One Night I woke up at 2:30am and couldnt fall asleep while having visions of anti-Knight geometry, so I decided to construct a puzzle. Thank you for the feature! I had a Blast watching you solve my Puzzle. Me and my dad are watching this channel for Years now. Im quite excited to have made it in a Video, and even having a 3 in the Corner. at 40:20 when I was setting my worries were that people miss the beauty, that r3c4 and r5c4 must sum to 8 but you seemed to have spotted it which im glad about. Thank you all for the nice and kind feedback. I thought it was funny having a Sudoku-variant in the name thats not in the puzzle. IF I make another one I will probably try to do that again.
There is one thing that never ceases to amaze me: Simon‘s incredible talent to establish complex logic for the sole purpose of completely neglecting it a mere second later, creating elaborate colouring exercises in order to ignore their implications for any deduction (especially if said deduction would be obvious) but instead formulating excessive new logic to circumvent the utilisation of any previously mentioned conclusions while stubbornly refusing to use any of the rules or - even more stubbornly - normal sudoku. But he still manages to solve about 90% of the puzzles faster than I can even hope to find the break-in.
I know right? It was physically painful to watch him put the 3 in box 5, which had to be on an arrow, in row 6 two different ways IIRC, which only has one arrow cell...only to ultimately be like "I'm getting nowhere with this" and deleting the coloring. But I'm still not going to try my hand at it, because a puzzle that takes Simon an hour will take me three days.
What a nice puzzle!! A brilliant puzzle made up of basic variant rules without anything very strange. I am always a fan of knight's move sudoku, and it does usually devolve, for me, into searching for individual digits in the end. Thank you, Simon, for recording this video despite not feeling your best. I hope that you will rest well and feel much better tomorrow!
The way I saw the middle box was that the 3 and 4 sums have to share the 1. If the 1 is in R4C5, you end up with two 3s in a column (in the circle in row 3 and on the 4-arrow below it I. Row 5).
I've watched Simon long enough to know he's definitely going to miss a clue that I won't but it doesn't matter because I'm not clever enough to make any use of the clue.
Let's Get Cracking: 08:55 Simon's time: 48m35s Puzzle Solved: 57:30 What about this video's Top Tier Simarkisms?! Bobbins: 2x (33:06, 48:50) Three In the Corner: 2x (39:20, 57:11) The Secret: 2x (05:04, 09:06) You Rotten Thing: 1x (53:17) And how about this video's Simarkisms?! Sorry: 9x (11:34, 19:06, 20:17, 23:34, 27:17, 37:58, 44:45, 47:12, 47:12) Ah: 8x (16:38, 23:30, 33:06, 44:15, 45:00, 50:25, 53:57, 56:52) Cake!: 8x (04:00, 04:02, 04:15, 04:21, 04:43, 04:46, 04:51, 04:53) Brilliant: 6x (00:51, 03:57, 24:31, 57:23, 57:46, 58:01) In Fact: 6x (02:16, 12:57, 14:49, 16:04, 37:34, 37:34) Obviously: 6x (04:39, 05:09, 10:25, 20:01, 20:22, 40:38) By Sudoku: 5x (42:04, 44:23, 45:03, 46:43, 55:33) Hang On: 5x (34:03, 34:03, 37:24, 51:16, 51:16) Pencil Mark/mark: 5x (27:26, 37:55, 48:38, 50:48, 55:07) Goodness: 4x (09:54, 34:34, 37:58, 57:03) Beautiful: 4x (01:12, 40:11, 44:18, 45:11) Lovely: 3x (02:19, 56:12, 58:04) Bother: 2x (47:06, 53:44) Nonsense: 2x (12:31, 54:01) Clever: 2x (53:57, 57:35) Magnificent: 2x (25:02, 25:05) I've Got It!: 2x (23:30, 23:30) Wow: 2x (57:30, 57:30) Symmetry: 2x (10:57, 17:29) Apologies: 1x (02:05) Home Straight: 1x (57:17) In the Spotlight: 1x (57:11) Deadly Pattern: 1x (56:58) Disconcerting: 1x (09:03) Shouting: 1x (37:43) Whoopsie: 1x (40:11) We Can Do Better Than That: 1x (55:49) What Does This Mean?: 1x (34:41) Most popular number(>9), digit, colour and box this video: Twenty (13 mentions) One (98 mentions) Green (13 mentions) Box 5 (2 mentions) Antithesis Battles: Low (8) - High (4) Even (2) - Odd (0) Column (11) - 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!
Bravo, and an ingenious challenge! A little shortcut - when you have the circle digits down to only a, b, c and d (not giving them away), their total is the sum of every arrow digit used twice. That breaks in.
