A Sudoku With Only One Given Digit (and it's a 4!)

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** TODAY'S PUZZLE **
The return of Aad van de Wetering today with another quite extraordinary sudoku - this one has only a single given digit and a scattering of pentominoes!
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@DArtagnonW 2 года назад

They're called pentominos, but they can't have a 5 in them. Cruel fate.

@corsiKa 2 года назад

You can in 0-8 sudoku

@enax6763 Год назад

True Romeo and Juliet story

@KL005 9 месяцев назад

POOTOOMOONOO

@failurenotsorry6600 7 месяцев назад

probably why the 'pento' is there.

@ffets-SEP 2 месяца назад

Because they're made out of 5 cells.

@borisgrozev2289 2 года назад

THE THREE IN THE CAGE My hobby: spending 1h30m on a puzzle, so that I can watch the video and shout at the screen when Simon takes too long to notice something easy in his 30 minute solution.

@crystalgehrt8861 2 года назад

YAS!

@teresagg9809 2 года назад

Same. My time 199:10. Trying to not rely on the video. started over twice . watched the video a bit. stopped the video saying ok so I was right. @ 20:19 him mentioning the triple made a lightbulb go off. I was much farther along with a pair and a placed digit and was stuck.

@epicmoofish3726 Год назад

why even solve it, the best strat is to shout at the screen even though you know damn well you couldnt solve it

@sotirissoyvleris6966 Год назад

exacly what i did 87 min with litle help by simon and then WOW HOW CANT U SEE THIS haha i like him a lot tho

@coconoisette 8 месяцев назад

Did it in 4h38 minutes without help. Will still watch the video, i used almost NO logic just struggled with placing pairs and seeing what clicks or not 😭

@Bruno-xi3jm 2 года назад

At this point it's rare to see any given digits at all

@williamoberg-lofstedt130 2 года назад

😂

@nickj7332 2 года назад

@@williamoberg-lofstedt130 RU-vid offered to translate your comment to English. Makes me wonder which language it was in. XD

@bhoooowhooo7943 2 года назад

We don't talk about brunooo

@emdivine 2 года назад

@@nickj7332 Did you press the translate button? When I used it last it told me what the original language was

@nickj7332 2 года назад

@@emdivine I'm mostly teasing because it was an emoji, which is universal. But, maybe they mean different things in different languages? Like how certain hand gestures mean very different things between different peoples.

@jefffrank177 2 года назад

Find someone who talks about you the way Simon talks about Aad.

@rewolff2 Год назад

Aad has a website where he lists people who've solved the puzzles on that page. Under ten solves for most of the puzzles that have been on that page for over a decade!

@dkamm65 2 года назад

Interesting that if the given 4 was a 6 instead, the solve path would have been exactly the same, but with the polarity flipped. All the 1s would become 9s, the 2s become 8s, 3s map to 7s, and of course, 4s to 6s.

@aaronfuzion 2 года назад

My brain hurts

@joethornton5321 2 года назад

2's would become 8's, no?

@dkamm65 2 года назад

@@joethornton5321You're right, my bad. Fixed it.

@fulltimeslackerii8229 Год назад

probably because 6 has a similar issue of having only 1 possible neighbor

@Lollymen27 Год назад

Isn't that valid for every sudoku? If you flip every given digit it solves the same way... here its just cool because its junst one digit. (Of corse not killer, arrow, ect.)

@TiramisuSPD 2 года назад

The cherry on top is that the pentominoes are in alphabetical order! What an elegant puzzle, as always from Aard.

@Tahgtahv 2 года назад

I guess I've noticed it before, but it's still amazing that they are so biased towards the end of the alphabet. (7 of the 12 in the full set are the last 7 letters of the alphabet.) The other amazing thing is that the letters in the puzzle all have as close to a proper orientation as possible. V, W, and X, are rotated CCW 45 degrees to align with the grid.

@darreljones8645 2 года назад

The central box has no pentomino because the four remaining shapes (I, L, N, and Y) can't fit in a 3-by-3 square.

@abj136 2 года назад

FPTUVWXZ

@olivier2553 2 года назад

@@Tahgtahv I'd argue that the X is rotated clock wise, but that is just to feed the algorithm.

