Hi Mark - wow ... another great video! Thank you 😁 - I had this idea a while ago, and a few 'false starts' as I tried creating a puzzle using the rule set. Your solve was perfect - you caught every hint, in the right order. I'd love to see other authors try their hand with these rules - I think there's a bit more opportunity here.
...and another great puzzle, again immediately translated in *STL* and published on *Cosmic Tube,* with an introduction by my favourite augmented astrophysicist, who explained the meaning of the Terrestrial expression _"thinking outside the box."_ By the way, she calls it *4-D* thinking and trained it in the kindergarten, but loved this puzzle whole-three-hearthedly and whole-three-mindedly. 😏👍👍👍👍👍👍
@@Paolo_De_Leva 😁😁😁 - I had thought about calling this "Thinking Outside The Box" but there were already multiple puzzles with that name on LMG ... but I'm happy to have another STL translation 🤣
44:34. Very compelling puzzle. Pretty much a lot of put in candidates and delete but also remembering to delete against the cage restrictions. Enjoyable. Love the ruleset ! 10/10
That was great fun 👍🏻👍🏻 - a bonkers ruleset, but surprisingly tractable if you take it steady and work through everything carefully and remember that digits in the virtual cages can't repeat - finished in a smidge under 40 minutes despite some minor distractions.
26:44 finish. This one was a bit tricky until I started coloring the appropriate cells. That definitely opened up some solve paths for me. Fun new ruleset! Excellent job!
I loved this puzzle! Cool rule constraints. I particularly liked the 27 cages which give the total of all the other cells in the box so it does give its own total in a roundabout way of subtracting 45 from itself. Fun puzzle 😍
40:52 for me. Super cool ruleset that led to some clever logic being employed. Got stuck right at the very end for about 4 minutes trying to figure out how to place the remaining 4s and 9s in the bottom 3 boxes until I remembered I had one last box clue and that disambiguated them perfectly. Awesome!
The puzzle gets much easier when you ask where the 7 or 9 in R6C1 goes in box 5. It can't be in C4 since they're a 789 triple for the 27 cage. Therefore it's in R4C6 placing the 6 and 8 in box 5.
45:45 not as difficult as I expected for any colorblind solvers out there: the only red cages in the grid are the 27 cages in box 3 and 7, and the 45 cages in box 1 and 9, all of the others are green
48:52 I failed this badly when I tried it during testing, but this time around it went smoothly. A beautiful concept and a tough test of scanning on odd-shaped regions.
absolutely! in the beginning, i found this hard to wrap my head around, but later on, it felt quite natural. the abundance of 45 cages made this kind of a set theory puzzle.
I should have started coloring earlier, but did make it through in 40:05 (conflict checker off), which isn't too bad for me. Really amazing puzzle, some lovely deductions along the way, many thanks to HalfBakedLunatic for it!
That was an adventure, I thought - very complicated, I agree, Mark. No way I will be attempting that anytime soon, but I am so glad to have watched you solve it. And what a wealth of material is coming up on Patreon! Thanks for all of it, Mark (and Simon).
Cosmic-class construction and excellent solve. Thank you to both *HalfBakedLunatic* and Mark 👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏 By the way, *HalfBakedLunatic's* idea to immediately remove *3* from _"the spotlights"_ of the grid by means of 1-cell cages was the cherry on top of the pie (which can be only understood by CTC fans 🤣). Also, *Mark's* idea to use the *Pen tool* to draw the 45-regions was a very effective trick to make notation easier to read (see video @18:57) 😏👍. I must remember this trick for future use.
