a 345678 set, only R3C5/R6C5 could be 8. The blobs in R8C6/R5C9 had to be one of the coloured blobs, and a process of elimination led to it being R6C5. The only candidate they shared was 5. Continuing in this way resolved most of the set, leaving me with a 47 pair of blobs. However, when R3C6 had to appear on its own line, this meant it could no longer be 7, resolving the final set. Applying the various restrictions (e.g. where no digit other than the 8 can repeat on the 8 line, or where digits can be eliminated from the 3-line if they can't appear on the other half), everything was fairly easily resolved. I really enjoyed this. It was a very interesting new rule, and a great demonstration of it. I just wish Google would sort out their ad-system so videos don't hang. I'd love to know if anyone else is experiencing this problem. It affects two very different PCs (different Windows versions, different Chrome versions, different extensions installed), it doesn't make any difference if ad-blocking is installed or not.
Finished in 81:07. Took me a while to see the significant first break-in and I kept making some small mistakes after which lead to some impossibilities. Interesting new ruleset and fun puzzle!
33:49 finish. Such a fun puzzle, with some great logic. I missed a pencil mark halfway through, which caused a break, but fortunately it didn't get too far. Excellent!
I did basically almost the same break-in but from another direction. I initially color-coded two ends and suddenly noticed that they can't be same. Then I started playing the game "which ends can't be same" and to my surprise and joy I immediately understood where it is going. I ended up with 7 different colors that saw each other through this crazy geometry, containing digits 2-8, there was just one end with 2 and 8, so basically after revealing the 2s, I continued the same path Simon did. I was hoping to see Simon's reaction to 7 differently colored ends containing 2-8, but as always - Simon found his own way, less obvious one.
I thoroughly enjoyed this puzzle. I had to use numbers, letters and colors to keep track of all my notes. It was a pencil mark nightmare. But I got there eventually.
If there is no roping, and there isn't because of the 1-1 and 2-2 lines, then the orange line must go either ABC-ADE-AFG or ABC-ABD-ABE; so the orange digit can only be 5 or 7.
Amazing new idea for a live. Thank you for the new paradigm. Simon I enjoy your take on puzzles, but new variations are handled beautifully by your wonderfully logical mind. Ten out of ten. 😂❤😮😊
I realised that the "orange" line across the top couldn't be 4, because if a digit is on the line twice then by sudoku it has to be on the line three times, and so there's no way to have exactly 4 different digits on it. But then I needed Simon's hint to look at where that digit went in row 6 to solve it. The only thing I was shouting at the screen was "You don't need to colour known digits" 😖
I went at it from a completely different angle after you'd have colored the ends, and figuring out that they be a sextuple ... Black and Blue are the only two colors that can contain 3, and both of them sees r9c5, which floods the grid with 2s
When Simon said that he didn't want to write 45678 into the endpoints of the silver line in rows 1-3, I think that was a mistake. I found a sextuple of the five dots in row 6 + the long silver line using coloring, and they had to be 345678, and that let me break into the middle of the puzzle. I think this helped me a lot with the solve. I finished in 20:16, solver number 6447.
I eliminated 4 from orange by checking whether 4ABC was a possible fill for the line and realising that we need Schrodinger cells to make it work. Then you're just dealing with a triple rather than a sextuple.
The line you first thought was a break in was pretty restricted- even without any further context, it could only contain 3,5, or 7 unique digits, not 4 or 6. 3 digits is roping, 7 digits is what you had in the end. The only other option is that each 3-cell segment has 2 digits in common with the others, giving you 5 unique digits. So from near the beginning blue, green, and orange are a naked triple! Your way was also very nice and clean though 😘 However, you declined to use my title idea of “This logic is pure gold (and silver!)” 😂
1:45:34@#2069. Pretty tough, and I needed Mark's help to spot the sextuple for the break-in. I _almost_ had it myself, but just couldn't quite make that final leap of logic.
Great puzzle & solution, as always! Did someone see why the bottom left 9 was given? It seems as Simon never really needed this clue to solve the puzzle. I assume I missed something?
28:58 + about 28 minutes when I reset the board and my timer. I got the neat logic of how the circles saw and constrained each other, but seem to have incorrectly ruled out the line that ended up having the 8 in its circles as having that 8. I think I incorrectly thought that circles of the line in box 7 saw r7c3.
Not sure if it's your kind of music, but there's a song by Toadies named Possum Kingdom. I didn't realize it was named after a real place until watching this video.
