I wanted to thank you for uploading as often as you do. I have really bad sleep problems, and i find your video's help more than any medication has done alone. You've truly made my and others' lives better♡♡
@EleonoraCV i know right, ive fallen asleep to these videos for months. They are interesting but take so much focus you dose of to the soothing voice and no random yelling. A true godsend for me.
Same, I genuinely don't know what I would do without these videos. I used to have so many problems, really affected my life, now only rarely I have issues with falling asleep. Thanks to Simon and Mark, you really have helped me more than words can express
I often rewatch my favorite CTC videos when I’m too wound up to sleep (like watching too many political videos). I also recommend this channel to friends who need to wind down.
Thanks for the Plumbing self-deprecation, makes me feel better about myself as someone who is still pretty hopeless at variant Sudoku, but a bit of a Jack-of-all-trades for round-the-house DIY. Maybe it would help if you thought about how the pump has to be orthogonally connected to the rest of the pipe?
I was about to make this joke. "Have I misunderstood this complete," asked Simon, understanding this completely. But I had a sudden realization from that joke. One of the skills that makes you so good at puzzle solving is your openness to being wrong and throwing out an idea entirely.
Thanks for showcasing my puzzle, Simon. I've been on holiday for the last two weeks, so it was a very nice surprise to see it solved while I was away. You made a super job of it, following my intended path pretty much to the letter :)
@29:54 "these are the decisions that are sent to try us!" in reference to choosing a region color made me smile, gonna add that phrase to my vernacular
I want to thank this channel for helping me learn to think in ways outside the box. A few days ago i asked for help to set a puzzle, i got no answers but i felt a nudge of inspiration from the infinity puzzle and went for it. I want to make a little book of 10, 6x6 puzzles that celebrate the variants ive learnt. Starting with a nice sandwich. There is no more of a thrill than clicking the check and it tells you you created a unique solution. 🎉 Thank you all
@CrackingTheCryptic, Simon, i don't see many plumbing reactions to your shout-out so, as a Dutch 'plumber' (i did maintenance on stuff that used drains) went chippie, i will try my best english: My best guess sofar going off of your size descriptions in the video-description, is that the old connection could be 1,25 (one and a quarter, five quarter, however it's locally known) inch threaded coupling and the pump company decided to give more room for output by upgrading the size to 1,5 (or six quarter etc etc) inch threaded coupling. So easiest solution if a little bit of space is allowed (between pump and pipe) would be a reducing ring with one side 6/4 female (inside thread) connection and other side 5/4 male (outside thread) connection. Else you'd need to make a piece of pipe to go in between the pump and metal pipe with a coupling ring on one side (which would be the 6/4 female) and a glue on nipple on the other side (being the 5/4 male). This story could be written exactly as is but with one or 2 off the sizes being different, because i am guessing from inside diameter to drain sizes i know(knew). For better communication with a supply store clerc, try and get some external pipe diameter sizes when possible (and don't be surprised; plumbing is one of these industries where metric and imperial still hang tight) in milimeter :P Favourably external pipe, not soldered, braised or glued on fitting outside diameter. Good luck!
Only really got into sudoku about 5 months ago. First chaos puzzle I’ve attempted. Completed it with no hints. Admittedly it took way over 90 mins but still felt like a real achievement. All thanks to Simon and Mark and their videos. Thank you for introducing me to how much enjoyment there is in sudoku
This is the sort of clean logic Chilly always comes up with, all the way through from start to finish. And it works so well in a Fog of War puzzle, too .....
After a stressful and upsetting day, a fog of war puzzle is just what is needed. Thank you Simon for making my day so much better. Brilliant puzzle by Chilly.
I lost count how many times I've shouted at my screen. There were so much resolved stuff using circle/arrows that he resolved in others ways, but way later.
@@sagov9 He kind of did. but in such a trivial way. At 53:46 he uses the 7-8 pair which he hadn't earned. That said, at 53:26 he got the 9 in blue which could have used that to eliminate the 9 in 2,2 instead.
What a great puzzle - and video. I am a little bit behind in my viewing, but knew that I had to watch this one as close to its publication as possible because it was bound to be fun. I was absolutely right. I think your region-defining skills are fantastic, Simon, and this puzzle just might be one I would try, having watched you solve it. Thank you for this, and all, great content on this channel.
Terrific puzzle. The logic flowed so beautifully, especially in the first half. (And maybe in the second half too, if I hadn't repeatedly missed things or come to erroneous conclusions.)
I usually don't have much luck with chaos construction sudokus. But combining that with the fog helped me focus on the intended path through the puzzle, and I was able to work my way through it. Nice puzzle, Chilly!
