Is This Sudoku Impossible?

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@vndtamusic 2 года назад

I love how hes apologising for taking so long meanwhile i'm bamboozled he managed to even start it wtf

@ramna8254 8 месяцев назад

1.7k likes and 0 replies let me fix that

@vndtamusic 8 месяцев назад

thank you because i never wouldve known I got any likes at all on this comment hahaha@@ramna8254

@erikno2992 7 месяцев назад

@@ramna8254 I don't think it's necessary, comments are about talking about the context, if there's nothing to be said, there won't be comments

@senatorarmstrong689 7 месяцев назад

@@erikno2992I rest my case your honor

@MegaZeta 7 месяцев назад

Meanwhile I mentally solved it from the preview image. Built different I guess.

@itayraviv2422 2 года назад

I've never seen someone solving sudoku from one number then apologizing afterwards I am truly impressed

@giladshemesh5730 2 года назад

ratio

@LegenDxICExMaNx 2 года назад

and now imagine what kind of person created this sudoku

@akairyu1291 2 года назад

The british way

@gamingforfun8662 2 года назад

@@giladshemesh5730 wow

@puppergump4117 2 года назад

@@LegenDxICExMaNx It's actually pretty easy to create sudoku puzzles, just throw the puzzle into a brute force algorithm until there's as few solutions as possible.

@Kendall.dp16 10 месяцев назад

This is by far the best, most impressive, and entertaining thing I've stumbled across at 2 am, I can't wait to watch more

@TylerWardhaha 8 месяцев назад

Omg. I also am watching at 2 am

@nicolade7618 8 месяцев назад

Haha, me too!!

@dianehoover305 8 месяцев назад

so true i was bored at 4 am and found this never in my life did i think id have so much fun watching someone play sudoku

@yashshah6361 8 месяцев назад

i literally started watching this at 2:!0 am!

@user-vo3en3yc1c 7 месяцев назад

It’s currently 2:01 am in my country and I’ve stumbled across this video and your comment

@kwilson5832 10 месяцев назад

6:40 "Ah Ha Ha! Now I have....Well, I don't have anything"! Absolute Classic! I was really amazed at how Simon solved that one, especially how he deduced the first 9.

@maximusbjj5298 4 месяца назад

Same, it took me thirty minutes to realize why it worked

@mathewrutledge8125 2 года назад

"I won't make it an hour watching a guy do a sudoku puzzle" *45 minutes later* Banging my desk and yelling through the 20 Crispers in my mouth, "THAT ONE'S A 6!!!! WHICH MEANS THAT ONE'S A 5!!! OMG YES!"

@coby7696 Год назад

Simp,y brilliant

@agustinbarquero8898 Год назад

@@coby7696 what is "simp,y"?

@faouzijedidi1 Год назад

45:58 I did the same thing, yelled that one is a six then proceeded to solve the rest of it in my head with his voice saying: this one is a 6 which means this one is six and this one is a six which means this can’t 7 then 7 is here ….

@MrVerece 10 месяцев назад

I just now realized the video was indeed an hour and it's past midnight, crap

@primalrage9785 9 месяцев назад

Crisper? Sounds like a posh name for a crisp, no?

@DanCicala 2 года назад

Twitch could use some streamers with this guy's energy. I'd love to see someone patiently play Counterstrike while saying things like "Ah, I've been proper boonswoggled," over the sound of gunfire.

@kallethoren Год назад

That would be amazing

@EnemyStand Год назад

i would sub

@EnemyStand Год назад

also there's a Noita streamer that's super chill in the same way but I forgot his name now

@laureeeent Год назад

LOVELY pick mid!

@prime_buddy Год назад

Ah it appears my mother is being fisted by thing young not so gentle-man, we shall prepare a tactical swat attack to counter his mischief

@crazy_elise 10 месяцев назад

The last 10 minutes are always us screaming through the screen for Simon to just do normal sudoku honestly. But we still love it

@khuixinn 4 месяца назад

18:18 "2 and 8 are not the same digits. There's a knowledge bomb. Cracking the cryptic." 😂😂 i love this man 😂

@supersonic0003 3 года назад

Very Impressive solution! But i would've done something slightly different tho So at the beginning when you were starting to collour the tiles, you first did the Orange ones then you started blue and finally you determined where the purple squares would be. And here comes the difference, i on the other hand would have first started with carefully moving my mouse to the exit button, then i would've proceeded to close the puzzle and finally i would climb into bed to cry myself into sleep because that shit was so confusing

@Hpmanenz 2 года назад

You had me in the first half not gonna lie.

@skywatcher458 2 года назад

reading all these comments are better than any commedy shows 😭

@TechTipsbelArabe 2 года назад

Give this man a reward.

@dmas7749 2 года назад

this legit gave me a headache, i'll stick to normal sudoku thanks

@Jim-vq9yg 2 года назад

Lolol

@unironicallyslappingknees 2 года назад

I was hooked from the beginning, but the realization of “1 or 9” completely blew my mind. there’s definitely a beauty to seeing this all unfold from seemingly nothing

@RenShinomiya121 2 года назад

because if you're having 1 or 9, it's the least restricted digit. But then we have a 2 placed on it already, giving the choice to put 9 in instead.

@willtriplett4128 2 года назад

He knows why smh

@jayp.7197 2 года назад

YES that realization was AMAZING, I literally had to stand up and walk away for a minute because I was so excited he figured it out.

@Nihilianth 2 года назад

Crazy thing is, as soon as I saw the rules, I immediately knew that 1 and/or 9 would be the key to getting a foothold. The rules themselves gave that away.

@viktorskokins1689 2 года назад

Agreed Perfect place for me to save the video and hop off the internet, don't have time for this

@clairerichter2863 2 года назад

Simon, my son asked me what was wrong with me, and I realized I was having a full-on conversation with you through this video. Thanks so much! This one was really good!