In my imagination, *Cosmic Tube* is telepathically available on the *Cosmic Wide Web* via *InterSnet* (Intergalactic Sophonic Net), and cosmic-class puzzles from *Hearth* have trillions of viewers in my galaxy. 😂 *Hearth* is connected by means of *Trisolarian* sophons (😉), but you need to be endowed with the whole set of (conceptual and multi-sensorial) telepathic genes to "watch" it. You guessed it: currently, only scientists belonging to the *Intergalactic Society of Exobiology* are using it on Earth, and some augmented humans who moved to other planets can connect, but they are not allowed to come back to Earth due to a Costitutional law adopted by the *Cosmic Union* that prohibits its members from _"interfering with the natural development of primitive alien civilizations."_ 😜
Rotational pairs: If you swap the 2's and 5's in columns 7 and 9, and then swap the 4's and 9's in the bottom 3 rows, the grid will be rotationally symmetrical, with rotational pairs being 3-3, 1-5, 2-4, 7-9 and 6-8. To achieve this, change the 5 cage in box 9 into an 8 cage, and change the green 18 cage in box 8 into a 23 cage. (Not sure whether the solution will still be unique or not.)
I finished in 28:11 minutes. This was such a cool ruleset that felt very natural for me. It's like the normal cage rule if it was inverted from the inside. It almost reminds of some math fields in that way. As always, it feels good to beat Mark's time. Great Puzzle!
I had over a third of the grid filled in (33 cells), and 14 more cells down to 3 or fewer candidates, when I ran into a contradiction and couldn't find my mistake. So I just decided to watch the puzzle now instead of waiting until I had solved it. There, I discovered my error, having a single corner wrong (one cell too high) in one of the 15 cages in the middle box. Unfortunately, that came about pretty early in my solve, so I would have nearly had to start over to fix it. So today, I'm just watching.
73:21 ... clearly not up to speed compared to you amazing lot, but i should be happy i was thinking mostly along the same lines another very fun puzzle... the creativity you genius setters can extract from the 81 squares is astounding
Rules: 02:44 Let's Get Cracking: 04:28 What about this video's Top Tier Simarkisms?! The Secret: 3x (06:19, 06:22, 31:41) Phistomefel: 1x (00:43) And how about this video's Simarkisms?! Ah: 11x (03:54, 06:09, 07:33, 14:13, 16:06, 17:19, 20:56, 21:52, 23:33, 29:47, 33:34) Pencil Mark/mark: 8x (05:38, 11:48, 12:52, 28:08, 29:57, 30:04, 37:33) Sorry: 4x (14:31, 25:19, 30:15, 43:14) By Sudoku: 4x (23:50, 24:10, 33:47, 41:50) Weird: 4x (00:32, 04:05, 13:26, 27:55) In Fact: 3x (14:33, 17:10, 39:59) Symmetry: 3x (04:22, 05:10, 09:07) Surely: 2x (43:27, 44:01) Bother: 1x (13:35) Bingo: 1x (16:52) Lovely: 1x (12:35) Brilliant: 1x (33:13) Fascinating: 1x (26:11) Intriguing: 1x (02:42) Wow: 1x (34:17) Most popular number(>9), digit and colour this video: Forty Five, Seventy Eight (13 mentions) One (103 mentions) Blue (42 mentions) Antithesis Battles: High (2) - Low (0) Even (8) - Odd (1) Outside (5) - Inside (1) Column (18) - 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!
Meh, as a red green colorblind person, I can hardly if at all tell the which ones are red and which ones are green. Thankfully chatgpt 4o can help, lol.
@@flsal27 i would like to know as well :D probably he is using GPT as "render me a colorblind-friendly image of this one"? Wondering if there is not a color-blind mode of some webbrowser or a plugin for that though
I’ve noticed a bug in the software lately, where my pencil marks, my digits, and sometimes even the given digits will randomly disappear. Reloading the page brings them back for a little while. Today’s puzzle was really hard because the 2 15 cages and the 3 in box 5 did not appear when I first loaded 😂 I’m using chrome and it happens on my phone and laptop 😬
I wanted to like this puzzle. I like the new constraint, but the puzzle is too damn hard. If there were easier puzzles using the constraint, more and more people would appreciate it!
