This was a lovely puzzle to solve completely logically, but the temptation to fill it in from early in the solve was also very great ... the cleanness of the solve did make it a true miracle.
24:51 apart from not realizing or using the numerical order of the entire grid, Simon bases his hypothesis on the one square which is first ruled out for 7 by the invisible black given digit 😂 I love when Simon misses something obvious (especially when it is something that I have spotted 😊). It reminds me that even he has the brain of a human being, and I get to pretend I could be a little better at sudoku myself if I devoted more time to practicing…
At 18:30, after all 8s and 9s had been placed, I recognised the pattern that 9 and 8 were always next to each other in this exact constellation. So I tried something myself and filled the rows with 9, 8, 7, 6, 5 etc. in this order. And it worked! Also two 3s in the corner! Brilliant puzzle 💯❤ Now watching the rest of the video and finding out Simon's solution!
Given all the 9s, it's easy to see that this pattern is a solution. In a tournament, you should fill it in and move on. However, Simon is generally eager to prove that there is no other solution, that's why he uses the straightforward logical approach.
@@mmomox This can be done without making any assumptions once all the 9s and 8s are in. It's proof by induction. 8 and 9 are in exactly the same constellation, shifted one to the right. The relationship between N and N-1 is exactly the same as between N-1 and N-2. If shifting to the right worked once to avoid putting 8 and 9 at diagonals to each other, it'll work again and again. (You do need be careful to ensure that the offset from row to row is exactly a multiple of 3 within row sets 123, 456, 789; otherwise 7 might break, or lateral wrapping might not work.) The only downside is that the proof (as I see it) only proves that it is definitely *a* viable solution, and this channel usually likes to prove that any given solution is *the* solution.
I finished in 30:32 minutes. This was an incredibly enjoyable sudoku. I like the twist on the miracle sudoku by literally "twisting" the rules to be on the diagonals instead of the orthogonal cells. After getting all the 8's, I started coloring everywhere the 9's couldn't be. This made things so much easier to see and I started ruling out cells fast. This method felt the best as once I got all the 9's, I repeated this strategy with the 7's and so on. That made quick work of it. I really enjoyed this one. It was an homage to the past, while keeping things interesting. As always, it feels good to beat Simon's time. Great Puzzle!
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And that's a 5 and that's a 5 and that's a 5 and that's a 5 and nori nori nori 😂 also loved the double singing after this long strand of nearly no 3s in the corners
Very grateful that I decided to follow the logic instead of following the numerical pattern. The way I finally solved it was so satisfying! I got down to the final 3 digits, and I actually didn't spot the break in for the 3s! Instead, I sorted it out with colors, and was able to place a color for the last 3 digits in the roping pattern by using sudoku. I then eliminated 3 from the middle digit in the empty part of the pattern, and from there, 1 as well, since 2 and 3 in the other digits would break the puzzle. With 2s now placed in the middle digits, I was able to find a 4 that eliminated 3s from the rightmost empty digit in the pattern, and solved the puzzle!
This is a REALLY well named puzzle. I didn't see the solution until I got 7s in place... but a particularly smart solver could spot the solution by induction as soon as the 9s and 8s were all in. Bravo !!!
My time 29:54. I haven't watched the video yet, and I am really looking forward to it! Edit: That was as fun to watch as it was to do. I noticed the roping while doing sixes. I was looking for sevens to mark off the diagonals when I realized it.
12:54. What a fun puzzle. I couldn’t believe even the 8s and 9s could solve by themselves but once I got that I saw what was going on and filled the rest in.
Simon had to have known! No acknowledgment at the end of the video with the pattern. I think Simon knew we need some fun in the world and took the ‘fall’ for us. ❤ great puzzle!
Great puzzle. Repetitive logic, but somehow very satisfying. I managed to solve it! AND much quicker than Simon! I don't think that's ever happened to me before... 😳
Absolutely gutted that Simon didn't click these repeating loops throughout the entire puzzle. First time i saw something just a few minutes in. Great puzzle and solve!
