Is This The Hardest Sudoku We've Ever Attempted?

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@matthew456turner128 3 года назад

So our brave warrior Simon puts on his super powered spectacles and stares down this puzzle with nothing less than 100 percent determination and says " you've crushed 3 of my testers, but I will be damned if you're going to take down me!!!" So after a bloody battle for well over an hour our hero Simon Anthony stands over a rather colorful but defeated grid and once again claims victory.

@DBCooperSan 3 года назад

I tried it, all I could get is that the 45-cage must contain a 123456789 nonuple

@biankatoth1786 3 года назад

@@jpryan90 same

@matthew456turner128 3 года назад

Shhhhhh thats a secret!!!😆

@catman64k 3 года назад

i also tried, i additional got the 3 black dots limited to 1 & 2 & 4 & 8, and the middle tile must is limited to 2 & 4

@MichaelGreen831 3 года назад

I solved it in 24 minutes. I’m not counting the part where I followed along with Simon for the first 50+ minutes.

@thisisnootnoots 3 года назад

THIS

@charliegrant5061 3 года назад

"I'm sorry I'm not cleverer - It's something I lament all the time but that's the way I was made", says Simon - just after solving a top-difficulty puzzle that stumped three testers. I wonder what percentage of the 349K channel subscribers could solve it at all, no matter faster? Highly complex logic brilliantly (and colourfully) executed.

@blahhblaah74 3 года назад

I absolutely agree. I think I am far from stupid, but got awfully stuck on this one. I don't think I could solve this one in a day, while he did it in less than an hour (if you subtract all explanation time). Wow.

@theskyisteal8346 2 года назад

It took me almost three hours even with this video to help me get unstuck or to find my errors (both of which happened rather often.

@Gideons1255 2 года назад

100% have no doubt in my mind that i would very... very easily have no priblem at all saying that i.... would never solve this let alone in a hr and a half i love these videos its pretty extaordinary that people can solve and comd up with thwse i enjoy watching but know very well this will be above my level always lol

@alicecold 2 года назад

Impostor syndrome personified

@Dragonatrix 2 года назад

Honestly, I feel like this was *designed* to be solved by Simon specifically. The way he uses coloration to differentiate square options is so unique to him, and that being a core part of the solution path is so specific that I can't see any other way of doing it.

@MichaelGreen831 3 года назад

Simon apologizes for such a long video and yet I've been enjoying the solve for the entire time. Please Simon - be as nice to yourself as you are to everyone else. We love your solves.

@StIdes-wb3ir 3 года назад

be nice to yourself; love thysolve

@Varksterable 3 года назад

@@StIdes-wb3ir That is at the same time the best and worst pun I've heard in ages. And by 'best' I mean 'worst'. And by 'wurst' I mean sausage. Which (no pun intended) means R3C6 is either purple or a 1-2 pair. With BBQ sauce and onions. So by sukofu is vegan and must be green, forcing the 8 in box 5 to feel a bit confused about what to serve box 6. 🤯

@StIdes-wb3ir 3 года назад

@@Varksterable I'll take three orders of your finest whatever-that-is

@Varksterable 3 года назад

@@StIdes-wb3ir You want 3 orders? Hmmm. That rules out the 4 in box 5, then. And since the snake can't touch itself orthogonally, (naughty snake) the skyscraper clue in column 2 is either (by kropki) a 3, 4, or 4 (again; best not to rule that out), or has a parity of orange. But this means... the end of the thermo in the 27 cage has to make a 5,6,8 triple next to the green star. And has to extend down. Which (by sudoku) means I've quite possibly been watching this channel too much this last year, and that leaving it playing while I'm asleep might not be the best thing to do. But though you can lead a horse to water, you can't make it count sheep. Totaling 45. (OMG that means the domino in box 6 must be a naked 5, green pair!!)

