The Sudoku Revelations

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@KNT_awesome12345 2 года назад

thanks for the feature :) this was pretty fun to set and you nailed probably 90%+ of my intended logic (though i *do* dislike using the word “intended”, if multiple paths can be found through the puzzle all the better!) im sure this is something absolutely no one but me found irritating, but i tried to smudge the killer cage values around for hours so that the whole grid resolved uniquely without a “disambiguation clue”- after hour 5 or so i cut my losses and swapped to more intuitable cage totals (e.g 28, a triangular number) and put the 16 clue in box 9 to disambiguate the deadly pattern on 168s in boxes 389 glad you enjoyed the puzzle, my favorite logic was the work in row 4 determining the 8 is a single cell. it made me very happy when i discovered that interaction

@leebowen67 2 года назад

👏👏👏👏👏👏👏

@JosueSantiagoG 2 года назад

It's so fun to read the thoughts of the creators!

@KNT_awesome12345 2 года назад

@@JosueSantiagoG maybe i should copy it over here if more people are curious.. but i commented more about my "intended path" underneath Gonzalo Garcia's comment :)

@tonymanngreenwich 2 года назад

That was a beautiful puzzle - well beyond me though with a lot of help from Simon's solve I did manage to make some of the deductions myself. I'm glad Simon found it hard. But it was sensationally good!

@TAHeap 2 года назад

Now *that* was difficult, but doable in the end. I had quite a few significant differences from Simon's solution in the path ... but I have to confess that I kept leaving it open in the background all day when I got fed up, and then coming back (having, of course, forgotten quite what was going on!). Can't see this going through in less than 100 minutes even flat out, though... I liked the pushing the *1* down progressively through rows *4* & *5*

@PaulRoub 2 года назад

56:28 "This has suddenly really got very challenging"... Well, at least I made *one* deduction earlier than Simon.

@robbert6393 2 года назад

Bahahahahha🤣🤣🤣 indeed!!

@craftyraf 2 года назад

This is the hardest puzzle I've seen on this channel. If you are an intermediate solver like me, take some popcorn, sit back and enjoy Simon struggling :D What a gem!

@simonhakansson9300 2 года назад

If you like difficult puzzle I recommend "the second movie". It is in my opinion the most iconic puzzle I have ever seen

@sjm6280 2 года назад

"Let's get cracking" ... and someone listening via a hidden microphone: "Let's get flying"

@greatgreyowl2583 2 года назад

Time for the running iron.

@myfyrmadocjones 2 года назад

1:16:03 Simon so engrossed in the puzzle he missed 3 in the corner 😀

@helenlomas1012 2 года назад

Maverick must have a camera in my room, he says to the camera in his room.

@niverio8400 2 года назад

This puzzle is one of my favorites ever (literally, it is one of the 20 on my LMD profile that I selected as "Favorites"), and I am ecstatic that it got a feature! It is absolutely amazing how KNT can pump out so many absolutely wonderful puzzles in such a short span of time. I loved watching simon battle with this beauty thoroughly :)

@Cpchurch87 2 года назад

This is one of these puzzles where we just sit back and admire. Yes, Simon can sometimes miss basic sudoku (and we love him for it) but some of the logic in this video is astounding. Excellent solve

@mummabear7537 2 года назад

I love the way he says "there's a 1 in green" (meaning the cell is not grey ), marks it green around 1 hr 20, then goes off in another direction completely for another 6 minutes before remembering that that last green cell had to be a 1 and filling it in. Simon likes the scenic route with plenty of detours!

@uigrad 2 года назад

I noticed that too, but I think it's forgivable, because he kept making progress the entire time. It really only bothers me when he says he is completely stuck, and something simple is still sitting their to be done.

@kylenorris2836 2 года назад

Simon, thanks for releasing quality🎉 it helps with my relaxation

@deepakmallubhotla6058 2 года назад

The logic with the 1 in row 4 is ludicrously tasty. Each step of narrowing down information is different, and does so much for other parts of the grid. Culminating in giving up four digits in box 1 as a reward. Love to see when a puzzle element gets reused in multiple different ways. Brilliant setting. And well spotted by Simon.

