A Mini-Puzzle Hunt from Jane Street!

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@ToroHarfang 5 месяцев назад

- I'm not sure I have ever felt more American than immediately recognizing "KENTUCKY BALTIC" as Monopoly properties, while a brilliant British man is utterly lost. - As someone who has "The Elements" memorized, it's a joy to see Simon reciting it. - I have never felt more British than immediately getting that McCoy is a reference to Sylvester McCoy and therefore is referencing actors who portrayed The Doctor.

@tezcharold 5 месяцев назад

I'm not american and never played that version of Monopoly, but definitely recognized it. But it's more than offset by the other 99% I didn't know haha.

@skitch76cd 5 месяцев назад

I thought for sure McCoy was a reference to Bones on Star Trek, played by DeForest…*Kelley*, as in Kell(e)y green, another color

@AichoOshiro 5 месяцев назад

Simon has such a gift for making everything more difficult by ignoring clues (has he even seen the board game clue?)

@QuarkTwain 5 месяцев назад

I was confused because I remember Baltic Avenue being purple. I even searched to confirm and I found pictures of it in purple! Here's why I was confused: "Parker Brothers changed the Dark Purple properties to the Brown Properties in the United States and Germany in Fall 2008 in order to standardize boards from those two countries with those from the rest of the world."

@jonh6585 4 месяца назад

its interesting that is uses London tube lines ,but then US monoply not London one. However I still got it as for some reason Kentucky Av on monopoly seems seered into my brain.

@JakeRowland337 5 месяцев назад

Some things Simon missed: The "War Doctor" is the form the doctor took during the Time War, and it usually isn't counted when people are counting doctors. You have to skip that one to get the count right to go from MCCOY to CAPALDI in 5. Never thought I'd be explaining Doctor Who lore to a Brit :) The KENTUCKY / BALTIC clue refers to the board game Monopoly. Kentucky Avenue and Baltic Avenue are properties, one is colored red on the board and the other is brown. I think the UK version of monopoly uses completely different property names so it's pretty understandable that you didn't get this one.

@JohnADoe-pg1qk 5 месяцев назад

The problem may be that Monopoly is localized. The American version has different (street) names than the UK version or the German one (definitely different names).

@rickrice8660 5 месяцев назад

Just googling the Doctor Who actors in order seemed to ignore the War as well.

@scorix_ 5 месяцев назад

BTW JaneStreet adjusted their puzzle by now adding the missing "E" space in Red Apple making it more clear it is actually the clue.

@jorgkuijt4735 5 месяцев назад

On the Wiki page ( read it at 2.05.25 in the video ) it says that a little red apple is dropped in conelia, while the big red apple stays undropped. So appl as the correct answer was intended originally, I think.

@SandroSmith 5 месяцев назад

I missed that part of missing letter and was screaming in the monitor "Redapple! Red apple! The food! Simon, how you can't see it?!"

@Scum42 5 месяцев назад

Simon being so tickled by all the insane American traditions for dropping things on the New Year made me, an American, incredibly happy.

@MichaelLamparty 5 месяцев назад

I am surprised that he has never heard of the Times Square ball drop. Even living in Europe I would see clips of this on the news sites.

@msonby 5 месяцев назад

Can help with one clue (Spoiler space) ... ... ... ... Kentucky and Baltic are two properties on the US version of Monopoly. Kentucky is part of the red properties, while Baltic is part oft he brown properties.

@smylesg 5 месяцев назад

I'm old school. When I was growing up, Mediterranean and Baltic were navy. They've dumbed down all the games.

@longwaytotipperary 5 месяцев назад

Yep I thought of that immmediately. I had to look up their colors.

@MissKapanadze 5 месяцев назад

@@smylesghow does changing the color make it “dumbed down”? 😂

@markp7262 3 месяца назад

@@smylesg It was actually a dark purple originally.

@amandawhen 5 месяцев назад

"Squid Games is not an anagram of Toyota" My favorite part, absolutely brilliant. 1:24:25

@bobblebardsley 5 месяцев назад

For me it was "oh yes, that does look a bit like Peter Capaldi" when looking at the Peter Capaldi Wikipedia page.

