A Sudoku With Only 4 Given Digits?!

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  • @jonandmoni2
    @jonandmoni2 4 ปีที่แล้ว +48925

    Wife: what are you doing still looking at your phone at 2 AM?
    Me: looking for naked singles in this area.

    • @nutellanutella
      @nutellanutella 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1627

      This comment is underrated

    • @hadimazzi
      @hadimazzi 4 ปีที่แล้ว +678

      this was hilarious you made me laugh anlot

    • @SpearofTrium05
      @SpearofTrium05 4 ปีที่แล้ว +269

      Really good one

    • @kenjiotake
      @kenjiotake 4 ปีที่แล้ว +690

      I really hope you didn't actually say this to your wi- sorry, ex-wife.

    • @Unlovable
      @Unlovable 4 ปีที่แล้ว +503

      Its easier to explain

  • @bluexix
    @bluexix 4 ปีที่แล้ว +15512

    'Puts down a 5 in the middle'
    Oh yeah, it's all coming together

    • @luchia4tom134
      @luchia4tom134 4 ปีที่แล้ว +74

      Kronk!!!!! Oh how i've missed you!!! Finally something I know on this vid!! ^.^

    • @piggybump7512
      @piggybump7512 4 ปีที่แล้ว +62

      I don’t know why this is funny but it is

    • @okamishiranui7841
      @okamishiranui7841 4 ปีที่แล้ว +61

      I've heard about the diagonal rule before but the magic square is a first for me. Anyways is 5 the only solution in the middle for 3x3 squares?

    • @DominicPerry777
      @DominicPerry777 4 ปีที่แล้ว +48

      @@okamishiranui7841 Going by what he said, 5 is the only number to go in the middle of a magic square, by rules of elimination. The surrounding numbers vary a touch, depending on any fixed/already placed numbers.

    • @nhathuyhavu8357
      @nhathuyhavu8357 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      How the fuck on earth 5 is the only choice for center? All number have a same role. I dare to say you can put any number in the center except 3,8,4 and 2, just imagine each number replaced by a color. This puzzle has not only 1 result but also dozens, maybe hundreds results (sorry I haven’t watched the whole video yet)

  • @Afriendd
    @Afriendd 4 ปีที่แล้ว +11993

    "We're actually able to finish the magic square, I don't know why I'm surprised by that but I just am." Yeah cant believe we solved it , we're a great team.

    • @oxey_
      @oxey_ 4 ปีที่แล้ว +308

      Dora the explorer vibes, but the good kind :)

    • @maddie107
      @maddie107 4 ปีที่แล้ว +266

      *puts hand on chin* yes, yes we did really well there... [goes off, over-confidently picks up her easy sudoku book, looks at first puzzle, cries]

    • @humidifierman
      @humidifierman 4 ปีที่แล้ว +57

      Good work team!

    • @freetube200
      @freetube200 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      @Dosing Psychedelics got some in my freezer right now lol

    • @hsmacaraig
      @hsmacaraig 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      yee yee

  • @mymy6018
    @mymy6018 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1957

    "We've done all of the 2's all of a sudden... Wow... Wow... How elegant is that?" This guy is amazing!

    • @dracobutwhatever8611
      @dracobutwhatever8611 4 ปีที่แล้ว +11

      mimi88 British ppl be like:

    • @milannesic5718
      @milannesic5718 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      Grid is empty. Guy just adds his own numbers, and that's it. Hi is not solving anything, he is making it

    • @yummymemez
      @yummymemez 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@milannesic5718why do you say that

  • @Kordellcabe12
    @Kordellcabe12 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3223

    I was lost almost the entire time but I figured out the final nine before he did and frankly that’s win in my book.

    • @MWsamui
      @MWsamui 2 ปีที่แล้ว +85

      I managed to do the same but the fact that we did work that out before him is the reason we're not as good as him, it wasn't the right time for the 9 to be solved

    • @voncornhole
      @voncornhole 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

      Same but the 4 in the center of the bottom row at 22:08 when he marked the 4s in rows 7 and 8

    • @satanstrueson
      @satanstrueson หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@Kordellcabe12 we take those, we take those

  • @slowdtunez2438
    @slowdtunez2438 4 ปีที่แล้ว +7361

    That must be a 5 there
    Me: couldn't agree more

    • @gysmothediamond2046
      @gysmothediamond2046 4 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      GEUSSED IT C:

    • @A7m0spher1C
      @A7m0spher1C 4 ปีที่แล้ว +17

      Yeah that one was obvious tbh

    • @shadowleaf3151
      @shadowleaf3151 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      It could also be a 1 or 9...

    • @KimBTown
      @KimBTown 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@A7m0spher1C , I felt so smart tho...

    • @blu2uth
      @blu2uth 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      the comment is about 5, has 5.5 likes, had 5 comments before me🤯

  • @finnv5459
    @finnv5459 4 ปีที่แล้ว +26268

    Watching a 25 minute sudoku video wasn’t part of my evening plans but I’m not complaining

    • @Time4N3R0
      @Time4N3R0 4 ปีที่แล้ว +68

      Finn V algorythm finest, me aswell:D

    • @j.m.9519
      @j.m.9519 4 ปีที่แล้ว +67

      12am her and im halfway trhrough the video....fascinating O_o

    • @yeshwanthraja2453
      @yeshwanthraja2453 4 ปีที่แล้ว +81

      I dont know how time passed. I was very involved lol

    • @archieanansie3948
      @archieanansie3948 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      cheers mate!

    • @muptwitch9129
      @muptwitch9129 4 ปีที่แล้ว +12

      Isnt it magical...lovely video

  • @sameepsapkota4615
    @sameepsapkota4615 4 ปีที่แล้ว +7866

    Never in my 19 yrs of existence would I have ever agreed with anyone that one day at 2 in the morning I would be watching a guy playing sudoku

    • @dylanculver1796
      @dylanculver1796 4 ปีที่แล้ว +87

      God, its 5:34 am here and I'm doing exactly the same

    • @MiyushuBabii
      @MiyushuBabii 4 ปีที่แล้ว +22

      This is where TH-cam needs "reactions" cuz I wanted to pick an "LOL" icon.

    • @colehaaks302
      @colehaaks302 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@dylanculver1796 lmao nights young

    • @patrick1532
      @patrick1532 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Same frickin boat here

    • @davidcuervo3160
      @davidcuervo3160 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Its 4:13 am for me lol

  • @inspiringsand123
    @inspiringsand123 3 ปีที่แล้ว +462

    Rules: 00:49
    Let's Get Cracking: 02:43
    Puzzle Solved: 24:40
    Simon's time: 21m57s
    And how about this video's Simarkisms?!
    Wow: 3x (11:36, 11:36, 14:22)
    Bother: 2x (21:41, 22:16)
    Obviously: 2x (01:32, 10:04)
    Good Grief: 1x (10:38)
    Eyes are Drawn: 1x (14:40)
    Axiomatically: 1x (04:30)
    Naked Single: 1x (21:13)
    Clever: 1x (14:04)
    Beautiful: 1x (24:40)
    Fascinating: 1x (14:22)
    Elegant: 1x (11:36)
    Going Mad: 1x (20:26)
    Hang On: 1x (11:54)
    Most popular number(>9), digit and colour this video:
    Fifteen (14 mentions)
    Seven (50 mentions)
    Yellow (2 mentions)
    Antithesis Battles:
    Odd (3) - Even (1)

    • @qetzing
      @qetzing 2 ปีที่แล้ว +31

      This has to be taken more time than the actual video xd

    • @AH-yb9ov
      @AH-yb9ov 2 ปีที่แล้ว +33

      I love lists like these! If you can make these you probably watch this man a lot. So just for the record there's another naked single (6) mention at 22:58

    • @justsomeguywhoneverdies9210
      @justsomeguywhoneverdies9210 2 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      Inspiring Sand is a bot. And Simarkisms is words that Mark and Simon usually say when they are solving a sudoku puzzle.