@pacattack2586 2 года назад

Deleted previous comment - I forgot that L was four then a turn... That pentomino in box 6 was a V u_u

@uigrad 2 года назад

Simon frequently asks whether people like the ridiculously hard puzzles or easy puzzles more. For me, this hits the sweet spot. It's somewhat challenging the whole way through, but never so hard that you get stuck. The types of deductions you make are constantly engaging. It's just a great puzzle!

@inspiringsand123 2 года назад

Rules: 04:31 Let's Get Cracking: 05:01 Simon's time: 32m09s Puzzle Solved: 37:10 What about this video's Top Tier Simarkisms?! The Secret: 8x (05:13, 06:53, 07:20, 07:24, 11:16, 37:45, 37:45, 37:48) Maverick: 2x (11:33, 16:09) Bobbins: 1x (10:30) And how about this video's Simarkisms?! By Sudoku: 8x (06:15, 25:47, 26:05, 29:09, 30:12, 31:51, 32:30, 35:10) Ah: 8x (07:12, 16:01, 16:01, 16:05, 23:19, 24:31, 25:42, 28:26) Good Grief: 7x (03:10, 16:09, 25:24, 25:26, 27:05, 28:52, 30:16) Beautiful: 5x (01:33, 17:58, 18:40, 18:49, 28:04) Lovely: 4x (03:56, 25:45, 26:09, 29:58) Brilliant: 4x (03:31, 03:43, 04:04, 37:12) In Fact: 4x (05:11, 06:00, 20:07, 29:43) Wow: 4x (26:03, 27:12, 27:12, 32:49) Pencil Mark/mark: 4x (24:00, 33:15, 35:24, 36:15) The Answer is: 3x (05:32, 06:13, 20:22) Obviously: 3x (12:08, 21:42, 26:24) Clever: 2x (19:05, 28:52) Incredible: 2x (02:47, 03:22) Corollary: 2x (09:40, 11:29) We Can Do Better Than That: 2x (11:52, 17:17) Cake!: 2x (03:45, 04:04) Sorry: 1x (29:49) Naked Single: 1x (36:04) Out of Nowhere: 1x (30:40) Break the Puzzle: 1x (05:35) Fascinating: 1x (01:35) Extraordinary: 1x (01:02) Gorgeous: 1x (28:08) Off and Running: 1x (25:26) Take a Bow: 1x (38:10) Shouting: 1x (03:38) Hang On: 1x (08:48) Masterpiece: 1x (01:02) Disappointing: 1x (32:03) Full stop: 1x (13:18) Progress: 1x (33:12) Almost Interesting: 1x (12:16) On the Cusp: 1x (31:29) Nature: 1x (07:37) Most popular digit this video: One, Six (63 mentions) Antithesis Battles: Low (17) - High (14) Odd (2) - Even (2) Row (12) - Column (12) 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!

@Kevin-ht8hr 2 года назад

The "wow" at 26:03 is a false positive

@mauritsgeerligs8596 2 года назад

This is awesome

@nick_the_xiv8721 2 года назад

i love you sm

@totto5765 2 года назад

I always listen to your videos at night when I'm trying to sleep because your voice is nice calming, but I'll end up watching them to the end most of the time. I love how you explain your thinking process, it's so easy and fun to follow!

@kayleawilson 2 года назад

Aad and Simon, excellent job. I love this channel and I love these puzzles. A strangely viral video of a man solving a strange sudoku got me hooked on a not-so-strange community of puzzle lovers.

@davidalderson 2 года назад

The return of Aad van de Wetering who hasn't been seen on the channel since Mark's video yesterday. Not that, that is a bad thing as the logic in his puzzles is always fantastic.

@corsiKa 2 года назад

Mark had a submission recently and he mentioned to aspiring setters to please only email one puzzle to be fair to their testers. I fully agree with his philosophy but I feel like there are some people who could email them puzzles all day long and mark and Simon would just look at it and go well I guess we're doing a few bonus puzzles today.

@th.nd.r 2 года назад

The miraculous nature of the puzzle and all the bouncing back and forth in the bottom three boxes, what a beauty! Great setting and solving yet again, loved this one!!

@emilywilliams3237 2 года назад

I did it! I did it, I solved this puzzle by the great Aad Van de Wetering. I am very pleased with this. Thanks so much for this great video, Simon, and your wonderful solve of this great puzzle. I so enjoyed it, as always.

