The Sudoku With Only 6 Given Digits

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** TODAY'S PUZZLE **
Aad van de Wetering - the Dutch Grandmaster of Sudoku Construction - returns to the channel today with his puzzle Diamonds. This is a lovely reminder of our most popular video of all, which also featured a magic square at its core :)
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Rules:
Normal sudoku rules apply. The central 3x3 box (in grey) is a magic square ie each row/column/3-cell diagonal must add to the same sum. On each coloured diamond there are a maximum of three different digits. (No digits need to be placed on the yellow diamond outside the grid!)
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@HunterJE Год назад

When Simon was asking “is there anything more I can do with the 4s” it felt like one of those kids’ shows where the host asks a question that the kids watching at home are supposed to shout the answer to at the screen XD

@jensschmidt Год назад

And here the host asks a simple question like "Is one smaller than two? I don't know and can't see it right away."

@kathyjohnson2043 Год назад

That 4 was clearly taunting you, Simon, but I knew you would put it in its place at some point. Great puzzle. Thanks for sharing it

@jonathanfletcher2604 Год назад

He’s behind you!!!

@davidmiller9485 Год назад

I actually gave myself a V8 Yeah yeah i'm dating myself, so what!?

@chrismccleary4731 Год назад

I love how long he stared at 4s

@AyaAlef Год назад

I cannot tell you how comforting it is to return every day to a new beautiful puzzle, accompanied by the same curious mind, kind words, clever secrets/tricks/insights and a step-by-step guidance through the logic. It takes my mind off things that mustn't be my focus right before going to sleep, and shifts my attention to the wonders of pure logic and inspiring creativity. Watching your videos, I feel as if I'm in a place where everything makes sense, yet, simultaniously, careful attention is required to notice the hidden beauty. In other words, thank you for another video. You truelly do spread goodness and joy in the world.

@longwaytotipperary Год назад

Very well said!

@victorfinberg8595 Год назад

2 puzzles per day, and more

@series161 Год назад

so true. thanks for saying it!

@amoswittenbergsmusings Год назад

Simon sometimes calls this "the universe is singing." It has been and is a soothing balm for so many aficionados of the channel. Some would say there is something sacred in the air, others use other language but they mean the same thing. On this channel you do not find flame wars, polarisation and nastiness - modulo the occasional bifurcation disagreement.

@longwaytotipperary Год назад

@@amoswittenbergsmusings very well said!

Год назад

Thanks for the shout-out for my silly physics marble run, I had a lot of fun making it work!

@kathyjohnson2043 Год назад

Excellent!

@user-kt9vr1wj6y Год назад

Nice puzzle.

@CubsFan4Life1234 Год назад

Thank you so much for the shoutout, this was a total surprise from Emily (who is also in fact an amazing human). I have great news to share: I did in fact pass my PhD dissertation defense today!!! 🎉

@Sasha-1313 Год назад

Congratulations and a hearty “well done”!

@CrackingTheCryptic Год назад

Fantastic news (Dr) Brian :) :) :)

@longwaytotipperary Год назад

Yay!!! 👏🏻🎉

@davidrattner9 Год назад

Way to go!! Congrats!!

@cathybryant5119 Год назад

Many congratulations. What an achievement!

@amoswittenbergsmusings Год назад

A Dutchman admired by millions Was testing the solvers’ resilience. The puzzle made Simon Polish his diamond And showcase Aad’s usual brilliance.

@longwaytotipperary Год назад

😊

@pandajesus5052 Год назад

slay 🙏

@PhoenixPho Год назад

I think Simon missed the most beautiful piece of logic here. After filling in the magic square, it's possible to immediately tell that green is 123, blue is 456 and yellow is 789, just by looking at the central box. For example, if you know the blue line has 3 digits, one in r456 each in box4, one in r456 each in box6 then it must be one in r456 each in box5. The same is true with columns - if your digits are placed on c456 in box2 and c456 in box8 then it's on c456 in box5 too. If you think about it, you will immediately realize that on green 1 and 3 must go with 2, on yellow it must be either 714 or 789 but the former is impossible because of the 4 on r1, and the rest - 456 - must go on the blue line. From there on it's just a simple sudoku exercise.

@ipudisciple Год назад

Nice. Maybe an even nicer finish is: From blue 456 you know that the other sets are 123 and 789 because you need 3 sets which are all r456 and c456 in box 5 and that's the only way. Now box 2 proves green 456 and yellow 789.