Those 3 cages in the corners are SUCH a tease.
Yes - I started building the puzzle with the "3 cage in the corner" ... but no 3!🤣
@@HalfBakedLunatic 1000% genius 🤣👍👍👍
Hi Mark - wow ... another great video! Thank you 😁 - I had this idea a while ago, and a few 'false starts' as I tried creating a puzzle using the rule set. Your solve was perfect - you caught every hint, in the right order. I'd love to see other authors try their hand with these rules - I think there's a bit more opportunity here.
...and another great puzzle, again immediately translated in *STL* and published on *Cosmic Tube,* with an introduction by my favourite augmented astrophysicist, who explained the meaning of the Terrestrial expression _"thinking outside the box."_
By the way, she calls it *4-D* thinking and trained it in the kindergarten, but loved this puzzle whole-three-hearthedly and whole-three-mindedly.
😏👍👍👍👍👍👍
@@Paolo_De_Leva 😁😁😁 - I had thought about calling this "Thinking Outside The Box" but there were already multiple puzzles with that name on LMG ... but I'm happy to have another STL translation 🤣
@@HalfBakedLunatichave you ever thought about making an easier version of this puzzle?
@@MMN-pt8il - Yes, I could do. I'll see if I can put something on Logic Masters Germany later this week ...
@@HalfBakedLunatic Ok! 👍
44:34. Very compelling puzzle. Pretty much a lot of put in candidates and delete but also remembering to delete against the cage restrictions. Enjoyable. Love the ruleset ! 10/10
Great comment, thank you!
That was great fun 👍🏻👍🏻 - a bonkers ruleset, but surprisingly tractable if you take it steady and work through everything carefully and remember that digits in the virtual cages can't repeat - finished in a smidge under 40 minutes despite some minor distractions.
26:44 finish. This one was a bit tricky until I started coloring the appropriate cells. That definitely opened up some solve paths for me. Fun new ruleset! Excellent job!
I loved this puzzle! Cool rule constraints. I particularly liked the 27 cages which give the total of all the other cells in the box so it does give its own total in a roundabout way of subtracting 45 from itself. Fun puzzle 😍
A very adventurous puzzle in which I had to concentrate very much in order not to get confused. I did it in 92 minutes. An ingenious puzzle.
40:52 for me. Super cool ruleset that led to some clever logic being employed. Got stuck right at the very end for about 4 minutes trying to figure out how to place the remaining 4s and 9s in the bottom 3 boxes until I remembered I had one last box clue and that disambiguated them perfectly. Awesome!
Another innovative ruleset, thanks, which resulted in more colouring than I was anticipating.
The puzzle gets much easier when you ask where the 7 or 9 in R6C1 goes in box 5. It can't be in C4 since they're a 789 triple for the 27 cage. Therefore it's in R4C6 placing the 6 and 8 in box 5.
Finished in 24:53. Lovely logic with the outside of the cage logic which forces a uniqueness for the numbers fitting the pattern.
Fun puzzle!
107:12 for me, I was stuck for ages and had to come back to the video and instantly realized that I had forgotten the no repeats rule
45:45 not as difficult as I expected
for any colorblind solvers out there: the only red cages in the grid are the 27 cages in box 3 and 7, and the 45 cages in box 1 and 9, all of the others are green
The first steps in my solve was taking a screenshot and tuning the colors in GIMP to see which cages are red/green.
that switch to the pen tool was key to solving this.
48:52
I failed this badly when I tried it during testing, but this time around it went smoothly. A beautiful concept and a tough test of scanning on odd-shaped regions.
I feel like this should be a standard ruleset, "Bizarro Cages" or something. 😁
absolutely! in the beginning, i found this hard to wrap my head around, but later on, it felt quite natural. the abundance of 45 cages made this kind of a set theory puzzle.
More like „inverted cages“ 😄👍🏻 I love this rule set. It took a moment to adjust but it was so much fun.
