Pretty Little Liars: The Sudoku!

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Today's puzzle is by DiMono and it's called Everything Is Wrogn! A metaphor for these strange times... Play it at the link below:
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Normal sudoku rules apply. However, every clue is lying to you! The thermometer bulb is not where it says it is (but is still on the thermo, and each thermo cannot contain a repeated digit). Killer cages don't sum to the number in the corner. Little killer arrows do not give the sum of cells on their diagonal. X and V clues mean the adjoining cells don't add to 10 or 5 respectively. The palindrome line does not contain a palindrome. Black kropki dots mean neither adjoining cell is half of the other. Maximum cells (in blue) are not greater than all four adjacent cells.; Cells touching “quadruple circles” do not include all digits within the circle (but may include some of them).
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Thermo: Along thermometers, digits must increase from the bulb end.
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@DiMono 3 года назад

This might be my favourite puzzle I've made so far. It's certainly up there. Thank you for featuring it, I look forward to watching you lose your mind for the next 3/4 of an hour. The red herring clues are in the puzzle specifically to prevent the solver from assuming that they're all relevant. Without the red herrings, you could spot a black dot and assume that it must contain 1, 2, 3, 4, 6, or 8, which would allow you to shortcut some logic. If one side was a 7, and you knew all clues were useful, that would remove 5 and 9 from the other side prematurely. With the red herring clues, you cannot make that assumption, because you don't know whether the dot is actually useful. My favourites are the 5 little killer clue, and the 357 quadruple circle near the bottom right that touches none of those digits.

@aubinl 3 года назад

RU-vid really needs laugh reacts. I'm dying. I love the cat and mouse game between setters and Simon. Holy crap.

@Nevir202 3 года назад

That was a wild ride, I’d have had no prayer with it, but it made for a brilliant watch.

@igronus 3 года назад

Man, you've made my day. Hats off!

@JohnJillky 3 года назад

Edit: nvm I got the idea now lol Oh hello. You'll be able to help me out lmao. Correct me if I'm wrong, but the only useful info comes from the thermos, X and V, kropki dots, and maximum cells, right?

@minamagdy4126 3 года назад

@@JohnJillky Actually (as in Simon's solve) there are restrictions on the other types of clues all over many of the solve path branches

@psiphiorg 3 года назад

If I were DiMono, I would use this as my new tagline: "People who think that sudoku is a dry subject don't realize it's full of sex and naked singles and the like, and it's full of wittiness in the hands of people like DiMono."

@mattBLiTZ 3 года назад

Absolutely lost it at "3 IS restricted, by a combination of nonsenses!" Couldn't stop laughing and smiling the whole time, A+ work here by DiMono (and of course Simon for the lovely solve)

@stevieinselby 3 года назад

That 3️⃣ in box 1 was amazing, I genuinely laughed out loud when I found that! (OK, maybe more 'cackled' than 'laughed' but it's close enough 😁)

@elrichthain 3 года назад

I want this on a CTC shirt!

@alexandraritter3542 2 года назад

His absolute joy was so delightful.

@lindaisyoutubing 3 года назад

“Mad as a box of frogs”... I’ve already found myself saying “cooking with gas” at random, non-sudoku related moments.

@LednacekZ 3 года назад

do you happen to own a gas stove?

@lindaisyoutubing 3 года назад

@@LednacekZ lol, I do but I don’t use the phrase literally

@civldoug 3 года назад

My four year old and I were watching the video together, and he cracked up about this one.

@KalOrtPor 3 года назад

It was funny one puzzle last month where it was "Surely we're cooking with something with a tiny trace of accelerant in it"

@darrenbent7601 3 года назад

I use cooking with gas phrase all the time, ... and that was even before I came across Cracking The Cryptic page.

@KnotXaklyRite 3 года назад

“The Kropki dot means it can’t be a 2!” And b/c there’s a two next to it in the box, lol, love blind Simon

@Coldheart322 3 года назад

Always love finding a "am I a joke to you" bit of logic, where Simon goes off on an odd rule to prove something which was otherwise obvious through basic rules.

@minimaltrace 3 года назад

That's what happens when you are so busy with fancy shit and "techniques" that you forget the most basic of things : its a sudoku, look at the digits and solve it like one.

