I think Simons brain is just way too smart for a 2 Star puzzle and he overlooks like every single easy deduction and tries to prove it in the most complicated ways possible 😂
I was thinking that at 36:50 when he had announced odd three on a length seven line but was deliberating why the other end could be a four or six…. Me “Simon it’s a four you already have four even digits on that line and you know it has three odd digits”
R8c8 could have been a problem. It is on a line of length 9 with a 1 or 2 on the other end. So it was marked as having possible values of 6 or 8 instead of 7 or 8. Luckily it turned out to be an 8 and he didn’t use the fact that both of the possibilities he marked were even.
We have all been yelling at the screen for a while when Simon says "why didn't I see that straight away". Here is why. Simon's brain works at such a high level that he can't see the low level obvious. Some of us who love to yell at the screen, have difficulty getting to a high enough logic to break into the harder puzzles. So, we watch Simon until he gives us the break in. Then we do all the lowly work until we get stuck. Then we watch Simon again until he gives us the next bit of high logic. Thanks Simon, we make a great team.
This puzzle drove me crazy! Like Simon, I ignored about 10 easy things and made super complicated calculations - though, in my defense, I never resorted to bifurcation - that just ignored the basic concepts of the puzzle! 79 minutes for me! I'm embarrassed. But thanks to math pesto and Simon, as always!
38:42 for me I love "region defining" puzzles! I started to try every one that shows up on the channel and realized I understand them much better and have more fun than with sudoku 😅
This puzzle was such a delight to solve. Ive had the exact same reactions as Simon at the same moments where I went "oh but thats broken... oh wait no it isnt". Loved it!
i cannot find a way out of the right hand bottom of the grid. let's hope i will find a mini clue from Simon to get on, before i have to watch all of the video. 66:47 i was too rigid thinking in that bottom, but finally found it. Great logic throughout!! Proud to have found my way through with only confirmation that my break-in deductions where sound. And i just had to figure it out in that bottom corner. Thank you Simon and Math Pesto!
This was my first attempt at a polyomino puzzle and it definitely broke my brain numerous times. Needed Simon's help on more than one occasion to show me where I'd gone wrong. Still a fun solve, well done as always Simon.
Very fun puzzle! There's some lovely logic here, with some tricky bits where you think you've broken it, but when you finally see the solution it's delightful
Took me 53:40, at the start I had no idea how I might even possibly break into such a crazy ruleset but it flowed super naturally and was a lot easier than I expected at first glance. Lovely puzzle, very much enjoyed my time with it.
Lovely construction and concept from Math Pesto! Glad you got the solve and edit in on time Simon so didnt have to use one of your prerecorded videos. Save those for rainy days. 🙂
Simon’s brain did a fabulous job getting through that! Commending Simon and Mark on yesterday’s puzzle! Your were both very entertaining! Keeping track of your own progress while also trying to remember what you have or haven’t shared with your partner (whose grid you cannot see) would be daunting. Very well done Simon & Mark!
41:10 the reason you cant see it straight away is that you are an entertainer at heart. And I was mightily entertained. Or youre a master troll, and Ive been had.
32:15 "It's either 5-2 or 3-4" - this can be immediately disambiguated by noting that there are already four evens on the line, but if it was 5-2 that would be 5 *odds* and 2 evens
A quite satisfying 29:59; being just within a half hour. I'm not sure if this is the first puzzle I've cracked quicker than Simon, but it is surely the widest margin. Next step: be on par with Simon's time more than once in a blue moon :D
for all that Simon complains about having to do sudoku in some of the harder sudoku variant puzzles, I really only stand a chance of coming close to his times when it's a puzzle like this with explicitly no sudoku logic at all!
It's nice to have a bit of a confused and slow Simon once in a while. Normally, I almost have to pause and rewind just to understand what he means. This time, it feels almost frustrating how he doesn't see everything I do xD
Fun but not too difficult. Finished in 48:54 with one tiny bit of help from Simon. (Determining the value of r2 c9). After that it was steady progress until the end.
Really enjoyed this one. I love the way the rulesets influenced each other. Often found myself missing stuff due to tunnel vision on one part of the rules. Lots of fun :)
I must say, I enjoy the pencil puzzle variants, but really love the sudoku variants more. That said, I certainly do enjoy the logic - you are so wonderful at explaining what you're thinking, Simon, and you are always thorough!