  • @QuilloManar
    @QuilloManar 4 ปีที่แล้ว +6191

    Did I just watch a man solve a sudoku puzzle for 25 minutes with no background music or personal interest in sudoku? Yes, yes I did.
    Was I thoroughly engrossed the entire time? Yes, yes I was.

    • @andrewfarahmand3179
      @andrewfarahmand3179 4 ปีที่แล้ว +32

      Basically sums up me

    • @Zhou_Yu
      @Zhou_Yu 4 ปีที่แล้ว +11

      I actually like sudokus

    • @Zedareon
      @Zedareon 4 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      Fascinating for sure

    • @Wert1600
      @Wert1600 4 ปีที่แล้ว +19

      its kinda late at night, im tired, i do have to go to bed since 2 hours cause i really shoud rest, but i just watched this video and totally can agree with your comment XD (I should go to bed now)

    • @nouashax__
      @nouashax__ 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Yes except I was mildly like sudokus, ever buy a book when I was in high school

  • @brianbernstein3826
    @brianbernstein3826 4 ปีที่แล้ว +8334

    I yelled "7" at this guy and he figured out my credit card number minutes later

    • @MajorMilk
      @MajorMilk 4 ปีที่แล้ว +499

      I told him I don't know my social security number, and he figured it out after a few minutes based off my height and age.

    • @petercarpenter7647
      @petercarpenter7647 4 ปีที่แล้ว +20

      @@MajorMilk lol

    • @EJandEmmanGonzales
      @EJandEmmanGonzales 4 ปีที่แล้ว +30

      I don't think that's possible though.
      01110111 01101111 01101111 01110011 01101000 01100010 01100001 01101001 01110100

    • @vinnig9075
      @vinnig9075 4 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      @@EJandEmmanGonzales 01110010 00101111 01110111 01101111 01101111 01101111 01101111 01110011 01101000

    • @justindean7354
      @justindean7354 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@vinnig9075 01001000 01100101 00100111 01110011 00100000 01110011 01110000 01100101 01100001 01101011 01101001 01101110 01100111 00100000 01110100 01101000 01100101 00100000 01101100 01100001 01101110 01100111 01110101 01100001 01100111 01100101 00100000 01101111 01100110 00100000 01110100 01101000 01100101 00100000 01100111 01101111 01100100 01110011

  • @droe2570
    @droe2570 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4939

    This is one of those puzzles where making the puzzle is probably harder than solving it.

    • @erokMine
      @erokMine 4 ปีที่แล้ว +126

      I am pretty sure, computer generates this with a little help

    • @XiaoMingXing
      @XiaoMingXing 4 ปีที่แล้ว +448

      @@erokMine I feel like writing a computer program that can generate these kinds of puzzles with the specific constraints would be pretty daunting as well.

    • @maxnovakovics2568
      @maxnovakovics2568 4 ปีที่แล้ว +74

      I figured it would have been laid out with the rules in mind, and then just removed most the digits

    • @Dimonite314
      @Dimonite314 4 ปีที่แล้ว +87

      As someone who's attempted to make crosswords: that's every puzzle.

    • @codeender5980
      @codeender5980 4 ปีที่แล้ว +26

      @@XiaoMingXing adding extra constraints should be nothing for a well-designed algorithm. However, if the base Sudoku algorithm is poorly structured and takes too many shortcuts... bodging the extra constraints in could be a problem.

  • @seth094978
    @seth094978 3 ปีที่แล้ว +734

    It's quite interesting how these knights move puzzles tend to end up rotationally symmetric. If you rotate the puzzle 180 deg and overlay it with itself, all cells sum to 10 (in other words, when reflected through the center point, all 1s land on 9s, 2s on 8s, 3s on 7s, 4s on 6s, and 5s land on themselves).

    • @pranayachowdary7123
      @pranayachowdary7123 2 ปีที่แล้ว +41

      Amazing that you noticed that though

    • @paula-zzz
      @paula-zzz 2 ปีที่แล้ว +31

      thats such a cool thing to notice!

    • @joniboi3699
      @joniboi3699 2 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      I rate that

    • @breadmonkeys
      @breadmonkeys 2 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      Oh, beautiful, thank you for sharing!

    • @jolijey7673
      @jolijey7673 2 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      Thats so satisfying to look at, thanks!

  • @DavidErickRamos
    @DavidErickRamos 4 ปีที่แล้ว +14015

    Don’t know how this ended up on my recommended, but enjoyed it from start to finish. Brilliant work!

    • @darcksage1
      @darcksage1 4 ปีที่แล้ว +28

      Wow... never thought I'd find you here...

    • @andrewfarahmand3179
      @andrewfarahmand3179 4 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      Same lmao.

    • @itzcain81
      @itzcain81 4 ปีที่แล้ว +17

      Lol have no idea how it ended up in mine either and same loved every min of it.

    • @aryankashyap4715
      @aryankashyap4715 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Same

    • @Zyyzsz
      @Zyyzsz 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      David Erick Ramos - Ocarina same

  • @vvpixelatedgoat3731
    @vvpixelatedgoat3731 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1372

    I have never been so fascinated with a game of sudoku in my life

    • @jespervandijk6003
      @jespervandijk6003 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      you have 420 likes and you commented this on 420

    • @recurrenTopology
      @recurrenTopology 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@jespervandijk6003 th-cam.com/video/QZXc39hT8t4/w-d-xo.html

    • @vaishnevsreejeev
      @vaishnevsreejeev 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      1K th like😂

  • @denitsar3802
    @denitsar3802 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2372

    Man: solves whole sudoku and shows little to no excitement
    Me: *figures out a number before him and is excited like a kid hearing the ice cream truck drive by*

    • @gildeddrake1479
      @gildeddrake1479 4 ปีที่แล้ว +76

      especially near the end. there was so many possible ways to end it, I just took advantage of him pausing for 2sec to see one he didn't. meanwhile I would've spent 10 hours on the first 10 min of the video.

    • @michaelrobertson714
      @michaelrobertson714 4 ปีที่แล้ว +48

      I was only moderately excited to place the 4 in the bottom row 2 minutes before him at 22:00. It only shows how many ways there are to solve a puzzle.

    • @denitsar3802
      @denitsar3802 4 ปีที่แล้ว +13

      Michael Robertson i was talking about that 4 too haha 😁

    • @Damariobros
      @Damariobros 4 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      I figured out the top left square's 5 way before he did, and I know next to nothing about sudokus. I'm sitting here silently cheering in the dead of night.
      EDIT: I mean the top left 3x3 grid's 5.

