A (Sling)Shot In The Dark

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** TODAY'S PUZZLE **
So many of you enjoyed A Walk In The Mist a few days ago that we thought another Fog Of War sudoku might be a good idea. So here is mnasti2's A (Sling)Shot In The Dark, which is a wonderful introduction to the "slingshot" ruleset!
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@welcometogeektown Год назад

I always do these as much as I can without watching, then when I get stuck, watch until a new piece of logic that I hadn't figured out is shown, then I pause and continue on. Very happy with myself this time, as I only needed the roping logic to get the initial 2, and the rest I did completely on my own...

@inwalters Год назад

One of these "fog of war" puzzles needs to be named "The Man in the Mist" after the Agatha Christie short story.

@29Swordmaster Год назад

Remember the "And Then There Were None"? The mix could be so crazy.

@rockratzero Год назад

@malutj Год назад

I like these fog of war puzzles because the break-in can't really be hidden and is usually very fun to discover. 37:43

@chris5619 Год назад

I agree, and I think that is definitely why these are so popular. I do think it would be sort of fun if a creator "tricked" us by creating a puzzle with some bit of the fog cleared that doesn't actually help at all at the beginning. The only real way I could see that if it was like one of the previous videos where the whole puzzle is fogged over and the rules or outside the grid clues were able to place a digit somewhere specific in the grid. But then the creator also just left 4-5 cells randomly visible with something like an arrow and black dot showing or something. But I also think that generally creators don't try to "trick" so much and would rather try to convey the logic in the layout, regardless of how difficult that logic is.

@AdventCloudStrife Год назад

I was really confused by the double arrows for a bit there until I figured out exactly what the originated cell was supposed to be for each end. Fun puzzle, and still really love these fog of war puzzles

@RicardoRibeiro1978 Год назад

If I can make a suggestion, Simon could use a previously featured fog of war puzzle to illustrate how the correct digits lift the fog. Of course that may still spoil a puzzle for some people, so alternatively maybe someone could create a really simple fog war just for illustration purposes. Not sure how much effort that is. In any case, thank you for the channel and thanks to all the constructors for all the great puzzles!

@Raphael2004. Год назад

thanks for all of the wonderful content! Your channel has gotten me to try out variant sudoku and it’s been great fun trying to solve some of the more approachable puzzles on the channel

@GeldarionTFS Год назад

Fog of War is my favorite. It provides immediate gratification, and it also constrains the problem to help me focus on just a subset of the grid, like a chess puzzle.

@essentialatom Год назад

It's funny, they initially look stupidly difficult because so much information is hidden, but once you get going you realise how the fog can direct your attention to exactly where it's needed. I've only felt that one or two of the fog puzzles I've played have been made harder by the fog. Mostly it functions as a guide.

@Pathogenus Год назад

incredible. the way clues interact with each other at the start of the solve is simply beautiful and unbelivable

@shellmichael9665 Год назад

“Slungshot” was my favorite simonism of the video.

@DiMono Год назад

This was a nice approachable FoW slingshot puzzle. I managed to finish in under 20 minutes, which was nice. I am really looking forward to the upcoming solve of my puzzle. It's really fun, really different, and it should be quite the solve. Thank you both so much for putting in a bunch of work to get this going, I can't wait!

@emilywilliams3237 Год назад

I'm looking forward to it, too!

@Anne_Mahoney Год назад

Yes, that's going to be epic. I'm still flailing at Osiris (and haven't dared attempt Everything is Wrogn): I would love to see Simon + Mark together matching wits with one of our more creative constructors.

@chris5619 Год назад

I loved this puzzle and think it was an excellent use of the fog of war variant. I loved how the slingshot allowed some digits to be placed far off in the fog and in some cases, like the 9 in box 6, allowed the fog clearing to show distant clues. Really a great use of it. I am also slightly selfishly satisfied that Simon also missed the slingshot clue that was cleared up when he placed the 6 in box 3. I did as well, but it took my about 10 minutes to figure it out. Simon only missed it for a couple. I wonder if our coloring over the fog is part of the reason we both missed it as soon as it was cleared.