33:20 Since (you assert) the Red (4/7) doesn't appear on the golden line in Box4, nowyou know the Orange (4/7) must --- which solves your question about the grey line in Box5! Namely, that must be a repeat of the Red (4/7) on that line, so Red=4.
Thank you for the birthday wishes. You said my name right, btw. And the first time I heard about PK Lake I laughed out loud. 😂😂😂 I think it is the most Texan name ever!
Hey I have a question about the 9-cell-line… Ive tried this puzzle and I thought there was only 3,5 or 7 possible for the line because. I sadly wasnt good enough to get the whole puzzle done but when I checked I saw Simon having the ends of the line down to 4 or 7 and how he explained it made sense ofc. My thinking was that if ever there is a number twice on this line, it has to be there a third time. So it has be 3xA, 3xB and 3xC… or 3xA, 3xB and C,D,E… or 3xA, B,C,D and E,F,G…. I really hope it’s understandable what I try to ask. Thanks and Cheers
I wasted a ton of time being a total dingbat and using faulty logic to decide the top gray line had to be 8s and did some further complicated steps that proved it wasn't possible. somehow I'd never actually COUNTED the possible different digits along the line to realise far far far earlier it wouldn't be possible, which made me realise what the faulty logic was (which fixed the left-hand gold line to be 8 at its endpoints) and from there the puzzle flowed quite nicely.
Considering you often mention that you don't see given digits, have you considered asking Sven for an option to make given digits the same colour as those digts put in by the solver ?
One nice bit of logic i noticed that simon found another path to of course: after r4c4 was definitely 4/7. If red was 4, it would have to be 4 in order to not have more than 4 unique digits. If red was 7, it would also have to be 4 in order to not repeat the same digit on the line. Either way, r4c4 had to be 4.
Nice design...what you discover is what you discover twice. Couldnt finish the solve cuz took out the given 9...but that only left 7 cells(5 19s). Had to get out of lettersolve quick once u placed all the circles..got confused which count was which and couldn't see which digits were where but once 2 key spots u can go back to lettersolve
I missed out on a birthday shout-out perhaps email was not the correct way to reach out about this or perhaps I did not email far enough in advance my apologies either way. In case the email did not reach at all I want to say thank you for all the years of brilliant videos and solves on the channel, I've been watching since 2019 and it's been a pleasure to see the channel and puzzle community thrive together :)
28:37 This one was really fun! Looking at the video preview, it seems Simon is using like 6-7 different color? That's gonna be interesting to watch, the most I used was 2 to figure out if the top grey line could have 4 distinct digits. (Spoiler: It could not)
One cute alternate logic. Once Dark Green becomes 8, then all digits on the internal line are different. R7C3 must appear in box 4 and the only square available is R6C1, which is Light Green. Which forces Light Green to become 6 because of the previous logic of 5.
25:30 I colored purpler in every color of the other 6. Than I eliminated every color purple couldn´t be cause sudoku. Purple only could be darkgreen and blue after I did. But darkgreen wasnt possible cause purple was max.7, but darkgreen was 8 already.
@ 38:44 r4c4 "must" be 4, but wouldnt the digits 4, 7, 9, and (136) still have worked? Edit: nevermind, I completely missed the 2 until I commented. That sounds about right..
How can i find Sudokus like this withouth having to rely on the link's provided by CTC? Somewhere i can see the dificulties he tends to provide and such
Regarding hex/sextuples, convention seems to favor the Romans, even though their neighbors the Greeks were far batter mathematicians. BUT the general math-y term for a collection of n objects is an "n-tuple". So a 2-tuple is a pair, a 3-tuple is a triplet, a 4-tuple is a quadruple, a 6-tuple is a sextuple, a 7-tuple is a septuple, an 8-tuple, I guess, is an octuple. But then it gets a little silly to say a "nonatuple" for a 9-tuple. To make life simple in the math-world, we just say "n-tuple", especially where the value of n is unknown or large. So this sudoku is all about n-tuples, where n = 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8. I humbly suggest that this variant be named the "N-TUPLE VARIANT"!
Why did Simon color every line except for one (the length 5 line)? That felt kinda sad. If you don't omit this line, you can form a tuple of seven instead of a tuple of six, which immediately places the 2s on the length-5 line as 2 cannot go on any other line end.
i'm unsatisfied, i don't think i completed this one correctly, i basically tried to find "end bits" that wouldn't work, i first tested the center yellow line "let's check if this can be the minimum number of single digits" and then... it never contradicted itself, and in the end, i completed it..
im rather new to these more complex sudoku puzzles and feel im missing a bit of an explanation with the top grey line as to why it cant have 3 as its endpoints?
