Thank you Simon for the feature and all the wonderful compliments! That was a beautiful solve, it really warms my soul as a setter when a solver finds the intended solution path almost perfectly.
You fully deserve Simon's compliments. I have no doubt whatsoever that this will be included in the next *CTC Cosmic Hits* book. The geometry is sublime. Two different kinds of magic forces act on *box 5.* First, you use *gorgeous renban magic* in the left and right chutes to rule *1* and *9* out of the central thermos, locking them into either *r4c6* or *r6c4.* Then, you use a completely different kind of equally gorgeous renban magic in the middle chute (columns 4, 5, 6) to rule *1* out of *r6c4.* Then you get magic *456* triples in columns *1* and *9,* which magnificently interact with the *V* and the *thermo,* allowing you to disambiguate the long renbans... Extraordinary puzzles are featured every day on CTC. I have been solving them all for years. Surprisingly, almost unbelievably, many of them are *cosmic class❗* Memorable, innovative, and fine-tuned to perfection. Weird, but incommensurably awesome. Yet, your construction seems outstanding to me, even compared to the excellence I am used to. I am impressed. You are one of the best. 😏👍👍👍👍👍
Just want to say how happy I am that I found your channel. Never expected to watch two English men solving sudoku and other puzzles. It is part of my daily routine to watch a video and solve a sudoku myself. It really helps me when my head is full of things that should not be there. Focus on the numbers, the logic. Thinking... don't forget that green can be the same as purple or a 5 😊 (with a British accent).
A few years ago when I started watching these I wouldn't have even dreamt of attempting a puzzle featured on the channel, let alone where the video is an hour long. But today I finished this in 46:39, so thank you Simon and Mark for all the puzzles and adding another string to my bow!
Yet another *cosmic class* construction❗ Simon, *spaceboat-loads* of thanks to you for the unbelievably high quality of *everything* you have been publishing *every day* for years. (Mark, *spaceboat-loads* of thanks to you for being the best in many other Goodliffy ways) 👏👏👏👏👏👏👏
*Oklux,* you fully deserve Simon's compliments. This is definitely a *cosmic class* creation. I have no doubt that it will be included in the next *CTC Cosmic Hits* book. Its geometry is awesome. Magic forces act on *box 5* both horizontally and vertically: 🔹 FIrst, gorgeous renban magic from both the *left* and *right* sides of the grid locks *1* and *9* into either *r4c6* or *r6c4.* 🔹 Then, *1* is ruled out of *r6c4* by a totally different kind of gorgeous renban magic applied from both *above* and *below.* In turn, this allows you to solve *box 5.* 🔹 Immediately after, *4-5-6* triples appear in columns *1* and *9,* that elegantly disambiguate the long renbans by interacting with the *V* and *thermo* above them... Extraordinary puzzles are featured *every day* on CTC. I have been solving them all for years. Lots of them are *cosmic class:* innovative, fine-tuned to perfection, and memorable. Weird, but incommensurably awesome. Yet, I am impressed by your creation. It seems outstanding to me, even compared to the excellence I am used to. You are one of the best❗ 👏👏👏👏👏👏
1 hour exactly. Quite pleased with how my solve went. Now to watch Simon and 1, marvel at his genius, and 2, shout at the screen because I already know where the digits go and the logic I took to get there.
I loved this puzzle! And as always, Simon's solve was genius and wonderful. And honestly, I think the moments when we're shouting at the screen (where does 9 go in column nine?!?!!) help draw us in and keep us engaged. Its a key part of the entertainment 😆
I finished in 97:26 minutes. This was an excellent debut and sick puzzle. The geometry surrounding each part felt so perfectly placed. I think my favorite part was seeing that the top left renban couldn't from the lower set as 12345 would break the V clue and 23456 would place a 4 in r4c2, which is broken by the hidden 456 in row 4. That was such a sick deduction. Each further deduction had the same exact feeling as that. This puzzle is such a brilliant display of geometry and it is crazy that this is a debut. Oklux is a name I look forward to seeing in the future. This has to be one of my favorites. Great Puzzle!
