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Here's where you can play Czech Outsider Sudoku by Jan Vondruška: app.crackingthecryptic.com/31...
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▶ Contents ◀
0:00 Theme Music & News around the channel
4:35 Rules of today’s puzzle
5:30 Start Of Solve - Let's Get Cracking!

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@awilliams1701 26 дней назад

One thing I love about the CTC app is you can tap on the numbers outside the grid to grey them out. It makes it easier to keep track of what clues are done and which ones are not.

@Scojo486 26 дней назад

This puzzle hurt me. I spent a precious 35 minutes on this during the contest, thought I was doing really well, had about 5 cells left to fill in, and... couldn't place a 1 in box 5. I tried to fix it, but everything I did messed something else up. So I cut my losses and knocked out the four easiest puzzles before the time ran out, resulting in my lowest score this year so far. Oh well.

@angec9908 26 дней назад

How rare it is for Mark to miss the easy resolution of the 1-2 pair in box 9 and then the 2-3 pair in box 3. I don’t often get to yell at my phone when watching his videos 😂

@vulkandrache1928 26 дней назад

"This 1-2 pair gives me a 2 here!" Argh Sometimes i wonder wether he is pencilmarking too much or too little.

@studgerbil9081 26 дней назад

this was the rare puzzle where Mark didn't do enough pencilmarking at the start and forgot some mandatory box/digit locations, while concentrating on the line tool. Maybe he caught that from Simon?

@theredstoneengineer6934 26 дней назад

and yet you often say you get to yell at mark

@navster100 26 дней назад

I think he went a whole 5 minutes not noticing it

@RockyInSea74 25 дней назад

Or at 24:09 when he highlights the 28s in box 7 and then immediately says, "you can probably seeing what I'm missing." 😂

@Hakucho64 26 дней назад

Took me forever, but got there in the end, nice puzzle!

@srwapo 26 дней назад

19:00 even. I was going to watch this one, not really wanting to do a little killer, but had to give it a go after seeing what the actual rules were.

@stevieinselby 26 дней назад

👍🏻 Finished in 20.00 exactly! (I guess you'd expect to finish 1 puzzle in 60 on a whole minute, but very satisfying to have it on a multiple of 10 😎) This was definitely a puzzle to benefit from using the pen tool 🖊 to mark on lines that were still to be resolved but couldn't easily be pencil-marked because they went across boxes ... always useful to keep a reminder of which clues haven't yet been fulfilled!

@57thorns 26 дней назад

Finished this in 25 minutes. Really shows that the timed puzzles can be challenging without taking a monstrous time. A lot of long videos here are logical masterpieces. Kind of the difference between painting a nice 50x50cm painting and making an intricate multilayered mural covering a 40 square meter concrete wall. (Or in some cases a skyscraper.)

@akashdoulani3230 26 дней назад

Very nice setting. Nice video.

@inspiringsand123 26 дней назад

Rules: 04:37 Let's Get Cracking: 05:30 Mark's time: 24m07s Puzzle Solved: 29:37 What about this video's Top Tier Simarkisms?! Three In the Corner: 2x (20:19) And how about this video's Simarkisms?! Pencil Mark/mark: 12x (08:46, 09:11, 10:04, 10:15, 10:54, 10:57, 15:04, 15:31, 18:17, 20:50, 21:29, 22:59) Obviously: 6x (02:20, 05:58, 09:11, 11:52, 15:16, 20:06) Ah: 5x (12:34, 13:06, 14:53, 16:17, 22:59) Clever: 3x (01:58, 29:29, 30:06) By Sudoku: 3x (13:13, 15:04, 22:46) Sorry: 2x (18:25, 25:43) Stuck: 2x (22:11, 22:36) Naked Single: 1x (11:31) Lovely: 1x (28:08) Irritating: 1x (27:08) Surely: 1x (16:53) In Fact: 1x (28:16) Weird: 1x (25:18) Most popular number(>9) and digit this video: Fifteen (5 mentions) One (58 mentions) Antithesis Battles: Outside (7) - Inside (0) Column (9) - Row (8) FAQ: Q1: You missed something! A1: That could very well be the case! Human speech can be hard to understand for computers like me! Point out the ones that I missed and maybe I'll learn! Q2: Can you do this for another channel? A2: I've been thinking about that and wrote some code to make that possible. Let me know which channel you think would be a good fit!

