How Did He Create This? We Have No Clue!

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@mightworth3735 3 года назад

Therapist: how much are you into sudoku? Simon: on a scale from one to nine?

@amysteele2488 3 года назад

Simon: 45

@StorymasterQ 3 года назад

@@amysteele2488 Therapist: Bobbins.

@chipsounder4633 3 года назад

chocolate teapot

@jensschmidt 2 года назад

42, because that‘s the answer to everything and it‘s also the secret minus either a 3 or 1-2 pair.

@Coyotek4 3 года назад

54:35 ... I got off to a *phenomenal* start, getting the 'Key' early and filling in about half the grid in about 30 minutes. Then I bogged down *hard*, eventually trying to color various pairs ... and eventually, I found the pieces that led me to the finish line. Beautiful puzzle!

@Benny_PR 3 года назад

My friends watching me solve a simple Sudoku: "OMG, you are very intelligent, I never solve those" Me watching Simon doing his logic: "Were's my banana so I can sit on the corner?"

@biaberg3448 Год назад

Exactly how I feel.

@audreyclark7938 3 года назад

I discovered this channel a couple of weeks ago. Kakuro and Strimko are math puzzles I love to do. I do sudoku here and there. These are ones that I would normally not try because they would be too hard and would take me days. This one took me one hour. The hints you gave allowed me to finish the puzzle on my own. This is a wonderful channel and I will be trying more hard sudoku puzzles to see if I can solve them quicker than one hour.

@gordonglenn2089 3 года назад

Nice acoustic of Golden Heart by Mark Knopfler :-)

@rockgheba 3 года назад

I knew I knew it, but I could not remember it! Thanks!

@gurrutvurstug8779 3 года назад

Thanks! I was wondering which song it was

@PuzzleQodec 3 года назад

Thank you! I just couldn't remember and am really happy to know!

@mightworth3735 3 года назад

Quote of the day: "bObbins. It's not going at all. It's just died to death"

@MLWJ1993 3 года назад

Your expression on your face during the intro was kind of creepy 😆 Nice intro music though. 👍🏻 Simon spilling all the Sudoku secrets 🤔

@Archik4 3 года назад

I have solved it. Bet on luck 6 in r5c2.

@Petta79 3 года назад

Simon: I have a secret. World: I bet it's 45. Simon: It's 45 World: YAY! I did something right with a sudoku from Cracking the Cryptic!

@jtersesk 3 года назад

Since "simon" is not a word, Google translate simply transliterated it into Hebrew. The actual Hebrew version of the Biblical name Simon is Shimon (Shee-mone). However, Google's transliteration can be read as the Hebrew word "see-moon," which means a sign or a mark. None of this pedantry makes it any less funny, and I got a hearty belly laugh out of it, so thank you.

@עוזדודלרמן-ס6כ 3 года назад

מסתבר שיש עוד אנשים דוברי עברית בערוץ

@savola3129 3 года назад

Simon = Mark Ha! I bet they would both take issue with that. :)

@williamsvidsandstuffs 3 года назад

Look at the translations when you keep swapping ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-4mUrc8cE3Lk.html

@Znimms 3 года назад

יש גם יש ...

@dolf370 3 года назад

Yeah, if one starts with "Simon" and flip the google translate back and forth between English and Hebrew a couple of times, it will end up with "sign"

@PuzzleQodec 3 года назад

It's just such an honor to be able to watch such an enjoyable solve of a puzzle that took around 10 hours to create. It really does justice to it, thank you very much!

@joadbreslin5819 3 года назад

Great puzzle. Thanks!

@liviaromanova77 3 года назад

Simon is brilliant in spotting the things no one else does while at the same time not spotting the things everyone else does

@herrgado 3 года назад

1 hour of Simon struggling, just what I need to relax before sleep!

@marisamaelaurie2797 3 года назад

Same, haha

@akhos9876 3 года назад

Yes. Just yes.

@scooting_turtle7830 3 года назад

CORECT

@joppelambrecht7624 3 года назад

Indeed

@tabularasa0123 3 года назад

Honestly I had trouble sleeping before I found this channel. Thanks to Simon for helping us fall asleep!

@heathermichaelson3526 3 года назад

I really appreciate how Simon explains his thought process and the rules at the beginning too. Even though he repeats his "knowledge bombs", it still helps later on in the puzzle and helps us get better.

@PuzzleQodec 3 года назад

I so agree with this! No matter how smart or experienced someone is, it's always possible to miss something.