@emilywilliams3237 2 года назад

So very fun. Simon, I really loved this video. I can't say much about it because it was so difficult that I cannot really comment, but I love that you loved the puzzle and that is enough. I also like that you have used the patented, trademarked phrase "knowledge bomb" a few times recently - this is so funny, truly, and is deservedly a feature of this channel. Maybe I can talk a member of my family into getting me a Knowledge Bomb piece of merch from your collection before long ... Thanks so much for this video.

@markbennet9058 2 года назад

At 48 mins the logic is outstanding - at the highest level for the channel, and that is a high standard

@robert36902 2 года назад

Bravo! I'm amazed that Simon never gets really stuck and finds a way forward despite the nightmare difficulty of this puzzle 😃

@erinasnow 2 года назад

48:30 was one of the most beautiful pieces of logic I have seen. Thank you Simon and Mark for making me appreciate pieces of logic

@amysteele2488 2 года назад

Definitely popcorn-worthy! *sits back, relaxes and watches Simon's solve*

@JK7H 2 года назад

Maverick is such a gentleman, he waited for you to finish your explanation before he took flight.

@piarittersporn 2 года назад

Today I decided to just watch Simon solve the puzzle without solving the puzzle myself. Because of the heat, my brain was on vacation today. A video of Simon over an hour and a half would probably have meant 4 to 5 hours for me. Very exciting Simon.

@johnsouza4391 2 года назад

Remarkable solution of a remarkable puzzle. Tough throughout.

@kevray85 2 года назад

This was a tremendous puzzle and solve. If Mark hasn’t watched this, I’d love to see the Goodliffe version of the logic!

@jsdodgers 2 года назад

This one took me over 7 hours to solve. Excited to see Simon instantly see the logic that stumped me for hours.

@DonovanCYoung 2 года назад

This just hurts my head. Well done indeed!

@charliezsu-zsu2806 2 года назад

WOOO! Feature-length; hell yeah! :)

@mikew6644 2 года назад

The logic starting at 40:15 is (to quote our dear leader Simon) ‘absolutely brilliant’!!

@welcomeblack 2 года назад

I love the constant shoutouts to Agadmator. Someone's been watching a lot of chess ;)

@isabelamacedobellsita8394 2 года назад

I just thought: I need a long video today! I need to relax. ♡♡♡♡

@CrypticCL 2 года назад

Great puzzle! In trying to do it myself first, I felt a bit disgruntled with hindsight that the instructions didn't specifically make clear that two identical killer numbers (e.g. the 12's) are permitted to be in the same group. Especially since they were described as 'killer cages', and the standard implementation of a killer cage is that it will have only one total number within it. Having said that, it makes me even more impressed that Simon twigged to that unusual distinction - proving his logic circuits are more finely tuned than mine!

@jesperwillems_ 2 года назад

While i do get your sentiment, another ‘rule’ for killer cages is that the clue is in the topmost leftmost cell of the cage. Seeing the 30/28 clues in the bottom row immediately tells you that doesn’t apply here, so its not that far of a leap to conclude the other ‘rule’ of only one clue per cage doesn’t have to apply either

@CrypticCL 2 года назад

@@jesperwillems_ Yeah I understand your point too. I guess it feels like a breach of etiquette(??) I'd prefer to be using my logical deductive skills (such as they are!) on the puzzle, and not on interpreting the rule set.

@olivier2553 2 года назад

Astonishing solve!

@Wildhorn666 2 года назад

@41:45 Also, if they are a 1-2 pair, it breaks the 21 green cage because it requires either a 1 or 2 in row 4.

@MaierFlorian 2 года назад

Those small little moments when Simon forgets to delete some colors and you fear this might break the puzzle for him until he realizes the error :D

@isamjohari7985 2 года назад

one of hardest puzzle i had seen in the channel and what a solve .

@MarkLudwick 2 года назад

It took me four hours but I'm beaming that I solved it!

@elaadt 2 года назад

Just like Maverick, this puzzle and its solution buzzed over my head.