Trick for me was realising after the 6s went in that the same logic was going to force all the other numbers into order, so I solved the rest of the puzzle instantly. Might be the first time I took half as long as Simon. Great puzzle!
Got the 8s and 9s relatively fast, then flailed some with the 7s and 6s; I should have colored like Simon did instead of corner marking, might have seen some things sooner. Finished in 34:37 (conflict checker off), many thanks to James for the great puzzle!
After all the 8's and 9's were finished, I made a prediction about how the rest of the puzzle would unfold based on the pattern I noticed and was pleased to find that intuition was correct.
Took 90 or so minutes, but I used the fact that 147, 258, and 369 to figure out the 1 and 2. Still very fun puzzle. I smiles when there were two 3 in the corners. I noticed similar numbers in the rows and columns fairly quickly after the sixes were finished, but did not know who to used them.
Did it in 34:04, I'm curious to see how Simon did it because I felt like I used bruteforce for finding the 7's, as in looking at a possible cell for a 7 and calculating where the chain would break the puzzle or not, which didn't take long but maybe there's a more elegant way to solve it.
Rules: 06:03 Let's Get Cracking: 07:20 Simon's time: 32m15s Puzzle Solved: 39:35 What about this video's Top Tier Simarkisms?! Three In the Corner: 3x (38:49, 38:58, 39:01) Phistomefel: 1x (02:01) And how about this video's Simarkisms?! Pencil Mark/mark: 9x (08:57, 09:05, 16:14, 16:34, 27:52, 32:13, 35:44, 36:22) Ah: 7x (10:25, 11:40, 20:30, 22:05, 23:06, 25:23, 26:01) Sorry: 5x (07:49, 13:53, 21:51, 31:00, 31:15) In Fact: 5x (01:23, 13:23, 18:00, 24:32, 31:29) Beautiful: 4x (26:05, 26:08, 26:11, 29:02) Obviously: 4x (10:20, 15:15, 17:52, 26:25) Cake!: 4x (03:59, 04:22, 05:45, 05:48) Clever: 3x (22:28, 22:31, 33:18) Naughty: 3x (23:43, 24:04, 36:17) Brilliant: 3x (14:04, 39:34, 39:44) By Sudoku: 3x (08:13, 10:37, 15:17) In the Spotlight: 2x (38:53, 38:59) I Have no Clue: 2x (23:47) Incredible: 2x (02:17, 39:39) Hang On: 2x (20:19, 22:02) Surely: 2x (21:31, 30:10) Weird: 2x (18:29, 29:59) Useless: 1x (30:20) What a Puzzle: 1x (39:30) The Answer is: 1x (26:19) Nonsense: 1x (09:03) Off to the Races: 1x (08:07) Lovely: 1x (35:37) Deadly Pattern: 1x (16:59) Approachable: 1x (01:12) Whoopsie: 1x (27:55) Intriguing: 1x (24:01) Wow: 1x (22:28) Fabulous: 1x (16:28) What Does This Mean?: 1x (28:10) Unique: 1x (01:00) Most popular number(>9), digit and colour this video: Sixty, Eighty Nine (2 mentions) Seven (73 mentions) Orange (5 mentions) Antithesis Battles: Row (19) - Column (12) 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!
41:19 for me. Great puzzle, very reminiscent of the original! I actually missed a diagonal 4 when setting my 3s, so had to color/disambiguate 1s, 2s, and 3s together.
I got my 9-6s resolved before I noticed there seemed to be a promising pattern. Filled in the sequence straight up and it indeed was the correct solution. It only took 20 minutes because of that.
I remembered the one a few years ago, so 8 and 9 in, the rest followed with a little check for the 7. All in a few minutes. Enjoyed Simon though! (But, this is too easy when the pattern is known.)
