How To Mend A Broken Heart

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** Today's Puzzle **
Happy Valentines Day to you all and today's romantic-themed task is to fix (ie solve!) Sam Cappleman-Lynes' Broken Heart. What's more this is a Star Battle today so a change up from sudoku. Oh and this is one heck of a puzzle... Play it at the link below:
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@reubenmckay 2 года назад

I love Simon's descriptions for the shapes of the boxes: "Key, Stiletto, Gonzo's head...".

@pelahnar4 2 года назад

the heart is made up of an emu and a joshua tree :)

@jinbe-san 2 года назад

Agree! Yet he’s the same person who says he can’t see the shapes in some of the sudoku designs! He’s so creative 😄

@emo6577 2 года назад

The Gonzo one was my favorite. It was very… evocative

@insectbah 2 года назад

Yes he's used Gonzo head before and it's my absolute favorite

@GretgorPooper 2 года назад

The thumbnail game is ON POINT for this one! Happy valentines day to all!

@longwaytotipperary 2 года назад

I had trouble following the logic, but enjoyed watching Simon find an emu, gonzo, nessie, Joshua tree, stilleto, key, the letter b, and thinking about him tickling the puzzle's tummy. Simon, as always is just delightful whatever the puzzle. Wish I had some chocolate chip ice cream!😉

@HungerTheLetsPLay 2 года назад

I do find these star battle solves quite enjoyable. From an artistic perspective, I like to use black to shade the cells that can't be stars and make the stars yellow, so that the finished puzzle resembles the night sky. Brilliant work as always.

@stevesebzda570 2 года назад

Interesting idea [using blk and yellow resembling the night sky at the end] Easy to distinguish, also. [I'll keep w/ green and red for the moment, but very cool]

@stevesebzda570 2 года назад

[Oh, I had the wrong reply area -- for "Joshua Tree" earlier -- so I deleted, btw.. ] Cheers lol . [Yeah, ANYWAY.. LOL ] :)) 😂😎☕

@stevesebzda570 2 года назад

That blk might be a really good idea actually [Because, other colors will be signifying other possibilities -- and it would be very confusing with 3 colors in the grid -- with blk being the lack of color] Good idea [[Edit: 3 OR FOUR colors, actually. So, a really good idea ]]

@TiagoMorbusSa 2 года назад

Nice of Simon to use a stock model for the thumbnail. The comments section wouldn't be able to handle the absolute thirst if he had put a photo of himself.

@wrrichardson 2 года назад

@@carlossosa2907 It's later now. Time for this sin to be erased.

@carlossosa2907 2 года назад

@@wrrichardson gotcha

@carlossosa2907 2 года назад

@@wrrichardson no harm no foul 😄

@spreekstem 2 года назад

Such a brilliant thumbnail again. Happy valentine’s day!

@longwaytotipperary 2 года назад

Mending a broken heart with a pina colada?? Cheers! 🍹

@TheSonicPerson 2 года назад

Ryokousha designed it

@longwaytotipperary 2 года назад

@@TheSonicPerson 👍

@LillaJag 2 года назад

Got my CTC book today! After 1,5 year it is so weird it's finally here, now I know what to do the next couple of weeks!

@57thorns 2 года назад

I hopa I paid the last $8 installment on mine today. With any luck I will get it this week.

@thealienontheinternet 2 года назад

“The bottom of my heart is green” ~ Simon the Grinch

@shellmichael9665 2 года назад

The puzzle can’t possibly live up to the bar set by this thumbnail! 😂

@TheSonicPerson 2 года назад

Ryokousha made it

@leickrobinson5186 2 года назад

It’s called “Broken Heart” because the central two regions form a heart shape (“broken” into two regions).

@HunterJE 2 года назад

31:12 I think Simon may have prematurely dismissed some good logic here - the remaining purple in the "emu" (looks more like a flamingo to me but whatev) is impossible because it would require stars in yellow and blue for the "Joshua tree" region, and if you do that the placement of the purple and blue stars will rule out both of the red positions in "emu," which means that region couldn't take a second star anywhere

@SimonSideburns 2 года назад

Just paused to come and say this. Glad someone else noticed. Just as he quit on that branch of logic after looking at the beak of the emu, I went "hang on..." and figured out what you've said.