@paulconway2963 3 года назад

No need to apologise at all Simon - great therapy for the rest of us - I suddenly don't feel stupid taking forever doing hard suduko! +1 subscriber :)

@cloudy9592 3 года назад

Every time he says "Kropki dots" I just smile because Kropki means Dots in Polish :D Greetings from Poland /)

@madeking4 3 года назад

Im just imagining somebody from a different country listening to this video, hearing Kropki dots and putting dots on the end in their language so it becomes Dots Dots Dots

@geli95us 3 года назад

@@madeking4 I mean, if they are watching this video doesn't that mean they know what "dots" mean and as such they wouldn't need to add it in their language as well? anyway, here you go: puntos kropki dots

@MichaChaniewski 3 года назад

Funny thing, I’m Polish too - but at this point I’m practically bilingual. So when I’m listening to Simon’s narrative in English, I’m so switched into this language, that “Kropki” becomes just a proper noun and I no longer associate it with the Polish dots. Brain is a weird lump of jello.

@aune1674 3 года назад

@@MichaChaniewski oh same! i didnt realize he said kropki until i read comments

@gamingimpossibl 3 года назад

@@geli95us I’ll join too! Puntos kropki dots dots!

@peateargryfin844 3 года назад

"I don't want to say anything too soon, but I feel like we're making excellent progress" *still 40 minutes of the video left* Yeah, that's about right.

@huh968 3 года назад

how are the two mutually exclusive

@emilyd8884 2 года назад

I'm deadddd

@bryanstatz8227 3 года назад

First thing I do when opening the video is check the length. Today an audible "yessssss." Let's gooo!

@57thorns 3 года назад

More like: I had a few days I could solve the puzzles. Today, popcorn and tea.

@Daximotos1 3 года назад

100% exactly right

@malcolmjohnson4414 3 года назад

I'm sure I have seen this comment on another site but it wasn't one about puzzles 😁

@truscottlee5554 3 года назад

Totally agree ... Biggest smile of the day 😂

@chris5619 3 года назад

I like the long videos for the entertainment/admiration and the short videos to try the puzzle. I wonder if they track how many people open each puzzle. I'm sure it's correlated to the length of the video.

@Keldorn01 3 года назад

The nice thing about movie-length CTC videos is that when they come out, I can give myself an hour trying to spot the break-in, getting absolutely nowhere at all, and then I watch Simon's solve in admiration, and then the video finishes just in time for me to catch Mark's video right after. A perfect evening with perfect timing :D

@longwaytotipperary 3 года назад

So a while ago I found this site after trying to understand x wings. And somehow I come back almost everyday and watch the whole thing when most of the time I have no idea what he's even talking about. He starts off with NO numbers and lots of crazy limitations! This guy is just A-MAZE -ING!! And his voice is soothing. I sometimes listen when I can't get to sleep. :-)

@savola3129 3 года назад

Wow! CTC is coming close to rivaling the Marvel Universe for number of movie releases....I think CTC Universe has better movie titles.

@timdorr 3 года назад

CTCCU

@timdorr 3 года назад

Make sure you stick around after the credits.

@andrewgrant6516 3 года назад

Halfway through Simon's greatest solve, Mark snaps his fingers and half the numbers disappear. He is inevitable.

@emilioherrera6345 3 года назад

You know a puzzle has fried Simon when he calls pairs "duos"

@ocaly 3 года назад

this one took me 4 hours to solve but definitely worth it cause this puzzle is the hardest one Ive solved ever. The logic is bea ti ful!

@ocaly 3 года назад

Its good that this puzzle is getting the attention it deserves because when I solved it only 7-8 people solved it and like 1-2 comments? Its a quality puzzle. Never expected simon to ~solve~ and upload this to the channel but im happy he did.

@guilded0n3 3 года назад

I wonder if the lady who failed to know the secret is getting upset about being mentioned over and over in here yet.

@teyink 3 года назад

I think it is safe to say that she doesn't follow the channel or she would have known the secret.

@MichaelGreen831 3 года назад

@@teyink It's reasonable to assume she's heard about the channel by now.

@chris5619 3 года назад

@@teyink The show that aired this week was actually a re-run. The original airing was in 2019.