@manowartank8784 3 года назад

"bom bom bom bom bom bom bom, nori nori" Simon, 2021 47:15

@stephenmarseille5425 3 года назад

Simon! At 18:02, you missed that the 12 could have been made up of two 6s. Didn't end up costing you, but sometimes it's just as important to be lucky as it is to be good ;-)

@Paolo_De_Leva Год назад

Also, at 22:59 he center-pencilmarks only *4567* in *r3c5,* where nothing allows him to rule out *8* yet.

@justinbrede4929 7 месяцев назад

I thought I was just missing something here that wouldn't allow the 6's!!

@ShDragon1 3 года назад

That bit at 15:43 - "Hang, on, lets stop and revisit the title.." It gets even better, Simon! Not only is the grid nothing but 123 and 9, but remember what all the killer cages summed up to.... 123!!

@akhos9876 3 года назад

Qodec is just really, really good. All of his puzzles are simply brilliant. You are also simply brilliant because you are able to solve them.

@mollberg3501 3 года назад

They ARE brilliant! But to me this stood out, as the break-in was the "easy" part. I just loved solving it.

@ro1la2nd 3 года назад

Simon doing 20mins of math and geometry to put a nine in the center by normal sudoku rules. Me, an intellectual: I saw that from miles away

@johngilbert7359 3 года назад

After about ten minutes of looking without seeing anything useful, I can only imagine the video will contain very much coloring.

@Zvoosh25 3 года назад

The name "Simon" is not a word in Hebrew and is a name, and therefore google transliterated it to סימון, as in to place a mark on something or mark an exam. The name Simon actually translates to שמעון or "Shimon" (shi-MONE) deriving from the word שמע or "to listen" or "to hear".

@jonathanharsh7434 3 года назад

Honestly, I'm really happy with third place on that puzzle hunt. It was SO much fun nearly the entire time.

@stereomike75 3 года назад

53 minutes? I'll let you other chaps have a bash, I'm just going to put my feet up and watch.

@derekrocco4344 3 года назад

I normally struggle on the long ones and have to watch the videos to figure it out, but I punched this one out in 29:16! Feelin' proud of myself!

@Lord_Volkner 3 года назад

17:50 "We've got 3 on this diagonal at the moment so those two squares have got to add up to 12 without using 9. So this is either 4,8 or 5,7" or 6,6 Simon got lucky there. There's nothing preventing those two from both being 6s at this point in the puzzle.

@tophatjones179 3 года назад

Good lord, Qodec is a fantastic setter. To force the 1s, 2s, and 3s via the 9s, and then name the puzzle 123...9 to let you know you’re on the right track... This is one I wish I’d played before watching the video. Absolutely fantastic.

@legitimatebusinessman5537 3 года назад

18:00 - Forgot about the possibility of two 6s

@legitimatebusinessman5537 3 года назад

Also, before he did the shading, I don’t think he had fully eliminated 1/8 as a possibility for the 9 sum in box 2.

@roiem 3 года назад

I'm feeling good because I caught both of those. I got absolutely nothing else in this puzzle, but at least I got both of those.

@jussi-pekkaniittymaki3884 3 года назад

I was also bothered during the video about that missed chance of 6-6 in the 15 little killer. Feared that the whole thing would crash and burn in the end 🤣

@HunterJE 3 года назад

17:59 Am I missing something at this point that rules out 6-6 here?

@dsquirrel 3 года назад

no, it seems wrong to me too

@craftypam9992 3 года назад

My question exactly!

@dsquirrel 3 года назад

I don't think he used it before ruling out a 6 from r9c4 at about 27:00

@CrackingTheCryptic 3 года назад

Sorry, I missed the possibility of 6/6. As you've no doubt spotted it gets kiboshed once I get the 3 in box 8. I blame Qodec for being too clever!

@markoknezhevikj4144 3 года назад

@@CrackingTheCryptic Also that the 9-arrow in box 2 can be 1 and 8 :S

@orensam 3 года назад

Hebrew is a bit weird in the sense that the exact pronunciation of a word isn't always evident from the "everyday" way that it's written. Google correctly translates the English name Simon to the way it's written in Hebrew, which is סימון. But the issue is that this same written word can also be read as *simoon* in Hebrew, which means "sign", or "mark", as in road mark. Hebrew readers will understand the correct way to read the word from the context. Without context, the only way to really tell whether it's "Simon" or "Simoon", is with the addition of Niqqud: en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Niqqud

@gilrunchannel 3 года назад

There are no matres lectionis in Hebrew. The way to write the name Simon in Hebrew is סימון. But סימון can also be read like sea-moon (with the emphasis on the second syllable), which means a mark or symbol.

