The biggest factor in quantifying Simon's genius . . . The fact he did all the calculations without an external pen and paper. It is astonishing seeing his mind work. Simon, you are an entertaining and glorious human. Thank you for sharing your brilliance with us all. Happy New Year!
How does someone even come up with a rule set like this? Amazing! And how to even go about solving it? I do believe Simon is a genius! Never knew there were programs devoted to darts. Or that there was a witty commentator named Sid Waddell - but I have a long time acquaintance with Mr. Google and I can now contribute a quote “it’s like trying to pin down a kangaroo on a trampoline “. - this channel has increased my knowledge of much more than sudoku… 😁
This puzzle was solved few weeks and I was totally astonished by the ruleset! I am glad that this is the final puzzle featured in 2023! Happy New Year everyone!
Favourite Waddell quote has to be "The atmosphere is so tense, if Elvis walked in with a portion of chips, you could hear the vinegar sizzle on them." As a commentator brilliant to listen to
Thank you for the birthday wishes, Simon. All you need to know about me is that you and Mark bring a lot of joy to my life. Although, if either of you are ever in fabulous Las Vegas, I will happily ply you with drinks and tell you some wicked stories. Cheers! Coyote
what a masterpiece! lovely end to the year, seeing the circle rule used in this very cool way. Simon did a spectacular job here... juggling so much in his mind and keeping track of which digits were being used in which circles. Loved the fact that the final disambiguation needed the counting logic - I was hoping that would be the case. Very satisfying! Absolutely stunning debut. Happy new year everyone :D
I've just come home from a new years eve party. I should go to sleep, but I watch CTC every night in bed, so I'm watching it at 3:38 AM on the 1st of January. Happy New Year to Simon, Mark and the whole CTC family!
Looks like I will be starting this in 2023 and finishing it in 2024. Happy new year everyone. 🎉🍾 EDIT. It’s jan 1st at 12.33am and I am still watching Simon. Awesome puzzle and construction Sparknights.
Completed this in 4 hours over two days, the first 2 hours at home, then the second at a restaurant next day. Brutal! How does one come up with such puzzles? I love the innovation this channel brings, and the lengths setters go to. Well done Sparknights! And well done Simon on a brilliant solve.
With ref. to Sid Waddell: "It's like trying to pin down a kangaroo on a trampoline." Which is totally relatable to Simons mind when solving a beast such as this!
Simon is amazing... Because of the software limitations, throughout this solve he was retaining in his head all the possible cage totals, which cages had which total, what the possible circle numbers are, as well as a bunch of deductions he made an hour earlier. I would have struggled to keep any one of those things in my mind while focused on actually solving the puzzle.
I don't know Sid Waddell, around here the sports commentator of note was Dave Niehaus, commentating for the Seattle Mariners baseball team. His perhaps most famous quote is "Get out the rye bread and the mustard this time, grandma, it is a grand salami!" when Edgar Martinez hit a grand slam home run to break a 6-6 tie.
I finished in 125:12 minutes. This was such a brilliant puzzle that expertly used the circles rules in a creative way. The break-in felt quite difficult, but really rewarding to figure out. I think my favorite part was seeing that r2c4&5&6 couldn't be a singles value due to the impact on the two celled cage in box 3. Therefore, it had to be a 1x value using up the 1. From there, things got simpler as I counted the circles and forced a 123479 to be used up in all the circles. The ending was quite fun balancing the 7's and 9's. This has to be one of my favorite puzzles. Absolutely brilliant. Great Puzzle!
Took me 1:21 so just watched the start and end of the video. After a year of watching Simon often ignore sudoku and concentrate on the rules and logic, he brilliantly finishes the year by ignoring the rules and logic for once! I used the 1st and if required, the 2nd cells of the cages to colour them with a specific colour to match each number used in the total so I was always aware of what options for cage totals were left. I think Simon colouring the roping etc didn't help. Either way a brilliant puzzle and dog love Simon. Happy new year all.
Yeah, Simon’s coloring was all over the place and I also considered it as a distraction rather than helpful clue. Only at the beginning where he thought about whether roping would affect anything it was helpful, but later he should definitely switch to coloring “killer clues” to keep track of usage of digits.