@nwdreamer 2 года назад

Simon: "I don't have a clue!" Also Simon (in next sentence): "Which clues haven't I used?" LOL! 😁

@chipsounder4633 2 года назад

Hey sinon, truly remarkable solve. I noticed a geometry trick with box 2 and 3 add up the totals to get 149, as the 12s joined that brings it down to 137 then the secret comes in handy🥳❤️the logic was impeccable ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

@th.nd.r 2 года назад

Incredible!! Love the ruleset, SO MANY beautiful deductions, wonderful setting and solving once again. PS: 3 in the corner didn’t get its song!!

@Tringard 2 года назад

Had to work on this one over several days, 07:15:21 into multiple sessions. Kept being tempted to give up, but the deduction path was so satisfying up to those points. Some backtracking, usually at the start of each session until I remembered the path I had been on.

@falloutfan2502 2 года назад

Stellar!

@leojs5673 2 года назад

grabbing some popcorn 🤓

@tompellerin5500 2 года назад

Like many I found you in the first weeks of the pandemic. I look forward every day to both submissions. Like many I view without a thumbs up.. my bad and a detriment to your logarithmic success Please remind us within the hour viewing time a few seconds to hit the thumbs up is a minimum TY…

@nickellis999 2 года назад

Brilliant

@ericpraline1302 2 года назад

Wow, this might be the most difficult puzzle I've done on CTC. Don't feel my solve was completely satisfactory, but at least I finished it. Now to watch Simon sail through it...

@Karel173 2 года назад

Same, had to finish the puzzle in several days... and had to do some trial/error as well

@RichSmith77 2 года назад

I'm not ashamed to admit this took me 4 hours over several sessions. Amazing puzzle. I think I was into my third hour when I reached the point roughly where Simon reached at 57:00. I couldn't see a way forward, so I had just about given up. I watched Simon's solve up to this point, then decided to have another look. Bingo! I found a way to show the two 36 regions couldn't connect! Not quite the same as Simon - I ended up showing r5c1 would have no fill down that particular path. Further slow and steady progress got me to roughly Simon's closing position at 1:31:40, more or less following the same path. I must have missed some more obvious logic to finish though, as I took a different route to the finishing line. I concentrated on the 16 cage in the bottom right. Firstly, has to contain 7 or 8 (6+5+4 not enough). If it didn't contain 8, it needed 7 plus two digits summing to 9. 1+8 out, no 8 hypothesised, 2+7 out, already a 7, 3+6 out, every cell sees a 3, 4+5 out, have a 45 pair in bottom row already. So there is an 8, and has to go in r9c8. Other two digits have to sum to 8. 2+6 out because of 26 in r4c9, 3+5 out because no 3, thus it's a 1+7+8 cage. Rest seemed to follow.

@samanthajanesmith9591 2 года назад

Great puzzle - spent the first 20 mins wondering why Simon kept saying the 40 needs 7 cells when it can go into 2 different boxes - then I re-read the instructions... properly. That will teach me!

@markbennet9058 2 года назад

At 1h46.44 another logical step at the highest level - extraordinary puzzle

@douglassquirrel1923 2 года назад

There’s a less chain-y way to prove, at about 1:00:00, that r5c4 is green, which incidentally also proves something useful about r5c2 and r5c3: 1. First consider where 5, 7, and 9 can go in box 4. Existing digits in the box, and the 579 in c1, tell us that r5c2, r5c3, r6c2, and r6c3 are the only possible locations. 2. Now ask whether any two of the digits 5, 7, and 9 could be in r6c2/r6c3. The answer, as Simon points out, is no, because the existing 579 triple in box 5 would put those two digits in r5c7/r5c8/r5c9, but we know those cells already have two digits in them, namely 1 and 8. 3. Statements 1. and 2. together mean that r5c2 and r5c3 must contain digits drawn from 5, 7, and 9. (This is the extra useful fact mentioned above.) 4. Now we see that r5c3 can’t be part of the 36 cage that starts in r3c6, since that cage already has 5, 7, and 9 in it. But if r5c4 were shaded, it would connect r5c3 to that cage. So r5c4 must be unshaded.