@MissVindicat 2 года назад

Yes! In fact, around 37:17 he realizes this himself too.

@inspiringsand123 2 года назад

Rules: 02:09 Let's Get Cracking: 03:38 What about this video's Top Tier Simarkisms?! Bobbins: 4x (31:44, 31:46, 31:46, 31:46) Scooby-Doo: 1x (28:04) And how about this video's Simarkisms?! Ah: 16x (11:40, 16:36, 16:37, 18:52, 20:29, 20:41, 22:56, 23:02, 25:02, 25:38, 26:55, 28:27, 29:01, 31:21, 32:33, 42:19) Hang On: 6x (16:40, 22:56, 24:22, 29:30, 30:14, 37:09) Sorry: 4x (06:59, 08:54, 21:15, 21:25) Clever: 4x (00:26, 26:33, 42:35, 44:48) Beautiful: 4x (17:19, 30:17, 30:29, 30:31) Corollary: 3x (04:09, 36:35, 36:40) In Fact: 3x (00:34, 02:23, 08:25) The Answer is: 2x (04:21, 08:12) Incredible: 2x (10:03, 10:17) Magnificent: 2x (00:26, 44:39) What on Earth: 1x (07:05) Useless: 1x (06:59) Goodness: 1x (35:55) I Have no Clue: 1x (00:39) Lovely: 1x (41:58) Brilliant: 1x (44:46) Shouting: 1x (07:30) Nori Nori: 1x (42:46) Approachable: 1x (01:39) Surely: 1x (03:42) Obviously: 1x (38:27) What Does This Mean?: 1x (24:36) Most popular number(>9), digit and colour this video: Ten (9 mentions) Two (103 mentions) Yellow (20 mentions) Antithesis Battles: Even (4) - Odd (0) Black (2) - White (0) 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!

@kevinmay4976 2 года назад

Exactly what I need on this lonely Valentines Day!

@kimberlypreston6204 2 года назад

Mee too! Sudoku does cure loneliness. :)

@CaptainSpock1701 2 года назад

37:44 - "Don't only put one star in your Joshua tree" I've been saying that for years but nobody ever believes me... (Haven't actually but what a priceless quote!)

@AlRoderick 2 года назад

Joshua Tree is actually a pretty good album so you should definitely not give it one star.

@afrayedknot81 2 года назад

Awesome puzzle! At around 40:00, there's a simple way of resolving instead of using that chain. If you look at columns 6 & 7 (as Simon did at 36:00), you can see that placing a star in r2c6 would rule stars out of the 2x2 block immediately below (r34 c67). So instead r2c5 must be a star, which forces a lot

@martinepstein9826 2 года назад

Since you bring up r2c6, I can now see that if you put a star there you can only put 1 star in column 7.

@gregs2284 2 года назад

You don't even need to see the "fork". It would eliminate all three adjacent cells in column 7 leaving only one eligible cell in column 7

@hadar2805 2 года назад

The way you’re naming the regions is just *chefs kiss*

@th.nd.r 2 года назад

Incredible setting by Sam and incredible solving by Simon, and I would expect no less!

@andersosterholm2538 2 года назад

I might be making this up, but I could swear I've seen Mark and/or Simon use the pen tool to put, you know... a star in a cell. If only there was a type of puzzle where that could be useful. 😉

@alienrenders 2 года назад

Yeah, they can put x's and o's.

@andersosterholm2538 2 года назад

@@alienrenders So not stars? Did I dream that?

@alienrenders 2 года назад

@@andersosterholm2538 The pen tool only does lines, X's and O's. But x's would have worked. I didn't check if there was an option or tool for a star. Maybe shift or alt clicking can do a star but I haven't tried.

@joshybratwurst1398 2 года назад

I didn't even realize it was Valentine's day! Not until I saw Simon's beach bod, that is

@jasonbraun127 2 года назад

Oh boy, what a thumbnail. Truly a piece of art...