I'm a pattern spotter, not nearly as numerically inclined and sudoku logic intelligent as Simon... But as soon as he solved all the 9's and 8's, I hypothesized the whole grid would follow that backwards pattern of 9-1 following all the 98's... Hilarious on the creator sneakily naming his puzzle backwards of the solution
The general idea is that you don't just find a solution, you need to prove it unique. You could quite quickly have a go with the pattern and confirm it is _a_ solution to the rules, but you wouldn't have shown it is _the only_ solution.
I am so sorry Simon, i actually tell my frienda about the channel in the way, you told us not to. But that is only because they're all nerds or into sudoku or both. I didn't ever call it boring. but i do tell them, i often watch your videos to go to sleep, but that is only because i kind of get hypnotized by Simons soothing voice and it is basicly everything that can put me to sleep nowadays. So many apologies for this.😢
For the second time I noticed something quite lovely, Simon seem to say 'appreciate' in a way I've never seen it said before by anyone. Not a native speaker myself, so I learned to pronounce the standard 'sh' for the 'c'.Not sure if it's idiosyncratic or an dialectal. But I do find it amusing. hahahah
Finished in 27:51, failing to notice any numerical pattern beyond the roping in the first three rows/boxes, and using the tedious method of eliminating pencil marks to solve the puzzle. Still had fun, though!
Does anyone know why this ruleset forces this puzzle's pattern? I would love to see the mathematical explanation for it. Also, is there any other possible starting position with only 2 given digits that would result in a unique solution? Excluding mirroring, rotations and replacing the initial 89 with 12, of course.
46:21, time should have been shorter but I got really stuck on the 7s, went on to the 6s with no progress, looked at the video, was confused how some of my pencil marks didn't work, then saw a knights move issue that figured out all of my digits quickly. Took me a long time to realize that two cells of the same digit couldn't touch diagonally because x-x=0
Just noticed the channel description still has Mark listed as a 12 time champion. As my mother used to say; I’m not angry, just disappointed… Or perhaps it doesn’t matter either way.
It's a beautiful thing to see and made me happy. But.... just too easy. It's not cheating to spot the decreasing pattern... Once you guess that it might be, it's easy to see that it IS a solution. Since 7 bears the same relation to 8 as 8 bears to 9, you can see that it'll work. 6 minutes for me.
... I dunno if this video is some kind of belated April fools joke or if you need something to click to do the puzzle. It took me 1 minute and 18 seconds to complete this puzzle.
This is spooky stuff: I solved it independently, and after placing the 6s - saw the roping and guessed how it was going to end. Was wondering whether there was an elegant way to prove it without colouring for each digit, so turned to the video and found that I had used the same exact colours Simon has used - purple for the 7s and then orange for the 6s, and was about to do blue for 5s... I think I've been watching too much CTC. Time to turn off the computer...
am i the only one who used the knights move and diagonal constraint to figure out where each cell(digit) goes before placing the digits values into the cells.
I ended up with 3s and 1s in switched positions, and while it works, it's not the right result. Anyone else? Can someone try to help out a beginner and point to what kind of mistake can lead to that? This is so fun :-)
I whistled, waved and even did some somersaults trying to make Simon notice that all rows were in numerical order, but to no avail! :)
Love this comment!
I've noticed that pattern, too. I'm surprised that Simon didn't notice.
Whenever I do these miracle sudokus I do my best ignore the roping, as it’s too much fun to enjoy the logic.
@@MsNosis Once all the 9's and 8's where in and then the first 7 I was doing the same
And I bet the grid originally started out as 98765..., but was shifted to give Simon two 3s in the corner.
I saw the pattern pretty quickly but was determined to follow the logic to the end. Amazing ruleset, very fun puzzle.
This was a lovely puzzle to solve completely logically, but the temptation to fill it in from early in the solve was also very great ... the cleanness of the solve did make it a true miracle.
I mean, I was tempted to just color the grid... and fill in all the right digits from the beginning.
24:51 apart from not realizing or using the numerical order of the entire grid, Simon bases his hypothesis on the one square which is first ruled out for 7 by the invisible black given digit 😂
I love when Simon misses something obvious (especially when it is something that I have spotted 😊).