I should have started coloring earlier, but did make it through in 40:05 (conflict checker off), which isn't too bad for me. Really amazing puzzle, some lovely deductions along the way, many thanks to HalfBakedLunatic for it!
Very glad you liked it!
Gorgeous puzzle, 56.22, and as one might expect, there was a lot of time I took a long time to notice our old friend Sudoku.
I like the idea of the reverse cages, but man, did it make it complicated in practice.
That was an adventure, I thought - very complicated, I agree, Mark. No way I will be attempting that anytime soon, but I am so glad to have watched you solve it. And what a wealth of material is coming up on Patreon! Thanks for all of it, Mark (and Simon).
@@emilywilliams3237 took me 3hrs 😅
The best for this days for sure. Very creative but not very hard! Love it! 🎉
Thank you, both. You have make sudoku more interesting and fun
19:58 for me. Weird ruleset, but I really enjoyed the puzzle!!
Very fun ruleset. Not overly difficult but I had to restart twice because somewhere mid-solution I reverted to treating them as regular cages.
Very unique ruleset. I am liking it very much.
This took a while to wrap my head around and visualize all the connections, but a nice puzzle
A nice little crack i saw was at 18:30 once you get the 5 in what becomes the red line, 5 only has one spot in r4
Cosmic-class construction and excellent solve.
Thank you to both *HalfBakedLunatic* and Mark
👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏
By the way, *HalfBakedLunatic's* idea to immediately remove *3* from _"the spotlights"_ of the grid by means of 1-cell cages was the cherry on top of the pie (which can be only understood by CTC fans 🤣).
Also, *Mark's* idea to use the *Pen tool* to draw the 45-regions was a very effective trick to make notation easier to read (see video @18:57) 😏👍. I must remember this trick for future use.
This is the second puzzle by HalfBackedLunatic featured on *Cosmic Tube,* and I am sure it will be included in the next *CTC Cosmic hits* book.
In my imagination, *Cosmic Tube* is telepathically available on the *Cosmic Wide Web* via *InterSnet* (Intergalactic Sophonic Net), and cosmic-class puzzles from *Hearth* have trillions of viewers in my galaxy. 😂
*Hearth* is connected by means of *Trisolarian* sophons (😉), but you need to be endowed with the whole set of (conceptual and multi-sensorial) telepathic genes to "watch" it.
You guessed it: currently, only scientists belonging to the *Intergalactic Society of Exobiology* are using it on Earth, and some augmented humans who moved to other planets can connect, but they are not allowed to come back to Earth due to a Costitutional law adopted by the *Cosmic Union* that prohibits its members from _"interfering with the natural development of primitive alien civilizations."_ 😜
Rotational pairs: If you swap the 2's and 5's in columns 7 and 9, and then swap the 4's and 9's in the bottom 3 rows, the grid will be rotationally symmetrical, with rotational pairs being 3-3, 1-5, 2-4, 7-9 and 6-8. To achieve this, change the 5 cage in box 9 into an 8 cage, and change the green 18 cage in box 8 into a 23 cage. (Not sure whether the solution will still be unique or not.)
1:38:48 - Omg - I found that rather hard, especially trying to keep track of all the pseudo cages; I’ve never put so many colours in one sudoku!!
46:43 for me...very tricky to keep track of everything
I finished in 28:11 minutes. This was such a cool ruleset that felt very natural for me. It's like the normal cage rule if it was inverted from the inside. It almost reminds of some math fields in that way. As always, it feels good to beat Mark's time. Great Puzzle!
RIP my deuteranopic eyes
Finished in 32:57. Holy crap, what a puzzle!
I already made puzzles faster than Simon, it's my first time making faster than Mark.
Exactly 34:34, what a superb puzzle!
25:51 for me. very interesting variant of the killer cage sudoku.
Great puzzle. Beautiful set logic. I found I solved the puzzle without using the 18 cage total on column 1, possibly not at all.