@Varksterable 3 года назад

@@chris5619 Back then, the digits 1-9 didn't even exist. Fact.

@RicardoRibeiro1978 3 года назад

@@Varksterable we only had roman numerals. fact.

@Jablicek 3 года назад

If setters keep creating puzzles of this magnitude you'll have to start waking up a day early to get them done.

@gms8994 3 года назад

Black Red Purple Triple would be a fun band name.

@TomOrsman 3 года назад

I think you’ve said in the past that your testers are anonymous to the viewers, but I’d be really interested to know if they would answer questions about this puzzle. It would be very interesting to know if they were all stumped at the same point, or if this puzzle ground them to a halt at different points. I’m not sure which implies the puzzle is harder actually, that all 3 testers fell at the same hurdle, and therefore three brains couldn’t overcome the same choke point in the puzzle, or that the puzzle had enough challenge that it stopped all three in different places.

@melaniemoul 3 года назад

Watched a the first bit of this with my 2 1/2 year old who now thinks “sudoku” is the funniest word of all time. I’ll convert him someday! He can already count to 10, so he’s on his way 🤗

@chrisfitch972 3 года назад

He only needs to count to 9 though!

@NijiRanger 3 года назад

I hope you will teach him to count only to 9. After all, there's no such thing as a 10 😉

@Andrewkosche 3 года назад

No guys he needs to know how to count to 10 for killer sudoku! But anything above 405 is completely ridiculous!

@ohnoagain2953 2 года назад

405? Well for the beginning 45 would be enough i whink xD you're right tho, just one step further

@Andrewkosche 2 года назад

@@ohnoagain2953 405 is the sum of all digits, so in killer sudoku it can become relevant if there are digits not in boxes

@al129 3 года назад

Come home from work, sit down to watch CTC before having something to eat, sees almost 90 minutes video, decides gets food first and watch whilst eating

@longwaytotipperary 3 года назад

ditto

@CubicPhantom 3 года назад

This one was monstrous to do on my own - 7 restarts across 4.5 hours. It really hit home just how astounding your solve is: stellar work!

@JohnSmith-il3iv 3 года назад

I love the long hard puzzles. They bring me such joy. Please keep up the good work.

@lDanielHolm 3 года назад

I actually solved it! It took me, like, two and a half hours... but I got there in the end! I ended up coloring absolutely _everything_ but it worked! I did have to go for some help from Simon, but I solved it after having watched only half the video, and if you check where he is at that point, I think that's still a bit of an achievement. :) I think the key was noticing how the constraints let you map the cells from box 5 out to a few places in the surrounding boxes, which let me do the coloring. EDIT: Bloody... Aaand Simon just proved my solution wrong at 1:14:02. Dammit.

@taakotuesday 3 года назад

at least you tried it! I saw the video length and said No, i'd like to go to bed at a reasonable time

@lDanielHolm 3 года назад

@@taakotuesday Haha. I was up way too late trying to solve it. It was so much fun, though!

@btestware 3 года назад

Me too. That's the exact moment Simon proved me wrong. It was the 4 on the diagonal. It solved the puzzle perfectly, but now that I look at it I see the 9's in boxes 1 and 2 are in a knight's move conflict.

@lDanielHolm 3 года назад

@@btestware Yeah, that's the exact same issue with mine.

@reubenmckay 3 года назад

That looked brutal. Can't wait for the day we get Simon completing a 2hr solve on the channel.

@wayneonm.i.fl.6639 3 года назад

In a pre-emptive strike, Simon invokes the Sinatra Rule!

@margaretsinclair6697 3 года назад

If weirdity wasn’t a word before, it is now! And Simon is higher up on my pedestal. Wow. What a puzzle.

@YayMiko 3 года назад

Meanwhile, I’m over here struggling with my “light and easy sudokus for beginners” book

@Sujisan4 3 года назад

My favorite part of the day.