@kelperdude 2 года назад

Mark needs to get a microphone like yours.

@brookead 2 года назад

I can never "un-see" that thumbnail!

@matteopotato 2 года назад

Love love love the idea of more difficult star battles!

@Mopetn 2 года назад

Haha, love how Simon is challenging me by making stars red and then black and non-stars green. My brain keeps on shouting "stars are yellow and sky is blue!!" 😅

@riripebby 2 года назад

You're a star, Simon!

@viodragon974 2 года назад

It is fun watching a difficult puzzle like this be solved. One note is if you are ever doing 2 start for row or column, and get 5 in a row left. the sides spaces 2 and 4 of that 5 line can never be stars. Row 6 has had that for quite some time. Thus the one blue square, r5c3, would turn green. One of the star battle hint programs shows that.

@SzanyiAtti 2 года назад

Really enjoyed watching this one! I actually wouldn't mind seeing even more harder pencil puzzles on the channel.

@nibbled5279 2 года назад

magnificent. enjoyed every last bit of the video

@dismalfailure44 2 года назад

Absolute Pantheon of thumbnails

@adrivalero4165 2 года назад

Absolutely loved this video

@longwaytotipperary 2 года назад

Happy Valentine's day everyone! 💕💕

@dubudubudan 2 года назад

excellent thumbnail, you guys have really upped your game

@himi6536 2 года назад

This one looked fun so I decided to do it before you did for once and we both ended up with roughly the same time and thought process throughout. Was great to see you work it out the same way I had lol

@NFSHeld 2 года назад

At 31:15 I think you had the right idea. Making R5C8 a star requires the "Joshua Tree" stars to be in yellow and blue. That removes the yellow and blue regions entirely from the "Emu", and now you don't have enough possiblities for stars in the Emu, because R5C8 and the Joshua Tree star in blue remove both cells of the red Emu region.

@Raven-Creations 2 года назад

I was about to make the same comment, although I think you meant R4C7. The way I thought about it was if R4C7 was a star, it pushed the star in the red domino next to blue, leaving the Joshua Tree with only one space. Whichever way you think of it, you end up with a broken heart.

@nairit4600 2 года назад

ah the day has finally dawned where even cracking the cryptic has to resort to using nudity in thumbnails for clicks. (working on me tho so I'm not complaining)

@iwersonsch5131 2 года назад

When there are several options, I like to use digits in the center of cells. Say there's a star in one of 2 cells. Write 1 into one of them, 2 into the other, then place 1s and 2s in all cells that would be forced to be stars

@TabAtkinsJr 2 года назад

As a personal preference, I like using the achromatics (gray/black) for the stars and no-star cells, as that stands out nicely from all the colors used for possibly-star regions.

@ItsSansom 2 года назад

Simon's metaphors are out of control this episode. Talking about tickling the puzzle's tummy and the clues he's finding are "Vanilla, but not quite chocolate fudge brownie"

@Matthew-wz8ng 2 года назад

Simon to answer the question at 2:17 about this kind of puzzle in the newspaper because you have to color them or make a messy grid with paper and pencil to solve it.

@pouletbelette 2 года назад

I used to appreciate that you never asked your viewers to subscribe/like/comment. But I can't be mad at you that you do now. Anything to support the channel, make it grow and keep this wonderful community alive!

@penningmeestercgkdelft9159 2 года назад

Wow, that 2x2-cell square trick is beautiful! It made me realize the following: since we expect 20 stars throughout this puzzle, and there are 25 2x2-cell squares in total (if we divide the grid into a regular checkerboard), there will be exactly five 2x2-squares that will contain no star: one per row, and one per column. And the placement of these 5 2x2's has a total of factorial(5) = 120 different possible configurations within the puzzle, just like any digit in a 9x9 sudoku puzzle could be placed in factorial(9) = 1x2x3x4x5x6x7x8x9 different ways. It is very much like computing the determinant of a N x N matrix in linear algebra, which consists of factorial(N) terms which represent all the possible configurations of its factors. Moreover, the funny broken-heart-like shape in the centre of this puzzle effectively reduces the total of 120 possible green 2x2-square configurations down to only 4 configurations already. And the 7-cell region in the lower right corner reduces it further to only 2 possible options. And all that just by the geometry of the puzzle. Sam Cappleman-Lynes, take a bow! Just like Simon :-)

@alienrenders 2 года назад

That's what I did. I used a checkerboard pattern and knowing there has to be a star in the bottom right 2x2 means the top right 2x2 is empty as all other 2x2's on the right must have stars. Then you can go around the grid and you get almost all the bottom for free without doing any of the logic Simon used. You can bypass all of that.

