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@robinbaich169 3 года назад

"Do have a go ..." No thanks, Simon, although I'm sure it would be the most enjoyable 9425 hours I ever spent on a puzzle.

@donatello_8691 3 года назад

Coming up with difficult logic must be normal amongst cats

@KeithGrant 3 года назад

“I’m not bifurcating; I‘m thinking” needs to go on a t-shirt

@CheeseBodyBeing 3 года назад

What’s bifurcation?

@KeithGrant 3 года назад

@@CheeseBodyBeing Instead of making a logical deduction, bifurcation is when you basically plug in a possibility and follow it through for a while in the hopes it breaks and you can eliminate that possibility

@CheeseBodyBeing 3 года назад

@@KeithGrant Thank you.

@pandagirl7144 2 года назад

I once did that early in a puzzle Got all the way to 6 digits left and found out it broke the puzzle and I didn’t actually remember when I started it That was when I was 11 that was 11 years ago then I made a vow to myself to always figure out the answer by logic and never guess

@Obnoxiouspatriot 3 года назад

It will forever amaze me how you can sit their for 50 minutes and only place two digits and still have a consistent set of logic that we can follow. Definitely some real talent to explain the logic out while working.

@remybeauchamp 3 года назад

I wouldn't be able to solve this puzzle if my life depended on it. This is the type of puzzle I don't even try to figure out the logic and simply enjoy having Simon explain it to me as he figures it out.

@sirgeremiah Год назад

I can do the logic of these, but I have trouble spotting the weak spots (so I'll have a place to think through some logic). With this one, I had to do what little I could, then wait for Simon to mention a weakness. I'd pause before he explained any of the logic or the conclusion, and go until I got stuck again. I keep hoping I'll get better at knowing what to look for to find a weak spot to consider the logic.

@marcomorain 3 года назад

I’d love to see a reaction video of the setter watching Simon and Mark solving their puzzles.

@sverbaken 3 года назад

Yes! I am so on board for this

@pandagirl7144 2 года назад

Someone recorded their reaction to Simon doing their puzzle and put it on the discord a month before this video came out

@jimmyrayes1871 2 года назад

@@pandagirl7144 n se

@MaartenKuif 3 года назад

Simon: "This one is called wave particles." Simon 2,5 minutes later: "We call them planets." Me: Noooooooooo

@eyadh258 3 года назад

Electrons 😆😆😆

@renedekker9806 3 года назад

The title "wave particles" is well chosen. It really feels they are in a superposition at the beginning, until you do the measurement, and the wave function collapses.

@mbakenemdusink9757 3 года назад

@@renedekker9806 precies!

@Verse84 3 года назад

I prefer planets and orbits.

@ColinTimmins 3 года назад

@@renedekker9806 Bang on as to the choice of name for the puzzle. Very fitting in a satisfying way. =]

@felixkerkhoff8599 3 года назад

You are the only channel to have titles on your videos that are clickbait AND understatement at the same time.

@darrenhundt 3 года назад

true fact

@diacor4life489 3 года назад

This is so true 😂

@DiMono 3 года назад

I'm pretty sure 50 minutes for two digits is a new record. Congratulations, TotallyNormalCat! And good job Simon for plugging through the logic.

@nikitashaitan9984 3 года назад

Incredible Standing ovation for both Simon and TotallyNormalCat

@n_a8917 3 года назад

Easy heuristic. If the video is >45 minutes, I don't even attempt it. Time to settle in with coffee!

@taliesinbreen 3 года назад

Samiest same that ever samed. *raises coffee*

@tomwilliamson4270 3 года назад

If the video is >45 mins I often struggle to keep up even just watching it

@Crocodile_Appreciator 3 года назад

I have a hard limit of 35 minutes with Simon and 25-30 minutes with Mark (Simon takes longer to explain things).

@ZachGatesHere 3 года назад

LOL whenever he says "You can try it at the link in the description" and I see the video length I just have this moment of "NAH YOU'RE GOOD BRUH."

@dolf370 3 года назад

My limit is more like 20 minutes for Simon and 30 minutes for Mark.