@Rangsk 3 года назад

Such a fun Knight's coloring puzzle, with a wonderful SET break-in! If you are looking for more Knight's Move coloring puzzles with impressive break-ins, I definitely recommend "Coloring in for Gifted Adults" by Trevor Tao! You can find it in the discord archive or on my channel :)

@laurenstephens1945 3 года назад

I don’t know why I enjoyed this one so very much - likely because I went the coloring route the whole way through! Wonderfully fun puzzle!

@f0ssig 3 года назад

"This is true blue" "This is false blue"

@jaelikesjackalopes 3 года назад

As soon as we have a black/purple pair and a 4/5 pair in the same square, we know purple is 5 bc we know black is 4.

@taakotuesday 3 года назад

was looking if someone else noticed this. Simon's always a little strained near the end, so I'm bot surprised he missed it

@megansanguedolce7852 2 года назад

yes i noticed the same thing and i was like “no it can’t be 4!!!!” when he was doing the diagonal 32 in the 7th square of the 2nd bolted box

@lindseystrickland9305 Год назад

Just wondering why that black/purple square that is a 4/5 couldn’t be a 4/5/7/9 square we’re purple is 7 or 9? Or am I missing something?

@JesteR00160016 Год назад

yeah noticed that too, but I thought that this might be an incorrect statement, to say if there are 2 candidates in the cell and one of them is black, and we know that black = 4, then the remaining candidate is 5, is it true to say that purple is 5?? there is a slight feeling that this logic may be erroneous

@JesteR00160016 Год назад

i mean i used it in my solve, but when I looked at Simon's solution, I began to doubt. if the cell would still be 4, can we say that purple is 5. maybe i'm just got lucky

@headoftss 3 года назад

What a fantastic puzzle. Brilliance layered upon brilliance. Kudos to Simon for getting there and explaining it in terms I could follow.

@akamiss99 2 года назад

I just love watching Simon’s brain at work, it’s pure genius the way he unravels the puzzle. Great solve Simon! You must be mentally exhausted after this one.

@markp7262 3 года назад

58:29 finish. Saw the Aad squares right away, which allowed me to fly through the opening salvo. I slowed down in the middle, and wound up color coding everything for simplicity. Quite an enjoyable puzzle!

@flsal27 3 года назад

We are going to need to update the criteria for a CTC movie: over 1h or over 1h15. Directors cut coming soon, ie 2h CTC movie.

@karissajohnson7961 3 года назад

then we need RELEASE THE (THOMAS) SNYDER CUT and it's 4 hours

@booxmowo2684 3 года назад

Release the 4 hour CTC Snyder Cut.

@4341015 3 года назад

Adding my stops to think along, it gets to 2h easily.

@raineca 3 года назад

I know what I am doing after work, with a 1 hour and 20 minute video on the horizon!! Break out the popcorn!!

@joaoricardo9174 3 года назад

One quicker path to rule out the 8 in R6C4 is to use geometry to figure out that 2x R6C4 is equal to the sum of R1C5, R1C6, R4C9, R5C9 (the 'top' and 'right' kropki dots). You can't make two black kropki dots add to 16, so it cannot be an 8. To me, the arrows and shape of the box are very suggestive that geometry would be useful

@ludovicoleporeo2407 3 года назад

Good catch! Since it took me a good ten minutes to understand, I'll write down the steps for people as dumb as me, but lazier. We look at the cross composed by rows 4,5 and columns 5,6: it adds up to 4x45-R6C4-R4C6. But the left, center and down boxes are 45-R6C4; add to that 45-R4C6 (the cage, except the element we've already counted in the center box) and the two dots. So we have the equation 4x45-R6C4-R4C6=3x(45-R6C4)+45-R4C6+dots, that we simplify to 2xR6C4=dots. (Well, this is how I've seen it. Maybe there's an even simpler way?)

@Jim_Fries 3 года назад

I absolutely love watching these kinds of puzzles solved, when there are 3+ rulesets.