@neoptune0130 2 года назад

haha same my mom thought i was crazyy

@neonxvices 9 месяцев назад

the mental image you just gave me is both hilarious and adorable

@bmwmb24 2 года назад

Listening to this guy figure this out while working on a school assignment is very calming. I haven’t any clue what he’s saying, but his funny words let me be productive.

@jestfullgremblim8002 Год назад

Lol what

@puresignal82 2 года назад

My favorite part: "What goes in this square? The answer is, I haven't got a Scooby-Doo." This guy is awesome!

@Hawkeye3n 2 года назад

But how did he know that square was purple, I don't get it

@lightd7533 2 года назад

@@Hawkeye3n the cage and sudoku blocked all other options, so it has to be the purple :)

@Hawkeye3n 2 года назад

@@lightd7533 but there's three squares of that cage in that grid, why couldn't it have been in the other 2 squares, that's what doesn't make sense to me, why couldn't it have been the square one to the left? Specifically the 3rd purple is the one I'm talking about.

@lightd7533 2 года назад

@@Hawkeye3n If you only look on the third purple square, and try to put anything other than purple in it, you will have a mismatch in the top middle grid. So it has to be purple

@Hawkeye3n 2 года назад

@@lightd7533 I still don't understand why it could be one square left, and nothing I've seen says it can't be one square left, that square is the same grid as the middle, and could just as easily be purple as the middle, no purple is preventing it from being purple.

@theendicott2838 3 года назад

“If I don’t solve it, then there’s no video from me today.” Me: spoiler alert...

@Nabend1402 3 года назад

I was really hoping he'd solve it so that there would be a video today.

@zizifang4679 3 года назад

@ehud kotegaro I can’t tell if you’re being sarcastic or not but he did because if he didn’t you wouldn’t have seen the video

@Dug6666666 3 года назад

Even my powers of deduction have a sneaky suspicion as to the answer to this. Shh don't give it away it will spoil the surprise.

@warioseggs 3 года назад

@@zizifang4679 get better at judging sarcasm

@stevecool4381 3 года назад

@@warioseggs yes just yes

@_KayWoah Год назад

This is like watching Sherlock Holmes solve a murder right before my eyes! It's incredible how well you explain your thought process when solving it. Bravo!

@kryldon8146 2 года назад

46:27 The orange is 6!! The orange is 6!!! Lol This was such a thrill to watch! I can practically hear the cogs turning in your head. 😆

@ivimusic1659 Год назад

Same lol

@AarPlays Год назад

FOUR FIVE, FOUR FIVE

@soph5440 Год назад

Haha same I was yelling abt the 6 and the grey 7 for half the video

@icarus-wings 2 года назад

One hour Sudoko puzzle? Why would anyone watch that? One hour later: amazing!

@wobblysauce 2 года назад

30 min @ x2

@chessplayer6632 2 года назад

@@wobblysauce Facts

@MrsAmericanDiva 2 года назад

@@wobblysauce fr, why watching it in 1 hour, if you can watch it in 30min?

@AlexKuz 2 года назад

@@MrsAmericanDiva cause that becomes a hell of you r not a native speaker :(

@annieliina 2 года назад

@@AlexKuz fr i'm pretty much fluent in english but even in 1.75x i really have to concentrate

@BakkuIa 2 года назад

Love when Simon goes on a tangent only to end with "this all means nothing to me". As if I wasn't lost enough.

@robbiedart7422 2 года назад

(vienna)

@afanofosc 2 года назад

@@robbiedart7422 Me too. Though it is "this means nothing to me" rather than "this all means nothing to me". I have a few Ultravox cassettes.

@BakkuIa 2 года назад

@@FlySuppaMayne 🧢

@elretardodecancer6402 2 года назад

@@eti313 a w nem hiszem nem is vettünk a nagy varázsló wso

@elretardodecancer6402 2 года назад

@@eti313 a ember aki ne ww kkmmmmkwk nemhiszem nekem mmmmmmwkkk ekként w is vettünk kék kell

@ssr8555 11 месяцев назад

21:38 the relief my mind felt when you finally noticed this. I was focusing on it the entire time

@fantasy_foexig1116 10 месяцев назад

Same i looked at it the entire time😂

@samvan6175 10 месяцев назад

same 🤣

@TheTruth-si5zq 7 месяцев назад

No y’all didn’t

@OliverOcelot29 7 месяцев назад

@@TheTruth-si5zqkys

@beniocabeleleiraleila5799 7 месяцев назад

@@TheTruth-si5zq ??? They didnt saw an easy thing?

@kavyaagarwal1561 9 месяцев назад

I watched like the first 10 minutes of this and decided to do it myself. Took me 2 hours to finish it. Was super proud of myself. And then I completed watching this, and his thought process is so much different than mine. It's amazing how our brains can see different patterns in the same thing.

@brunorinaldo3882 3 года назад

Wait... Did I just watch an hour of sudoku-solving? Felt like 10 minutes

@jackrudolf1745 3 года назад

That's good! It means that you really enjoyed it! :)

@suz4255 3 года назад

wait that was an hour-

@MetalAcrean 3 года назад

I know right

@dootanator_ 2 года назад

Wait It was a hour long!?

@bostinobaddog2040 2 года назад

Genuinely..

@Buzzzkilll 2 года назад

I never thought id spend an hour watching someone else solve a sudoku, and yet here I am at the end of it thoroughly impressed and entertained.

@CUB3zOfficial 2 года назад

Your profile pic looks like giga chad

@thatisraelikid37 2 года назад

The best way to get into something you know nothing about is by having someone explain it with genuine enthusiasm. Things like this are what make RU-vid a beautiful platform!

@wallyman292 2 года назад

I'm almost more impressed with whomever designed the puzzle to begin with!