I had over a third of the grid filled in (33 cells), and 14 more cells down to 3 or fewer candidates, when I ran into a contradiction and couldn't find my mistake. So I just decided to watch the puzzle now instead of waiting until I had solved it. There, I discovered my error, having a single corner wrong (one cell too high) in one of the 15 cages in the middle box. Unfortunately, that came about pretty early in my solve, so I would have nearly had to start over to fix it. So today, I'm just watching.
73:21 ... clearly not up to speed compared to you amazing lot, but i should be happy i was thinking mostly along the same lines
another very fun puzzle... the creativity you genius setters can extract from the 81 squares is astounding
39:57, I finally beat Mark!
Awesome. Sublimely awesome.
00:43:54 yep this was a good one.
Rules: 02:44
Let's Get Cracking: 04:28
What about this video's Top Tier Simarkisms?!
The Secret: 3x (06:19, 06:22, 31:41)
Phistomefel: 1x (00:43)
And how about this video's Simarkisms?!
Ah: 11x (03:54, 06:09, 07:33, 14:13, 16:06, 17:19, 20:56, 21:52, 23:33, 29:47, 33:34)
Pencil Mark/mark: 8x (05:38, 11:48, 12:52, 28:08, 29:57, 30:04, 37:33)
Sorry: 4x (14:31, 25:19, 30:15, 43:14)
By Sudoku: 4x (23:50, 24:10, 33:47, 41:50)
Weird: 4x (00:32, 04:05, 13:26, 27:55)
In Fact: 3x (14:33, 17:10, 39:59)
Symmetry: 3x (04:22, 05:10, 09:07)
Surely: 2x (43:27, 44:01)
Bother: 1x (13:35)
Bingo: 1x (16:52)
Lovely: 1x (12:35)
Brilliant: 1x (33:13)
Fascinating: 1x (26:11)
Intriguing: 1x (02:42)
Wow: 1x (34:17)
Most popular number(>9), digit and colour this video:
Forty Five, Seventy Eight (13 mentions)
One (103 mentions)
Blue (42 mentions)
Antithesis Battles:
High (2) - Low (0)
Even (8) - Odd (1)
Outside (5) - Inside (1)
Column (18) - 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!
39:08 for me, super fun!
68 minutes for me
nice puzzle
First one I've been able to solve without getting a jump start from Goody or Simon! Took 2 hours+ though >_
43:40 for me.
150:51 with getting stuck 3-4 times🥰
Cool puzzle!
15:01 for me. its cool to color.
Meh, as a red green colorblind person, I can hardly if at all tell the which ones are red and which ones are green. Thankfully chatgpt 4o can help, lol.
How gpt helps in that situation?
@@flsal27 i would like to know as well :D probably he is using GPT as "render me a colorblind-friendly image of this one"? Wondering if there is not a color-blind mode of some webbrowser or a plugin for that though
Two one-cell 3 cages in the corner, but we don't get any song from them.
Took me about an hour in total on and off... very hard to imagine these disjunkt boxes, lots of circles and colouring to keep track of it.
32:21 for me
I’ve noticed a bug in the software lately, where my pencil marks, my digits, and sometimes even the given digits will randomly disappear. Reloading the page brings them back for a little while. Today’s puzzle was really hard because the 2 15 cages and the 3 in box 5 did not appear when I first loaded 😂
I’m using chrome and it happens on my phone and laptop 😬
Cages were indistinguishable for those of us who are colourblind
Why was the 9 removed from A8 at 30:22?
Not easy. Solved in 51:55.
I wanted to like this puzzle. I like the new constraint, but the puzzle is too damn hard. If there were easier puzzles using the constraint, more and more people would appreciate it!
The 18 cage in box 4 and 20 cage in box 6 are useless. Can be removed from this puzzle.
i used them on my solve, and i found this puzzle hard enough as is
I loved it but it did not vibe with my sense of logic, it was a 90 minute struggle session for me.