The Caduceus Entanglement

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Normal sudoku rules apply. Furthermore, there are two snakes (snake A and B) in the grid. One is an 'Equal Sum Line' Snake (see below) and the other is a 'German Whisper Line' Snake (again, see below). The solver must determine which is which. Each snake is an orthogonally connected set of cells (the starts and ends are marked) and each snake MUST visit every 3x3 box. The snakes cannot touch themselves, even diagonally. The snakes may touch each other but they do not cross each other. The outside clues give the sum of the NON-snake cells in that direction. The squares give the number of the NON-snake cells in that box. On an 'Equal Sum Line', digits have an equal sum N within each box the line passes through. On a German Whisper Line, adjacent digits must have a difference of at least 5.
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@marklee343 2 года назад

Simon: Surely it can’t be Sudoku I need to do next. Narrator: It was Sudoku he needed to do next.

@Foxyjosh 2 года назад

Also Narrator: And don't call me Shirley!

@Davdof 2 года назад

I love how he admits to have had alcohol and the number of jokes about naughty snakes touching themselves is much higher :)

@denouchka7043 2 года назад

"Brain, I blaim you for so many things" Surely this must win the award of the most neuroatypical sentence ever Thanks Simon for being so wholesome!

@Wecoc1 2 года назад

Drunk Simon and Snake Sudoku sure is a dangerous mix 😅

@briancaster2876 2 года назад

I totally read that as Drunk Snake and Simon Sudoku and I think that would be the best title ever!

@PjotrV 2 года назад

I loved this solve! Thanks Simon. The alcohol was definitely a handicap, but the comments are saying you should do more drunk Sudoku :D It was fun to watch to say the least :)

@emilywilliams3237 2 года назад

Thanks, Peter, for this great puzzle, right up Simon's alley with the defining-a-pathway logic. I enjoy watching him solve puzzles that he enjoys, and this was clearly one of them!

@davidrattner9 2 года назад

As usual from you immaculate!!

@tedg1278 2 года назад

His speech seemed fine, so I think he wasn't even tipsy.

@thedrunkenelf 2 года назад

When you said “the rain men can already see the snakes” and I could see the kind of spiral pattern they had to take I was like…. Am I the rain men?

@Zwangsdemokrat 2 года назад

"This is the most absolutely inept effort of anything anybody has ever done." That's exactly why we love Simon. 💜

@ryanbritt6874 2 года назад

Drunk sudoku sounds like a great idea for the next live stream.

@YoshiBro79e 2 года назад

Thank you all the enjoyment I have gotten from watching your videos. I especially love the longer "movies" and especially look forward to watching them.

@jonbrowne8334 2 года назад

You are in the minority for sure!

@RichSmith77 2 года назад

@@jonbrowne8334 I think you have claimed previously that you don't like the long videos, and that you believe your's is the majority view. I'd love to know your evidence for thinking this. Mostly, I see comments from people saying they enjoy the longer videos. I'm in this category, although I wouldn't want every video to be an hour long.

@psntsn89 2 года назад

I'm with you with the longer videos, I really look forward to a 40+ min video from Simon. They are very entertaining and personally I wouldn't want a Simon video sub 20 min

@Orshabaal 2 года назад

Yeah, longer videos for the win!

@emilywilliams3237 2 года назад

Thanks for this video, Simon. Despite the comments to the contrary, I do not think your luncheon imbibing impaired your solving. I think that the power of suggestion has made some folks see things that are not there (and perhaps also because you played it up a bit, just my observation). I know that you enjoy and are very good at solving the define-a-pathway kind of puzzles, which makes a great sudoku even more fun to watch you solve. Thanks so much for this. I enjoyed it very much. Congrats to Peter Venus also on another excellent puzzle!

@mr_waffles_the_dog 2 года назад

It only took alcohol, but I beat Simon to a digit! Hurrah!

@dwebb2805 2 года назад

did anyone else think that the easier way to disprove the blue cell in box 4 around 36:00 was to see that the purple german whisper line domino has no low digit to choose from in the box? simon is quite the genius at finding harder paths it seems, even when inebriated

@AvatarBowler 2 года назад

Yep, me too. I was just about to say the same thing. His hypothetical scenario would’ve put a 7-8-9 triple in the other green cell and in the purple cells, meaning they would both be high, which busts the puzzle.

