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An approachable debut sudoku today from ViKingPrime! It's called Record Highs and it has a deceptively simple ruleset and lovely clean logic.
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@patrickgass787 Год назад

ViKingPrime checking in here! Thank you so, so much for the feature, a dream come true for me. As an aside, to explain the online tag, since I know Simon will appreciate this - it actually comes from StarCraft. There was a player called MarineKing who played for Team Prime and he excelled at using the base unit in the game (the Marine). For anyone who knows the game, you'll also be familiar with a unit called the Viking, which is a much derpier thing to control... the inside joke being my Viking control was excellent.

@widgetb Год назад

Thank you for the excellent puzzle. And one I could actually do! (I love watching the hard solves, but it does feel really good to figure one out myself from time to time.)

@emilywilliams3237 Год назад

Congratulations on your debut on the channel! I tried the puzzle before watching Simon's video and really enjoyed solving it. It was very interesting (and a bit of a brain bender) to not be on autopilot for the longer thermos but have to actually consider my options carefully.

@user-kt9vr1wj6y Год назад

Brilliant puzzle. Delightful experience to solve it.

@pg5200 Год назад

Thank you for this puzzle that I really enjoyed solving, great ruleset and interesting logic going on !

@doublelxp Год назад

That was a fun one.

@SirBradiator Год назад

I know you don't like pencil marking thermos like Mark does, but in this instance it definitely helps, the first thing I got was the whole of column 5

@Hybban Год назад

Same for me. You can easily place the 5 and the 7 by checking the markings with columns 3 and 7. And then the rest of column 5 follows.

@RichardDamon Год назад

Agreed, started pencil marking the two 9 cell thermos and a lot of stuff just started to fall together, They nicely force the 8 cell thermo by knocking out the 6.in the middle

@jenisjourneys9215 Год назад

Me too. I think this was my first ever faster than Simon time, at just over 18 minutes.

@listey Год назад

Yep 100%. Mark would have knocked this over in about 5-7 minutes.

@blahfasel2000 Год назад

It almost seems like this puzzle was purpose-designed to foil Simon by exploiting his reluctance to mark thermos ;-)

@stevieinselby Год назад

Great fun ... practically a GAS! Finished in 10:30, I feel like this is one where Simon would have benefited from just splattering the thermos with pencil marks because there are several things that become obvious a lot more quickly when you do that.

@nickatty462 Год назад

I thought that, but then found myself stuck right at the end trying to resolve the two left hand columns (and a bit of other stuff over on the right). I'm not sure if I've made a mistake earlier, or am missing something obvious [edited - just needed a bit more confidence in my pencil marks! Now that I've watched the video, Simon does it more elegantly, but it's the 123/456 thermos in box 4 pushing things around in box 7 that I was missing].

@oldguydoesstuff120 Год назад

I enjoyed this puzzle very much. Loved the tweak on thermo rules. Put me down as another pencil marker. Went to town on the two long thermos right away, then used that to deal with column 5. Only then did I start to think more deeply about what could go where.

@stevewithaq Год назад

I had to pause for a bit with the rules, because I read "the digit 1 may be considered as having the value of 1 or 10" as possibly meaning the SAME 1 could be considered 1 or 10 at the same time, but then realized that would make such a puzzle impossible without other clues, as there would be a minimum of 9 solutions. So I tried the puzzle out, and solved it in 12:05! Nice, approachable puzzle, even with the twist!

@th.nd.r Год назад

Pretty musical intro!! And what a cool website, well done Wayne!! As for the puzzle, hats off. Beautifully simple, simply beautiful. Love the ruleset, some of the deductions were quite elegant, it really had the same quality and beauty as some of these harder puzzles out there. I hope to see more VikingPrime puzzles on the channel in the future! We’ll set, well solved :)

@furt1v3ly Год назад

I think this is the first puzzle I have ever solved faster than Mark or Simon. And the difference was "Goodliffing" it. The extra pencil marking helped me immensely in spotting the middle thermo excluded digits.

@clausewitzianwar Год назад

21:03 for me, I found this wonderfully approachable (although there was one bit of logic that took me some excess pencil marking to finally spot)

@allgreatfictions Год назад

I haven't been able to complete many sudokus lately because I've fallen out of practice and some are just a bit too hard. This was exactly the right level for me! Solved in 16 minutes, but I had to restart once because I messed up a bit. Absolutely love it!