@KNT_awesome12345 2 года назад

this is exactly my intended reasoning. nice! this then immediately forces the middle 36 cage’s shape, since it can no longer touch the 8 circle. (so it must take r5c6, but then not r5c7 as then r5c7 would have no value by sudoku) this consequently finishes the 40 region as well, which makes the remainder of the solve A LOT easier than in this video :)

@douglassquirrel1923 2 года назад

@@KNT_awesome12345 Glad to have found it, lovely puzzle!

@Jigkuro 2 года назад

Took me nearly 2 hours, but I got there! Fantastic puzzle. Would have been a good bit faster if I'd pencil marked r5c7 sooner...

@MM3Soapgoblin 2 года назад

Can we just appreciate that we just watched a feature film length video of someone solving a sudoku? Honestly, it flew by faster than most movies nowadays too lol.

@Escviitash 2 года назад

This puzzle just completely broke the concept of time. At 1:21:40 (81 minutes into the video). "I've being going at this for 100 minutes". Yet 14 minutes after the puzzle was finished into in 88:35 (12 minutes less). So Simon not just managed to make 100 minutes fit into a time span of 81 minutes, but the rest of the puzzle was done in negative 12 minutes.

@JosueSantiagoG 2 года назад

It's not only that this is too hard for me to try, but I don't even really understand the rules. I read them, watch his examples and *feel* like I get them, but then I try to start and realize I do t get it. I'm watching and still don't get it, but it's still fun!

@willemm9356 2 года назад

1:31:20 Hmm.. It's a teensy bit quick to dismiss out of hand the possibility that the 9 circle could get its cells from the right. You could have at least looked at the other possibility, which is only one cell off and therefore at least worthy of being counted.

@paulbaker8083 2 года назад

I think it would be interesting if the creators of these puzzles either rotated the puzzle 90 or 180 degrees or mirror them. So often Simon works puzzles the way he would read a book.

@yll9704 2 года назад

57:17 After Simon spotted the 8, there's an more straightforward way (imo) to find whether r5c4 is grey: r5c1,4,5,6 all see 1,8,5,7,9, therefore those four cells form a 2346-quadruple, forcing r5c3 to be either 5, 7, or 9 This means those two 36 clues don't belong to the same region.

@RichSmith77 2 года назад

I'll see your more straightforward way, and raise you a more complicated way 😂: If r5c4 was grey, the grey couldn't extend to size 7, since the three unidentified grey cells would have to sum to 7, and r5c3 couldn't be 1,2 or 4. So r5c4 would be the last grey cell in the cage. It and its neighbour would have to be 3,4, in that order, to make 7. (All stuff Simon found earlier as well). 1 and 3 get pushed to be a pair in the bottom row of box 5, and force a 2,6 pair into the middle row of the box. r1c5 now has no possible fill. (It see 12346 in the row, 579 in the column and 8 in the box.) I think they all boil down to similar restrictions in row 5, but some are more elegant to spot than others. Both your way and Simon's are probably neater than my way. I was stuck at that point for way too long☺.

@Gonzalo_Garcia_ 2 года назад

72:08 for me. What a brutal puzzle. I needed a lot of bifurcation to prove some of the possibilities wrong, now I’m curious whether Simon managed to find a more elegant way through. Time to watch the video and find out!

@KNT_awesome12345 2 года назад

this is fairly interesting to me as a setter since most of your times i see commented here are just out of this world aside from some minor sudoku lookahead in r5 with 579s to determine the 36s were different, i don’t think theres any step without a “one-stepper” immediate logical explanation. what parts bogged you down?

@Gonzalo_Garcia_ 2 года назад

@@KNT_awesome12345 It was all the logic around the two circles in r6c4 and r7c3 that got me stuck for a while. After watching the video and going through that part again myself, I think the problem during my solve was that I tried to tackle it starting in box 8 and going clockwise (so I was looking at the 30 cage before having solved the 36 cage), which is possible to do but requires some guessing. And once I finally got to the 36 cage, I did find most of the logic in it but I didn’t need it anymore and so I didn’t fully appreciate the way it worked. Anyways, congratulations on creating such a great puzzle!! I wish I would have found all the intended logic myself, but at least I had the video to somehow fix that.

