Thanks to Simon for solving my puzzle with flying colors! I very much enjoyed your approach to this one. Really lovely guitar intro as well, makes me want to dust my own guitar off.
What a stratospherically elegant and incommensurably cool artwork. I loved solving it from start to end, including the ruleset and the pyrothecnic disambiguation, with the *1-5* cell appearing twice in the same 3-cell cage and the magic repulsive effect of the other 3-cell cages on the digit *8‼* Thank you again for offering us so many *memorable* solving experiences.
More than feeling great about solving some of the puzzles by setters like yourself I just am left in awe of your abilities, creativity and what not. Simple rules and elegant paths!
I have a special love for puzzles and solves that end with every cell colored and/or lettered, and all the numbers get filled in only at the very end. Great puzzle and great video. Thank you.
Same here. but not too often you get both the colors and letters. alot of the knights move constraint puzzles you can fill in the colors before you start deducing the values of the cells. i usually always go far as i can with the coloring before i start deciphering the values of the cells even when its not totally necessary.
There is always something so satisfying completing a coloring puzzle. The best part being figuring the right numbers right at the end and replacing each color by its number.
This was so satisfying to watch. I looked at the puzzle and realized the options for the middle digit, and that was about it. As usual, I forgot about the power of colouring. Thank you for showcasing this marvellous puzzle!
Colored and lettered all the cells which took quite a bit longer than Simon of course, while thinking I’m probably missing something simpler and doing it the long way. So I was pleasantly surprised to watch Simon’s take afterwards. First comment in the channel btw, although I’ve been following since covid days. So thank you Simon & Mark for all the videos.
I am the new to varient sudoku solver Simon described! Had a great time noodling my way through the puzzle, and when that center digit showed up as a doubled number on the cage I just went "Ah finally! The boxes are elevens!" I felt very smart and proud of myself. Now, this is usually an issue when I forget the same rule in a killer cage puzzle, but it worked in my favor this time 😂 a very good time!
absolutely a beautiful solve, im very satisfied that you decided to finish out the coloring and identities of each cell before filling out the grid. good work as always simon, its great seeing your brain in action with these kinds of solves!
21:48 for me - the first thing I thought about when I saw the simple rules and the cages is that someone who is familiar with cages might assume cages can't have repeated digits.
Simon must have rescued a whole school full of children from a raging fire-storm in a previous life, because NOBODY else would deserve to have puzzles this great constructed explicitly for their pleasure...!
40:00 when you double click on a cell, it selects other cells based on which option is highlighted for entering colours/numbers. If you are on the “corner pencilmark” layout and double click a C-cell, it would highlight all C-cells only. If you are on the “colours” layout then it would highlight all blue cells
The musical intro is beautiful. You know a video is going to be even better than normal when Simon plays his guitar. Can't wait for the stream tonight.
You taught me to use colors in just such a puzzle as this - very fun, and your solve was very interesting, Simon. I always learn something from the puzzles featured on this channel, even if the ruleset is very simple. Thanks for the video!
Oh that is a beautiful beautiful puzzle. I doubt if there is a more elegant way to solve it than with colours. A terrific job all round, by both the setter and the solver. It reminded me of the words of another famous puzzle creator, Erno Rubik talking about his cube… “it was wonderful to see how … the colors became mixed, apparently in random fashion. It was tremendously satisfying to watch this color parade. Like after a nice walk when you have seen many lovely sights you decide to go home … it was at that moment that I came face to face with the big challenge: What is the way home?”
I finished in 46:33 minutes. This was an incredibly fun coloring puzzle. It almost felt impossible at first with only two and three celled cages. Then, I started coloring and everything made sense. I almost thought I broke it at the end when I made r2c7 the same as r5c5. I thought it kicked the color out, but that only applies to standard killer cages. Digits can repeat in this one. Very tricky. The ending was so satisfying, especially using that double color in the three celled cage I just talked about. This was so fun to do. For Simon, I really enjoyed the intro song. Simple Man is one of my favorite songs of all time, so it was great hearing you play it. Great Puzzle!
61 minutes. That was really enjoyable! I definitely found it productive to start off with placeholder letters right at the beginning. Later on I replaced E and F in box 5 with an EF pair so I could mark the rest against each other (they turned out to be 4 and 7). The discovery of two I (the center digit) in a cage unwound everything so delightfully.
