That restricted 9 in the beginning took me the entire puzzle. Immediately saw the hidden triple, and proceeded to pencil nearly every other cell in the puzzle over the next 30 min. Finally I saw that I didn’t respect my corner marks, got the 9, and the rest of the puzzle fell into place. Your videos have been so insanely helpful for me learning! Thank you! ❤
Very hard one, took me over an hour! We both found the 46 pair which created pointing 4s in box 5, but you saw the pointing 4s right away and I completely disregarded my corner marks instead.
Thanks to learning from these videos I solved this in 32 mins using NYT format. Also felt I must be missing something a lot of the time. Nearly gave up.
I got the NYT trick/geometry at the start, but was hung up forever.... and then gave up. I scan on a sequential numerical basis, but ended up with 3 or 4 in r9c4. Your 46 pair in C5 resolved it to a 3 at 17m solved it thereon. How could I not see it? So much to learn. Thanks.
Stayed on the struggle bus with this one! The only solace I take is that I got stuck in pretty much the same places - so at least I know I’m in good company!!! Those pointing 4s - I said some bad words when you found them since I missed them too!
It couldn't be a 9,8,7,6,5,2,1 due to the numbers already in the column/row leaving only 3 or 4. But if you look in the center set of boxes, he has corner marks for the number 4 meaning that 4 can only go in those two places. In doing that, it means 4s are pointing downwards, eliminating the possibility for 4 to be in that square leaving a single 3. Hope I explained it clearly enough!
To be honest this puzzle was unusually tough for a NYT hard sudoku. I started learning about techniques and playing them every day, and now it’s a very enjoyable hobby and I can usually finish a hard puzzle in 10 minutes.
That restricted 9 in the beginning took me the entire puzzle. Immediately saw the hidden triple, and proceeded to pencil nearly every other cell in the puzzle over the next 30 min. Finally I saw that I didn’t respect my corner marks, got the 9, and the rest of the puzzle fell into place. Your videos have been so insanely helpful for me learning! Thank you! ❤
I struggled, the puzzle kept hanging on. Kept finding things expecting it to collapse and it didn't!
Yeah, I also think it's a hard one
Very hard one, took me over an hour! We both found the 46 pair which created pointing 4s in box 5, but you saw the pointing 4s right away and I completely disregarded my corner marks instead.
Thanks to learning from these videos I solved this in 32 mins using NYT format. Also felt I must be missing something a lot of the time. Nearly gave up.
24:32 to solve. One of the toughest ones for a while!
I got the NYT trick/geometry at the start, but was hung up forever.... and then gave up. I scan on a sequential numerical basis, but ended up with 3 or 4 in r9c4. Your 46 pair in C5 resolved it to a 3 at 17m solved it thereon. How could I not see it? So much to learn. Thanks.
Def hung up on this one for awhile. Took me 24 minutes! But I eventually got it.
what are corner marks
Stayed on the struggle bus with this one! The only solace I take is that I got stuck in pretty much the same places - so at least I know I’m in good company!!! Those pointing 4s - I said some bad words when you found them since I missed them too!
Same here!!
Gahh the pointing 4s at 17:13 was what I was missing.
could u go through why that number is a 3 at 21:12
It couldn't be a 9,8,7,6,5,2,1 due to the numbers already in the column/row leaving only 3 or 4.
But if you look in the center set of boxes, he has corner marks for the number 4 meaning that 4 can only go in those two places.
In doing that, it means 4s are pointing downwards, eliminating the possibility for 4 to be in that square leaving a single 3.
Hope I explained it clearly enough!
@@OceanicAir815 u are the goat
Missed the naked single 3!
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This one was really hard for me
Viewing these comments, I guess I’m an idiot bc I can’t even solve them at all, let alone within an hour or two haha
To be honest this puzzle was unusually tough for a NYT hard sudoku. I started learning about techniques and playing them every day, and now it’s a very enjoyable hobby and I can usually finish a hard puzzle in 10 minutes.