Oh that is one of those time I flew through the puzzle, cleared it in 27m10s, while bothering with a quite heavy notation as well. Very smooth and linear solve.
Very nice puzzle. 23:03 for me. It could have been quicker, but I find switching modes when the pen tool is active is very awkward. The number of times I put a circle in a square I was trying to select was ridiculous. There are redundant modifier key combinations that could be used to momentarily select the pen tool, without having to switch to the tool and remember to switch out. I like to stay in big digit mode, and use ctrl to enter centre marks, shift to enter corner marks, and shift+ctrl for colours. If alt were to activate the pen tool, I'd be much more efficient. @ 36:19 "That's 4 or 6" - Why do you make things hard for yourself? It's a 7 cell line, and you've already got 3 in the odd end. It's got to be 4. Since it can't go up two cells, the circle to the left is also 4, which means the circle to the left of that is 3. The first 4 means the rest of the cells on the line must be odd, which pens in the 4 region, and makes the cells above and to the right 4. Note that, if you had followed up when you placed the 3 in the circle, you wouldn't have even had to think about whether the other end was 4 or 6. This lack of follow-up is behind so many of your problems. It only takes a second to make sure you extract all of the benefit of each placement. Instead, you'd rather zoom off to somewhere unrelated. @ 40:39 - What on earth are you thinking? It's a 23 line, that means 2 evens and 3 odds. It doesn't matter which end's which, you've already got 2 evens, so the rest must be odd. Now you don't have to think about which end's which, because there's only one possibility - the lower bulb can't be 2, so it must be 3. The cell to the left of the 2 can't be 3, but it can't be 5 or more because of the 1234 above it, so it must be 1. This forces the 2 to go up, making the line above it a 14, and the 1 we just placed means the lower bulb is 4. @ 46:59 - "I can still force this logic to be beautiful" - Why are you forcing it? Just pencil-mark the 6s. This hits the lower circle of the top line, which can't be higher than 6. It means the 6+ region must be of size 6, and its last cell will touch the 16 you're playing with. There's no need to force anything. That 1 is the only odd on the line. You're left with 6 blues that can't be a single region, but must be 2 and 4, and there's only one way to arrange it.
This is the second puzzle I've ever solved without needing to get any hints whatsoever from the video, so I'm pleased with that! I made a stupid mistake halfway through - I thought I had 8 8s but I only had 7 8s in my region! When I realised I clicked undo all the way back to see if missing that affected any other logic. Luckily it had no impact on anything I had done since, so I could click redo all the way back to where I was and just add the 8th 8 on the end hahaha.
I finished in 219 minutes. I think the title of this video is apt, because this was one of my worst showings that I have ever performed. Nothing was clicking with me and I kept failing so hard. It wasn't until 90 minutes, that I reread the rules and saw that each end of the line had to have one even and one odd. I really messed that up and thought double evens or odds were possible. That would have stream-lined the break-in so much. Of course, I was halfway through the puzzle when I saw that and thus a ticking time bomb of my second mistake was happening. It took me an additional 90 minutes before I saw that I forgot to correct everything I did up to that point I reread the rules. After realizing that, I was able to easily place 1 into r4c7. After that, the puzzle became much more enjoyable. What a cavalcade of errors, though. I feel like I have to apologize to the puzzle for what I have done to it. Sorry puzzle, you deserve better than what I just did to you. The puzzle had cool ideas and I did enjoy it once all rules were understood. Great Puzzle!
I was yelling at Simon to sum the circles to the length of the line, then noticed that where I had got stuck was by summing the circles to the wrong value on that line...
I finally got this one solved. It took me 97 mins, because I got very stuck thinking I had broken the puzzle so I backtracked a bunch only to repeatedly prove myself right several times over. Turns out I made one poor deduction about where a certain 6 region had to go, so I never filled in anything wrong, I had just convinced myself that what I I had didn’t work. It’s ok though. This was my first non Sudoku that I attempted, so I learned a lot from finishing it.
I noticed the sudoku classic app was updated. It has smart hint now!! That's a very welcome addition. Sometimes I'm at the end of the puzzle and I'm missing 1 piece of logit, so I have to go to the hints. But I might have to go through a lot of them to see what I missed. Then again sometimes smart hint is 10 hints to tell me that i just need to ask where 3 goes in column 5. lol
It would be nice if you could either update killer, sandwich, and miracle or merge them into the CTC app. They don't work properly on my tablet. The candidate window for killer and sandwich puzzles overlaps the grid in the old apps. In the CTC app it's fine.