I really liked this. Not tough -- the intentions are pretty well signaled -- but certainly clever. Well done Oklux. If that's a channel debut it's very impressive.
I really enjoy the way Simon gracefully leaps about solving things all over the show while I struggle along behind, steam coming out my ears as I try desperately to even comprehend his explanations lol
Really nice puzzle. Thankfully figured out each step reasonably quickly to finish in just over 30 minutes, which I would never have been able to do when I first started watching.
That was good, thanks. My brain feels pleasantly stretched after solving it. I'm sure I missed some stuff, but the way boxes 2 and 8 suddenly came into play for me was about as thrilling as sudoku can get.
Took me over 50 minutes (over two sessions) ... my logic for figuring out the middle vertical chute was far more tortured than Simon's elegant deductions, but I did find a pathway through; I'm content with that Nice puzzle!
Damn. This is so much more elegant than what I did. I partially solved the renbans in the corners before touching the renbans in the 2 and 8. It took me 2 hours on the dot 😅
Beautiful puzzle, thank you Oklux for this wonderful piece. Simon you had me frustrated that with the 23 pair in column 6, you knew where to place the 3 in column 2 only to solve it through the renban line instead of normal sudoku pairs, either way good job on solving this through the logics and reasonings you applied, I wouldn’t be able to get this solved without a single mistake occurring
Can I ask from what timestamp? I'm probably missing something obvious, but I'm not seeing how the 346 triple at the bottom of column 2 is disambiguated before he gets the 23 pair in row 7 as late as 55:55?
Oh dear, I made a ricket of this solve, as I made some bad assumptions in the beginning that kept breaking things! 😅 I did need a few nudges from the beginning of Simon's solve, and realized after watching his solve that I ended up with a very different solve path, which leads me to believe I probably made even more bad assumptions that just happened to be right! Finished in 25:12 (conflict checker off), but I'm not sure I deserved that time! Regardless, many thanks to Oklux for a beautiful puzzle!
Simon starts investigating parity in the middle box, and then completely abandons it at 27:15 instead of following through, which means he didn't spot that r3c5 and r7c5 must be even which would have helped him deduce the values of those cells much faster (i.e. sooner than 8 minutes later).
48:00 Very early in the puzzle, I colored the hooks (columns 1 and 9) of the five-cell lines, and asked where those cells could go. The blue 45 has to go in column 3 in block 7, and therefore must go on the upper line in column 2. Likewise, the orange 56 has to go on the lower line in column 2.
Great puzzle. I have to admit I had to watch the video for help because I could not figure out for the life of me how the renbans on the right side of the grid work, like which one was the low one and the high one. As soon as I saw Simon fill in the top right thermo with a 7 and 8, I figured out how he got that and then I was able to solve the puzzle from there🤗I kinda just refused to look at that thermo because I didnt think it wouldve done anything, but it did lol. Other than that I was able to solve the whole puzzle
Another simple one in principle. .nice 2 phase opening but I blundered on the 2nd half of the thermos....the Ai lines were very nice design that interacted with simplicity of thermos
Solved in 37:44. Well, that was a much easier way of getting to the break in than what I did. I ended up colouring the digits in column 1 on the renban lines to work out that they have an overlap of exactly those 2 digits, meaning the renban lines must contain a set of 8 consecutive digits between them and the middle of column 2 must be a 1 or 9 (and the same logic works for the other side by mirroring, so I didn't need to colour that one).