I have an idea for a puzzle, there is a list of words to put in the grid, the letters A-F must appear in each row, column, box. Words go on the lines in the direction of the arrow. Once you have the words placed, transfer letters to numbers a=1, b=2 etc. then normal sudoku rules apply.
I think I find a nice break-in (but I couldn't manage to elaborate that easily after that): I found that none of the 4 arrow circles could be in the 20 cage, so the numbers out of the 20 cage in box 2 are the 4 arrow circles + 1 + 2=25. Then the arrows in box 5 must sum 11 (every number is added twice): so there is only a one way to make it work.
Glad to see the cold did not affect Simon's sudoku skills... But it certainly did a thing to his ability to think logically as he made a rightly mess of those arrows. Get well soon, Simon.
I don't know why Simon doesn't remove the colours after they've ceased being useful. I'm sure they only hinder his ability to scan digits later in the solve, e.g. the red 2 in box 5 looking at a 28 pencilmark in box 6. That's one thing I do appreciate about Mark's videos. He tends to remove colours once they're finished with. It makes the grid look so much less cluttered.
It's amazing how many times Simon figures out that the 3s in box 5 have to be in row 6 without noticing that rules them out of row 5 ;) I really struggled with the break-in with this one - and it was immensly rewarding once I got it. Then I made a total hash of the 15 box - somehow I decided 3+5+8=15, which took me a long time to spot when things went wrong.
Nice design, can strip the non mirror symmetric constraints...Orient and then solve. The DD on the circle-sum digits in B5 was nice followed by where they go in B28
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I saw that the 2,8 pair in r5c7 was determined by the 2 in row 4. But route Simon took was more useful for the rest of the solve.
I don't know how Simon broke it. The way I did it some people might call cheating. I realized the numbers in the circles don't ever show up in the 20 cage nor the 9 cage. I also realized that these numbers add up to at least 20. So I wrote down all possible combinations of 4 digits that add up to at least 20 constituting of digits that are at least a sum of 2 numbers. So basically without 1 and 2. Also noted down possible numbers adding up to 20 in three digits but without using both 8 and 9, because we need the 8/9 to show up in our circles to get the sum over 20. Matching those combinations with the combinations of 4, I realized that 3 always occurs in the combinations of 4. That means the 9 cage is formed without ever using a 3. Basically 1+2+6. remove 6 from the possible combinations of 4. you're left with a single possible combination of 3478 if you can't track the logic I don't blame you I feel like I wrote gibberish. But Ithink the writing down all possible combinations of numbers and then eliminating them one by one might be called cheating. But it was fun anyway.
Sudoku is an application of graph theory, so how about doing a project related to another application of graph theory? Or, what shadow would be cast by an arrangement of blocks corresponding to a solid block placed on every instance of a digit in a completed Sudoku grid? What shadow would be cast if you had floating layers of blocks, at a height corresponding to the digit?
Argh. Good logic to get the 1235 quadruple followed by pencil marking 3 into cells expressly eliminated by the quadruple. And still solves the puzzle so much faster than I can even get a toe hold on.
Each digit on the arrow is used twice, so the sum of the digits in the circle is twice the sum of the digits on the arrows. You found that that sum is 22, so the arrow digits add up to 11, and are thus 1235. Edit: and 10 seconds later that's exactly what you concluded :)
17:58 "Dice-move positions" makes me wonder if there could be a rule set that restricts certain digits to the relevant 'dice dots' positions in their box. e.g. the 1 in box 1 must be in r2c2, the 2 in box 2 must be in r1c6 or r3c4, the 3 in box 3 must be in r1c9, r2c8 or r3c7 etc. (I know a D6 only goes up to 6 but I'm pretty sure there's 'standard' patterns for 7, 8 and 9 on a dice.)
wait.....I figured it out. 1/2/3/5 are the digits. 3 is a colored digit so it HAS to go in one of the colored sqaures and on an arrow. That means the only cell that meets this criteria is R6C5. It's definitely 100% one of the colored digits and it is a 3. I just don't know which color.
“I feel like this is how I want it to work” Aw shoot, I had the opposite feeling. That the low and high digits in the circles had to be split up. Waiting to see how it works and who’s right. Because I’m stuck 🤣 Edit: so I was right about the digits being split, the placement of the 2-3 and 1-5 pair in box 5. But I’m still stuck 🤦🏻♀️ (got myself unstuck🎉)
37:57 Putting a 1 in the red cell wouldn't work. Purple and blue won't be able to be a 7 anymore, and a 34 pair in there would need to put a 3 on an arrow to add up to a 4 on the opposite side, and land in the same column as the 3 sum.