Because the line must have a 2 on it in box one, and it can't have a 2 on it in box three, so in those two boxes there must be at least four different digits (box one has an endpoint and a 2, and box three has an endpoint plus two other digits that cannot be the endpoint or a 2. That is at least four digits.).
I truly wish Simon would stop coloring when it's no longer useful, and even delete colors once they've fulfilled their purpose. Multi-colored boards like this get really hard to read, and in truth it's distracting.
One day, Sven will code the software to say "You have got the puzzle right, but have appalling taste in colours."
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Thank you for the feature! Simon, you nailed all the logical steps in this quite well. The break-in to this is definitely not something most would expect.
More brilliance from you!! Much deserved. Tons of respect for how you set such beauties!!
Really enjoyed it. I realized after a bit that it’s the relationship with the tips that matter more than any particular line. Very beautiful.
I love how a ruleset so simple can have such playfully devious logic. Well done 👍
Amazing puzzle loved the break in
I did not use the coloured *sextuple,* but my logic path was beautiful all the same. It was nice to discover, by watching the video, that an even more elegant break-in was available. Thank you for this radically innovative beauty.
A cute bit of logic on the top grey line is that, whenever a digit repeats, that digit must "rope" and repeat twice, same as it happens with its endpoints
So it's endpoint must be 7, 5 or 3 (1, 2 or 3 repeating digits) before any other restrictions apply
It's very neat
Yeah, I was wondering if he'd ever prove that any such line must have odd endpoints.
9:53 OK, raise your hand if you were holding your breath for nine minutes waiting for Simon to notice. Raise both if you then started laughing🤚🏻🖐🏻
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I went back multiple times because it was so funny. It's very Simon to go after complicated logic with a simple deduction staring him in the face.
Very fun ruleset with potential to become a standard variant
Great to have you debut on here Jaze!! Congratulations!! Well deserved!! You always set with such panache!!
I found the restriction of 57 on that orange line early. The roping of such a line must have 1, 2, or 3 repeats per box. If there is a repeated digit, it will repeat in all three boxes.
The runtime of this video almost led me to not try it, but I gave it a go, and managed to finish it in just over an hour! I love how this functions as two different puzzles, one to find the endpoints, then the next to fill in the lines. The break-in with the 5-6-7s was great and I figured it out pretty quickly, but it took me quite a bit after that (wasn't paying attention to sudoku), but I was very happy when I managed to topple the last domino (I think there was a naked single in there somewhere that sorted it out for me). Great puzzle!
I'm new to this channel, and sodoku. Never thought I would derive any entertainment out of watching somebody solve a sodoku style puzzle but this was thoroughly fascinating!
Once you learn that it isn't just another boring newspaper puzzle it's really fun to get familiar with all the different little rulesets!
Simon you're an amazing person.
Thank you for keeping me company
Seconded! He's like a family friend, ditto Mark.
This was so interesting to watch you solve, Simon. I tried the puzzle myself before watching the video in order to see how the lines worked. I was able to pencil-mark all of the dots at the ends of the lines, but did not see the significance of the long gray line at all - and decided to watch your solve instead of faffing about on my own. I am glad I did - very nice, and I love how you discovered the workings of the lines. Thanks!
One of the most delightful break-ins ever. In the top 100 puzzles I've ever done.
Very original ruleset.. yet another miracle ❤
Right. Yet another. There seems to be no limit to human imagination and to awesome innovation.
I finished in 66 minutes. Despite having such a simple ruleset, this one was surprisingly difficult. You have to pretty good at your scanning to find the next steps. I quite liked how the geometry led to the break-in of r6c4 unable to be 4,5,6, and 7. Great Puzzle!
your braid gameplay was better than you could expect for some pretty complex puzzles and platforming.
especially with little gaming experience you did well
Simon did one day play Starcraft 2 pretty seriously though. If anything gives you gaming experience...
Genius naming as well as incredible setting. Not only does it look like a circuit board, but the break in to the puzzle is realizing that all the little circuits interact with each other and that's central to the entire puzzle working!
Thanks to TH-cam's broken ad-delivery system, I wasn't able to watch past the 20 minute mark, so I've no idea if my method was the same as yours.