I enjoyed this one. I missed the logic of why the 8 region in the lower right couldn't grow to the right and hook around the orange on the bottom row, but other than that, very nice
37:16 on my 2nd attempt, 69:53 on my first, 107:09 total. On my first attempt, I made an awful mistake at the very beginning, putting a 1 in r2c7. It flowed well for like 25 minutes after that, I struggled for another 40 minutes, looked at the solution to see my mistake. My second attempt went much better after all my experience with this puzzle, but I also made a mistake in the lower left, miscounting the number of odd/even cells in the the line and making r8c1 an even and wasting like 10 minutes. Remembering that the regions didn't have to be completely on a single line was throwing me for some reason.
When I did this, I had r9c10 as 3, and r10c9 as 2 (with everything else being as you had it). This clearly wasn't the intended solution, but is there any actual reason for this to be wrong, or does this puzzle just have two solutions? EDIT: First off, I originally screwed up the coordinates in this comment, fixed now. Second, there totally is a reason that I missed: the arrow in r7c6
I battled with this puzzle for 4 hours yesterday & ended up with a single empty even cell 🤬 Started from scratch today and got it done in 56:16 😣 Thankfully r10c1 was correct in both instances 🎉
This was frustrating for me because in 2 separate instances I didn't think about using more than one or two polyominoes. The lower right corner I knew needed a 5 cell region and a 1 cell region, and I just didn't think to break the 5 into a 3 and a 2. Then at the very end the I got the final 6 cell region touching the forced 6 cell region but it didn't occur to me to break it into a 4 and a 2! That's why I always have the video open in another tab when solving these. Just in case I get suck and can use some of Simon's logic.
34:23 for me. It was quiet tricky with the colouring though. Either it was messy or had too little information if I only used orange/blue. But got there in the end. :)
Hello, can anyone tell me a website or smth similar where i can search for puzzles like these, coz if i just type sudoku + (literally anything), the results are always the same and they're in my local language which makes it even more frustrating
Have you tried searching for Logic Masters Germany (or Logic Masters Deutschland)? A lot of these puzzles are posted there first. There's an advanced search page way you can filter by type, such as polyomino. (I'd link to it, but I think TH-cam would delete my comment.)
I found it hard to count along the twisty lines! In fact I worked out the last cell on one of the lines had to be even when in fact it was odd so got to an impasse and had to backtrack. Naughty brain.
I think Simons brain is just way too smart for a 2 Star puzzle and he overlooks like every single easy deduction and tries to prove it in the most complicated ways possible 😂
I was thinking that at 36:50 when he had announced odd three on a length seven line but was deliberating why the other end could be a four or six…. Me “Simon it’s a four you already have four even digits on that line and you know it has three odd digits”
Classic Simon. No matter the type of puzzle.
That's called working harder not smarter
Simon hates Sudoku. He just wants to play with all the interesting and complicated rules 🤣
@essidus this wasn't Sudoku...
*puts a 3 at one end of a 7-cell line*
"How can we ever know what's at the other end?"
It's a mystery
Took him exactly 200 seconds to work out out.
I wish I had been there so I could simply ask him to read the rules of the puzzle again. 🤭
R8c8 could have been a problem. It is on a line of length 9 with a 1 or 2 on the other end. So it was marked as having possible values of 6 or 8 instead of 7 or 8. Luckily it turned out to be an 8 and he didn’t use the fact that both of the possibilities he marked were even.
Gah that naughty brain again... this puzzle messed with me. Thanks for spotting and, especially, for noting that it didn't matter!!
We have all been yelling at the screen for a while when Simon says "why didn't I see that straight away".
Here is why. Simon's brain works at such a high level that he can't see the low level obvious.
Some of us who love to yell at the screen, have difficulty getting to a high enough logic to break into the harder puzzles. So, we watch Simon until he gives us the break in. Then we do all the lowly work until we get stuck. Then we watch Simon again until he gives us the next bit of high logic.
Thanks Simon, we make a great team.
I always love how with a weird new ruleset you only really start to get it towards the end and then it's much easier
This puzzle drove me crazy! Like Simon, I ignored about 10 easy things and made super complicated calculations - though, in my defense, I never resorted to bifurcation - that just ignored the basic concepts of the puzzle! 79 minutes for me! I'm embarrassed. But thanks to math pesto and Simon, as always!