@tehbertl7926 Год назад

Solved in 31:44. This was a really fun ruleset, and I love how the sling shots became became progressively more complicated as you went further into solving it. My favorite part is the 135 triple in box 1, where the arrows are revealed when you fill in the 6 and then the triple is fully resolved in pretty much one go.

@hotwheelsnholdem4873 Год назад

my favorite time of day, thanks CTC

@crustylyra Год назад

This is my first fog of war where I didn’t accidentally get information by making a mistake! Very linear solve path made it quite the journey, but easy to figure out where to go next. Took just over an hour for me. Very pleased.

@inspiringsand123 Год назад

Rules: 05:10 Let's Get Cracking: 07:16 What about this video's Top Tier Simarkisms?! Three In the Corner: 4x (27:22, 31:02, 39:40, 40:33) Bobbins: 1x (25:46) Knowledge Bomb: 1x (38:52) The Secret: 1x (11:29) Schrödinger Cell: 1x (13:29) And how about this video's Simarkisms?! Ah: 15x (08:02, 08:32, 10:58, 12:31, 12:34, 17:09, 19:19, 25:03, 25:03, 25:46, 26:52, 31:46, 33:35, 35:01, 39:47) Lovely: 8x (09:54, 09:56, 13:10, 18:10, 18:27, 37:47, 43:54, 43:56) Beautiful: 8x (02:27, 26:20, 26:20, 35:54, 35:57, 37:42, 42:05, 43:33) Pencil Mark/mark: 6x (27:03, 33:15, 34:41, 34:44, 34:53, 42:43) Clever: 3x (25:18, 35:23, 43:35) Hang On: 3x (20:07, 24:16, 37:10) Sorry: 2x (05:53, 33:35) Wow: 2x (26:10, 32:47) That's Huge: 2x (14:07, 14:07) Good Grief: 1x (42:05) What on Earth: 1x (00:28) Goodness: 1x (05:35) Recalcitrant: 1x (39:32) Naughty: 1x (39:35) Bingo: 1x (17:00) Stuck: 1x (33:23) Horrible Feeling: 1x (33:20) Ridiculous: 1x (13:35) By Sudoku: 1x (36:24) Approachable: 1x (02:00) Facetious: 1x (10:02) Obviously: 1x (03:00) We Can Do Better Than That: 1x (38:23) Wrogn: 1x (03:34) Plonk: 1x (20:41) What Does This Mean?: 1x (26:18) Most popular digit and colour this video: One (86 mentions) Purple (38 mentions) Antithesis Battles: High (4) - Low (2) Even (4) - Odd (0) Higher (2) - Lower (2) Row (18) - Column (11) 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!

@ThePelster Год назад

Is this a bot???

@ThePelster Год назад

It counted "thats huge" twice

@tessabrisac7423 Год назад

@@ThePelster it is.

@ReoRis72 Год назад

@@ThePelster He did actually say it twice.

@ThePelster Год назад

@@ReoRis72 fair enough haha. If I was being pedantic I'd say technically he said "that's huge" then "that is huge"

@DekonR Год назад

Loved it. More Fog of War puzzles! They are my new favorite.

@PhoenicisEstuans Год назад

I wanna see another slingshot fog puzzle cause that was amazing to watch, wanna try solving one blind now

@gregr28 Год назад

This was one of my favorite puzzles I've ever done. So many times I found myself shaking my head at the pure brilliance of the setting. Getting the 7 in box 6 that broke the puzzle open left me stunned.

@riluna3695 Год назад

Before anything else, I love that the Bent Arrow puzzle has an errant in the rules. You bent the line so hard it broke.

@StephaneBura Год назад

Wonderful puzzle! I feel honored 😊

@cadieeyt Год назад

this was the smartest I've ever felt solving a sudoku lol. Normally only try videos that are less than 30 minutes as that's abt my level. Really like how the fog focuses you on one part of the puzzle as knowing where to start can be quite difficult on the harder puzzles

@CrimWorld9 Год назад

Wasp just wants to watch Simon solve problems like the rest of us.