@weskingston264 3 года назад

I knew at a single glance that this puzzle was well above my pay grade, but this is exactly why I love this channel so much...To share in the struggle with Simon, get a better handle on the incredibly deep logic involved in a puzzle like this, and to celebrate his breakthroughs along with him. And can I say that TotallyNormalCat must be a mad genius or a time traveler (or possibly both)?! What a puzzle!

@susanne5803 3 года назад

I have taken to dig into sudokus I find very pleasing for two to three weeks and re-solve them until I start "seeing" the logic Simon and Mark are seeing after max 30 minutes. I enjoy that greatly and I learn a lot. The moment I "see" a bit of logic that I didn't even understand a week or two ago fills me with as much joy as Simon the solution of the whole thing.

@pandagirl7144 2 года назад

@@susanne5803 Watching these videos has made me better at Sudoko and I want to do my own channel or at least a miniseries on my channel and I wanted to take inspiration from cracking the cryptic i could call the miniseries “solving the sudoko”

@timdorr 3 года назад

I think this puzzle demands a setter's video to go along with it.

@idannen 3 года назад

Yes, please!

@flabort 3 года назад

Indeed, this was a crazy one. That it took Simon 53 minutes to get his first three digits, and then just 12 minutes to get the rest of the grid, goes to show just how tough it must have been to discover this in setting it.

@francoisduez601 3 года назад

There is a digit given, TNC has been quite generous!

@marchogrouch5795 3 года назад

Probably the only reason to place the 5 there is to ensure the puzzle will only have 1 solution.

@francoisduez601 3 года назад

@@marchogrouch5795 indeed 😉

@JasperJanssen 3 года назад

Not to mention a whole 5 cage totals.

@matthew456turner128 3 года назад

The scary part is that Ahaupt and Phistomefel are probably watching this and licking their chops at the idea of creating their version of this psychotic puzzle.

@mmrrxx2000 3 года назад

Oh please no 😳😳😳😳😳

@Kalinleios 3 года назад

Oh please yes ^^

@Scanlaid 3 года назад

Totally Normal Hauptphist will be Simon's ruination. A 3 hour video with a break and light luncheon provided.

@pandagirl7144 2 года назад

Phistomefel did actually create their own And specifically asked cracking the cryptic not to do a video on it

@mceajc 3 года назад

Absolutely jaw-dropping. Those first few digits were astonishing; to watch the possibilities collapse as Simon bent the puzzle into focus. The starting position seems utterly ludicrous for the rule set and information. Hats off to you Simon for solving that in well under a week!

@WilliamGardnerBob 3 года назад

"to watch the possibilities collapse" -- And now you point out the absolute genius of the puzzle setting and naming to go along with it. Simon slowly "collapsed" the possibilities of the "wave function" until he'd determined the values of the "particles". A more perfect Sudoku parallel of particle physics could not be made.

@HarleyCringe 3 года назад

This channel became my comfort channel

@amoswittenbergsmusings 3 года назад

You are one of a huge crows.

@Sujisan4 3 года назад

Yep. I agree.

@driverdave8156 3 года назад

I wonder if these setters ever think: "Damn, thought I had him with that one!" lol

@remybeauchamp 3 года назад

We don't get to see the puzzles they can't solve so I guess the answer is yes!

@The_Omegaman 3 года назад

@@remybeauchamp i think the unsolved is a myth.

@ericpraline1302 3 года назад

@@remybeauchamp I can't conceive of a puzzle that Simon couldn't solve.

@PuzzleQodec 3 года назад

I know you probably didn't mean this seriously, but I'll answer anyway: it's a big no. If we put logic in puzzles that we think is the coolest in the world, we want to share it! "Damn, I was hoping he wound find that one!" is much more likely. Qodec here btw.

@sanctionbuster 3 года назад

Mark would have have proud of you, Simon!

@CrackingTheCryptic 3 года назад

Mark is. Mark

@ClemensKatzer 3 года назад

41:10 "A major breakthrough: Eliminated one of 4 possible digits in first cell!"

@ChrisHallas 3 года назад

Me, watching 50 minutes of an explanation to something and even though I technically followed it, I'm still not 100% sure I even understand it; "I am clearly an idiot!" Me, spotting a 3 pointing at a pencil mark a minute before Simon does; "I am clearly a God."

