An Absolutely Stunning Return

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** TODAY'S PUZZLE **
It's been 9 months since we last experienced an Agent puzzle but tonight we put that right! Far Far Away is highly original and extremely clever. An absolute pleasure from start to finish - give it a try!
Play the puzzle at the link below:
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Rules:
Normal sudoku rules apply. Nine cells (one per row/column/box) are doublers, and have values equal to double their digit. Each digit appears in exactly one doubler. A value X in a cage points to a second value Y located X cells away vertically or horizontally. The number in the top left corner of the cage indicates the sum of X+Y.
Hopefully the rules above are clear but there are a couple of graphical examples at this link:
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The intro today was (a hastily put together version of) So Far Away by Dire Straits :)
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(Simon's solve of this puzzle is on Patreon.)
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- Mark's video looking at the new OneUp puzzle from Rodolfo Kurchan;
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▶ Contents Of This Video ◀
0:00 Theme music & puzzle intro
1:11 Steve Pemberton's crossword
1:31 Dungeons & Diagrams Stream
2:05 Patreon
2:14 Happy Birthdays etc
5:18 Rules
8:44 Start of Solve: Let's Get Cracking
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@ZeAgentboo 27 дней назад

Agent here, I'm glad to be back! Very clean solve as always. If you're reading I hope you enjoyed watching the video and/or solving this puzzle!

@ZeAgentboo 27 дней назад

A bit of background on this puzzle: it was originally a practice round for a Speed Setting Championship on Discord, where I was encouraged to try out unfamiliar constraints. The puzzle you're seeing here is quite different from this practice round. I liked the break-in pattern with the 19 cages, and then the interactions with the 15/4 cages, so I decided to work on a polished version of the puzzle.

@nicholaspenny736 27 дней назад

@@ZeAgentboo Please correct me if I'm wrong but the 1 in box 8 is unresolved in the solution as it should be doubled and accompanied by a 6 to sum to 8. If Simon's solution is the intended solution then I suppose just changing the cage to a 9 would suffice as a fix. Otherwise, I reached a point with all the boxes fulfilled but multiple sudoku solutions

@ZeAgentboo 27 дней назад

@@nicholaspenny736 The 1 in box 8 is satisfied by the 6 in row 6 column 5

@theredstoneengineer6934 27 дней назад

I enjoyed both

@giladooshlon 27 дней назад

I did a lot of doubler (and other modifier) puzzles, and this one felt very original! And I enjoyed it very much.

@AngryKettle 26 дней назад

Simon checking the clues to see if he's done all the clues but skipping the middle box is a perfect recreation of the "not you" meme

@angec9908 27 дней назад

I love yelling at Simon from the future. It makes me feel smart that I see something he doesn’t when, in reality, I don’t even know where to start any of the puzzles he does on the channel. 😂

@Millenassang 27 дней назад

Yeah, and sometimes we re screaming at our screen but we re wrong and only figure it out when he does🤣

@studgerbil9081 27 дней назад

right there with you but I could not restrain myself about that 10 clue in box 5. He hovered the pointer over it, said maybe he should check all the clues, then checked every single clue except that 10 in box 5. I was pulling my hair out.

@joelv4495 27 дней назад

Every now and then I'll see something he doesn't and get the wild hair to start the puzzle myself... and then I'm immediately humbled.

@olivier2553 27 дней назад

I used ti yell too, but I stopped because Simon is far, far way.

@ouwebrood497 26 дней назад

Often it's so funny. I feel very proud when I see some very obvious thing Simon is overlooking for half an hour. At the same time I don't even know how to break in while Simon spots the difficult things with his eyes closed LOL.

@bobblebardsley 27 дней назад

59:50 Always fun to see the old CTC adage in action: _Always look at the cell you've got selected at the moment you ask a question._

@TheEasyRail 26 дней назад

And then he goes around all the boxes trying to find one which he has not finished but skips the 10-box 💩💩

@paula-zzz 27 дней назад

i always love when simon plays the guitar :)

@longwaytotipperary 27 дней назад

Ditto

@NorkasLP 27 дней назад

13:38 These are the moments why it's funny to have done these puzzles and still watch the video afterwards. Simon ponders the puzzle and says: Yes, ahh... No, well yes actually, or is it? Yes, it is. Having done the same logical steps I was able to understand fully what he was thinking about even though what he said was completely unspecific.

@Tsunami14 27 дней назад

I watched the whole video, and I still can't wrap my head around this cage rule.