38:42 for me
I love "region defining" puzzles! I started to try every one that shows up on the channel and realized I understand them much better and have more fun than with sudoku 😅
It's better when it's a sudoku chaos construction :)
This is one of the craziest puzzles I've ever seen. 3 layers of logic on top of each other
This puzzle was such a delight to solve. Ive had the exact same reactions as Simon at the same moments where I went "oh but thats broken... oh wait no it isnt". Loved it!
Hey! I was one of the (I'm sure) many people who suggested this. I was very happy to see it in the thumbnail!
i cannot find a way out of the right hand bottom of the grid. let's hope i will find a mini clue from Simon to get on, before i have to watch all of the video.
66:47 i was too rigid thinking in that bottom, but finally found it.
Great logic throughout!! Proud to have found my way through with only confirmation that my break-in deductions where sound. And i just had to figure it out in that bottom corner.
Thank you Simon and Math Pesto!
Recently i started going to LMD myself to do more puzzles on top of the featured here
This was one of the first i picked up, and what a treat
This was my first attempt at a polyomino puzzle and it definitely broke my brain numerous times. Needed Simon's help on more than one occasion to show me where I'd gone wrong. Still a fun solve, well done as always Simon.
Very fun puzzle! There's some lovely logic here, with some tricky bits where you think you've broken it, but when you finally see the solution it's delightful
Took me 53:40, at the start I had no idea how I might even possibly break into such a crazy ruleset but it flowed super naturally and was a lot easier than I expected at first glance. Lovely puzzle, very much enjoyed my time with it.
I love these types of puzzles. Well done Math Pesto and well done Simon on the solve!
I had exactly the same mini panic attack at the end, great puzzle
Lovely construction and concept from Math Pesto! Glad you got the solve and edit in on time Simon so didnt have to use one of your prerecorded videos. Save those for rainy days. 🙂
Simon’s brain did a fabulous job getting through that! Commending Simon and Mark on yesterday’s puzzle! Your were both very entertaining! Keeping track of your own progress while also trying to remember what you have or haven’t shared with your partner (whose grid you cannot see) would be daunting. Very well done Simon & Mark!
This has a lovely logical flow, very satisfying. I hope to see more puzzles with similar rulesets!
29:21 - That was lovely.
23:54 For me, this went so smoothly I'd dare call it quite approachable, once you get grasp on the rules of course
41:10 the reason you cant see it straight away is that you are an entertainer at heart. And I was mightily entertained.
Or youre a master troll, and Ive been had.
32:15 "It's either 5-2 or 3-4" - this can be immediately disambiguated by noting that there are already four evens on the line, but if it was 5-2 that would be 5 *odds* and 2 evens
A quite satisfying 29:59; being just within a half hour. I'm not sure if this is the first puzzle I've cracked quicker than Simon, but it is surely the widest margin. Next step: be on par with Simon's time more than once in a blue moon :D
for all that Simon complains about having to do sudoku in some of the harder sudoku variant puzzles, I really only stand a chance of coming close to his times when it's a puzzle like this with explicitly no sudoku logic at all!
It's nice to have a bit of a confused and slow Simon once in a while. Normally, I almost have to pause and rewind just to understand what he means. This time, it feels almost frustrating how he doesn't see everything I do xD
the little shout outs at the start of the videos for peoples birthdays and such always brighten my day its so sweet
First time commenting here but this is one of my favorite puzzle. Probably my number 1. Thx for doing this one!
Fun but not too difficult. Finished in 48:54 with one tiny bit of help from Simon. (Determining the value of r2 c9). After that it was steady progress until the end.
The missing r7c9/r8c9 border almost haunted us forever. Good catch at 31:45
Very smooth once I'd made the first breakthrough, and a confidence-building reminder that I am not bad at counting.
37:28 including a quick poop break :) cool ruleset and puzzle!
I can imagine someone creating this puzzle but without the lines and you have to draw the lines yourself. That would be monsterous
Really enjoyed this one. I love the way the rulesets influenced each other. Often found myself missing stuff due to tunnel vision on one part of the rules. Lots of fun :)
36:30 ... I found great joy in solving this one
Nice puzzle!
Let's Get Cracking: 03:03
Simon's time: 47m02s
Puzzle Solved: 50:05
What about this video's Top Tier Simarkisms?!
