The Emergence Of A Sudoku Goddess

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** TODAY'S PUZZLE **
The sudoku world is full of some of the planet's most exceptional brains. But even in such elite company, Jay Dyer and her puzzles still shine incredibly brightly. Tonight's sudoku, Emergence, is her latest and has a 5* difficulty rating. Oh and it's also been described as just about the best region sum sudoku ever...
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Rules:
Normal sudoku rules apply. The 3x3 box borders divide a blue line into segments. The sum of the digits along each segment is the same for that line. Different lines may have different segment sums. Eg r4c7+r4c8 = r1c6+r2c6+r3c6 = r1c7+r2c8+r3c9+r3c8
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▶ Contents Of This Video ◀
0:00 Theme music & puzzle intro
1:27 The chance to reach 600,000 subscribers
2:22 The Lord Of The Rings Sudoku Hunt
2:47 Rules
4:00 Start of Solve: Let's Get Cracking
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@jaydyer3999 21 день назад

Thanks for the solve! I'm glad I got to see you solve this one; with the number of different ways the clues interacted, I was curious if people would find different paths through it as a result. The way I looked at the break-in was something you touched upon later: one of the red/yellow dominoes has to appear in its entirety in the purple quintuple, along with three more digits. That limits the dominoes to being 11 at most, and the other three digits (which include r4c16) summing to at most 7. Other than that, you had the logic pretty much as I had looked at it.

@davidrattner9 21 день назад

Just again fabulous from you! Fantastic setting!!

@chironchangnoi 21 день назад

Jay, thank you for this puzzle! You are truly gifted at setting and we always love to see you featured on CtC!

@martysears 20 дней назад

That is indeed one of the slickest pure region sum puzzles I have seen

@Paolo_De_Leva 19 дней назад

You managed to be phenomenally innovative even using a *single* and *widely used* variant constraint. 👏👏👏👏👏 Thank you for explaining your intended logic for the break-in. Very interesting. It is so difficult to imagine how a human mind can construct such a magic puzzle. I could imagine someone designing a puzzle with the same magic break-in logic, but you were ridiculously magic up to the end❗ Every single line did magic❗ *Memeristor,* we need another interview with *Jay,* please.

@emdiar6588 19 дней назад

I am glad to hear there were other paths, because after the break in, I certainly went about it differently to Simon, and probably far less optimally. A great puzzle with a challenging break in and a lot of plate spinning. Loved it.

@JaymanOttawa 21 день назад

The greatest trick the Devil ever pulled was convincing Simon that it wasn't Maverick driving the combine harvester...

@FirHydrntsRFirEaters 21 день назад

Jay does this thing in her puzzles consistently in which each piece is highly interactive with the other pieces. Here, each of the region sums feels highly dependent on the others, but then they also each have magnificent internal logic of their own. Solving this as Simon has is incredible; he's excellent at finding one deduction, applying it to the next, and so on, until the picture becomes clearer. And setting it is amazing too! It must be like seeing a whole game of chess and knowing how it's going to play out. What a mind. Jay is a genius.

@ManuelStephenJohnLu-mk5ng 21 день назад

Setting this puzzle up would be a great video itself

@chocolateboy300 20 дней назад

I finished in 142 minutes. This puzzle is a work of art. Jay has done it again. While it was hard, I didn't feel lost or bogged down at all. Everything felt very natural in its flow. I, especially, liked the part where 4 and 5 were locked into the lines in row 4, leaving r4c1 without a 5. This, combined with no 5 belonging in column 1 in box 7, leads to the disambiguation of the line in box 1, giving it a value of 11 since 5 must now belong on it. This puzzle was full of cool tricks like that. It is just incredible construction. I don't know how Jay keeps doing this. She creates such clean puzzles that are also fun to solve. One of my favorites. Great Puzzle!