I finished in 103 minutes. That was a really fun puzzle to figure out. I enjoyed these rulesets greatly. Everything flowed well, but I did get lost for about half an hour, until I realized that I had completely missed an arrow clue in r8c4. After that, it became straightforward again. I think my favorite part was figuring out where the green region went and immediately getting a 2 placed. I had a good time with this one. Great Puzzle!
Managed to finish in 40 minutes, this was a fun puzzle. I always make chaos construction a little more difficult by adding in a 4-color limit since that's the minimum you need to fully cover a 2D plane of different regions.
These are the most relaxing videos ever. Your voice is so soothing Simon I pass out every night to one of your videos. Then I rewatch it the next day to see how you solved the puzzle! 😅 You’re amazing.
Amazing construction. I don’t normally attempt the longer videos as I’m still a relative novice but I love chaos constructions and fog of war so to have both in the same puzzle made my day and I couldn’t help but give it a shot. You know it’s a good puzzle when you have to be up early but you just can’t help but plough on through at 1am! Thanks again Chilly. Hope to see more from you 👍.
I really, really enjoyed this puzzle. Coloring is always fun. Especially the tail end in the northeast, having to switch back to sudoku to figure out digit exclusions to finish the coloring, was a fun twist.
Regarding your plumbing/electrical problems- that is why you make friends with people who are good at those skills and treat them like royalty!!! It takes a village! 😃
What a beaut this one! Needed some percolation in the brain to start and then some more to get rolling, but it was all doable after the percolation had happened, not a total pushover but no more new difficultys to find out. (took me 77:20) Thank you @Chilly for the puzzle, thank you Simon for the solve and video!
I tried this one on my own and I actually did fairly well. I did need some help right around the time you figured out the 2 cells in the upper right, but other than that I was able to figure it out without any other help. Really enjoyed it!
Solved in 5 hours 25 mins. First ever Fog of War puzzle for me. After uncovering the 2 in row 1 I am pretty confident there are two possible solutions you can't disambiguate from the rules only. Chose the wrong one and had to unwind back to that point. I just can't see how it should be logical that the circle in row 2 is a 6 and not a 5. But guess I'm just stupid. Now looking forward to see the video.
It would be quite good fun to design a puzzle that starts off clear, then adds foggy squares as you enter certain correct digits, where each foggy square represents something such as a region boundary count or a doubler.
@@catsandbooksforever5672 it's in order: number>9, digit, color so that means one is referring to digit rather than number>9, and note that the one after is "blue" referring to most often mentioned color
I could find my way, thanks, and a most enjoyable journey it was too, even if I meandered for a while in the middle, not seeing the wood for the trees. Don't recall seeing a fog/chaos combo before.
"Yess, precious, Smeagol has founds it, and he will show Master safe path through the mist! Orcs don't use it, Orcs don't know it, they go around for miles and miles..."
That orange 2 was not how I did it, but wow for spotted that. Row 6 has a 1-> in c4, meaning if Orange went into row 6, it must take the rest of that row (as the border would be between green and orange), but that would take too many cells for orange. Hence orange must stay below that row. Then with the borders from the 4-> in row 8, orange really only has one route it can take without breaking the border lines. I did make a slight mistake in r7/8 c8/9, but the circle fixed it.
Will also add, when you have a x-> and an , with the X at the edge of the grid, you know x = 2y, as x will see y borders to the left of y, and y borders to the right of y. Could have gotten the 6 on row 9 using that. (there was a ^3v above it).
43:04 finish. I got stuck for a little while in the middle, forgetting to do my law of leftovers (and I do love my leftovers). But once I broke through, it was smooth sailing to the end. One bit of logic that Simon missed (and it may have been mentioned elsewhere but I'll do it again): the double arrow in r4c5 is exactly half of the circle arrow in r9c5, as they are both counting the entirety of column 5. Another superb puzzle!
24:31 Possible to immediately fill the revealed up arrow in clues r9c5 and r8c5 with a 6 and a 5 respectively-the 3 double arrow above means there must be 6 total boundaries in the column, all of which are seen by r9c5 and all but one of which are seen by r8c5
I got about halfway through, then got horribly stuck. Started watching Simon's solve, and then realized "DO BASIC IRREGULAR SUDOKU, YOU PUTZ". 😅 Was finally able to finish in 54:39 (conflict checker off), but really should have noticed some obvious things earlier than I did... oh well! Many thanks to Chilly for a very cool puzzle!