Three In the Corner: 3x (41:19, 41:24, 50:59)
Knowledge Bomb: 1x (19:06)
The Secret: 1x (02:17)
And how about this video's Simarkisms?!
Hang On: 17x (09:14, 11:01, 12:13, 17:39, 17:52, 17:52, 17:52, 26:24, 32:54, 35:34, 39:22, 40:26, 40:30, 40:49, 44:46, 46:08, 46:08)
Ah: 17x (08:06, 09:11, 09:52, 13:04, 16:45, 17:24, 19:29, 20:44, 26:13, 27:54, 29:31, 29:31, 33:05, 39:16, 42:26, 49:03, 49:32)
Sorry: 7x (01:54, 13:04, 16:29, 18:15, 18:15, 33:00, 40:54)
Lovely: 7x (14:50, 14:50, 15:01, 24:55, 33:24, 42:52, 42:52)
Obviously: 5x (02:23, 12:41, 38:45, 39:29, 48:45)
Beautiful: 4x (03:59, 14:48, 46:57, 51:01)
Brilliant: 4x (02:25, 02:45, 50:07, 50:11)
Gorgeous: 4x (20:11, 45:53, 51:09, 51:09)
In Fact: 4x (03:21, 12:44, 35:16, 35:22)
Incredible: 3x (03:33, 03:52, 03:52)
Clever: 2x (07:24, 33:25)
Stuck: 2x (17:39, 31:46)
Wow: 2x (49:03, 49:03)
Goodness: 1x (24:16)
The Answer is: 1x (30:07)
Nonsense: 1x (51:19)
Missing Something: 1x (39:20)
Naughty: 1x (15:24)
In the Spotlight: 1x (41:27)
Going Mad: 1x (23:15)
Surely: 1x (10:06)
Whoopsie: 1x (42:04)
Phone is Buzzing: 1x (04:19)
Unstuck: 1x (36:39)
What Does This Mean?: 1x (15:52)
Have a Think: 1x (43:57)
Pencil Mark/mark: 1x (33:55)
Cake!: 1x (02:49)
Symmetry: 1x (09:55)
Most popular number(>9), digit and colour this video:
Thirty (2 mentions)
One (121 mentions)
Blue (11 mentions)
Antithesis Battles:
Odd (81) - Even (69)
Black (4) - White (2)
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!
Missing: "Oh no, I've broken the puzzle"
at 10:48 It's a good thing it wasn't 7 because otherwise you would have broken the puzzle by writing 6 instead
Really enjoyed this one! This has to be one of my favorites of all time, excellent job, Math Pesto!
19:27 for me. What a great puzzle, really enjoyed it!!
I must say, I enjoy the pencil puzzle variants, but really love the sudoku variants more. That said, I certainly do enjoy the logic - you are so wonderful at explaining what you're thinking, Simon, and you are always thorough!
It was very entertaining watching your excitement when you finally get what you've been missing.
35:22 I'm not normally very good at fillomino-type puzzles, but this one had a very smooth flow to it
Hopping in late today!! Good morning from New Zealand! Let's get cracking ;)
Oh that is one of those time I flew through the puzzle, cleared it in 27m10s, while bothering with a quite heavy notation as well. Very smooth and linear solve.
that was a rollercoaster of emotions at 45:40
Really chuffed to finish that in 55 minutes. These kind of puzzles are my Achilles' heel.
Very nice puzzle. 23:03 for me. It could have been quicker, but I find switching modes when the pen tool is active is very awkward. The number of times I put a circle in a square I was trying to select was ridiculous. There are redundant modifier key combinations that could be used to momentarily select the pen tool, without having to switch to the tool and remember to switch out. I like to stay in big digit mode, and use ctrl to enter centre marks, shift to enter corner marks, and shift+ctrl for colours. If alt were to activate the pen tool, I'd be much more efficient.
@ 36:19 "That's 4 or 6" - Why do you make things hard for yourself? It's a 7 cell line, and you've already got 3 in the odd end. It's got to be 4. Since it can't go up two cells, the circle to the left is also 4, which means the circle to the left of that is 3. The first 4 means the rest of the cells on the line must be odd, which pens in the 4 region, and makes the cells above and to the right 4. Note that, if you had followed up when you placed the 3 in the circle, you wouldn't have even had to think about whether the other end was 4 or 6. This lack of follow-up is behind so many of your problems. It only takes a second to make sure you extract all of the benefit of each placement. Instead, you'd rather zoom off to somewhere unrelated.