@strakk 2 года назад

47:45 that 4 deduction is magical

@ThatLazyyGuy 3 года назад

47:25 was absolutely fascinating to me

@boaconstrictor3754 3 года назад

There are some of your videos that are twice as short, but are hard to watch. Watching this one was a pure pleasure for me, a big like.

@NijiRanger 3 года назад

Clearly a new all time favourite. Amazing. Such clever and unexpected logic throughout. What really did it for me was the end. I did it a bit differently, where i filled in all the colours before touching the little killers. So i had about half the digits, and then had to consider both killers, think about parity, and see what colours were repeated across them both. Possibly the best use of disambiguating little killers i've ever seen. A beautiful finale to such a wonderful puzzle.

@WhoStoleMyAlias 3 года назад

Wow! This was crazy difficult. Totally flunked it on the first attempt where I figured the arrows should add to 8 based on the thought that they couldn't all contain the same digits. On the second run I managed to get the whole grid coloured before even attempting to figure out the math on the little killers and I got the 8 from evaluating odd/even.

@davidstorrs 2 года назад

Simon, give yourself credit! You're saying "oh, I'm not clever enough" after doing a stupid hard puzzle! Well done, man. This one was satisfying for me because I actually got it. I mostly went along with you, sometimes jumping ahead, getting stuck, and then going back to the video for some help. Once you started coloring the 5789 squares I was able to go ahead on my own. Of course, I was a lot less efficient about it -- you did some of them, then went to the diagonals and finished everything. I colored every single square (using a silver flash to mean "maybe none of 5789"), unwound everything until I had locked down the 5789 squares, THEN went to the diagonals and sorted it out. Much less efficient than your solution but I did get it on my own. Thank you for all the lessons you've given me; I've really improved as a solver since watching this channel.

@Treasier 3 года назад

This was prolly hardest sudoku I have ever done. Took me 2,5 hours and so much thinking and failing in logic. Already few times I thought I cracked it and then I had to come back. Almost gave up few times. Logic needed was just brutal. I'm fairly sure there is only one way to solve this because I solved it in exact same order than Simon (few deductions were in different order but all the larger logic in same order). Still enjoyed my time very much! Thanks for the great puzzle Miky.

@Michal_Sobierajski 3 года назад

WOW! It's over three years of CTC. Keep going and good luck 🤞🏻

@Jodawo 3 года назад

There was a technique that was featured on the channel before. It was a technique built upon Phistomefel's Sudoku logic by someone else. If you look at the 5x5 square in the top right corner and compare it to the 4x4 square in the bottom left corner, you can see that the 5x5 is actually the same as the 4x4 minus a set of digits one to nine. If you take out box 3 and box 7 you will notice the killer cage has the 45 extra that if taken it out of the 5x5 it will be exactly the same as what is left from the 4x4. I was very surprised Simon didn't catch that. From that point, it would be clear that you would be working with 6 and not 8 since the Kropki Dots would make it difficult for the numbers that make up 8 to be on them. If you notice on the Kropki Dots there is 1, 2, 3, and 6. The other 1, 2, and 3 are in box 5 on the arrow (that is part of the 5x5 square).

@krytolandros1775 3 года назад

That's a great way to open the puzzle! Nice catch.

@TheSplunger 2 года назад

This is how I ended up starting it. Boils down to (both kropki) = 2x (the circle). Then kropki sum to divisible by 3, so circle is 69, and 9 won't work .

@TheLetterJ0 3 года назад

I found it easier to disambiguate the 6/8 with math. Thanks to The Secret, we know that boxes 2, 5, and 6, minus the killer cage, add up to 90. Then if there is an 8 in the circle, the parts of its row and column that aren't on the arrows (and thus are in boxes 2, 5, and 6) each add up to 45-8-8=29. Subtracting the 8 in the circle, the arrow in box 5 that adds up to 8, and those two 29s from 90 leaves us with 16 for the Kropki dots. And we know that the dots are 1, 2, 4, and 8, which adds up to 15, so that doesn't work. And of course putting a 6 in the circle does work because you instead have 90-33-33-6-6=12, which is perfect for putting 1, 2, 3, and 6 into the dots.