@KNT_awesome12345 2 года назад

@@Gonzalo_Garcia_ i see. something that I "intended" that simon didn't do in the solve path was to realize that once the 36 cages are different, the middle 36 cage could not touch the 8 circle at all- or the total would blow up. this means r5c6 is forced grey, and then r5c7 is forced green (as then it would have no value). this completes the 40 cage, the 28 becomes grey, and then the middle 36 is forced to complete by taking r5c5. this cleans up sudoku in r456 *very* cleanly, and then the left 36 region becomes a straightforward task of asking what digits are missing (4 and 5). and thank you for solving and your kind feedback :) I try to particularly cater to the "marathon solvers" (like myself) because constantly doing battle with a single puzzle for a long time is much more satisfying to me than doing a couple easier puzzles in the same amount of time. it feels great to see a feature every now and then, since I don't expect them due to sheer overall length

@abj136 2 года назад

I found the rules too confusing to even try until watching well into the solve exactly how things work.

@fuxpremier Год назад

Same here. I don't mind a complicated ruleset for brilliant puzzles but this one is not understable without previous knowledge of this type of puzzle. A bit frustrating.

@adamheywood113 2 года назад

>popcorn-worthy I got mac&cheese and Pringles, roll it

@adipy8912 2 года назад

1:21:42 Time flies when having fun.

@glum_hippo 2 года назад

Simon is much more of a stickler for language than I am, so I was surprised to hear him say "If you've bared with me for this long" - I hope he won't hold it against me that I chuckled about this.

@robert-skibelo 2 года назад

I don't think you need worry. Simon's not the paragon you seem to think. In every puzzle he proves he doesn't know what "weird" means and today he showed us that he doesn't know how to pronounce "contribute" either.😉

@Benet3000 2 года назад

Hey Simon! Here’s a question, what’s the most common mistake that you do when solving a sudoku? Also very fun to see a long video :D

@cactus2304 2 года назад

sometimes he gets so wrapped up in the auxiliary rules he forgets to do plain old sudoku 😂

@dudbike 2 года назад

Scanning.

@CrackingTheCryptic 2 года назад

This will probably sound daft but my most common mistake when solving a sudoku is failing to actually do sudoku!! (Well at least on the channel. I get very caught up on all the extra stuff that I seem to forget I'm meant to think about 1..9 in each row/column/box) :)

@kylenorris2836 2 года назад

20 min after release🥰

@Coyotek4 2 года назад

*sigh* ... I took the ball and ran it 95 yards, then fumbled just short of the goalline. Near the end of my solve, I got it in my head that r8c7 had to be 6 or 9, ruling out 2 and 3; that caused me to break, and I was too tired to try again. At least I'm finally caught up on all the old puzzles ... just wish I was able to see this to the very end. (I clocked in at a time of 1:37:38, including the time spent peeking at the video.)

@joshuaneiswinter253 2 года назад

I am completely unable to keep up with the logic of working on the 40 cage in the top right (just shy of 50 minutes in to the video). We have 9, 8, 7, 4 (two odds, two evens) with at least three more cells to fill (the current difference between known digits and cage is 12). But because there is a 4 (even) there must be a 1 (odd) when we were already even and trying to get to an even number ... and I just.. help.

@reikoyukawa4873 Год назад

That step wasn't about parity, it was about which digits were not included in the 40 cage. The total not included was 5 (45-40), which meant either 2 and 3, or 4 and 1, for a 7-cell cage. Since the cage already had a 4, it must exclude the 2 and 3 and include the 1. Hope that helps. (No, I didn't solve this monstrosity myself.)

@alexliu8003 2 года назад

a good puzzle

@khoozu7802 2 года назад

28.15 another reason for R2C3 not to be gray cell is R1C2 can't put 4

@SamuraiPipotchi 2 года назад

I thought thr 40 next to a circle would be a massive clue, because the circles can't be shaded... Then you pointed out that the 40 might just be... NOT shaded. Then it could include the circles in the killer cage. Yeah, this is gonna be a lot harder than I expected.

@Nerdnumberone 2 года назад

At 1:32:35 after finding where the purple 2/3 cell in box 8, it might have helped if he saw "3 in the corner, 3 in the spotlight, losing its religion..."