@TheHotEgg Год назад

I thoroughly enjoyed that one, thank you. I started watching the video, but quickly saw a way in and stopped to have a go at the puzzle before watching the rest. I was very happy to solve it relatively quickly and then enjoyed watching Simon solve it in a slightly different way. Much as I like the long videos, it’s great to have some shorter videos with easier puzzles too.

@amoswittenbergsmusings Год назад

13:17 for me, with plenty of smiles on my face! That was a beautiful vignet of non-trivial minipuzzles and yet not too difficult. Not in the increasingly heavily populated area of back-breaking "pain will lead to pleasure" deep puzzles that we see on CtC, more like a delightful Mozart divertimento than a Mahler symphony. Simon was rightly smiling all through his solve. Many thanks to ViKingPrime for the box of chocolates.

@multi-fanmere9896 Год назад

As a person with minimal sudoku experience that just stumbled upon CTC a few months ago (and has watched daily since), I really love when you feature "approachable" puzzles. Most puzzles, I just have to watch in mind-boggling amazement (and sometimes mild confusion). Being able to finally solve a puzzle myself gave me a whole new level of enjoyment! I can understand how people get so obsessed with sudoku now!

@ethanderrick8486 Год назад

Did this one in 17:51, felt good as its the first time I've been able to sit down and put in a time for months. For it to be under Simon's solve time gives me confidence!

@chrissantangelo9065 Год назад

Fantastic puzzle, I almost forgot how fun it is to actually solve one of the daily sudokus. I’m sure I’m in the minority here, but I always look forward to puzzles that are harder than the daily GAS but easier than the beautiful but almost impossible (for me) movie feature length puzzles.

@PriffyViole Год назад

Same here.

@nicolasmartin224 Год назад

You're definitely not alone :)

@kiphansen8319 Год назад

I'm with you. That's why I often head over to BremSter's channel too, as his are usually a bit easier to tackle. But Simon and Mark are quite amazing at what they do, and a joy to watch their brains work.

@CineMiamParis Год назад

With you there.

@turoni314 Год назад

This is indeed the sweet spot.

@drengskap Год назад

Wow! I completed this in 20:58, only about a minute more than Simon - that doesn't happen too often. Congratulations to VikingPrime on an auspicious debut!

@whommel_kpop Год назад

Finished in just under half an hour, really proud of myself, the sudokus that make the channel are usually above my level of difficulty

@Laurana07 Год назад

This puzzle was so fun, and fairly easy. That is, I did not question my existence doing it. 24 min, yeah!

@benphelan88 Год назад

My fav Beatles song, criminally underrated.

@Stettafire Год назад

I'm a spring chicken, and an uncultured swine, which Beatles song is it? 😅

@coralfeatherstone7019 Год назад

My favourite Beatles tune also. The long and winding road.

@inspiringsand123 Год назад

Rules: 06:10 Let's Get Cracking: 07:35 Simon's time: 18m57s Puzzle Solved: 26:32 What about this video's Top Tier Simarkisms?! Three In the Corner: 1x (26:14) And how about this video's Simarkisms?! By Sudoku: 7x (13:23, 14:16, 16:17, 17:45, 17:51, 18:14, 23:52) Pencil Mark/mark: 5x (12:20, 12:20, 12:36, 20:15, 21:07) Lovely: 4x (14:33, 26:36, 26:36, 27:02) Surely: 4x (24:45, 24:48, 24:51, 24:51) Sorry: 3x (03:14, 03:17, 05:35) Ah: 3x (03:06, 08:43, 22:53) Beautiful: 2x (26:20, 26:31) Break the Puzzle: 2x (14:36) Hang On: 2x (23:03, 25:06) Obviously: 2x (02:31, 17:21) Clever: 1x (01:36) Bingo: 1x (26:31) In the Spotlight: 1x (26:17) Brilliant: 1x (01:51) Gorgeous: 1x (20:56) Approachable: 1x (01:11) Whoopsie: 1x (21:21) Wow: 1x (18:27) What Does This Mean?: 1x (19:55) Cake!: 1x (04:44) Most popular number(>9), digit and colour this video: Ten (12 mentions) One (70 mentions) Green (2 mentions) Antithesis Battles: High (3) - Low (1) Even (3) - Odd (2) Lower (5) - Higher (3) Column (15) - Row (6) 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!