@jovaji72 3 года назад

OMG ! Gonna need lots of popcorn, today

@davidrattner9 3 года назад

Make it with extra 🧈 and 🧂:-)

@ryfors 2 года назад

I really like how everything about this puzzle was difficult, it wasn't just the break-in or the finish - every part of the solve had intricacies. It was also wonderful how you had to reuse the same clue for different parts of the solve. Wonderful setting.

@stevenbeichner9630 Месяц назад

It took me 3 watches and a lot of rewinding to follow along. It’s not because you weren’t good at explaining, but because this logic was so hard for me. Absolutely wonderful puzzle and explanations through the solve

@dolf370 3 года назад

A little while ago I thought I would never be able to create a sudoku, two days ago I did create my first sudoku and happy as a lark I am now working on creating my second one. And then I see this. Not happy anymore. The ability to create something like this seems so far beyond conceivable that I seriously consider crawling back into my coffin and asking my altruistic neighbor to dutifully nail the lid shut with silver nails.

@susanne5803 3 года назад

I bet the others started like you - only a while longer ago. And congratulations on your first creation! I will start thinking about attempting that in maybe ten years?😁 This here is friendly collective competition! Keep at it: Maybe soon they'll feature one of yours!

@dolf370 3 года назад

@@susanne5803 Well, I'm thinking of submitting it to the channel. Might be appropriate for Mark some day when he's in a hurry and wants a 5 minute quicky.

@susanne5803 3 года назад

@@dolf370 Please do! They always encourage new setters. And some of us - ehm - slower solvers would be very grateful!

@Taruby 3 года назад

Small world. I see a comment from you after stumbling upon your genusdebatten blog earlier this month regarding a comic translator. Had to double check to make sure it wasn't another bloody-toothed vampire by the name of ericcson. Would be a pleasant surprise to stumble upon more familiar names and faces in the Sudoku scene; doesn't feel like anyone in this niche is a bad sort even if their vampire, devil, and totally normal cat avatars may suggest otherwise!

@dolf370 3 года назад

@@susanne5803 I will, but I think they are so swamped with puzzles that it's a small chance they pick it up.

@jeffreytennant 3 года назад

Nice work, Simon. Just one brilliant solve after another!

@sirlilcodyjr9927 3 года назад

So awesome that this was the video my name got mentioned on for the puzzle hunt! Such a fun puzzle hunt and such a fun video!

@Scanlaid 3 года назад

Bravo!! Amazing puzzle, wow. Hope to see more from Miky

@BozoTheBear 3 года назад

This was one of the most enjoyable hard videos to watch on this channel. Many thanks to Miky for the puzzle, and Simon for the solve.

@Arat1t1 3 года назад

Somehow I managed to intuitively find the logic needed to solve this sudoku, but that didn't stop it from taking 55:18 and required me coloring in way too much. Absolute slugger of a puzzle, and thoroughly enjoyable.

@christophstahl8169 3 года назад

36 minutes in Simon deletes the red colouring that was telling him: Red is 2! Took him 6 minutes to get to that 2 again... Trust your colourmarks! Loved the puzzle. Love your solve Simon. Dang, that was a hard one but i tackled it with colours and i came out on top. So yay for the app with multicolouring!

@isavedtheuniverse 2 года назад

Wow, just absolutely wow. One of the most impressive solves. Some puzzles seem to have a trick to spot whereas this one was an epic grind of slowly whittling down choices and limiting cells. Amazing work!!

@thomasburriss405 3 года назад

For anyone curious when Simon thought he broke the 6/8 and didn’t his flawed reasoning was that the three would be forced on a kropki and into the other square which would rule 3 out of both 8 arrows and break the puzzle. But, as he was explaining he said that the 8 rules the three out of the kropki anyway which is true but threw his previous logic out the window and Simon for a loop

@maaleru 3 года назад

12:41 so now it's normal pencil Marks.