@richbaker9284 2 года назад

68:10 for me. Really tough one!

2 года назад

1:11:46 why can't the region take the 26 (and 1 from below) for the 126 triplet? Idgi

@johnpettersson1361 2 года назад

The region is missing 126, not including them.

2 года назад

@@johnpettersson1361 ah, thank you. I was listening with a half ear and when I got confused I rewinded and focused to that, but thought he was missing the digits from the cage. Ty!

@donkeyboy222broke6 2 года назад

Dam daniel 👌

@ianoz1 2 года назад

My inductive reasoning abandoned me completely on this one. Just when I thought I was getting better at these.

@xOscarAx 2 года назад

this puzzle is unique in the sense that the actual break in seemed easy to crack but the logic became harder and harder as you continued the puzzle. where usually the break in is the hardest logic to solve which then helps the rest of the puzzle get easier. amazing setting, very fun video and solve.

@poujor 2 года назад

What is the required minimum length of a ctc video to trigger popcorn worthy 🤔😎

@Benet3000 2 года назад

Well that depends on how fast you eat, some would argue a 20 min video is enough for popcorn, i would say when it passes either the 50 or the 80 minute mark i want my popcorn

@reubenmckay 2 года назад

Maybe Alex is telling Maverick when Simon is about to start recording....

@thefallenarm589 2 года назад

16:12 pretty sure what's going wrong is r2c1 5 sees all the 6 digits of the 21 cage so it's impossible

@thefallenarm589 2 года назад

Obviously Simon sees it later

@raswartz 2 года назад

Haven't started the puzzle yet but the rules seem quite ambiguous. - The sum of the killer cage numbers is 309 but the total sum for the whole grid must be 405. Does that mean there are some cages that don't have sums? Or does it mean that the numbers in the circles are not included in the killer cages? - I don't see why the numbers in the circles aren't all forced to be 1-4.

@raswartz 2 года назад

21:52 - This is unfair. Seriously.

@lvkid7 2 года назад

This puzzle is clearly 6 stars out of 5 for difficulty but the solve path seemed awfully bifurcaty for a Simon solve

@77kaczka77 2 года назад

My only comment: WOW!

@fornife5004 Год назад

They should give these puzzles to inmates .. solving the puzzle is a ticket out of jail.

@pokebytes 2 года назад

blip

@gilleslesire4983 2 года назад

Over a hour and a half. "Try it yourself". Oof. :D Usually takes about twice as long for me...

@NB_703 2 года назад

I still don’t get the logic that made the cell that has 40 written on it, a 9. Why couldn’t 9 have gotten in the middle row in the third box?

@iceberg54321 2 года назад

Simon failed the puzzle at 7:37 as he shaded the circles, which is illegal.

@glennmelven3414 2 года назад

Simon says don't be to harsh on me for not spotting something quickly. But he just did a 5/5 difficulty puzzle in in 1 1/2 hours while explaining the logic. I am sure there are people who could do this in less time, but do it on camera and explain logic? I highly doubt it.