@soremekun Год назад

You're back!!!!! I missed you!

@highpath4776 Год назад

"Things"

@creativename3256 Год назад

I’m so glad you’re back :D

@widgetb Год назад

Hurray! You're back! It didn't seem like a proper game without you.

@tessabrisac7423 Год назад

Welcome back, dear bot, I did miss you too!

@dkamm65 Год назад

I got this one in 16:08. I'm going to choose to ignore that Simon explains his logic as he goes and inflates his time and instead focus on the fact that I got a faster time. Totally fair comparison.

@stephenbeck7222 Год назад

Simon’s “key” at 15:45 was where I thought I’d broken the puzzle. Twice! A fun solve with a neat twist.

@markp7262 Год назад

10:12 finish. Simon stepped away from the center thermo much too quickly, as it was immediately able to be completed after the two longest ones were pencil marked. A very nice quick puzzle!

@JohnHazl Год назад

Very nice puzzle ViKingPrime, well done

@EivindRomcke Год назад

Would love to see Mark solve this one, because if you Goodliffe the three main thermos you get off to a cracking start

@edwurtle Год назад

it would be a gas puzzle for mark.. he could solve in 6-8 minutes.

@edwurtle Год назад

It would be fun if they occasionally did the same puzzle as a friendly competition... they could trash talk and make fun of each other solves... and keep a on-going scoreboard. that would be hilarious to watch.

@tessabrisac7423 Год назад

I guess it would be one of those beast-mood solves where you can see the digits flying all over the place to fill cell after cell while Mark serenely comments about the weather 😉.

@adimeirman2082 Год назад

same!

@TheMadrory Год назад

25:22 for me. I spent most of it thinking "How can this possibly be solvable?" and then seeing the next step. Really elegant setting from ViKingPrime!

@chuckmanion1128 Год назад

16:27 this was fun. A very fun logical path to follow. I like the idea of treating 1s like aces. It would be nice to see more puzzles with this variant.

@Antiknight Год назад

Nice twist on the regular thermos and brilliant execution from ViKingPrime :)

@f.b.jeffers0n Год назад

Loved the twist! 12m 54s was my time, and while I love the movies, getting a rush before watching you get said rush is sublime!!

@andrewlinker411 Год назад

20:21 for me....I think this was the fastest I ever solved a puzzle that Simon solves!

@Atomicslash Год назад

The first solve I've done along side with simon. Got 16 minutes. After pencil marking the pairs of digits up the length 9 thermos the length 8 thermo was forced. Realy fun.

@Seriously_Unserious Год назад

Simon, that you say "Sorry so much, just makes you an Honorary Canadian. and I'm saying that as a natural Canadian, born and raised! 🍁🍁🍁🍁🍁

@kaddiddlehopper Год назад

I really enjoyed this one. It is more on my level, and I was able to solve it in a reasonable amount of time. I would love to see more like this.

@kathyjohnson2043 Год назад

The long and winding road is very lovely!

@quothacreations3465 Год назад

very approachable and a nice twist on the typical thermo--thanks ViKingPrime. nice to do a faster than usual CtC puzzle that doesn't swallow up an hour of my time.

@danielcamp789 Год назад

I loved the logic in this one & the crumbs that become obvious as you move along (pencil marking definitely helps with this one).

@nomore6167 Год назад

I haven't watched the video yet, but given that my time to solve this puzzle was 11:37, I can only conclude that Simon took a nap partway through this video (or his dislike of pencil marking short thermos really worked against him).

@vakilian Год назад

Same. I'm usually much slower than Simon but this took me 14 mins. Perhaps Goodliffing has its place, occasionally 😜

@Hakucho64 Год назад

Be kind, he spent at least two minutes explaining X-wings. 🙂

@heatherfyffe3618 Год назад

@@Hakucho64 x-wings? I haven't watched the video because I solved it quickly (not as quickly as 11 minutes but still haha) but I can't think of any spots where x-wings would have been relevant. Maybe it's the not-pencil-marking thing I'm seeing in the comments haha...