It reminds me that even he has the brain of a human being, and I get to pretend I could be a little better at sudoku myself if I devoted more time to practicing…
At 18:30, after all 8s and 9s had been placed, I recognised the pattern that 9 and 8 were always next to each other in this exact constellation. So I tried something myself and filled the rows with 9, 8, 7, 6, 5 etc. in this order. And it worked! Also two 3s in the corner! Brilliant puzzle 💯❤
Now watching the rest of the video and finding out Simon's solution!
Given all the 9s, it's easy to see that this pattern is a solution. In a tournament, you should fill it in and move on.
However, Simon is generally eager to prove that there is no other solution, that's why he uses the straightforward logical approach.
Yes, but using patterns to solve isn't really accepted. You made assumptions instead of using logic.
@@mmomox This can be done without making any assumptions once all the 9s and 8s are in. It's proof by induction. 8 and 9 are in exactly the same constellation, shifted one to the right. The relationship between N and N-1 is exactly the same as between N-1 and N-2. If shifting to the right worked once to avoid putting 8 and 9 at diagonals to each other, it'll work again and again. (You do need be careful to ensure that the offset from row to row is exactly a multiple of 3 within row sets 123, 456, 789; otherwise 7 might break, or lateral wrapping might not work.)
The only downside is that the proof (as I see it) only proves that it is definitely *a* viable solution, and this channel usually likes to prove that any given solution is *the* solution.
@gdshoe5822 it's still assuming the pattern will continue without using logic. It's just as bad as guessing on a fog sudoku.
@@mmomox "still assuming"? I just gave you the logic. Look up "proof by induction".
Any form of non-consecutive is just so powerful. I still remember Simon's reaction when presented with the first Miracle.
I think that one was the first video a saw of this channel 😊
A double 3 in the corner and a puzzle similar to the video that got me into the channel, what a great video! ❤
I finished in 30:32 minutes. This was an incredibly enjoyable sudoku. I like the twist on the miracle sudoku by literally "twisting" the rules to be on the diagonals instead of the orthogonal cells. After getting all the 8's, I started coloring everywhere the 9's couldn't be. This made things so much easier to see and I started ruling out cells fast. This method felt the best as once I got all the 9's, I repeated this strategy with the 7's and so on. That made quick work of it. I really enjoyed this one. It was an homage to the past, while keeping things interesting. As always, it feels good to beat Simon's time. Great Puzzle!
Simon: reads the names of constructors for Fog of War pack.
Me: salivates and panics simultaneously.
That lineup of Fog of War constructors is outstanding. Can’t wait for the new app!
Magnificent *cosmic class* construction. It is innovative and undoubtedly a 100% miracle. It has all that is needed to be featured on *Cosmic Tube* and to be included in the next *CTC Cosmic Hits* book. This video deserves billions of views here and trillions on Cosmic Tube.
👏👏👏👏👏👏👏
I would love to meet you at a party, Simon! You're the kind of person I love hanging out with.
Same!
Agreed!
Whoa.. we have the same name.
Oh my sweet Lord, what did I just play? That was AWESOME!
"It's as much fun you can get with your clothes on" is now officially my favorite thing on this channel!
And that's a 5 and that's a 5 and that's a 5 and that's a 5 and nori nori nori 😂 also loved the double singing after this long strand of nearly no 3s in the corners
I managed 17:50; started quickly, took shamefully long getting 7s and 6s into place, then it all flowed nicely from there. Love a good miracle sudoku.
Very grateful that I decided to follow the logic instead of following the numerical pattern. The way I finally solved it was so satisfying! I got down to the final 3 digits, and I actually didn't spot the break in for the 3s! Instead, I sorted it out with colors, and was able to place a color for the last 3 digits in the roping pattern by using sudoku. I then eliminated 3 from the middle digit in the empty part of the pattern, and from there, 1 as well, since 2 and 3 in the other digits would break the puzzle. With 2s now placed in the middle digits, I was able to find a 4 that eliminated 3s from the rightmost empty digit in the pattern, and solved the puzzle!