@stefandesu 2 года назад

I could not stop watching. Watched all the way through in one go even though I am not interested in Sudoku (well, maybe I am now).

@wallyman292 2 года назад

@@stefandesu I like it because it requires pure logic to solve. That appeals to me for some reason. . . ;)

@Fox.59 10 месяцев назад

he got all this, FROM ONE 2 IN A SQUARE!? this guy's a genius

@Neptune0404 2 года назад

I love how this whole video beautifully parallels the ideal mystery story's peaks and valleys: At first the mystery seems unsolvable, but after some digging a clue is uncovered. The clue leads to the understanding of the framework, making it clear that there are connections, and a logic, but not too many definitive answers are revealed right away. Then there is a prolonged period of uncovering connections without reveling many clear answers before we finally get a breakthrough. One of the connections led to an answer, and now the road forwards seems clear. Several answers are revealed and for some time it seems as if the mystery is solved, but then another wall is hit, and the slow final grind begins. The answer is close but not yet solved and the final pieces must be put together, and after the last bit of effort the final question is cleared up, and the mystery is solved (there is even an "oh no" moment at the very end where we fear the whole case might fall apart, but it turns out to be a red herring). A wonderful video, not something I would normally click on but a friend recommended it and I'm glad I listened because it was a joy to witness.

@Corninthesky Год назад

I love how much you took out of this from a story telling perspective! Do you write fiction?

@Neptune0404 Год назад

@@Corninthesky I try😅I'm studying so I've had to put writing aside a bit. But I still dabble from time to time

@FluFive Год назад

Bro's paragraph took more time than watching the video 💀

@Ziggopotamus Год назад

Bruh it's just Sudoku. Don't be like a fuckin high school English teacher finding meaning out of nothing.

@edwardking9359 5 месяцев назад

@flufive7856 Hardly, took just a couple of moments to read

@Ayelis 3 года назад

"Two and eight are not the same digit." 🤯 Life-changing stuff.

@joostvanrens 3 года назад

This knowledge will make my life a LOT easier

@CarMedicine 3 года назад

"Gray is not seven."

@jackeea_ 3 года назад

That's about the only thing I understood in this video

@justanothergamingyoutuber8179 2 года назад

Yes, they are let’s say a=b a^(2)=ab a^(2)-b^(2)=ab-b^(2) (a-b)(a+b)=b(a-b) (a-b)(a+b)/(a-b)=b(a-b)/(a-b) a+b=b because a=b, it can be rewritten as: 2b=b 2b/b=b/b 2=1 2^(2)=1^(2) 4=1 4*2=1*2 8=2 Bam, I proved it, 8=2

@joostvanrens 2 года назад

@@justanothergamingyoutuber8179 you're such a Wally. You can't divide by a-b.

@CarthagoMike 2 года назад

_"Two and eight are not the same digit"_ Now there is some wisdom for you.

@geoculus5606 2 года назад

Wait a minute now, I was raised on two and eight being the same. Don't tell me my life has been wasted.

@EdricCoconut 2 года назад

It's the bite of '87, not the bite of '27 ... I'll see myself out

@emailbenbenson 2 года назад

That's the only thing I could figure out!

@shaemaali2458 Год назад

i'm sobbing, how does his brain work so quickly

@shanky.y Год назад

i tell you how - he dont have my brain !😂

@jestfullgremblim8002 Год назад

@@shanky.y bro lol

@fivehundredlux 2 года назад

it’s 3 am and i can’t sleep and this is the only thing entertaining me it’s so exciting to guess things then immediately have you confirm it i love this

@planetary-rendez-vous 2 года назад

It's 3:43 am here. Luckily this is Sunday but my sleep is gone watching him.

@BrokeMastermind 3 года назад

"What goes in this square? The answer is I do not know." -me doing Soduko on a daily basis.

@hecarat 3 года назад

Dude, the word "Sudoku" is literally onscreen at least 6 times, 7 if you include the title. You had one job.

@justanothergamingyoutuber8179 3 года назад

@@hecarat lmao

@esmin2400 2 года назад

@@hecarat hey buddy, did you consider that they *might* be dyslexic?

@hecarat 2 года назад

@@esmin2400 See, I would be more empathetic to that if the word wasn't Japanese, and thus written phonetically-- and Simon says it out loud every 2 minutes or so.

@esmin2400 2 года назад

@@hecarat Dude, do you think an English speaking dyslexic is going to think about, let alone know, Japanese phonetics? Just think before you comment next time, it can hurt someone’s feelings

@emmakitcat 2 года назад

Something very satisfying about hearing this man say “ah,” when he figures out part of the puzzle

@YoowlOwl 2 года назад

Agreed!

@-book 2 года назад

if only i had the patience to make a compilation of them

@puppergump4117 2 года назад

Something really satisfying about the way your mom says it too

@archiewoodhouse6509 Год назад

its the same 'ah' as my old maths teacher lol.

@legendarymoshko3613 Год назад

@@puppergump4117 got the whole squad laughing😐

@fries6402 2 года назад

For those wondering why at 9:30 we can deduce the center square (square 5) in box 5 to be pink, it’s because squares 5 and 8 in box 2 MUST be equal to squares 1 and 4 of box 5, since the cage that contains 1/4 in box 5 has all 9 digits and both by sudoku and box constraints, values in squares 1/4 MUST go somewhere in box 2 and the only space would be in squares 5/8. thus, the center square is the only place that makes sense- this line of logic is also repeated around the middle of the video as well. hope this helps!

@vladimir4526 2 года назад

Oh, so it was that. Thanks 😂😂

@markwood1433 2 года назад

thank you.

@druzybear Год назад

i had to read this 4 times but i finally got it haha . Thanks!!

@unilajamuha91 10 месяцев назад

But what about the square 9?