I coloured the blobs which had to be different. This gave me a 345678 set, only R3C5/R6C5 could be 8. The blobs in R8C6/R5C9 had to be one of the coloured blobs, and a process of elimination led to it being R6C5. The only candidate they shared was 5. Continuing in this way resolved most of the set, leaving me with a 47 pair of blobs. However, when R3C6 had to appear on its own line, this meant it could no longer be 7, resolving the final set. Applying the various restrictions (e.g. where no digit other than the 8 can repeat on the 8 line, or where digits can be eliminated from the 3-line if they can't appear on the other half), everything was fairly easily resolved.
I really enjoyed this. It was a very interesting new rule, and a great demonstration of it.
I just wish Google would sort out their ad-system so videos don't hang. I'd love to know if anyone else is experiencing this problem. It affects two very different PCs (different Windows versions, different Chrome versions, different extensions installed), it doesn't make any difference if ad-blocking is installed or not.
Rules: 05:45
Let's Get Cracking: 07:04
Simon's time: 42m00s
Puzzle Solved: 49:04
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What a fun puzzle and a fun solve. Love seeing new rule sets especially when they have such brilliant a application.
Got a lot of the same pencilmarks at the start as you had, but just couldn't find that break-in. A challenging puzzle, for sure.
Finished in 81:07. Took me a while to see the significant first break-in and I kept making some small mistakes after which lead to some impossibilities.
Interesting new ruleset and fun puzzle!
00:27:07 for me. That was a great puzzle! Loved the how the endpoints could be used to break in! Kind comment.
33:49 finish. Such a fun puzzle, with some great logic. I missed a pencil mark halfway through, which caused a break, but fortunately it didn't get too far. Excellent!
I did basically almost the same break-in but from another direction. I initially color-coded two ends and suddenly noticed that they can't be same. Then I started playing the game "which ends can't be same" and to my surprise and joy I immediately understood where it is going. I ended up with 7 different colors that saw each other through this crazy geometry, containing digits 2-8, there was just one end with 2 and 8, so basically after revealing the 2s, I continued the same path Simon did.
I was hoping to see Simon's reaction to 7 differently colored ends containing 2-8, but as always - Simon found his own way, less obvious one.
I thoroughly enjoyed this puzzle. I had to use numbers, letters and colors to keep track of all my notes. It was a pencil mark nightmare. But I got there eventually.
39:31 I hope to see more puzzles using this rule, the logic is very pretty.
41:00
Such a clever rule, brilliantly executed.
As a Texan from the area, hearing Possum Kingdom getting called out was a real trip. Certainly not something I expected to hear today
It's a song by the Toadies, as well, Possum Kingdom!
that start was crazy. Once you get going, however, it's nice that it sort of keeps going after that start.
If there is no roping, and there isn't because of the 1-1 and 2-2 lines, then the orange line must go either ABC-ADE-AFG or ABC-ABD-ABE; so the orange digit can only be 5 or 7.
A kitten who came from a fjord
Found surfing a sport he adored.
One day he was knighted.
And he was so delighted.
His board became this Sir Kit board.
Amazing new idea for a live. Thank you for the new paradigm. Simon I enjoy your take on puzzles, but new variations are handled beautifully by your wonderfully logical mind. Ten out of ten. 😂❤😮😊
I realised that the "orange" line across the top couldn't be 4, because if a digit is on the line twice then by sudoku it has to be on the line three times, and so there's no way to have exactly 4 different digits on it. But then I needed Simon's hint to look at where that digit went in row 6 to solve it.
The only thing I was shouting at the screen was "You don't need to colour known digits" 😖
I went at it from a completely different angle after you'd have colored the ends, and figuring out that they be a sextuple ... Black and Blue are the only two colors that can contain 3, and both of them sees r9c5, which floods the grid with 2s
same way i did it! getting all the 2s at once was a fun way to really break into the puzzle
I did the same thing, but figuring out the top silver line had to have 7 endpoints was still the core break-in
When Simon said that he didn't want to write 45678 into the endpoints of the silver line in rows 1-3, I think that was a mistake. I found a sextuple of the five dots in row 6 + the long silver line using coloring, and they had to be 345678, and that let me break into the middle of the puzzle. I think this helped me a lot with the solve. I finished in 20:16, solver number 6447.
22:22 woah. Cool puzzle! I really liked the break in lol, really smart
Fun puzzle took me a bit to figure out the break in but was quite smooth from there
I'll be looking forward to watching more Braid!