Simon: always complains when setters make him do sudoku in their sudoku puzzles. Also Simon: makes sudoku without need after only 30 minutes although there would be a lot of other stuff he could do 🤣
13:54 Things you haven't noted... Reminder that R6C2 is a 2... Because R6C4 is a 1 and sees one less border than it in the easterly direction. R9C3 is in a different region from orange. R6C1 currently sees 6 cells. So it is from [678] (can't be 9 or it would see R9C2) R9C1 is one less than that, so it is from [567] and R7C1 sees one less than that and is from [456] There is always a 6 in one of them R5C3 is at least a 3 and at most a 4. Since blue already has a 2 in it, R7C3 is not blue. You can add a border between blue and R7C3. This new region must turn after one easterly move, or else the 2 in the circle will break. R6C4 is part of this new region. Where is the digit 1 in blue? Blue is currently 7 cells large so it cannot grow past column 4 to take a 1 from column 5. In blue, the digit 1 is in column 1. Row 5 or row 4. R5C1 is definitely part of blue. 67C1 now sees 7 cells and is from [78], R9C1 is from [67] and R7C1 is from [56], there is now definitely a 7 in one of those cells.
Don’t worry Simon about not being able to do plumbing. As a wise man once told me, all you need to know is that dreck flows downhill and payday’s Friday. Hopefully that helps! 😂
Sometimes, more often than I am proud of, I pause the video to do something and then come back and look at Simon sitting there totally motionless looking at the puzzle and think "Come on Simon... say something!"
near half hour was for me surprise that genius Simon misses obvious point. Putting candidates 89 to cell when you already know that one cell in that region is not visible so we know that must be 8.
Still slowly savoring sudokus here with a 05:06:21. Feeling good about this time and was only mildly frustrated. Some really lovely logic here, including numbers thay just seemed to materialize deep within the fog.
18:59 How many orange borders does R5C5 see? At least one. IF it itself is orange. But if R5C5 is orange, it can't be a 1 because orange already has a 1 in it. And so it would see two borders but in actuality, if it's orange, it will only ever see one. Since it isn't orange, it will see two borders. One changing into orange and one changing into whatever color you will pick for the region in R9C3, which isn't orange and has to get out past orange. R5C5 is a 2, R4C5 is a 3. R5C5 is not green, blue, orange or R9C3 colored. It is a new region. Green cannot take R7C5 or or R6C5 or the border count breaks for R5C5. (and besides, circle logic already tells us that green turns up into R6C4) And green must go into R5C4 as well. Now R5C5, in the westerly direction, sees green and blue. All its borders are accounted for. Both of R5C2 and R5C3 can't be blue. One of them has to be green. And you can't skip over blue if blue took R5C3 and make R5C2 green, there would be 4 borders then. R5C3 is green, R5C2 is blue. (again, it can't be a new region, there would be too many borders) R5C1 is a 1 because of this. R5C2 is a 3. R5C3 is a 4. EDIT: HMM, I must have missed something really strange. At 22:54 I really can't see how the 2 in R5C5 will be satisfied if not all cells in R5C2 to R5C4 are one color. But the only colors that can appear below R5C5 is orange and purple. Green can't go there. Green needs to take R5C4... OOOOOH RIIIIGHT, all of R5C2 to R5C4 are green. DUH on me. I somehow got locked onto the idea that blue and green had to meet halfway. But the only thing that matters is that only blue and green appear west of R5C5. Also, i am doing this "pre-solving" all in my head without pencil marks. I don't solve the puzzles beforehand either. I am solving as i watch the video, and the [34] pair wasn't immediately obvious to me.
44:00 With the 8 in red the only place for 8 in column 6 is in row 7, placing 7s next to and above it, completing the column with a 4 in red, so red can't go to the top of column 9. That fact shows quickly how the regions finish.
9:40 "What does this 2 mean??? What does R8C2 mean? It's a 1. I mean, how about we do the simple things first... 1) Sudoku 2) Pencil marks 3) Obvious "hidden" given digits 4) Fleshing out various implications. ... 99) Simon logic. ;)
This is weird, I managed to get the correct solution, but I have a region with two 2's in it, so now to watch the video to find out where I went wrong with my region drawing.
Yes, this can happen; the solution checker only checks that the digits are in the correct places. Other markings in the grid are not checked. I have had this happen before in one of the (few) snake puzzles I tried: the sudoku was correct but the snake was in the wrong cells.
I thought that *chaos construction* meant 11x11 grid with nine 3x3 boxes placed by the solver. Is that used for any shapes whenever their shape or position needs to be determined by the solver?
I believe those 11x11 puzzles are often named "deconstruction" puzzles. Yes, chaos construction tends to mean it's part of the puzzle to locate the (irregular) regions yourself.
For anyone wondering, he removes the 9 pencilmark at 38:54, after placing 9 diagonally adjacent in a different region. So no, no valid reason for doing so.
At 38:56 you removed 9 as a candidate in cell R2C2. I don't see a justification for that. Fortunately, it didn't seem to result in an error or invalid deduction later, but I thought you should know.
Lol yeah 😂,I didn't notice this one . I don't understand how we ruled out 2 in R1C8 from red because Red can certainly reach it within 9 cells.Any other restriction it has?