@Sujisan4 27 дней назад

Every noise that we can hear in the videos just means that many people are fans of the channel. Especially Maverick.

@emilywilliams3237 26 дней назад

"I have no memory of this place." Wonderful, Simon. A great solve and video, as well. Thank you!

@flwi 27 дней назад

I think my brain entered an infinite loop while trying to solve this. Chapeau that you cracked it!

@Mama2AWE 26 дней назад

Love, love, LOVE it when Simon opens with a bit of guitar! It gives a happy vibe and just makes my day.

@ravishah2255 27 дней назад

8 digits left in a sudoku and Simon is still just 'hopeful'. 1:06:41

@crashtextdummie 27 дней назад

I thought the logic in this was breathtaking. In a run of sensational puzzles, this one stands out.

@evanbasnaw 27 дней назад

I always love when Simon reminds us that we're his favorite people should he get the chance to reveal the triangular number of the square of the second prime.

@RealCadde 26 дней назад

1:06:45 "I DON'T KNOW WHAT I HIT THERE" You hit the left mouse button twice, too close together. Doesn't matter that you did separate actions (selecting two cells) before clicking the second time. The operating system (with its double click speed setting) detected a double click and sent that information to the browser which the software interpreted as "select all green cells".

@legitimatebusinessman5537 27 дней назад

I propose that CTC hosts a party and we all talk to Simon about how certain interactions of numbers can be fascinating.

@longwaytotipperary 27 дней назад

Is it possible to do a zoom with 1,000 participants??

@MaierFlorian 27 дней назад

Had not the greatest day today, to stay polite, but knowing there'll be a cracking the cryptic video to watch before bedtime kept me sane during the day - already feeling better after just a few minutes into the video, thanks Simon ♥

@77kaczka77 27 дней назад

For me watching CtC is every evening routine closing positive my day, too.

@longwaytotipperary 27 дней назад

Glad to hear you’re feeling better!

@MattYDdraig 27 дней назад

62:33 The 14/15 cages interactions with the 19 cages was a thing of beauty and the joy never stopped. Intriguing rule I hadn't seen before, but enjoyed and would love to see again.

@lucy861 26 дней назад

I’m always so happy when you play Dire Straits!

@user-gj5uc4yx3i 26 дней назад

35:34 Simon pointing out the relationship between r1c3 and r9c1 at this point had me thinking "The enemy of my enemy is my friend." I then went off on a tangent thinking about a recent workplace dispute between two co-workers recently. Sudoku is life people. Every so often I get the feeling that the numbers are alive and they are speaking to us.

@Akatsuki69387 27 дней назад

Damn Simon is getting fancy with the guitar intros. You love to see it.

@chrisbaeyens4513 27 дней назад

1:06:50 Imagine a world without "undo" 😂

@helar2574 27 дней назад

I absolutely love how Simon solving this sudoku's, it's so lovely how he could see hardest itterations, but sometimes miss easier ones or when he jumps from clue to clue sometimes he forgets to return to half resolved ones and miss some digits.

@anaayoung9142 24 дня назад

After some days without internet this was a nice puzzle to come back! 😊

@HunterJE 27 дней назад

55:58 “I’ve still got two clues that I haven’t investigated…” I’d revise that count… (The 10 clue in box 5 I think gets ignored here because it has a digit in it, but is still unfinished and indeed forced in a very useful way)

@HunterJE 27 дней назад

AGGGH and then he rechecks “all” the clues but skips that one

@studgerbil9081 27 дней назад

had me pulling my hair out on that one.

@daleomiller 27 дней назад

That was my “shouting at the screen” moment for today.

@stangerrits6712 27 дней назад

There was never going to be any overlap 16:54 If two of the 19 cages would share a doubler, they values in these cages has to be the same as well, otherwise the won’t both add up to 19. But these values wouldn’t be the same, since the distances between the shared doubler and both of the cages aren’t.

@jonhansen9622 27 дней назад

Love the intro! Please play more often!

@Rubrickety 27 дней назад

Someone needs to construct a brilliant puzzle called Sultans of Swing to _really_ test Simon's Knopflerian guitar skills. 😉

@efa666 27 дней назад

Hopefully the guitar intro is the only Dire Straits Simon got into today.

@tonyawright6020 27 дней назад

Simon not realizing that he'd not finished that 10 clue was driving me bonkers... but made me feel better about my own mistake where I indexed the doubled 1 clue to make a 6 one square away instead of the proper 2.