@arielvanmoos7583 3 года назад

What does matres lectionis mean?

@gilrunchannel 3 года назад

Sorry, I wasn't accurate. In Hebrew all letters that may indicate a vowel are also used as consonants, so they are martes lectionis. For Simon, the י in סימון is a consonant and the ו is the vowel o. For a mark or a symbol, the י is the vowel i and the ו is the vowel u. From wikipedia: Matres lectionis (from Latin "mothers of reading", singular form: mater lectionis, from Hebrew: אֵם קְרִיאָה‎ ʾem kəriʾa) are consonants that are used to indicate a vowel, primarily in the writing down of Semitic languages such as Arabic, Hebrew and Syriac.

@EzraBradford 3 года назад

@@arielvanmoos7583 Extra marks on words to tell you the vowels, since Hebrew is by default written without indicating [most of the] vowels. Sort of like if in English we were to write like "xtr mrks on wrds". You still have pretty much everything you need to read text, and it's lots more compact. It's not a coincidence that phone "textspeak" uses similar compressions. But in Hebrew it's this shorter form that is the standard.

@amoswittenbergsmusings 3 года назад

@@arielvanmoos7583 @Ariel van Moos @Ariel van Moos Mater lectionis is the Latin translation of the Hebrew אם הקריאה [ehm haqeri'a], "mother for reading". It is a grammatical term, based on a talmudic passage about the interpretation of letters in the written text of the Pentateuch, the 5 books of Moses, or, among us Jews, the Torah. Hebrew has a consonantal script which serves the language very well, since the meaning of words lies in their consonants. In Indo-European languages consonants have less semantic content. Like, rode, red, read, ride, rude have nothing to do which each other. In Hebrew that would be unthinkable. The letter combination M-L-KH *always* has the connotation of kingship, royalty, rulership etc. The letters SH-B-R mean breaking, fracture. SH-M-` (three letters, not two, the third is a guttural unknown in English except when someone makes sick) means "hearing, obeying, understanding". And so on. Letters can be added to, inserted into or appended to three letter roots to modify meanings but never to fundamentally change the basic meaning. "Reading mothers" are uses in the biblical texts. A few consonants (the glottal stop ALEF, the H, the W and the Y) act as surrogates to indicate vowels, to disambiguate or for deeper mystical reasons. ALEF ==> Ah, Ey, H==> Ah, Ey , Y ==> ee, ey and W ==> oh, oo. Israeli contemporary Hebrew uses reading mothers much more abundantly and even more so in transliterating foreign words and names. Non-Israeli Hebrew speakers more familiar with biblical and rabbinic texts than with Israeli literature and newspapers, have a hard time decoding the Israeli way of writing loanwords and non-Hebrew names. Arabic names in Hebrew are much easier to decode than English, French or German names. When I read סימון, I immediately read it as the Hebrew for 'mark, symbol'. In fact, the word is related to 'semantics' in "western" languages. I wouldn't think of the name Simon, unless the context would make clear it is a name. Written biblical Hebrew is an insanely beautiful language, very simple and yet almost infinitely layered in meaning, shades of meaning, resonances, associative properties. Jewish lore has it that the holy tongue is the very instrument of creation itself - but your mileage may vary, obviously.

@flobiish 3 года назад

These puzzles recently have been breaking my mind. And I'm just *watching*.

@timmermanneke5149 3 года назад

Drinking game, take a shot every time Simon says: "Oh dear..."

@corsiKa 3 года назад

Shotgun a whole beer every time he asks us how much the digits 1 to 9 sum to.

@foppel 3 года назад

Just read that while Simon said 'Oh dear' - took a swig of beer

@tomimovies3897 3 года назад

or oh bobbins

@uncluckable6535 3 года назад

Or when he explains the Phistomefel ring

@FluffyInsanity 3 года назад

We'd be hammered within minutes. 😂

@samh6238 3 года назад

Literally no one: Simon: if you were to add up the digits one to nine...

@Jtsqueaker 3 года назад

Look at Qodec being sly by putting the answer in the title...