@In_TheMoonlight 21 день назад

It makes me laugh really hard to think that Simon's videos are now not only being interrupted by Maverick but also by a combine harvester 😭

@arandamei2189 21 день назад

Yes, a combine harvester in June in Surrey! What on earth...?

@phillipculley9156 21 день назад

Are you suggesting your neighbour's got a brand new combine harvester? Maybe one day he'll lend you its key :)

@Dotesmite 21 день назад

Simon missed a really elegant deduction at 28:30. The digits in row 4 box 6 that are on the region sum line either add up to 11 or include the green digit, since the pair adding up to 11 that goes unused in the yellow region must show up somewhere in row 4. If they add up to 11, the only way to make it work on the segment of the line in box 2 is if it was 128. However, that would make the grey digit in box 5 3 and the red digit would have to be 8, ruling out a legitimate way to add up to 11 on that specific region. Thus, the green digit has to be on the region sum line in box 6.

@lunardancer6047 19 дней назад

This is one of my all-time favourite puzzles that has been featured on the channel. Incredibly hard, but it feels like a miracle that it solves without any given digits. Always feels great to solve a 5 star difficulty puzzle too.

@TurquoizeGoldscraper 21 день назад

I got some of the logic, but couldn't quite find the break-in, so I just watched Simon.

@nicka3697 21 день назад

You are not alone.

@longwaytotipperary 21 день назад

@@nicka3697same

@danielharmon1204 21 день назад

Always love being early to a Jay Dyer puzzle!

@ronjohnson6916 21 день назад

There are comments on LMG about Maverick? He's branching out.

@crashtextdummie 21 день назад

Sublime solve by Simon. Pretty sure this qualifies for 5* difficulty and Simon was simply on beast mode today.

@davidrattner9 21 день назад

Jay Dyer is such a master at setting with such deep logic and deductions. Constant thrill to see a puzzle of hers featured. Wonderful solving Simon .

@Cymindis 20 дней назад

beautiful puzzle... I 'solved' it with a lot of help from Simon... even so it was such a beautiful solve and I felt proud of the bits of logic I did spot and follow, but yeah needed help

@frankjiang1857 21 день назад

Finished in 42:13. The break-in was just lovely with the same sum lines forcing requirements on the digits in row 4 and column 1. Fun puzzle!

@ericpraline1302 19 дней назад

Lorks, I suffered for this puzzle and it did not flow for me, but I was never going to give up on a Jay Dyer puzzle because you know they will always be worth the effort. It didn't kill me so I guess it made me stronger.

@titleloanman 21 день назад

There’s something delightful about every owner of heavy machinery rushing to get to work as soon as Simon tries to make a video.

@Paolo_De_Leva 19 дней назад

*Divine* construction❗ Ridiculously magic from start to end. Phenomenally innovative, even though it was based *only* on a *widely used* variant constraint. 👏👏👏👏👏👏👏 Ridiculously brilliant solve by Simon as well 👏👏👏👏👏👏👏

@Paolo_De_Leva 19 дней назад

As I have already pointed out before, I think *redundant notation* makes the grid messy, reducing its readability. E.g., @41:15, white-flashed red and green became redundant and deleting them would have noticeably enhanced *video quality.* Typically, Simon can deal with it very well, so he does not need to clear the grid. I suspect he might be even slowed down if he did it systematically. However, I am talking about video quality, not about Simon's personal preferences.

@4thright 21 день назад

Got in here early, saw Jay Dyer's name, clicked like on the video even before Maverick could get in. I will be justified in this assumption.

@victorfinberg8595 20 дней назад

people who wonder "i have subscribed to channel X, so why am i not seeing their new videos at the top of my feed?" ... it's because you have subscribed to TEN (or 100) channels. no more than HALF of those videos get TOP priority. more accurately, maybe 3/4 of your TOP priority recommendations are completely random (for you). the recommendations are HEAVILY weighted towards the TYPE of things you have been watching recently. and admit it, nobody in their right mind is going to scroll down more than 20 recommendations. therefore, MOST of the videos that you are looking for will never be offered to you. therefore, you have to go looking for those videos manually.