@mostman 2 года назад

Yep. Absolutely.

@paulus-jankieviet2185 8 месяцев назад

Indeed, noticed that too - 123456 would have been used up

@inspiringsand123 2 года назад

Rules: 06:04 Let's Get Cracking: 11:13 Simon's time: 55m07s Puzzle Solved: 1:06:20 What about this video's Top Tier Simarkisms?! The Secret: 6x (09:48, 11:18, 11:21, 11:32, 31:03, 31:09) Bobbins: 1x (36:43) And how about this video's Simarkisms?! Snake: 96x (01:39, 01:50, 06:10, 06:10, 06:15, 06:21, 06:27, 06:44, 06:48, 06:57, 06:59, 07:01, 07:04, 07:17, 07:21, 07:26, 07:31, 07:36, 07:36, 07:45, 07:48, 08:04, 08:05, 08:08, 08:11, 08:13, 08:13, 08:22, 09:13, 09:25, 09:44, 09:58, 10:24, 10:27, 10:35, 11:36, 11:44, 11:47, 11:50, 11:52, 12:14, 12:25, 12:29, 12:35, 13:03, 13:11, 13:11, 13:18, 13:23, 13:31, 13:37, 13:56, 15:16, 16:31, 17:34, 18:23, 18:25, 18:28, 19:14, 20:47, 21:01, 21:12, 21:12, 21:17, 21:26, 21:32, 21:33, 21:33, 23:03, 23:07, 23:10, 23:10, 26:13, 26:16, 27:25, 27:30, 27:37, 27:41, 27:53, 28:01, 28:36, 35:19, 35:41, 35:43, 35:50, 36:07, 36:52, 36:54, 37:03, 37:20, 40:54, 46:58, 50:01, 50:03, 57:41, 1:05:49) Ah: 18x (14:03, 18:50, 19:34, 27:07, 27:08, 32:49, 34:41, 37:55, 39:03, 44:13, 45:36, 45:36, 47:14, 49:33, 51:46, 52:28, 1:00:55, 1:02:04) Touch Itself: 12x (06:44, 07:09, 13:21, 21:14, 21:35, 21:38, 21:40, 27:27, 27:37, 35:19, 44:39, 1:05:52) Beautiful: 9x (01:01, 12:54, 12:56, 12:56, 29:20, 30:36, 49:36, 52:45, 55:09) By Sudoku: 9x (37:34, 46:32, 46:34, 56:07, 56:41, 57:00, 1:00:03, 1:02:22, 1:04:39) Sorry: 5x (10:18, 14:20, 38:02, 39:47, 40:43) Hang On: 4x (14:27, 20:39, 37:43, 39:03) Goodness: 3x (00:28, 56:55, 59:41) Naughty: 3x (13:23, 13:29, 27:40) Break the Puzzle: 3x (14:18, 24:39, 24:45) Surely: 3x (42:59, 45:48, 47:35) I've Got It!: 3x (45:36, 45:43) In Fact: 3x (28:27, 46:25, 1:01:58) Obviously: 3x (56:19, 57:49, 1:06:06) Nature: 3x (22:08, 27:30, 47:35) Nonsense: 2x (07:38, 09:33) Lovely: 2x (1:00:55, 1:00:57) Shouting: 2x (02:30, 03:14) Of All Things: 2x (55:59, 56:01) Pencil Mark/mark: 2x (19:53, 20:01) What on Earth: 1x (43:35) The Answer is: 1x (45:46) Horrible Feeling: 1x (42:48) Fascinating: 1x (12:21) Wow: 1x (34:53) What Does This Mean?: 1x (47:14) The Power of Maths: 1x (55:56) On the Cusp: 1x (48:43) Have a Think: 1x (22:13) Thingy Thing: 1x (17:31) Cake!: 1x (03:19) Most popular number(>9), digit and colour this video: Fourteen (24 mentions) Four, Five (70 mentions) Blue (70 mentions) Antithesis Battles: High (16) - Low (16) Even (10) - Odd (0) Outside (3) - Inside (0) White (2) - Black (0) Column (24) - Row (16) 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!