@ 40:39 - What on earth are you thinking? It's a 23 line, that means 2 evens and 3 odds. It doesn't matter which end's which, you've already got 2 evens, so the rest must be odd. Now you don't have to think about which end's which, because there's only one possibility - the lower bulb can't be 2, so it must be 3. The cell to the left of the 2 can't be 3, but it can't be 5 or more because of the 1234 above it, so it must be 1. This forces the 2 to go up, making the line above it a 14, and the 1 we just placed means the lower bulb is 4.
@ 46:59 - "I can still force this logic to be beautiful" - Why are you forcing it? Just pencil-mark the 6s. This hits the lower circle of the top line, which can't be higher than 6. It means the 6+ region must be of size 6, and its last cell will touch the 16 you're playing with. There's no need to force anything. That 1 is the only odd on the line. You're left with 6 blues that can't be a single region, but must be 2 and 4, and there's only one way to arrange it.
This is the second puzzle I've ever solved without needing to get any hints whatsoever from the video, so I'm pleased with that!
I made a stupid mistake halfway through - I thought I had 8 8s but I only had 7 8s in my region! When I realised I clicked undo all the way back to see if missing that affected any other logic. Luckily it had no impact on anything I had done since, so I could click redo all the way back to where I was and just add the 8th 8 on the end hahaha.
I finished in 219 minutes. I think the title of this video is apt, because this was one of my worst showings that I have ever performed. Nothing was clicking with me and I kept failing so hard. It wasn't until 90 minutes, that I reread the rules and saw that each end of the line had to have one even and one odd. I really messed that up and thought double evens or odds were possible. That would have stream-lined the break-in so much. Of course, I was halfway through the puzzle when I saw that and thus a ticking time bomb of my second mistake was happening. It took me an additional 90 minutes before I saw that I forgot to correct everything I did up to that point I reread the rules. After realizing that, I was able to easily place 1 into r4c7. After that, the puzzle became much more enjoyable. What a cavalcade of errors, though. I feel like I have to apologize to the puzzle for what I have done to it. Sorry puzzle, you deserve better than what I just did to you. The puzzle had cool ideas and I did enjoy it once all rules were understood. Great Puzzle!
Brilliant puzzle! Had a blast solving it.
I was yelling at Simon to sum the circles to the length of the line, then noticed that where I had got stuck was by summing the circles to the wrong value on that line...
I do that kind of thing all the time - correct logic, wrong result. So I get shouty then have a mea culpa moment.
"Not seeing the forest for the trees" comes to mind.
'Member that saying, Simon?
You haven't used it in a while.
Nice one
I finally got this one solved. It took me 97 mins, because I got very stuck thinking I had broken the puzzle so I backtracked a bunch only to repeatedly prove myself right several times over. Turns out I made one poor deduction about where a certain 6 region had to go, so I never filled in anything wrong, I had just convinced myself that what I I had didn’t work.
It’s ok though. This was my first non Sudoku that I attempted, so I learned a lot from finishing it.
Appropriately named puzzle, as I found trying to do this puzzle was like pulling teeth. 😂😂😂
00:53:39 for me. I really liked this one.
A very pretty puzzle.
27:52 here. The final corner took me a good minute, but the rest of the puzzle flowed quite smoothly.
I noticed the sudoku classic app was updated. It has smart hint now!! That's a very welcome addition. Sometimes I'm at the end of the puzzle and I'm missing 1 piece of logit, so I have to go to the hints. But I might have to go through a lot of them to see what I missed. Then again sometimes smart hint is 10 hints to tell me that i just need to ask where 3 goes in column 5. lol
It would be nice if you could either update killer, sandwich, and miracle or merge them into the CTC app. They don't work properly on my tablet. The candidate window for killer and sandwich puzzles overlaps the grid in the old apps. In the CTC app it's fine.
I enjoyed this one. I missed the logic of why the 8 region in the lower right couldn't grow to the right and hook around the orange on the bottom row, but other than that, very nice
39:25 - My words exactly!
Fascinating watching these solves, puzzle is well beyond my capabilities sadly.
Yay! He said "losing it's religion." again. "Proving it's position" was fun, but I'm too attached to the classic. :)
37:16 on my 2nd attempt, 69:53 on my first, 107:09 total. On my first attempt, I made an awful mistake at the very beginning, putting a 1 in r2c7. It flowed well for like 25 minutes after that, I struggled for another 40 minutes, looked at the solution to see my mistake. My second attempt went much better after all my experience with this puzzle, but I also made a mistake in the lower left, miscounting the number of odd/even cells in the the line and making r8c1 an even and wasting like 10 minutes. Remembering that the regions didn't have to be completely on a single line was throwing me for some reason.