@Harrizeb 20 дней назад

This annoys the heck out of me so much! I do go looking because, you know, if I subscribed its cause I want to watch their videos. Thanks for highlighting this cause I was beginning to wonder what was going on as its happening so much.

@AndreAy1975 20 дней назад

Solved it with help from the video.

@Gonzalo_Garcia_ 20 дней назад

28:11 for me. Fantastic puzzle, really loved this one!!

@bobblebardsley 21 день назад

It's not Maverick in the combine harvester, it's Old McAverick (E-I-E-I-O)

@madsli 20 дней назад

Combine? I didn't realise Simon lived in the world of half life.

@shawncarter7188 21 день назад

Subscribe to this wonderful channel !

@Squishy3757 21 день назад

He highlighted the 5 which was staring at me in column 3.

@cgoldbac 21 день назад

So exciting! We got farmer brown in addition to maverick today

@Rubrickety 20 дней назад

When I tried this puzzle and made little progress (but saw that Simon cracked it in under an hour), I assumed it was some weird SET trick. But no, "just" clamped sums propagating around the grid. That's the sort of thing I was trying, but unllike Simon I'm almost incapable of remembering what ranges I've calculated for segments while I'm looking elsewhere (and there isn't a good way to notate them in the software). So this sort of solve is extremely hard for me.

@RenameJames 20 дней назад

50:30 "Sudoku is our friend" - Simon, 2024. Also, that combine needs a name

@andremouss2536 19 дней назад

28:30 how long will Simon take to locate the green digit in box 2, and then immediately at R6C6 ?

@wanderlustwarrior 20 дней назад

1:08:30 for me. Really challenging, but very fun!

@MeriaDuck 20 дней назад

We now need a name for the farmer 😂

@Harrizeb 20 дней назад

Is alliteration allowed? Maverick and MacDonald?

@glum_hippo 21 день назад

This was deifinitely a "grind" but you made it look more pleasant.

@MarkBennet10001 21 день назад

Another masterpiece of a Sudoku - but not easy

@MarkBennet10001 21 день назад

That was an excellent solve - the tuning in to the early logic took me twice as long because I was looking at the wrong things. Once I had found it the solve ran smoothly as here.

@anaayoung9142 21 день назад

Interesting how we can solve a puzzle like this one, that I have no clue how to start! 😅

@snilefisk 21 день назад

Can the combine harvester be Jeremy or Caleb?

@13vatra 21 день назад

Skipping over the secret? 😱 That's not very Simon of you!

@MAUOMBO 20 дней назад

The ads are every 5min now?

@matthewgrimes2733 19 дней назад

Hi, I just wanted to inform you that my brothers birthday is on the 15 and he has been watching you for years and he always tells me about the shoutouts for birthdays so ima see if I can do it for him! His name is Jack

@jonathanbarz9898 21 день назад

you could have forced the blue region sum not to be a blue pair at 34:35 because it would force the other region to be at minimum a 3+4+5+6=18, which would be impossible to place on the 2-cell region sum in box 1.

@RichSmith77 21 день назад

Sorry, but where's the "blue region sum"? All the region sum lines are blue. I only see two blue cells in the grid, in box 4. They don't appear on a region sum line though. I'm lost.