@anjaschneider5904 Год назад

Now that you mention it, it's obvious :)

@ellisromero Год назад

This was my approach! Once I determined that there was no repeated digits on the rings I coloured the centre box green blue and yellow and off I went...

@CuratedPile Год назад

Thanks for the double shout out! My marble animation was very simple and nowhere nearly as entertaining as the one you showed on today's video. Nevertheless, I had great fun with that and the Labours of Hercules. Very satisfied patron here - unrivaled entertainment value.

@f.b.jeffers0n Год назад

I know Simon asked for it, but I also asked (for the animation) yesterday, and I want to thank whomever went the extra mile for their contribution!

@longwaytotipperary Год назад

Yes!!!!

@poppybelle23 Год назад

Ive had a bit of a bad day, getting a flu and finding out my aunt died. The videos you and Mark post everyday are very much a comfort to me, even more on days like this. Thank you

@longwaytotipperary Год назад

So sorry 😞. Sending a virtual hug 🤗

@inspiringsand123 Год назад

Rules: 06:43 Let's Get Cracking: 07:58 Simon's time: 28m26s Puzzle Solved: 36:24 What about this video's Top Tier Simarkisms?! The Secret: 3x (08:17, 08:19, 08:30) Knowledge Bomb: 1x (27:41) And how about this video's Simarkisms?! Pencil Mark/mark: 10x (13:16, 14:14, 14:16, 14:58, 17:59, 18:05, 18:31, 19:33, 32:25, 33:29) Lovely: 7x (00:17, 00:58, 19:11, 28:14, 37:32, 37:32, 37:32) By Sudoku: 7x (12:03, 14:21, 15:08, 17:03, 30:01, 30:50, 30:52) Clever: 4x (09:34, 12:56, 18:10, 36:25) Brilliant: 4x (02:51, 04:25, 05:48, 37:30) Our old Friend Sudoku: 3x (12:59, 13:01, 13:07) In Fact: 3x (17:17, 30:16, 35:25) Ah: 3x (10:19, 22:14, 24:11) What on Earth: 2x (16:35, 34:05) I Have no Clue: 2x (16:45) Horrible Feeling: 2x (26:19, 32:53) Beautiful: 2x (09:43, 36:22) Hang On: 2x (10:21, 18:17) Next Trick: 2x (09:21, 15:27) What Does This Mean?: 2x (13:28, 26:32) Useless: 1x (33:27) Sorry: 1x (25:03) Naked Single: 1x (35:46) Incredible: 1x (02:46) Elegant: 1x (09:38) Shouting: 1x (01:28) Proof: 1x (09:38) Whoopsie: 1x (33:29) Pregnant pause: 1x (30:25) Progress: 1x (26:26) Most popular number(>9), digit and colour this video: Fifteen (11 mentions) Three (67 mentions) Yellow (35 mentions) Antithesis Battles: Outside (3) - Inside (0) Column (16) - Row (13) 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!

@malcolmjohnson4414 Год назад

As always, thanks bot!

@Sponsie1000 Год назад

l feel like ChessNetwork could be a good match for something like this as well,, he has a very clear and calm voice like mark and simon, and he has plenty of vocal mannerism as well. It could also function as a way to look back at which tactics are/were present at the match he reviewed :]

@heliocruz416 Год назад

Please don't leave us, inspiring sand

@rudysaint0 Год назад

Idk what is the use of repeated words count

@cooldad007 Год назад

When I can tell the setter’s name just by looking at the grid, does that mean I have watched too many CTV videos?

@bezowee Год назад

You can't watch too many CTC videos.

@dbrunnermusic Год назад

One neat thing that this puzzle didn't require you to see but which is very beautiful, is that the three digits on green, and the three digits on blue, must be taken from distinct rows _and_ columns of the central box - the proof is left as an exercise to the reader :p. So once the magic square is filled out, it's trivial to determine the 3rd green digit, and it's pretty quick to work out the blue digits too. I'm not a constructor so I have no sense of how hard it would be to do this, but I'd love to see a puzzle like this where the break-in depended on that idea!

@salsasamba9902 Год назад

I finished the puzzle without realising this, just went with a completely different approach and came to the same conclusion. After reading this I went back and immediately realised that you were right. It is a beautiful sudoku

@ThelsdeKwant Год назад

You're totally right. It was the first thing I noticed. I even went ahead and used letters to mark that, and only after solved the magic square. Doing the magic square first definitely would've been a lot faster. :P

@SnowTheJamMan Год назад

As soon as i saw the title i knew this was an Aad puzzle

@abdoroma6928 Год назад

@stevewithaq Год назад

WHAT!? I got an Aad puzzle in 26:45!? Either he's becoming rather charitable, or I've really learned a lot from this channel! I'm sure there's a mathematical way to describe the mapping from the central square onto the diamonds, but it's beyond me...