Thats a nope from me🤣! I watched the whole thing and I'm still flabbergasted by Simon's ability to keep track of all the stuff going on! Absolutely brilliant set up and solve!
Watched this in its entirety and both the setting and the solving are brilliant! And it’s still New Year’s Eve. Wishing all of the CTC a happy, healthy, and prosperous 2024🎉🎉
I initially misinterpreted the final rule. Because the immediately preceding sentences were referring to digits in the little killer circles, I thought the final rule meant that cages of the same size needed to have a different combination of digits inside the little white circles. Once I concluded that this made a solution impossible, I realized my initial interpretation was wrong. In this case, perhaps phrasing the final rule to say something like "... digits in the cells of the cage" would be better.
Because of that misinterpretation i was trying to conclude that there were a maximum of 9 single digit totals, which, after thinking about it, is bizzare when it only applies for same sized cages. So i made a total mess of the rule
Absolutely splendid puzzle and splendidly solved, thank you for showing your logic so well Simon, it is a joy to get better at this kind of thinking through watching you puzzle!
What a magnificent and fascinating puzzle, and what a way to start the year. The bar has been set very high! I had to take notes for this one, but I'm guessing Simon did everything in his head.
I feel like it would have been ever so slightly more fun if it didn't have the rule specified that you cannot have a cage total of a multiple of 10, and that you had to logic this out for yourself, because if there was a zero, then there would need to be zero zeros in circles 🙂
Watched all the way to the end. Have to say, as difficult as the logic, you absolutely have to love the finish. Most creative finish I have seen in a long time! And, of course, it is not too difficult for our dear Simon! The only deduction I was ahead of you on was the 1 in R1C4.
Happy New Year! By the time midnight hits, I’ll be halfway through watching this video. Glad to be “stuck at home watching an incredibly long Cracking the Cryptic video”!
Finished in 83:25. What an absolutely amazing puzzle! Not completely straightforward in its solve, but the clues came together in a way to make it wonderously amazing in solving it. Absolutely amazing setting!
Wow, the last day of 2023 and perhaps the most Epic solve of the year. Thank you for sharing your genius Simon, and a huge thank you to all the setters for sharing theirs over the past year! Oh, and of course we were still watching!
Long good puzzle! Thanks for it! Happy New Year for you and your family! This year we have awesome puzzles, so I hope we can have even more great puzzles next year. Eveything good for you Simon! Thanks for the 2023 year!! 🤗
This was a really interesting one. My path on the break-in (skipping all the dead ends I ran into) roughly went like this: - Deduce the 25 or 26 sum similar to how Simon did - Suppose toward contradiction the circles sum to 25. --- Notice that the only way there isn't a 2-digit 3-cell sum is if 8 and 9 are both included (unique cage compositions of 125 134 126 135 234), making 17. Then the possible sets summing to 25 are 12589, or 13489. --- 12589 only allows for three double-digit numbers. --- 13489 breaks the two 4-cell cages since we need two sums 11-29 --- Ergo the sum is not 25, and as a corollary, we can see we will not include both 8 and 9 in our set, so there is going to be a double-digit 3 cell sum. - Therefore there is a 2-digit 3-cell sum, and we can lock in 26 with 7 tens digits. - 1+2+3 isn't enough to give seven tens digits. - Ergo, there is a circled 4. - The one 3-cell cage we know must have the extra double-digit sum (11-23) and both of the 4-cell cages (11-29) have either 1 or 2 in their tens digit, require and use up the full set of {1,2,2} available. - Ergo, there is a circled 1 and a circled 2. - The 6-cell cage has value between 22-39, and doesn't have a 2 in its sum. - Ergo there is a circled 3. - 1+2+3+4 = 10, and we are going to 26, so we need 7+9. I got there by a wildly more convoluted path. The fact that 4X sums used a second small digit was actually the last thing I finally clued in on and chopped up a bunch of dead-end threads I'd been chasing down.