@Unknown-tv5gu 10 месяцев назад

This was the big step I could NOT figure out! Thank you!

@assass8958 Год назад

The moment where you thought you made a mistake in the last move was so funny, I can’t imagine the defeat and then immediate relief you felt once you realized it wasn’t a mistake haha

@marshallgarey2913 3 года назад

Simon's afraid he can't complete it, then he tells me to have a go. :) You're very kind Simon but you overestimate my ability.

@AFastidiousCuber 3 года назад

Usually about 99% of the comments are people saying they struggled with the puzzle, but there's always a small minority of people commenting saying things like they solved the puzzle easily in half the time Simon did. When Simon comments things like "you're probably seeing something I'm not" he's probably mostly thinking about the 1% of Sudoku champions that watch this channel. Also, regardless of who he is talking to, I appreciate that Simon is encouraging to viewers, doesn't underestimate his audience's abilities, and isn't conceited. Could you imagine if he opened the video with "This puzzle would probably be too difficult for you people to solve, don't bother"?

@marshallgarey2913 3 года назад

@@AFastidiousCuber Well said

@BlueCyann 3 года назад

Hah. Yea I'm not in the mood for 5 out of 5 today. Will just watch and play along.

@brianagnes 3 года назад

@@AFastidiousCuber I could tell you I solved it in just over 90 minutes... however I accidentally hit pause at some point. It actually took about 4 hours, so Simon's time looked real good to me.

@Pigeon0fDoom 3 года назад

@@AFastidiousCuber the guy is a national treasure

@ionaf9 2 года назад

he's so much better at sodoku than I am, but on those rare occasions I spot something, like at 45 : 53 I noticed it had to be a 6, I felt like the smartest person on earth.

@RenShinomiya121 2 года назад

spectators and a less skilled person tend to observe more and point out more small things compared to an expert. Because a less skilled person tries to figure out what is going on while the expert tries to figure out how to move forward.

@pandalla114 2 года назад

@@RenShinomiya121 interesting

@spaceblob 2 года назад

at 27:48 i realised on box 1 a marked 7 had to be a 7 because the other one shares cage with another 7

@HANzzz98 2 года назад

As soon as he put in 5 or 6 I was screaming noooooo 😂 brilliant sudoku 👌👌

@aidang7278 2 года назад

Box 1 had a 9 he could place after he got the eight in

@Simon-nv5zj 10 месяцев назад

Math is actually an artform the way this guy talks us through it.

@jakejarvis6683 Год назад

I love how you're constantly apologizing for struggling when I'm amazed that you got a single digit in several of your videos. Don't be sorry that it takes a long time. It's worth the payoff when you finally crack the cryptic that I so desperately want to know the answer to.

@johnbaros8194 2 года назад

The middle square being a 9 conclusion was magic. Followed you all the way. Thank you!

@myshowTM 2 года назад

How did he know the purple couldn't be in the upper left or middle left of the middle region? Like, how'd he know the purple must be the middle, and that the other two i mentioned (in the same cage) were excluded?

@MerndZ 2 года назад

@@myshowTM he reverse engineered it in the way that he didn't look at purple top to find which one could be purple, but saw that the middle one covered 8 spots in the top square, either through normal Sudoku vertically and the bordered cage. The only spot it didn't cover was the one he already knew was purple , so he knew the middle one had to be purple as well

@majatepic1628 2 года назад

@@myshowTM I was wondering the same, the "reverse engineering" does not explain it for me.

@wheybig2972 2 года назад

@@myshowTM EXACTLY WHAT I WAS THINKING! It was a lucky guess that managed to work itself out

@davidbrayelle3278 2 года назад

@@wheybig2972 I just figured out that if he went to the one on the left as purple, it would have ended as no purple available in the big square bottom middle. I am still thinking on it, especially for the one on top left to the middle that he chose as purple.

@arseniykorchevskiy1564 3 года назад

it’s so funny that he is infinitely better at sudoku than i am but sometimes he misses things that i see

@mikeynel54 3 года назад

That's because he's too busy seeing things that I'll never see.

@Guipos 2 года назад

I was screaming about that 9 in the box of the given 2

@hexagon8899 2 года назад

watch enough people do puzzles and it happens all the time. its just because 1 man cant do it all

@sebastiandierks7919 2 года назад

Especially as the puzzle is about half solved there can be several paths forward and you can't see it all as one person.

@KanyeWestLover3205 2 года назад

It's so good for our ego, right?

@robloxgameshowsasmr 2 месяца назад

I didn’t think I would be watching a 53 minute video on solving a sudoku puzzle, but here I am 53 minutes later cheering for this man’s solve.

@allthatjazza451 Год назад

The middle square 1 or 9 revelation was enough for me to like the video. Absolutely mindblown at the level of logical coherency required for something like this. I am simply stunned.

@Lady8D 3 года назад

*Me:* "!!!!!! How the hell does he just blaze through a puzzle this hard this fast?!?!" *Simon:* "Sorry, I know this is excruciatingly slow" *Me:* ded

@jackrudolf1745 3 года назад

*ded.*

@thomasr6732 2 года назад

ded.

@ChesterTheGod 2 года назад

ded.

@pandalla114 2 года назад

ded.

@Kai-ci1ch 2 года назад

ded.

@juststeveidk9360 2 года назад

I commend Simon not on his Sudoku skills (which are amazing) but his ability to talk and concentrate at the same time...

@aarcade6676 2 года назад

The trick is that you just have to externalise your inner monologue and then it's easy

@Michael-kp4bd 2 года назад

@@aarcade6676 that’s probably the draw of watching Simon, his ability to do that and the fact that his inner monologue is so charming and filled with wit

@bradb7010 2 года назад

@@aarcade6676 I call that talking to yourself

@OhWaker 2 года назад

@@aarcade6676 Getting good at formulating your internal machinations into words is good practice for teaching and kinda hard for me

@BR-ec2ph 2 года назад

I can't even do easy Sudoku, but RU-vid recommended this video to me and it's so pleasant and soothing. Thank you! It does wonders for anxiety.

