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Normal sudoku rules apply. If a square containing 'N+' appears in the grid, then consider the two pairs of diagonally opposite digits in the 2x2 surrounding the square. Each of those two pairs of digits has a sum of N. If a square just containing "+" appears in the grid, then the two pairs of diagonally opposing digits in the 2x2 surrounding the square must still sum to the same N. These rules also apply to the other operations (-, x and /).
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0:00 Theme Music & News around the channel
3:50 Rules of today’s puzzle
5:00 Start Of Solve - Let's Get Cracking! - บันเทิง
I'm so blown away, Mark, by the kindness and generosity of your birthday greetings and comments about me. I cannot say enough good things about you and Simon and CtC. A bright spot of peacefulness and fun and charm from the two of you and of course wonderful puzzles like this one by Paws. I look forward to the July reward very much! Now: If any of you are reading this and have not yet subscribed, please do so as a birthday present to me! 🎂 Thanks, Mark, very much (and for the greetings to my aunt, as well!)
May all your cake be chocolate!
Happy birthday Emily.
Thank you for all the encouragement you have given Mark and Simon. I usually tend to scroll down especially to see what you have to say. Quite often it is the highlight of my evening.
In addition to the videos. Sorry my thick fingers accidentally caught the reply button early.
@@sarahlowes1501 Oh my, thank you so much, Sarah!
@@louisesuth8141 Thank you!
I don’t get how this man’s head works out any of this - let alone so fast. I sit in awe. But I did spot that “obvious” 6 - and sat there delighted to have seen it first. I count that a win for my day 😅
I’m more impressed on mark understanding the rules so easily than on the solve itself 😅
It always amazes me how fast you can find the break in to puzzles like this!
So his break-in was "35 can only be achieved one way, thus 7x5 cannot be in cells that connect to X"... what about 9(9x1) or 7 (7x1) or 5 (5x1) or 3(3x1) or 2(2x1) or 14(7x2) or 15(3x5) or 16 (2x8), 21(7x3)... why is it 35 tho
But ignores a pencil marked cell (the last marked cell from the break-in) ...
@@BugersalerThe problem is 5 and 7 are prime, so if you have 5 times a number, the other product must also include a 5 to have the same factors.
@@AFastidiousCuber It's not just that they are prime, but also that sudoku numbers don't inlude any of their multiples (2 and 3 are fine because you can get those primes through their multiples)
@@BugersalerYou're making up quotes that don't appear in the video. Mark gives his explanation why neither 5, nor 7, can appear on an X from 6:14. He never mentions multiplying them together, or "35", once.
Managed to do this one for myself! Quite pleased with that, enjoy when you cover more accessible puzzles.
Fascinating construction❗️ Innovative ruleset and impeccable construction. Never trifling, never repetitive, always smart.
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Thank you *Paws* for designing it and *Mark* for featuring and brilliantly solving it.
Many happy returns, Emily! I hope you're having a wonderful day.
Thanks, Alex, yes a great day today!
1:04:28 - Wow! Another original ruleset that kept me interested. It took me about half an hour to finally break in but I thoroughly enjoyed the challenge.
Nice little 18 minute flat puzzle right before going to bed. Thanks CTC, and thanks to Paws; hope to see more puzzles with this ruleset.
12:19
This was soooo beautiful to solve. Once the middle box cracked it flowed nicely with the pseudo black kropki squares.
"That resolves all of my pencil marks" While true, one pencil mark still remained on the page.
Happy birthday Emily!!!!
Thank you!
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I finished in 258 minutes. I thought since the video time was short, that I would have a nice easy puzzle. It was not. I was stuck in a loop of constantly trying to calculate the parity of box 5. It took me a long time to make a breakthrough, but slowly I was able to get it. This was rough for me, cause I could see that I was close, but it kept slipping away. It is cool that a ruleset like this can exist. Great Puzzle!
That was a great puzzle. Surprising how easily it worked out.
Looking forward to an easy patreon puzzle hunt!!
Great puzzle, Paws!!
Happy birthday, Emily!
Thank you!
I always love how immediately Mark sees 2 cells that are either both odd or both even and he immediately thinks it's clearly going to be a parity puzzle (I know here he said it may not turn out to be, but I still find it funny)
I love Marks videos for subtle things like that 😁
I somehow finished this off making the exact same mistake as Mark... glad it was an easy fix haha
15:35
A very mathsy pair of puzzles today which is good for me 😂
A nice idea and I'll look forward to the next puzzle hunt. I still need to start this month's. Where does the time go!?
Also, happy birthday Emily! I see your constantly positive comments in just about every puzzle I've ever seen. Many happy returns!
Got the opening pretty decently, then had to watch a bit of Mark's video to note a key thing in box 5, after which the rest of the puzzle went well, though like Mark I also misread the square in box 2 was confused when I didn't get a tick! 😅 Completed in 20:38 (conflict checker off), so not too bad, I guess! Many thanks to Paws for a great puzzle!