    • @torknudsen2316
      @torknudsen2316 4 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      The bottom center four you mean? :-)

  • @tylergerald
    @tylergerald 3 ปีที่แล้ว +327

    At first when you were going over the constraints I was initially thinking "this is impossible" but they actually help you narrow things down, especially the knight's move constraint!

  • @iustiniannegrei7244
    @iustiniannegrei7244 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2358

    It is absolutely fascinating that none of us really searched for this, yet here we are

    • @redinator5
      @redinator5 4 ปีที่แล้ว +26

      iustinian negrei I wouldn’t say none, a few of us are regular viewers 😉

    • @MrChuck78929
      @MrChuck78929 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@redinator5 but did you search for it or you found it on your home screen?

    • @Jon99ay
      @Jon99ay 4 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      I got here from a chess video and down the rabbit hole I went hehe

    • @pickyvanilla
      @pickyvanilla 4 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      4/20 sent me here

    • @nachobittini7293
      @nachobittini7293 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@pickyvanilla thats gold

  • @stephenholt6956
    @stephenholt6956 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4208

    "That square is actually a naked single, that square is a 6"
    Wow me and that square have a lot in common

    • @anantanupam3
      @anantanupam3 4 ปีที่แล้ว +71

      This needs to go right to the top!

    • @Blockio1999
      @Blockio1999 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Underrated comment

    • @JohnEsse
      @JohnEsse 4 ปีที่แล้ว +180

      "This is a four/eight combo, and that four is pointing at it to resolve it"
      -Me and my gf in public.

    • @stephenholt6956
      @stephenholt6956 4 ปีที่แล้ว +22

      @@JohnEsse honestly a perfect response

    • @coconutflour9868
      @coconutflour9868 4 ปีที่แล้ว +25

      This is the funniest comment I have ever fucking seen.

  • @AgentMCCityDE
    @AgentMCCityDE 4 ปีที่แล้ว +7010

    Imagine wanting to solve a sudoku and suddenly being forced to know the rules of chess

    • @lithonious636
      @lithonious636 4 ปีที่แล้ว +33

      Pretty sure he actually screwed up the knights move on the 2's unless it doesn't focus on how knights actually move

    • @lithonious636
      @lithonious636 4 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      Pretty much stopped watching after that 😒

    • @lithonious636
      @lithonious636 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      And the 3's

    • @RecordEli
      @RecordEli 4 ปีที่แล้ว +240

      @@lithonious636 The knights move only implies the landing spot of the knight not the actual path taken there. But Sudoku rules also apply so the lane of the 2's and the 3's is also removed inadvertently

    • @Paul-ln2dr
      @Paul-ln2dr 4 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      How come the sodoku book i bought don't comply to the knight's move? Is the knight constraint a must? Tq

  • @gwenedy
    @gwenedy 3 ปีที่แล้ว +183

    I’ve never heard of magic squares or anything like this puzzle, I just do regular ones on my phone. This was really fun to watch

  • @aixan1666
    @aixan1666 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3393

    the pure adrenaline i felt when he started cracking off all the two's

    • @trialsbike2135
      @trialsbike2135 4 ปีที่แล้ว +13

      aha same😂 quality comment

    • @sydneydumoit
      @sydneydumoit 4 ปีที่แล้ว +20

      Honestly I was so confused...my last three brain cells hurt after all of that

    • @werewindwolf
      @werewindwolf 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Fair enough. Though that's not even the difficult part of it all.

    • @Aeiouley
      @Aeiouley 4 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      yea, never heard of the "knight's move" rule but it is a pretty powerful constraint

    • @mjc0961
      @mjc0961 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Hell, when he started cracking off 2s and I was starting to grasp the rules and also realize "oh, 2 has to go there"

  • @MXCN_El1011
    @MXCN_El1011 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2716

    "Oh that's easy so this must be __ and this has to be __"
    Me who probably couldn't solve this in 25 days: Oh yeah it's so obvious.

    • @sancheetb
      @sancheetb 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      M_X_C_N probably?

    • @karimuda3043
      @karimuda3043 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      Same

    • @keeperse6
      @keeperse6 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      I'm trying to solve it right now! The timer is on two hours, and I'm at 14:20 of this video....

    • @ddunfuh9239
      @ddunfuh9239 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      It took my 20 minutes of abusing the check system to do it

    • @MisterNohbdy
      @MisterNohbdy 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Actually try it before thinking so poorly of yourself. You might be surprised. And, if not, just remember all of these skills are learnable, not some magical natural talents. ^_^

  • @bryangomez1887
    @bryangomez1887 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4567

    I feel like the kid in high school who contributes nothing to the group project but still gets an A

    • @MrMica22
      @MrMica22 4 ปีที่แล้ว +13

      described my feeling exactly!

    • @erzbengelraziel5490
      @erzbengelraziel5490 4 ปีที่แล้ว +16

      But you feel like you actually contributed something.

    • @MacKatha
      @MacKatha 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Omg YES

    • @snowjix
      @snowjix 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      @AsiaNPC Is everybody in cheerleading a cheerleader? A leader cannot lead a leader, so whats the point in having so many leaders and nobody to lead??

    • @tomvandeloo3067
      @tomvandeloo3067 4 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      @@snowjix a cheerleader leads the cheers of the audience i guess

  • @noitallmanaz
    @noitallmanaz 3 ปีที่แล้ว +152

    Here is the funny thing about this. This was the first video I ever watched on this channel. I didn't really even know about regular sudoku and never knew about these variants. I am also a fairly dim bulb when it comes to solving puzzles. This was so out of my league that I couldn't even understand it let alone try to get one number into the grid. But I have been an avid watcher and have been attempting to solve these puzzles every day since this. I decided to come back and try to solve this one just to see if I could do it without Simon's help. I did this puzzle in 17:04 and I was watching a basketball game that was distracting me on the side.
    This just shows what incredible teachers Mark and Simon are. I can solve about a third of the puzzles on here now, and with some slight miniscule help, can solve more than half.

    • @annabethchase2569
      @annabethchase2569 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Good going

    • @shantanunene4389
      @shantanunene4389 3 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      I think this is a similar story for many viewers (including me) because this video went viral

  • @TRusher22
    @TRusher22 4 ปีที่แล้ว +5311

    "That's a naked single"
    Stop talking dirty to me

  • @MajorMilk
    @MajorMilk 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2797

    The man managed to entertain us with a single Sudoku level for 25 minutes.

    • @Ruzzky_Bly4t
      @Ruzzky_Bly4t 4 ปีที่แล้ว +27

      I guess the views are a sign that there are still people with an attention span of over 30 seconds. I was sure that something like sudoku, which requires quite a lot of intellectual effort will not get more than 300 thousand views.

    • @MajorMilk
      @MajorMilk 4 ปีที่แล้ว +20

      @@Ruzzky_Bly4t My attention span us very bad, I just like sudoku.