@jonhansen9622 3 года назад

This video needs a million thumbs up for that solve

@Lindzolt 3 года назад

Simon’s reaction at 54:19 is perhaps the truest expression of joy I have ever seen

@andreynogueira7419 3 года назад

That must be one of the happiest moments in Simon's life

@shyrealist 3 года назад

I was persuing the comments when that finger click pulled my attention back jolly quick!

@stephenbeck7222 3 года назад

The reaction at 50:15 is even better. Mark had a big fist bump in a video last year sometime, somebody should compile these moments when they have big emotional outbursts.

@balthazarbeutelwolf9097 3 года назад

@@stephenbeck7222 Well, that earlier reaction was the true breakthrough, and Simon's reaction looked more like relieve than joy. From our side we get spoiled a bit, because we only get to see the successful solves, not the ones in the poison cabinet, where after an hour of hard work things were going nowhere. (This reminds me of the difficulty of teaching science students how mathematical proofs work - textbooks and journals only contain proper proofs, not the botched up ones with fallacies you need to avoid.)

@fabianh3343 2 года назад

@@andreynogueira7419 As Simon would say, this is as much fun as you can have with your clothes on ;)

@StephanSpelde 3 года назад

I've been following this channel since before the James Charles and Kurt Hugo Schneider shoutouts and this might have been the best Sudoku (solves) I've ever seen!!! What a puzzle this was!

@notsecure6855 3 года назад

"We can start to think about the world in its correct position because we are ordering the universe into its proper constituency." I said the exact same line today when I was teaching my high school physics class. That's a very weird feeling to hear someone say that right back at me.

@dmmax18 3 года назад

I love how the setters go from cosmology to quantum mechanics for the inspiration

@jovi_al 3 года назад

I helped name this puzzle 😁😁😁

@codevii9063 3 года назад

It blows my mind watching the way your mind works. I would never in a million years be able to find the break in to that puzzle. But then to watch you use the weird roundabout 1 logic to find the 3 and the 9 in box 7 when simple sudoku gave you the 9, then the 3, then the 1 and 5.... well, either way, you bring a smile to my face at the end of every day. So glad I found this channel. Keep up the good work!

@cybroxde 3 года назад

I genuinely appreciate how every time I am starting to get annoyed by s setters convoluted train of thought, Simon is just absolutely amazed and grateful that the puzzle exists in the first place.

@MateoMusic Год назад

It is so comforting to watch videos from close to two years ago and see that Simon has not changed a bit :)

@ivoluijendijk5529 3 года назад

This needs to be one of your 1 million + views videos as well. Simply beautiful to watch you struggle with and finally solve this incredible puzzle! I could never do this myself but I was genuinely thrilled for you at the 50 minute mark's epiphany! awesome video!

@hydra147147 3 года назад

In fact, just these three arrows alone are forcing 1, two 2s and two 3s or two 4s into purple+green. And the five in the grid makes it them all the remaining digits. Just a stunning setup.

@siorac1147 3 года назад

I am absolutely floored that ANYONE managed to solve this puzzle. And then Simon knocked it out in an hour. While explaining things throughout. One of the all-time great solves. I do not feel bad that I got nowhere with this.

@Playmaker6174 3 года назад

These puzzles' setting always amaze me so much, and Simon's ideas to solve it additionally put a smile on my face however long it takes :)

@orzelgryf 3 года назад

I love when Simon is calling people who solved the puzzle "brilliant" and then solving the puzzle himself.

@maverickstclare3756 3 года назад

See also how often criminals are always dangerous and clever - until you see them when caught. e.g. the Twitter Bitcoin hack in 2020 "It's definitely State Actors" - was two teenagers

@nagranoth_ 3 года назад

So, if this was done by a totally normal cat, I don't want to know how difficult a puzzle a special cat can make...

@catnip420 3 года назад

The podcats was very entertaining, it was interesting to get to know more about CTC outside of regular videos. Hopefully there's more to come.