Rules: 06:56 Let's Get Cracking: 08:28 Simon's time: 48m01s Puzzle Solved: 56:29 What about this video's Top Tier Simarkisms?! Three In the Corner: 3x (38:07, 56:07, 56:14) Maverick: 2x (28:31, 28:34) And how about this video's Simarkisms?! Obviously: 11x (01:53, 08:17, 09:43, 11:53, 14:03, 18:01, 21:52, 29:59, 37:33, 51:08, 51:51) Sorry: 10x (02:26, 06:08, 06:11, 09:32, 20:43, 28:42, 32:43, 39:27, 48:35, 50:21) Ah: 9x (25:41, 25:41, 28:42, 43:21, 43:29, 44:40, 44:40, 46:40, 47:14) Hang On: 7x (02:26, 20:11, 26:02, 35:32, 55:33, 55:46) Symmetry: 6x (17:49, 21:03, 21:11, 21:15, 21:18, 21:24) Clever: 5x (02:23, 02:23, 15:42, 34:39, 51:17) Beautiful: 5x (17:36, 34:35, 51:17, 57:08, 57:11) The Answer is: 4x (14:00, 16:30, 27:39, 33:03) Whoopsie: 4x (36:17, 54:14, 54:14, 54:14) In Fact: 3x (02:58, 21:03, 48:58) Wow: 3x (56:27, 56:27, 56:27) Nonsense: 2x (30:15, 30:26) Stuck: 2x (04:20, 20:11) Lovely: 2x (00:35, 57:15) Brilliant: 2x (56:22, 56:22) Incredible: 2x (00:54, 02:16) Intriguing: 2x (08:37, 21:06) Good Grief: 1x (34:35) What on Earth: 1x (55:29) Naked Single: 1x (54:17) Naughty: 1x (10:01) I Have no Clue: 1x (27:41) Horrible Feeling: 1x (37:30) Break the Puzzle: 1x (36:12) Extraordinary: 1x (02:53) Gorgeous: 1x (41:12) Take a Bow: 1x (56:31) Discombobulating: 1x (40:18) Come on Simon: 1x (39:22) By Sudoku: 1x (54:32) Surely: 1x (42:36) Progress: 1x (37:47) What Does This Mean?: 1x (39:22) That's Huge: 1x (35:47) Pencil Mark/mark: 1x (19:35) Cake!: 1x (04:54) Most popular number(>9), digit and colour this video: Fifty Six, Seventy Eight (5 mentions) One (98 mentions) Green (3 mentions) Antithesis Battles: High (15) - Low (8) Even (15) - Odd (8) Higher (5) - Lower (5) Highest (2) - Lowest (1) White (2) - Black (0) Column (24) - Row (15) 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!
29:40 you can immediately disprove the 67 pair by asking, what goes on the other renbans in box 8? from 1-5 and 8-9 there aren't two consecutive sets left anymore
Astraeus is the name of a fictional movie studio in probably my favorite horror movie of the last 20 years, called "Starry Eyes" (2014), which is sort of a horror-supernatural fable about Weinstein-type predatory behavior in the movie industry.
Thank you Simon for the feature and all the wonderful compliments! That was a beautiful solve, it really warms my soul as a setter when a solver finds the intended solution path almost perfectly.
Congrats mate! I love when people get a debut on the channel
what do you mean "almost" haha..where did he deviate?
@@blackjackfitz thank you!
@@apet1572 He didn't really deviate by much but a few steps he did in box 5 were kind of funny and overcomplicated haha
You fully deserve Simon's compliments. I have no doubt whatsoever that this will be included in the next *CTC Cosmic Hits* book. The geometry is sublime. Two different kinds of magic forces act on *box 5.*
First, you use *gorgeous renban magic* in the left and right chutes to rule *1* and *9* out of the central thermos, locking them into either *r4c6* or *r6c4.*
Then, you use a completely different kind of equally gorgeous renban magic in the middle chute (columns 4, 5, 6) to rule *1* out of *r6c4.*
Then you get magic *456* triples in columns *1* and *9,* which magnificently interact with the *V* and the *thermo,* allowing you to disambiguate the long renbans...
Extraordinary puzzles are featured every day on CTC. I have been solving them all for years. Surprisingly, almost unbelievably, many of them are *cosmic class❗* Memorable, innovative, and fine-tuned to perfection. Weird, but incommensurably awesome.
Yet, your construction seems outstanding to me, even compared to the excellence I am used to.
I am impressed. You are one of the best.