9:03 It's funny that this is going to be obvious to you. But i think you are slow. Could R7C3 be a 1? How big would its region be if it was a 1... It would be a 1 cell region because it cannot connect orthogonally anywhere without seeing more than one cell in its region. R7C3 is a 2, there are therefore 2 region borders to the west and south of it. And thus, the region of R7C3 will grow ONE cell either to the north or to the east and then make a turn. There WILL be a different region in either R6C3 or R7C4, which one it is will probably become evident as the fog clears.
I think that you might need to direct this question to Sven (the creator of the software). I am not sure he reads all of the comments on all of the videos that use his software, so using the contact info available in his software would be a good way to reach him, I think.
I wanted to thank you for uploading as often as you do. I have really bad sleep problems, and i find your video's help more than any medication has done alone. You've truly made my and others' lives better♡♡
@EleonoraCV i know right, ive fallen asleep to these videos for months. They are interesting but take so much focus you dose of to the soothing voice and no random yelling. A true godsend for me.
Same, I genuinely don't know what I would do without these videos. I used to have so many problems, really affected my life, now only rarely I have issues with falling asleep. Thanks to Simon and Mark, you really have helped me more than words can express
I often rewatch my favorite CTC videos when I’m too wound up to sleep (like watching too many political videos). I also recommend this channel to friends who need to wind down.
I just did this one at 0100 at night, just finished at 0225 :P So yeah this sounds very familiair
Completely relatable, but I should sleep before the video finishes or if I am tempted to solve it myself then I cannot sleep until I solve it
Thanks for the Plumbing self-deprecation, makes me feel better about myself as someone who is still pretty hopeless at variant Sudoku, but a bit of a Jack-of-all-trades for round-the-house DIY. Maybe it would help if you thought about how the pump has to be orthogonally connected to the rest of the pipe?
It also has to have a difference of at least 5 between pipe segments 😂.
okay, now we need a constructer to make such a sudoku
I was about to make this joke. "Have I misunderstood this complete," asked Simon, understanding this completely. But I had a sudden realization from that joke. One of the skills that makes you so good at puzzle solving is your openness to being wrong and throwing out an idea entirely.
Thanks for showcasing my puzzle, Simon. I've been on holiday for the last two weeks, so it was a very nice surprise to see it solved while I was away. You made a super job of it, following my intended path pretty much to the letter :)
@29:54 "these are the decisions that are sent to try us!" in reference to choosing a region color made me smile, gonna add that phrase to my vernacular
I want to thank this channel for helping me learn to think in ways outside the box.
A few days ago i asked for help to set a puzzle, i got no answers but i felt a nudge of inspiration from the infinity puzzle and went for it.
I want to make a little book of 10, 6x6 puzzles that celebrate the variants ive learnt.
Starting with a nice sandwich.
There is no more of a thrill than clicking the check and it tells you you created a unique solution. 🎉
Thank you all
What a great idea! I have dabbled in setting, but I think I have never gotten one to be both unique and interesting!
@CrackingTheCryptic, Simon, i don't see many plumbing reactions to your shout-out so, as a Dutch 'plumber' (i did maintenance on stuff that used drains) went chippie, i will try my best english:
My best guess sofar going off of your size descriptions in the video-description, is that the old connection could be 1,25 (one and a quarter, five quarter, however it's locally known) inch threaded coupling and the pump company decided to give more room for output by upgrading the size to 1,5 (or six quarter etc etc) inch threaded coupling.
So easiest solution if a little bit of space is allowed (between pump and pipe) would be a reducing ring with one side 6/4 female (inside thread) connection and other side 5/4 male (outside thread) connection.
Else you'd need to make a piece of pipe to go in between the pump and metal pipe with a coupling ring on one side (which would be the 6/4 female) and a glue on nipple on the other side (being the 5/4 male).
This story could be written exactly as is but with one or 2 off the sizes being different, because i am guessing from inside diameter to drain sizes i know(knew).
For better communication with a supply store clerc, try and get some external pipe diameter sizes when possible (and don't be surprised; plumbing is one of these industries where metric and imperial still hang tight) in milimeter :P
Favourably external pipe, not soldered, braised or glued on fitting outside diameter.
Good luck!
Only really got into sudoku about 5 months ago. First chaos puzzle I’ve attempted. Completed it with no hints. Admittedly it took way over 90 mins but still felt like a real achievement. All thanks to Simon and Mark and their videos. Thank you for introducing me to how much enjoyment there is in sudoku
Well done Philip, great achievement
Well done!
Ive been doing these for nearly 2 years and this took me 125 mins lol , can't seem to get much faster
Linguistically, I just have to admire the use of the word "aplomb" to describe skillful plumbing (or the lack of it, in Simon's case).
I noticed that too - wonderful vocabulary these guys have!