@alexsummers1897 2 года назад

It’s so nice watching someone be genuinely so happy about something they obviously love. It’s so exciting watching you finish the puzzles, who knew that it would be addictive watches these

@LorDCapkin 2 года назад

we used to solve sudokus with my dad when i was a kid . the moment i saw this sudoku concept i forgot his death for a second and want to show it to him . it was kinda heartbreaking but later i started watch you and tried to solve sudoku with you . it felt like i was a little kid again and dad explains me why specific numbers goes those specific locations . it made my day . thanks for the content and reminding me my good memories .

@wannabecryptid4934 2 года назад

You got me crying, I'm sorry about your dad, but happy you got this experience :)

@ZkullShot 2 года назад

It's amazing how this might just be another video he made, but to you, it was more than that, more than merely giving insights into sudoku, it was your journey of embracing the past. Quite fascinating to know that every little thing we do will have a deep impact on someone, and yet we don't even realize we might have lightened up a stranger's day. Your story is a lovely one. Enjoy life, remember, live to give.

@YouKnowMeDuh 2 года назад

This is a tearjerker. I'm glad this RU-vidr helped you remember good times with your dad. That's so sweet :)

@tsubasfan 2 года назад

exactly the same thing just happen to me, i used to play whit my dad, and he passed away 3 years ago. Im sure they are playing werever they are. so lets do the same here.

@cathynguyen943 2 года назад

Why is my screen blurry. . .

@takashinishida1201 2 года назад

there's something so satisfying about watching someone just so much smarter than you solving a puzzle

@dsargus3 2 года назад

and explaining it step by step, allowing you to follow and sometimes even understand before he comes to the conclusion :)

@gthjzby887 2 года назад

@@nateg.6187 I think it is infinitely more likely that this person simply didn't ponder too much over their choice of diction, in something possibly so fleeting as a relatively quick RU-vid comment.

@Katalystic 2 года назад

@@nateg.6187 what you define as smart, I would rather define as wise. I feel like «smart» is such a liquid term that it could mean intelligence, wisdom or experience or a mix of either. It’s like an umbrella term, and a very common word at that. Not to mention short and casual. That’s probably why

@Sonofsun. 2 года назад

This is more about paying attention to the rules which you can do too

@jaredgulin9028 2 года назад

Sudoku is all about number logic! Have no fear

@aetherealbeing690 9 месяцев назад

I put this on to be white noise while doing laundry, and before I was even 5 minutes in I was sitting down invested in the puzzle. I am so impressed by your ability to solve it, and so quickly! Your joy and amazement with the puzzle’s details and intricacy were contagious. Well done!

@WooHooCelery 10 месяцев назад

It takes me an hour to do an easy sudoku so I am truly baffled as to how you managed this so quickly. And the fact you kept apologising for how long you were taking had me laughing as I’d have taken five years. Brilliant stuff!

@Spendleton 2 года назад

me: "there's no way imma watch this guy play sudoku for an hour" also me: **leaves comment an hour later...**

@stevevernon1978 2 года назад

I didn't watch it for an hour.... I watched most on 1.25 speed and the rest on 1.5 speed

@samirahenilaulainen1555 2 года назад

@@stevevernon1978 to think I had trouble keeping up on normal speed...

@saifaddeenal-manaseer6325 2 года назад

It's addictive lol

@eabapa130 2 года назад

@@stevevernon1978 and here I am watching on 1x speed and rewinding when the logic went over my head

@bar0nger 2 года назад

me too, it's kind of like the Bob Ross of soduku

@somefreshbread 2 года назад

The fact that he missed the 6 reveal in box 2 at around 45:50 and still found a solution is incredible. What a smart dude.

@wizrd2286 2 года назад

I also noticed that immediately, it’s interesting what he picked up before other things

@CharmChampion Год назад

There was a significant lag on the box1 7 as well. 😂 I kept shouting at him. Willing him to see it, through time since it’s been a year. 😂🤦🏻‍♀️

@ThePelster Год назад

I missed the 6 reveal in box 2 but noticed the missed 7 in box 1

@dijoxx 10 месяцев назад

Classic Simon :)

@Mohjive 7 месяцев назад

Tbh, I can’t see it, but the 4 in box 3 stands out to me (which resolves the 6 in box 2).

@3-headedmonkey27 2 года назад

For people who are not sure about the first couple of deductions, it's easier to see if you start from the central box (Box 5). The centre square, put any number there, say A The only place to put that number in Box 2 is the bottom-right cell, because all but two of the other cells are in the same cage, and the other two (middle and bottom-middle) are in the same column (the two directly above). So bottom-right of Box 2 has to also be an A. Now look at Box 3, the only place to put A is the centre of the box, as all of the other cells are in the same cage as the second A, except for the bottom-middle and bottom right, but they are in the same row as the second A, therefore the centre square is also an A. The fact that that cage only has 8 numbers in it whereas the first cage we looked at has 9 is not relevant here, the logic works regardless.

@svny999 2 года назад

Ty!

@MrBetnesol 5 месяцев назад

Here I am after a hard day of work, watching a guy cracking the hardest Sudoku ever seen. And it actually was more intense than all „Die Hard“ movies at once! Chapeau my dear sir!

@SageOfLegaia 3 года назад

Simon: ""I'm sorry, I seem to have stalled again." Me: "I'm pretty sure, if we're using a car metaphor, that I crashed into the ditch with a smoking engine 20 minutes ago, so I think you're fine."