@SUPER7X 5 месяцев назад

@@bobblebardsley That was great yeah.

@laincoubert7236 5 месяцев назад

@@bobblebardsley that was so unintentionally shady of simon i laughed as well 😭

@wossaaaat 5 месяцев назад

Ignoring the 'board game' clue til the bitter end... haha Loved this. I got some of it a bit quicker than Simon, but I can't solve anagrams like that, and I would never have solved it all by myself. Thank you Simon!

@longwaytotipperary 5 месяцев назад

Ditto!!!

@studgerbil9081 5 месяцев назад

He lives to do things the hard way, which is how his amazing mind works. literally google "kentucky baltic board game" and the colors are right there for the taking.

@andrewdipplecomedy 5 месяцев назад

You can tell Simon is British when he sees a clue of "the sun" and doesn't consider the celestial being for ages 😂 Silly weather we've been having!

@alanclarke4646 5 месяцев назад

Why Simon jumps from "red apple" to "pie bald", because it's a colour, even though he KNOWS it's food, not colours, is beyond me 😂

@andrewgrant6516 5 месяцев назад

This is painful on so many levels. The amount of information he's forgetting to use as he pursues another flight of fancy is stunning. I'm having so much fun shouting at the screen!

@JakeRowland337 5 месяцев назад

I came so close to solving the toast puzzle by myself but I fell into the mercury trap. Simon really playing on hard mode by refusing to ever read the clues haha.

@dididi3430 5 месяцев назад

I love puzzle hunts so much

@Bluegravex 5 месяцев назад

Simon working on the Sirius black clues says “Siri, oh Sirius black” and my home pod replies telling him who Sirius black is.

@davidrattner9 5 месяцев назад

Loved seeing you take a crack at these for us Simon!! Jane Street puzzle hunts are a treat!!

@gobsvensen 5 месяцев назад

In Doctor Who, the series revival started with the Christopher Eccleston as the "9th" Doctor, but they retconned in a doctor before Eccleston which throws the numbering off if you count him. He was called "The War Doctor", so skip him and Capaldi is the 12th.

@longwaytotipperary 5 месяцев назад

Yep John Hurt played the war doctor.

@gnfnrf 5 месяцев назад

Puzzles like this are a fascinating insight into Simon's brain. He is /so/ good at the wordplay and anagrams and some of the associations, but when he loses track of what part of the puzzle he is supposed to be in or has a knowledge gap he hits a wall, and the way he works around it is so different from how I would. But he solved the puzzle and I did not, so I can't fault his technique.

@deniz5566 5 месяцев назад

I absolutely LOVED this!! All the Jane Street puzzles are amazing and I hope to see many many more of them on the channel!! Thank you Simon for a wonderful solve 🍎

@longwaytotipperary 5 месяцев назад

How nice to find a special CtC puzzle first thing in the morning on a very rainy day and feeling kinda crummy. Thank you! I would absolutely love a toast bar!

@davidrattner9 5 месяцев назад

Special 2 hour video can make you cheer up. Feel better my friend. You have rain...I have few inches of snow.

@longwaytotipperary 5 месяцев назад

@@davidrattner9 thank you David. Usually I’d prefer rain over snow. We’ve had heavy rain and storms all night with occasional tornado warnings. Staying in with my blanket and hot tea. I see that my Greatest Hits #2 has been shipped!! Watching Simon solve a puzzle is also therapeutic! Hope you are well and able to get around in the snow!

@no-feetmcgee5577 5 месяцев назад

The best part of this puzzle was that it taught me that, technically, Mr. Bean has walked on the moon.

@Raven0047 5 месяцев назад

Ok, i got to hear Simon quoting The Raven. My life is now complete!

@teemuhynynen4709 5 месяцев назад

That was fun! I’d love seeing more of these puzzle hunts in the future 🤩

@jardozouille1677 5 месяцев назад

I'm coming from YT channel Numberphile, where we can listen to Simon, explaining the application of Set Theory to solve the hardest puzzle ever 😊

@yagamilight08 5 месяцев назад

Welcome in...hope u enjoy the everyday fun n struggle of mark n Simon along with astonishing sudoku tricks n discoveries

@mostman 5 месяцев назад

Welcome. You’ll love it here.