@listey Год назад

@@heatherfyffe3618 there are several times where x-wings are useful. In fact I'm not sure how you'd be able to do the puzzle without using them.

@evdweide Год назад

@@listey 15:03 for me. I never used X-wings but plenty of pairs you can pencilmark everywhere,

@BVIGrockle Год назад

So pleased with a 12 minute solve, definitely aided by pencil marking!

@JohnRandomness105 Год назад

8:20 The X-wing: alternatively, 12 pair and 19 pair. 18:10 That middle thermometer is by far the most restricted region. The puzzle was nice, and easier than I expected it. I still broke it once, by mixing up the direction on a thermo.

@olivier2553 Год назад

Yeah! 22 and some minutes after a couple of false starts and wrong reasonings: I tend to jump to the first available solution and do not consider that there could be other correct ones. I am pleased that after watching Simon, I had almost the same path to the solution. I feel I have learned so much since I started watching the channel. And even better, it got me to use my brain again. For that, I cannot thank you enough Simon.

@mabettaja Год назад

Finally a non gas puzzle I was able to solve and it took 30 mins. A good one as well, well done and a welcome easier one!

@sanctionbuster Год назад

35:58. First one I've solved in a while. Cheers for doing an approachable one, Simon.

@Anne_Mahoney Год назад

One of my very favorite songs as an intro! Thanks, Simon!

@emilywilliams3237 Год назад

This was a fun and interesting puzzle, full of twists of mental alertness to not just go on autopilot and assume things about the thermos. Thanks for the video - I did the puzzle in roughly the same order that you did, but I was not nearly as elegant about it, more pencil-marking and more realizing some of the logical beauty after the fact. Thanks, as always, Simon, for this video and for all of the videos, and for your charm in wishing people happy birthday and congratulating successful solvers of the Patreon reward puzzles. All of this is part of what makes this channel so fun and wonderful.

@neildaniels1423 Год назад

I just kept screaming "Where does 6 go in the center box" praying Simon in the past could hear me.

@steveunderwood3683 Год назад

Quick, easy and very satisfying.

@frankster200 Год назад

13:09. Loved the solution path.

@tzeneth Год назад

00:18:25 I love a good thermo sudoku and this twist on a standard one was a lot of fun. Had some trouble finding where I was supposed to look a few times but still enjoyed it.

@BrooksMoses Год назад

That really was a delightful puzzle! I solved it back when it was first posted on Discord, and I'm glad to see it here.

@altreusplays Год назад

Got around to doing this myself and it is definitely an accessible one! I even had my own "Oh no I've broken the puzzle" moment, which I suspect is a rite of passage

@Yttria Год назад

Surprisingly approachable given the relaxation of the thermometer constraint (finished in 17:07). Lots of fun.

@katam6471 Год назад

Such a pleasant and fun sudoku, solvable even for me . Except for the GAS ones, most puzzle are way to hard for me to solve and though I really like to watch Simon and Mark solving the hard ones, the videos are often to long for me nowadays, I just don't have the time. So this was a nice surprise for a Saturday night, thanks a lot!

@ethanderrick8486 Год назад

Hey, I believe in you! Not having time sucks, but I'm sure if you can spare time for a harder one once in a while, you'll quickly knock down the time! Don't let yourself get put off, especially if a puzzle pops up that features a ruleset you particularly like.

@jacobcain9008 Год назад

This puzzle was super fun! Took me a little over 30 minutes to solve and had some great logic! Easy 10/10

@Sianistic Год назад

Puts a 36 pair between a 2 and a 4 on a thermo ... decides to prove that 3 can't go into the other cell available in the box before pencilling it in ... classic

@Gonzalo_Garcia_ Год назад

5:48 for me. Great puzzle!

@LixLorn 3 месяца назад

Loved this puzzle, and managed to do it in just 21:43, even accounting for restarting a couple of times after breaking it! goodliffing the middle thermo helped a lot, and I RACED through the ending by noticing that boxes 1/4/7 and 3/6/9 were roping. Great fun to do, great fun to watch. Thank you both!

@stevebaptista7938 Год назад

This was a great puzzle, and very approachable. I can't believe I solved it in about the same time as the CTC video. ☺️

@AurelUrban Год назад

I think this is the first time I solved one of these sudokus approximately at Simon's speed. It was very enjoyable, quite a breeze.