Got it on my own!
14:53 for me. Nice puzzle!
They should add a clause explaining if the positioning matters or not for - and /
I feel like it should be a safe assumption that the order doesn't matter if the rules don't mention an order.
Mark pulled a Simon by missing the obvious 6 around the 11+ and then working out the possibles around the 2- without the definite 6 😂
Yeah, I saw that!
At 10:00 there are 3 evens and a 1 or 3 in column 5. The “2/“ clue in box 2 can only have one even and one odd. The rest of the column is odd. Fun puzzle and I found it harder than the 2 stars someone gave it on Logic Masters. I am loving the rulesets lately.
Wonderful puzzle.
It took me about half an hour because I got stuck for a bit after the break-in (didn't think that the top 2/ would be restricted so I didn't look there until I'd gone over the rest of the grid), but I really enjoyed the new rule set, and loved the break-in with the central products
Finished in 28:34. I wasn't sure at first if the divisors and differences had to be in some order or not since they're not commutative actions, but I assumed there was no order just to be on the safe side and it turns out that was the correct assumption to make. Took me a while to get the hang of the new rules, but in the end I started to understand them better near the end.
Fun puzzle!
Seeing the video being less than half an hour I was hoping this would be a puzzle I could solve. But I just wasn't feeling like starting my monday morning with doing math. Maybe next time?
Finished in 29:41. The first like eight or nine minutes were spent just typing out a times table and narrowing the combinations down to the ones with repeated products.
Very fun ruleset. Took me way too long to figure out how to discern the 4/9 in box 5.. quick and easy other than that. Fun! 39:01
Solved it with hel from the video.
I can't even understand the ruleset. How does 2- work?? It would be helpful to. have an example of this before trying it, otherwise you have to spoil the puzzle by watching it.
I agree, does 2- mean, for example, 9-7 and 6-4 as pairs? Likewise does 2/ mean 4/2 and 6/3?
54:26, ended up looking at the video after breaking it, for some reason I thought 9 had to be in the lower left corner of box 5, not in the upper right corner. Was able to solve from there, but it was a lot of pencil marking and eliminating digits that didn't work. And assuming the equations equalled whole numbers.
41:17 for me
oh baby...
34:01. Dont know if i like the new ruleset yet. Maybe as i get used to the possible multiplication candidates.
33:40 and I am proud of my time
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29:22 for me and solver #1495.
Markwas lucky that he thinked in middle of solving that box 2 must have 12 pair in rowbut luckily he dont used that false information.
He did use it. 🙂
At 27:05, it's the reason he initially got the 1-4 deadly pattern the wrong way round at the end. Fixed pretty quickly though.
@@RichSmith77 I mean like if he find out something like r1c9 must be 12 so row 1 cant be 12 as it breaks that c9 cell kind of logic. There he was lucky as such thing could possibly lead him in situation were he placed many digits and then he would be really confused were the hell everything gone wrong.
20:01 for me
30:23 for me
If the digits must all be different, there's only four ways to fill an "x" box in this puzzle. Two of them appear in the final grid; the others are 1x6 and 2x3, and 4x6 and 3x8.
No, there is one more option: 2x6 and 3x4. And at 25:42 I think Mark was lucky not to see this option and also 1x6 and 2x3 are possible. I can’t see how to easily exclude these options in box 3.
@@stephanswoboda2432The only four digits that work AND include a 9 are 2x9 and 3x6.
He knows both 9 and 3 are on the 2x2. Mark deduces the make-up by considering how many factors of 3 ("3 factors") have to be involved, so that they can be balanced on the two diagonals. 3 and 9 already have three "3 factors" between them. So that he can have two "3 factors" on both diagonals, he knows 6 has to appear too, since it's the only other sudoku digit that can provide a 4th "3 factor". The 9 (with two "3 factors") has to go on an opposite diagonal to 3 and 6 (one "3 factor" each).
@@RichSmith77Thank you for the explanation. Now I understand it. 😅
30 minutes
I gotta say the rules were completely insufficient to explain how the puzzle worked without explanation or example. It makes me not like the puzzle
I completely didn’t get it just from reading it, but even after watching mark, I still have zero clue how - or / works.
@@Leslie_AFSuppose the four digits in a 2x2 around a maths operator are,
A B
C D
The maths operator applied between the pairs of digits on the two diagonals has to give the same result for both diagonals.
So for "/" it means A/D = either B/C or C/B (you don't know which is divided by which, just that the ratio will be the same in one direction or the other). If it's given as "N/” (e.g. "2/") then N has to be the common ratio for both diagonals. Either A/D or D/A = N, and also B/C or C/B = N.
"-" works in a similar way. A-D = either B-C or C-B.
If it's "N-" then either A-D or D-A = N, and also B-C or C-B = N.
I thought they were overly explained 🤷
29:01 for me. Nice puzzle!