@ruzicabibin4701 2 года назад

Otvorite za igru

@emilymiller4349 Год назад

Good for you! I know the feeling, but alas not with this puzzle. I kept getting stuck and needing Simon's help. Congratulations to you! (And yes, you may have solved it two months ago, but let's keep celebrating.)

@DarrenNakamura 2 года назад

Got stuck, came back to the video long enough to get Simon's insight about the 4 and 6 in row six. With that I was able to finish the puzzle in 1:42:43. Edit: I'm sure somebody else has also pointed it out, but another beautiful thing about this puzzle is that the pentominoes are alphabetized! He used all eight pentominoes that would fit in a 3x3 box and put them in order, and still found a way to have it solve nicely using just one given digit.

@steelee300 2 года назад

After discovering this channel a few months ago and being a very casual sudoku player(I know the very basics and learned when I was young) this channel makes my brain tingle in best ways of puzzles and logic and I wanted to thank everyone involved with it. Hey thanks!

@azpcox 2 года назад

I love the fact that all of the pentominoes are all unique as well. Aad always has beautiful settings with lovely logic that makes a day better!

@emdivine 2 года назад

saw somebody else call this out, further blowing my mind: the pentominoes are also in alphabetical order, and all of them "upright" as much as that's possible wrt the letter they look like

@addisonbaker9811 Год назад

@@emdivine sorry if this is obvious, but what letter is in the top left?

@emdivine Год назад

@@addisonbaker9811 No worries, it's not the most obvious thing. That's an F

@bristolrovers27 2 года назад

Great to see another Aard puzzle, the man is brilliant Generally out of my league but I've completed a couple of his relatively easy puzzles

@listey 2 года назад

Aad*

@markp7262 2 года назад

32:23 finish. Another amazing puzzle which looks impossible at the start, but unfolds brilliantly. There are even places where you can fit the remaining four pentomino shapes (overlapping each other, but not overlapping the cages) and still have them follow the German whisper rules! You use r4c3 through r4c7 for the I, and then branch off from it for the L/N/Y. Excellent!

@chocolateboy300 Месяц назад

I finished in 38 minutes. What a joy this puzzle was to solve! The geometry was so nice how it played with the 5s, 4s, and 6s, which then led to the 3s in cages breaking 7s. Absolutely brilliant. One of my favorites. Great Puzzle!

@VonBlade 6 дней назад

"We now know the whole polarity of the F Pentomino". Not a sentence I expected to hear in my life, much less bring me such giddy joy.

@Xiuhtec 2 года назад

145 minutes for this one. Every cell was like pulling teeth, even near the end. No idea how Simon does it so quickly.

@SenselessUsername 9 месяцев назад

No idea either. If only we could, like, watch him solve it real time and maybe even have an idea what he's considering...

@danidracogal 7 месяцев назад

I havent watched these guys in years, but I was thinking about them the other day, an this popped up in my fyp, so here I am

@nickneal3955 6 месяцев назад

I can almost never follow your math because you're so very fast at doing math in your head but I enjoy watching because it's amazing watching everything fall together and you have such a calming voice. You're so good at these,

@zanzaboonda 2 года назад

I've actually been watching since pre-"Miracle", but you all are just as charming as ever. And I've gotten better at solving, too. The way you explain things is very accessible, though I wouldn't make all of the logic leaps yet on my own. However, I didn't do too badly with this one! I think playing your Miracles app helps because it forces you to think about things in a different way. The last couple of years have been rough for everyone, of course. Thank you for being such a calm, consistent place to turn to for escape. Your channel not only brings joy, it soothes. And it teaches. I play and watch puzzles to help with anxiety, and you guys have done so much for so many people. I doubt you even realize to what extent. (I had brain surgery last year, and your channel was one of the few things that kept me sane leading up to it.) Thank you. Hope you're on the mend!!

@acebee46 5 месяцев назад

I dont fully understand all the strategies for sudoku but I love watching you solve them and how positive you are

@majestic07 2 года назад

I would never have attempted this puzzle a few months ago and I have this channel and the Discord to thank for my improvement. Thanks to Mark and Simon and all the amazing setters and testers!

@davidrattner9 2 года назад

Have you been feeling Simon? Hope you getting on the mend and slowly your taste and smell come back sooner rather than later. Thank you for another beautiful solve from the man himself AAD

@CrackingTheCryptic 2 года назад

I don't feel too bad, thanks for asking. Just a sore throat now and no sense of taste. Still testing positive though :(

@longwaytotipperary 2 года назад

@@CrackingTheCryptic Good to hear you are continuing to improve!!! Thank you for keeping up the daily puzzles!! Hope your taste comes back soon (you can celebrate with cake!!)