@afrodisiac2181 2 года назад

Good bot

@Sarah-og3mp 2 года назад

Beautiful

@-Titan29- 2 года назад

Some other good channels to do this with would be Scott Sto Solves and Chess Simp

@bruzie900 2 года назад

01:21:43 but I managed to do a complete solve by myself, which was daunting given the length of the video. Edit (while watching): I worked out the 14 total by noticing that 7 had to go in the blue snake in b1c3, and with the 3 in r3c3, made 13 impossible.

@longwaytotipperary 2 года назад

Inebriated Simon is delightful.

@elaadt 2 года назад

It seems magical how the rules force the colors and digits to materialize and create the two intertwining snakes. I really enjoyed sitting back and watching the show.

@briancaster2876 2 года назад

Drunk sudoku is pretty fun to me. It takes a little longer but man it feels good when you get it done!

@jakubcar8372 2 года назад

Another way of seeing why r4c3 cannot be blue was, that it would had pushed two high digits next to each other onto the German whisper in box 4

@steve470 2 года назад

36:24 for me. A couple ways Simon could have made things easier on himself: When testing if there were four equal-sum cells in box 4, it would have forced two high digits next to each other on the whisper snake. Additionally, the whisper snake taking three cells in box 4 forced its polarity earlier, as there was only one low digit available in that box. Earlier, as soon as a snake was taking up eight cells of row 8, it needed to have a 5 on it, and therefore couldn't be the whisper snake.

@allantidgwell5624 2 года назад

The medical symbol is a single snake and doesn't have wings on top of it, and that's called the Rod of Asclepius The Caduceus (also called the Herald's Wand) is a staff held by Hermes/Mercury and is the symbol of trade, eloquence, negotiation, wisdom, gamblers, liars, thieves, and alchemy. Today it's most commonly a symbol of logistics The reason for the confusion is because some people in the field don't have much interest in Classics, and so they've frequently applied the wrong symbol to their buildings out of ignorance

@MariaVlasiou 2 года назад

Thank you!

@allantidgwell5624 2 года назад

@@MariaVlasiou you're welcome

@linkforce6078 2 года назад

54:30 "That's a 4 [in r7c8], it must be useful but it might not be" Earlier in the video: Basically proves that the N total must be 13 or 14 using the secret at row 8, depending of which digit is r7c8. Lol, alcohol sure helps solving sudoku lol

@RichSmith77 2 года назад

*r7c2

@linkforce6078 2 года назад

@@RichSmith77 Oops, thanks lol

@amysteele2488 2 года назад

Realised at 15 mins in what shape the snakes must be, just before Simon realised. Another puzzle where the title telegraphs the solution. Nice one PjotrV!

@dkamm65 2 года назад

At about 40:00 when you were mulling over whether the three cells in box 4 column 2 summed to 13 or 14, I was really hoping that you'd notice that if it was 13, requiring a 157, that would necessitate putting a 1 in r8c2, to complement the 38 sum in r8, therefore breaking the puzzle.

@AvatarBowler 2 года назад

I’m failing to understand why a 1 is necessary in that case. Could you show how that works? Side note: you’re right that it doesn’t work, but the way I disproved it was following through what would happen if 1-5-7 was used. I noticed r7c2 would have to be a 4 and the other 2 blue cells in the column would be a 2-3 pair. The 3 would have to go in r8c2 to ensure the 13 sum works, which forces the 2 square cells to be a 4 and a 5. The last 4 cells in the row are a 1-2-8-9 quad, which is already broken. The 1 and 8 could go with the 4, but 5 + 2 + 9 ≠ 13, so now we’re in trouble. 😂

@dkamm65 2 года назад

@@AvatarBowler It would require a 1 because of the equal sum rule. Simon explains the logic in the video, but equal sums imply that all of the blue cells in boxes 7, 8, and 9 total to a number divisible by 3. If box 7 is x, 7+8 is 2x, and 7+8+9 is 3x. The 7 in r8 means that the rest of row 8 sums to 38, so we need to add a digit to reach a multiple of 38. The options are 1, to reach 39 (13x3), or 4, to reach 42 (14x3). Any higher multiple would need a 7 which is not available in the box, or a two digit number. And of course if you choose a 1 to make the equal sum be 13, you would also need a 1 to make that sum in box 4, due to the restriction on the other digits.

@AvatarBowler 2 года назад

@@dkamm65 Oh, duh. Now I see what you mean. I’m now ashamed I missed that. 🤦‍♂️ Good explanation. I over-complicated it in my head.