Ah, it's been a while since I've done a really good coloring puzzle. That was delightful. Thanks to Juggler for this lovely construction, and Simon for an excellent solve!
That was one of the best endings I've seen, just being able to get all the numbers at once. Wow. Takes a skilled setter too to make a puzzle like that where you don't find out what the sum of each cage is until close to the end.
Rules: 01:10 Let's Get Cracking: 07:23 Simon's time: 37m23s Puzzle Solved: 44:46 What about this video's Top Tier Simarkisms?! The Secret: 5x (07:31, 07:35, 07:46, 07:59, 08:50) Three In the Corner: 1x (28:40) And how about this video's Simarkisms?! Ah: 13x (11:18, 12:26, 12:43, 18:39, 22:03, 26:37, 27:26, 28:02, 32:36, 34:22, 34:22, 38:14, 39:01, 43:03) By Sudoku: 8x (12:05, 15:22, 16:59, 27:32, 32:09, 39:09, 41:52, 42:13) Hang On: 5x (19:37, 22:01, 24:32, 29:36, 33:24) Sorry: 4x (21:02, 30:40, 34:07, 37:49) Lovely: 4x (05:34, 16:09, 44:47, 44:47) In Fact: 4x (15:44, 25:48, 39:29, 45:00) Obviously: 4x (13:05, 13:57, 33:47, 37:05) Cake!: 4x (03:54, 04:15, 04:37, 06:02) Extraordinary: 3x (00:48, 00:48, 00:51) Useless: 2x (36:11, 36:14) The Answer is: 2x (19:59, 27:47) Stuck: 2x (30:09, 35:17) Brilliant: 2x (05:15, 44:51) Think Harder: 2x (25:26, 26:25) Box Thingy: 2x (32:02, 32:05) What Does This Mean?: 2x (08:31, 23:59) Weird: 2x (31:18, 31:18) Nonsense: 1x (25:54) Naughty: 1x (35:31) Gorgeous: 1x (30:04) Shouting: 1x (03:36) Surely: 1x (38:51) Whoopsie: 1x (41:44) We Can Do Better Than That: 1x (23:32) Unstuck: 1x (30:10) Nature: 1x (39:07) Pencil Mark/mark: 1x (12:30) Most popular number(>9), digit and colour this video: Ten (14 mentions) One (32 mentions) Orange (65 mentions) Antithesis Battles: Column (11) - Row (8) 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!
What a colourful puzzle. I had also started with 5 colors and letters, which really confused me. So I decided to use 9 colors without letters, which ended up working better. A great adventure.
absolutely loved this puzzle - probably my favorite that i've ever solved!! 1:15:00 for me; i had gotten started on my colors by about 10 mins, and reached a stopping point at about 30 mins, where it took me until 50 mins to finally fix my colors in the top half of the board! my logic was not on point today. but absolutely beautiful and so much fun
Great puzzle, I took a couple of hours and I almost restarted the puzzle, but I could unblock the missolve with a short solve from the beginning. This puzzle is approachable and a great challenge for beginners (and experts alike). I did have fun solving the final digits after doing the entire puzzle with the letter tool. Those trionimos were helpful ;)
Brilliant puzzle and great solve. Solved it in 31:03. At the beginning of the channel this would have been much more difficult to solve, but now with both coloring and letters available, it is much easier.
Beautiful puzzle, I loved solving it. Took me a while to find a good place to start the colouring (maybe I missed some options on my earlier attempts) but got there in the end :)
Immensely enjoyable, this one. Great flow, and a plethora of Eurekas to be had. Also a great solve, thank you! Although the double 15 was available much earlier, that square sees two of every color... :-)
Beautiful puzzle. I got it in 02:57:24, which is really pretty good based on my usual times. As others, I love coloring puzzles. I did do an unnecessary reset after seeing two cages with red/pink/X where X was different and thinking I'd broken it, before later realising that pink could be two different digits in the two places.
I used 9 colours in r6, recognising that there were 4 distinct dominoes and they all had to be one of those 4. I think using two colours for each domino instead of one made it A LOT easier. I assigned a colour to the centre square as well, so when it appeared twice in the same triomino, it caused all the values to unravel - I'd almost solved the sudoku with colours alone by that point, just a few of the dominoes were ambiguous which way round they were, resolved by the other two triominoes once values were assigned.