    • @justcee
      @justcee 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      RawSloth ikr

    • @heavenlything
      @heavenlything 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      sudoku rocks thats why

    • @chrisparkhurst5158
      @chrisparkhurst5158 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      Right?!

  • @Morgan423Z
    @Morgan423Z 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1991

    First 5 minutes of this video: How does this (a TH-cam channel with someone solving sudoku puzzles) exist?
    By end of video: of course this exists. How did I ever doubt it?

    • @seafoam6119
      @seafoam6119 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Essentials. Thats what this channel fits in

    • @bigben6340
      @bigben6340 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      When I was 5 min into the video I spotted the viewed count (2,23 million) and it had only been on YT for 10 days and was realy shocked that anyone could get over 10 000 views doing sudoku, but damn was this a good video

  • @carola-lifeinparis
    @carola-lifeinparis 3 ปีที่แล้ว +68

    this is proof that you can put anything on youtube if you help your audience follow along. Oh that was so beautifully resolved :) Well done. I never heard of these extra rules.

  • @VolvagiasBlaze
    @VolvagiasBlaze 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1502

    this isn't the type of let's play i was looking for, but i'm not complaining

  • @pattygee7267
    @pattygee7267 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2609

    As someone who loves this channel, I'm glad the comments are filled with people who got recommended this out of nowhere and enjoyed it.

    • @curiouslamp2841
      @curiouslamp2841 4 ปีที่แล้ว +22

      I happen to be one of those people. Turns out this is now his most viewed video within a week.

    • @Hamza-nv2kw
      @Hamza-nv2kw 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      I beleive its because James Charles tweeted about his channel

    • @NailujG
      @NailujG 4 ปีที่แล้ว +20

      @@Hamza-nv2kw That helped it, but I was one of the people who was recommended this specific video by YT and I am hooked

    • @evanjames6164
      @evanjames6164 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      In watching this at 1am and I’m not complaining

    • @sleeperthoee
      @sleeperthoee 4 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      Evan James 1:40 AM for me. I honestly thought the sudoku puzzles I did were pretty hard. Seeing 4 numbers tore me a new one but either way, great channel tbh. Never thought there’d be a sudoku channel.

  • @verueblue
    @verueblue 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2921

    It makes me weirdly so much happy to see him solving this - the way he says "It's so clever and elegant"
    Melts my heart every time

    • @davienng7859
      @davienng7859 3 ปีที่แล้ว +24

      Alr, boys, we know what this means(everyone starts becoming sudoku addicts)😂😂😂

    • @Sebactvi
      @Sebactvi 3 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      Neasi říkal jsem si to samý Veruš

    • @skutecnyatom
      @skutecnyatom 3 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      Máš naprostou pravdu Verčo

    • @bimbon123
      @bimbon123 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Čau Verčo

    • @sregginetahi999
      @sregginetahi999 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      how do you pronounce your name Ms. Trckova

  • @mackenzielee5837
    @mackenzielee5837 3 ปีที่แล้ว +121

    It just makes me so happy to watch this man be so passionate about something. He’s getting genuine joy out of this

    • @windybeach2184
      @windybeach2184 2 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      And sharing that joy with the world!

  • @sk8element1919
    @sk8element1919 3 ปีที่แล้ว +9489

    Me: A six goes there
    Him: A three goes there
    Me: A three goes there

    • @Mermaider
      @Mermaider 3 ปีที่แล้ว +41

      🤣🤣🤣

    • @Kurdent1
      @Kurdent1 3 ปีที่แล้ว +117

      The hardest part was the magic square and completing another line in next square. The diagonal and knight's move make the rest of the sudoku easy.

    • @Kurdent1
      @Kurdent1 3 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      @@Mermaider nani?!?

    • @Mermaider
      @Mermaider 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      @@Kurdent1 sure thing! The actor or the football player?
      No clue who they are 😂😂

    • @Kurdent1
      @Kurdent1 3 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      @@Mermaider you totally lost me. Are you the mermaid from Disney?

  • @babygoatOW
    @babygoatOW 4 ปีที่แล้ว +5718

    Me after him practically solving the entire puzzle: “the 1 HAS to go there”
    Him seconds later: “The 1 goes here”
    Me: YES IM BIG BRAIN

    • @lookimnotracistbut5695
      @lookimnotracistbut5695 4 ปีที่แล้ว +132

      I saw something he didn't see for 10 minutes and I feel so smart even though I wouldn't have been able to solve the puzzle on my own

    • @lordtalonmarsden826
      @lordtalonmarsden826 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      @@lookimnotracistbut5695 What did you see?

    • @lookimnotracistbut5695
      @lookimnotracistbut5695 4 ปีที่แล้ว +25

      @@lordtalonmarsden826 That was 1 week ago I don´t remember "useless" stuff that long sorry

    • @xhbirohx2214
      @xhbirohx2214 4 ปีที่แล้ว +24

      @@lookimnotracistbut5695 understandable pls have a nice day

    • @feckingud
      @feckingud 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      1 out of 9.

  • @TheSourLemon.
    @TheSourLemon. 4 ปีที่แล้ว +522

    Never thought i would be so interested in watching someone solve a soduko without problem.

  • @Reignor99
    @Reignor99 3 ปีที่แล้ว +435

    Sudoku with 1 given number: "This is absolutely mad"
    Sudoku with 4 given numbers: "This is absolutely mad"
    I love this channel.

  • @DreamKeeper.
    @DreamKeeper. 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2882

    I can’t believe I’ve come this far in quarantine where I’m watching a guy play sudoku

  • @GhostinTube
    @GhostinTube 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2989

    Him: "that's a four and that must be a 5"
    Me an intellectual: " ah yes numbers"

    • @danisob3633
      @danisob3633 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      XD

    • @loganarchibald3608
      @loganarchibald3608 4 ปีที่แล้ว +32

      Matmitichion

    • @fil9o
      @fil9o 4 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      Numbers Mason, what do they mean?

    • @patronarti5745
      @patronarti5745 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

    • @mtbra9435
      @mtbra9435 4 ปีที่แล้ว +11

      I'm something of a mathematician myself.

  • @gentuxable
    @gentuxable 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2782

    Is it just me or did anyone else thought at first: Extra rules makes it even harder, but actually that rules out a lot of possibilities and makes it easier.

    • @mauer1
      @mauer1 4 ปีที่แล้ว +215

      Extra rules always makes it easier.
      The less possibilities the more you can say for sure to rule other possibilities out.
      Especially if you can write down the possibilities for each unique square.

    • @gentuxable
      @gentuxable 4 ปีที่แล้ว +21

      @@mauer1 to be honest i play sudoku completely different now. :D before I didn't know what the small numbers were for lol.

    • @britishgovernment7053
      @britishgovernment7053 4 ปีที่แล้ว +79

      Without the Knights move, diagonals and magic square, I reckon that would be unsolvable

    • @mauer1
      @mauer1 4 ปีที่แล้ว +64

      @@britishgovernment7053 it would be easily solveable, though it would have more than one solution.

    • @britishgovernment7053
      @britishgovernment7053 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@mauer1 Interesting, would be good to see that done as well

  • @JumperSnipera
    @JumperSnipera 2 ปีที่แล้ว +12

    This was the first CTC video I watched during the summer of 2020. I stumbled upon it simply because it had shown up as a recommended video despite having never watched a sudoku video before. I clicked it, I regret nothing.