@stevenlomon 3 года назад

@@minimaltrace I think he's so hyperfocused with his attention that he just genuinely doesn't see it haha

@nadines.1107 3 года назад

The 2 was shouting to be seen...

@aesheronanglvd3th309 3 года назад

This puzzle seemed full of redundant clues. He totally missed the first two killer cages would have resolved their contents much earlier than he saw them. Just a whole lot going on in general in this one, makes sense he got lost in the reeds quite a bit.

@ProBadSing 3 года назад

"Do have a go yourselves. " No thanks Simon. Not this one. Not today.

@alvaropallete 3 года назад

Actually this one is long, but not difficult, so I'm sad I didn't try to solve it myself just for the video length

@JohnJillky 3 года назад

@@alvaropallete That's what I was figuring. I'm thinking I'll give it a god

@magaroni08 3 года назад

Normally it takes me at least twice as long as Simon including checking the video for hints. This one took me about 10 minutes longer and I only checked the video to confirm my initial suspicion-start with the thermos. It’s a good puzzle, no weird logic or math.

@JohnJillky 3 года назад

@@magaroni08 Well, since it usually takes me 3-4 times as long, I guess I should at least be finished within 2 hours lol

@S_Black 3 года назад

@Evert van Dalen He was speaking very prematurely there. The logic here isn't insane, but you really need to use a lot of clues. Which isn't a bad thing

@thejeqff 3 года назад

My alternate title for this puzzle: "Everything is Wrogn or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Negative Constraint"

@chipsounder4633 3 года назад

i think it should be named aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaargh wtf!!

@nanamacapagal8342 3 года назад

@@chipsounder4633 You haven't seen nothing yet. Have you seen Undar Beyond's "CHAOTIC WROGN"? Only way that could be more diabolical is if "Irregular Boxes" was included and we had to figure that out from more layers of WROGN puzzles. Or if we DIDN'T use 1-9 and we had to figure out what the real digits are with even more layers of WROGN puzzles.

@chipsounder4633 3 года назад

@@nanamacapagal8342 yeah it made me laugh

@jonahcomstock3061 3 года назад

"“Learn the rules like a pro, so you can break them like an artist.” ― Pablo Picasso

@kenmolinaro 3 года назад

"Am I joke to you?" ---- The 2 in r8c2. 44:11

@aser8768 3 года назад

Yep like looking at single 2 in box and then aha wow lets look at 7 :) 35:27

@danielgeld9813 3 года назад

"Am I a joke to you" -The 12 little killer clue

@bradfooks4485 3 года назад

2 is eliminated by the kropki dot, the two in the box, and the twelve clue but whatever

@bluji1250 3 года назад

Easily one of the most amazing sudokus ever featured on the channel. And what makes it even more wonderful - though Simon's initial reaction was "this is impossible", there was a clear and logical path from the beginning to the very end! What a great piece of sudoku art, wow.

@jake32901 3 года назад

This has to be a reference to Simon's "Five is the most useless number in X/V Sudoku."

@aser8768 3 года назад

My favorite moment 18:00 "Yes, yes... 3 is restricted by combinations of nonsenses"

@Anne_Mahoney 3 года назад

I agree -- I liked this expression better than "mad as a box of frogs." I also welcome the return of the gooseberry!

@EvanC881 3 года назад

Simon could have said "the five has to separate the four and the one" but instead he chose "it has to sit in the middle of them and force them not to hold hands" god bless

@kayday1996 3 года назад

i feel like the useless 5 clues (both the V's and the little killer) are a nod to simon always saying 5 is the most useless number

@roland9189 3 года назад

Yeah, thought so as well. And the Little Killer 5 was really just every bit of absurd as it could be...

@stevieinselby 3 года назад

It was funny how there were a few red herring clues thrown in that - at least if you followed Simon's line of attack, but I'm struggling to see any other - couldn't possibly be of any use, but it wasn't _all_ of the '5's, because some of the Vs definitely were useful.

@Xeridanus 3 года назад

@@stevieinselby DiMono has explained why they're in there in the top comment.