@markp7262 2 года назад

52:09 finish. Loved the logic on this one. I actually drew two different possibilities, going in opposite directions, for the two snakes (when I started the puzzle, I mean... I didn't keep them there). One thing that I wrongly assumed (though wound up being correct) was that each snake could only enter each box once. I'm not going to re-hash all of the things that were mentioned to Simon, but I found a few of them of which others were speaking, and it definitely helped. Excellent!

@Scojo486 2 года назад

I fell asleep in the first 10 minutes of this video two nights in a row, but I'm so glad I was able to stay awake for the whole video this time because this puzzle is a masterpiece.

@LAaronB10 2 года назад

There was a simple way to deduce which line was which once Simon forced the blue line to go straight along row 8. Because of the 5 in box 7 was placed, it meant that the 5 of row 8 was forced onto the blue line. And german whisper lines cannot have a 5 on them.

@nonehandle688 2 года назад

It's amazing to me that the order you did things in was quite different from the way I did it. I found the 14 sum very quickly, and I kept waiting for you to find it, but you deduced so many of the numbers before me.

@dontmindme2844 2 года назад

Very nice puzzle. Not too difficult once you get your head around it but it takes a bit of thinking to understand how the various rules affect the grid.

@benturmes7323 2 года назад

Some minor point at 34:23: When you talk about the 3/4 pair and the 1/2/5/6 tetromino, you could have seen that the two purple digits in box 4 would have been impossible, as they both would have been high and therefore broken the German whisper. Keep up the videos!

@tyrgannusgaming6657 2 года назад

Now that's an intricate one, Peter. Impressive construction

@maxgreve7856 2 года назад

Another fantastic video! I have real troubles with snake puzzles but still love to watch Simon solve them.

@Halfbeasty 2 года назад

51 minutes on the dot. The big breakthrough for me was realising which snake is which, after that I got it flowing quite nicely. I admittedly took way too long staring at row 8 before realising why blue could never be the German whisper 😂

@yeehaaw 2 года назад

“so, right, my alcohol sozzled brain is now not telling me what this means. brain… i blame you, for so many things.”

@stevieinselby 2 года назад

Really pleased to have solved this one in 35 minutes ... I know that isn't half an hour faster than Simon's time, because a there was a _lot_ of explanation at the start before he began the solve, but I'm still happy to have beaten him! Interestingly, the 5-6 pair in box 8 was one of the first things I found, but Simon didn't spot it until right at the very end!

@th.nd.r 2 года назад

Beautiful again!! Just as you said Simon, the thing I found incredible about this was how wonderfully PjotrV, who deserves to be in some sort of setter HOF, weaved together the rulesets. Wonderful setting and solving 💙

@Swisswavey 2 года назад

57 minutes but what a great puzzle. Thanks very much for sharing it.

@jonathanmahoney1672 2 года назад

Rod of Asclepius is the medical symbol, Caduceus is a Hermetic symbol. 👍

@jasminedavis6686 2 года назад

I never knew that, cool!

@SpeedyBozar 2 года назад

One of my favorite sudokus on the channel.

@spudd86 2 года назад

On the falling asleep thing... it's because you speak evenly and not quite softly... basically no sudden changes in pitch or volume. Basically it's your voice and pleasant manner not the content.

@reikoyukawa4873 2 года назад

@@herrpausr7008 I can fall asleep to 1.5x speed as well...it's how I usually listen to him, in fact.

@JayBea 2 года назад

Great puzzle! I'm always happy when I can solve a CTC puzzle at all, let alone one with an hour+ video. I was sure at every point that I must have messed it up and was waiting for the inevitable contradiction, but... I didn't mess it up! I thoroughly enjoyed it, thank you!

@Cairful 2 года назад

I loved solving this one! The interactions are so much fun. It's fascinating to me that these sorts of constraints even work

@tremkl 2 года назад

Drunk Simon + Snake Sudoku = OTP

@squircular54 2 года назад

Blue and purple are identical so I had to draw the grid as I watched this solve!

