This is the kind of thing we have specific words for in Romance languages: "esse dígito teria que já ter sido um 4" -- it gets unwieldy in Germanic grammar with so many composite verb forms! (Of course, memorizing the verb tables of Romance languages are a small nightmare for non-native speakers...)
Cute rule set. Can someone please make a follow-up about a flea escaping a church via r1c9, so Simon can sing "that's Flea in the corner, that's Flea in the top-right, losing its religion". Many thanks in advance.
"If Phistomphel told you to jump off a cliff, would you do it?" "If Phistomophel did, it would be a 4 dimensional cliff where gravity is a lie every third second."
I buzzed right through it. IcyFruit is a gnatural Sudoku setter. The main issue I have that it's bugging me that I can not come up with more silly puns on the fly.
This was a great puzzle. I only discovered CtC about 2 weeks ago, and have been having great fun watching along and trying to solve puzzles, and seeing Simon's logic play out far better than mine. This was probably the first time I managed to just pause the video after the intro and rules, and get through the whole thing on my own!
CTC is now how I find all my new puzzles. I open the video, pause immediately, and try the puzzle. If I get stuck, I unpause and wait for Simon to show me something I missed, or where i messed up.
Rules: 03:54 Let's Get Cracking: 06:04 What about this video's Top Tier Simarkisms?! Maverick: 2x (38:46, 38:46) Phistomefel: 2x (00:31, 01:07) And how about this video's Simarkisms?! By Sudoku: 8x (20:44, 22:06, 35:53, 42:15, 50:48, 51:26, 55:10) Ah: 8x (09:43, 32:41, 36:17, 36:52, 37:26, 40:09, 47:40, 52:46) Sorry: 7x (07:27, 07:45, 26:42, 32:14, 35:06, 44:48, 51:02) Hang On: 7x (12:46, 16:51, 18:41, 36:58, 47:20, 47:59, 48:16) Brilliant: 6x (00:47, 02:44, 21:22, 57:12, 57:15, 57:25) Pencil Mark/mark: 6x (15:49, 27:47, 27:51, 34:46, 36:26, 38:01) Beautiful: 4x (01:18, 31:12, 35:34, 55:22) Incredible: 4x (00:36, 00:39, 00:39, 03:33) Weird: 4x (12:46, 40:09, 40:14, 52:50) The Answer is: 3x (30:14, 35:43, 36:09) Obviously: 3x (15:40, 23:25, 34:21) Good Grief: 2x (21:20, 49:51) Clever: 2x (32:48, 32:53) Surely: 2x (06:26, 47:42) Stunning: 2x (03:40, 03:40) In Fact: 2x (51:21, 56:19) What Does This Mean?: 2x (28:38, 30:33) Cake!: 2x (02:46, 03:12) Useless: 1x (45:28) Nonsense: 1x (11:17) Stuck: 1x (43:52) Lovely: 1x (35:36) First Digit: 1x (12:46) Going Mad: 1x (13:03) Discombobulating: 1x (47:37) Of All Things: 1x (20:44) I've Got It!: 1x (35:26) Wow: 1x (01:09) Most popular number(>9), digit and colour this video: Thirty Six, Forty Eight (6 mentions) Four (94 mentions) Black (18 mentions) Antithesis Battles: High (2) - Low (2) Even (45) - Odd (28) Black (18) - White (9) Row (14) - Column (7) 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!
I don't quite understand how the 1:2 kropki in c9 got sorted out at 36:20. Couldn't it have the 2 below the 1? What am I missing? Edit: Nevermind. Saw another comment asking the same question. I too overlooked the no fly zone on the kropki itself.