I love how force this was. Very amusing.
This is a REALLY well named puzzle.
I didn't see the solution until I got 7s in place... but a particularly smart solver could spot the solution by induction as soon as the 9s and 8s were all in.
Bravo !!!
My time 29:54. I haven't watched the video yet, and I am really looking forward to it!
Edit: That was as fun to watch as it was to do. I noticed the roping while doing sixes. I was looking for sevens to mark off the diagonals when I realized it.
Another great solve which then led me to rewatch Simon's video of the original Mitchell Lee Miracle Sudoku.
3s in the corner like London buses. None for ages and then two in one puzzle!
12:54. What a fun puzzle. I couldn’t believe even the 8s and 9s could solve by themselves but once I got that I saw what was going on and filled the rest in.
Simon had to have known! No acknowledgment at the end of the video with the pattern. I think Simon knew we need some fun in the world and took the ‘fall’ for us. ❤ great puzzle!
30 minutes for me, Awesome puzzle, very fun after the break-in
Great puzzle. Repetitive logic, but somehow very satisfying. I managed to solve it! AND much quicker than Simon! I don't think that's ever happened to me before... 😳
What a beauty, this one really spoke to me. 15:35
Brilliant puzzle as always. Great video as always.
Absolutely gutted that Simon didn't click these repeating loops throughout the entire puzzle. First time i saw something just a few minutes in. Great puzzle and solve!
Trick for me was realising after the 6s went in that the same logic was going to force all the other numbers into order, so I solved the rest of the puzzle instantly. Might be the first time I took half as long as Simon.
Great puzzle!
Great puzzle !!!! Thank you !
22:58 for me though I noticed about 15 minutes in the pattern of digits. Fun solve, I love miracle sudokus
Got the 8s and 9s relatively fast, then flailed some with the 7s and 6s; I should have colored like Simon did instead of corner marking, might have seen some things sooner. Finished in 34:37 (conflict checker off), many thanks to James for the great puzzle!
Lovely puzzle! Right up my alley!
After all the 8's and 9's were finished, I made a prediction about how the rest of the puzzle would unfold based on the pattern I noticed and was pleased to find that intuition was correct.
Rick rolled already in the title? *lol*
I was trying to figure out why those lyrics were familiar 😅
Absolutely ❤ this!! And the Never Gona Give You Up lyrics for the title!! And a fog of war app!!!
Loved it to my friend and hearing the names that submitted puzzles for the fog of war app....has me absolutely salivating and going WOW!! 😁💙❤
@@davidrattner9 💜💙❤️🩷
Really looking forward to watch this!
What a brilliant puzzle! Very fun watching this progress. Also, not one but TWO threes in corners!!
Took 90 or so minutes, but I used the fact that 147, 258, and 369 to figure out the 1 and 2. Still very fun puzzle. I smiles when there were two 3 in the corners. I noticed similar numbers in the rows and columns fairly quickly after the sixes were finished, but did not know who to used them.
Sounds like my kind of puzzle!
Not only are the rows ordered, the columns are modular in each box.
The miracle-like nature of this puzzle basically gives us the answer by repetition.
Did it in 34:04, I'm curious to see how Simon did it because I felt like I used bruteforce for finding the 7's, as in looking at a possible cell for a 7 and calculating where the chain would break the puzzle or not, which didn't take long but maybe there's a more elegant way to solve it.
Rules: 06:03
Let's Get Cracking: 07:20
Simon's time: 32m15s
Puzzle Solved: 39:35
What about this video's Top Tier Simarkisms?!
Three In the Corner: 3x (38:49, 38:58, 39:01)
Phistomefel: 1x (02:01)
And how about this video's Simarkisms?!