This is the sort of clean logic Chilly always comes up with, all the way through from start to finish. And it works so well in a Fog of War puzzle, too .....
After a stressful and upsetting day, a fog of war puzzle is just what is needed. Thank you Simon for making my day so much better. Brilliant puzzle by Chilly.
I'm not sure a "dog of war" puzzle sounds all that relaxing.
dog of war, a new -variant- breed of sudoku
Sounds like you’ve had a woof day! Hope tomorrow is a brighter one for you. All the best.
@@RichSmith77 it was a typo
Someone should make a chaos fog of war, where each correct digit entered in the grid reveals a set of unrelated cells chosen by the setter.
Simon ignoring the arrows left, right and center is typical Simon behavior and I'm all here for it. Makes me feel smart where I certainly am not 🙂
I lost count how many times I've shouted at my screen. There were so much resolved stuff using circle/arrows that he resolved in others ways, but way later.
At 38:55 Simon takes a 9 out of row 2 column 2. I don't see how he justifies doing that. Was he just lucky?
yeah, but he didn't end up using the pencil mark, so it was fine
I think force of habit from 3x3 regions 😂
I think he just accidentally mis-clicked and didn't notice. Easy mistake, I've done it lots of times.
I was confused by that as well.
@@sagov9 He kind of did. but in such a trivial way. At 53:46 he uses the 7-8 pair which he hadn't earned.
That said, at 53:26 he got the 9 in blue which could have used that to eliminate the 9 in 2,2 instead.
00:54:35 for me. Great puzzle! Loved how all rules worked together with the sukoku to find the solution. Kind comment.
What a great puzzle - and video. I am a little bit behind in my viewing, but knew that I had to watch this one as close to its publication as possible because it was bound to be fun. I was absolutely right. I think your region-defining skills are fantastic, Simon, and this puzzle just might be one I would try, having watched you solve it. Thank you for this, and all, great content on this channel.
Terrific puzzle. The logic flowed so beautifully, especially in the first half. (And maybe in the second half too, if I hadn't repeatedly missed things or come to erroneous conclusions.)
I usually don't have much luck with chaos construction sudokus. But combining that with the fog helped me focus on the intended path through the puzzle, and I was able to work my way through it. Nice puzzle, Chilly!
I finished in 103 minutes. That was a really fun puzzle to figure out. I enjoyed these rulesets greatly. Everything flowed well, but I did get lost for about half an hour, until I realized that I had completely missed an arrow clue in r8c4. After that, it became straightforward again. I think my favorite part was figuring out where the green region went and immediately getting a 2 placed. I had a good time with this one. Great Puzzle!
Managed to finish in 40 minutes, this was a fun puzzle. I always make chaos construction a little more difficult by adding in a 4-color limit since that's the minimum you need to fully cover a 2D plane of different regions.
These are the most relaxing videos ever. Your voice is so soothing Simon I pass out every night to one of your videos. Then I rewatch it the next day to see how you solved the puzzle! 😅 You’re amazing.
Amazing construction. I don’t normally attempt the longer videos as I’m still a relative novice but I love chaos constructions and fog of war so to have both in the same puzzle made my day and I couldn’t help but give it a shot.
You know it’s a good puzzle when you have to be up early but you just can’t help but plough on through at 1am!
Thanks again Chilly. Hope to see more from you 👍.
Coloring PLUS Fog??? My absolute favorite style! 81:27 solve - really really fun and fair!
I really, really enjoyed this puzzle. Coloring is always fun. Especially the tail end in the northeast, having to switch back to sudoku to figure out digit exclusions to finish the coloring, was a fun twist.
Regarding your plumbing/electrical problems- that is why you make friends with people who are good at those skills and treat them like royalty!!! It takes a village! 😃
What a beaut this one! Needed some percolation in the brain to start and then some more to get rolling, but it was all doable after the percolation had happened, not a total pushover but no more new difficultys to find out. (took me 77:20)
Thank you @Chilly for the puzzle, thank you Simon for the solve and video!
Fantastic puzzle that was pretty approachable. Loved how the puzzle kept unfolding without falling apart all the way to the end. Finished in 47:59.
I tried this one on my own and I actually did fairly well. I did need some help right around the time you figured out the 2 cells in the upper right, but other than that I was able to figure it out without any other help. Really enjoyed it!
Solved in 5 hours 25 mins. First ever Fog of War puzzle for me. After uncovering the 2 in row 1 I am pretty confident there are two possible solutions you can't disambiguate from the rules only. Chose the wrong one and had to unwind back to that point. I just can't see how it should be logical that the circle in row 2 is a 6 and not a 5. But guess I'm just stupid. Now looking forward to see the video.