@DavidLindes 3 года назад

Even the 357 dot wasn't used for anything... unless I missed something, if a 5 was involved in any way, the clue wasn't used. :)

@xsquaredster 3 года назад

I would imagine this puzzle has the distinction of being the funniest sudoku of all time

@TrekBeatTK 3 года назад

“The 5 has to play gooseberry” (or goosbury?) just when you think you’ve heard every bizarre UK idiom...

@ericpraline1302 3 года назад

Gooseberry.

@MrBluemoon74 3 года назад

@@ericpraline1302 Is it referred to as the gooseberry gene? en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gooseberry_(gene)?

@ericpraline1302 3 года назад

@@MrBluemoon74 I had to look this up as one of those sayings one uses without knowing the origins, but don't think it has anything to do with genes. Possible explanation here wordhistories.net/2017/04/16/to-play-gooseberry/

@e7diablo 3 года назад

I genuinely believe this to be the best puzzle ever set on this channel.

@samtrout5147 3 года назад

Now someone needs to make a puzzle that starts with “Normal sudoku rules do not apply” And proceed to make up all its own rules.

@wariolandgoldpiramid 3 года назад

I've seen a variant of "Normal sudoku rules do not apply"

@wariolandgoldpiramid 3 года назад

In fact, just search "normal sudoku rules do not apply"

@k_slyons7346 2 года назад

Now there is exactly that

@michaelhill4091 3 года назад

Anyone else screaming, the ‘greater than’ digit! But still, that was crazy good.

@prahas777 3 года назад

This is such a terrific puzzle, in the way a fine work of contemporary art is terrific. In so many ways it evokes the time we are living through. For one thing, throwing "the kitchen sink" into the puzzle mirrors the way in which life is throwing so many different things at us. And then everyone being "wrogn" - well that's obvious, but the obviousness doesn't capture the feeling I got watching the wrongness appear over and over, in several different ways. The cumulative effect had a visceral, emotional impact on me. I didn't think a sudoku could do these things. Simply fantastic.

@kaksspl 3 года назад

Simon spotting the 5 little killer clue is my favourite moment of all CtC videos. Now I see why this puzzle is getting referenced so much. It's mad and beautiful.

@vikingslayer34 3 года назад

"As mad as a box of frogs"...brilliant Simon.

@yagmurugur9904 3 года назад

18:01 "3 is restricted...by a combination of nonsenses!" maybe did not crack the cryptic but definitely cracked me up. LOL

@RoderickEtheria 3 года назад

You click check, and it tells you "That doesn't look right."

@toddw7000 3 года назад

Oh thank god I'm not the only one. I sat there for awhile double checking everything. Then I skipped to the end of the video and compared and STILL everything looked correct. I'm wondering if maybe the new software actually tries to verify more than just the overall puzzle, like the cages or killer arrows and when they're deliberately wrong it gets messed up

@samlfb 3 года назад

Read through the comments just to see if someone else had this problem, so glad I am not crazy. Thank you.

@Taeolas 3 года назад

I suspect the new software validates more than simple Sudoku rules, but also checks killer cages, sums and/or thermos and probably most of the common variants. So since all the rules BUT Sudoku were broken, the checker is also broken.

@proterra8 3 года назад

Everything Is Wrogn! So "That doesn't look right." means "It is right!".

@asimpkiss 3 года назад

I spent a minute confusedly comparing my result to his before finding solidarity down here

@peterli100 3 года назад

this rule set is actually using negative constraint plus some confusion, which makes it so fun and at the same time so stunning to see that the clues are actually positively useful! what a genius puzzle!

@mitosfive 3 года назад

Simon: "Give it a go yourself" Me: "Yeah... Right... Like I stand a chance to figure how to start this xD"

@garanceadrosehn9691 3 года назад

I'm sure that Mark knew that you'd *love* every minute of this, no matter how long it took. ... assuming that you did solve it.

@samh6238 3 года назад

Simon’s childlike sense of wonder at the brilliance of this sudoku is so wholesome!

@deloreigames8641 3 года назад

The blue cell at 40:10 "After a 100 years of being ready, finally, my time has come" Gotta love how sometimes Simon doesnt like to finish easy boxes in order for new exuberant clues

@ktpai 3 года назад

Simon not spotting, and not using, the killer cage in box 2 almost drove me over the edge

@dolf370 3 года назад

I also noted that.