@stephenbeck7222 2 года назад

Cracking The Cryptic I think you may still test positive for weeks depending on your variant and how long its viral load persists, regardless of your symptoms.

@Anne_Mahoney 2 года назад

@@longwaytotipperary I agree: Simon should definitely celebrate his recovery with cake. Lots of cake. An immense cake with 7 inches of icing orthogonally adjacent to the top. And may that day come soon.

@longwaytotipperary 2 года назад

@@Anne_Mahoney Yes!!!! 😊

@Paolo_De_Leva 6 дней назад

What a stratospherically elegant construction‼Different shapes producing different restrictions, and so many breathtakingly beautiful geometric interactions between them... Thank you for inserting this cosmic-class sudoku in volume 2 of *CTC Greatest Hits.* Only 5.8K views on planet *Earth?* Incredible. In my galaxy, it was viewed *900 trillion* times, notwithstanding the sloppy automatic translation into Standard Telepathic Language, and notwithstanding algorithm bias against extragalactic species. By the way, we love Terrestrial whispers.

@Mx.Morris 5 месяцев назад

I spent hours on this puzzle, only to watch you complete it in a much more efficient way. I'm sitting here laughing at the amount of time I wasted on this sudoku solving it in the most convoluted way possible simply because I forgot to eliminate a pencil mark early on. Amazing!

@mirjanbouma 3 месяца назад

I finally got around to watching this and it was beautiful, a great last video before bed. I'll go and watch more of your work tomorrow. 😊

@jamesdreyer602 2 года назад

31:16 I always love when Simon calls out his DISDAIN for using Sudoku....... in the Sudoku puzzles 🙂 And again at 33:55!!!!

@J3ff_K1ng 2 года назад

Wow and it's a four?! Amazing

@jameswinters5495 2 года назад

What a lovely puzzle, and also the first I've ever been able to solve on my own. It's keeping me sane as I lie here recovering from COVID myself, keep up the great videos.

@aaronfuzion 2 года назад

Aesthetically my favorite puzzle yet!

@alexandrecolautoneto7374 2 года назад

Yeah, I came from the two digits video and felt in love with the channel, keep doing the great work!

@sampathkumar-ej7xl 2 года назад

Superb puzzle construction and a super solve by Simon with no signs of any Covid effects with him doing his best as usual to avoid classic sudoku rules.

@ericpraline1302 2 года назад

Very nice - always satisfying to finish one of Aad’s.

@redmist6131 2 года назад

Love watching you Crack these puzzles even though it sometimes makes I brain hurt

@Becky-99 7 месяцев назад

My favourite line was “Sudoku laughed in my face” 😂

@triplea657aaa 2 года назад

That was a fun solve. Thanks for posting this.

@MythicalSquidInk. 26 дней назад

Beautiful solve

@brianarsuaga5008 2 года назад

Only took me about three times as long as Simon, and I only occasionally needed his help spotting a dang whisper that I missed. 😅

@lucyfarrer4401 Год назад

I never understand it, but I love it every time.

@HunterJE 2 года назад

21:49 You can also narrow r6c8 to 37 at this step - whichever of 28 r8c8 is, it will be surrounded by both the opposite-polarity digits and therefore put the other like-polarity digit above...

@aaronfuzion 2 года назад

I noticed that. Not sure if it would have helped tho

@btestware 2 года назад

Yes, I did that too and it led to a very weird cross-linkage between the 28 pairs in the middles of boxes 1 and 9. I do my puzzles on pencil and paper and I make heavy use of "ordered pairs" which you might call bifurcation but it is really not much different that what Simon does with colors. Anyhow, following the logic, I proved (or at least convince myself) that those 28 cells had opposite polarity, which meant neither 2 nor 8 could be the center cell of box 7. Which was huge. And I went back to the video to see if Simon did it the same way. And of course, his solution with the 789 triple in row 8 was much more...elegant? is the word I suppose. And simpler of course.

@MyriamTT 2 года назад

This puzzle works like magic !