😏👍👍👍👍👍
Just want to say how happy I am that I found your channel. Never expected to watch two English men solving sudoku and other puzzles. It is part of my daily routine to watch a video and solve a sudoku myself. It really helps me when my head is full of things that should not be there. Focus on the numbers, the logic. Thinking... don't forget that green can be the same as purple or a 5 😊 (with a British accent).
I dislike math, logic puzzles, and the whole lot and yet I can watch these two for hours.
A few years ago when I started watching these I wouldn't have even dreamt of attempting a puzzle featured on the channel, let alone where the video is an hour long. But today I finished this in 46:39, so thank you Simon and Mark for all the puzzles and adding another string to my bow!
Yet another *cosmic class* construction❗
Simon, *spaceboat-loads* of thanks to you for the unbelievably high quality of *everything* you have been publishing *every day* for years.
(Mark, *spaceboat-loads* of thanks to you for being the best in many other Goodliffy ways)
👏👏👏👏👏👏👏
*Oklux,* you fully deserve Simon's compliments. This is definitely a *cosmic class* creation. I have no doubt that it will be included in the next *CTC Cosmic Hits* book.
Its geometry is awesome. Magic forces act on *box 5* both horizontally and vertically:
🔹 FIrst, gorgeous renban magic from both the *left* and *right* sides of the grid locks *1* and *9* into either *r4c6* or *r6c4.*
🔹 Then, *1* is ruled out of *r6c4* by a totally different kind of gorgeous renban magic applied from both *above* and *below.* In turn, this allows you to solve *box 5.*
🔹 Immediately after, *4-5-6* triples appear in columns *1* and *9,* that elegantly disambiguate the long renbans by interacting with the *V* and *thermo* above them...
Extraordinary puzzles are featured *every day* on CTC. I have been solving them all for years. Lots of them are *cosmic class:* innovative, fine-tuned to perfection, and memorable. Weird, but incommensurably awesome.
Yet, I am impressed by your creation. It seems outstanding to me, even compared to the excellence I am used to. You are one of the best❗
👏👏👏👏👏👏
Really cool sudoku. Glad Simon finally looked at the v in box 1 so I could stop yelling at my tv.😂
1 hour exactly. Quite pleased with how my solve went.
Now to watch Simon and 1, marvel at his genius, and 2, shout at the screen because I already know where the digits go and the logic I took to get there.
I loved this puzzle! And as always, Simon's solve was genius and wonderful. And honestly, I think the moments when we're shouting at the screen (where does 9 go in column nine?!?!!) help draw us in and keep us engaged. Its a key part of the entertainment 😆
I finished in 97:26 minutes. This was an excellent debut and sick puzzle. The geometry surrounding each part felt so perfectly placed. I think my favorite part was seeing that the top left renban couldn't from the lower set as 12345 would break the V clue and 23456 would place a 4 in r4c2, which is broken by the hidden 456 in row 4. That was such a sick deduction. Each further deduction had the same exact feeling as that. This puzzle is such a brilliant display of geometry and it is crazy that this is a debut. Oklux is a name I look forward to seeing in the future. This has to be one of my favorites. Great Puzzle!
I agree - this [is] a very accomplished debut. Oklux deserves to step forward and, as Simon puts it, take a bow. (Edit to fix missing verb)
I totally agree. I wrote something similar in a separate comment.
I really liked this. Not tough -- the intentions are pretty well signaled -- but certainly clever. Well done Oklux. If that's a channel debut it's very impressive.
I really enjoy the way Simon gracefully leaps about solving things all over the show while I struggle along behind, steam coming out my ears as I try desperately to even comprehend his explanations lol
Really nice puzzle. Thankfully figured out each step reasonably quickly to finish in just over 30 minutes, which I would never have been able to do when I first started watching.
That was good, thanks. My brain feels pleasantly stretched after solving it. I'm sure I missed some stuff, but the way boxes 2 and 8 suddenly came into play for me was about as thrilling as sudoku can get.
This is excellent, well deserved channel debut!
Thank you Simon, that was a beautiful solve.
Really classy interaction of the clues to reduce options
I really enjoyed this puzzle! thanks for sharing
Brilliant looking puzzle, today's masterclass was amazing. Completely amazed by your solving.