At 39:00 i came up with the solution similarly. Realized 89 didn't work and 67-8/9 was too much so the only solution i could come up with was 44, 43 8-cell cage/3X 6-cell/2X and 1X for 3 and 4-cell cages. Didn't think about what it would leave us with so didn't realize about 7, 9, but still very cool how restricted it really is (Edit: it should be noted that most of those "deductions" were pure assumptions, thought y'all should know)
Brilliant puzzle! When we have 1x,2x,2y,3x,3y,3z,41,42,43,44, we can reduce the possibilities to 7 because we can only get one from 1x,41, get two from 2x,2y,42, get three from 3x,3y,3z,43, and last one 44
change the last sentence to "and a secret that i only tell to my favourite people, and if you're reading this much of the comment you're definitely one of them. And the secret is that i wish you a happy new year!" :D
I am starring at the grid for 2 hours, my brain is almost melted, and I keep repeating words like "This cannot be solvable. 🤔😮 I am clearly missing something badly. But that is the beauty of these types of sudoku...😏
It took me way longer than Simon, and I needed to watch Simon's solve for a hint that 6 could be ruled out of the top-right cell - I needed to see him saying he thought he could disprove it and for him to mention the grey cells - but I got most of it, including the composition of the totals being 123479, and the 44 cage in the bottom left. I have to hold my hand up and say I thought it was unwarranted to colour the roping in c1-3. I thought it would just hamper using colours to denote the 10s digit options of the various cages. However, I now realise I completely forgot there was roping in those columns half way through my solve, which made some later deductions much harder than they needed to be. Maybe colouring the ropes wasn't such a bad idea after all! Amazing puzzle.
2 hours? Just the highlights. Too much partying to have. Love the 30-45 minute solves I can do. 2 hours? You are a genius. Looking forward to a great CTC 2024!!!
@1:27 If you start with the 3-cell in box 2: It can't be seven (must include a 1) and can't be nine (234 already used), so must be the double digit total. Then go to box 1 cell which must be 126. Same result, but a little easier, I think.
A previous video had comments arguing that the word "different" in the rules could somehow mean "the same", so it seems erring on the side of caution on these is the way to go 😅 (but that is interesting and I didn't even think about that!)
What do you mean with your comment after the solve "no one is going to watch it on New Year's eve?". What better way to end a year than watching you solve an incredible puzzle. Happy New Year to you and Mark (beautiful four solutions from Mark today).
Well, it took me a bunch of time, and I actually needed a sreenshot of the puzzle opened in image editor to keep track of what numbers are in which circles, but I actually managed to solve it! Wow.
What a spectacular GAS puzzle 😂😂😂😂. That was amazing. It's still early here in the east coast Soni stuck thru it. I was wondering when you would have to count the number of 7s and 9s!! Loved it.
I honestly couldn't understand what Simon was analyzing for that whole segment where he's talking about possibilities in the 3-cell cages. I usually follow Simon's logic very easily, but I couldn't even figure out what he was figuring out. I had to go back and work on it myself (I had paused my game to get help finding the break-in) on my white board to understand. And he just did it in his head.
The biggest factor in quantifying Simon's genius . . . The fact he did all the calculations without an external pen and paper. It is astonishing seeing his mind work. Simon, you are an entertaining and glorious human. Thank you for sharing your brilliance with us all. Happy New Year!
I was thinking the same thing about one of Mark's puzzles this week.
Although it would be handy for puzzles this complex if he could help simple minded mortals like myself by keeping track of his thoughts in a notepad!
Simon can tell you about a digit in a puzzle 4 years ago and yet will not remember logic he did 2 minutes prior lol.
How does someone even come up with a rule set like this? Amazing! And how to even go about solving it? I do believe Simon is a genius! Never knew there were programs devoted to darts. Or that there was a witty commentator named Sid Waddell - but I have a long time acquaintance with Mr. Google and I can now contribute a quote “it’s like trying to pin down a kangaroo on a trampoline “. - this channel has increased my knowledge of much more than sudoku… 😁
This puzzle was solved few weeks and I was totally astonished by the ruleset! I am glad that this is the final puzzle featured in 2023! Happy New Year everyone!
I love these ones that I can understand the rules but cannot fathom how to possibly solve. It’s truly incredible to watch you figure it out.