@TheBaabKaare 27 дней назад

16:45 even if there had been overlap, the overlap position wouldnt be at an equal distance from the 19-cells. And since the cells sums to the same sum, the overlapping cell would therefore need two different sums for the overlap to work.

@xeonrisq2919 27 дней назад

Nice puzzle Agent, and Simon's solve was fun to watch.. I didn't have any issues with the Remote Sums clues, until I had to think about the doublers which might as well be kryptonite. I keep thinking modifers will just click in my mind sooner or later... I enjoyed figuring out all the twists and turns in this one nonetheless!

@DanielVita 27 дней назад

Super cool puzzle! Interesting that the odd clues were so much more powerful than the even ones.

@jonnevitu4979 27 дней назад

i love when simon starts with the guitar, always reminds me of a chill game called polly bridge

@piarittersporn 26 дней назад

Brilliant and very exciting puzzle.

@crazypantaloons 27 дней назад

Fantastic puzzle! My favorite logic was at 38 minutes. It was the last tease before figuring out the double 5.

@zelba20 27 дней назад

Loved the video. The 'shank' at the 1:06:55 mark was particularly entertaining. Great solve!

@kolskit 25 дней назад

This is quite the cool puzzle! I really enjoyed the breakthrough.

@AngelWedge 27 дней назад

1:06:54 "I don't know what I pressed there" - looked like an accidental double-click to me. I do that a lot.

@ysalas7631 26 дней назад

Double click while the color tool is active will select all of that color.

@iuriikononenko9238 27 дней назад

corner boxes 16-10-8 are magically connected to remove 2 from corner 123 marking, and it makes some impact!

@Gonzalo_Garcia_ 27 дней назад

46:13 for me. Gosh that was tough, closer to 5 stars of difficulty imo. Glad I managed to solve it.

@galacticmechanic1 20 дней назад

Wonderful solve, I think you pressed ctrl+A to select all with the 6's there.

@longwaytotipperary 27 дней назад

Always ❤ a guitar opening! Just now practicing ukulele!

@gab5692 26 дней назад

hi Simon, I just want to say when you start playing that guitar I get such a joyous feeling. Your videos are one of my favourite parts of the day and the best surprise when there’s a guitar segment.

@PathOfShrines 26 дней назад

Amazing puzzle! Fabulous logic all the way through. 93:00 for me.

@57thorns 26 дней назад

1:02:00 was such a relief. And I belive the decutions around the 12 clue in box 6 was independent and necessary for the last flurry,

@57thorns 26 дней назад

1:06:45 is as close to a jump scare I have seen on this channel. 🙂

@unlikelyskymoo 24 дня назад

It’s not too late Simon, we always need inspirational maths teachers!

@karsaanita 26 дней назад

It took me ages to notice the 15 cage but it felt so good when I finally did

@shrutikakalra2624 26 дней назад

We have to tell Simon that Taskmaster is not a quiz show😊 TASKMASTER is unique and exceptional. Want a video “Simon reacts to Taskmaster episode”

@frankjiang1857 27 дней назад

Finished in 94:38. Took me a while to go through all the possibilities down a branch and find the contradictions. Fun puzzle though!

@iceberg54321 27 дней назад

Someone help me, I don't see why the 15 clue in the middle could not be a double 3, then it sees a regular nine. Did Simon get lucky?

@1985elfy 27 дней назад

There isn’t enough space for it to be a double 3 - remember the value (not digit) in the cage is also the distance to the indexed digit

@iceberg54321 27 дней назад

@@1985elfy Ah I see, thanks.

@Rubrickety 27 дней назад

Fantastic puzzle, which it felt immensely satisfying to finally conquer. It took me a very long time to realize the implications of the high doublers for the middle box.

@ericpraline1302 26 дней назад

Very good puzzle, as ever from Agent, and I enjoyed this ruleset. I always find doublers to enhance any puzzle in which they appear.

@toms7114 27 дней назад

Anyone else kept asking Simon "Where can the double 1 go Simon?" for about 10 minutes?

@Arcessitor 27 дней назад

Yes but it was quickly followed by begging him to look at the 10 clue.