@penningmeestercgkdelft9159 2 года назад

@@alienrenders Exactly :-)

@cyndisision 2 года назад

I think my favorite part of Simon's star battle solves is hearing the names he gives to the regions for their weird shapes 😁

@Roblilley999 2 года назад

I love Simons naming of each region

@Roblilley999 2 года назад

Emu, Joshua Tree, stiletto, gonzo etc

@HunterJE 2 года назад

Love pencil puzzles on CTC!

@chipsounder4633 2 года назад

excellent puzzle

@lordisaac 2 года назад

loved the thumbnail and the new puzzle type that I hadn't seen before.

@maurobraunstein9497 2 года назад

I was not able to solve it, but I loved the fact that it's a hard non-sudoku!

@xOscarAx 2 года назад

Didn't see the vid yet. But that thumbnail is the best valentines surprise I had this year.

@mackthisarrowhearth295 2 года назад

Holy shit, this thumbnail hass burned itself into my retina and will appear in my dreams later... oof XD

@pema22 2 года назад

Did you mean "nightmares"?

@Aidiakapi 2 года назад

When I was solving, at 26:46, there was some beautiful logic I saw: In columns 9 and 10, in order to disambiguate where each of the stars go, in column 8, either the cell in row 5 or 7 would have to contain a star. Combined with the star already present in row 9, this meant that there couldn't be a star in row 1. This then leads to placing a star in column 5, row 2. Never did these kinds of puzzles before, but this was quite fun.

@expic3954 2 года назад

Lookin good there Simon!

@slurpleslixie 2 года назад

Around 25:33 ish I found it helpful to look instead at columns 9&10 (or actually you could have looked at it a while earlier, but there are so many places to look and a few different ways to approach it, so that makes sense). You have 2 in of the b-shaped region because it's a region, and 2 in the bottom 4 rows because of your colouring. This leaves the top 2 rows green, which gets you to the same place you wind up @26:00 ish by what struck me as harder logic

@ascensionblade 2 года назад

Colorblind folks prefer solid, bold colors. We can sometimes handle pastels when they aren't green and yellow 😉

@SmartHobbies 2 года назад

Haven’t seen this variant before. I like the concept and Simon’s solve.

@foxyauroraart9916 2 года назад

Just wanted to say that I play these videos in the background for my day so I feel less lonely and it makes me feel better about spending my day in a terrible place

@timothybexon6171 2 года назад

Head canon. I think Simon's ancestors named the constellations. That's why he enjoys Star Battles and sees shapes in this but not standard sudoku grids.

@nicolascageinthenicolascag664 2 года назад

Omg the cover........ Im in love

@hansdietrich1496 2 года назад

Lovely puzzle, but please next time black for deep space and yellow for stars :)

@shawnward6607 2 года назад

Excellent Puzzle Simon. It was very rewarding solving and seeing you explain star battle logic, expecially for people new to the channel. Maybe you could add to the "Sudoku varient series" that is coming out sundays. Maybe "Puzzle varient series" so you can teach us all the great puzzles. Nori Nori.

@HunterJE 2 года назад

If anyone's looking for more interesting puzzles of this type track down the Regionless Starbattle that Shye put out recently, not quite as tricky as this but some really pleasing break-in logic.

@alienrenders 2 года назад

19:30 for me. I just gridded everything in 2x2 squares since that's the most stars you can put in such an area and the puzzle broke open. At then end, you can pick out cells that are likely to break the puzzle and bifurcate a little until you have a finished solve.