@brendabalzan1994 3 года назад

Me: also adding the fact 1 min for simon is 5-20 minutes for myself.

@exgreg 3 года назад

If we're using a car metaphor, my car still hasn't moved from its starting position.

@philrod1 3 года назад

@@exgreg - I'm too drunk to drive.

@portemanteau3802 3 года назад

@@philrod1 I have no driver licence

@rz2374 3 года назад

@@portemanteau3802 My car blew up before i got the license

@marcellocapone4925 2 года назад

And I have the gall to feel introspectively accomplished when I complete 'easy' level Sudoku puzzles in 15 minutes.

@fart63 2 года назад

Me when I finished the expert level on the sudoku app in 4 minutes: “so yeah I’m kind of a pro 😎”

@gabriellastauffer Год назад

You’re allowed to be proud of that. You accomplished something

@FirstLast-ur6xt Год назад

@@gabriellastauffer he should be ridiculed for taking so long

@tactician6129 Год назад

@@FirstLast-ur6xt bruh you're fun.

@spring.on.neptune Год назад

I mean everyone starts somewhere, right? Youre more than welcome to feel proud at whatever makes you feel accomplished. We’re all different, we all have difficulty limits and we all have specialties and individual talents.

@lil_cap 10 месяцев назад

stumbled upon this totally randomly and am absolutely delighted. I am crap at logic puzzles but I like watching you do them! and the phrase “2 is not the same as 8 - there’s a knowledge bomb for you” made laugh out loud.

@emilycaitlynn2471 10 месяцев назад

i’ve only ever tried sudoku a few times in my life. it’s always been fascinating and i love the challenge of it. watchin this makes me want to start playing it now too!

@fawziekefli2273 2 года назад

Love the way he says "This square can't be an 8 or 9" while blissfully having forgotten that he's already eliminated all the 8's and 9's. 😁

@legal040 2 года назад

relatable

@StianF 2 года назад

Surely that's why he says it can't be 8 or 9?

@mikaeluhl 2 года назад

Sometimes we inconsciously leave clues for ourselves of the future that make a conclusion guaranteed to always be the same. This way we can smartly let ourselves forget something and focus on what matters!

@sebastianthor546 2 года назад

It's interesting how fast the rules of normal sudoku was forgotten. I was looking at that orange square that couldn't be a 5 for a long time.

@sebastian-benedictflore 2 года назад

That's what he means though. He is saying it can't be one of those because he's already got rid of the 8s and 9s therefore it is something else

@drxhunter 2 года назад

What's even impressive is the fact that I was able to watch every second of this. Knowing me and my short attention span I'm very proud of my self.

@matthewedric 2 года назад

Congrats. Now try applying why you were able to keep that attention span irl That will make things a bit more interesting

@solar0wind 2 года назад

I watched it in 1.75x. 1.5 would've been best probably, but 1.0x would've killed me. Someone talking slowly for an hour? Hell no.

@samirahenilaulainen1555 2 года назад

I was trying so hard to think all his moves through after he did them, still couldn't keep up half the time 😆

@Danny-qj1db 2 года назад

as someone with little to no understanding of sudoku, this was (for some reason) very entertaining, because i feel like i understood more than i thought i would! you're doing an amazing job explaining what to do and i'm very grateful for clicking on this video! thank you so much for this, you're a genius!

@CedarHawkins 4 месяца назад

"The answer is 'I do not know'" is now one of my favorite quotes.

@allgreatfictions 3 года назад

My favourite line was, "Like the Montagues and the Capulets, we have to keep the 1 and 2 apart."

@stevedeve2088 2 года назад

I love how he apologises to us for not getting it sooner, as if we could have done any better.

@vincew3005 9 месяцев назад

i doubt youll ever see this but thank you for being so blissfully yourself, ive been feeling really cynical and pessimistic but this reminded me what it means to be human. solving things, nothing but excitement for the way pieces go to together. i recently started doing daily sudoku and that little daily enrichment makes me feel so much nicer. tldr thank you for showing me how good it feels to be alive.

@Gorillamon Год назад

This is so amazing, never thought id watch someone for 50 minutes solving a sudoku. Your voice sounds like a professor in a movie, pretty aesthetically pleasing.

@MatsLindgrenMusic 3 года назад

"I haven't got a Scooby Doo" is now officially my new favorite phrase. xD

@derekfordyce9 3 года назад

Is that cockney rhyming slang?

@kevindawson2228 3 года назад

@@derekfordyce9 yes. Scooby doo= haven’t a clue

@donrated8951 3 года назад

@@derekfordyce9 No it's general UK slang. The true cockney way is ain't got a Danny (La Rue). With cockney slang the rhyme is never said, as in have a butchers, on the dog - butchers hook (look), dog n bone (phone).

@derekfordyce9 3 года назад

@@donrated8951 gotcha

@jammenjammenz4965 3 года назад

It would be nice if we could get through a puzzle without once again having to hear his overused stock phrases - Scooby Doo, knowledge bomb, bobbins, etc. Bring back the Simon of old.

@imogenmangle 2 года назад

This was SUCH a blast. First time viewer - absolutely loved having the puzzle up alongside the video, watching you explain the logic, pausing the video and doing whatever solving I could manage before hitting play again and learning the next logical step. So fun to sometimes pull ahead of your solve, only to then get hit with a massive headache when I get stuck and don't even understand your /explanation/ of the next part! Had so much fun and feel like I learned a lot.

@colindaviddick 2 года назад

I did the same and even with watching the video at times when I got stuck it took me 204 minutes.

@imogenmangle 2 года назад

@@colindaviddick HAHAH I think it took me about that long too!!!

@totallydaniel7 Год назад

Same!

@mnossy11 Год назад

Just came to say that you inspired me to try sudoku again, and now I love it?? I used to find it tedious but your wonder and passion must have rubbed off!