  • @stayhungry7436
    @stayhungry7436 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2815

    This guy should have written the finale to game of thrones

    • @mothybunn
      @mothybunn 4 ปีที่แล้ว +18

      everyone would kill each other and resolve problems with mathematical equations and I feel like I would be into that

  • @akuankka6445
    @akuankka6445 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2193

    no idea why I'm watching this but I feel like this made my IQ step up by 10 points

  • @wristdisabledwriter2893
    @wristdisabledwriter2893 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4070

    I love it when you say “what a beautiful puzzle”. That should be your catchphrase

  • @Erin_Wilson_Studios
    @Erin_Wilson_Studios 2 ปีที่แล้ว +15

    My mind isn't wired to understand this at all, but it's so lovely to watch someone good at what they do, working away with such joy

  • @callumsapey3021
    @callumsapey3021 3 ปีที่แล้ว +5349

    not sure how I ended up watching this at 4 am, I’m usually watching people build pools in the jungle.

    • @starlightjupiter6192
      @starlightjupiter6192 3 ปีที่แล้ว +88

      Hahahaha!! I watch the dudes building pools in the jungle also.

    • @TheShadowMan.
      @TheShadowMan. 3 ปีที่แล้ว +59

      I'm convinced the jungle pools are a $$ making scam 💣

    • @kkall596
      @kkall596 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Lmaoo

    • @gangsterg1936
      @gangsterg1936 3 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      I'm watching this at 1:00 am, so I guess thats better....

    • @kevinwise786
      @kevinwise786 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      Watching it at 2:30am

  • @Laugh_Lab63
    @Laugh_Lab63 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2508

    *puts number in
    Him: " Oh look at that now."
    - me watching in confusion

    • @cecidantass
      @cecidantass 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      HAHAHHAHAHAH

    • @allenalle-rz1oz
      @allenalle-rz1oz 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Hahahahahahh😂

    • @auro7409
      @auro7409 4 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      This is a mood and a half.
      You honestly made me cackle

    • @fox9201
      @fox9201 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      xddddd

    • @philiplind99
      @philiplind99 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      good one

  • @tormuse2916
    @tormuse2916 3 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    This is the first "Cracking the Cryptic" video I ever came across, and I wanted to share that I finally solved it today. :) That's not to say I was working on it constantly; I just came back to it a few times over the months, but kept making mistakes, but today was when I finally solved it on my own, so I'm pretty pleased about that. :)

  • @ciarabutler3340
    @ciarabutler3340 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2983

    Him: 18 minutes in
    Me: Still trying to understand the magic square

    • @valeria207
      @valeria207 4 ปีที่แล้ว +122

      20 min in and I'm still trying to understand the knights rule

    • @GOLD-ts7bx
      @GOLD-ts7bx 4 ปีที่แล้ว +54

      @@valeria207 6 hours in and im still trying to understand 6

    • @SamuelEspera
      @SamuelEspera 4 ปีที่แล้ว +111

      19 years in and I'm still trying to understand why I was born.

    • @hanadotexe
      @hanadotexe 4 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      17 min in and I'm still trying to understand sudoku

    • @jhonnysabia7124
      @jhonnysabia7124 4 ปีที่แล้ว +12

      1 month and im still trying to understand your comment

  • @DarkKnightofHeaven
    @DarkKnightofHeaven 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4245

    It's really fascinating how the knights restriction actually makes narrowing things down easier.

    • @Pr1est0fDoom
      @Pr1est0fDoom 4 ปีที่แล้ว +309

      Yes, restrictions are very helpful in this game.

    • @barneya1965
      @barneya1965 4 ปีที่แล้ว +117

      Honestly a very fun variation on the game, I enjoyed it much more than the solving strategies I typically use for sudoku.

    • @lalit.1
      @lalit.1 4 ปีที่แล้ว +17

      I play it everyday and now after learning this knight move, it's going to be easier.

    • @Panic_Pickle
      @Panic_Pickle 4 ปีที่แล้ว +166

      Lalit Singh Fauzdar the knight move isn’t applicable to all sudoku, nor is the magic square. Both are additional rules for this particular puzzle

    • @Zarrow1
      @Zarrow1 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      I love doing killer sudokus for this exact reason

  • @tripledemz5614
    @tripledemz5614 4 ปีที่แล้ว +411

    "Oh and we've done all the twos all of a sudden. Wow. Wow, how elegant is that?" Very elegant my friend, very elegant indeed.

  • @danieltwine3144
    @danieltwine3144 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Mate I can't believe I've only just found you - you are completely awesome. Watching this 25 minutes has been my favourite thing all day :)

  • @LivingAdventurousLee
    @LivingAdventurousLee 4 ปีที่แล้ว +505

    I’m so mesmerized by how he explains the puzzle as he solves it.

  • @cazkills
    @cazkills 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1267

    he keeps saying "we know" as if i actually understand sudoku and im not just watching this at 4am out of curiousity

    • @aby1061
      @aby1061 4 ปีที่แล้ว +21

      mikhailo I play Sudoku and even I don’t understand what’s happening lmfao.

    • @BURDYMAN777
      @BURDYMAN777 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      It is now 4:13 am and I I'm watching this out of curiosity lol

    • @MrHerodoto
      @MrHerodoto 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Perfect feeling!
      Me at 3 AM here. Never did a sudoku in my life because I never knew how. And this guy does it like it is a magical thing. Crazy stuff.

    • @vilhelm0824
      @vilhelm0824 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@aby1061 I though is my problem

    • @ssj_neo
      @ssj_neo 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      @@aby1061 basically they added math to sudoku. No matter which way you turn the magic square it will add up to 15. Then they also added a bit of chess into the equation so it makes it easier to discern the location of certain numbers based off a chess knight.

  • @ArmundJay
    @ArmundJay 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1832

    The fact that the diagonals and knight’s move “restrictions” practically made this solvable is amazing to me.

    • @pelletier1986
      @pelletier1986 4 ปีที่แล้ว +137

      Exactly. At first I was very skeptical when just seeing the board with 4 numbers, but those additionnal restrictions are actually huge clues and tremendiously help in solving it. Not saying it's easy, I'm no Sudoku expert (I don't really like them).
      His software is pretty nice though! Taking notes like this in real life is more... messy haha.

    • @SuperUghe
      @SuperUghe 4 ปีที่แล้ว +20

      Why? It just gives you more ways to eliminate numbers and figure out the correct ones

    • @ArmundJay
      @ArmundJay 4 ปีที่แล้ว +55

      SuperUghe exactly. At first glance it just sounds like the “restrictions” would make it harder, when in reality they enable you to solve the puzzle.

    • @joseignaciofarias2617
      @joseignaciofarias2617 4 ปีที่แล้ว +26

      Thats one of my favorite principles of game design, you cant always mark the end of the level with a reward, you can spice it up by showing the player where NOT to go
      (I know it sounds stupid, but once you have it in your mind you realize how many levels could be upgraded with that phylosophy)

    • @zierlyn
      @zierlyn 4 ปีที่แล้ว +20

      In fact, the three added restrictions (diagonals, knight's move, and magic square) made this sudoku much easier to solve than most regular ones. There wasn't even a single mention of any type of "fish."