@pascalbriand9987 Год назад

Took me so long to get that one!!! 8 hours approx, had to restart so many times, did my head in, first non gas puzzle ever....just watched how Simon solved it... wow, made it looked so easy...

@hassanzass Год назад

This was a great puzzle! Short and fun!

@WayneDupree1101 Год назад

Sorry for they delayed response - had a fun weekend celebrating my oldest's birthday! Thanks so much for the birthday shout out Simon - they were super excited to add that to the list of awesome things for their "Sweet 16", it really helped make their day! And thanks so much for putting the site in the video and all the great feedback from every one - really appreciate it!

@yagyaahlawat7681 Год назад

The first puzzle here that I was able to solve myself!

@francoisduez601 Год назад

11:34 Nice idea of a puzzle 🙃

@Coyotek4 Год назад

10:41 ... another welcome respite after a behemoth of a sudoku (Mark's video from yesterday) Nice puzzle!

@felipevasconcelos6736 Год назад

23:12 Very nice roping action. Nice easy puzzle to recover from DiMono's Sudokoban.

@djr36djr36 Год назад

At 25:25, as an alternative to the striping logic, you can just ask where the 9 goes in box 7. It's in column 2, which finishes box 4.

@LillaJag Год назад

I rarely watch the channel nowadays because I miss this short videos with something I can understand and are not completely complex.. But maybe I need to get the longer videos a chance..

@amoswittenbergsmusings Год назад

It all depends how much drama you appreciate, I guess. I am totally drawn in by the feature-length epics but I really sympathise with your feelings. The dilemma is that the amount of astounding puzzle that are being created is overwhelming.

@HunterJE Год назад

Could call this variant "Blackjack thermos" or "Poker thermos," since the "ace" can be treated as low or high...

@ServantOfSatania Год назад

22:17 For me, fairly easy puzzle, I enjoyed shenanigans that column 6 and 9 were doing in box 5 and 6 respectively even if it was more distracting than helpful at the end, as well as box 4's interaction with box 1 and 7 at the end

@zealot2147 Год назад

13:11 for me and a very nice logical pattern that had a great path. I nearly fell into the likely trap in assuming 9s would have to go on ends of thermos, and while certainly some did, I caught myself from misnumbering thermos. And for that I’m happy

@AhsimNreiziev Год назад

I suspect 10 to be the most-mentioned non-Sudoku digit due to things summing to 10, such as the 'X' clues in XV puzzles. And while Simon doesn't do a lot of XV Sudokus, especially nowadays, Mark I believe does quite a bit of Domino Sudokus, including a lot involving XV clues.

@craigthorsen Год назад

Enjoyed! Solve was informative. Puzzle was delightful.

@rudyderidder394 Год назад

19:33 Nice puzzle, lovely setting. Thanks

@zlatkakardaleva5738 Год назад

I haven't been able to solve anything in the past months and I'm so happy I was finally able to solve something!

@RedBarchetta2019 Год назад

Fun! Pencil marking columns 3,5,7 places a 7 in the center of the grid. Then there are so many X-wings - box 8 places the 2 in the bulb immediately by x wing and thermo rules. Roping shows up. Great puzzle, thanks!

@grahamrskelly6042 Год назад

9:54 and fun. The video was great. congratulations to those that solved the puzzle hunt.

@andrewholaway4113 Год назад

14:59 for me! This was a fun one, with lots of interesting pencil marking and unfolding logic that came quickly

@tiezieboy7877 Год назад

8:11 for me, really happy with that time. Also a great puzzle with a nice and small ruleset!

@CrazyIvanTR Год назад

It's really interesting to see Simon solve this very differently from how I did, the first thermo I got was the middle 8 cell long one. (Spoilers: thanks to the pairs that the 3rd and 7th column thermos form). If he was a bit more carefree with his pencil marking I think he'd have gotten this one in around 5-6 minutes :D I also tried out the replay tool Sven has implemented, and it is fascinating as well!