@mudscuffer Год назад

Fun puzzle. I really like these fog of war puzzles, and the slingshot rule-set was pretty cool as well. 32:44 for me.

@DarkChasm Год назад

Love fog puzzles, really cool stuff, nice chillin' ❤❤

@davidrattner9 Год назад

Cherish your love for solving fog of war puzzles Simon as correct clues open up the puzzle , and you brim with joy!

@BozoTheBear Год назад

OMG, loved this! Thanks mnasti!

@pbush071987 Год назад

I really loved how the slingshot rules let you theow numbers deep into the fog, instead of creeping into it one digit at a time. Really amplified the excitement of clearing the fog

@MarcusTheDorkus Год назад

I love these fog of war puzzles. The slingshotting was very fun!

@piarittersporn Год назад

Wonderful and exciting puzzle. I love the fogs.

@Sponsie1000 Год назад

I'm not quickly wow'ed while solving a puzzle (probably because the most wow'ing ones are above my paygrade), but l was really impressed by how clever and elegant this puzzle feels while solving. Had to wrap my head around the phrasing of the rules at the start, but l once l got it l was having a blast! Would recommend.

@smylesg Год назад

Who's up for a GiveSendGo so Simon can buy a window screen to keep wasps out of his attic?

@abcrtzyn Год назад

Good puzzle, felt amazing to solve all the way through.

@longwaytotipperary Год назад

Enjoyed the combination of sling shot and fog of war! Looking forward to Simon & Mark collaborating on a DiMono puzzle and working on the kids puzzle - it really looks fun!

@davidrattner9 Год назад

💚💙 this combo of fow and sling. I am certainly you will also ❤️💜 the kids puzzle and seeing Mark and Simon collaborate together. 🫠

@longwaytotipperary Год назад

@@davidrattner9 ❤️❤️❤️❤️

@jacobknight5497 Год назад

I found the slingshot ruleset super satisfying, and the fog of war makes it more approachable (by highlighting where the break-in is!), thank you for another wonderful puzzle

@noidea26 4 месяца назад

Simon saying "Nine likes to go out a party, lets just put it like that" while remaining completely deadpan has put me on the floor.

@Piatato Год назад

Lovely puzzle, with a very fitting idea for a FOW puzzle!

@arturocaissut1071 11 месяцев назад

These was really fun. Fog of war's got to be my favourite variation.

@eorrfu82 Год назад

This one felt really fun and smooth.

@thefallenarm589 Год назад

Gorgeous puzzle, very creative and very well implemented.

@Sam_weiqi Год назад

32:18 for me. Very fun constraint.

@BobertJoe Год назад

I love these fog of war puzzles. As somebody who is not a particularly strong solver, they feel very very approachable, even when they are slim on clues like this one, because you know where you need to focus, whereas many difficult puzzles, finding the starting point is the hardest part.

@genevieve4679 Год назад

This puzzle was so much fun!!

@someone__something Год назад

I love fog of war puzzles and I thought the slingshot rule was so cool! Wonderful puzzle :)

@KANPAI666OPPAI Год назад

Took me 33:29. What a great puzzle, I particularly love how it leads you to clear various sections of fog from based on logic and find new avenues to work from, something I wasn't expecting from a fog ruleset!

@zealot2147 Год назад

I think this is my favorite fog of war, not too hard, and the slingshot was really clever to bounce around the map where fogs usually have a fairly straightforward path

@ShyGuy1347 Год назад

I really enjoyed that puzzle a whole lot. I don't know what specifically. It felt like each clue led directly to the next

@HunterJE Год назад

The weird relationship between the pencil marks in r1c4-6 out the gate is fascinating, because their "slingshot" cells are in the same cage/row they have to all point to different cells, making them this weird pseudo-triple where r1c4, [r1c5-1], and [r1c6-2] have to all be different...

@srwapo Год назад

It took me a bit to figure them out because I wasn't certain from the rules if the digit had to be immediately before the arrow or if there could be a long line into the fog showing where that digit needed to be placed.