@zefcypher 5 месяцев назад

Would love to see more of these! I got hooked watching it.

@indubio1 5 месяцев назад

Yay! Really looking forward to this one, the previous work from Jane Street has been so good.

@Coaesy 5 месяцев назад

They seem to have added the missing blank and it indeed was an apple.

@nidoking042 5 месяцев назад

I honestly gave up on this one and started watching the video without having solved much (I got the last food and most of the sub-answers for the others, but had no clue what to do with them), but when I saw how much trouble you were having, I felt a bit more confident and got back to it. Having taken the hint from you about the London Underground (which I last visited about 30 years ago), I managed to figure everything else out. It's amazing (and amusing, in retrospect) how hard our brains work to avoid the obvious searches that give the answers. I can explain the "skipping the War" bit, which was the big breakthrough for me that got me past the roadblocks - for reasons far beyond the scope of a RU-vid comment, the BBC added a new Doctor between the Eight and Ninth Doctors and called him the War Doctor. The clue is instructing us to skip that Doctor in the enumeration, which you did by virtue of not knowing about him. It got me past both Star Trek and an odd diversion into the anime series Dragon Ball Z, where an actress named McCoy had voiced the character Android 18, and the only reason I managed not to get stuck on the voice actor for Android 23 is that there's no English dub for that character yet. Definitely an enjoyable puzzle, once you understand what you need to do and liberally exercise your Internet searches.

@longwaytotipperary 5 месяцев назад

Simon you were fantastic figuring out the puzzle!!! I knew the Dr. Who stuff and the Monopoly board stuff - but you know sooooo much more stuff - you even know what number every alphabet letter is without looking!!! Very well done!!! 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

@jaega4247 5 месяцев назад

Wouldn't have a chance at solving something like this, but it's very entertaining watching an actual genius at work. I'm not sure about the Kentucky/Baltic clue, but the clue "Play a board game..." may shine some light on it. Apparently some version of Monopoly has both Kentucky and Baltic avenues on it, although the most common pictures I can find show them as Red for Kentucky and a dark Blue for Baltic, and we wanted the latter to be brown.

@jessevennard2640 5 месяцев назад

Baltic for me was purple and Kentucky red

@BryanLu0 5 месяцев назад

It seems that Baltic is most commonly brown, and only versions before 2008 published in Germany and the US had the purple and blue Baltics. Though internet sources seem to be a bit sparse on this informatoon

@MatthewLenton 5 месяцев назад

While not familiar with US Monopoly, I recognised the two names immediately. It says board game so I'm surprised Simon missed that. Also Red Apple seemed like it should be right but it doesn't fit

@RoderickEtheria 5 месяцев назад

Baltic is brown in Monopoly. Oriental's monopoly is light blue, Park Place/Boardwalk is the dark blue.

@longwaytotipperary 5 месяцев назад

Baltic used to be purple but was changed to brown.

@johnpowers6830 5 месяцев назад

In regards to "skipping the war", there is a discussion in the Dr. Who community about if what is commonly referred to as the Eleventh doctor is actually the twelth (and so on) if there was a doctor in between that was never shown / revealed later in an episode.

@BryanLu0 5 месяцев назад

Actually it's about the war doctor... The war doctor was retconned in

@alanclarke4646 5 месяцев назад

@@BryanLu0And, because he was joining the Time War, he said " I'm a doctor no more"

@Fractus 5 месяцев назад

I find it so interesting the gaps in knowledge like hammer dulcimer, etc. I just sort of assumed someone like Simon knows more about basically everything than me (other than niche hobbies which would never show up).

@studgerbil9081 5 месяцев назад

and objects being dropped on NY eve! They don't do that anywhere in the UK?

@leojs5673 5 месяцев назад

@@studgerbil9081trust me, that is an exclusively american thing.

@milliams 5 месяцев назад

I like at 22:17 Simon's Google history shows a search for "baltic avenue color", presumably from some previous crossword clue and probably pointing to the correct answer.