  • @LivelyLinnea
    @LivelyLinnea ปีที่แล้ว +3

    nearly 3 years after this was uploaded and it first showed up in my recommendations, it was recommended to me again. Only now I'm an avid cracking the cryptic watcher and it's all thanks to this video. wow time sure does fly.

  • @RandalXVI
    @RandalXVI 4 ปีที่แล้ว +610

    *puts a 5 in the middle square*
    Me: "outstanding move"

  • @omegastar2508
    @omegastar2508 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1828

    This whole video I'm just: "I like your funny words magic man"

    • @mahinwahid5161
      @mahinwahid5161 4 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      Omega Star my personal favorite part was when he filled the numbers

    • @dj_thunderkwark1536
      @dj_thunderkwark1536 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      He speaks dutch if ur wondering

    • @Foxy_Lo-Fi
      @Foxy_Lo-Fi 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      Forbidden app user

    • @gabej5687
      @gabej5687 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      A redditor in the wild?

    • @omegastar2508
      @omegastar2508 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@gabej5687 no

  • @catherine52525
    @catherine52525 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1924

    i was thoroughly entertained from start to finish wow.

    • @sadblueyluey4696
      @sadblueyluey4696 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      indeed bro

    • @doorwish3403
      @doorwish3403 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@sadblueyluey4696 lmao

    • @sadblueyluey4696
      @sadblueyluey4696 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@doorwish3403 lol why?

    • @doorwish3403
      @doorwish3403 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@sadblueyluey4696 the use of a word like indeed with bro

    • @sadblueyluey4696
      @sadblueyluey4696 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@doorwish3403 hahaha ye I figured it now after thorough speculation bro

  • @v0id_d3m0n
    @v0id_d3m0n 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    It wasn't this video, but I remember watching my first ever CTC video and having my eyes opened to the world of variants. Like so many people with their first CTC vid, I was so confused, barely following, but along for the ride. Now I'm actually attempting and succeeding at these sudokus. What a journey and what a channel! So many precious experience of discovery!

  • @that_rendle
    @that_rendle 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1805

    This dude is flat-out one of the most watchable people on the entire internet.

    • @oura_borosa
      @oura_borosa 3 ปีที่แล้ว +13

      I thought the same...:)) found this today and im so grateful

    • @matejbrozkovec8795
      @matejbrozkovec8795 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      I love how when he found a naked six at the middle collum lower row he was just so happy.

  • @CrimsonKing11
    @CrimsonKing11 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1706

    25 minutes of me silently saying “ahh yes of coarse” to myself even though I had no idea of what was happening

    • @somestranger0283
      @somestranger0283 4 ปีที่แล้ว +15

      i dont even know how sudoku works, but i still watched the entire thing, i dont know why

    • @willgibson7259
      @willgibson7259 3 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      @@somestranger0283 start from basic ones, they're a really great puzzle

    • @alli97253
      @alli97253 3 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      @@somestranger0283 the basic rules are: you need one of each of the numbers 1-9 in every row, column, and 3x3 box. And since there’s 9 cells in each, that means there can’t be repeats. Any extra rules are specific to the puzzle and are explained at the beginning of the video

    • @tacocatt6808
      @tacocatt6808 3 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      Course*

    • @Deep_phobias
      @Deep_phobias 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      @@tacocatt6808 no he meant coarse, sudoku is a rough game

  • @plauze82
    @plauze82 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1114

    Never played Sudoku.
    No idea what he is doing.
    No idea why this was recommended to me.
    But it was really entertaining.

    • @danielross7983
      @danielross7983 4 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      Loads of onliune sudoko sites... with the virus, it's a good time to learn how to solve them.

    • @zaddyxyborg9873
      @zaddyxyborg9873 4 ปีที่แล้ว +11

      Youve never played sudoku? Thats crazy my 2nd grade teacher gave me my first there were only like 8 open slots

    • @alexandrubragari1537
      @alexandrubragari1537 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      The Algoritm knows you, better then you do lol

    • @dr.vivekaakula1541
      @dr.vivekaakula1541 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      you should learn how to
      its really interesting

    • @donniexdarko
      @donniexdarko 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      same

  • @jamiebrown4647
    @jamiebrown4647 3 ปีที่แล้ว +29

    never been so confused yet satisfied in my life

  • @olympiavitali9035
    @olympiavitali9035 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2346

    this guy is so calming he's like the bob ross of puzzles.

    • @opachkii
      @opachkii 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Bob Ross’s little brother

    • @blueninja6913
      @blueninja6913 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      FAX
      half the time I had to check if the video was paused lol

    • @polishedmeat6399
      @polishedmeat6399 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      I recommend you check out Ephermal Rift, he does a shit ton of good ASMR videos, and he even played Minecraft, and made a sacntuary, just type in youtube "Minecraft Sanctuary"

    • @salemtargaryen123
      @salemtargaryen123 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      Happy little trees

  • @jaywinters6010
    @jaywinters6010 4 ปีที่แล้ว +449

    *enters numbers here and there*
    "suddenly we've done all the 2's"
    Me: *enters 1 number*
    "suddenly we've got no more moves"

  • @shinysparce3708
    @shinysparce3708 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1123

    Dude, this guy just seems so happy about the little things in life. The way he chuckles when he sees how cleverly the puzzle was made is so wholesome. Be like this guy. Enjoy the little things.

    • @LocherYT
      @LocherYT ปีที่แล้ว +17

      Dude, when he investigated the 2s to find out that magical link that plots everything nicely back to the start of his investigation, i nearly jump from my chair. This rewarding feeling is something that's been missing from my math class my entire school life. It gave me a new appreciation for Sudoku

    • @XplainHindi
      @XplainHindi ปีที่แล้ว

      @@LocherYT yeah.....

  • @windybeach2184
    @windybeach2184 2 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    This old video has given me such an appreciation for the new software and the amazing free app

  • @devinsynnott5627
    @devinsynnott5627 4 ปีที่แล้ว +789

    When I clicked this video I certainly didn’t expect to watch the whole thing especially not at 5 am but the time just flew!

    • @onepunch9203
      @onepunch9203 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      As I type this reply it is 5:11am. 🙂👍🏼

    • @gabriellemattoon984
      @gabriellemattoon984 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      4:53 AM for me haha

    • @25Yasindayim
      @25Yasindayim 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      I'm watching this at 6 AM rn

    • @theRealPadster
      @theRealPadster 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      And I didn't expect to spend the next two and a half hours doing it myself and nudging the video forwards when I got stuck. Not sure if I should be proud of that or not, it took a long time

  • @azopheliornergal4121
    @azopheliornergal4121 4 ปีที่แล้ว +153

    Dear TH-cam algorithm:
    Thank you, nailed it this time.

    • @qwazaqwazaq
      @qwazaqwazaq 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      Я тоже в шоке!

