Finding the naked 4 in box 2 was key to this puzzle for me. Took me longer to get there than you but the rest of the puzzle flowed straightforwardly after that.
The four in box 2 was the crux of the puzzle, but your trick about it avoiding cornermarks made it pretty easy to spot. Nice work and thanks for the bonus video 🙏
To be honest, I can do the NYT hard puzzles reasonably well, but I actually stumbled on this. You saw something non- obvious on box 2 quite quickly, so you did well! Took me longer. This could definitely have been in their hard category puzzles. Thanks for doing an extra video and solve.
I also really found it interesting that you think they’ll likely be more hidden singles in a medium puzzle- hadn’t thought of it- but going to test it out 😊
Finding the naked 4 in box 2 was key to this puzzle for me. Took me longer to get there than you but the rest of the puzzle flowed straightforwardly after that.
The four in box 2 was the crux of the puzzle, but your trick about it avoiding cornermarks made it pretty easy to spot. Nice work and thanks for the bonus video 🙏
You made swifter work of it than I did :P I usually use the medium as a warm-up and this one stumped me a little haha
To be honest, I can do the NYT hard puzzles reasonably well, but I actually stumbled on this. You saw something non- obvious on box 2 quite quickly, so you did well! Took me longer. This could definitely have been in their hard category puzzles. Thanks for doing an extra video and solve.
I also really found it interesting that you think they’ll likely be more hidden singles in a medium puzzle- hadn’t thought of it- but going to test it out 😊