39:54, finally a respectable time, or at least faster than Simon for once. Found the cage repeat and thought I'd broken things for a second. Very cool to do all the coloring first.
Oh, I solved this one yesterday! I did get the rules wrongly by assuming cages don't repeat, so I ended up redoing the puzzle thrice (and arriving at the same thing) before noticing what I was missing :')
Managed to solve this one without following along to Simon. Gonna watch his solve still, just to see if I made things more difficult for myself than need be. I'm glad I basically started the same... although I did color the center box and then did the center with the 45 - 4x(9...11) values. Lol. Almost had the same colors as Simon too. Only a bit more pastel and I did put the center box in grey instead of one of the boxes. Then I used placeholders A, B and C up to I. Had that inkling and tingling feeling that we would have a cage that repeated the center cell-159. Normally cage rules explicitly state repeats are forbidden, not mentioning those means they are allowed. Plus they'd do great to disambiguate.
Solved it eventually, but only after I went down a huge rabbit hole of eliminating what Simon has as purple from the 3 cell cage. Instructions should really say that cages can have repeated digits (I think of the default as them not able to have them.) I'd rather have a good rule set than making it shorter for the purpose of making it seem cooler. Ended up watching the video and once I saw that Simon had the same question. Only difference is that Simon's a lot more confident that he didn't screw up than I am.
It's fine until you have a mixture of letters and numbers as the pencilmarks. Using large characters then hides the pencilmarks so makes it harder to relate them.
Love the intro! Simple Man is such a beautiful song. I hope you’re a Lynyrd Skynyrd fan too ❤. Tuesdays Gone is my fav from them and also has a gorgeous intro. Frankly they have a lot of great intros. I play the piano and I would love to be able to play the solo from I Know a Little Also great solving - I love the coloring/alphabet puzzles.
There had been a puzzle (some fifteen months ago) where Simon had to label the four two-cell cages - which add to ten as I remember - with eight letters.
Learning the alphabet with Simon: A, B, C, D, E, F, X, and Y. I wonder if he went to the same primary school as Feist (who sang 🎶1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 9, and 10🎵)?
51:40 ... a booboo regarding my personal marking (I circled a cell erroneously) caused me to break and start over; still, I felt I did well figuring out what needed to be done. (Also, I love coloring!) Nice puzzle!
Near the end of my solve, i saw had 1 purple in a cage, and wondered if i could cancel out the other purple from the same cage, since it only had one other place it could go in the box. glad i didn't
Watching for the first time. Immediately at 17:43 as soon as you place the two blues and the purple in box 8 you can see that purple can't be 9, which feels like a very important step.
Something that would be so cool as a bonus video some time would be if a setter could talk us through the process of setting a sudoku - much like Simon talks us through the process of solving them. I have in the past set crosswords but I have no idea how anyone would even _start_ setting a sudoku like some of the puzzles showcased on this channel.
zetamath is a popular setter, and he has videos on his channel of setting intricate puzzles. definitely check it out! Just note, they are long videos, but very interesting! @zetamathdoespuzzles
Once purple (1/5) was on a 3-cell cage with more than 4 other different digits, you can rule out 5 as purple. The cage would add to 10, so the other digits would only be from 1-4
Chocolate pie is basically a really big chocolate custard tart My favorite meal is a moose meat pie (a steak pie, but with moose venison) followed by a chocolate pie Chocolate goes so well with game
took me 5 mins to realise the first digit that it could not be, pretty chuffed with that, looks like it took Simon about 22 mins, might be the first time I've ever done something smarter than him :3
25:40 What you could do is ask yourself where grey is in box 4. R5C1 and R5C3. This lets you know R4C3 is a green. And R5C2 is orange (A) That removes orange from R9C2, so that's purple. And it let's you A/B orange in box 7 and then box 1. In column 3, you have one uncolored cell left in R2C3, which is green. And now the three cell cage in box 1 is a blue/grey/purple composition. (And R2C2 is blue) And looking at box 8, you have a blue and purple in the three cell cage, with a grey/green option. ... (Wrong) Well, now you know R9C5 is grey because all cages must have the same sum. (Wrong) EDIT: Oh right, I forgot that there's two flavors of grey and blue. So in reality, R2C2 blue is NOT the same digit as R9C4 blue.