@jonathanbarz9898 21 день назад

@@RichSmith77 there's at least one blue cell on the region sum line in row 4, box 6. the question is whether they can both be on that region sum line, and my comment proves they can't be

@RichSmith77 20 дней назад

@@jonathanbarz9898I'm not too sure why you would refer to that particular region sum line in box 6 as "the blue region sum", but your comment makes more sense to me now. Thank you. So the "other region sum line" would be referring to box 2. I can see why this would then be a minimum of 18. The total for box 2 is 45, take off the blue pair total (11) and the maximum for the other two cells (7+9=16 (r2c4 sees an 8,9 pair)), and you get 45-11-16=18. I'm not sure where you're getting 3+4+5+6 from, though? What's preventing 1 or 2 from appearing on the other line? I was trying to see a reason this was forced and not coming up with anything. Isn't it just a coincidence that 18=3+4+5+6? Edit: And seconds after I post, I see it. There's a red digit (8 or 9) on the region sum line down c6 in box 2! To make that sum to 11 it would have to be 8+1+2. Sorry for being slow. Edit 2: It would also have been sensible for me to actually play that section of the video that you gave a timestamp for, since that being 8+1+2 is exactly what Simon's talking about. I was just staring at the grid position in the paused video, like a numpty-man. 😂

@jonathanbarz9898 20 дней назад

@@RichSmith77 because 1,2 and 8 already would appear on the line summing to 11 in the same box. only 345679 are available

@RichSmith77 20 дней назад

@@jonathanbarz9898 Sorry. I posted my edits before I saw you had already replied. Yes. It makes sense in the context of what Simon was talking about at that point of the video. Thank you.

@theredstoneengineer6934 10 дней назад

112:47 for me

@robertcousins2274 20 дней назад

30:43 for me

@AG_247 21 день назад

I just realized how bad I am in finding cells, when the coordinates are rows and columns. I'd rather prefer to use box and cell instead of row and column. I e. r4c7 = box6, cell1.

@leickrobinson5186 21 день назад

I miss Maverick!

@Ardalambdion 21 день назад

Speaking of goddesses, want Clover, has she quit sudoku?

@stangerrits6712 21 день назад

There’s a Clover sudoku to solve every three days on the CtC Discord server, so she definitely didn’t quit

@MattYDdraig 21 день назад

23:57 This is region sum lines perfection. Take a whole load of bows, Jay.❤

@angec9908 21 день назад

Maverick is 36 seconds late 😂 Please, Simon, you should check your office for bugs 😬

@_-_-Sipita-_-_ 5 дней назад

40:04 for me. didnt know jay was a girl, always thought that was a male name lol.

@alienrenders 21 день назад

27:44 for me. Nice easy puzzle.

@tessabrisac7423 21 день назад

Please, Simon, is it not high time you should stop saying “constructors” when you refer to Jay Dyer, Clover and other female sudoku setters? If you cannot bring yourself to pronounce “constructress”, maybe you could find more feminine or epicine terms, because “constructor” definitely suggests a male person.

@JaymanOttawa 21 день назад

Constructress isn't a word. Thank God we have people like you lifting every rock to look for problems that don't exist.

@tessabrisac7423 21 день назад

@JaymanOttawa, it is a problem for me, even if you don’t care. In fact, in all the recent puzzles by Jay Dyer, I have seen in the comments that she is generally alluded to as a he, perhaps because everything logical or mathematical tends to be asociated with men by default? So, yes, it is a problem, a simple one. Besides, I am not particularly fond of « constructress », but why can’t it be a word?

@pterra2009 21 день назад

@@tessabrisac7423 Let's be sure we start calling female painters "paintresses" infact any female artist should be an "artistress" also right? What are you even on about - someone who constructs somethings is a constructor - it's gender neutral, don't let it ruffle your feathers.

@y2a1979 21 день назад

@@tessabrisac7423 I suspect people refer to Jay as male more often simply because on average(at least in my experience), most people named Jay are male.

@JaymanOttawa 20 дней назад

@@tessabrisac7423 Simon absolutely gushes when he speaks of Jay Dyer and in the video title he calls her a "Goddess", yet all you can see is a slur. Pathetic...

@wibblywobblyidiotvision 19 дней назад

"doesn't feel like a 5 star puzzle". Speak for yourself, bucko. I gave up after 2 hours, took a different approach by trying to nail down the sums of the lines, somehow missed the 11-nature of the top right and that killed me totally.