@CrackingTheCryptic 5 месяцев назад

I think it's more likely it came from Mark's searching when he tested the puzzles! As you'll see, I actually never figure this clue out.... :(

@milliams 5 месяцев назад

@@CrackingTheCryptic Ah, I've just got to the bit where you realise you're logged in on the shared account. Makes sense!

@milliams 5 месяцев назад

And for the record, the simplest way to search and have it not show the history is to open Google in an Incognito/Private window.

@longwaytotipperary 5 месяцев назад

@@CrackingTheCrypticdoes this help? Baltic Avenue is a property on the Monopoly board. It’s color used to be purple and now is brown. Kentucky is also a property on the Monopoly board and its color is red. I see others have mentioned this as well.

@richardclegg8027 5 месяцев назад

It was very funny that the search kept popping up useful answers as a suggestion. When he started to type war doctor who Google suggests "The War Doctor" which would have told him there was a doctor between the ones known as eight and nine. I think I saw android as a completion when he typed Kitkat.

@thedrunkenelf 5 месяцев назад

Extraordinary attorney woo is AMAZING!! I watched it twice all the way through. I genuinely think you would like it Simon. It’s about an autistic lawyer at her first job, and how South Korean people see disability.

@milliams 5 месяцев назад

It also features palindromes as a common theme.

@andrewgrant6516 5 месяцев назад

Me too. I had a whale of a time watching it.

@raymondmanning5555 5 месяцев назад

Received my books today in Japan… Thank You!!!

@chitraagarwal8259 5 месяцев назад

Oh wow! This was a surprise!!!

@wmchristie 5 месяцев назад

When watching either Simon or Mark solve a puzzle, I’m frequently struck by how inept I am at most of the puzzle solving, but also how sometimes the next step leaps out at me. It makes me want to watch team puzzling competitions. The Professional Team Puzzle World Series would be an extraordinary viewing experience. The best part for me would be watching the evolution of intra-team communication strategies that allow for various levels of certainty and prioritize speed.

@Vernicho 5 месяцев назад

Kentucky, Baltic, american version of Monopoly

@dwdei8815 5 месяцев назад

Hey if it's any comfort, Scarborough Fare is in Dorian mode. You can play it in standard minor mode - with D sharps instead of the D naturals. It still makes sense, but lacks that mournful and characteristic sound. Unless I'm mistaken, you've played Scarborough as intro music, much to our delectation.

@alisonpool329 5 месяцев назад

Absolutely bloody loved that! Would very happily accept more of that sort of content...or even just watching Simon reading through bizzare Wiki pages 😂.

@LorisLaboratory 5 месяцев назад

The Raven 🥰😍 Loved your struggles here, Simon... you chastise yourself for having trouble at times but its only because you focused on the letters and not the given clues that go with them, for all you had to do was google kentucky baltic board game ;) Meanwhile, you still blow minds with your cleverness. Great vid, thank you! :)

@landonwalker3079 5 месяцев назад

In Monopoly there are Kentucky and Baltic Avenues! Kentucky is red and Baltic is brown in the board!!!

@nfc153 5 месяцев назад

You learned things? I learned a LOT more - much appreciated.

@milliams 5 месяцев назад

I like that the main deciding factor for whether you liked the answers you were getting for the "Toast" clues was "does it spell 'amulet'?" :D

@zefcypher 5 месяцев назад

Loved that bit xD

@tdbraun6837 5 месяцев назад

Kentucky and Baltic are properties on the Monopoly game board. Colors Red and Brown.

@josephdlist 5 месяцев назад

I love the idea of a toast bar just to visit and order rye, light brown, with salted butter and watch the staff groan.

@MichaelLamparty 5 месяцев назад

I find it amusing that Simon is thinks of a Golf Club in Akron, Ohio, but not the enormous tire company it is named after.

@SUPER7X 5 месяцев назад

1:40:35 I'm playing along, and on my screen, the answer is 3 + 5 characters such that you know what fits. Guess it was fixed.

@bajsalon 3 месяца назад

"25 is very close to 26" hits so hard

@reddcube 4 месяца назад

I had fun solve the Jane Street AMP 2024 puzzle. It's a classic skyscrapers puzzle but after solving it you trace route to form letters.