@perf2.078 3 года назад

As a non-native English speaker I've learned "Mad as a box of frogs" and "to play gooseberry" today.

@philm5872 3 года назад

I love CTC but watching the rule set and explanation was the first time I laughed out loud. Potentially helped by a bit of wine..love you guys!

@tremkl Год назад

RU-vid decided I didn’t have enough Cracking the Cryptic in my diet and presented this two year old video. Of course I still watched every second of it, this is a classic!

@theletsplayprincess3894 3 года назад

This is one of those puzzles that absolutely makes me believe in the idea of math being an art form.

@wariolandgoldpiramid 3 года назад

22:30 Simon completely misses the Killer Cage, which would have ruled out 4 much easier 😂

@yichen6313 3 года назад

I finally got through it! This is wonderfully chaotic :D The puzzle actually leads you on a clear solving path, starting from the thermos. I highly recommend people to give it a try and not deterred by the weird ruleset. It's not very hard, just very creative.

@mongmanmarkyt2897 3 года назад

did it say you solved it correctly? because it tells me it doesn't look right even though i had the same end result as simon... and so i'm confused

@carl13579 3 года назад

@@mongmanmarkyt2897 Same. Maybe because it's wrogn.

@yichen6313 3 года назад

@@mongmanmarkyt2897 Hmm I didn't press check - I only checked with Simon. Could it be that the new software checks some of the wrogn clues?

@marryof995 3 года назад

Find a person who looks at you, like Simon does at a Sudoku. Bobbins, you found an obsessive stalker. That is absolutely useless. U read the 2nd part in Simons voice didn't ya ?

@brendabalzan1994 3 года назад

🤣🤣🤣 caught red handed

@herrofof 3 года назад

When you click check, "That doesn't look right!" pops up. This is madness. This is absolutely brilliant. My goodness me, what a clever joke!

@bevstarrunner9472 3 года назад

If you just replayed this solve once a week i would be a happy man... Kudos to Simon for the solve and to DiMono for the absolutely brilliant construction.

@mritty115 3 года назад

This was honestly the most absurd and most fun puzzle I've played since I started following this channel. Thank you, DiMono, this was wonderful.

@reaperskill 3 года назад

Finished it, checked and got told "That doesn't look right!" - checked and it's the correct solution. Obviously even the checker is a liar for this one...

@thevictor390 3 года назад

Same here. No errors were highlighted so I figured new software bug.

@WeeTurtles7 3 года назад

Same

@Kelarys 3 года назад

Is it because the new software actually checks the variation rules, and you got all of them "wrong?" Because that would be both hilarious and working exactly as intended, but I don't know if the new software is that capable

@WhoStoleMyAlias 3 года назад

I think Simon is extending the joke on us...

@Piatato 3 года назад

Same here. Hilarious, intended or not. 😂

@physicsnerd02 3 года назад

This is the most fun I've had solving a Sudoku in recent history. The vast majority of the puzzle was scanning for the next logical exclusion, only to be rewarded with supreme perceived brilliance and a new search after a flurry of obvious. I love it.

@necaton 3 года назад

the 5 (little killer clue) is just trolling so hard xD

@rmahu 3 года назад

It is to discard a 0 that the new software allows to put

@richardowen7327 3 года назад

That is one of the very best Sudoku puzzles I have ever seen, and I have seen a lot!!! Well done DiMono ........................... and Simon.

@bertbergers9171 3 года назад

48 minutes with such a ruleset, i admire you allready for even getting a solve ;)

@wiekebergers6907 3 года назад

it's doable, just needed simon to give me the place to start :)

@johnrupesh4535 2 года назад

This is by far the best sudoku puzzle I have ever seen. This is brilliantly wonderful. Take a bow Mr. DiMono.

@Taaneria 3 года назад

I hope more people use this Liar’s Sudoku rule set. It was a delight!

@joestrzyzewski6007 3 года назад

This is absolutely a brilliant puzzle and it was a joy to watch Simon think his way through it. So inventive and truly unique.