Dear Simon, Thank you for bringing us another wonderful solve... But... Please follow a chain of thought through for just a second or two before jumping to the next thing. I feel nearly every time you miss something obvious it is because your mind is moving so fast it jumps on to another thing before finishing the first thought. There were several times in this solve, from memory, when you disambiguated the grey in box 6, clearly instantly neither of the dominoes in box 9 could be grey, disambiguating the grey/green triplet that you were later "stuck" on. (And I believe you even mentioned this made the triplet grey but then you jumped ahead. another example, when you were placing the first blue in box 1, you had just placed 2 blues in each of columns 1&3 so could place the second blue in the middle of box 1. I believe this is why so many of us whose brains function at a considerably slower pace find ourselves "shouting" at the screen when you miss the "obvious". Having said that, keep up the great work, your videos are a constant source of relaxation and entertainment so Thank You!
This puzzle demonstrates a growing frustration I have with how complex the rules on some puzzles have got. While this one has a pretty basic set of rules, it needed to have the rule "digits can repeat in cages if allowed by other rules" - purely because 99.9% of the time we encounter cage-rules, we're told digits can't repeat. I've seen so many other puzzles where rules like white/black dots are used, and it doesn't explicitly say whether the negative constraint exists or not.
A very nice puzzle and solve again! Many thanks 🙂 One little remark: why not using central pencilmarks for letters when appropriate, instead of corner pencil marks?
Thanks to Simon for solving my puzzle with flying colors! I very much enjoyed your approach to this one. Really lovely guitar intro as well, makes me want to dust my own guitar off.
What a stratospherically elegant and incommensurably cool artwork. I loved solving it from start to end, including the ruleset and the pyrothecnic disambiguation, with the *1-5* cell appearing twice in the same 3-cell cage and the magic repulsive effect of the other 3-cell cages on the digit *8‼*
Thank you again for offering us so many *memorable* solving experiences.
"Flying" pretty colours
Thank you for this puzzle, and thank you Simon for a very enjoyable solve!
@@Paolo_De_Levawhat an eloquent response!
More than feeling great about solving some of the puzzles by setters like yourself I just am left in awe of your abilities, creativity and what not. Simple rules and elegant paths!
I have a special love for puzzles and solves that end with every cell colored and/or lettered, and all the numbers get filled in only at the very end. Great puzzle and great video. Thank you.
This one reminds me of the Rainbow Windmill one,
(Simon solved on 16 April 2023) which was one of my favorites.
Same here. but not too often you get both the colors and letters. alot of the knights move constraint puzzles you can fill in the colors before you start deducing the values of the cells. i usually always go far as i can with the coloring before i start deciphering the values of the cells even when its not totally necessary.
There is always something so satisfying completing a coloring puzzle. The best part being figuring the right numbers right at the end and replacing each color by its number.
This was so satisfying to watch. I looked at the puzzle and realized the options for the middle digit, and that was about it. As usual, I forgot about the power of colouring.
Thank you for showcasing this marvellous puzzle!
There is nothing more satisfying than not getting a digit for an hour and then being done 15 seconds later lol
love Simon playing the song Simple Man in the intro for the puzzle with the simplest ruleset. he's so clever
42:06 Missed opportunity to sing "That's D in corner, That's D in the spotlight, losing its religion" 😂😂😂
HAH!
Colored and lettered all the cells which took quite a bit longer than Simon of course, while thinking I’m probably missing something simpler and doing it the long way. So I was pleasantly surprised to watch Simon’s take afterwards.
First comment in the channel btw, although I’ve been following since covid days. So thank you Simon & Mark for all the videos.
I am the new to varient sudoku solver Simon described! Had a great time noodling my way through the puzzle, and when that center digit showed up as a doubled number on the cage I just went "Ah finally! The boxes are elevens!" I felt very smart and proud of myself.
Now, this is usually an issue when I forget the same rule in a killer cage puzzle, but it worked in my favor this time 😂 a very good time!
That is a wonderful “aha!”moment indeed
Welcome to the devious and delightful world of variant sudoku! 😊
absolutely a beautiful solve, im very satisfied that you decided to finish out the coloring and identities of each cell before filling out the grid. good work as always simon, its great seeing your brain in action with these kinds of solves!
21:48 for me - the first thing I thought about when I saw the simple rules and the cages is that someone who is familiar with cages might assume cages can't have repeated digits.
If its needed:
Then you could replace : normal with killer.