@inspiringsand123 2 года назад

Rules: 04:23 Let's Get Cracking: 07:25 Simon's time: 1h28m28s Puzzle Solved: 1:35:53 What about this video's Top Tier Simarkisms?! The Secret: 5x (10:04, 10:06, 10:14, 33:35, 33:41) Maverick: 2x (07:39, 07:41) Bobbins: 1x (19:45) Scooby-Doo: 1x (1:32:08) Phistomefel: 1x (01:01) You Rotten Thing: 1x (18:13) And how about this video's Simarkisms?! Ah: 22x (18:02, 18:39, 18:39, 20:05, 22:36, 23:04, 25:58, 27:15, 33:22, 38:52, 44:26, 52:42, 57:07, 1:07:36, 1:09:55, 1:15:04, 1:19:49, 1:24:58, 1:26:28, 1:26:28, 1:30:31, 1:31:40) Hang On: 21x (12:11, 27:15, 36:46, 37:36, 38:10, 48:11, 48:13, 49:32, 49:32, 49:32, 49:32, 57:12, 1:10:48, 1:10:48, 1:10:48, 1:11:08, 1:11:22, 1:24:58, 1:27:18, 1:31:40, 1:34:34) By Sudoku: 16x (33:02, 36:09, 39:01, 39:05, 44:43, 45:21, 56:10, 56:12, 58:15, 59:31, 1:02:23, 1:09:37, 1:09:44, 1:09:48, 1:24:21, 1:25:04) Sorry: 10x (31:33, 34:28, 35:00, 1:06:32, 1:11:22, 1:14:40, 1:16:46, 1:27:31, 1:30:46, 1:34:10) Beautiful: 10x (18:39, 48:20, 48:20, 50:18, 1:04:46, 1:04:46, 1:11:59, 1:12:02, 1:15:08, 1:32:57) The Answer is: 8x (37:59, 42:36, 45:04, 1:00:57, 1:16:54, 1:19:57, 1:28:07, 1:32:06) Wow: 8x (39:33, 39:51, 59:55, 1:00:03, 1:04:38, 1:04:42, 1:18:54, 1:35:54) Clever: 7x (18:54, 18:58, 19:21, 27:59, 27:59, 31:07, 1:05:55) Lovely: 6x (01:48, 02:48, 23:36, 45:00, 1:05:45, 1:35:41) Goodness: 5x (29:41, 29:41, 1:20:29, 1:22:48, 1:35:55) Naked Single: 4x (50:37, 1:05:36, 1:10:11, 1:21:01) Obviously: 4x (05:33, 1:01:26, 1:06:08, 1:32:44) Good Grief: 3x (1:15:21, 1:23:56, 1:34:52) What on Earth: 3x (40:19, 1:18:54, 1:31:35) Break the Puzzle: 3x (14:18, 17:42, 24:03) Incredible: 3x (1:21:31, 1:21:31, 1:36:13) In Fact: 3x (06:15, 06:21, 1:02:19) Pencil Mark/mark: 3x (34:47, 45:51, 1:23:31) I Have no Clue: 2x (1:24:05, 1:26:02) Brilliant: 2x (29:47, 1:32:59) Extraordinary: 2x (00:55, 03:33) Ridiculous: 2x (07:41, 43:53) Going Mad: 2x (1:27:31) Surely: 2x (46:12, 1:30:13) Stunning: 2x (00:34, 00:34) What Does This Mean?: 2x (26:57, 39:14) Stuck: 1x (09:28) Gorgeous: 1x (23:25) Take a Bow: 1x (1:36:09) Disconcerting: 1x (1:27:42) Our old Friend Sudoku: 1x (1:10:00) Phone is Buzzing: 1x (11:16) Sudoku in a Sudoku Puzzle: 1x (1:10:05) Next Trick: 1x (57:17) That's Huge: 1x (1:09:34) Cake!: 1x (03:13) Most popular number(>9), digit and colour this video: Forty (28 mentions) One (143 mentions) Green (101 mentions) Antithesis Battles: Even (5) - Odd (0) Shaded (6) - Unshaded (2) Higher (2) - Lower (1) Column (7) - Row (5) 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!

@HunterJE 2 года назад

1:16:05 "This region's getting too large, I'm a bit worried about this 30 region..." Don't worry about how large it's getting, use how large it cannot be allowed to get! (specifically, the 30 region gives you r7c2 as shaded and part of the 36, since if it were unshaded the 30 region would be 8 cells and couldn't reach its sum)

@HunterJE 2 года назад

52:27 It's always strange to me when Simon sets out to test a "I bet this is true" hypothesis and then goes about it by assuming the thing he suspects is true and testing from there, if you have two possibilities A and B and suspect A is true, the most efficient way to test that is set out as if B was true and find a contradiction...

@HunterJE 2 года назад

(And yes, in this case it kind of worked out since his initial assumption was wrong, still wrong way to go about it if you trust your intuition to be more-likely-than-not right)

@willemm9356 2 года назад

If Simon bets something is true, it's often false :) However, if Mark bets something is true, it's usually true.

@logiciananimal 2 года назад

I have always wondered if the "colour" or "shade" instructions are meant as extra rules or necessary "solve it" parts. Our hosts always treat it as the latter, but I think that's an interesting matter...