Great work Simon. Truly magical and enjoyable
I think it would be quite funny for someone to make a puzzle where you find the regions and it's just a standard sudoku setup
This is a really really good puzzle. It is so well thought out, what a fantastic construction. absolutely loved it ❤❤❤❤
Absolutely wonderful and enjoyable foggy.
I especially enjoyed the distinguishing of the last 3 regions.
38:47 ... I love fog and I love build-your-own, so ofc I really loved this one
Nice puzzle!
It would be quite good fun to design a puzzle that starts off clear, then adds foggy squares as you enter certain correct digits, where each foggy square represents something such as a region boundary count or a doubler.
2:45 🎵Oh it all makes work for the working man to do - (c) Flanders and Swann
Yes! When Simon used the word "aplomb' in referring to plumbing, I thought it sounded like their sort of wordplay.
I will never stop face planting whenever Simon complains about not clearing non-existent fog
Let's Get Cracking: 08:32
Simon's time: 46m00s
Puzzle Solved: 54:32
And how about this video's Simarkisms?!
Ah: 15x (15:40, 21:35, 27:17, 27:29, 28:35, 29:38, 30:17, 31:16, 36:35, 38:50, 39:19, 39:34, 40:57, 40:57, 42:40)
Hang On: 12x (14:47, 23:34, 23:56, 26:07, 27:11, 27:21, 27:21, 30:17, 30:37, 31:16, 36:35)
Lovely: 8x (04:21, 21:17, 25:12, 33:22, 37:08, 54:23, 55:04, 55:04)
Sorry: 7x (07:31, 09:12, 10:09, 14:35, 19:29, 24:10, 42:48)
In Fact: 6x (14:23, 18:25, 38:45, 43:30, 50:59, 51:10)
Cake!: 5x (04:01, 04:03, 04:11, 04:55, 05:02)
By Sudoku: 4x (32:21, 35:06, 37:37, 47:38)
Obviously: 4x (05:40, 08:00, 30:54, 47:16)
Goodness: 3x (00:34, 38:34, 41:10)
The Answer is: 3x (30:13, 34:40, 45:14)
Clever: 3x (27:33, 28:05, 28:09)
Break the Puzzle: 2x (12:11, 12:14)
Gorgeous: 2x (51:55, 55:01)
Whoopsie: 2x (21:02, 31:40)
I Digress: 2x (02:45, 04:41)
What Does This Mean?: 2x (24:43, 38:05)
Pencil Mark/mark: 2x (38:02)
Weird: 2x (31:56, 31:56)
Out of Nowhere: 1x (41:27)
Naughty: 1x (38:24)
Stuck: 1x (17:13)
Beautiful: 1x (48:12)
Brilliant: 1x (03:59)
Ridiculous: 1x (27:33)
Deadly Pattern: 1x (53:42)
Approachable: 1x (55:09)
Surely: 1x (25:09)
Phone is Buzzing: 1x (14:35)
Snake: 1x (54:59)
Wow: 1x (22:57)
Nature: 1x (39:11)
Most popular number(>9), digit and colour this video:
Seventy Eight (4 mentions)
One (109 mentions)
Blue (43 mentions)
Antithesis Battles:
Even (3) - Odd (0)
Black (4) - White (0)
Row (13) - Column (10)
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!
Most popular number(>9): One (109 mentions)
Something went wrong there.
@@catsandbooksforever5672That's the most popular digit.
@@catsandbooksforever5672 it's in order: number>9, digit, color
so that means one is referring to digit rather than number>9, and note that the one after is "blue" referring to most often mentioned color
@@mznshakari1 apparently I can't read. Whoops! Thanks for correcting me ^^
How many times did I shout "look at the circle!" - this could have been quicker - great setting
What a beautiful puzzle!
I could find my way, thanks, and a most enjoyable journey it was too, even if I meandered for a while in the middle, not seeing the wood for the trees. Don't recall seeing a fog/chaos combo before.
"Yess, precious, Smeagol has founds it, and he will show Master safe path through the mist! Orcs don't use it, Orcs don't know it, they go around for miles and miles..."
42m39s. This was a good time all the way through!
Chaos regions are tough but certainly make for a unique fog puzzle. 165min for me
That was great. Loved it.
"The outer edges of the grid do not count as borders" Aha! The Fence Post problem appears!
That orange 2 was not how I did it, but wow for spotted that. Row 6 has a 1-> in c4, meaning if Orange went into row 6, it must take the rest of that row (as the border would be between green and orange), but that would take too many cells for orange. Hence orange must stay below that row. Then with the borders from the 4-> in row 8, orange really only has one route it can take without breaking the border lines. I did make a slight mistake in r7/8 c8/9, but the circle fixed it.
Will also add, when you have a x-> and an , with the X at the edge of the grid, you know x = 2y, as x will see y borders to the left of y, and y borders to the right of y. Could have gotten the 6 on row 9 using that. (there was a ^3v above it).
lovely beautiful puzzle
Took me 73 minutes. Beautiful puzzle, very colourful
Let's go!! Another fog sudoku!!