Simon must have rescued a whole school full of children from a raging fire-storm in a previous life, because NOBODY else would deserve to have puzzles this great constructed explicitly for their pleasure...!
40:00 when you double click on a cell, it selects other cells based on which option is highlighted for entering colours/numbers. If you are on the “corner pencilmark” layout and double click a C-cell, it would highlight all C-cells only. If you are on the “colours” layout then it would highlight all blue cells
Sven is the hero we deserve and need.
@@nathanmays7926 best part is this is not a new thing its been in there for many months simon just never knew
The musical intro is beautiful. You know a video is going to be even better than normal when Simon plays his guitar. Can't wait for the stream tonight.
You taught me to use colors in just such a puzzle as this - very fun, and your solve was very interesting, Simon. I always learn something from the puzzles featured on this channel, even if the ruleset is very simple. Thanks for the video!
We really just narrowly missed getting a once in a lifetime "that's E in the corner, that's E in the spotlight" song, unbelievable.
We have had that, at least once, I believe. 😸🎶
Thank you for putting in the extra effort at the end. It makes for a satisfying finish.
‘The coloring is strong in this one’.
Fantastic!
Fantastic finish, very satisfying seeing all the cells marked and getting the double click flurry!
Oh that is a beautiful beautiful puzzle. I doubt if there is a more elegant way to solve it than with colours.
A terrific job all round, by both the setter and the solver.
It reminded me of the words of another famous puzzle creator, Erno Rubik talking about his cube… “it was wonderful to see how … the colors became mixed, apparently in random fashion. It was tremendously satisfying to watch this color parade. Like after a nice walk when you have seen many lovely sights you decide to go home … it was at that moment that I came face to face with the big challenge: What is the way home?”
34:23 - This was after a complete restart when my colouring failed but… THAT WAS ABSOLUTELY BRILLIANT!!! One of my favourite puzzles of the year.
These are my favorite types of sudoku
The double one key was awesome lol, loved how chuffed you were about the prospect of a double click fest 😂
Very satisfying, learned lots from this one
I finished in 46:33 minutes. This was an incredibly fun coloring puzzle. It almost felt impossible at first with only two and three celled cages. Then, I started coloring and everything made sense. I almost thought I broke it at the end when I made r2c7 the same as r5c5. I thought it kicked the color out, but that only applies to standard killer cages. Digits can repeat in this one. Very tricky. The ending was so satisfying, especially using that double color in the three celled cage I just talked about. This was so fun to do. For Simon, I really enjoyed the intro song. Simple Man is one of my favorite songs of all time, so it was great hearing you play it. Great Puzzle!
A round of applause to you, Simon. A fantastic solve.
Wow! How many puzzles do we come across with not a single clue number anywhere to be seen? Such elegance!
61 minutes. That was really enjoyable! I definitely found it productive to start off with placeholder letters right at the beginning. Later on I replaced E and F in box 5 with an EF pair so I could mark the rest against each other (they turned out to be 4 and 7). The discovery of two I (the center digit) in a cage unwound everything so delightfully.
Ah, it's been a while since I've done a really good coloring puzzle. That was delightful. Thanks to Juggler for this lovely construction, and Simon for an excellent solve!
That was one of the best endings I've seen, just being able to get all the numbers at once. Wow. Takes a skilled setter too to make a puzzle like that where you don't find out what the sum of each cage is until close to the end.
Lovely guitar intro! Lovely puzzle! I particularly enjoy puzzles that do a magic trick at the end!!!
What a brilliant and satisfying puzzle !! Loved it absolutely..😊😊
Fabulous Fun! Thanks to setter and solver - magnificent pairing. it lit up my day. :)
Rules: 01:10
Let's Get Cracking: 07:23
Simon's time: 37m23s
Puzzle Solved: 44:46
What about this video's Top Tier Simarkisms?!
The Secret: 5x (07:31, 07:35, 07:46, 07:59, 08:50)
Three In the Corner: 1x (28:40)
And how about this video's Simarkisms?!