@BigAsciiHappyStar 3 года назад

This is easily one of the most so-bad-it's-brilliant concepts I have ever seen in a Sudoku. Well done DiMono! I'm not sure how to do justice to this so here goes ... Everything is wrogn Everything is lame when you're watching You Tube Everything is wrogn When you do Sudoku Everything is worse when we are stuck together Side by side you and I are gonna whinge forever For ever and ever We're the same, I'm like you, You're like me We do not like 2020 Everything is wrogn Everything is bad when you're watching You Tube Everything is wrogn When you do Sudoku Woooo! 3 2 1 go! Have you heard the news, everything's talkin' Life is bad, everything is Wrogn Lost my job, due to lockdown Everyone stay home, it's a ghost town I feel more wrogn than a wrogn robin cursing my luck and saying bobbins It's too much for my poor little noggin The puzzle is broken everything is wrogn Everything is worse when we are stuck together Side by side you and I are gonna whinge forever For ever and ever We're the same, I'm like you, You're like me We do not like 2020 Everything is wrogn Everything is bad when you're watching You Tube Everything is wrogn When you do Sudoku Thermos, XV, Knights, they're Wrogn! Killers, Palindromes, Kropki, they're Wrogn! Max-cells, Non-consecutive, Arrows, they're Wrogn! Everything you see or think or say is Wrogn! Everything is wrogn Everything is bad when you're watching You Tube Everything is wrogn When you do Sudoku

@ethermelt4780 3 года назад

That puzzle had me giddy in my seat the entire way. It was a non-stop thriller of unending visibly negative constraints. Fantastic!

@urdifferent 3 года назад

I never comment, but that giggle at 8:05 had me giggling away... PS. I only try classics, but watch virtually every video... Love the channel!!

@juliusseizer514 3 года назад

Simon I am sitting here at half past midnight in a state of astonishment that I have managed to finish something as complex as this. It's taken me two hours - nothing like as quick as you guys - but I couldn't even have attempted this without all the guidance from this great channel. Thank you so much as always, just brilliant.

@OneBadFrog 3 года назад

This solve has to be my fav. Simon your disbelief that this puzzle can be solved to the slow change to your joy of solving it is amazing.

@Nelsup 3 года назад

Also my favourite one ever. The set up was amazing, so that at each step the prospect of a ‘correct’ answer forced the real answer!

@brandonfisher5303 3 года назад

This puzzle is so uniquely perfect for this channel. This is the prefect video to use to showcase what this channel is all about. Wonderful solve on a wonderful puzzle

@dolf370 3 года назад

I didn't bother trying, it would have wound me up in a straightjacket within minutes, even more crazy than the mad hatter of Alice in Wonderland. But it was incredibly funny to watch the solve!!! What a great insane puzzle.

@wren4077 3 года назад

this one actually turned out to be quite a fun and easy solve. Very linear. Definitely didn't expect it to go like that when I looked at the rule set.

@davidhughes7174 3 года назад

I struggle when the clues are right, I agree wholeheartedly

@Jukka70 3 года назад

This is definitely the best one I've seen yet. Aside from the puzzle being brilliant. He had me cracking up so many times. What is this nonsense having a V next to a 9, it could never add up to 5, and the comments got better and better. OMG I never laughed so hard at one of these in my life. I said on one of the other videos and in the live video of him doing the Witness that these videos make me relax after teaching math every day, and this just backs up exactly what I said. I mean if this can't put someone in a good mood nothing can. Simon, you're the best!

@EelcoWind 3 года назад

This was great! So much fun. Little under an hour, loved every minute of it. The "check button" said something didn't look right, but had the same numbers as Simon, so I guess I'm ok :)

@Zasqdddas 3 года назад

I had this same error - it didn't highlight any mistakes, but didn't stop the timer. I was hoping I'd see Simon get the same error at the end.

@darrenbent7601 3 года назад

I'm so glad that you could do this Sudoku. I wouldn't even know just where it start. It was such a joy to behold you working through this puzzle, it was like watching the play that was part of the Royal Variety Performance a couple of years ago "The Play That Goes Wrong". I mean, that diagonal 5 clue,... just ludicrous.

@cravenkey 3 года назад

Simon taking so long to notice the 4 couldn’t go in the 12 cage was killing me 😩

@imaginarycastle 3 года назад

This is one of the best puzzles I have ever seen. Just, wow. What a design! I absolutely love that there are nonsense clues that makes you wonder if it is supposed to be nonsense or if you have done something wrong. DiMono, this is an absolute masterpiece!