@fleetingfootnotes9133 2 года назад

I love how through postponing "doing sudoku" to the max it took until 55:40 to figure out the blue-box total. Through sudoku on box 1 the answer had been available for quite a while. Because where does the 7 go in box 1? It goes next to the 4, creating a 47 pair. The other blue cell is a three, thus 3+4+7=14. That could even be determined before the 4 got its place, because the other two cells next to the three had to add up to 10 or 11. But because they had to contain a 7, the options were a 37-pair and a 47-pair. The 37-pair is excluded because by sudoku two 3's are not allowed in a box. Mark does this stuff on purpose though. Just to make us feel as smart as he is. :P

@koegerli 2 года назад

There was so much going on in this puzzle, i couldn't even keep up with shouting at simon about things he didn't spot 😅🙈

@piarittersporn 2 года назад

That was more than exciting. I had to change the snakes several times because it always didn't fit somewhere. Finally, I compared my way with Simon's and was able to make a correction, which made it go on again until the final solution. Great.

@davidblake6889 2 года назад

Now I know where I've been going wrong when solving Sudoku puzzles, Simon. Not enough alcohol consumption on my part... Great puzzle and great solve as always.

@milla_5028 2 года назад

I enjoyed watching Drunk Simon, and would love to watch a Drunkier Simon at some point as well. :D

@timothyjsduff 2 года назад

Drunk Simon solved the puzzle 45 minutes faster than Sober Me, so there is that...

@Coyotek4 2 года назад

55:01 ... no collection of snake-themed sudokus would be complete without this incredible enigma! Wonderful puzzle!

@ericpraline1302 2 года назад

Very nice, liked the way the different rules interacted.

@mariusweber4990 2 года назад

34:38 Such a good moment, really enjoyed seeing things come together there!

@reillygrimley9542 2 года назад

My wife listens to ASMR at night to help her fall asleep. I watch Cracking the Cryptic.

@omdcho 2 года назад

Like everyone else is saying, box 4 needs low digit on german whisper's line which makes 3 cells with 4 or lower outside the blue line. You can't make 4 blue cells add up to 13 or 14 with this restriction, so that makes r4c3 purple. I totally loved this puzzle!

@tedg1278 2 года назад

Near 35:00 when considering whether the cell R4C3 can be part of the blue equal sums snake, including it in the snake requires the sum to be 14, the 2 outside digits being 3 and 4, and the 4 blue snake digits in the box being 1, 2, 5, 6. This can be ruled out very shortly by noting that the "whisper" snake has 2 cells in the box once of which must be a low digit.

@MattGriffiths81 2 года назад

This puzzle was very pretty. Interestingly, I had a massively different solve path to Simon, especially so considering they're normally very close.

@Gonzalo_Garcia_ 2 года назад

23:43 for me. Great puzzle! It had a couple of very tricky steps, but in general wasn’t monstrously hard. Also, very interesting rules, as it’s become almost the norm lately.

@Sam_weiqi 2 года назад

Great puzzle!

@feamagno5328 2 года назад

I thought that was going to be the day we would see Simon swearing hahaha. Unfortunately I think there would have be a lot more alcohol involved for this to happen

@dkamm65 2 года назад

At 52:52, r7 needs a 5, and it has to be in box 9. That would have forced exactly 4 green cells in box 9, and placed the 5 since it can't be on a whisper line. That also would have forced a 5 3 6 triple onto the sum line in box 8, since a 5 and a 3 could only go with another 5 if you try making the sum 13.

@easye9186 2 года назад

Lol your humor is the best. Your overly dramatic criticism of your snake example at the beginning had me laughing.

@damadclown 2 года назад

Done it in 69 (nice) minutes without looking at Simon's solve. Difficult but very satisfying

@Ian_Hay 2 года назад

Rule clarification, please: “… they MUST visit every 3x3 box.” Does that mean that BOTH of the snakes much EACH visit every box? Or does it mean that every box must be visited by AT LEAST one of them? (I haven’t started the video yet - hoping to solve cold, as usual)

@CrackingTheCryptic 2 года назад

Yes. Each individually must visit every box.

@Ian_Hay 2 года назад

@@CrackingTheCryptic Thanks Mark and/or Simon!

@tbttfox 2 года назад

At 34:24, a much simpler way to disprove 14 with a blue in r4c3 is that only 7, 8, and 9 are left to put in box 4, and that'd break the German whisperness.

@parkerbond9400 2 года назад

Great break-in, I'm guessing that sober Simon would have recognized early that the equal sum snake on row 8 summed to 38 and would need r7c2 to be 1, 4, or 7 to make a number divisible by 3.