@johnnycashless4758 26 дней назад

1.01.14 simon highlights his specialised subject is NOT the bleedin' obvious for many seconds

@Paolo_De_Leva 26 дней назад

_"...but we could put [there] a _*_doubled_*_ 1"_ (Simon @9:54) Correct terminology 😏👍 _"One of the numbers must be 10 or greater and therefore it is _*_a doubler"_* (Simon @11:37) Incorrect this time 😜 Digits are *doubled* (modified). Cells are *doublers* (modifiers). I loved Jay Dyer's videos about his unforgettable sudoku hunt, themed on different kinds of modifiers, where this was made crystal clear.

@Paolo_De_Leva 26 дней назад

@16:44 very nice use of colours to show there is _"no overlap between the four doublers"_ 👏👏👏 Of course, since no *orange* cell is in the same *row* or *column* as another *19 cage,* by symmetry the same must be true for each of the other three sets. Hence, it is not strictly necessary to colour the other three sets. However, it is nice to see them all. More importantly, it makes crystal clear that the *14 cage* needs a doubler. 😏👍👍👍

@Paolo_De_Leva 26 дней назад

@25:07 Even more beautiful is using pencilmarks to show the only possible doubled digit that each coloured cell may contain. It makes Agent's logic machinery crystal clear. 👏👏👏👏👏👏

@AnaFromTheShire 27 дней назад

Oh heck yeah, that intro is great! Do you put the whole song up anywhere? Such a rockstar Simon lol

@n0bl3hunt3r 27 дней назад

That poor 10 cage, ignored and solved and then ignored again.

@TurquoizeGoldscraper 27 дней назад

81:55 for me - very tricky, but when I got the main logic of the puzzle, it was still slow to finish the Sudoku part.

@sampathkumar-ej7xl 26 дней назад

Simon I did enjoy the intro but hope you dont mind me saying you could work a little more on on some of those notes.

@HunterJE 27 дней назад

39:45 “Should we just plot all the remaining positions for doublers?” I mean you already have, it’s anything not green or solid red…

@RecreationalCynic 27 дней назад

That was a great puzzle, but I spent an embarrassingly long time stuck because I believed 3 + 7 = 12

@nataloves 27 дней назад

This is exactly why I only watch sudoku videos instead of solving them myself. I'm dyscalculic.

@estherwestbroek 26 дней назад

Just Believe! One day.....

@DaveLeCompte 26 дней назад

I am here to remind you once again that the tiny tiny cursor on the example screen is terrible for pointing out "This cell here"

@LednacekZ 27 дней назад

43:34 for me. quite tricky, especially if i did not want to bifurcate. Managed it with just logic.

@michaurbanski5961 27 дней назад

48:02 for me, great opening

@JoRo-hw8dl 26 дней назад

I didn’t completely understand why the 19 clues all have different digits due to non overlapping. Could someone please explain, so I get the logic behind that? Thanks in advance! Cheers 17:37

@lordatog 25 дней назад

All of the numbers in the 19 clues must be odd. This is because of two reasons. 1: The doubled number must be in the target cell, not in the clue cell. This is because if the clue cell number was doubled, the distance to the target cell would also be doubled, which would put it outside of the grid. 2: Since the target number is doubled, it will always be even. Therefore the only way the sum of the clue cell number and the target number could be odd is if the clue cell number is odd. So given that, if you go through and highlight all of the numbers that could be target cells for each of the 19 clues, you'll find that there is no overlap. There are no cells that are an odd number of cells away from two or more of the 19 cells. Therefore, all 4 of them must point to different target cells.

@dinidini4000 26 дней назад

i am alittle sad he did not notice round 36:40 that it did not matter where the double 5 goes the last 2 19 clues allways end up the same way that feels alot more beautiful then what he ended up doing

@Keir-pn9ec 26 дней назад

Lol I was so confused why the 15 clue couldn't be a double 2 (4) with a 9, took me ages to realise 4+9 = 13 not 15🤣

@jinkela7295 27 дней назад

47:59 placing 7 in r9c9 will make it impossible to place a doubled 1 anywhere

@srwapo 27 дней назад

welp, I'm giving up after 71 minutes. I thought I broke it when I got to the 15 cage and watched the video to be taught that I can use the same double digit for two different clues, I broke the solve somewhere in the middle and looked to see how much I had to undo (the 4 cage in the lower left), and I was told my solution was incorrect at the end. Looks like I put a 6 in r1c1 forgetting that the 4 in r1c9 actually had a value of 8.

@scottgibbons1071 27 дней назад

I don't understand how the 10 cage in box 3 is satisfied. It has value 8, so there needs to be a 2 four spaces away, right?