43:04 finish. I got stuck for a little while in the middle, forgetting to do my law of leftovers (and I do love my leftovers). But once I broke through, it was smooth sailing to the end. One bit of logic that Simon missed (and it may have been mentioned elsewhere but I'll do it again): the double arrow in r4c5 is exactly half of the circle arrow in r9c5, as they are both counting the entirety of column 5. Another superb puzzle!
“We know that orange is different from green.” Only on CtC would you hear such a thing!
24:31 Possible to immediately fill the revealed up arrow in clues r9c5 and r8c5 with a 6 and a 5 respectively-the 3 double arrow above means there must be 6 total boundaries in the column, all of which are seen by r9c5 and all but one of which are seen by r8c5
23:45 for me. Fantastic puzzle!!
Solved it in 69:41 ! Very rewarding :-)
I got about halfway through, then got horribly stuck. Started watching Simon's solve, and then realized "DO BASIC IRREGULAR SUDOKU, YOU PUTZ". 😅 Was finally able to finish in 54:39 (conflict checker off), but really should have noticed some obvious things earlier than I did... oh well! Many thanks to Chilly for a very cool puzzle!
Took time out to give it a solve - superb puzzle as usual.
And Simon, your solve was, as so very often, smoother and more accurate than mine.
60:30, spent like 20 minutes disambiguating the last three regions in the top of the grid, I think I missed some super easy sudoku for too long.
Solved it with help from the video.
i liked it, bc it can be colored by only 3 colors (without orthogonally touching areas) ^v^
Simon: always complains when setters make him do sudoku in their sudoku puzzles.
Also Simon: makes sudoku without need after only 30 minutes although there would be a lot of other stuff he could do 🤣
13:54 Things you haven't noted...
Reminder that R6C2 is a 2... Because R6C4 is a 1 and sees one less border than it in the easterly direction.
R9C3 is in a different region from orange.
R6C1 currently sees 6 cells. So it is from [678] (can't be 9 or it would see R9C2)
R9C1 is one less than that, so it is from [567] and R7C1 sees one less than that and is from [456]
There is always a 6 in one of them
R5C3 is at least a 3 and at most a 4.
Since blue already has a 2 in it, R7C3 is not blue. You can add a border between blue and R7C3.
This new region must turn after one easterly move, or else the 2 in the circle will break. R6C4 is part of this new region.
Where is the digit 1 in blue? Blue is currently 7 cells large so it cannot grow past column 4 to take a 1 from column 5.
In blue, the digit 1 is in column 1. Row 5 or row 4. R5C1 is definitely part of blue.
67C1 now sees 7 cells and is from [78], R9C1 is from [67] and R7C1 is from [56], there is now definitely a 7 in one of those cells.
Don’t worry Simon about not being able to do plumbing. As a wise man once told me, all you need to know is that dreck flows downhill and payday’s Friday. Hopefully that helps! 😂
42:34. Interesting reveals. Definitely not unapproachable, but you have to think sometimes 5 steps ahead. 10/10
Surprisingly approachable and brilliant puzzle, my time is 45:06
Sometimes, more often than I am proud of, I pause the video to do something and then come back and look at Simon sitting there totally motionless looking at the puzzle and think "Come on Simon... say something!"
38:55 how was 9 eliminated from the 789 in r2c2 as green yellow - was that a (lucky) error?
He made a wrong conclusion at 13:10 cause borders obstruct vision, but it doesn't mean that it have to be in different region.
near half hour was for me surprise that genius Simon misses obvious point. Putting candidates 89 to cell when you already know that one cell in that region is not visible so we know that must be 8.
Still slowly savoring sudokus here with a 05:06:21. Feeling good about this time and was only mildly frustrated. Some really lovely logic here, including numbers thay just seemed to materialize deep within the fog.
18:59 How many orange borders does R5C5 see?
At least one. IF it itself is orange. But if R5C5 is orange, it can't be a 1 because orange already has a 1 in it. And so it would see two borders but in actuality, if it's orange, it will only ever see one.
Since it isn't orange, it will see two borders. One changing into orange and one changing into whatever color you will pick for the region in R9C3, which isn't orange and has to get out past orange.
R5C5 is a 2, R4C5 is a 3.
R5C5 is not green, blue, orange or R9C3 colored. It is a new region.
Green cannot take R7C5 or or R6C5 or the border count breaks for R5C5.
(and besides, circle logic already tells us that green turns up into R6C4)
And green must go into R5C4 as well.
Now R5C5, in the westerly direction, sees green and blue. All its borders are accounted for.