@ompilompier 3 года назад

Awesome intro! :)

@katsudooon1418 3 года назад

I think 1/8 combination on the arrow in box2 is missing

@DrSammieK97 3 года назад

I legitimately laughed out loud when he said "Bomb-bomb-bomb-bomb-bomb.... Nori nori"

@Krysstof 3 года назад

8:22 : the secret of the universe, life and everything... +3

@vctrsigma 3 года назад

I should teach my daughter arithmetic by watching CtC.

@mktomasik 3 года назад

Well, for sure she will learn that digits one to nine sum to 45

@66Morti66 3 года назад

I had a really quick break in with the 9's and the 123s, but after that I felt it was really hard. 58:14 for me :)

@annarissler8333 3 года назад

As soon as Simon said the purple added to 123 I knew the arrows had to be 9 because of the name. It’s a wonderful idea for the name!

@PuzzleQodec 3 года назад

Thank you!

@Bootenks 3 года назад

I must stop after 30s to esteem your beautiful guitar play. Chapeau!

@tubebrocoli 3 года назад

45:26 noooo Simon, it's not a red herring, you know how much is red + green from the 31 diagonal!! from that and the 21 diagonal you can find the value of purple!!!

@ilanknafo 3 года назад

Golden heart by Mark Knofler !!! Brilliant! I love your taste in music simon

@buzzly108 3 года назад

*3:33** **_Rules_* *5:08** **_Let's get cracking_* *8:22** **_The Secret_* *10:04** **_First Digit (...maybe???)_*

@johnpauladamovsky86 3 года назад

17:50 - *WRONG LOGIC* - The 15 Little Killer Clue can include two 6's, because those 6's would be in different boxes. I'm afraid this mistake invalidates Simon's solution.

@petehevans 3 года назад

I haven't watched the rest of the video - after I spotted that there was no point.

@FloydTaylor 3 года назад

Just started law school at University of Melbourne (Aus) so my 10 month long daily binge of C2C is coming to an end. Don't have 50 minutes but wanted to thank you for the last 10 months!

@markuswilson872 3 года назад

Hey I’m from Australia as well we should hang out

@markuswilson872 3 года назад

@@BremSterPuzzles Am I the only one from Sydney In this comment chain

@sgroom8137 3 года назад

I'm bingeing in Perth .. whilst working fulltime ... but I can always find an hour - it makes my day to see logic after the illogical nature of my job!

@tophatjones179 3 года назад

Holy crap, that is some sick guitar playing. That made my day.

@2beinteresting 3 года назад

Golden Heart by Mark Knopfler

@mathemitmanger3913 3 года назад

Who on earth translates Simon to Hebrew and back to Mark!? What is the exchange rate?

@TheBiggreenpig 3 года назад

@@jeromel2308 If you just took 2 minutes checking it, you would know it isn't fake.

@JackAceNL 3 года назад

actually if you translate it back once more time you get a Sign

@laurenzo4051 3 года назад

@@jeromel2308 it doesnt work if the letter S is capital

@laurenzo4051 3 года назад

@@jeromel2308 worked for me 🤷‍♂️

@KusaneHexaku 3 года назад

@@jeromel2308 are you sure you selected the right langauge

@mightworth3735 3 года назад

Oh, no. Simon and Mark are the same person. It is a split personality and modern technology managed to portray their real faces. The question is: which one is the original one?

@leporid257 3 года назад

Simon, colourblind: I'll use purple and orange. Me, not colourblind: Those are pinkple and burnt orange and it's surprisingly hard to keep them apart. :))

@ragnkja 3 года назад

Purple + selection is almost identical to orange.

@GeneralYouri 3 года назад

At 18:00 there's a mistake as the two remaining squares for the 15 arrow can also be 6-6, because digits may repeat along an arrow. It didn't end up mattering for the solve, but I was proud to spot it anyway! :) Edit: Another mistake at 23:10 as the logic for the top arrow of 9 is *not* identical - this one can hold an 8 just fine.

@codyd6515 3 года назад

Clearly I've been watching too much, I've started adapting Simon's tricks before Simon even gets to them. I had the 1/2 colored long before he got there, and then got stuck waiting for him to catch up...

@susanne5803 3 года назад

It helps me to get rid of colours as soon as I solved the differentiation between the 2 or 3 numbers I had coloured ... Thank you very much!

@Akronox 3 года назад

Since the opening was so clever, I wanted to find a way to write more rigorously how we can find the value of the circled numbers. The goal is to calculate the minimum value for the circled numbers. We know the total sum of all diagonal clues (123), the sum of 4 boxes (180), the minimum value the extra cells (2*(1+2+3) + a 1-2 pair =15). So the minimum value for the diagonals + the arrows is 195, we can substract the total of the diagonals so the minimum sum off all arrows is 72. A single arrow sum is equal to 2 times the value of the circled number (by definition), if we calculate the average value of the circled numbers considering there are 4 arrows, we have 72/(4*2) =9. So there is only one possibility, all circled numbers must be 9. All credits to Simon for the reasoning.