Ah: 13x (11:18, 12:26, 12:43, 18:39, 22:03, 26:37, 27:26, 28:02, 32:36, 34:22, 34:22, 38:14, 39:01, 43:03)
By Sudoku: 8x (12:05, 15:22, 16:59, 27:32, 32:09, 39:09, 41:52, 42:13)
Hang On: 5x (19:37, 22:01, 24:32, 29:36, 33:24)
Sorry: 4x (21:02, 30:40, 34:07, 37:49)
Lovely: 4x (05:34, 16:09, 44:47, 44:47)
In Fact: 4x (15:44, 25:48, 39:29, 45:00)
Obviously: 4x (13:05, 13:57, 33:47, 37:05)
Cake!: 4x (03:54, 04:15, 04:37, 06:02)
Extraordinary: 3x (00:48, 00:48, 00:51)
Useless: 2x (36:11, 36:14)
The Answer is: 2x (19:59, 27:47)
Stuck: 2x (30:09, 35:17)
Brilliant: 2x (05:15, 44:51)
Think Harder: 2x (25:26, 26:25)
Box Thingy: 2x (32:02, 32:05)
What Does This Mean?: 2x (08:31, 23:59)
Weird: 2x (31:18, 31:18)
Nonsense: 1x (25:54)
Naughty: 1x (35:31)
Gorgeous: 1x (30:04)
Shouting: 1x (03:36)
Surely: 1x (38:51)
Whoopsie: 1x (41:44)
We Can Do Better Than That: 1x (23:32)
Unstuck: 1x (30:10)
Nature: 1x (39:07)
Pencil Mark/mark: 1x (12:30)
Most popular number(>9), digit and colour this video:
Ten (14 mentions)
One (32 mentions)
Orange (65 mentions)
Antithesis Battles:
Column (11) - Row (8)
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!
Need to see the full cover now Simon, that was amazing
I spent the whole puzzle wondering how on Earth you'd put a number into it even after all the colours.
I really love stuff like this.
84:14, loads of fun, and for the first time I did not need any hints from Simon: so proud!
What a colourful puzzle. I had also started with 5 colors and letters, which really confused me. So I decided to use 9 colors without letters, which ended up working better. A great adventure.
absolutely loved this puzzle - probably my favorite that i've ever solved!! 1:15:00 for me; i had gotten started on my colors by about 10 mins, and reached a stopping point at about 30 mins, where it took me until 50 mins to finally fix my colors in the top half of the board! my logic was not on point today. but absolutely beautiful and so much fun
Wow, I solved it!!
I can absolutely say for certain that that was thanks to this channel.
You made me smarter! ❤
Simple and smart. That's the way we like it !
Great puzzle, I took a couple of hours and I almost restarted the puzzle, but I could unblock the missolve with a short solve from the beginning. This puzzle is approachable and a great challenge for beginners (and experts alike). I did have fun solving the final digits after doing the entire puzzle with the letter tool. Those trionimos were helpful ;)
That was a beautiful solve, what a puzzle
Brilliant puzzle and great solve. Solved it in 31:03. At the beginning of the channel this would have been much more difficult to solve, but now with both coloring and letters available, it is much easier.
Beautiful puzzle, I loved solving it. Took me a while to find a good place to start the colouring (maybe I missed some options on my earlier attempts) but got there in the end :)
I can confidently say, you are the coolest to me, as well!
Immensely enjoyable, this one. Great flow, and a plethora of Eurekas to be had. Also a great solve, thank you! Although the double 15 was available much earlier, that square sees two of every color... :-)
What a really nice puzzle. I really liked the propagation decision at the end. really brought a razzmatazz to the whole thing
00:36:55 for me. Loved how such a simple rule set can be used to create such a great puzzle! Kind comment.
Beautiful puzzle. I got it in 02:57:24, which is really pretty good based on my usual times. As others, I love coloring puzzles. I did do an unnecessary reset after seeing two cages with red/pink/X where X was different and thinking I'd broken it, before later realising that pink could be two different digits in the two places.
love how pleased Simon is with himself
I used 9 colours in r6, recognising that there were 4 distinct dominoes and they all had to be one of those 4. I think using two colours for each domino instead of one made it A LOT easier. I assigned a colour to the centre square as well, so when it appeared twice in the same triomino, it caused all the values to unravel - I'd almost solved the sudoku with colours alone by that point, just a few of the dominoes were ambiguous which way round they were, resolved by the other two triominoes once values were assigned.
39:54, finally a respectable time, or at least faster than Simon for once. Found the cage repeat and thought I'd broken things for a second. Very cool to do all the coloring first.