@bruhnling33 3 года назад

I used set theory on the opening and it was pretty satisfying but almost underwhelming by how quick it was, after that I got stuck though so yeah. The set theory was the thing with one corner of the grid being equal to the other corner plus one set of digits 1 to 9

@glum_hippo 3 года назад

I was going to bet that Simon would immediately see the application of Aad vdW's trick here. I was wrong! But what a marvelous experience he has provided for us as a result! He basically derived Aad's trick without having to provide an explanation for it.

@mariushutu9131 3 года назад

Hi there! I've been watching videos on this channel for a few days now and it's so captivating that I don't even want to get my work done. It's remarkable the way Simon thinks, and I'm sure he is one of the smartest people on this planet, probably a huge IQ. Looking to get into sudoku as I like these kind of puzzles myself, but nowhere near this type of difficulty. Thanks for the content.

@TaxableLenkoGaming 3 года назад

I wish Simon got his breakthrough using the Phistomefel squares, I think his reaction would have been awesome

@mightworth3735 3 года назад

Quote of the day: "that's probably what the answer is but unfortunately probably what the answer is is not how we do things on Cracking The Cryptic"

@mightworth3735 3 года назад

Or: "I feel like I have run this puzzle like a flannel, as tightly as I can"

@elizabethgrosvenor153 3 года назад

@@mightworth3735 *wrung

@jonbrowne8334 3 года назад

A mystery of total logic! Beyond human understanding! Wow!

@RajPatel-nq8rs 2 года назад

Sometimes you hit a stroke of genius that I can barely keep up with and sometimes you have me pulling my hair out screaming at my phone. Always a good watch!

@robkuijpers9617 3 года назад

12:15 Why is that true? If you have three 6s for example then one of the highlighted cells can be an 8. He rules both 6 and 8 out immediately.

@Kagoolie 2 года назад

I’m wracking my brain trying to work this one out too…though I’ve seen this solved already (so I’m watching a re-run) I’m still trying to work out how the 68 both can’t be candidates in the seen boxes in boxes 2&6! My brain hurts!

@robkuijpers9617 2 года назад

@@Kagoolie Join the club :-) Still don't know. If you have a clue in the future, please share.

@Alskaskan 3 года назад

This was AMAZING! Well done Simon!

@peterhaagen8506 3 года назад

I could not solve it. But when I read all the reactions I really would like to see a new video about how to solve it the easiest way using all the input from the comments. Great video. 👍

@prahas777 3 года назад

The deduction at 8 minutes about R6C4 was gorgeous.

@lizbrooker4635 3 года назад

Terrific set and solve x👏👏

@Dysjoint 3 года назад

Amazing to watch!

@ttbf 2 года назад

Loved watching this with the kids!

@DavidVanmeterDutch 2 года назад

Never tried a sudoku puzzle before but these videos had me want to try. Quite fun puzzles!

@ldamoff 3 года назад

Lovely solve!

@BillLamoreaux 3 года назад

Glad this video was posted on a Friday. I needed a beer after watching the solve, lol.

@corsiKa 3 года назад

"I don't want to speak too soon, but I am getting quite excited" - 40 minutes left in the video... "I'm feeling hopeful again" - 25 minutes left in the video..

@brock2k1 3 года назад

20:22 I kissed her passionately, but I felt that she was holding back. I said, "You're still thinking of Simon, aren't you?" She scoffed, "Simon? He's such a wally."

@jfirth816 3 года назад

Brock Savage, my word. If anyone was ever meant to write bodice rippers, it must be Brock Savage.

@milliams 3 года назад

*wally

@brock2k1 3 года назад

@@milliams Thanks, I know zip about British slang.

@Varksterable 3 года назад

@@brock2k1 On "Simon", since you show an interest... I think you'll find that's Celtic "sluhgn" entomologically related to the Norse "S!hlo÷ng-b'jdrn" which was a small pot to keep herring in while voyaging overseas. This is openly depated academically*. "Wally" however was an Anglo-Saxon term for a serf who performed animated, repeatable duties on an ocean going vessel which travelled to distant planets and have some love interet with another, high-born member of society. * not true.