@frith.calluna 2 года назад

Figures I'd spend my Valentine's Day watching this hahaha I'm honestly not even mad about it in the slightest cause this is very entertaining

@PathOfShrines 2 года назад

Ah, I had no idea how to solve this until I watched the video and saw the 2x2 grid technique. Very cool.

@PurpleSidewalk1 2 года назад

This was a beautiful story of the love between an emu and a Joshua tree.

@andrewnelson2525 2 года назад

I was happy to spot the importance of the heart shaped region, but didn't divvy it up as elegantly. In fact towards the end I spotted the solution but took another 30 minutes to prove it.

@gauravmitra150 2 года назад

Wonder if at 20:52 the pun "disasterous number of stars" was intended? dis- as a prefix like in dishonest negates the later part of its word, aster (lat)=star...

@slurpleslixie 2 года назад

In this case it is negative, but it can also (rarely) act as an intensifier instead when the word that you're dis'ing already has negative connotations, e.g. disgruntle (from gruntle, meaning grunt/grumble - disgruntled means essentially 'made to grumble') or disannul (which helpfully means almost exactly the same thing as annul). Also dissever (meaning the same as sever) and disturb, where the "turb" part already means to disturb (from the latin turbare - to disturb) English do be weird sometimes

@britlion 2 года назад

My CTC book arrived today! So that was a huge smile moment. Thank you for that. Disappointed when you started painting the grid red and green. 20% of guys are colour blind, and red/green is the most common. Doh!

@simonalbrecht9435 2 года назад

I think it was said that the shades of red and green in that software are now chosen to be distinguishable for colour blind people. Can't confirm though.

@Orenotter Месяц назад

@28:27 Are you sure 1-6 can't be a star? You can pout stars in at 1-8, 2-4, 2-1, 4-1 and 6-2. That would totally work. Still, I'll take you at your word because I'm utterly stuck.

@Gonzalo_Garcia_ 2 года назад

21:15 for me. Nice to have something different from sudoku every once in a while.

@olivier2553 2 года назад

At around 22:00 the cell r6c2 had become a star by the 4x4 logic on the box r5-6xc1-2 (knowing the lower left box was the empty one by early construction).

@achad1607 2 года назад

Instead of painting one side blue and one side pink, you could paint an x-wing of pink and blue 2x2's' Later, you had one pink and two blue squares left, but, you failed to remember the x-wing eliminating one of those two blue squares.

@nickthompson1812 2 года назад

Aloha, Simon! Haha, that’s a hilariously good thumbnail.

@stephenmccarthy1795 2 года назад

Finding two contiguous 4by4s giving eight cells with only one star tells you nearly as much as knowing which 4by4 is empty. You still know all the other 4by4s are full. Knowing whether the star in the eight cell region is at the top or bottom only affects whether the star in the other eight cell region across from it is at the top or bottom.

@deerel 2 года назад

Broken Heart. 😢 Happy Valentines Day!

@PriffyViole 2 года назад

Got it at 42:14. Honestly, I think the emu looks more like Gonzo than the region you said was Gonzo. Your Gonzo region looks more like a faucet to me.

@DirkieB 2 года назад

Black, the universal colour for a star.

@erinasnow 2 года назад

I must say that I don't know what I think about the thumbnail xD exited about the puzzle though!

@specialkalberta 2 года назад

I didn't understand this at all except I think I figured out before Simon that r6c6 could not be a star because if it is a star then you'd need two stars (to have two in the left half of the heart, which I think Simon called an Emu for some reason) in the blue cells and Simon said (for some reason) that only one cell in blue can be a star. I was right but it was the second last (or as Simon would say, penultimate) thing Simon did on the puzzle.

@NFSHeld 2 года назад

A little request for the future, it would be nice to have "black" as the "not star" night sky, and orange as the "star", and "blue" for the "maybe sky". In the beginning, you used red and green which is troubling for color blind (I'm not color blind but I'm a UI designer so I think about color blindness quite frequently).