The internal turmoil of Simon's brain n his self quarrelling "oh thats not right...oh i m wrong...no i m right...no i m not sure....no i m wrong....no! I m right" is so hilarious Thats what we all love seeing here in addition to the incredible solving
What a fun idea. I was stumped for a bit in box 5, where it seemed possible for the fly to hit a 2 from the east and get sent north. It was only the fact that it seemed a bit too easy and unsatisfying that kept me looking to try to disprove it. From the start I was fairly sure that the dots in boxes 4 and 7 were strategically placed to route the fly through them, so I focused on them, and that broke the deadlock. It was amazing how one deduction resolved all of the evens in the puzzle without reference to the fly. I then had to plot the path, trusting that I'd not made a mistake. I was thwarted at the end by Sven's software. I had mistyped 1 in a cell, realised my mistake, reselected the cell and typed 2. Unfortunately Sven had interpreted the click as a double-click, which selected all the 1s I'd previously entered, resulting in them all being changed to 2s. I didn't notice, so by the end I had loads of 2s where they had no business being. I wish there was an option to disable double-clicking, and just leave the multi-select enabled for long-clicks. This is a constant problem for me, and drives me up the wall. Usually I notice, but I've had several solves ruined by it. The unintended double-clicks have also affected both Simon and Mark's solves, so it's not just my PC that's at fault.
I had to come back to the video for a help a couple times, but managed to make most of the leaps myself. What a wonderful puzzle! Glad it got the spotlight. Great work as always IcyFruit!
@@alvoi4379 I'm not sure if links will come through in comments, but the video titles are "The Sick Boi, in Sudoku Form" (Mark's solve), "A Sudoku For Your Mental Health (feat. Ren) : RULES CORRECTED" (Simon's solve) and a bonus video "Hi Ren by Ren: Puzzle Man Reacts" which is Simon reacting to one of Ren's videos.
This was amusing and entertaining to me - I had the thought while you were solving, Simon, that it should have been a wasp, and you should have been solving with your window open so that an appropriate visitor could come by. Or, it should have been Maverick making his way across the grid. Also, that as the fly departed it should have passed through a three in the corner so that there could have been some celebratory confetti! But from the puzzle point of view, I thought that this was an amazing idea and very nicely executed. The puzzle is probably a bit too hard for me to do comfortably, but I certainly did enjoy your solve. Thank you (and thanks for the stream, which I watched first, and then came back to watch yours and Mark's videos)!
For a moment when I saw the title I thought it was going to be the third puzzle Phistomefel has published recently. Hopefully that one appears on the channel also.
I finished in 198 minutes. This was a fantastic puzzle, but it kicked my butt the entire time. It broke my brain trying to figure out the pathway. I kept mixing up my cardinal directions based on which direction I was coming from. I messed up the cell in r7c3 so many times, before I realized I was looking at it from the wrong direction and finally corrected it. This was so hard to visualize. I did enjoy the puzzle. It was a cute theme. Great Puzzle!
As it turns out, you can get the path wrong, and still solve this puzzle. I confused directions (because of working both backwards and forwards) and drew my path incorrectly, but using all the right digits. I didn't catch it until after I finished, when I went back to finish watching Simon.
What a nice puzzle, the "may have crossed its own path" bit got a chuckle out of it, once I figured out box 3 and 4, and the 8 in Box 6 was a bit odd, but nevertheless a very entertaining solve. I did it in 108 minutes.
It's fascinating how the human brain works. Normally when I watch you solving sudokus Im astoned how fast your pattern recognition works but in this solve it was different. For me it was nearly painful to see how hard it was for you to combine the coloring and the kropki logic. Thx for showing us another masterpiece of sudoku setting!
At 24 minutes (and earlier) you could have coloured, pencilmarked and even filled in digits on the row 9 logic you used to conclude where 4 is. We’ll see how you circumvent going that route ;)
if the fly heads east from the bottom right cell then, as per the rules, "it always went... east from a 4" then r9c9 must be a 4 for the fly to be heading east from it a sequence of three different black kropki cells must be either 1-2-4 or 2-4-8 and yet now it cannot contain a 4, so it's impossible which it obviously isn't so we can chalk this up to another puzzle that I can't even comprehend and now I can't even skip to the solve without being hit with more ads, I know you gotta fund the channel but YT, omg, let me watch more than one second of the video please
I spent hours doing this in a very arduous way, and made a very simple mistake, even though I was so close (I'd even drawn out the correct path once, but then forgot it and made a wrong deduction, that stopped me seeing it). I guess this is a good learning moment to not spend hours marking up the grid.