Finished in 28:45 with help from the video. Wonderful puzzle!
Took me over 50 minutes (over two sessions) ... my logic for figuring out the middle vertical chute was far more tortured than Simon's elegant deductions, but I did find a pathway through; I'm content with that
Nice puzzle!
Loved every second of solving this one
Damn. This is so much more elegant than what I did. I partially solved the renbans in the corners before touching the renbans in the 2 and 8. It took me 2 hours on the dot 😅
Brilliant puzzle.
Beautiful puzzle, thank you Oklux for this wonderful piece. Simon you had me frustrated that with the 23 pair in column 6, you knew where to place the 3 in column 2 only to solve it through the renban line instead of normal sudoku pairs, either way good job on solving this through the logics and reasonings you applied, I wouldn’t be able to get this solved without a single mistake occurring
Can I ask from what timestamp? I'm probably missing something obvious, but I'm not seeing how the 346 triple at the bottom of column 2 is disambiguated before he gets the 23 pair in row 7 as late as 55:55?
Oh dear, I made a ricket of this solve, as I made some bad assumptions in the beginning that kept breaking things! 😅 I did need a few nudges from the beginning of Simon's solve, and realized after watching his solve that I ended up with a very different solve path, which leads me to believe I probably made even more bad assumptions that just happened to be right! Finished in 25:12 (conflict checker off), but I'm not sure I deserved that time! Regardless, many thanks to Oklux for a beautiful puzzle!
Simon starts investigating parity in the middle box, and then completely abandons it at 27:15 instead of following through, which means he didn't spot that r3c5 and r7c5 must be even which would have helped him deduce the values of those cells much faster (i.e. sooner than 8 minutes later).
48:00 Very early in the puzzle, I colored the hooks (columns 1 and 9) of the five-cell lines, and asked where those cells could go. The blue 45 has to go in column 3 in block 7, and therefore must go on the upper line in column 2. Likewise, the orange 56 has to go on the lower line in column 2.
00:48:13 for me, but I totally confused myself doing the box 2/8 work that Simon made much smoother. Loved the puzzle! Kind comment.
Great puzzle. I have to admit I had to watch the video for help because I could not figure out for the life of me how the renbans on the right side of the grid work, like which one was the low one and the high one. As soon as I saw Simon fill in the top right thermo with a 7 and 8, I figured out how he got that and then I was able to solve the puzzle from there🤗I kinda just refused to look at that thermo because I didnt think it wouldve done anything, but it did lol. Other than that I was able to solve the whole puzzle
New drinking game , take a drink every time Simon says thermometer instead of renban
What a great puzzle. Some unexpected and ingenious interactions in those small renbans in boxes 2 and 8. 29:14 for me.
Another simple one in principle.
.nice 2 phase opening but I blundered on the 2nd half of the thermos....the Ai lines were very nice design that interacted with simplicity of thermos
Solved in 37:44. Well, that was a much easier way of getting to the break in than what I did. I ended up colouring the digits in column 1 on the renban lines to work out that they have an overlap of exactly those 2 digits, meaning the renban lines must contain a set of 8 consecutive digits between them and the middle of column 2 must be a 1 or 9 (and the same logic works for the other side by mirroring, so I didn't need to colour that one).
Rules: 06:56
Let's Get Cracking: 08:28
Simon's time: 48m01s
Puzzle Solved: 56:29
What about this video's Top Tier Simarkisms?!
Three In the Corner: 3x (38:07, 56:07, 56:14)
Maverick: 2x (28:31, 28:34)
And how about this video's Simarkisms?!