@LeeDee5 2 года назад

What a ride! Your joy for each solved number is contagious thank you.

@clutterbot7279 2 года назад

"that's *extremely* annoying... i think the technical expression is _b o b b i n s_ " - i laughed so hard omg

@zachbarnes2538 2 года назад

I need to write out all my life’s problems and let this man problem solve his way through it. Absolutely brilliant

@MioMyDog 2 года назад

I would pay big money for that!

@Jaddas 2 года назад

My list would be to complicated...

@cantthinkofagoodname42 Год назад

I am genuinely awestruck by the amount of problem solving skills this guy contains inside of him lol

@Carowouine 2 года назад

Quite a old vid but... Tried doing this sudoku on the side, and using this video for tips whenever I was stuck, it was a really great experience! I managed to find some things "before" you and it was so exciting to finish the grid without looking for tips after a certain point! I love how you're amazed by the logic, I was EXACTLY the same as I was doing it! Beautiful puzzle! It was a amazing gaming night with you, thanks!

@iDanteownz 3 года назад

I made this puzzle! It should actually be possible to use the same logic to generate a solvable puzzle with no given digits. You still need something to break the x -> 10 - x symmetry that nonconsecutive puzzles have, so I was hoping to use a single inequality somewhere on the board to do so. I still think it's possible to do this, but I was unable to construct such a puzzle with a logical solve path. My other puzzles are on LMG: logic-masters.de/Raetselportal/Benutzer/eingestellt.php?name=spxtr

@QWDreaming 3 года назад

Maybe a single greater-than sign from r1c1 to either adjacent cell?

@iDanteownz 3 года назад

@@QWDreaming That's the idea, but the problem is that for this arrangement of cages the 1s and 2s can be swapped. You can see this easily if you look at the finished grid and note that none of the 1s are adjacent to a 3. Thus, the puzzle would have 2 solutions :(

@QWDreaming 3 года назад

@@iDanteownz Ah OK, I see - and I appreciate your frustration! FWIW, a single digit is a very fair price to pay for a devastatingly simple ruleset and a simply stunning puzzle!

@epic8088 3 года назад

I was able to solve this puzzle using pattern recognition. It's similar to Knights constraints, but in C7,8,9 you threw me for a loop because the 9 and the 7 in those columns switched places. Good job if your point was to make me take the bait, lol. If it was unintentional, still good job 👍

@shadowstargate 3 года назад

Can you explain why when he put the purple in the middle box it couldn't be r4c4 or r5c4?

@ER3xW4ha7 2 года назад

“7 gray triple. You don’t hear that very often.” You’re right. You’re absolutely right. Brilliant puzzle tho, nicely done.

@hahahe767 Год назад

ive never been so invested in a video before… puzzle solving with commentary is great!!!

@acerniss 10 месяцев назад

This is such a great video to relax to. I love how he explains his thought process so I we can actually understand what he’s talking about too!

@ARudi-bq6sj 2 года назад

I'm truly impressed that I understood most of this only from basic sudoku knowledge and his explanations

@soop6015 2 года назад

goes to show how good of a puzzle it is. simple to understand hard to figure out

@maximelenfer6280 3 года назад

I'm a 17years old french boy... I don't know why youtube algorithm made me watch this video but I've watch it from start to finish without skipping any part... It's entertaining to be honest! I am going to sub right now ahah!

@wilfgordon7704 3 года назад

i’m a 16 year old english boy and... me too! why is it so fun to watch haha

@queertearss 3 года назад

I'm an Israeli nonbinary person and hearing "I haven't got a Scooby Doo" made me laugh way too hard

@elle3727 2 года назад

i'm sixteen

@hugobressange4051 2 года назад

haha same bro i think the algorythm found me a new hobby

@kurrandor 2 года назад

24 year old german boy here - i don't know why this is recommended to me either but you and me have something in common now - the beauty of the internet man

@Imugi007 10 месяцев назад

This was absolutely incredible to watch. I love sodoku but when it comes to these 5/5 hardness ones I've always been stumped and to watch someone with your intelligence figure it out was very inspiring. Think i might have to start giving the really hard ones another shot.

@butterfly17095 4 месяца назад

This randomly popped up in my recommended videos and I do (easy!) sudoku puzzles sometimes so I thought I would check it out and this was FASCINATING. Even when I do easy sudokus I have to write out all the possibilities but the logic you used about certain squares matching up was so impressive. Subscribed, and now am going to go do an easy or maybe medium sudoku myself!

@Krysstof 3 года назад

21:43 for all of you shouting " THE 9 AT THE BOTTOM " ahhhh the release

@tricia1072012 3 года назад

It was the 9 in box 1 that bothered me, after Simon had put the 8 in then moved on. I genuinely couldn't concentrate for the next 10 minutes until he went back and sorted it.

@ertanyesildas 3 года назад

Same for 56 square at middle bottom . I was gonna be mad

@KiczzciK 3 года назад

Yes, that 5/6 next to the 4. Easy to say when you're not solving though! Great all round, very enjoyable.

@NiennaNeryam 3 года назад

Omg that took too long xD

@coachb1820 3 года назад

How do you rule the 9 out of row 7 C2 in box 7?

@casilquest5046 2 года назад

"keep them apart like the Capulets and the Moniques" this man is beating mind rending puzzles and remembering the tragedy of Romeo and Juliet at the same time.

@Cipher_Paul 2 года назад

I wouldn't even have remembered these names came from Romeo and Juliet if you hadn't mentioned it 😂

@irishandelraad5086 2 года назад

That was lovely! Did not expect to watch the entirety of this video, but I was genuinely so invested. Brilliant!

@PhoebeHB 28 дней назад

I'm 15 minutes in and I'm absolutely hooked. Love doing sudoku but never thought a video of someone completing a seemingly impossible one could be so exciting!

