Thank you for the feature! And belated happy birthday/thanks for the inspiration & help to my granddad (I've never been sure how many Ds to include in that word...)! Really pleased with how this puzzle turned out. It's not always obvious where to look next, but you showcased the solution path very elegantly - in some cases, your deductions worked more smoothly than I'd envisaged, so extra thanks for that 😁
I'm sure there's a joke about being well hung in there somewhere. Curious but irrelevant point: hanged is the recommended past tense of to hang when it refers to execution. @@AllenBaranov
most people: Cage G can't contain a 2-5 pair because both 2 and 5 already appear in row 9 simon: Cage G can't contain 2-5 because it would make r7c8+9 a 3-4 which breaks r7c2
You guys are just on another level. I doubled the time of the video AND needed a bit of help (3 times). I like to feel I am in the smart part of YT when I come here. But you guys are just wow. Touched by an angel on the noggin'. Cheers! Great puzzle!
Yet another surprisingly original puzzle. Such creativity from the constructors, always seeking a new twist. I used to imagine that the scope for variation in sudoku was limited. Now I think the number of possibilities must be a huge exponential one.
Logic Masters ratings have been almost useless for well over a year now. People don’t rate puzzles based on how good they are, but on personal opinions of setters, or on their opinion of style or trends. Also you can get two star puzzles that take a solver like Simon or Mark an hour to solve, which feels like the difficulty ratings are also worthless. Look for setters and comments from people you have come to respect, and ignore the ratings. It’s a real shame the setters difficulty rating is hidden once it’s community rated, because it means their opinion can be overridden.
A corpse from the gallows is dangling. An arrow the thermo is strangling. And a cage that's a killer Makes harder this thriller. So creepy! My nerves are a-jangling!
Nice one . (After a start from Simon til 16:47 ) I falsely assumed there couldn't be a 0 clue with a letter (and made a couple false assumptions on where the 9s couldn't touch the 1s ) and got a conflict with this thinking. That's when I backed up and did some other stuff. Nice one Kudos (I have no idea how yas do these) Excellent 👍🏻😂☕️☕️
Another hard one ... I needed Simon's hint at 12:50 (where is the torso of the hangman in box 8) to continue after I got stuck. Total 175:23 (spread over two evenings), solve counter 3650.
Took me a while cause the starting logic wasn't that obvious to me, but once I got going, really neat puzzle. Ended up with 89 min solve. The thing I had to notice was that column 1 plus 2 cells in row 1 is 3x the blue line sum, so has to be either 16 or 17. For a while I was using the 5 cells in box 1 = 15+ limitation, which isn't tight enough to start the legs working.
At 15:50, the 178 combo won't work in box 7. The easy way to see it is via the 7 atop the hanged man. That 7 forces one of the man's thighs to be a 7, which means one of the legs is a 789. Putting 178 in box 7 makes that leg 569, which disallows the required 789 leg.
Very nice puzzle, I only needed help in the beginning because I didnt see the smaller part of the region sums couldnt be 15, but after that I could finnish without trouble
When Simon said the whichever leg had the 7 had to be an 89 below, I thought it couldn’t be the line side because that would make it impossible because The sets of 178, and 259 would’ve both been canceled out. Glad to see I was right, though as usual he found that out another way that I didn’t see.
Simon, we both finished on the 3 although I didn't realise until putting it in. I love these puzzles, like the monopoly sudoku as well. My time is 01:38:55
I don't understand how he was able to realize on the arrow it had to be a 6 and not a 5 because it had to equal 7... and then immediately forgets it has to total to 7. I don't get it. How?
Because In the column you have 3 sections that add to 45 made up of two sections which are 16 so the section from box 1 must be 13 and the 1/2 is the remainder
@ 19:25 - "Can that be 7? Maybe...that would have to be 9" - No it can't. If you'd done the most obvious sudoku, which is to remove 78 from the cells in box 1, you'd have been left with a 59 pair looking down at the cell you want to make 9. The largest the cell you want to make 7 can be is 5, giving you a 345 triple in box 5, which makes R4C5=2, R5C6=6, R6C7=7, R4C4=7. It really isn't hard if you're prepared to do the most elementary sudoku. @ 24:27 - "The 9 is there, or there" - the second "there" is in a column with a 9. @ 25:17 - "Let me see if we can do anything with that" - finds nothing. There's now 789 looking at a 5789, and you can't see it. Sigh! You didn't even bother to remove 9 from the rest of box 1. @ 41:04 - "If this isn't 9, then we could have 9 over here" - yes, and if you'd removed 2 from R4C2, you'd have seen that you'd have 46 in the sandwich. This means N is either 10 or 12, and R8C8 has to be 1. This means G cannot be 18, so the 9 in R5 is in C9, and G=8. Because of the 2 and 5 in R9 (which of course, you haven't tidied up), the cage must be 134. Placing the 9 in R5 meant that R4C2=9, making N=12, so R8C6=4. It's not surprising that you struggle to see simple logic when you have so much sloppy pencil-marking. @ 46:01 - "You can't have a 25 there because that would make these a 34 pair and that would break this" - what a ludicrously complicated way of working this out. You've got 1, 2, and 5 in R9. How could you possibly put a 25 in R9? @ 51:08 - "So that's got to be green" - Wake up! You've just made green 4, stop putting 34s in the grid. I don't know if you were deliberately using the wrong word to refer to the man, in order to elicit titters from the audience, but the correct term is "hanged man". What you called him would require an extra cell on the thermo in R7C5.
I can't tell if Simon is saying "hung man" instead of "hanged man" because the English language is inconsistent or for the double entendre of it. Either way, I'd expect the thermometer to also include r789c5 for a hung man.