Favourite Waddell quote has to be "The atmosphere is so tense, if Elvis walked in with a portion of chips, you could hear the vinegar sizzle on them." As a commentator brilliant to listen to
Thank you for the birthday wishes, Simon. All you need to know about me is that you and Mark bring a lot of joy to my life. Although, if either of you are ever in fabulous Las Vegas, I will happily ply you with drinks and tell you some wicked stories.
Cheers!
Coyote
what a masterpiece! lovely end to the year, seeing the circle rule used in this very cool way. Simon did a spectacular job here... juggling so much in his mind and keeping track of which digits were being used in which circles. Loved the fact that the final disambiguation needed the counting logic - I was hoping that would be the case. Very satisfying! Absolutely stunning debut. Happy new year everyone :D
the best part is I can choose not to count bc uniqueness does the same thing
I've just come home from a new years eve party. I should go to sleep, but I watch CTC every night in bed, so I'm watching it at 3:38 AM on the 1st of January. Happy New Year to Simon, Mark and the whole CTC family!
The atmosphere is so tense, if Elvis walked in, with a portion of chips... you could hear the vinegar sizzle on them. RIP Sid.
The legendary Sid talking about Keith Deller, "talk about an underdog, this lad's an underpuppy"
Looks like I will be starting this in 2023 and finishing it in 2024. Happy new year everyone. 🎉🍾
EDIT. It’s jan 1st at 12.33am and I am still watching Simon. Awesome puzzle and construction Sparknights.
Completed this in 4 hours over two days, the first 2 hours at home, then the second at a restaurant next day. Brutal! How does one come up with such puzzles? I love the innovation this channel brings, and the lengths setters go to.
Well done Sparknights! And well done Simon on a brilliant solve.
With ref. to Sid Waddell:
"It's like trying to pin down a kangaroo on a trampoline."
Which is totally relatable to Simons mind when solving a beast such as this!
I’ve had a really really rough couple of months and your videos have helped me through them. Thank you for posting content and being such a gem :) ✨
Great way to watch 2023 to go out! Enjoyed the livestream last night! Happy 2024 everyone!!!
Happy new year my friend!! Thankful and grateful for you as always. Wishing you a joyous, healthy 2024! Be safe tonight if going out!
@@davidrattner9happy new year, David! Thankful and grateful for you as well! ❤
Oooh an epic length one! :D Happy New Year, all!
Simon is amazing... Because of the software limitations, throughout this solve he was retaining in his head all the possible cage totals, which cages had which total, what the possible circle numbers are, as well as a bunch of deductions he made an hour earlier. I would have struggled to keep any one of those things in my mind while focused on actually solving the puzzle.
No longer watching?? Of COURSE we are still watching Simon!! :)
I don't know Sid Waddell, around here the sports commentator of note was Dave Niehaus, commentating for the Seattle Mariners baseball team. His perhaps most famous quote is "Get out the rye bread and the mustard this time, grandma, it is a grand salami!" when Edgar Martinez hit a grand slam home run to break a 6-6 tie.
Sid would say "There's only one word for that puzzle - sudoku miracle!"
Absolutely beautiful end. I was hoping it would make counting 7 and 9s required and it did *chefs kiss
I finished in 125:12 minutes. This was such a brilliant puzzle that expertly used the circles rules in a creative way. The break-in felt quite difficult, but really rewarding to figure out. I think my favorite part was seeing that r2c4&5&6 couldn't be a singles value due to the impact on the two celled cage in box 3. Therefore, it had to be a 1x value using up the 1. From there, things got simpler as I counted the circles and forced a 123479 to be used up in all the circles. The ending was quite fun balancing the 7's and 9's. This has to be one of my favorite puzzles. Absolutely brilliant. Great Puzzle!
Took me 1:21 so just watched the start and end of the video. After a year of watching Simon often ignore sudoku and concentrate on the rules and logic, he brilliantly finishes the year by ignoring the rules and logic for once! I used the 1st and if required, the 2nd cells of the cages to colour them with a specific colour to match each number used in the total so I was always aware of what options for cage totals were left. I think Simon colouring the roping etc didn't help. Either way a brilliant puzzle and dog love Simon.