@Varksterable 3 года назад

@@brock2k1 Oh, and when you say; "I know know zip about" here in the UK; that means we think you know our postcodes and where they are located. "I don't know zip" means you know nothing to us. "I _couldn't_ care less" means it's something you don't care about. "I _could_ carless" means you do care at least a bit.

@dudbike 3 года назад

Great puzzle and solve!

@stevendavid5370 3 года назад

WoW Simon!! Kudos What a monster puzzle.

@stevieinselby 3 года назад

That was brutal ... I'm glad I didn't waste any time getting nowhere with it! Just in awe of the way you can see patterns and know to look for to rule things in and out. You don't need to be any cleverererer!

@HalfBakedLunatic 2 года назад

Ok. Watched the whole thing. Now my head hurts! What a brutally difficult puzzle!

@oldmomj5088 2 года назад

This was amazing!

@milliams 3 года назад

What a beautifully intricate opening

@KittSpiken 2 года назад

That's one crazy quilt you've stitched together.

@navyblue32 2 года назад

I don’t understand any of this but it’s incredibly interesting and very good background noise for drawing :)

@isaacfawver1479 2 года назад

Just stumbled on your page and my brain hurts but I’m so invested

@achad1607 3 года назад

I did it! I did it! This is the hardest puzzle I ever solved! I never resolved the 6-8 until I placed a 1 in r5c6. My solution path was roughly, eliminate 48 from the kropki dot in box 6. Place the 2 in r7c7. Set the kropki dot in box 3 as 36, [eliminating the 36 for the kropki dot in box 2.] Restrict the 4 in box 5 to either r6c5 [6-8 resolves to 6] or r5d6 [resolves 6-8 to 8] See that r45 and r8c4 were a 14 double. Then, analyzing where the 1 can be box 3, deducing the kropki dot in box 2 is 1,2, which put a 1 in r5c6, meaning, only now did I know it was 6's, and, not 8's. After that, I didn't figure out the setting of 4's, so took a longer path, but, similar one. On Simon's solve, something helpful is to consider the parity of the 32, and 23 arrows. The repeated digits are always even after doubling. Over ten hours work!

@jmcginty96 3 года назад

This video is like a super long version of those color by number app ads, the difference being I’d rather watch this 10 times than one of those 30 second ads once

@fabia68295860 2 года назад

Does anyone else just love when he brakes out the colours?

@Jukka70 2 года назад

I'm just blown away at what he does. I'm just watching in amazement thinking, how in the world did you just eliminate that number and force that one here, and better yet, how would anyone ever see that and yet he did.

@mjdevorick8404 3 года назад

Great puzzle!

@FelipeRodrigues-vj1zb 2 года назад

I kinda love videos that take 20/30 minutes to put one digit, because Simon is never stumped, he's making brilliant deductions that are absolutely required by the puzzle.

@rankinsean 3 года назад

Yay, read out my name today for solving the hunt. 😀

@Ozymandius1977 Год назад

Simon discovers purple is 5 at 1:11:18 then uses 4's to back into it at 1:13:37. I really enjoy these videos. I am yelling at my TV in the vain attempt that he will hear me. hahahaha

@yoyokid9102 3 года назад

Beautiful!

@jeffersonroth 3 года назад

Brilliant puzzle. Colored all the 5789 possibilities and played a little with the 2 given clues outside the grid, and it worked like a charm. 81:39

@JaharNarishma Год назад

I got stuck at the initial 6 or 8 in the arrow. Thanks for the help, Simon! After that I had a very different solve than Simon.

@danikanskywalker2119 3 года назад

The next time there's a brutal puzzle that your testers can't solve, I think it would be the perfect opportunity to do a live stream solve...Would love to see the community's comments and suggestions in real time Don't get me wrong... I love the long solves. But I'd love to see how quickly we could knock it off together