Is it just me or it’s the break in with the blue line sum etc that took me a while and everything else was just kind of straight forward? It took me similar time to Simon but he found the break in early on and then struggled with the rest 😮
Rules: 03:39 Let's Get Cracking: 06:51 Simon's time: 45m23s Puzzle Solved: 52:14 What about this video's Top Tier Simarkisms?! The Secret: 7x (09:24, 09:30, 10:19, 10:19, 10:29, 10:31, 10:55) Three In the Corner: 4x (49:39, 49:44, 51:17, 52:07) Bobbins: 1x (28:27) You Rotten Thing: 1x (33:41) And how about this video's Simarkisms?! Ah: 17x (01:53, 12:18, 12:25, 15:32, 16:35, 16:35, 17:54, 17:54, 24:51, 28:18, 34:52, 34:58, 37:57, 41:36, 42:39, 46:57, 50:40) Lovely: 10x (12:25, 12:25, 13:16, 13:18, 15:36, 23:52, 50:47, 52:27, 52:27, 52:59) Brilliant: 9x (00:20, 01:03, 02:16, 02:53, 05:50, 17:03, 52:15, 53:29, 53:29) Hang On: 8x (20:36, 21:23, 21:23, 21:23, 24:49, 33:25, 42:39, 46:01) In Fact: 6x (03:19, 03:19, 42:44, 47:27, 50:00, 51:13) By Sudoku: 5x (12:41, 41:41, 43:29, 50:25, 51:19) Pencil Mark/mark: 5x (09:00, 13:05, 13:50, 42:46, 50:18) Clever: 3x (48:40, 52:49, 52:52) Progress: 3x (42:18, 43:23, 53:21) Sorry: 2x (30:30, 37:12) Bother: 2x (50:33, 51:35) Beautiful: 2x (52:13, 52:17) Gorgeous: 2x (27:00, 27:02) Corollary: 2x (29:44, 29:50) Obviously: 2x (08:52, 12:02) Naked Single: 1x (25:30) Stuck: 1x (02:24) Elegant: 1x (15:43) Take a Bow: 1x (52:22) Shouting: 1x (03:02) I've Got It!: 1x (34:58) Wow: 1x (18:25) Phone is Going Nuts: 1x (44:01) What Does This Mean?: 1x (35:58) Nature: 1x (12:52) Cake!: 1x (02:54) Symmetry: 1x (08:54) Most popular number(>9), digit and colour this video: Sixteen (10 mentions) Nine (117 mentions) Green (12 mentions) Antithesis Battles: Low (5) - High (0) Even (7) - Odd (0) Higher (3) - Lower (1) Outside (2) - Inside (0) Row (25) - Column (9) 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!
Please turn on the conflict checker. It is very obvious that you cannot look for normal Sudoku things and we should not have to watch you struggle for 10 minutes to find a pencil mark that should be erased
Language is malleable, but "hung" to refer to death by hanging is also an old usage, though not as "hanged" is in current times. The other usage is more recent, I think, and is considered slang and (often) vulgar.
In Norwegian, we would have said "We hanged the man", but "the man hung in the tree" (obviously translated into English). But if it is an active action, we use a weak verb, if it is a passive action (just hanging there), we use a strong verb. Might be that the English difference is a remainder of that (we are both Germanic languages after all).
YOU LOST ME AT , the 6-7~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ why can't one of those be the 5 ???? never explained or did I miss something ??? , thanks ps -----love this stuff
Very clever puzzle - some fairly straightforward deductions, others more tricky. Wish Simon would just do Sudoku and stop moaning about doing it. Fairly sure Mark would NOT Goodliffe the arms - Mark would Goodliffe certain key cells which Simon didn't. As for "hung" - well it's hanged for executions.
Great puzzle, loved the video, but Simon at 47 minutes in you are looking for an opening: 10 minutes (orso) earlier you proved mathematically that row 4’s N-Sum could be either 12 to the left or max 11 to the right. Putting 1 in box 9 at r8c9 gives a minimum of 238=13 so 1 in box 9 is placed in r8c8. Just for your information, because usually if I declare stuff like this that cell being filled brings little to no immediate progress in the rest of the grid. But you had proven that digit to yourself, just not heard the proof in the moment you said it.
I missed the constraint that all letter must be different .................. Lesson learned: Re-read the rules while being stuck for a longer time in the solving process!
Theoretically speaking, could a sudoku be made with the digits -4 to 4 inclusive. All cages / LK etc could sum to zero. And there would be a new secret
I think this is the third day in a row that Simon has refused to tend his pencil marks and still solved the puzzle through a more complicated method, as seen at 38:52. If he just reduced the 259 pencil mark to a 59, he would have immediately had a total of 25 that has to fit in 3 boxes in row 8
I think Simon should start any sudoku sent him with 3itc pencil marks, because that seems to be a RULE for setters/testers to assign him something for a long time.
Brilliant puzzle. It took me quite a long time because of my problem with N. Finally I recognized that I was absolutely wrong with G and so the problem with N disappeared. After that I was lucky with my solution.
Nice puzzle, thanks. Got stuck a bit towards the end because I forgot the sandwich sums couldn't repeat. Always clever I think when a graphical theme is incorporated into a puzzle.
This was an interesting puzzle. I kept trying the sandwich part too early only to realize there were still more deductions to be had just using the thermo and sum-line. Finished in 45 minutes eventually.
It's a good job I'm not really immature otherwise I may have pointed out that it seems appropriate that column 5 rows 6, 7 and 8 ended up being a valid thermo given that as Simon put it that was indeed a "hung man".