Happy new year all.
Yeah, Simon’s coloring was all over the place and I also considered it as a distraction rather than helpful clue. Only at the beginning where he thought about whether roping would affect anything it was helpful, but later he should definitely switch to coloring “killer clues” to keep track of usage of digits.
Thats a nope from me🤣! I watched the whole thing and I'm still flabbergasted by Simon's ability to keep track of all the stuff going on! Absolutely brilliant set up and solve!
Happy New Year, everyone! It's always a pleasure to watch CTC as part of my daily routine, and today is no exception!
1:53:11 I'm still watching!!! I was fairly well lost most of the time, but I'm glad you had it all tracking in your head, lol. Great solve, Simon!
Watched this in its entirety and both the setting and the solving are brilliant! And it’s still New Year’s Eve.
Wishing all of the CTC a happy, healthy, and prosperous 2024🎉🎉
This broke my brain. I had to use a pen and a paper, I don't know how you solved it without. Loved the puzzle, it is indeed brilliant..
Thank you to everyone at CTC! Happy new year. Keep the long videos coming in 2024, guys. Love 'em.
That finger snap that Simon does 1:15:31 into the video was my favorite of the entire video.
66:56 for me. What a way to begin the year!! Incredibly tough puzzle, but I loved it!
I initially misinterpreted the final rule. Because the immediately preceding sentences were referring to digits in the little killer circles, I thought the final rule meant that cages of the same size needed to have a different combination of digits inside the little white circles. Once I concluded that this made a solution impossible, I realized my initial interpretation was wrong. In this case, perhaps phrasing the final rule to say something like "... digits in the cells of the cage" would be better.
Exactly the same here...🤔
Because of that misinterpretation i was trying to conclude that there were a maximum of 9 single digit totals, which, after thinking about it, is bizzare when it only applies for same sized cages. So i made a total mess of the rule
Poor wording of rules. Had to give up on it after 1 hour because it was not possible.
Wonderful way to end 2023!! Thank you Simon & Mark for fabulous year!! Happy , healthy new year 2024 to all!!
“The cognoscenti in the crowd are watching the glitterati on stage”…good old Sid.
Sid Waddell: If we'd had Phil Taylor at Hastings against the Normans, they'd have gone home
Absolutely loved this solve, even missed the New Year fireworks, started watching as soon as posted which was 10:30 in Bulgaria.
Absolutely splendid puzzle and splendidly solved, thank you for showing your logic so well Simon, it is a joy to get better at this kind of thinking through watching you puzzle!
What a magnificent and fascinating puzzle, and what a way to start the year. The bar has been set very high! I had to take notes for this one, but I'm guessing Simon did everything in his head.
Happy New Year Simon and CtC!! Looking forward to another great year! Let's get cracking!!
'Sudokuage' is Oxford Dictionary's word of the year for 2023.
I feel like it would have been ever so slightly more fun if it didn't have the rule specified that you cannot have a cage total of a multiple of 10, and that you had to logic this out for yourself, because if there was a zero, then there would need to be zero zeros in circles 🙂
Watched all the way to the end. Have to say, as difficult as the logic, you absolutely have to love the finish. Most creative finish I have seen in a long time! And, of course, it is not too difficult for our dear Simon! The only deduction I was ahead of you on was the 1 in R1C4.
Happy New Year! By the time midnight hits, I’ll be halfway through watching this video. Glad to be “stuck at home watching an incredibly long Cracking the Cryptic video”!
Me too. Just finished watching at 01:06😂🎉
So nice to watch these when I'm trying to fall asleep 😴 See u tonight
This was terrifying and marvellous altogether!
Finished in 83:25. What an absolutely amazing puzzle! Not completely straightforward in its solve, but the clues came together in a way to make it wonderously amazing in solving it.
Absolutely amazing setting!
Happy New Year to the Cracking the Cryptic team, may 2024 see 600K
Wow, took me an eternity but it's the most satisfying solve. The construction is genius.
Love the long vids! Keep doing long ones please :)
Wow, the last day of 2023 and perhaps the most Epic solve of the year. Thank you for sharing your genius Simon, and a huge thank you to all the setters for sharing theirs over the past year! Oh, and of course we were still watching!