@deniz5566 5 месяцев назад

I think Simon will like this, Kentucky and Baltic are from the American Monopoly game.. I certainly had no clue either 😅

@longwaytotipperary 5 месяцев назад

I thought that immediately! Kentucky is red - Baltic is purple!

@deniz5566 5 месяцев назад

That's so cool!! I'm from Germany soI had no clue :) @@longwaytotipperary

@bibliopolist 5 месяцев назад

I find it really hard to believe Simon has never heard about the stupid Times Square new year's eve, but here we are. Also it was really fun to see him flabbergasted by a wrong puzzle document (the missing letter in the form), since they so often do this to us with those badly tested Patreon puzzle PDFs.... I never do them on the first day because there's always a correction...

@DuncanBooth 5 месяцев назад

I think the Times Square balls is very much an American tradition so not much surprise us brits haven't heard of it. I mean have you heard of the Stonehaven fireballs?

@fredgoodyer4907 4 месяца назад

I saw another comment saying that the missing ‘e’ was deliberate because the wiki said only the little red apple is lowered but not the big red apple. However, they since added the ‘e’ back, so who knows 😅

@katieellis1893 5 месяцев назад

In Minneapolis (Minnesota), one of the local news stations used to drop a watermelon off a building on NYE. I thoroughly enjoyed that as a kid. Now I'm enjoying the wiki page you discovered with the list of odd items. Thanks for a really fun solve!

@joostvanrens 5 месяцев назад

Why?

@richardfarrer5616 5 месяцев назад

Kubla Khan is by Coleridge. As I've only partially memorised The Raven, I'm pleased there is at least one poem I know better than Simon does.

@hairyspice 5 месяцев назад

I'm actually a bit disappointed that they 'fixed' the Red Apple clue. As per the Wikipedia page - "Cornelia hosts a "Little Red Apple" Drop and Dance in honor of the region's apple growers. The "Big Red Apple" located at the train depot is not dropped" The cryptic clue "Little Red Apple" following the cryptic crossword format would give us "Red Appl". So the Red Appl is indeed what is dropped in Cornelia on NYE (in a cryptic sense at least) as opposed to the Big Red Apple. I may be entirely wrong on this, but I feel that was done on purpose, and if so it 's a shame it was changed.

@bobblebardsley 5 месяцев назад

57:49 "This feels too far removed from Doctor Who," while the first thing visible in the search results is a photo of Eric Roberts, who played The Master in the 1996 TV movie. (Which would be a very weak link from what Simon was actually searching for at this moment, but tickled me anyway.)

@zefcypher 5 месяцев назад

Hello Simon!!

@BrendanPatrickGrace 5 месяцев назад

Long story short, because Doctor Who is confusing as crud, if you solve the puzzle- I think the last clue with the scrambled letters means you are supposed to skip the War Doctor who is sandwiched in the story between the 8th doctor (when the show stopped airing) and the modern revival with Christopher Eccleston’s 9th doctor. Even though the War Doctor was made for Doctor Who’s 50th, they added him in only then for that special. This would get you to Peter Capaldi the “12th” doctor.

@nemuchan 5 месяцев назад

shouldn't the last word be the name of the city where they drop a Milestone ?

@palpytine 4 месяца назад

On the US monopoly board, Baltic Avenue is Brown and Kentucky avenue is Red

@MatthewLenton 5 месяцев назад

Skipping the war refers to John Hurt who is the War Doctor. I'm not a big Dr Who fan so I don't know if he was officially numbered

@G4M1L 5 месяцев назад

I'm a modreate fan, but by no means an expert. Still, I'm pretty sure the War Doctor is not in the official numbering, and that addition "skipping the war" was there to make sure he doesn't get counted in.

@procsorted 5 месяцев назад

Re dapple 😁

@Manigo1743 5 месяцев назад

The problem is that it doesn't fit.

@andrewshelley410 5 месяцев назад

That is so funny to watch, especially since I know plenty about the Dorian mode and write code for Android.

@andrewshelley410 5 месяцев назад

Oh stop it, it just gets funnier and funnier. Re'dapple !!!!!