@dontmindme2844 2 года назад

And sober Simon might have noticed that the "13" equal sums puts a 1 in that box meaning a 157 = 13 in box 4 would repeat the 1s.

@reganmartin4126 2 года назад

My approach is never the same as Simon's on these snake puzzles! And I get 3/4 done, and then busted! Every time! Sheesh! I wish I knew the key/trick/psychic approach to be successful on these!

@deval97 2 года назад

I normally don't bother trying to attempt a solve myself when I see the video is longer than 1 hour but I kinda wished I had on this one, the solve was delightful and I was able to see most of the logic myself before drunk simon 😅

@ruokothyan7658 2 года назад

really enjoy snake sudokus

@austinish 2 года назад

Simon could have figured out what value N had way earlier than he did, as soon as he determined that column 2 in box 4 was either 157 or 257. If it were a 157, adding to 13, that would have set a 1 in r7c2 (to make the snake cells in boxes 7, 8 and 9 add to 39). But then there would be two 1's in column 2, breaking the puzzle. Instead of doing that, he continues the puzzle, then finds a roundabout way to set r7c2 as a 4 using the boxes on the right... and then still needs additional logic to determine what N is, instead of the logic he used to get the 14 pencil marks in the cell in the first place. Never change, Simon. Never change.

@harryhenderson3636 2 года назад

I feel like a genius. I saw some clues ahead of Simon and even simpler logic!

@zoltankalovics7910 2 года назад

~36:00 I think it's easier to prove that r4c3 can't be blue by saying that r4c3 being blue would put 2 of 789 next to each other on the german whisper snake

@Jesthers 2 года назад

Done in 104:19, all on my own this time! I really enjoyed this puzzle :D

@pantelistheodosiou5903 2 года назад

Another way to deduce that 1256 is not possible on the blue segment in box 4: it breaks the German whisper line on the same box ;)

@Noyasparx 2 года назад

I also fall asleep to Simons deduction skills!

@yoganlwf 2 года назад

I think this is the hardest puzzle I've solved from the channel so far. It took me 111:36 but was super enjoyable.

@lylecampbell8288 2 года назад

I got the parity of the whisper line from box 4. It had too many digits of one type for there to be more than one more on the line in that box. Also, that 14 in box 7 was set linked to the total of the equal sum line but one of the possibilities has a conflict with the contents of the line above it so I was able to fix the sum earlier.

@ngonStrafe 2 года назад

The first time in awhile I wasn't spooked off by a longer solve. At an hour and 18 it's not my best time ever, but there was a water break in there so I won't hold it against myself too much. Enjoyed watching the solve! Did a handful of things in a slightly different order to Simon (e.g. using the 4 sum clue for row 6 to purple-ize r6c9 a little earlier) but otherwise about the same, just slower.

@Ian_Hay 2 года назад

Great puzzle. I managed it in 53 minutes (which I count as tricky, but not too, too difficult).

@Rubrickety 2 года назад

Wonderful puzzle, which I actually managed to solve. Upon watching the video, I kicked myself for not realizing that the polarity of the lower German snake segment forced it for the not-yet-connected upper segment. On the other hand, I think I improved on Simon's methodology by designating a color as "unidentified snake", which would have caused the penny to drop sooner in row 6 for him.

@KeriJo12 2 года назад

"naughty snake" made me gigglesnort

@MohammadAbuHammad 2 года назад

Hey Simon, I might fall asleep watching this video, I am sorry, but to be honest, your video is usually uploaded around 11pm Palestine time.

@MohammadAbuHammad 2 года назад

I didn’t! That was a very nice video.

@XeniaStCharlesIrisLlyllyth 2 года назад

Seems that the parents of Cracking the Cryptic viewers were quite busy on September 5th of [insert year]. In all seriousness though, I'm excited for the video! Funnily enough, yesterday was the first time I ever successfully solved a snake sudoku (That's Sum Slithering by AndreasV), because for whatever reason I seem to struggle with these types of rule sets. So with that in mind I don't think I'm ready to give this one a go, but I'm looking forward to watching this and hope that some of the beautiful logic I will surely witness in this video will help equip me to solve more Snake puzzles in the future :)

@Artoooooor 2 года назад

You drunk solve sudoku 10 times faster than I sober.

@michaels7079 2 года назад

tons of fun!