Long good puzzle! Thanks for it!
Happy New Year for you and your family! This year we have awesome puzzles, so I hope we can have even more great puzzles next year. Eveything good for you Simon! Thanks for the 2023 year!! 🤗
That was a great watch! Thanks Simon & Sparknights. Glad it didn't stretch to 2025 :D
You are amazing! Happy New Year!
Sid Waddell quote, The greatest comeback since Lazarus!
This was a really interesting one. My path on the break-in (skipping all the dead ends I ran into) roughly went like this:
- Deduce the 25 or 26 sum similar to how Simon did
- Suppose toward contradiction the circles sum to 25.
--- Notice that the only way there isn't a 2-digit 3-cell sum is if 8 and 9 are both included (unique cage compositions of 125 134 126 135 234), making 17. Then the possible sets summing to 25 are 12589, or 13489.
--- 12589 only allows for three double-digit numbers.
--- 13489 breaks the two 4-cell cages since we need two sums 11-29
--- Ergo the sum is not 25, and as a corollary, we can see we will not include both 8 and 9 in our set, so there is going to be a double-digit 3 cell sum.
- Therefore there is a 2-digit 3-cell sum, and we can lock in 26 with 7 tens digits.
- 1+2+3 isn't enough to give seven tens digits.
- Ergo, there is a circled 4.
- The one 3-cell cage we know must have the extra double-digit sum (11-23) and both of the 4-cell cages (11-29) have either 1 or 2 in their tens digit, require and use up the full set of {1,2,2} available.
- Ergo, there is a circled 1 and a circled 2.
- The 6-cell cage has value between 22-39, and doesn't have a 2 in its sum.
- Ergo there is a circled 3.
- 1+2+3+4 = 10, and we are going to 26, so we need 7+9.
I got there by a wildly more convoluted path. The fact that 4X sums used a second small digit was actually the last thing I finally clued in on and chopped up a bunch of dead-end threads I'd been chasing down.
At 39:00 i came up with the solution similarly. Realized 89 didn't work and 67-8/9 was too much so the only solution i could come up with was 44, 43 8-cell cage/3X 6-cell/2X and 1X for 3 and 4-cell cages. Didn't think about what it would leave us with so didn't realize about 7, 9, but still very cool how restricted it really is
(Edit: it should be noted that most of those "deductions" were pure assumptions, thought y'all should know)
I'm very happy I was able to solve this one!!! It did take me 3 days, but I'm still happy about that lol!
Brilliant puzzle!
When we have 1x,2x,2y,3x,3y,3z,41,42,43,44, we can reduce the possibilities to 7 because we can only get one from 1x,41, get two from 2x,2y,42, get three from 3x,3y,3z,43, and last one 44
{Reusable rockets, AI, self driving cars}
::yawn::….
{This puzzle}
What a time to be alive!!
Watched all the way through, brilliant 👏🏻.
Hey now, I was still watching. I turned it to double speed about the point you said "it's been 49 minutes", but i still watched it!
Happy New Year to Simon, Mark and all of the CTC community
Finished watching just a few hours before the clock hits tomorrow 😊 Happy new year, to two of my favorite people!
change the last sentence to "and a secret that i only tell to my favourite people, and if you're reading this much of the comment you're definitely one of them. And the secret is that i wish you a happy new year!" :D
I am starring at the grid for 2 hours, my brain is almost melted, and I keep repeating words like "This cannot be solvable. 🤔😮 I am clearly missing something badly. But that is the beauty of these types of sudoku...😏
And now I know I have misunderstood the rules....😵
Happy new year! An absolutely brain scrambling break in for this puzzle!
Great way to end the year, finished in just under 2 hours. Happy New Year from Illinois
Happy new year simon! I unfortunately got sick right at the end of the year but it's given me time to work on my puzzles
It took me way longer than Simon, and I needed to watch Simon's solve for a hint that 6 could be ruled out of the top-right cell - I needed to see him saying he thought he could disprove it and for him to mention the grey cells - but I got most of it, including the composition of the totals being 123479, and the 44 cage in the bottom left.