@SugarStump Год назад

I tried this puzzle but got stuck halfway, decided to watch the video for a hint to finish, but my purples were your reds, and reds were your purples which i found really funny. Great content this week I'm having a lot of fun

@fredgoes9608 Год назад

This is a great puzzle!! Thank heaps to mnasti2 for this wonderful idea!! It took me about 45 minutes and I made a small mistake (oops) after some 35 minutes so had to retract a bit… 😳 But great fun to solve. Nice, the deductions to make about the 7s, 8s and 9s. 😊

6 месяцев назад

This was a very satisfying puzzle.

@EJPullen Год назад

i love hearing the birds in the background

@fulltimeslackerii8229 Год назад

fog of war has to be the best variant sudoku ever invented. so simple yet so genius

@Travis_Varga Год назад

A wonderful puzzle!

@ozlich Год назад

Brilliant puzzle! Didn't let up.

@SmiteoPuzzles Год назад

fabulous fog!

@carolinefreeman4546 Год назад

Loved this puzzle! It took me ages to solve but I thoroughly enjoyed it. I feel like fog puzzles are often more approachable for me because you only have a small amount of clues to start with and so you know where you have to focus your attention. Then as more is revealed you know that's the next thing to solve. Still a tricky puzzle but very good fun.

@Coldheart322 Год назад

39:10 "And this square isn't 2 anymore because there is a 2 in the box" The 2 in c7 "Am I a joke to you?" :-p And earlier "this can still be a 2 or 3" The 3 on that row: "I'm invisible :-(" I get it, it's all about where you look. But sometimes it is amusing watching Simon miss sudoku clues like that.

@danielwolters9082 Год назад

Amazing puzzle ❤

@Lord_Volkner Год назад

I forget when I'm on LMG to do a simple one now and then. This was a welcome reprieve.

@andrecalio4222 Год назад

42:13 Loved the puzzle! Fog of war is such a fun ruleset

@eddieharwood7788 Год назад

That was fabulous. Not only did I love it but I did it - it all flowed so nicely, although the initial part is to me the easiest as there is generally only 1 obvious place to look.

@thalax Год назад

Absolutely loved it. Solved through it slowly but with lots of clever 'ahhah' moments. Until I got stuck for 20min. Had to 'cheat' with a Simon solve to find 9 in box 6 and then everything came along nicely after that.

@essentialatom Год назад

46:40 and a very satisfying solve. Love the logic at the start.

@chipsounder4633 Год назад

My new favourite.

@thecaneater Год назад

It's amazing to think about how these kinds of puzzles/videos create so many Brand New Sentences. "That's got to be 7, 8, or 9, and we know it's not purple." "This cell is throwing purple down the grid."

@kwantisimo Год назад

I suppose at least one person here was shouting at Simon through their mind pointing at the naked 2 in the corner at around @39:50 hahaha

@thommy4078 Год назад

32:58 for me. It is as always a very nice puzzle. Solvable but still challenging :) Thank you so much for your great content and creating such a great, peacefull world here :)

@SomethingWellesian Год назад

This is such a great puzzle. I really loved it. Got badly stuck at one point because my own colouring hid a slingshot clue, but what a lovely solve.

@Emmibean77 Год назад

How fun was this! Well made and well solved. And shoo, wasp, don’t bother Simon!

@Fogmeister Год назад

Got it eventually. The 9 in box 6 really stumped me for a while. Once I saw that the rest was easy.

@ericpraline1302 Год назад

Interesting puzzle - I'm not sure if I've done a slingshot before either. Tried this a few days ago when I was feeling under the weather, made a few silly deductions and gave up. Once my brain fog had cleared I was able to do likewise to this puzzle.