Pencil Mark/mark: 9x (08:57, 09:05, 16:14, 16:34, 27:52, 32:13, 35:44, 36:22)
Ah: 7x (10:25, 11:40, 20:30, 22:05, 23:06, 25:23, 26:01)
Sorry: 5x (07:49, 13:53, 21:51, 31:00, 31:15)
In Fact: 5x (01:23, 13:23, 18:00, 24:32, 31:29)
Beautiful: 4x (26:05, 26:08, 26:11, 29:02)
Obviously: 4x (10:20, 15:15, 17:52, 26:25)
Cake!: 4x (03:59, 04:22, 05:45, 05:48)
Clever: 3x (22:28, 22:31, 33:18)
Naughty: 3x (23:43, 24:04, 36:17)
Brilliant: 3x (14:04, 39:34, 39:44)
By Sudoku: 3x (08:13, 10:37, 15:17)
In the Spotlight: 2x (38:53, 38:59)
I Have no Clue: 2x (23:47)
Incredible: 2x (02:17, 39:39)
Hang On: 2x (20:19, 22:02)
Surely: 2x (21:31, 30:10)
Weird: 2x (18:29, 29:59)
Useless: 1x (30:20)
What a Puzzle: 1x (39:30)
The Answer is: 1x (26:19)
Nonsense: 1x (09:03)
Off to the Races: 1x (08:07)
Lovely: 1x (35:37)
Deadly Pattern: 1x (16:59)
Approachable: 1x (01:12)
Whoopsie: 1x (27:55)
Intriguing: 1x (24:01)
Wow: 1x (22:28)
Fabulous: 1x (16:28)
What Does This Mean?: 1x (28:10)
Unique: 1x (01:00)
Most popular number(>9), digit and colour this video:
Sixty, Eighty Nine (2 mentions)
Seven (73 mentions)
Orange (5 mentions)
Antithesis Battles:
Row (19) - Column (12)
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!
41:19 for me. Great puzzle, very reminiscent of the original! I actually missed a diagonal 4 when setting my 3s, so had to color/disambiguate 1s, 2s, and 3s together.
That was fun, thanks.
I got my 9-6s resolved before I noticed there seemed to be a promising pattern. Filled in the sequence straight up and it indeed was the correct solution. It only took 20 minutes because of that.
I remembered the one a few years ago, so 8 and 9 in, the rest followed with a little check for the 7. All in a few minutes. Enjoyed Simon though! (But, this is too easy when the pattern is known.)
I'm a pattern spotter, not nearly as numerically inclined and sudoku logic intelligent as Simon... But as soon as he solved all the 9's and 8's, I hypothesized the whole grid would follow that backwards pattern of 9-1 following all the 98's... Hilarious on the creator sneakily naming his puzzle backwards of the solution
After just the 9 and 8 in, I already knew how the end result will look like... :)
I was wondering, does he see the pattern but pretends not to, because he thinks using it would be cheating ?
Following the logic is more fun for videos
The general idea is that you don't just find a solution, you need to prove it unique. You could quite quickly have a go with the pattern and confirm it is _a_ solution to the rules, but you wouldn't have shown it is _the only_ solution.
31:22 for me, just a bit under Simon's time which makes me proud 😁
I am so sorry Simon, i actually tell my frienda about the channel in the way, you told us not to. But that is only because they're all nerds or into sudoku or both. I didn't ever call it boring. but i do tell them, i often watch your videos to go to sleep, but that is only because i kind of get hypnotized by Simons soothing voice and it is basicly everything that can put me to sleep nowadays. So many apologies for this.😢
For the second time I noticed something quite lovely, Simon seem to say 'appreciate' in a way I've never seen it said before by anyone. Not a native speaker myself, so I learned to pronounce the standard 'sh' for the 'c'.Not sure if it's idiosyncratic or an dialectal. But I do find it amusing. hahahah
Somebody should make a miracle sudoku which has a different solution than all the others
Nice puzzle!
didn't notice the pattern til after i did all the 6s
fun puzzle really
I agree you would be cool at a party. We'd actually have intelligent conversation.