Thx Simon you made me smile today :)
Simon sings and solves Sudokus Sundays have to be a thing❤
It's Monday! But I guess that wouldn't alliterate right.
@pseudomonad Mark makes music and molves Mudokus Monday
Surely it should be 'Simon strums and .....' in this case as he did not actually sing
Finished in 42:05 with help from the video.
12:22 for me. Really enjoyed it, fantastic puzzle!!
Coloring puzzles like this one are fun!
I forget that Simon plays the guitar. Always a lovely surprise to hear it in the intro
25.02 for me this time, surprised I was even able to finish it! Thanks for the puzzle!
A good old coloring puzzle, lots of fun.
Wow, it was amazing try to figure out this sudoku!
I think this one was extremely good at making me solve pretzels in a different way.
I just failed to break into this after seeing it on James Sinclair’s newsletter.
I open up my phone and this video pops up😂😂
solved in 32:30! I got a little bit tripped up by the repeated diget in the cage, my killer (sudoku) instincts got the best of me haha
Oh, I solved this one yesterday! I did get the rules wrongly by assuming cages don't repeat, so I ended up redoing the puzzle thrice (and arriving at the same thing) before noticing what I was missing :')
22:50 finish. I also did a double take when I saw the duplicate number in the cage, but went with it. A very colorful puzzle!
That was IMMENSLY satisfying. I actually differentiated the separate digits of each color from the start/ Otherwise, it was the same.
Truly incredible!!!! 🎉
Managed to solve this one without following along to Simon. Gonna watch his solve still, just to see if I made things more difficult for myself than need be. I'm glad I basically started the same... although I did color the center box and then did the center with the 45 - 4x(9...11) values. Lol. Almost had the same colors as Simon too. Only a bit more pastel and I did put the center box in grey instead of one of the boxes. Then I used placeholders A, B and C up to I.
Had that inkling and tingling feeling that we would have a cage that repeated the center cell-159. Normally cage rules explicitly state repeats are forbidden, not mentioning those means they are allowed. Plus they'd do great to disambiguate.
Solved it eventually, but only after I went down a huge rabbit hole of eliminating what Simon has as purple from the 3 cell cage. Instructions should really say that cages can have repeated digits (I think of the default as them not able to have them.) I'd rather have a good rule set than making it shorter for the purpose of making it seem cooler. Ended up watching the video and once I saw that Simon had the same question. Only difference is that Simon's a lot more confident that he didn't screw up than I am.
Took me 58 minutes, but the fact that I finished it without hints at all is what I'm really proud of doing.
*Rhyming Rules*
Rules as normal;
cage totals uniformal.
Wouldn't "rules as normal" then mean that "digits cannot repeat in a cage" though?
@@RynneChan404 Maybe? I don't know. It's six words, two of which rhyme, some corners were cut. Feel free to refer to the official non-rhyming rules.
@@RynneChan404 No. Cages usually relate to their sums. It's an extra constraint to have distinct digits in the cages.
Only one Suggestion, use big letters if it is found its home
They always seem very hesitant to do so unfortunately, but it feels like a logical way of working to me. Makes scanning a whole lot easier!
It's fine until you have a mixture of letters and numbers as the pencilmarks. Using large characters then hides the pencilmarks so makes it harder to relate them.
Love the intro! Simple Man is such a beautiful song. I hope you’re a Lynyrd Skynyrd fan too ❤. Tuesdays Gone is my fav from them and also has a gorgeous intro. Frankly they have a lot of great intros. I play the piano and I would love to be able to play the solo from I Know a Little Also great solving - I love the coloring/alphabet puzzles.
Thanks so much for the birthday wishes, Simon! (from Jennifer)
Video starts at 6:48
There had been a puzzle (some fifteen months ago) where Simon had to label the four two-cell cages - which add to ten as I remember - with eight letters.
My favorite puzzles start with Simon playing the guitar.🎶♥ That is all.
24:56 for me. Loved this one. Really fun!
Learning the alphabet with Simon: A, B, C, D, E, F, X, and Y.
I wonder if he went to the same primary school as Feist (who sang 🎶1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 9, and 10🎵)?
39:46 Another colorful quilt which is annoyingly obscure until the very last moment where everything falls like dominoes
51:40 ... a booboo regarding my personal marking (I circled a cell erroneously) caused me to break and start over; still, I felt I did well figuring out what needed to be done. (Also, I love coloring!)