@ryfors 3 года назад

I love puzzles like these where there are lots of clues and not all of them are necessary or even straight up useless! Great job creating this puzzle, such a treat :) And thank you for sharing

@jeffreygi 3 года назад

This should have been in the book

@smahoney1212 3 года назад

We will need Cracking the Cryptic Book volume 2

@Varksterable 3 года назад

@@smahoney1212 "Volume n. Where 'n' is a positive integer >1." FTFY. 😉

@smahoney1212 3 года назад

@@Varksterable Absolutely!

@ryang4335 3 года назад

I laughed out loud during Simon's intro of this one 😂

@WillSmith-wv6he 3 года назад

Beautiful puzzle. Continuous flow throughout. I managed the solve in just under 1 hr. Watching Simon was as entertaining as ever.

@The_Omegaman 3 года назад

This puzzle goes to show that any clue, even if it seems useless, is valuable in the right light. Well done dimono.

@andersosterholm2538 3 года назад

Probably my favourite of all the puzzles on the channel. That was lovely!

@noyadishon6649 3 года назад

This sudoku completely blew my mind. I am in awe. At one point you said something which had me laughing to tears. Thank you for this incredible video. Wow.

@bertbergers9171 3 года назад

Asking about some of the seemingly useless clues, my answer: The 12 killer cage in box 2 could have helped you solving the 214 on the thermo, but as per usual you did a Simon on it, ignored it and found your own logic there. The other clues, i don't know, haven't tried solving myself. So i think TheDiMono was just being generous on the number of clues, allthough some clues did made you make decisions earlier on in the solve. But not all! Or you did a Simon on the entire puzzle maybe :P I loved the break in! Very cool how it kept giving digit after digit.

@Zasqdddas 3 года назад

The purpose of the "5" little killer arrow is to show you that not all of the clues are necessarily useful, and the other "useless" clues are there as red herrings, so you don't can't "cheat" the logic by assuming that all of the clues are useful.

@bluefloyd1 3 года назад

I agree. The 4 was so easily placeable. I'm developing a theory that deliberate obvious-misses are a good way of generating comments. Perhaps a result of a youtube consultant. "Let the community tell you what you did wrong on purpose". I do not believe Simon's scanning is that bad.

@FirstLast-gw5mg 3 года назад

For me the easiest digit was the 9 in box 5, which could be placed as soon as the 9 in box 3 was placed in the false bulb of that thermo. The 9 in box 5 sees every other digit on that thermo, i.e. all of the digits *except* 9, so it must *be* 9.

@ABodyInProgress 3 года назад

This is the second time in a month that someone has stolen an idea straight from my brain before I could do it, ha ha. I was going to do one where every clue was a liar! But I don't think I would have created something nearly as clever and graceful.

@Mitysto 3 года назад

This is the best puzzle I’ve seen yet. Hats off to DiMono. You’re a genius

@laszloliptak611 3 года назад

The meta-wrogn-ness of the puzzle is having clues that cannot possibly be correct, like the 5 killer arrow clue. :)

@oldguydoesstuff120 3 года назад

When I clicked to check my solve, I got the message saying, "That doesn't look right!" Is this yet another joke being played on us???

@ildacristinakoolhaasdosrei5999 3 года назад

Yup

@wariolandgoldpiramid 3 года назад

Yeah. Technicaly, I just takes advantage of the new CTC software, which scans certain clues (at least killer cages ) and sees that they wrong.

@FirstLast-gw5mg 3 года назад

@@wariolandgoldpiramid Try it again and see if it still does. It's telling me that it looks good. Either they've fixed it, or it's only affecting some users. Also it looks like it saved the solution... I closed the window and reopened it, and all the numbers I'd entered were still in. So you might not have to reenter all of them to have it check it once more.

@thedrunkenelf 3 года назад

Brilliant, perfect sudoku for 2020. Everything is wrogn indeed!

@04LightningFan 3 года назад

When there is an error the check function should now say "That looks wrogn!" instead of "That doesn't look right!"