@thedoomkiller3178 Год назад

This slingshot deserve an app Congrats to the setter of this puzzle, mnasti2 has a really cool Idea, and the concept of slingshot have 3 pattern 1) in box 1 i will call it the Balance, one digit is heavier than the other (if 2 balance are face to face, one goes up the other goes down, Left/Right is turn 90°) 2) in box 8 i will call it the corner shot, when you change the direction of your shot (maybe it's possible to make a square of corner shot) 3) in box 2 i call it a streak and what is the most longest streak possible ? I think it's 8 but i'm not sure

@WhammeWhamme Год назад

Slingshots really play into the most fun part of fog-of-war, which is the reveal of new territory. Flinging a digit across the map is very satisfying. :)

@sampathkumar-ej7xl Год назад

A superbly constructed fog of war puzzle with a new sling shot constraint that made it very interesting. I wonder if some brighter colour could be used for the bent arrows. I didnt notice the light grey arrow underneath the 6 in the first row which delayed my solve.

@ukdavepianoman 10 месяцев назад

I think these killer [sudoku] wasps are sick and tired of hearing about 3 in the corner. Clever puzzle and a lot of fun.

@evetheeevee2977 Год назад

67:48 nice puzzle, had a bit of trouble with the pointing pair between r9 and c9, but the break in was smooth and great

@L83467 2 месяца назад

very fun puzzle, i did it in 37:19. this is the first time that ive beaten simon!

@britlion Год назад

Awesome puzzle. I fear in not up to Simon standards. 90 mins, and I had to borrow roping as a thing to look at (thanks for the hint simon) to get going. My scanning sucks. Got there tho! Loved the genius of this.

@giladooshlon Год назад

30 minutes for me. I liked it

@AndreasKungl Год назад

Entertaining! The most difficult part was understanding the double slingshot bit. Glad to be in company of the occasional apparent savants who seem to claim alledged (video solve time) * 0.33 under each and every video, regardless of difficulty...

@darthrainbows Год назад

Ooooh, I liked this one, solved in 44 minutes.

@bertbergers9171 Год назад

Hi there, not spotting both of the break ins Simon found in no time at all cost me 15 minutes, after that I cheated ;) So 50 minutes on the puzzle could have been either hours to find it or 35 minutes solving the rest after the break in. Thanks for the puzzle, now i get to watch the rest of the video

@Rach881101 Год назад

27:42 for me. Fog of war puzzles are always a delight to solve!

@mussyhall Год назад

41.15 lovely puzzle, thanks setter.

@ryaneakins7269 Год назад

I needed help with r5c9, but only because today I wasn't using my usual "fill in all the candidates and whittle them away" strategy :).

@donaldsnyder1543 Год назад

Maverick , wasp edition.

@kimspence-jones4765 Год назад

I loved solving this puzzle, but like Simon I stalled a while not spotting R1C8. Just like him, I found the arrows sometimes difficult to see and keep track of, especially under filled digits.

@bobfish7699 Год назад

I could swear I have done a puzzle very similar to this months ago - maybe didn't have FOW

@Coyotek4 Год назад

26:02 (over two sessions) ... I don't think I've seen a 'slingshot' rule before, and pairing with Fog worked rather well Nice puzzle!

@skid68 Год назад

Think this type of puzzle would work pretty good for me :)

@PigPillow Год назад

Great puzzle and a great solve! This time Simon really neglected the help from the 2 in box 3 though 😁

@lukebanwart8581 Год назад

I was watching that, just wondering when he would finally notice that 2, and I'm not sure if he ever did. The way he finally solved the 2 in box 6 was pretty funny 😄

@SkillZgetKillZ Год назад

Got here a bit late and took a while to do this one but I was solve 2006 which is neat

@18Wolves77 Год назад

Remember how happy and excited Simon was to discover the non-reveal mode? So he could play around with things in the rules explanation?..... then promptly forgot and has never used it again. Classic Simon haha

@MaxHaydenChiz Год назад

Really enjoyed this rule set. Does anyone know if any of the setters have ever made videos explaining how they set one of the featured puzzles on this channel? I think watching the solve and then the set back to back could be fun.

@bevobexley4087 Год назад

Yes, there are a couple. Zetamath comes to mind immediately and I would search on the channel for setting/names of setters

@Ferrastar Год назад

I think sometimes the colouring can mean aspects of the puzzle are overlooked (particularly the 6 in R1C8 slingshotting the purple 7/8 into R7C8 and then back along R6)