@sirgeremiah Год назад

It takes me so much longer than Simon to solve these, and yet I can't stop coaching him while he's solving. 😂

@brock2k1 3 года назад

44:28 Simon rehearsing his role in "Hamlet"

@angieangel555 3 года назад

LMAOO

@soremekun 3 года назад

The "Yes" at the end really showed true satisfaction with the solve. Good work

@jackbryan9615 3 года назад

50:15 That is the look of pure joy! The sweetest little dance

@doncook4097 3 года назад

Just love it an hour break-in and 5 min completion. I think it’s the best break-in of all times

@prahas777 3 года назад

At 54 minutes I found myself saying "Unbelievable" out loud. Truly remarkable!

@jaeusa160 3 года назад

Who cares if it might be mechanically like bifurcation? As a viewer, the manual visualization was great to follow along with.

@xsquaredster 3 года назад

Well this turned out to be one of the best puzzles of all time, didn't it

@rwj_dk 3 года назад

If Sudoku's evolve much more beyond this I'm beginging to fear that we need a course at University in soduko before you can understand/solve stuff. 🤯

@MariaVlasiou 3 года назад

This was exciting to watch. Simon forgot slightly his earlier work and I was so anxious to see whether he would remember or suffer. Amazing to watch. His excitement is contagious. The puzzle is stunning.

@maverickstclare3756 3 года назад

It's always interesting when he does that, does all that work to determine 2-4 pair along with the 8 but didn't fill it in after placing the 8!

@MattYDdraig 2 месяца назад

27:37 Another piece of setting genius from TotallyNormalCat. 99% of the time was spent trying to visualise all the options for the three central column circles until finally reaching a conclusion and the board just about filled itself, with a huge sigh of relief.

@davidbourke6211 3 года назад

Bravo Sir! Excellent solve and excellent setting. Hard to believe so much information can be eked out of so little information. Hats off to you and Totally Normal Cat. So out of my league, it's scary.

@clintonevans2003 9 месяцев назад

Normally don’t watch any puzzle over an hour. BUT the logic involved in the solution was brilliant. Well done Simon.

@cripleripper 3 года назад

Congrats to TotallyNormalCat for making Simon keep his secret for once! 👏

@ragnkja 3 года назад

Even with killer cages!

@bluebell487 3 года назад

15 minutes left and only one digit in the puzzle. This is going to be interesting

@Imanureko 3 года назад

Perfect timing to help me go through the night, thanks Simon!

@bronteman 3 года назад

Police Officer: YOR UNDER ARREST for Indecent Bifurcation! Simon: But officer, I was just trying to make a logical conclusion

@Socialdogma 3 года назад

What are you complaining about? He gave you a 5 to start.

@christophstahl8169 3 года назад

That's just the difficulty rating... :D

@truckerob70 3 года назад

@@christophstahl8169 It's a 5, not an 8

@euanmcdougall1917 3 года назад

@@truckerob70 difficulties of logic puzzles are out of 5, not 8 or 10.

@francoisduez601 3 года назад

I think that was the meaning, 8 out of 5 😉

@truckerob70 3 года назад

@@francoisduez601 It was

@Piatato 3 года назад

Amazing puzzle! I love the amount of pure reasoning that I had to do in order to make the breakthroughs. I think this puzzle is the one that has made me the most ecstatic being able to solve it! 😅🥲

@rickwyckoff291 3 года назад

That was way too difficult for me to even start but I was rooting for ya the entire time Simon!

@cjjenson8212 3 года назад

The word for today's drinking game is "beautiful" 💜

@amoswittenbergsmusings 3 года назад

If I would really have become an Englishman after almost 36 years here, I would say "Jolly good show!" and leave it at that. Being a blunt Dutchman I say it as it is: sensational setting and out-of-this-world solving!! Simon reordered the universe. That a human mind evolved for avoiding wolves and hunting antelopes can solve a puzzle like this *must* tell us something about the universe, Simon, you should try your hand at easier problems. I suggest the Riemann hypothesis, quantum gravity or the Collatz conjecture. The universe seems to talk to you in clearer language than most of your fellow carbon based life forms discern. And TotallyNormalCat is Wonko the Sane redivivus.