@4thright 2 года назад

Fascinating puzzle! Interesting to note that the eight pentominoes are arranged in alphabetical order using standard nomenclature: FPTUVWXZ.

@damadclown 2 года назад

Managed to solve it by myself in around 45 minutes. Very entertaining for sure

@DevilishlyDutch 2 года назад

Shout out to 6, who was neglected for this puzzle despite being able to do the exact same thing as the 4. May you get your chance to shine one day!

@LittleBallOfPurr 2 года назад

Huge congrats to the winners!!!

@Jake-hd7lt 2 года назад

I dont know how or why but i have bcome addicted to this channel

@Coyotek4 2 года назад

27:31 ... this was an absolute JOY to solve!!! Wonderful puzzle!

@alexanderallison7131 2 года назад

Loved this one. Just under an hour for me.

@crystalgehrt8861 2 года назад

Aad made me fall in love with sudoku and ctc, and he makes me fall in love with them all over again each time he gifts us with another puzzle. ❤

@MAUD_IFY 2 года назад

remarkable that everytime i got stuck it was on a whisper trick i had missed. so much of the solve from beginning to end relies on those pentominos

@rachelrose7027 4 месяца назад

Simon's biggest complaint: making him do sudoku in a sudoku puzzle

@PauxloE Год назад

My first observation was "this 4 is in the most unhelpful place for the right three boxes, as it almost not restrict the placements of 4s in box 3 + 9 at all". (But then it actually forced the 6 in box 3, which was nice.) I got the break-in quite easy (almost the same way as Simon - watched (and solved) enough German Whispers puzzles recently that I even still had a graph with the digits lying on my desk). Nowadays I often manage to solve the puzzles, but when I watch the video afterwards, it feels like so much brute-force was needed compared to what Simon found. I had to pencilmark half of the grid, and color six of the pentominoes with green-yellow (i.e. unknown whether high or low, but known to be different from each other) before finally a yellow cell could just be 3, and thus the polarities became known for them (and I could change them to orange-blue, as the other three already were).

@piarittersporn 2 года назад

After the first steps I had to experiment a little until I realized how the order of the high and low digits in boxes 4 and 6 should be. After that, everything built up very well, especially since there were basically only two options for r8c5 in box 8. A beautiful and exciting puzzle that I really enjoyed.

@danielepicone1480 2 года назад

I took way longer than Simon to solve with 41:56 as my time, but I am absolutely surprised this even has an unique solution. It feels more like an astral combination of factors coming together by chance to properly align.

@glum_hippo 2 года назад

Fascinating Pentominoes, Terrifically UnraVelled With Xtraodinary Zeal

@squirrelwood8008 2 года назад

A given digit? What a luxury :)

@praematura 2 года назад

28:48 for me, and this was a really cool puzzle! I honestly didn't think I was going to make it through, but I persevered. 🙂

@LyuboRyuk 11 месяцев назад

I find this puzzle very beautiful 😍

@ekw555 Год назад

I was amazed I located the 4 in Box 1 right after you established 4 in the top row of Box 3. now I have to wait & see if I am right.

@Ardalambdion 2 года назад

I am glad your voice is better.

@DKforever24 6 месяцев назад

Its funny how back when this video came out, Sudoku Puzzles with minimal given digits was a major selling point, but now it seems like every puzzle starts off completely blank with 15 extra rules to help find your initial digits. Does that mean Sudoku has power creep?

@roccov3614 3 месяца назад

The way I worked out the second "rule" was: 5 can't have any neighbors in the cage., 4 and 6 can have only 1. 3 and 7 can have 2. 2 and 8 can have 3 and 1 and 9 can have 4.

@GeorgeFoot 2 года назад

I found this to be quite an Aad puzzle, it took me over two hours

@shaunyman42 2 года назад

For once I saw something Simon missed. Column 7 had 7 digits in gages and a given 4 not in a cage. Thus the cages must contain 3 low and 4 high digits, so the polarity of the cages in boxes 4,6 & 9 was clear right at the start. Unfortunately this quick start still did not result in me beating Simon's overall time. Well done Simon. When I started watching this channel I could not solve these puzzles, now I can, but I am still slow, and still make too many logical errors, but it's getting better thanks Mark & Simon.

@marcusmason967 3 месяца назад

When I’m solving hard sudokus, and I get a break through, I think I if your voice going “ah that’s brilliant! Now this goes there…” etc.