@highpath4776 5 месяцев назад

Might have been nice to do this with Mark. On the other hand make your own (as I see a Duck Decoy (why not Decoy Duck) is dropped on NYE

@ri3545 5 месяцев назад

As someone currently in music school, I was shouting at my screen while you were going on about Dorian Gray. And at your pronunciation of lydian!

@letMeSayThatInIrish 5 месяцев назад

I like the toast bar idea! Mark could have been more supportive.

@andrewgrant6516 5 месяцев назад

They based an entire series of Grange Hill around the toast bar. When they weren't busy hiding Donkeys in the shed.

@rhodrijames7962 5 месяцев назад

We had a question in our pub quiz last week, "How many elements have four-letter names?" One of my colleagues immediately launched into "The Elements"

@chipsounder4633 5 месяцев назад

Doctor who did indeed skip the time war.. Christopher Eccleston was the 9th doctor. In the 50th anniversary, you find out who the war doctor was. David Tennant (10th) Matt Smith (11th) then Peter Capaldi 12th doctor. Great stuff

@AcanthaRayneOakMoon 5 месяцев назад

Sylvester McCoy was a Doctor before the Time War, Peter Capaldi was after, but would only be considered the 12 doctor if you skip who played the Doctor during the Time War, otherwise he'd be 13th

@hangugeohaksaeng 5 месяцев назад

Anyone have a link to the "tee" software Simon mentions in the beginning of the video?

@pancrazioeuscopi 5 месяцев назад

I'd really like to know the same thing. I hope someone can tell us.

@Schalaster 5 месяцев назад

It's funny to me that Simon can solve some puzzles really well, but totally ignores the board game clue for baltic and Kentucky

@Lillith. 5 месяцев назад

The US and UK don't have the same monopoly. I never would've made the connection if it weren't for the comment section.

@Schalaster 5 месяцев назад

@@Lillith.Yeah I was only referring to him ignoring the board game hint. IIRC he didn't get the connection to Monopoly, which was just one google query away. But the different regional colors are a bit of a trap, that's true.

@sh4dowchas3r 5 месяцев назад

argghhhhhhhh at the Mccoy bit,

@pjbrady47 5 месяцев назад

I swear they updated the page as I was working on it. In my mind Once Again had 3+4 letters, and then it was 3+5. It never occured to me to try repeating the process on the answer. Likewise I was just anagramming and not putting in modifiers-I thought the Korean drama thing was a lazy oversight or based off an earlier title translation. Brute force got me through to the end, though, and for these type of hunts I'm ok with that. :)

@robinblackwell8167 5 месяцев назад

Makes sense that Jane Street (a finance firm) would spell apple with 4 letters, as that's the ticker symbol for Apple Incorporated stock on American exchanges.

@DaBeanM22 5 месяцев назад

I'm assuming the missing "E" could be referencing the "Little Red Apple" in a cryptic way so it's unique from any other "Red Apples"?

@Thexscha 5 месяцев назад

48:44 "McCoy", going back 5 places on the D to get the Y. 53:44 "assuming we're not cycling round the alphabet"... XD

@jonaclausson6698 5 месяцев назад

Just yesterday i rewatched a video where Simon used tea and all the technologies to solve a listener crossword

@BryanLu0 5 месяцев назад

Monopoly, Simon!!!

@adipy8912 5 месяцев назад

There's nothing with Kentucky or Baltic in the UK version

@matthewphillips5911 5 месяцев назад

Hah. I memorized the elements song thanks to Tom Leher too!

@michaelpdawson 5 месяцев назад

Mnemonic for the modes in order: I Don’t Play Like My Aunt Loki. (Ionian, Dorian, Phrygian, Lydian, Mixolydian, Aeolian, Locrian)

@user-yl3pp8fy9w 5 месяцев назад

I was wondering why he was making out he didn't know what the searches were about until he said he was logged in as CTC. xD

@garagedoor0pener 4 месяца назад

I'm just here to see how many people pointed out monopoly after the video xD

@Hemigoblin 5 месяцев назад

1:05:30 The Curse of the Cursor continues!