Both of R5C2 and R5C3 can't be blue. One of them has to be green. And you can't skip over blue if blue took R5C3 and make R5C2 green, there would be 4 borders then.
R5C3 is green, R5C2 is blue. (again, it can't be a new region, there would be too many borders)
R5C1 is a 1 because of this. R5C2 is a 3. R5C3 is a 4.
EDIT: HMM, I must have missed something really strange.
At 22:54 I really can't see how the 2 in R5C5 will be satisfied if not all cells in R5C2 to R5C4 are one color.
But the only colors that can appear below R5C5 is orange and purple. Green can't go there. Green needs to take R5C4...
OOOOOH RIIIIGHT, all of R5C2 to R5C4 are green. DUH on me.
I somehow got locked onto the idea that blue and green had to meet halfway. But the only thing that matters is that only blue and green appear west of R5C5.
Also, i am doing this "pre-solving" all in my head without pencil marks. I don't solve the puzzles beforehand either.
I am solving as i watch the video, and the [34] pair wasn't immediately obvious to me.
Took me whole hour!
That was a good one
53:54 for me. I love fog puzzles.
44:00 With the 8 in red the only place for 8 in column 6 is in row 7, placing 7s next to and above it, completing the column with a 4 in red, so red can't go to the top of column 9. That fact shows quickly how the regions finish.
112 minutes, but I managed to solve it myself first! :D
23:16 at this point r5c3 being 4 has been available for like 5 minutes... And now would do so much work...
It took me 53:20.
I really enjoy Fog of War puzzles, but this really didn't play to my strengths, took me 86:51 minutes to solve.
A foggy chaos construction!
1.14.56 for me. Lots of fun.
33:57 for me. quite a good time considering i suck at irregular sudoku.
Oh Bobbins!
9:40 "What does this 2 mean???
What does R8C2 mean? It's a 1.
I mean, how about we do the simple things first...
1) Sudoku
2) Pencil marks
3) Obvious "hidden" given digits
4) Fleshing out various implications.
...
99) Simon logic. ;)
This is weird, I managed to get the correct solution, but I have a region with two 2's in it, so now to watch the video to find out where I went wrong with my region drawing.
Yes, this can happen; the solution checker only checks that the digits are in the correct places. Other markings in the grid are not checked. I have had this happen before in one of the (few) snake puzzles I tried: the sudoku was correct but the snake was in the wrong cells.
I thought that *chaos construction* meant 11x11 grid with nine 3x3 boxes placed by the solver.
Is that used for any shapes whenever their shape or position needs to be determined by the solver?
Yes, I think so. I believe there has been at least one other video with a 9x9 grid called 'chaos construction.'
I believe those 11x11 puzzles are often named "deconstruction" puzzles. Yes, chaos construction tends to mean it's part of the puzzle to locate the (irregular) regions yourself.
Why cant r2c2 be a 9? 😂
For anyone wondering, he removes the 9 pencilmark at 38:54, after placing 9 diagonally adjacent in a different region. So no, no valid reason for doing so.
@@RichSmith77 you're forgetting about the kings move restriction 😝
@@MadsOcto7 😂
At 38:56 you removed 9 as a candidate in cell R2C2. I don't see a justification for that. Fortunately, it didn't seem to result in an error or invalid deduction later, but I thought you should know.
@TheTastefirst something to keep us on our toes!
Lol yeah 😂,I didn't notice this one . I don't understand how we ruled out 2 in R1C8 from red because Red can certainly reach it within 9 cells.Any other restriction it has?
Well nevermind I think all the ways it can reach in 9 cells can be individually ruled out because of sudoku and the circle clues
9:03 It's funny that this is going to be obvious to you. But i think you are slow.
Could R7C3 be a 1?
How big would its region be if it was a 1... It would be a 1 cell region because it cannot connect orthogonally anywhere without seeing more than one cell in its region.
R7C3 is a 2, there are therefore 2 region borders to the west and south of it. And thus, the region of R7C3 will grow ONE cell either to the north or to the east and then make a turn.
There WILL be a different region in either R6C3 or R7C4, which one it is will probably become evident as the fog clears.
You could have saved yourself a lot of typing by watching another 30 seconds.
Wondering if deleting the 9 prematurely in r2c2 is going to cause a problem.
In my limited understanding of English , region means uninteresting.
What is "lore of leftovers"?
57:33 for me.
I lost my voice shouting at the screen r5c3 couldn't be part of the blue region or r5c5 would be greater than 2
There is a problem with Samsung phones and fog. The website doesn't show fog properly. Is there a way to fix this?
I think that you might need to direct this question to Sven (the creator of the software). I am not sure he reads all of the comments on all of the videos that use his software, so using the contact info available in his software would be a good way to reach him, I think.
@@emilywilliams3237 That's a good point, thanks :) Will give him the information
Made it
75:40 for me
35 minutes
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