@brendabalzan1994 3 года назад

"That looks wrogn to me! Please proceed."

@RichSmith77 3 года назад

That was brilliant. I really enjoyed "solving" it. I thought I had solved it until, watching Simon's solve, I realised I misread my pencilmarks and eliminated one digit too early. I got the correct solution and used 95% of the correct logic, but my error meant I never actually used the 44 killer clue, as I had incorrectly eliminated 1 from r9c3 too early. Bobbins! The interaction of those two thermos at the start was fantastic.

@marielle7133 3 года назад

I can hardly solve a classic sudoku on medium level myself but i love your videos! Could never solve something like this myself. But i can follow your explanations very well. Absolutely no clue why i like this content so much. But i do! 😂

@randomviewer896 3 года назад

That little killer 5 clue was hilarious. I genuinely laughed at your reaction to it. That was fun to watch.

@awilliams1701 3 года назад

I think this is one of my favorite puzzles I've seen on this channel. So clever.

@Kelarys 3 года назад

Definitely one of my favourite puzzles on this channel, I love fake clues and this one was done marvelously. Delightful all the way through

@lordpye 3 года назад

This is by far my favorite puzzle solve so far on this channel. The puzzle is so incredibly unique. Kudos to DiMono and to Simon for the solve!

@rea_keebz 3 года назад

this is the very first time simon has said "i'm sorry if you're spotting something obvious that i'm missing" and i actually have spotted something obvious that he's missing, and i've watched dozens of these videos. every other time i've just been going along for the ride with him. so yeah simon no complaints from me you're doing amazing 😂

@MitraLaTenn 3 года назад

It is always astonishing, how fast Simon finds the right way to start even the most difficult puzzle. Fantastic solve of an epic puzzle - thx a lot!

@HunterJE 3 года назад

I've never laughed this much during a solve

@HunterJE 3 года назад

Even the "never-useful" clues like the long 5 little-killer played in to the theme as yet another "wrognness", if you assume a hard puzzle should not have superfluous givens...

@MrCoxmic 3 года назад

this looks like it would have been a good April Fool's Day puzzle

@sanctionbuster 3 года назад

No messing about with this one. Big bag of crisps, a large whisky and casting this one onto the big telly. Hopefully Mark does an approachable one for when I'm done here.

@waccle8335 3 года назад

I noticed the two for Box 7 during 36:41 before Simon and I'm so happy on spotting that by myself, slowly but surely my deduction skills are improving... and it's all because of this addictively entertaining (and criminally wholesome) channel :))

@tomtheultimatepro 3 года назад

29:27 for me, loved every minute (there were quite a few of them) of the solve

@unbatteristaacaso 3 года назад

This is definitely the funniest video in this channel so far! :) Really great construction DiMono, hats off.

@erickehr4475 3 года назад

Ok. That’s the most interesting sudoku I’ve ever seen.

@ilickbatteries35 2 года назад

Underrated puzzle. I'm really glad the recent episode brought attention back to it

@niklassoderberg2168 3 года назад

The absolute best kind of puzzle, takes time but your never stuck at one point for to long.

@BallerineMimi 3 года назад

Absolutely loved this! Momentum never stopped! Apparently I work well with negative constraints ♡

@MissMaraJoy 3 года назад

Aaah! I love the disambiguation of the thermo in box 2 since the two X-clues in the center row *need* to be wrong, such awesome details in the setting :-D

@douglasplachy4577 3 года назад

This was a great puzzle. To come down to the 44 clue and then finish with the Palindrome was fantastic! Great channel. Love it. 👏👏👏👏

@jameswiebe8956 3 года назад

This puzzle was amazing to do, and even more fun to watch Simon and his reactions. Simon is so expressive, and he really enjoys tricky setting. I think this video is going into my playlist of things to watch when I'm feeling glum.

@burakbeyhan3186 3 года назад

This is maybe the best puzzle I've ever seen. Also I am pretty sure Dimono has a great sense of humor

@warrendalman6489 3 года назад

Big time fan of your brilliant minds! I watch every morning before I go to work!

@srwapo 3 года назад

I skipped this because of the length of the video, but it looked fun and approachable. I'm going to stick it into my Watch Later playlist for a few months and come back to it once I forget how it was solved.