@mansursamsuradov2780 2 года назад

At first I wasnt sure if I wanted to see this video, since it a 4 and not a 3 and not even in the corner. But turned out to be a worthy puzzle and brilliant video.

@sakkikoyumikishi 5 месяцев назад

Ah, the times when one given digit seemed like *few*, before it became the norm to just have *no* given digits 😂

@cameronpotts2386 3 месяца назад

Took me forever! 04:20:46 was my time. I'm so proud of myself

@65Superhawk 2 года назад

My first Aad completed. 1 hr 40 but glad to have done it

@MartinEB72 2 года назад

I kept running into an unsolvable puzzle.

@alexandracristina9591 8 месяцев назад

Me just casually yelling that there is a 3 in column 9 row 3 at minute 31:45 🥲 was the only thing I saw before him, I am proud of myself 😂

@swimfit57 Месяц назад

Fantastic

@lemlem35 Год назад

22:47 Bazinga

@nikkisweezea2388 2 года назад

You sound so much better! Glad you came out the other side of the plague!!

@MattYDdraig 3 месяца назад

65:07 Beautiful flow, interrupted only by my own number-blindness

@AaronRausch91998 2 года назад

Took me about 45 minutes. Normally I find tougher sudokus a slog, but this was fun the whole way!

@amysteele2488 Год назад

It's only in watching this again I realised the pentominos in this puzzle, when read from top left to bottom right are in alphabetical order!

@geraldomajela2172 Месяц назад

I was dying inside with that 78 pair on the botton kkkkk

@galacticmechanic1 2 года назад

watching these I am starting to get a bit better at sudoku

@Infantry12345 2 года назад

Hey, at 6:02, why were you able to put a 5 at column 2 row 5? I get that row 4 was taken out by the 5 at column 8, but couldn't column 2 also have the 5 at row 7? I can follow what comes after but this c2r5 cell in particular puzzles me EDIT: I was focusing on columns and rows, forgot about the box somehow. with the U shaped cage, and the 5 on row 4 taken out, box 4 can only have a 5 in the middle, my b

@isaknilsson6541 Год назад

I'm proud I found the 7 8 pair solution before you

@ha_lber1517 2 года назад

11:32 amazing puzzle solver and comedian wow

@glrider100 2 года назад

I have observed that the extra rules make sodoku's more difficult in the beginning, but conversely less difficult at the end. The same extra rules that are a challenge to apply early on, become a benefit later. If you map on an X/Y grid, X being time, and Y being difficulty, I find these extra constraint puzzles start out higher at the beginning, but the fall off extremely sharply later.. Just my observation.

@mrspacely603 2 года назад

I remember doing a sudoku awhile back with 4 squares and like 3 boxes given yet i still turned the cereal box over for the answers after i finished about 3 bowls lol

@santisis 2 года назад

73:20 for me, with a lot more of hot/cold colors than the Simon's solve.

@lisan9517 Год назад

Personally, "desperate levels of pencil marking" is my favorite way to solve a tricky sudoku puzzle

@SlayerJohnBob 7 месяцев назад

The brain power this man possesses is absolutely wild

@n484l3iehugtil 2 года назад

I managed to solve it by myself in 3 hours, but I had to make a very lucky guess along the way (the number on the bottom row, 3rd from the left)

@roccov3614 3 месяца назад

That took me way too long to complete. I had to restart it a few times too. I really like the high/low aspect of the puzzle though. I think this is the second puzzle I've done that had that type of mechanic.

@ZabreDarklight 2 года назад

Well that only took 296mins.... Scary when you can look at a screen for over an hour and miss the obvious - several times!!!!

@francoisduez601 2 года назад

German cages for a Dutch Master? 🤔 Great puzzle as usual with Aad 🙃

@mesaplayer9636 8 месяцев назад

You can cage 8,2,9,1,7 in the middle

@leonardo6418 2 года назад

Poetry in motion🤩

@TenToTu 8 месяцев назад

The title says the only given digit is a 24

@opstall 2 года назад

Didn't do the featured puzzle, since I was tempted by the classic in the description instead. Managed it in about 20 minutes with no special trick (but two difficult techniques). It was a satisfying puzzle, but I guess I missed out on the fun of it. I got it with (spoiler) x-wing leading to finned x-wing. later: xy-chain. I think that last technique might be banned on the channel, especially since this one was somewhat long.