@Orenotter Месяц назад

Star battles are shiploads of fun. But can including answers be done? I'll suggest if i may You instruct us this way: "Label each star as zero or one." Seriously. To disambiguate, make the topmost leftmost star always be zero. Now you can include a solution.

@thecoolchick909 2 года назад

Simon has gotten me saying bobbins irl

@lukaszmmaciejewski 2 года назад

Black: the very first colour that comes to mind when you think “star”… ;)

@LOCKEYJ 2 года назад

I may not be surprised that Simon likes u2. Doesn’t mean I’m not disappointed. Even heroes have flaws

@mattmayoh9680 2 года назад

This is only my 2nd star battle puzzle, the first was the puzzle in puzzle in puzzle a few days ago. Got to the same point as @30:00, and looked at the two pairs in r46/c56. If I highlighted r6c5 as a star, i could quickly highlight everything else and get a valid solution, but that doesn't prove the solution is unique, so gave all those cells a coloured flash. Then highlighted r6c6 a star to try and find contradictions, that also forced some of the flashed cells to be stars, so could remove their flash, make them stars. Then eventually ended up with that option being almost valid, rows & columns were fine but one of the central regions had 3 stars, one had 1. So that did prove the solution is unique, but felt very much like bifurcating, felt different to following a short hypothetical chain in a sudoku puzzle and finding a contradiction. Now watching the video and redoing the puzzle along with it, looking for what I may have missed or less bifurcaty ways to eliminate things. @31:15, r4c7 being purple would force 2 stars in that region, rule out the entire left hand blue section. That means at least one of the first 3 rows of c7 is a star, so r2c6 is not. That immediately places a bunch of cells, and leaves a sort of x-wing thing in r4 & r6 that covers 3 stars, so exactly one of r46c2 is a star, so r5c2 is not, and then the puzzle is done. Much happier with that, grumpy I missed it the first time.

@tabularasa0606 2 года назад

Mine was healed by a heart surgeon 2 years ago. Now I have a big scar on my chest.

@stephenjames2951 2 года назад

“My god it’s full of stars.” Dave Bowman

@jekringstad 2 года назад

Can someone tell me what magazine he's talking about?

@Ogrecrusher 2 года назад

That finish was mighty close to bifurcation, on thin ice there!

@davidblake6889 2 года назад

I reckon that was a really 'Monty Python' solve, Simon. You did some brilliant logic right at the start on the central heart which gave a 2x2 X-wing across the heart. You narrowed down the bottom right hand 2x2 to one possibility as a star and could have used that to determine the other empty 2x2 's. Instead you did 'something completely different' to do with Joshua trees. You got there, but I was a bit hoarse by the end!

@mrmckenzie0 2 года назад

I feel like I'm watching a puzzle version of The Masked Singer. Emu puts a 7 in r2c6.

@novajacob6683 2 года назад

Simon saw his chance with that thumbnail and he took it.

@litlphoenix 2 года назад

Any chance of you guys making a star battle app to go along with the other sudoku apps?

@jodiwilloughby2562 2 года назад

Thanks for the eye candy... 😍 lol

@LorisLaboratory 2 года назад

Thumbnail game on point 🤣👍

@HyarionCelenar 2 года назад

One strategy I didn't see in this video is that any time you have a line of 5 squares that must contain 2 stars (timestamp ~35:50 in Row 6) then the adjacent cells in Row 5 and 7 that correspond to columns 2/4 in the line cannot contain stars (because it would force 2 stars in adjacent cells in the line of 5).

@walkomidit 2 года назад

It's funny how he was so excited about the x-wing he found and never used it.

@markuszocholl9027 2 года назад

It would have been a very interesting video with different colours. I'm nearly unable to distinguish between yellow and green (because of partial color blindness) so it's quite difficult to follow Simon ;-)

@or3213 2 года назад

The green and yellow colors are very similar to each other. Please refrain from using both of them next to each other. (Alternatively, the green color should be darker.)

@ascensionblade 2 года назад

I skipped to near the end to check my solution, and I thought the coloring didn't make any sense. It wasn't until I saw him change a green to a yellow (or vice versa, won't strain my eyes to find out) that I realized what was happening.