@Hephaestus_God Год назад

It's fun to see how different we solve them just by using different logic. The very first 8 digits I placed were on the middle thermometer. Since you had pairs of numbers in the two large one and you knew 2 was in the bulb in the middle one, it meant the only digits possible going down would be 3/4, 4/5, 5/6, ... 9/10(1)... Once you hit the middle box you get a 5/6 option but the 6/7 pair from the two large thermos means you can auto place the 5. Letting you fill out the rest of the thermo. Meanwhile I didn't actually fill out the 2 large thermos until about the middle of my solve.

@endofdarkness88r22 Год назад

Finally a Sudoku I could do without having to refer to the video for a clue about the break in!

@fredgoes9608 Год назад

16:11 for me. Great fun, this puzzle. Thank you very much ViKingPrime!! :-) Goodliffing the thermo of c5 in combination with c3 and c7 worked good in the solve.

@ColaDrinker21 Год назад

I did have a go at the puzzle before watching the video and enjoyed it!

@soremekun Год назад

Sometimes these number substitute Sudokus throw me off but this was very logical and easy to follow. Very nice puzzle.

@benjaminrealy5661 Год назад

16:28. Agree with pencil marking thermos comments. I tend to a lot and in this case made it super easy, barely an inconvenience!

@shawnmichajluk2044 Год назад

Definitely approachable. I did it without help. If I can do it, anyone can! Great puzzle!

@arthurcharest9061 Год назад

Enjoyed this puzzle and solve!

@RichSmith77 Год назад

At 23:10, the left thermo in box 7 cannot be 7-8-9. There's already a 9 in row 7.

@Bojan1291 Год назад

13:12 for me, it was a fun take on the thermo sudoku!

@CuratedPile Год назад

Thanks for a solvable puzzle on the same day as my shout out. Nice approachable puzzle. 17:17 for me.

@retepsemaj96 Год назад

Simon's reluctance to take the approach of Pencil Mark slows him down again! Not that I'd want Simon to change. 16:21 for me and I can see many people in the comments managed to be even faster.

@praematura Год назад

9:38 for me, including a gaff where I had to back up a bit where I typed the wrong digit and went down the wrong path. 😄 Very nice puzzle!

@collapsiblespork Год назад

I pencil-marked the long thermos in columns 3, 5 and 7 straight away, which allowed me to place the 5 and 7 in the central box and fill in the bottom part of column 5. That said, Simon's general solve of the rest of the puzzle was much more elegant than mine. A wonderful, approachable puzzle. Simon's title for this puzzle brings up an intriguing possibility. Has anyone ever created a Möbius thermo puzzle where the digits can wrap around, at most, one time along the length of the thermo? For example, you could have a column-filling thermo that went 2,4,6,9,1,3,5,7,8. You could even have some thermos longer than 9 cells if they bent around. I'm not a sudoku constructor, but I could see that rule set variation as having some potential.

@TsukibaraH Год назад

I could almost swear something like this was done a year or two ago. I think it was technically a loop puzzle? Don't quote me on that, my memory on particulars is terrible.

@Kinada Год назад

23 and change to finish. Pretty interesting addition of adding a 10 to the thermo since it messes with what would otherwise be obvious.

@dma-rising8876 Год назад

31:12 By FAR the closet time I have had to a CtC solve time, and loved it. Great puzzle and very doable

@josephbentley7780 Год назад

11:31 for me, pretty straight forward if you're comfortable with thermos and x wings

@elliotcossum8199 Год назад

been a while since I've been able to do a puzzle Simon did, that one was great!

@justinwlacy Год назад

I actually gave this one a go before watching the solve, since Simon described it as approachable. Got it in 27:44. I'm writing this comment before watching the solve in the video, but I must confess I fell into a trap I've chuckled at Simon for doing many a time- I briefly thought I had broken the puzzle due to a deadly pattern, before realizing it was solved by one of the extra rules (the thermo in this case). My apologies to Simon, I must concede that it's much easier to fall into that trap while solving than it seems when simply observing!

@annaherbst8670 Год назад

very fun! My love to ViKing!

@Rach881101 Год назад

12:14 for me. Pencil Mark definitely speeds things up a bit. Approachable puzzle!

@fakjbf3129 Год назад

I assume ten is the most used non-sudoku digit because of XV dominos. Four is also important to several rules such as Kropki Dots and German Whisper Lines, so maybe that’s why it hold the top position.