Thank you, because of your solve I could try this one. The break-in was hard for me! =)
I eliminated 4 from orange by checking whether 4ABC was a possible fill for the line and realising that we need Schrodinger cells to make it work. Then you're just dealing with a triple rather than a sextuple.
The line you first thought was a break in was pretty restricted- even without any further context, it could only contain 3,5, or 7 unique digits, not 4 or 6. 3 digits is roping, 7 digits is what you had in the end. The only other option is that each 3-cell segment has 2 digits in common with the others, giving you 5 unique digits. So from near the beginning blue, green, and orange are a naked triple! Your way was also very nice and clean though 😘
However, you declined to use my title idea of “This logic is pure gold (and silver!)” 😂
What an enjoyable break in!
Fantastic puzzle 72:26
1:45:34@#2069. Pretty tough, and I needed Mark's help to spot the sextuple for the break-in. I _almost_ had it myself, but just couldn't quite make that final leap of logic.
Great puzzle & solution, as always! Did someone see why the bottom left 9 was given? It seems as Simon never really needed this clue to solve the puzzle. I assume I missed something?
14:16 for me. Nice puzzle!
I did it in 176:07.
28:58 + about 28 minutes when I reset the board and my timer. I got the neat logic of how the circles saw and constrained each other, but seem to have incorrectly ruled out the line that ended up having the 8 in its circles as having that 8. I think I incorrectly thought that circles of the line in box 7 saw r7c3.
Not sure if it's your kind of music, but there's a song by Toadies named Possum Kingdom. I didn't realize it was named after a real place until watching this video.
33:20 Since (you assert) the Red (4/7) doesn't appear on the golden line in Box4, nowyou know the Orange (4/7) must --- which solves your question about the grey line in Box5! Namely, that must be a repeat of the Red (4/7) on that line, so Red=4.
Thank you for the birthday wishes. You said my name right, btw. And the first time I heard about PK Lake I laughed out loud. 😂😂😂 I think it is the most Texan name ever!
Hey I have a question about the 9-cell-line… Ive tried this puzzle and I thought there was only 3,5 or 7 possible for the line because. I sadly wasnt good enough to get the whole puzzle done but when I checked I saw Simon having the ends of the line down to 4 or 7 and how he explained it made sense ofc.
My thinking was that if ever there is a number twice on this line, it has to be there a third time. So it has be 3xA, 3xB and 3xC… or 3xA, 3xB and C,D,E… or 3xA, B,C,D and E,F,G….
I really hope it’s understandable what I try to ask.
Thanks and Cheers
I wasted a ton of time being a total dingbat and using faulty logic to decide the top gray line had to be 8s and did some further complicated steps that proved it wasn't possible. somehow I'd never actually COUNTED the possible different digits along the line to realise far far far earlier it wouldn't be possible, which made me realise what the faulty logic was (which fixed the left-hand gold line to be 8 at its endpoints) and from there the puzzle flowed quite nicely.
I really enjoyed that; what a fun ruleset!
Considering you often mention that you don't see given digits, have you considered asking Sven for an option to make given digits the same colour as those digts put in by the solver ?
At 39 minutes, you can deduce the red/orange 47 in box 5 by asking where 7 goes in box 4.
One nice bit of logic i noticed that simon found another path to of course: after r4c4 was definitely 4/7. If red was 4, it would have to be 4 in order to not have more than 4 unique digits. If red was 7, it would also have to be 4 in order to not repeat the same digit on the line. Either way, r4c4 had to be 4.
596k, getting there … 😃
Nice design...what you discover is what you discover twice.
Couldnt finish the solve cuz took out the given 9...but that only left 7 cells(5 19s).
Had to get out of lettersolve quick once u placed all the circles..got confused which count was which and couldn't see which digits were where but once 2 key spots u can go back to lettersolve
I missed out on a birthday shout-out perhaps email was not the correct way to reach out about this or perhaps I did not email far enough in advance my apologies either way.
In case the email did not reach at all I want to say thank you for all the years of brilliant videos and solves on the channel, I've been watching since 2019 and it's been a pleasure to see the channel and puzzle community thrive together :)
Happy birthday! 🎉
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Brilliant puzzle.
28:37 This one was really fun!
Looking at the video preview, it seems Simon is using like 6-7 different color? That's gonna be interesting to watch, the most I used was 2 to figure out if the top grey line could have 4 distinct digits. (Spoiler: It could not)
One cute alternate logic. Once Dark Green becomes 8, then all digits on the internal line are different. R7C3 must appear in box 4 and the only square available is R6C1, which is Light Green. Which forces Light Green to become 6 because of the previous logic of 5.