@piai55 3 года назад

You know its an insanely difficult puzzle when every Eureka moment is followed by another 5 minutes of seemingly no progress. Well done to TNC, Simon and everyone who managed to solve this beast

@Ale-uf7id 3 года назад

Rules 2:08 Let‘s get cracking 2:55

@hadegrawar 3 года назад

Nem todo herói usa capa

@piyushpatel5020 3 года назад

26:45

@samus88 3 года назад

How quickly Simon forgot the 8 had to have a 2 and a Difficult Digit as its moons and the 9 a 1 as its moon is heartbreaking lol. He ended up pencil marking them using other digits instead of doing that immediately after placing the 8 and 9 planets!

@dwaynecarswell41 2 года назад

I saw taht and realized it made the puzzle take longer as he had to refigure that.

@andremouss2536 3 года назад

Incredible that the first 6 were placed only 2:40 before the end of a 1 hour solve !

@BeachHutStuff 3 года назад

Ridiculously brilliant puzzle, well solved. And you weren’t bifurcating, you were writing down for exposition :-)

@Sujisan4 3 года назад

Simon, you are one of the greatest geniuses on the planet. Really, really enjoyed the solve. Can we get TotallyNormalCat to do a video on this?

@Raven-Creations 3 года назад

Well done Simon. Nothing but praise from me today. This one beat me. I was on the right lines, and had worked out the syzygy had to be 9, 8, and 6 or 7, and that the 9 couldn't be in box 8, but without the impetus of having to finish it for a video, I yielded to the pain and decided to watch you suffer instead. Well done also to Totally ABnormal Cat for devising this work of exquisite torture. Such an elegant construction, and so little information, for it to have a unique solution that can be solved logically is just incredible. To conceive the idea and be able to bring it to fruition is just mind boggling. There's nothing normal about that cat.

@Dragonatrix 2 года назад

"We're still chatting. We're Chatting the Cryptic." Chatting the Cryptic is such a podcast name, and heck I'm all for it.

@Kimakae 3 года назад

Wow, amazing solve. Thank you Simon and TotallyNormalCat.

@judo_ashtray 3 года назад

50 minutes into this puzzle I start to worry about anyone who might ask Simon about a bicycle over the next few days

@Butchermb_ 3 года назад

Simon and Mark, thank you for having shared all your skills and techniques over the past year! Those have enabled me to solve this one - though not in one hour - on my own, following almost exactly the logic displayed in this video. On to the next one :)

@livedandletdie 3 года назад

Wow, bloody wow, that's all I can say. So much logic to deduce just to place that lone 1, as the first digit, then the logic to place the 3 central arrow sums, and then to ultimately solve the puzzle, it's absolutely stunning and mindboggling, how hard it is just to break in, goodness gracious, TotallyNormalCat is not a Normal Cat at all, he's Abnormally good at setting a puzzle, from which as soon as you've done the break in, is easy, but just doing the break in is so ridiculously hard, that it's almost on the verge of ridiculousness. Truly stunning, I have a whole list of superlatives I could use, but I'd soon run out as they wouldn't be able to amuse my need to project my state of mind, in a well enough manner. All I can say despite it feeling almost like an insult as to how bland it is, is Well done and Good Job, TotallyNormalCat, you truly deserve all the praise for that.

@rosiefay7283 Год назад

Miss a clue off and there are over 100 solutions. The way these clues work together to produce a unique solution is astonishing.

@tzampini 3 года назад

I just spent an hour watching a pure genius at work! Bravo Simon.

@Mrpapayaheadrulesall 3 года назад

1st digit: 33:31 2nd digit: 51:30 last digit: 1:04:42 This one took a lot of brainstorming to start, but after finding just two digits, the rest of the puzzle came together so nicely.

@williamnathanael412 3 года назад

This is not bifurcation. I don't think there is a way to explain the logic better than to put in the digits arbitrarily on the vertical axis without using vertical logic. This is brilliant.

@tricia1072012 3 года назад

Ourstanding! And I love how Simon says, "all of the logic we did earlier". Ah well, they also serve who only stand and wait. Glad to be of help.

@d4r4butler74 3 года назад

Royal We it isn't because it is the Inclusive We, where those of us who can only watch and marvel are included in Simon's solve.

@yairgo 3 года назад

I kept checking the length against how many digits wondering how in the world Simon was going to finish before the end. This is truly one of the setter journeys where you get rewarded for finding the path they set you on!!

@Coyotek4 3 года назад

58:17 ... I did make one guess, but after solving I went back and was able to quickly rule out the other direction. But I did get the 'break-in' part, and *what a break-in!* Wonderful puzzle!