  • @lal4mm
    @lal4mm 4 ปีที่แล้ว +208

    "Wow how elegant is that..."
    I'm actually speachless

  • @randysavage1011
    @randysavage1011 ปีที่แล้ว +13

    I love how far this has come in two years. 4 given digits and 25 minutes is a GAS puzzle these days 😂

  • @sadcat8671
    @sadcat8671 4 ปีที่แล้ว +15313

    #StayHome

    • @doedelkakje
      @doedelkakje 4 ปีที่แล้ว +50

      Anifco67 legend

    • @iamAdoreee
      @iamAdoreee 4 ปีที่แล้ว +80

      And why did I watch the whole damn thing?

    • @TradingWithSergueev
      @TradingWithSergueev 4 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😩😩

    • @vincent4724
      @vincent4724 4 ปีที่แล้ว +23

      @@iamAdoreee same... all 25 minutes of it too ._.

    • @StrongShizuma001
      @StrongShizuma001 4 ปีที่แล้ว +40

      TH-cam recommendation. Not disappointed, for once.

  • @brianbernstein3826
    @brianbernstein3826 3 ปีที่แล้ว +825

    Don’t EVER help this guy move: “The coffee table goes there which means there must be a lamp in either this corner or this corner.”

    • @marcomilo7566
      @marcomilo7566 3 ปีที่แล้ว +15

      underrated

    • @kaitlynh5782
      @kaitlynh5782 3 ปีที่แล้ว +47

      “And the bookshelf goes right there for obvious reasons.”
      Me: “Yeah, totally. That makes perfect sense”

    • @seanrrr
      @seanrrr 3 ปีที่แล้ว +13

      Plus nobody wants to help him with his night move.

  • @joefirth4148
    @joefirth4148 4 ปีที่แล้ว +599

    "we will be able to place a 2 in this box.... gOoD gRieF"
    Ive never been so interested in something I know nothing about in my whole life

  • @RobOwenKing
    @RobOwenKing 3 ปีที่แล้ว +12

    So fun coming back to some of these a year later. "Only 4 digits?" Oh my poor summer child. You have no idea what's coming.

  • @charliethomas4250
    @charliethomas4250 4 ปีที่แล้ว +558

    “25 minutes of a guy playing sudoku? Who would watch that?” 25 minutes later “oh”.

    • @spood3450
      @spood3450 4 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      Didn't realize I just sat here for half an hour watching this until I read your comment😂

    • @heldersilva6672
      @heldersilva6672 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      I even was: "This bloody video of a guy playing sudoku has 3M views?! 😮"
      25 minutes later: (presses like button)

  • @ryandeklerk9553
    @ryandeklerk9553 4 ปีที่แล้ว +466

    That's actually a very interesting puzzle. The knight's move constraint is a nice twist on the traditional rules

    • @Ahex75
      @Ahex75 4 ปีที่แล้ว +18

      At first this seemed an impossible sudoku, but adding those magic square, diagonal and knight move made it interesting, but not very hard to solve. I like more of these twisted ones than originals with hard difficulty (*****). In those you need to plan few moves ahead and if you make a mistake you most likely find it only in last moves. My mom wasn't very smart and was poor in math, but solved sudokus really fast. She even didn't know how and couldn't tell others how to solve sudoku. Some excel in other fields of life than others and everyone have their skills which they master.

    • @WiTTeNx
      @WiTTeNx 4 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      knight and diagonal move makes this solvable else it is impossible to solve. magic cube isnt hard to solve, its an easy algorithm, just need a restrain ( the 2 and 384 line made it a one way solve ) but it is still very impressive to solve. it seems like a giant unclimable mountain at first.

    • @sadblueyluey4696
      @sadblueyluey4696 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      yes

    • @dogstar167
      @dogstar167 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      only way to solve it

    • @crazyape515
      @crazyape515 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      Knights move makes it doable but then eventually makes it easy to solve once you've reached a certain point

  • @florinmuntoiu5907
    @florinmuntoiu5907 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1438

    Me: Not being able to sleep at 2am
    TH-cam: Here's a video of a guy solving a very hard sudoku...

    • @jayaitch6628
      @jayaitch6628 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      @@Wg14159 I just finished the video and it's 2;28 bruh

    • @airforce3496
      @airforce3496 4 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      William Gurebo bro no way, it’s almost like there’s parts of the world that aren’t at the same time as you.

    • @Zekor4
      @Zekor4 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Here it's almost 3 A.M. now.

    • @jobr330
      @jobr330 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@Zekor4 now it is after 3am

    • @laurencrute8937
      @laurencrute8937 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      2:51 for me 👍

  • @Hwkman4
    @Hwkman4 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    I used to do sudokus for a break from studying during medschool. I gave one of the hardest ones to my buddy, and he solve it in under 2 minutes. Writing them in from left to right top to bottom. I had always known he had the most impressive memory of anyone I have ever met. But in that moment I felt chills.

  • @TheLyricsGuy
    @TheLyricsGuy 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1441

    Me: “Well, we know there isn’t a 2 in the bottom row...”

    • @walterreedjr6762
      @walterreedjr6762 4 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      He started with a 2 in the bottom row

    • @reallaporte2845
      @reallaporte2845 4 ปีที่แล้ว +14

      And the right column...

    • @nathanwoolard4738
      @nathanwoolard4738 4 ปีที่แล้ว +97

      Walter Reed Jr that’s... that’s the joke

    • @clarayu5409
      @clarayu5409 4 ปีที่แล้ว +15

      @@walterreedjr6762 r/whoosh

    • @nothingisreal6816
      @nothingisreal6816 4 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      @@walterreedjr6762 Yeah that's the joke man

  • @gustavostabe2490
    @gustavostabe2490 4 ปีที่แล้ว +447

    Therapist: so you say you find your self feeling lost and confused?
    Me: yes, can you explain to me the secret of a magic box?
    Therapist: a magic what?

    • @peterkelley6344
      @peterkelley6344 4 ปีที่แล้ว +17

      Three by three Magic Squares have three rules. If you know them then you can solve any Magic Square of this size.
      1) All rows, columns , and long diagonals must come to a sum of same number (generally a number divisible by three [3]).
      2) The center number will always be 1/3 of the key number of the puzzle.
      3) Corner numbers will always be 1/2 the total of the opposing short (two square) diagonal.
      The rules remain the same for squares that have decimal values (.23), or negative numbers in the squares (-42).

    • @rrryn
      @rrryn 4 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      @Peter Kelly that confused me more.

    • @peterkelley6344
      @peterkelley6344 4 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      @@rrryn I had to learn those rules in High School (1970's) The books we used were obviously from another era of math classes (1950's?). If I had a way to send you diagrams it would probably make a lot more sense. I became so engrossed in Magic Squares I began doing them in decimal forms (.33 etc).

  • @ryanbarofsky4948
    @ryanbarofsky4948 4 ปีที่แล้ว +783

    I wonder what it’s like to be able to say the sentence “my sudoku video went viral”

    • @arejay9509
      @arejay9509 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      Sharted earlier, stay safe out there bro

    • @williambrown8249
      @williambrown8249 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@arejay9509 wut?

    • @arejay9509
      @arejay9509 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@williambrown8249 Tried to fart and shit came out, I got kicked out of the store. Be safe out there my friend.

    • @williambrown8249
      @williambrown8249 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@arejay9509 Thanks for the warning.