Obviously: 11x (01:53, 08:17, 09:43, 11:53, 14:03, 18:01, 21:52, 29:59, 37:33, 51:08, 51:51)
Sorry: 10x (02:26, 06:08, 06:11, 09:32, 20:43, 28:42, 32:43, 39:27, 48:35, 50:21)
Ah: 9x (25:41, 25:41, 28:42, 43:21, 43:29, 44:40, 44:40, 46:40, 47:14)
Hang On: 7x (02:26, 20:11, 26:02, 35:32, 55:33, 55:46)
Symmetry: 6x (17:49, 21:03, 21:11, 21:15, 21:18, 21:24)
Clever: 5x (02:23, 02:23, 15:42, 34:39, 51:17)
Beautiful: 5x (17:36, 34:35, 51:17, 57:08, 57:11)
The Answer is: 4x (14:00, 16:30, 27:39, 33:03)
Whoopsie: 4x (36:17, 54:14, 54:14, 54:14)
In Fact: 3x (02:58, 21:03, 48:58)
Wow: 3x (56:27, 56:27, 56:27)
Nonsense: 2x (30:15, 30:26)
Stuck: 2x (04:20, 20:11)
Lovely: 2x (00:35, 57:15)
Brilliant: 2x (56:22, 56:22)
Incredible: 2x (00:54, 02:16)
Intriguing: 2x (08:37, 21:06)
Good Grief: 1x (34:35)
What on Earth: 1x (55:29)
Naked Single: 1x (54:17)
Naughty: 1x (10:01)
I Have no Clue: 1x (27:41)
Horrible Feeling: 1x (37:30)
Break the Puzzle: 1x (36:12)
Extraordinary: 1x (02:53)
Gorgeous: 1x (41:12)
Take a Bow: 1x (56:31)
Discombobulating: 1x (40:18)
Come on Simon: 1x (39:22)
By Sudoku: 1x (54:32)
Surely: 1x (42:36)
Progress: 1x (37:47)
What Does This Mean?: 1x (39:22)
That's Huge: 1x (35:47)
Pencil Mark/mark: 1x (19:35)
Cake!: 1x (04:54)
Most popular number(>9), digit and colour this video:
Fifty Six, Seventy Eight (5 mentions)
One (98 mentions)
Green (3 mentions)
Antithesis Battles:
High (15) - Low (8)
Even (15) - Odd (8)
Higher (5) - Lower (5)
Highest (2) - Lowest (1)
White (2) - Black (0)
Column (24) - Row (15)
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!
30:15 It's not nonsense. If the 8 goes in R9C4, then you can't put a 9 in the box as everything else in the box is Renban.
Odd, and Even as well (tho Even is pronounced different) are both normal norwegian names, so that birthday remark made me giggle 🤭
25:07 the V sees 4 digits of the top renban. So I think that means that renban can’t be the 12345 one. This may have been usable from the start
But it could still have been the low renban, if it was 23456
@@RichSmith77you’re right. If it’s 14, you can do 23456.
29:40 you can immediately disprove the 67 pair by asking, what goes on the other renbans in box 8? from 1-5 and 8-9 there aren't two consecutive sets left anymore
43:02 for me. Nice debut!
Tried it again with a very different solve path, and got it in 39:35. I love puzzles where there's multiple ways to go about it!
Because Simon doesn't like pencil marks he's not used to trimming them when something reduces the options
I used to think that I’m a smart fella, but you make me feel like I’m a fart smella
scratchin my head on why not solving the left knowing the 14 23 up in the V
Sorry, "solving the left" how?
Pretty tricky!
Astraeus is the name of a fictional movie studio in probably my favorite horror movie of the last 20 years, called "Starry Eyes" (2014), which is sort of a horror-supernatural fable about Weinstein-type predatory behavior in the movie industry.
s 9 doesn't always gave to be on the tip, the tip could be a doubler.
A magic square in the middle
Almost. The top and bottom rows don't add to 15. Everything else does, though.
it's a Parker magic square
Completed in 25 minutes.
Austria's the Titan of the night sky and is the father of all the stars in the night sky as well as the four winds. He married the Dawn goddess EOS.
You are absolutely right, but sadly your spell chucker has other ideas. :)
11:49 for me. Fantastic puzzle!
21:40 The thermos in the corner boxes are also not symmetric, if we're going by the "low rotates on to high" rule seen in the central thermos...
36:05, not a bad time for someone awful at ranbans.
A++
28:18 for me.
I swear i have seen this puzzle before
32:59 for me
91 minutes