25:30 I colored purpler in every color of the other 6. Than I eliminated every color purple couldn´t be cause sudoku. Purple only could be darkgreen and blue after I did. But darkgreen wasnt possible cause purple was max.7, but darkgreen was 8 already.
Great puzzle. Thank you !!!
Took me a bit over an hour, that was fun.
51:36 for me
nice puzzle
Nice, I beat Simon's solve time, 35:52!
What he’s calling “circles” I’d call “bulbs”, but that’s just me.
Very tricky puzzzle, it took me around 70minute to make breakthru and 01:31:53 to finish it :) Very fun but hard challange.
around min 33: with the 8/9 pair in Box4, where is orange in box4? R4C2 or R4C3 so R4C4 is red...
@ 38:44 r4c4 "must" be 4, but wouldnt the digits 4, 7, 9, and (136) still have worked?
Edit: nevermind, I completely missed the 2 until I commented. That sounds about right..
That break-in was way above my pay grade. 😅
How can i find Sudokus like this withouth having to rely on the link's provided by CTC? Somewhere i can see the dificulties he tends to provide and such
it cannot be 4 - the long line in across box 1,2,3
2 and 5 position already implied it is at least 5 not 4
Regarding hex/sextuples, convention seems to favor the Romans, even though their neighbors the Greeks were far batter mathematicians. BUT the general math-y term for a collection of n objects is an "n-tuple". So a 2-tuple is a pair, a 3-tuple is a triplet, a 4-tuple is a quadruple, a 6-tuple is a sextuple, a 7-tuple is a septuple, an 8-tuple, I guess, is an octuple. But then it gets a little silly to say a "nonatuple" for a 9-tuple. To make life simple in the math-world, we just say "n-tuple", especially where the value of n is unknown or large. So this sudoku is all about n-tuples, where n = 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8.
I humbly suggest that this variant be named the "N-TUPLE VARIANT"!
Nice break-in.
Some people pronounce Naomi Naomi 🫤
23:34 No, that 8 isn't fine.
Nice.
As I was watching this one, it's been raining outside my window as well (Texas).
Around 27 minutes, Simon concluded that black must be 3, but isn't 4 still an option then?
r6c8 sees orange and red. One of those must be 4, so r6c8 can’t be 4.
Why did Simon color every line except for one (the length 5 line)? That felt kinda sad. If you don't omit this line, you can form a tuple of seven instead of a tuple of six, which immediately places the 2s on the length-5 line as 2 cannot go on any other line end.
28:51 for me
i'm unsatisfied, i don't think i completed this one correctly, i basically tried to find "end bits" that wouldn't work, i first tested the center yellow line "let's check if this can be the minimum number of single digits" and then... it never contradicted itself, and in the end, i completed it..
by pure coincidence, I solved it in a binary time! 101:01
im rather new to these more complex sudoku puzzles and feel im missing a bit of an explanation with the top grey line as to why it cant have 3 as its endpoints?
Because the line must have a 2 on it in box one, and it can't have a 2 on it in box three, so in those two boxes there must be at least four different digits (box one has an endpoint and a 2, and box three has an endpoint plus two other digits that cannot be the endpoint or a 2. That is at least four digits.).
@@Manigo1743 ah, i got blinded by the mandatory 2 in box 1. sometimes the special rules just get so overwhelming the standard rules get forgotten.
I'll never understand why you'd continue to obfuscate the grid by coloring already solved digits.
I truly wish Simon would stop coloring when it's no longer useful, and even delete colors once they've fulfilled their purpose. Multi-colored boards like this get really hard to read, and in truth it's distracting.
I personally really like them. To each their own, but I’m glad he keeps the colours 🥰
I like the colors until he stops paying attention to the colored digits & pencilmarks, at which point it would help to remove the colors.
Once he knew red was 4, he could fill it in.
Why can't R6C6 be 9?
Did anyone else print this out, turn the page upside down, and try to solve it with a 6 in the upper right hand corner?
You should have sorted out the 8’s much sooner. You started to eventually but didn’t finish them.
Ropes can go in any direction, bur BRAIDS weave around in a specific pattern. So annoying that they call it "roping!"
This puzzle required a lot of shouting at the screen about the top long line.
Guys, the 3 line is also a palindrome.
Solved it without any help from the video.