This was a struggle for me. I caught on quick at the beginning. However, I committed to an incorrect flight path. It actually solved the puzzle as a "traditional" board. But, it botched one of the white dots. I didn't consider marking "odd/evens". I'm curious how you came to assuming that use of logic so quickly. In any case, I've learned a lot from this puzzle! Thanks Simon and PHistomefel!
This is it! This is going to finally be the first time I actually try a Phistomofel puzzle all by myself. 2 hours later: HOW DO YOU EVEN GET STARTED HERE???
that was fun! although i kept wishing the fly travel matched up with the number pad so i didn't have to quintuple-check the rules (i.e. NESW = 2486 rather than 2468 as it was in the puzzle)
I ran into an annoying snag right at the start, because I assumed that the bottom right number had to be a 4, because the fly flew east from that cell out of the grid.
Of course you obey!!! My God, my god, look not so fierce on me! Adders and serpents, let me breathe a while! Ugly hell, gape not! come not, Culifer! I’ll burn my books! - Ah, Phistomephel!
I love that you try to help out people with colourblindness, but can we pleeeeease not use purple lines on blue squares because my eyes cant handle the fly path disappearing into even digits 😅 Edit: never mind Simon realised at 30:00, almost like he read my mind 😅😅😅
"I see fruit is just wonderful" - Simon 2024 You are not nearly as entertaining as the fly that is traversing my sudoku grid" - Simon 2024 I think he has lost it XD
i tried and made it about 1/3 of the way. then i got lost in all the directions. The rules were to hard to translate into my brain without making an error.
51m19s. Wow! Near the very end, I thought to myself "well, the fly could take this simple route, or maybe it could take this very complicated one. I bet I'm going to go down a long rabbit hole and prove the complicated route is impossible", and then immediately showed the simple route was impossible. Great!!
I can't help thinking that Simon somehow makes a few logical errors but still gets the solve. Like the logic behind why the fly HAS to come from the 8 to the 6 in boxes 9 and 8 respectively. At that point of deduction there is no proof saying that it CAN'T go from the 4 in box 7. Am i missing something there or it actually was a coincidence he actually got the later flow lgic right?
He went through every option for a 4 from 29:30 (until 31:40), disproving each. Couldn't have come from a 4 in r7c3 since there couldn't be a 2 below it or a 6 above it. Couldn't have come from a 4 in r7c2 because it couldn't come from above through the kropki dot. Couldn't have come from a 4 in r7c1 because there would have had to be a 2 to its right, sending it north before reaching the 6. So it had to come from an 8 in box 9.
Not sure that Simon's start was sound however. R8C9 could have been a 1 coming down from a 6 in R7C9 putting a 2 in R8C8 and 4 in R9C8. Not saying his solution is not correct. Just that the start logic was a bit dicey
It's funny when you say "kropki dot" because the word "kropki" can be translated from Polish to dots(plural noun). literally "kropki dot" means dots dot. You can say: "kropka", it is a singular noun in Polish.
103:13 was my time today. The difficulty for me was I kept seeing the correct path but incorrectly reasoning out that it broke the puzzle and was incorrect. I would run through the same pieces of logic over and over trying to see where I was going wrong and eventually realize I hadn't gone wrong, I was just missing the next step. It was infuriating fun.
The sudoku variant definition of orthogonal is very weird to me. It usually means roughly perpendicular, right-angled, or some generalization of that concept. But in that sense two diagonal lines are orthogonal to each other. So odd terms like, "orthogonally connected" have always rubbed me the wrong way because I don't see how two adjacent cells are perpendicularly/right-angle connected. So when the fly flies in orthogonal lines, I don't see why those couldn't be diagonal if not for the other rules, which most puzzles don't have. I just don't think it's a good word choice.