@matthewender3473 3 года назад

Proud of myself, that I looked at the grid, figured that none of the arrows or diagonals were of use, and immediately thought 'but what about together?' Quick break-in! But it slowed quickly later... Win some, lose some!

@R2Cv1 3 года назад

Lovely how simon had to qualify "sus" as "suspect"

@Escviitash 3 года назад

"Simon"(spelled PROPERly with UPPERcase S) translates back to "Simon" and "simon" (spelled IMPROPERly with LOWERcase s) translates back to Mark. Maybe the secret message here is that "Simon the Proper/Upper/Greater" is Simon, and "Simon the Improper/Lower/Lesser" is Mark, i.e. Mark is just a lesser version of Simon.

@mhenlopotter1612 3 года назад

I love that Simon spills the "secret" in every video! For regular viewers it's a nice running gag. And for Sudoku newbies it's actually helpful information :)

@williamgreer7601 3 года назад

172:53 The emptiness of the grid was tough, I thought about the ratio for so long before realizing that R7C3 and R3C7 were outside of the 4 boxes that were heavily constrained by the diagonal clues. but eventually saw it and started finding the 12 & 45 pairs. No bifurcation this time. Most of the time I got stuck was cause I had neglected to do sudoku to fill in the next piece to burst forward.

@sendder 3 года назад

Oh. That thing with the red. You could just look at the red at the box 1. Then the box 7 gets resolved. And finally box 8. Simple sudoku. Btw your way is more interesting.🌚😅👌

@mycroft64089 3 года назад

"It still doesn't crack does it?" ...right under your cursor Simon, right under your cursor.

@rmahu 3 года назад

I used the 21 and 15 clues to determine that r4c2, r5c1, r9c5 and r8c6 add up to 24 so r4c2 is 78 almost from the beginning. That simplifies all the logic in box 4. Then when I determined that the pair 45 in the 21 clue adds up to 9. I began to color the 45 and that led to the disambiguation of the 12.

@basstringer5586 3 года назад

At 18:00, double 6 is also allowed by the little killer clue. At this point in the solve, that not being the solution is more luck than it is wisdom. Without that lucky guess, the progress around the 678 pair box 8 would've been much harder as well. ^^' As if the puzzle wasn't hard enough, yet...

@anibotic 3 года назад

It took me not even a minute to lock on the fact that the killers & arrows both completely cover the 4 boxes & from there it was just a matter of fact to maximize the arrows & minimize the other numbers outside the boxes but I was feeling sleepy when this puzzle came out So, I slept while finishing half the puzzle... I woke up had to do it again & still it took me 44 minutes to finish. I really liked the thought of normal sudoku, killers & arrows can lead to such a beautiful puzzle!! Note - Coloring the 1s, 2s, 4s & 5s helps a lot.

@clarematthews4051 3 года назад

Well. I finished it. It did take 85 minutes but I finished it and that's big progress on a puzzle like that. Cracked the opening with less distress than it would have caused before and then got stuck. Several times. Think I need a nice mental lie down now. The arrow app will be a nightmare. I will buy it and torture myself anyway!

@Piatato 3 года назад

Hugely satisfying to solve! Not too difficult, as there are very few obvious ways to make progress. Elegant!

@Wecoc1 3 года назад

23:00 Why couldn't that one be an 8?

@PuzzleQodec 3 года назад

Yeah it could have been at that point. Fortunately the next step in the solve (coloring the 12 cells) rules it out before it's used somewhere in the video.

@creativename3256 3 года назад

This puzzle’s title and Simon doing the first sum makes me happy 😊

@freyjarin 3 года назад

The secret is in the title of the puzzle 😂 you should color 123 and 9. I think. I don't know.

@nachodiaz5578 3 года назад

31:25 wow, if that was meant to be the next step to solve the puzzle, which probably is coming from qodec, hats off

@G.Aaron.Fisher 3 года назад

I wish I stopped after the break-in. Finding that made me feel clever. The remaining puzzle, not so much.

@joshuahaight418 3 года назад

Anybody else believe the "..." to mean "678" after seeing the start to this puzzle? Fitting that it is in the middle of the title, being that it led to the end of it.