@Hemigoblin 5 месяцев назад

1:30:00 I tried to get on this list once, but I overdid the first part and ended up on the List of Loaded Marimba Players instead.

@rickrice8660 5 месяцев назад

Anyone else follow the red herring of taking all the letters from the color answers (one of which I had wrong) and seeing how many pairs of the same letters that set contained? For me, that turned to be 25 pairs ... that led me nowhere for a long time.

@sebastienlecoq3956 5 месяцев назад

5:00 when you see that clue, and you know you'll get a peotry bonus in your puzzle bonus video. I even wonder if Jane Street did it on purpose 65:48 "where is emerauld, this is ridiculous"... yeah, indeed, it is right beside your cursor, it is riduculous...ly funny. Regarding skipping the war doctor is because a specific plot point broke the numbering of the doctors, and watchers would be confused to count from mccoy to cappaldi. It's basically the one time that not knowing about it make it easier to get the intended answer (which is technically wrong, or at least wibbly wobbly).

@alanclarke4646 5 месяцев назад

Not wrong: the War doctor declared that he was " a doctor no longer", so he can be taken out of the numbering.

@Lillith. 5 месяцев назад

The War Doctor is the Doctor between 8 and 9 and you're skipping him.

@azrobbins01 5 месяцев назад

I am guessing from the length of the video that this was not an easy puzzle to solve.

@longwaytotipperary 5 месяцев назад

Like the ball is dropped in New York City, up until this year a peach was dropped in Atlanta.

@mrrobotman5299 5 месяцев назад

Amazing to me that Simon didn't know Monopoly existed.

@yadt 5 месяцев назад

He does, but the UK version has entirely different properties.

@hereharehere 5 месяцев назад

Wikipedia at 1:42:30 is hilarious!

@clementeclyde7035 5 месяцев назад

Mobile wishes it was a state capitol.

@bogorrana6757 5 месяцев назад

Worth it for ignoring the board game clue for the entire video lol

@alanclarke4646 5 месяцев назад

It doesn't count as "ignoring" if you don't know the spaces on the US version of Monopoly.

@marpocky 5 месяцев назад

@@alanclarke4646 It's fair to say he ignored/forgot it. He was searching for connections between Kentucky/Baltic and red/brown and just completely missed that there was a clue.

@jonh6585 4 месяца назад

@@alanclarke4646 still could have added it google search e.g. "Kentucky Baltic board game colours" it may have been an obscure game not heard of

@anthonyhastings5961 5 месяцев назад

Is the board game monopoly but the American version?

@adipy8912 5 месяцев назад

Yes

@andrewgrant6516 5 месяцев назад

My name is Woo Young-woo, whether it's read straight or flipped. Kayak, deed, rotator, noon, racecar, Woo Young-woo. Woo to the Young to the Woo!

@BRBTheFireball 5 месяцев назад

Don't mention the war!

@davidjspooner 5 месяцев назад

Anyone else amused by Google's search completion

@DrPhilboBaggins 5 месяцев назад

Why at 26:18 have you already got "25 colour combinations" and "25 combinations green and black" in your search history (showing as purple)?

@user-fp6dt1os1l 5 месяцев назад

It's explained at 55:30

@zakpappnase 5 месяцев назад

At about 56:10 he realises that because he is logged in with the 'Cracking the cryptic' google account, Mark's searches are also in the search history.

@adipy8912 5 месяцев назад

55:47 What Mark should have done before letting you have a go on this had been to click "delete" on each of the searches he has done. Then they wouldn't be purple anymore.

@bibliopolist 5 месяцев назад

Or he could just hit the bloody "logout" button...

@MarushiaDark316 5 месяцев назад

Hmm, does Simon really not know that "The Ball Drop" is a New Year's tradition? They hold it in Time's Square every year.

@nickjayyoung7662 5 месяцев назад

I'm just baffled as to how Simon keeps ignoring/missing the "board game" part of the "Kentucky Baltic" clue/answer. That annoyed me quite a bit, nonetheless I enjoyed watching this video. Edit: For those who don't know, the connection is Monopoly. "Brown" Baltic Avenue, "Red" Kentucky Avenue.