I have to hold my hand up and say I thought it was unwarranted to colour the roping in c1-3. I thought it would just hamper using colours to denote the 10s digit options of the various cages. However, I now realise I completely forgot there was roping in those columns half way through my solve, which made some later deductions much harder than they needed to be. Maybe colouring the ropes wasn't such a bad idea after all!
Amazing puzzle.
That was an incredible solve. Thanks Simon. "He's burning the midnight oil at both ends!"
Happy Hogmanay, and a wonderful 2024. 🎉
Simon Anthony and the Mechanism of Madness.
This was such a great puzzle to watch the day after in the sofa and relax.
Happy new year to all of you🎉
Happy new year! Or at least I pray it will be. Also that this channel will continue to do lots for people's mental health.
The reaction at 1:52:54 is well deserved! What a brilliant puzzle and solve!
2 hours? Just the highlights. Too much partying to have. Love the 30-45 minute solves I can do. 2 hours? You are a genius.
Looking forward to a great CTC 2024!!!
@1:27 If you start with the 3-cell in box 2: It can't be seven (must include a 1) and can't be nine (234 already used), so must be the double digit total.
Then go to box 1 cell which must be 126.
Same result, but a little easier, I think.
Thanks for the long one Simon, great job!
The “cannot contain a multiple of 10” rule could have been derived from the “a digit in a circle indicates how many times” rule. :)
Amazing setting!
yeah i thought of that aswell, maybe it was put there to ease the solve, since it is already hard enough
There's never any harm in over-explaining, just to make things crystal clear. Better than the opposite. But your point is well taken.
A previous video had comments arguing that the word "different" in the rules could somehow mean "the same", so it seems erring on the side of caution on these is the way to go 😅 (but that is interesting and I didn't even think about that!)
@@LorisLaboratory Can you tell me which video that was?
@jonkess2768
m.th-cam.com/video/NaZB1ii3YCA/w-d-xo.html
Favourite Sid Waddell quote "He looks about as happy as a penguin in a microwave."
2023 was the Year of Sudoku after this brilliant puzzle! 2 hrs 13 min!
Sheer brilliance. Perfect for holidays. Nearly five hours for me.
Happy new year to all ctc fan around the world 💥🎉
Honestly can't believe I managed this one. 2hrs 10m, and a lot of just sitting and writing out numbers for the first hour. A really good puzzle, this.
Happy New Year!!! This was an epic solve of a brilliant puzzle. Thank you!!
What do you mean with your comment after the solve "no one is going to watch it on New Year's eve?". What better way to end a year than watching you solve an incredible puzzle. Happy New Year to you and Mark (beautiful four solutions from Mark today).
Happy New Year, Simon! Thank you for this amazing solve
Well, it took me a bunch of time, and I actually needed a sreenshot of the puzzle opened in image editor to keep track of what numbers are in which circles, but I actually managed to solve it! Wow.
Thanks for bridging the time between ten PM and midnight on new years eve ❤
"Dang that sudoku video by Cracking The Cryptic was bloody marvellous"
-Sid Waddell probably, if he watched the video
33:54 - Simon confesses to running a Ponzi Scheme...! "I'm robbing Peter, to pay Paul."
what a puzzle. took me ages. fantastic.
What a spectacular GAS puzzle 😂😂😂😂. That was amazing. It's still early here in the east coast Soni stuck thru it. I was wondering when you would have to count the number of 7s and 9s!! Loved it.
I honestly couldn't understand what Simon was analyzing for that whole segment where he's talking about possibilities in the 3-cell cages. I usually follow Simon's logic very easily, but I couldn't even figure out what he was figuring out. I had to go back and work on it myself (I had paused my game to get help finding the break-in) on my white board to understand. And he just did it in his head.
There's only one word for that "Magic Darts"
Happy New Year to you all
The greatest comeback since Lazarus!
An easier way to see that the row 2 3-cell cage must be 2-digit is to observe that it cannot have 1, and 234 would make dark green unfillable.
Happy new year!
happy new year everyone!
Just astounding.
amazing puzzle, amazing logic and another amazing solves