@myfyrmadocjones 26 дней назад

Prague-matism may be required.

@thebitterfig9903 26 дней назад

No more puns, Pilsen thank you.

@emilywilliams3237 26 дней назад

This is one of the puzzles I did actually glance at during the GP, but I rarely if ever try the hardest puzzles during the time. I did it tonight before watching your video, though, and agree that doing it as a computer solve would make it much easier than trying to keep track of everything on paper. Thanks so much for doing this one, Mark. I love taking part in the GP and I love watching you solve puzzles from it - of course I love watching you solve puzzles from anywhere! I agree, also, that it is not reasonable in a puzzle with this many markings to think that you will follow exactly the path that anyone else would follow, or that you would be looking at exactly what I am looking at. You were never (truly) stuck, and you were looking and making deductions continuously, so any hesitancy at finding any particular thing is not because you are slow, but because there was a lot to look at and think about.

@Yttria 26 дней назад

Very approachable and relaxing solve. 26:29 solve time for me while getting distracted and broken into a few short sessions while I was getting ready to leave the house and was on the road.

@chocolateboy300 25 дней назад

I finished in 17:30 minutes. This puzzle just agreed with me. I felt like I was in my true form doing this puzzle. The pathway was so smooth and felt so satisfying to complete. I really like this puzzle and this ruleset. It's so good. As always, it feels good to beat Mark's time. Great Puzzle!

@grahamania 25 дней назад

00:17:58 for me. That was a great puzzle! Loved how it kept flowing all around the grid! Kind comment.

@madsohm 26 дней назад

20:28. Very nice change of pace. Really loved the 499 deduction on box 3 and 6.

@michaels4340 26 дней назад

46:43, definitely some nice logic in a seemingly simple constraint

@jdyerjdyer 19 дней назад

At 41 minutes, not a bad solve at all. Loved all the deadly patterns resolved by one clue or another around the grid.

@MattYDdraig 26 дней назад

23:20 I'm definitely not threatening any speed records but thoroughly enjoyed the puzzle. A little different but some really nice logic letting diagonals force boxes.

@goldenera7090 19 дней назад

wow what a great solve Mark , nice touch with the lines I guess that helps - Thanks !!

@Paolo_De_Leva 26 дней назад

Relatively straightforward but never trivial.

@CauchyIntegralFormula 26 дней назад

14m56s. That was cute! I don't think ive seen diagonals used like quad circles before, only like sum cages

@Sam_on_YouTube 26 дней назад

Solved in 26:23. Almost as fast as Mark's time. Pretty happy with that.

@eliskazitnikova1521 26 дней назад

Woo Czechia mentioned rahh 🇨🇿 i thought my eyes were deceiving me when i saw czech haha

@henrygifford544 26 дней назад

19:20 Easy puzzle. I kept expecting it to get harder

@MarushiaDark316 26 дней назад

"That's 3 in the spotlight, taking its close off."

@leporid257 26 дней назад

because it's a naked single

@frankjiang1857 26 дней назад

Finished in 15:51. Fairly approachable variant sudoku. Fun puzzle!

@pairot01 26 дней назад

woah, that was my exact same time as well

@pavelbykov8993 26 дней назад

The 9 below box 7 indicates only one 9 on a diagonal, but Mark's final solution has 9 nines in 7:4 and 8:3 positions.

@DheerendraRathor 26 дней назад

A digit outside the grid must appear on the diagonal indicated by the arrow, "at least as many times" as it is shown.

@titusadduxas 26 дней назад

35:30 - Very nice puzzle.