@GirGir183 3 года назад

Did anyone else do the English to Hebrew thing. I typed in David, and it gave back Uncle.

@raquelmiceli-keele3290 3 года назад

I got lost before he even started and especially when green and purple were imvolved

@wokkawicca 3 года назад

Well I *was* feeling great about finally nailing a Qodec break-in...until Simon called it "do-able"!

@jeffreyvannieuwkoop6809 3 года назад

Oohwnoo i fell a sleep before the release of this video ... quickly watch it now :-)

@PriffyViole 3 года назад

Figured it out from 39:29. May have used a completely different path than Simon.

@2beinteresting 3 года назад

Golden Heart by Mark Knopfler as intro, doesn't get any better than this!

@davidhanson8880 3 года назад

at 23:00 the arrow at the top is not identical logic to the one on the bottom, because the 18 combination is not restricted

@dirkveefkind2245 3 года назад

I’ve never seen Simon and Mark in the same video. Coincidence?!? I think not!

@KingoftheJuice18 3 года назад

Capitalize "Simon" and all will be well on Google Translate....

@StarManta 3 года назад

Wow, I can't believe I beat the video time by this much - 33:28! Now watching the video to see what Simon did that took him so much longer...

@CrackingTheCryptic 3 года назад

That's a VERY impressive time for that puzzle - much respect!

@StarManta 3 года назад

@@CrackingTheCryptic Thanks! Now that I'm into the video our solution paths were pretty similar, so it's not like I found some secret - I think the speed improvements over the video were mostly just me lucking into taking the correct approach to take as my first attempt on almost every step. Edit: I did color-code the 4/5s (some of which were interconnected indirectly via what they were summing with), which may have been a speed boost.

@doncook3690 3 года назад

You had to work hard for each cell. I don’t think I could of got the 6 in box 4

@kitsterling8665 3 года назад

Simon = Mark Hmm~... Come to think of it, have we ever seen them in the same room?

@nassoss2 3 года назад

i just now realized that the logo of the channel looks like a key.

@Kaycey777 3 года назад

Love the title, little killers total 123, and the arrows are all 9. very clever

@lioryishay9138 3 года назад

well, I know Hebrew :) Simon is really סימון but סימון is also a word in Hebrew. it is pronounced a little different though: C-moon (c as the way you would say the latter name) In Hebrew, סימון is a mark

@timclute9507 3 года назад

I love lines like This square must be a purple by Sudoku

@maverickstclare3756 3 года назад

bit of over thinking but I'm not surprised by that point! "You must take your opponent into a deep, dark forest where 2+2=5, and the path leading out is only wide enough for one" - Mikhail Tal (chess grandmaster)

@PuzzleQodec 3 года назад

Mikhail Tal is my favorite chess player. So thank you for that reminder!

@shifttheshaman 3 года назад

Such an elegant puzzle title. The first three steps (little killer sum, max arrow clue, balancing the ledger) in solving are there out in the open without being a giveaway.

@PuzzleQodec 3 года назад

Thanks!

@victorducedre5776 3 года назад

I beat this puzzle into submission in 74min, but I think it was close to 10 minutes after finding the 1's and 2's before I remembered the 9 arrows...

@shoezomaku 3 года назад

It just means you and Mark were meant to do this together lol

@siorac1147 3 года назад

Well, I managed to do this without any hints from the video. It took me nearly two hours but I don't care, I'm really proud that I managed this at all because it was ridiculously hard and I didn't even break the puzzle once (though I'm sure I got lucky once or twice with faulty deductions that led to the correct result. or maybe not). Loved it.

@perritohiker 3 года назад

Simon = Mark! I knew there was a reason that we never see them together!

@lena3885 3 года назад

UPCOMING ARROW APP?? YEEEEEESSSSSS PLEASE! TAKE MY MONEY GUYS

@Sujisan4 3 года назад

Another beautiful puzzle solved by Simon. Must be a beautiful day.

@randysavage1011 3 года назад

Got lucky on the 15 arrow. Could have had two 6’s initially.

@Coldheart322 3 года назад

Thanks for reminding me of the secret of sudoku!

@bobblebardsley 3 года назад

40:35 There's a reason they call them 'F buttons' and it's not because it stands for 'function'...

@charlottestang9462 3 года назад

ok, you don't need to shoutout all 60 people who solved the hunt so far but can we get a shoutout for the Derpy Noodle Club? I think the name alone warrants it ;)