@yagamilight08 2 года назад

58:53 is just amazing 🤣

@G4M1L 2 года назад

It is probably somewhere else in the comments, but just in case: with a little bit more of sudoku, the sum of the equal sums line was detectable much earlier - the 7 in r8c1 and the 257 triple in r456c2 pushed a 7 in r123c3, with r1c3 ruled out already (I think it was by the snake line polarity), so in box 1 there was a 7 and a 3 on the equal sums line, so there could not be another 3 which would have been necessary for a sum of 13. That being said - anothere wonderful puzzle and an entertaining solve video.

@MatteoBoschi 2 года назад

I used a diffent (easier?) way to get the equal-sum-line value: 7 must be in r2-3c3, along with a 3 in r3c2: 13 is not possible without repeating a 3. Great puzzle and great solve, as usual.

@no_name4796 2 года назад

It would be cool to a have a sudoku where you have to draw snake/cave/whatever and in the rule set it says "you can solve it by drawing it without using any number (hard way)"

@JohnBlackburn 2 года назад

Blue and purple are the same color to some of us. Why not use red and blue, yellow and red, dark gray and light gray.

@LittleBallOfPurr 2 года назад

This made me want to watch you solve Sudoku, but every time you get a digit, you have to swig your beer/wine.

@frankwales 2 года назад

So, as many as 81 swigs to a puzzle. Assuming Simon doesn't significantly lose the ability to continue until alcohol poisoning takes over. I think we'd lose him about halfway through the Miracle Sudoku... However, the notion of drunken puzzlers in mental combat does have some appeal to it, I must admit. Maybe there's some kind of cross-over with the Try channel, with Simon and Mark joining various Irish people in solving tequila slammer sudoku puzzles.

@viviencollomb-clerc5526 2 года назад

Brillant !

@Tentin.Quarantino 2 года назад

1:01:44 every possible pink path in box 3 leaves 2 greens. I think the alcohol made that look harder than it really was

@prahas777 2 года назад

Video idea: at 10 minute intervals, Simon must drink [insert quantity] of [insert Simon’s favorite alcoholic beverage], while solving a 5 star puzzle. LOL

@theendicott2838 2 года назад

This is the first time I have legitimately spotted something before Simon that turned out being correct. Normally what I think I spot ends up being utter nonsense… As soon as we know that R7C2 is either 1 or 4, AND R4/R5/R6C2 is either made up of 1/5/7 OR 2/5/7, we actually know for a fact that R7C2 is 4. R8[-R8C1] sums to 38, and R8[+R7C2] has to be divisible by 3. That is how we know that R7C2 is either 1 or 4. If R7C2 is 1, then the equal sum total has to be 13, but R4/R5/R6C2 becomes 2/5/7 which sums to 14. Therefore, R7C2 must be 4, and the equal sum total is 14.

@johnh2052 2 года назад

At 30:00, the discussion of the line type could be boiled down to: Oh, look! There's a 7 outside the grid, and that means R8C1=7, and forces a 5 onto the blue line, so it's equal sums.

@s.t.2130 2 года назад

I really like how you blame your brain, and not the alcohol for any slowness!! 😂

@ronniehoogerwerf5481 2 года назад

Color blindness request: when using just two or three colors to highlight differences, the blue/purple is near impossible to distinguish. Your usual blue orange is perfect! combine that with a lighter yellow or green and we're in business..

@StellaByLuna 2 года назад

Yes! This video would have been so much more enjoyable for me if I could tell the difference between the blue and purple squares, another solution (for my particular form of colorblindness at least) would be to make the shade of purple darker and the blue lighter

@shteevuk 2 года назад

Got a big shock today after I filled in the digit at the end of a snake and a letter vanished and later I thought it had to continue it!!!!

@ArtemensiaK 2 года назад

I need to say this, because it drives me crazy every time I see or hear this: The staff with the TWO snakes is the Hermes staff, the one with ONE snake is the Hipokrates staff (the medical one). That beeing said: Lets get cracking!

@1a2s3d6a9s5d 2 года назад

The snakes are an orthogonally connected set of cells.. I understand that "snake" could be self explanatory to some but for me I saw no reason why it couldn't have a T shape (or revert back on itself if you wish) if not mentioned in the rules.. So I got stuck and watched the video, shouted at you for all the missed logic in box 4 fixing colors and polarity very early on hehe but I only shout because I love you dearly Simon, thank you for the share!