When I did this, I had r9c10 as 3, and r10c9 as 2 (with everything else being as you had it). This clearly wasn't the intended solution, but is there any actual reason for this to be wrong, or does this puzzle just have two solutions?
EDIT: First off, I originally screwed up the coordinates in this comment, fixed now.
Second, there totally is a reason that I missed: the arrow in r7c6
I think this is the very first time I finished a puzzle on my own faster than Simon. Proud day
Of course the first person to mix maths and pesto was Euler, with his famous solution to the Basil problem.
I battled with this puzzle for 4 hours yesterday & ended up with a single empty even cell 🤬
Started from scratch today and got it done in 56:16 😣
Thankfully r10c1 was correct in both instances 🎉
It took me 8 minutes of confusion to realise this wasn't a sudoku, and that the rules are, in fact, not broken :D
stop thinking while your trying to think. lol
In the lower right corner I put the 2-polyominoe horizontally. Which rule forces it to be vertical?
The 2 regions of size 3 can't touch each other.
@@listey What this person is describing doesn't require the two 3 regions to touch
I think it's the arrow in r7c6 pointing into that corner. Because the arrow has a 2 which means there has to be an odd digit along that diagonal
Thanks, I was arrow blind.😵💫
I will try this one. And I solved it :), 70:48
This was so much fun.
This was frustrating for me because in 2 separate instances I didn't think about using more than one or two polyominoes. The lower right corner I knew needed a 5 cell region and a 1 cell region, and I just didn't think to break the 5 into a 3 and a 2. Then at the very end the I got the final 6 cell region touching the forced 6 cell region but it didn't occur to me to break it into a 4 and a 2!
That's why I always have the video open in another tab when solving these. Just in case I get suck and can use some of Simon's logic.
Is there anything in the rules that prohibit using a zero for an even circle?
Yes. You cant make a zero region and also put a 0 in it.
Or, put another way, the cell has to be part of a region of non-zero size.
I thought I solved it, but I have an other outcome then Simon. So looking closely I see I miscounted the number of odd/even numbers on one line.
Damn.
34:23 for me. It was quiet tricky with the colouring though. Either it was messy or had too little information if I only used orange/blue. But got there in the end. :)
There were three sets of rules in this puzzle, and as soon as you applied one of them it seemed like a different one fell out of your brain
This is the puzzle that would be 2 stars out of 5 difficulty if you could count properly, otherwise 4 stars. Well, I'm the latter one...
How long till we make sense of 8 or 6?
I never realized 2+6=9.
Or that 6 is apparently odd.
Hello, can anyone tell me a website or smth similar where i can search for puzzles like these, coz if i just type sudoku + (literally anything), the results are always the same and they're in my local language which makes it even more frustrating
Have you tried searching for Logic Masters Germany (or Logic Masters Deutschland)?
A lot of these puzzles are posted there first. There's an advanced search page way you can filter by type, such as polyomino.
(I'd link to it, but I think TH-cam would delete my comment.)
23:44 for me. I had to restart because i thought the circles in the lines included themselves.
38:24 for me. Brilliant puzzle!
Gotta keep that naughty brain in line, sometimes!
How can I solve a puzzle if I need to keep saying
"monomino"
?
How tf do I find Karin's artwork? Simon's given us literally buggerall to go for.
B-E-A-utiful!
I found it hard to count along the twisty lines! In fact I worked out the last cell on one of the lines had to be even when in fact it was odd so got to an impasse and had to backtrack. Naughty brain.
I can't believe I got stuck on the two 6 regions and the end.
Took me way too long to see the lack of “normal sudoku rules apply”. I could not figure out the content of polyomino cells 🤣 D’oh! Not a sudoku!
41:54 for me with a few backtracks.
Is Simon really complaining about having to just work for a single hour a day?
Super interested in your "delineate" copyright story, what happened?
i just could not translate the rules to human.
Simon at 36 min - trying to prove that 3 + 6 = 7 😆
Haircut looks handsome
this is a kind comment
30:15 but it boggled with my head alot, had to check what went wrong 2 times
It's basically fillomino
39:36 for me! Fun fun.