@coreycadile2585 27 дней назад

The doubler acts as a doubler for everything. So although the value written is a 4 it still acts as an 8 so it needs a 2 8 cells away which it gets in R1C1

@scottgibbons1071 27 дней назад

@@coreycadile2585 Ah, right. Thank you.

@blahfasel2000 27 дней назад

@@coreycadile2585 Simon kept mixing that up all the time as well though. Sometimes in direct succession, eg. when he checked the possibilities for R1C9 after determining that it was a doubled 2, 3 or 4 he looked for the 6 only 2 steps away (missing the doubling), then immediately after for a 4 at 6 steps away (as it should be with a doubled 3).

@zachnichols8642 27 дней назад

1:04:30 nice

@brianskeen1652 21 день назад

Uh oh ... I landed on a deadly pairing at the end of this solve ... looks like there are actually two solutions to this sudoku. Anyone else encounter this?

@brianskeen1652 21 день назад

Never mind, I see my error. I was treating the double 1 like it was single.

@theredstoneengineer6934 27 дней назад

55:56 for me

@RoflcopterDX 27 дней назад

so far away :)

@Ardalambdion 27 дней назад

In most parties, I'd like to chat with Simon. The 3 in box 5 doesn't 'talk' to any cages?

@piejie1 26 дней назад

The 2 in the 10 clue😂. Shouting didn't help r6c6

@puritan7473 27 дней назад

Anyone else shouting Look at the 10, Look at the 10 at around 56 minutes as Simon insists on going through the other clues first? Then as he checks all the clues to see if he has done what he can with them, and completely misses the 10 clue!!

@angec9908 27 дней назад

I always laugh at Simon’s indignation at having to do sudoku in a sudoku puzzle

@angec9908 27 дней назад

I love being the zeroth like. I just hope it actually registers as a like

@chipsounder4633 27 дней назад

Confused, why cant the centre cell be a doubler 3 with an 8 in row 2 column 5? Why is that broken? I understand now.. another redundant rant 😂😂

@orionSquared 27 дней назад

Yes I’m only 20 minutes in, but how is the center digit absolutely a 4, with a doubled 5 when it’s possible to be a 2 with a doubled 6??? They both make 14

@orionSquared 27 дней назад

Also, the 4 cells he immediately said had to be a 1357 with a doubled digit doesn’t make sense because the cell itself could be the doubled digit with the 1357 existing outside of the cage.

@orionSquared 27 дней назад

What frustrates me so much is sometimes it feels like he guesses or assumes something to be true because he either hasn’t seen or at least hasn’t mentioned alternatives. So he continues on with the assumption and yet it’s always gets solved! How could I ever learn to solve such a puzzle?? I won’t be able to make guesses or assumptions like this.

@BrinaaSM 27 дней назад

@@orionSquared I feel like you didn't really listen to the video or you misunderstood the rules. Nothing about this is a guess, but I've seen a lot of people miss that the doubled digits also need to have double their distance, so you're not alone. The 1357 is correct, because if you double the cell itself it points to something outside the grid: Even if you were to point to something as high as 9, it would still need to be 10 (or double-5) away. The 4 is correct because each doubled digit only exists once in the puzzle. As you can see by the early coloring in the video the possible positions of the doubled 6 (which is required for the 7) of the 1357 quadruple and the doubled 6 of the middle cell could not overlap, which means the middle cell cannot take a doubled 6 as well.

@RichSmith77 26 дней назад

You should probably rewatch Simon's explanation from around 11:10, paying particular attention to what he says from 11:50.

@orionSquared 26 дней назад

@@BrinaaSM Ah, I did misunderstand that. I did not realize that I had to double the length away from the doubled cell. So the cells HAD to be an odd number, because if it were a doubled even, it'd have to be 4 or less (because the max distance is 8) and then the odd digit would have to be an 11 at least, which obvi won't work. Gotcha, so it does have to be a 1357 quadruple. Which means it has to have a doubled 6, so the middle cell DOES have to be a 4 with a doubled 5. Ok, I get it now. I did remember that there could only be 1 unique digit per doubled cell, but it was the 1357 that was throwing me off, because I was convinced it didn't HAVE to be a 1357, but could be any doubled even digit with an odd number in the corresponding cell. But it can't. Thank you, that was really helpful. I appreciate it. :)

@stevesebzda570 27 дней назад

There's that "in a moment or twos time," (instead of "in a moment"). Whose "time" is it? It's "twos time." Simon, just go back to saying "in a moment or two." That's all lol 😆