@psiphiorg 21 час назад

Quite a nice puzzle, with good logic around the repeated-digit diagonals near the corners, e.g. the 12 and 27 in the lower right corner. The way that I saw those is a little different from Mark: Since the 2 on the 27 diagonal couldn't be in box 9, it was either in row 9 or column 9. Similarly, the 2 from the 12 pair was in either row 9 or column 9. That makes a little scissored version of an X-wing (I bet there's a name for that, but I don't know what it is), since either way around, the 2 in row 9 and the 2 in column 9 were taken by one of those two digits. Therefore, the 2 in the 23 pair in box 3 couldn't be in column 9. Following that around the 23 pair, then the 12 pair, leads to placing the 2 from the 27 diagonal. Similar logic with the 36 and 67 in the lower right eliminated the 6 from column 1 and row 9 outside of those two diagonals, which solved the 46 up in box 1. My time today was 24:39, solver number 7267.

@Gonzalo_Garcia_ 26 дней назад

9:56 for me. Nice puzzle!

@piarittersporn 26 дней назад

Beautiful puzzle.

@nicocost33 26 дней назад

28.55 for me. Love it.

@mudscuffer 22 дня назад

17:23 for me. Lovely puzzle.

@tahurrrrr1801 23 дня назад

For what it's worth, if I ever need to pencil mark something that goes across rows/columns/boxes and I'm not already using colors, I just color those boxes

@themuffin437 26 дней назад

11:22, I loved how the clues were useful throughout the solve

@raysouth1952 26 дней назад

Great puzzle.

@Paulo51297 26 дней назад

23:13 for me. Very nice puzzle.

@colinfun 26 дней назад

22:31 I am surprised Mark would argue against the sunk cost fallacy, it might feel that it is a waste, but it is not.

@thecaneater 26 дней назад

10:35 Mark! You literally have it highlighted. Just fill it, please!

@drawsgaming7094 24 дня назад

18:29 Fun puzzle!

@davidh.4944 26 дней назад

36:47@#1693. I was a bit worried going in about the difficulty. I did not want to waste a lot of time today. But I didn't have to worry. It turned out to be quite approachable. And there were some beautiful, unusual deductions to be made from the layout of the clues. This was one of the most enjoyable puzzles I've encountered recently. Edit after watching the video: Mark's clue-blindedness was excruciatingly hair-pulling today. 😆

@anaayoung9142 26 дней назад

Sudoku Grand Prix? Whoa! Today I watched another Grand Prix... the Imola one 😅 It was a fun sudoku, I did use the pentool a lot and it was a great source of help! 😆

@user-kt9vr1wj6y 26 дней назад

21:39 for me nice puzzle

@Rach881101 26 дней назад

21:11 for me. Nice puzzle!

@TurquoizeGoldscraper 26 дней назад

17:20 for me - that was a fun puzzle.

@Kirbyfan87827 26 дней назад

Finished in 16:22. This one was relatively straightforward.

@boydegg 26 дней назад

23:16. I beat Mark's time!!! woo hoo!

@karlmortenlunna2417 26 дней назад

13:38 for me. Fun puzzle.

@megaminxpll 26 дней назад

Cool, done in 15:47

@jasono8783 26 дней назад

10:43! Fun fun

@RoderickEtheria 26 дней назад

Solved in 24:51. Not monstrously difficult, but easily resolvable.

@doncook4097 26 дней назад

I do believe that the 9 clue in the bottom left has to be the final clue to solve, weird. Did everyone finish this clue last?

@lostcabrio 26 дней назад

Something you have to simplify your mind and just do normal sudoku, as you say to yourself often enough. But just do it😀

@navster100 26 дней назад

Its rare i beat mark 21:30 for me

@theredstoneengineer6934 26 дней назад

11:32 for me

@noelstanton2146 26 дней назад

Hi Simon and Mark. Could you do a shout-out for my son's birthday (Peter Stanton)on Wednesday 22nd May, when he will be 38. He enjoys the channel and has been attempting some puzzles on patreon. Many thanks, Noel Stanton

@studgerbil9081 26 дней назад

Might've been my fastest one yet, and I am not an advanced solver at all. I pencilmarked everything then simply looked for conflicts and it was smooth sailing. Lines and whatnot just overcomplicate things.