Finished in 27:51, failing to notice any numerical pattern beyond the roping in the first three rows/boxes, and using the tedious method of eliminating pencil marks to solve the puzzle. Still had fun, though!
never gonna give up cracking
that was a fun puzzle
Loved this puzzle! 27:22 for me. 😄
Managed in just over 12 minutes after I notice the 9,8,7... pattern on each row
Managed in 23min without noticing any patern. Oups, my bad 😅
Does anyone know why this ruleset forces this puzzle's pattern? I would love to see the mathematical explanation for it.
Also, is there any other possible starting position with only 2 given digits that would result in a unique solution? Excluding mirroring, rotations and replacing the initial 89 with 12, of course.
Following the 9,8,7,6... pattern hoping it leads to the solve is no different than guessing digits in the fog. Change my mind.
We wil resist doing sudoku as long as we can in a sudoku puzzle😂
27:54 for me, it took a while to get going, but once it did it was really fun
42:15 good ol miracle
46:21, time should have been shorter but I got really stuck on the 7s, went on to the 6s with no progress, looked at the video, was confused how some of my pencil marks didn't work, then saw a knights move issue that figured out all of my digits quickly.
Took me a long time to realize that two cells of the same digit couldn't touch diagonally because x-x=0
Never thought I'd get Rick Roll by Simon.
Just noticed the channel description still has Mark listed as a 12 time champion.
As my mother used to say; I’m not angry, just disappointed…
Or perhaps it doesn’t matter either way.
33:10 I was really hoping it would be red 5 (standing by)
todays mathematical insight is "8 is not 2 different from 8"
The pattern in every row is 987654321 modulo the starting position
33.00 sharp for me. Nice.
25:13, of course, that's not right, r7c4 is diagonally adjacent to r6c3.
It's a beautiful thing to see and made me happy. But.... just too easy. It's not cheating to spot the decreasing pattern... Once you guess that it might be, it's easy to see that it IS a solution. Since 7 bears the same relation to 8 as 8 bears to 9, you can see that it'll work. 6 minutes for me.
If i had been told i would be rickrolled by a sudoku video, i wouldn't have believe it.
Same
... I dunno if this video is some kind of belated April fools joke or if you need something to click to do the puzzle. It took me 1 minute and 18 seconds to complete this puzzle.
60:42 for me
nice puzzle
Clever rick roll by saying the wrong digits 😂😂😂😂
Once you placed all the 8s the rest of the digits are as good as done. Like with a mathematical proof of induction.
This is spooky stuff: I solved it independently, and after placing the 6s - saw the roping and guessed how it was going to end. Was wondering whether there was an elegant way to prove it without colouring for each digit, so turned to the video and found that I had used the same exact colours Simon has used - purple for the 7s and then orange for the 6s, and was about to do blue for 5s... I think I've been watching too much CTC. Time to turn off the computer...
24:18 we are not. why did u chose that one, witch is next to 8 diagoal
am i the only one who used the knights move and diagonal constraint to figure out where each cell(digit) goes before placing the digits values into the cells.
I've never been this early before
it's a rope-a-dope solution, by 30:00 the pattern is obvious
15:04 ...once I solved all the 9s and 8s I saw the pattern and just filled it in
25 mins in, look at row 5 and column 4
Dude! The entire color pallet for 5's and he doesn't choose red. Come on man!
I ended up with 3s and 1s in switched positions, and while it works, it's not the right result. Anyone else? Can someone try to help out a beginner and point to what kind of mistake can lead to that? This is so fun :-)
at 22. simon miss a given digt. good all simon, at 24.30, proving that the digit that can´t be a 7, is not a 7..
Sta'ck'ering puzzle.
I mean, it's a miracle sudoku. Of course it's a banding puzzle, and look at those bands...
I know it would be cheating to use the cyclic pattern to fill in the grid, but how does Simon not even notice it? 😂
27:30 for me
The name of the puzzle is 89 but I only see 98s...
...do I
Roping al over the place.