Nice puzzle!
This was a fun one!
Near the end of my solve, i saw had 1 purple in a cage, and wondered if i could cancel out the other purple from the same cage, since it only had one other place it could go in the box. glad i didn't
Watching for the first time. Immediately at 17:43 as soon as you place the two blues and the purple in box 8 you can see that purple can't be 9, which feels like a very important step.
Something that would be so cool as a bonus video some time would be if a setter could talk us through the process of setting a sudoku - much like Simon talks us through the process of solving them.
I have in the past set crosswords but I have no idea how anyone would even _start_ setting a sudoku like some of the puzzles showcased on this channel.
zetamath is a popular setter, and he has videos on his channel of setting intricate puzzles. definitely check it out! Just note, they are long videos, but very interesting! @zetamathdoespuzzles
Great news! th-cam.com/play/PLK-l8O0YikOnRaAcFWagDlfO9Eb4nkSrH.html
@@robredmond Well, that'll teach me to search before commenting! Thanks for the link, I shall look forward to watching my way through that playlist!
@@pseudomonad my pleasure! I didn't realize there were so many myself; I think I had only seen Clover's video
Took me 49:16 to solve this, coloring was definitely required for me to make my way through the logic.
Once purple (1/5) was on a 3-cell cage with more than 4 other different digits, you can rule out 5 as purple. The cage would add to 10, so the other digits would only be from 1-4
I found that quite a challenge but very satisfying. Excellent puzzle. What would we do without colours and letters?
Chocolate pie is basically a really big chocolate custard tart
My favorite meal is a moose meat pie (a steak pie, but with moose venison) followed by a chocolate pie
Chocolate goes so well with game
Wonderful again. Thanks
took me 5 mins to realise the first digit that it could not be, pretty chuffed with that, looks like it took Simon about 22 mins, might be the first time I've ever done something smarter than him :3
25:40 What you could do is ask yourself where grey is in box 4. R5C1 and R5C3.
This lets you know R4C3 is a green.
And R5C2 is orange (A)
That removes orange from R9C2, so that's purple.
And it let's you A/B orange in box 7 and then box 1.
In column 3, you have one uncolored cell left in R2C3, which is green.
And now the three cell cage in box 1 is a blue/grey/purple composition. (And R2C2 is blue)
And looking at box 8, you have a blue and purple in the three cell cage, with a grey/green option. ... (Wrong) Well, now you know R9C5 is grey because all cages must have the same sum. (Wrong)
EDIT: Oh right, I forgot that there's two flavors of grey and blue. So in reality, R2C2 blue is NOT the same digit as R9C4 blue.
Dear Simon, Thank you for bringing us another wonderful solve... But... Please follow a chain of thought through for just a second or two before jumping to the next thing. I feel nearly every time you miss something obvious it is because your mind is moving so fast it jumps on to another thing before finishing the first thought. There were several times in this solve, from memory, when you disambiguated the grey in box 6, clearly instantly neither of the dominoes in box 9 could be grey, disambiguating the grey/green triplet that you were later "stuck" on. (And I believe you even mentioned this made the triplet grey but then you jumped ahead. another example, when you were placing the first blue in box 1, you had just placed 2 blues in each of columns 1&3 so could place the second blue in the middle of box 1. I believe this is why so many of us whose brains function at a considerably slower pace find ourselves "shouting" at the screen when you miss the "obvious". Having said that, keep up the great work, your videos are a constant source of relaxation and entertainment so Thank You!
This puzzle demonstrates a growing frustration I have with how complex the rules on some puzzles have got. While this one has a pretty basic set of rules, it needed to have the rule "digits can repeat in cages if allowed by other rules" - purely because 99.9% of the time we encounter cage-rules, we're told digits can't repeat.
I've seen so many other puzzles where rules like white/black dots are used, and it doesn't explicitly say whether the negative constraint exists or not.
"Do what the rules say. Don't do what the rules don't say."
With the amount of oranges in this sudoku, everyone of us for sure gets enough vitamin c for the upcoming winter.
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24:18 for me. That was colorful!
I did this one the hard way around. I made each domino in row 6 unique instead of box 5.
Lovely colour placeholder puzzle
A very nice puzzle and solve again! Many thanks 🙂 One little remark: why not using central pencilmarks for letters when appropriate, instead of corner pencil marks?