  • @rexmyers991
    @rexmyers991 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Absolutely Brilliant! I can’t believe I actually followed along. I had to pause it twice to catch up. Very enjoyable.

  • @sephikong8323
    @sephikong8323 3 ปีที่แล้ว +739

    I was following along decently, then suddenly he pieced everything together, it sped up and I could no longer catch up. I totally felt like Watson at that point

    • @soumilchhatwani2357
      @soumilchhatwani2357 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      IKRRRR

    • @demasdaan
      @demasdaan 3 ปีที่แล้ว +12

      I felt like Watson from the start, not gonna lie

    • @wabc2336
      @wabc2336 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      opposite for me, i had to really think at first with the magic square math but at the end it was all quick and easy stuff

    • @lindseyherbst9444
      @lindseyherbst9444 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      There was a point when he knew the 4 was in the top right quadrant for the diagonal and not in the bottom left corner and I still don't know how he got that.

    • @MWsamui
      @MWsamui 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      There was a point when he sped up and I thought, 'this ain't slowing down from this point, he's well and truly left me behind'

  • @HerrSimonson
    @HerrSimonson 4 ปีที่แล้ว +622

    This quarantine really got me watching a guy solving a sudoku at 2:30 am while eating pasta naked but with socks on a monday night

    • @koerdzijlstra8513
      @koerdzijlstra8513 4 ปีที่แล้ว +58

      The creepy part is that I'm doing the exact same thing wtf

    • @zmaj12321
      @zmaj12321 4 ปีที่แล้ว +36

      is naked pasta eating just a normal thing then?

    • @AnnXYZ666
      @AnnXYZ666 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      I do that often

    • @her_bs
      @her_bs 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      You posted this at 8 on a Sunday

    • @AnnXYZ666
      @AnnXYZ666 4 ปีที่แล้ว +29

      @@her_bs He could be on the other side of the earth

  • @SuperSoundtracks
    @SuperSoundtracks 3 ปีที่แล้ว +433

    After beating a medium difficulty sudoku challenge on my phone in an hour, yes, I think I'm ready for this.

  • @ImSpun13
    @ImSpun13 2 ปีที่แล้ว +15

    This is my favorite puzzle so far that I’ve seen. It’s not ridiculously difficult, the rules are easy to understand and the symmetry makes it beautiful. Hats off to the creator!
    🎩
    🙋‍♂️

  • @CZeke
    @CZeke 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1559

    What I wanna know is how someone _composes_ a problem like this!

    • @Wherrimy
      @Wherrimy 4 ปีที่แล้ว +49

      Probably using brute force search with some heuristics to shorten the time need

    • @oblivion_2852
      @oblivion_2852 4 ปีที่แล้ว +66

      The other day I wrote a sudoku solver in 10mins. I've been thinking I could probably add these extra constraints and then find one of the solutions I like then randomly reduce the number of starting digits untill there's more than 1 unique solution. Then I use the last unique solution.

    • @moto2442
      @moto2442 4 ปีที่แล้ว +43

      I feel like the first step must be writing out the puzzle to completion and then gradually removing numbers so you can still solve it.

    • @peppermint2133
      @peppermint2133 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      That’s soo true i had an Epiphany like half way through

    • @freakgib
      @freakgib 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      @@oblivion_2852 Could this technic be used to make a good compression tool

  • @graflovespeep2487
    @graflovespeep2487 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4467

    I like the fact that the sudoku as a whole also is a magic square, with all columns, rows and the two diagonals adding up to 45

    • @Nevir202
      @Nevir202 4 ปีที่แล้ว +229

      More like a magic square is kind of like a sudoku in miniature.

    • @graflovespeep2487
      @graflovespeep2487 4 ปีที่แล้ว +307

      @@Nevir202 I guess, but in a normal sudoku the diagonals don't have to add up to 45, but in this sudoku it is one of the rules.

    • @drex5242
      @drex5242 4 ปีที่แล้ว +112

      Yeah it’s only that way because of the diagonal rule

    • @bevstarrunner9472
      @bevstarrunner9472 4 ปีที่แล้ว +42

      Maybe call it a semi-magic square.. a couple of the digits have been used more than once..

    • @57thorns
      @57thorns 4 ปีที่แล้ว +58

      Not really, because a magic square only contains one of each digit.

  • @jerickcastro5488
    @jerickcastro5488 4 ปีที่แล้ว +500

    Him: "Here's the link so you can play along."
    Me: (👁️👄👁️)

  • @Linkus555888
    @Linkus555888 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    No idea how this ended up on my recommendations, i don't even like sudoku but i watched the entire video and am now looking for online sudoku puzzles. Amazing to watch! :D

  • @sarahs.9331
    @sarahs.9331 4 ปีที่แล้ว +280

    "This has to be 4 7 or 9? that's not. that's not a great restriction. oh, no, 4 as well, here, so th -- oh, i'm going mad." just such a simple acceptance of the fact that his sanity is slipping away. iconic.

  • @samanthagrenon8878
    @samanthagrenon8878 4 ปีที่แล้ว +667

    The comments seem to be filled with people like me: really no clue whats going on, but really enjoying it anyway

    • @jearandmangubat9414
      @jearandmangubat9414 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      How do you get so many like xD

    • @samanthagrenon8878
      @samanthagrenon8878 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@jearandmangubat9414 Because the comment section is filled with people like me :D

  • @hopkirk87
    @hopkirk87 4 ปีที่แล้ว +717

    I'd love to see one of these done with eye-tracking software used to show how he scans the grid.

    • @matthewlyons6544
      @matthewlyons6544 4 ปีที่แล้ว +43

      hopkirk87 That would be a really interesting video. Insight into how the mind works...

    • @gunalx
      @gunalx 4 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      Interesting science experiment.

    • @rhaeven
      @rhaeven 4 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      a tetris player i used to watch had that and it was very interesting, and useful to help your own awareness

    • @SwordBlaze
      @SwordBlaze 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@rhaeven which video is that? I'm curious

    • @rhaeven
      @rhaeven 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@SwordBlaze the streamer is Wumbotize, here's two hours of him winning Tetris 99 with eye tracking
      th-cam.com/video/UPrDFgJ0TRM/w-d-xo.html

  • @ssmalley2193
    @ssmalley2193 2 ปีที่แล้ว +9

    This is way more exciting than I thought it would be

  • @bohdannyman
    @bohdannyman 4 ปีที่แล้ว +144

    9:45pm why is youtube recommending I watch sudokus
    9:48pm HOLY BONKERS IT'S A FIVE! Simon you mastermind!

  • @chickenmon
    @chickenmon 4 ปีที่แล้ว +29

    I would have never seen myself watching 25 minutes of a guy solving a sudoku puzzle, but the beauty of that puzzle combined with your commentary made it truly enjoyable watching. Thank you!

  • @MrHabibi3
    @MrHabibi3 4 ปีที่แล้ว +176

    This guy: *Analysis Intensifies*
    Me, play Sudoku: *spam number 1-9 until i get the answer per box intensifies*

  • @gray9065
    @gray9065 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I wasn’t going to watch this whole videos but you voice is just so calming and fun to listen to.