@obligatoryfate6849 2 года назад

When he says “I’ve only got two 7’s out of that” with defeat in his eyes. I was like “son, I’m stuck on one 2!”

@dgyt27 2 года назад

well, it cant get harder than this so this man quite literally beat the final boss of sudoku

@Azaghal1988 2 года назад

I read it as I and was really confused for a moment😂😂

@anonemoose7777 2 года назад

Azaghal1988 my man has the hots for sudoku, don't worry about it.

@gemmiethegemini6808 2 года назад

Add knights rule and adjust cages and he would have became god

@lucasmatsuoca 2 года назад

It can actually become harder than that, i know because i watched some other videos of him solving incredibly confusing sudokus. At least i could understand his thought process here, lmao.

@Hamuel 2 года назад

Oh it can get more difficult

@dessiethenessie2337 2 года назад

hi! i am an intermediate player of sudoku and wanted to try this puzzle, so I gave it a shot. i was unable to completely do it by myself, but when i got stuck i came to this video and watched a little and followed along with you, until i could go back and do it myself again. it was fun to see the tiny things you missed at first, as well as the tiny things i overlooked as well. this was a great puzzle :)))

@popogeejo 3 года назад

I love how much of this puzzle is solved simply with the sudoku logic but not entering any numbers, just a subbed in colour with the respective number an eventual extra deduction. There's something honestly cool about that as a puzzle type.

@iliba 3 года назад

*Is This Sudoku Impossible?* For us mere mortals, yes it is.

@anon0248 Год назад

First time watching a Sudoku puzzle; watched it all the way through. Didn't even realize it was 53 minutes, felt like I was watching a good television show by how entertaining it was. Very impressed! You are a very smart man!

@cdish0008 Год назад

there’s something really enjoyable about watching you solve through that. I loved the energy throughout

@magc_csgo7098 3 года назад

Haven't finished watching yet, but @ 30:30 my girlfriend seriously started to doubt me, when I almost peed myself laughing out loud... All these wonderful phrases: "A grey - seven triple" - "These two squares are both orange, but one of them is also blue." It's as if you're watching a philosofer instead of a sudoku.

@saifalikaredia9109 2 года назад

It took me 2 min to do it. start with '123' on top left and fill 1-9 in first row in sequential order. Then start with 123 in the top middle block and fill that row 1-9 in sequential order. Fill 123 in 3rd row of the top right block and so on fill the entire sudoku board 123456789 789123456 456789123 912345678 678912345 345678912 891234567 567891234 234567891

@Ekkan_Words 2 года назад

@@saifalikaredia9109 so you didn't read the rules of this one, ok.

@saifalikaredia9109 2 года назад

@@Ekkan_Words my bad :P

@edoardobrunomazzitelli717 2 года назад

@@saifalikaredia9109 tried showing off and didn't even read, what a clown

@RenShinomiya121 2 года назад

@@saifalikaredia9109 the rules of the board though. You don't really read that one.

@seanmcdermott2035 3 года назад

"Apologies if you're seeing something simple" Lol - there's nothing simple about this puzzle

@tabularasa0606 3 года назад

Well the 4 in R7C5 was sitting there for at least 20 minutes.

@hunterkillerai 3 года назад

It's beautiful though.

@Taeolas 3 года назад

@@tabularasa0606 The 1 in R7C1 was obvious for a long time as well; but that was only obvious for about 10 minutes (From 42 or 43 minutes onward)

@Fayerty 3 года назад

@45:56 he de-pencils 7 from a box, deducting it to 5 or 6. It was orthogonally placed by a 4, and he left it sitting for an uncomfortably long time lol.

@ZeldaIsMyLove 3 года назад

The 2 9's in R1C1 and R8C4 sat a while.

@asdf123clone6 Год назад

My Sudoku skills have gotten better thanks to you. I love that you talk through your reasoning and logic.

@SimonSays__ Год назад

*Your brain Mr... is out of this world! Thanks for letting me follow you in your thought process in this puzzle. AMAZING!!*

@lynnmatsui 2 года назад

What I thought was interesting is that when I started watching I thought the dotted line cages and the rule that orthogonally adjacent cells couldn't have consecutive digits were things that would make the puzzle more difficult to solve, but as the video went on it became clear that those rules were in place to help figure out the solution by narrowing down the possibilities. Really clever!

@hhaavvvvii 2 года назад

Every restriction like that makes it easier to solve.

@andresv.8880 2 года назад

Just like having restrictions in real life often help creative projects come to life, by limiting where it minds roam.

@ashleecadell9955 2 года назад

another way of looking at that, though, is that without those rules there would be many possible solutions - the brilliance of this puzzle is that those rules, along with the placement of the cages and a single digit allows for one and only one correct solution .. the creation of the puzzle in itself is way more genius than the solving of it ..... I would love to see a video on how things like this are created, i can't even begin to imagine how you go about that .....

@OldBenKenobi2318 2 года назад

Wouldn’t the puzzle be impossible if there were only normal sudoku rules in play?

@andresv.8880 2 года назад

@@OldBenKenobi2318 yes

@Anyxe. 2 года назад

I don't know what caused this to be in my recommended but I am not disappointed. My grandpa and I used to do sudoku together. I can only do fairly easy puzzles. I clicked on this because I couldn't process how a single number could solve a puzzle and I'm glad I did.

@To0chilled 3 месяца назад

holy moly i started the video then got amazed by ur start of the puzzle. started myself and 5 hrs and several breaks later i finally got it! what a feeling and what a lovely puzzle!

@13shoshana 9 месяцев назад

little late to the party but I just wanted to say how delightful it was listening to you go through the puzzle! You explain your thought process really well and really helped me understand how to go through this incredibly cool but difficult puzzle! Amazing