@Brian-ej9ew 3 года назад

Enthralling and entertaining, love your reaction Simon at the end and certainly no bifurcation took place.

@joshcremer8080 3 года назад

Great solve, great puzzle. Most certainly needed to watch the video to get past the break in. Thank you Simon and TotallyNormalCat

@jordan-apiyo-1985 3 года назад

Just sublime! Brilliant puzzle, and brilliant solve. Thanks so much for providing such wonderful content!

@fakjbf3129 3 года назад

I love the symbolism in the name of the puzzle. In quantum mechanics everything is considered to be in a superposition of multiple states until it interacts with something, then the waveform collapses into a single value. The three particles (or planets as you called them) were acting as if in a superposition where each was a potential possibility, until they eventually collapsed into the pattern you discovered.

@lizbrooker4635 3 года назад

Absolutely blown away! Great job Simon and Cat x👏👏💕

@michielgerretzen9777 3 года назад

Chapeau, Simon! Wonderful!

@marsdenrhodri 3 года назад

Absolutely stunning. A total joy.

@jonbrowne8334 3 года назад

After watching hundreds of videos on this channel, that was the best solve I have ever seen! Simon - your logic was total genius and amazing deductions made. It should have been called “line of duty” because it was just as exciting!

@jacksonstarky8288 3 года назад

Around 28:30, when Simon ruled out using the 12 cage, my immediate thought was "well, you can use the 12 cage, because you know that the digit in that cage that isn't on the arrow has to be a 9, 8, or 7"... it's not much, but it's a definite pencil mark regardless of the actual position of the arrow sum digits.

@mikesmith4365 3 года назад

And keeping in mind that the 9 must be 2, 3, 4 on both of its arrows, the only digit in the 12 cage that works is 4. (3 gives clashing 9s.)

@HienNguyenHMN 3 года назад

"The Moons of Eight" sound like a Doctor Who episode.

@aidarosullivan5269 3 года назад

TotallyNormalCat is once again outdoing himself

@Adrian_Grey 3 года назад

What a crazy puzzle. And an absolutely brilliant solve by Simon. Every second of this was oozing clever.

@MichaelMoore99 2 года назад

Bravo! This was amazing. After so much time and struggle getting the first few digits, after the 8 was filled, the last ones flew by.

@samus88 3 года назад

You should definitely start calling them TotallyWeirdCaracal again. A totally normal cat could not come up with this gorgeous Sudoku, I don't think.

@StefanPettersson 3 года назад

Simon, the center top box is often called box 2.

@britlion 3 года назад

Wooow. I came off the podcast and heard Simon waxing lyrical about how good Mark is at crossword puzzles. But this demonstrates just how amazing Simon is at Sudoku. Mark might be faster on a straight up Sudoku, but anything with a break in like this, Simon is an absolute master. I say break in - there isn't really a break in, so much as having to preplot the logic for 90% of the puzzle. Nothing reallly concrete on the grid for over 50 minutes, in a 65 minute video! Very very well done. That's about a million difficulty levels beyond where I am able to play. I take my hat off to you, Sir. TotalyNormalCat: You're an absolute monster. And a genius. Amazing work.

@MisterM2402 3 года назад

Imagine going back in time and showing the inventor of Sudoku this puzzle, the confusion on their face!

@svennielsen633 2 года назад

I love the analytics around this.

@dudbike 3 года назад

This is a beautiful puzzle. Hats off to the setter and the solver.

@57daysproductions 3 года назад

I watch these before bed to wind down, sometimes falling asleep bc Simon's voice hits some kind of snooze button in my head, but at 2 am I am so enthralled with whatever the hell TNC did with this puzzle, I'm hardly even tired xD

@piarittersporn 2 года назад

This puzzle almost drove me insane. I couldn't visualize the 24 possibilities (including the two variants of the 8) of the combinations sufficiently, so in the end more trial and error than pure logic led me to the solution. A really exhausting but very great puzzle.

@tomiatti1 3 года назад

26:48 "Can be in any of these squares depending on the orientation of the planets". Well, that's one thing I never expected Simon saying hahahaha astrologer Simon confirmed?