@shahinulkhan7879 Год назад

It was so nice to see Simon choosing 4 colours instantly without second-guessing himself to demonstrate the magic. Square. He clearly is finding his favourite colour is. Well done Sven. You have helped Simon with his hardest decision making process.

@Orenotter Год назад

For thirty-eight minutes we plod. The setter shows he is no clod. Squares magic and diamonds All challenge good Simon. This puzzle's incredibly Aad.

@emilywilliams3237 Год назад

Such a pleasure to watch this video. This is a perfect example of a beautiful puzzle with quite simple yet intriguing rules, but not terrifically difficult. Practically a perfect puzzle, isn't it? Thanks so much, Simon - and Aad.

@longwaytotipperary Год назад

Love the puzzle - magic squares are one of my favorites- and love the thumbnail where Simon looks like Clark Kent! Super Simon! 🙂

@doughmcn Год назад

6:06, there's a quick-solve method After solving the Magic Square in the center, I saw the unused cells in boxes 2,4,6,8 must be part of the Yellow Diamond triple. I then colored all Yellow Diamond squares, all Green Diamond squares, and all Blue Diamond squares. Using the colors to determine which diamond's triple a cell belonged to made solving it much faster. Knowing 7 was Yellow, 1/3 were Green and 4 was Blue was enough to fill in the central box for colors which also gave the values on each diamond, then colored/filled in the rest of the grid.

@joshyoerger5271 Год назад

This is the way.

@aneurysm2479 Год назад

I have been watching your channel for about a week now and I am absolutely hooked. Watching intelligence at work is highly inspiring and entertaining. Thank you for uploading so much wonderful content.

@wixxed Год назад

One of the most enjoyable puzzles to solve. Just a year ago I would have shrugged this off and never would have attempted such a thing.

@MickyBIs2001 Год назад

Wow! Great puzzle! Usually I aim to near equal or beat video length, but this time I beat Simon's *solve* time by ~20 sec. Loved the puzzle, great fun. Thanks Aad for setting it, and thanks Simon for featuring it

@jasonveale8467 Год назад

This was such a fun puzzle to solve. Not overly hard, but really enjoyable to work through. I love watching the challenging videos that Mark and Simon work through, but it's nice every now and then to have a more approachable puzzle. Thanks CtC, you guys are amazing.

@waneasle Год назад

Hey Simon! I just wanted to say that I really appreciate you and your videos! ❤

@KO47893 Год назад

Really fun puzzle! Colorizing the digits blue, green, and yellow helped me a lot with the solve.

@stumbling Год назад

27:54 Proving that 7≠9 in box 8 lead to the deduction that 7≠9 in box 2 also. Great use of symmetrical logic there, Simon. :P

@r0bbiegill Год назад

Very enjoyable puzzle. Took me just shy of 100 minutes. Got stuck on two points and Simon’s logic helped me out. Well, the first time I got stuck was because I missed the diagonal part of the rules for magic squares. But then then logic really broke open when Simon explained two cells adjacent to the magic square in row 5 needed to be on the yellow line. It was perfectly obvious - those four cells (r3c5, r5c3, r7c5 & r5c7) functioned as the point of the yellow diamond.

@samwortham2385 Год назад

46 minutes of fun for me! This was a lovely puzzle to solve.

@th.nd.r Год назад

Such beautiful setting and solving, geez! The diamonds are so simple in form and rule yet reveal such clever logic. Loved it!

@Magrior Год назад

A quite interesting puzzle and not too difficult, which I always appreciate. Thank you very much.

@tigranserobyan9261 Год назад

It took me 27:34 to solve the puzzle. 6 months ago it would have taken like 2 hours for me to figure it out. I've learned a lot from this channel. Thank you very much Simon and Mike for such an awesome and pleasant content.

@crazypomp927 Год назад

This was very approachable and very enjoyable!!! It was easy to get a handle on, and featured interesting logic. Nice one Aad!!

@frankiegreene4739 Год назад

Thank you for the shoutout and what a lovely birthday treat this puzzle was! I had a hunch about the digits on the lines based on the geometry of the magic square (each line could contain digits that don't appear in the same row or column in the central box) and for once my hunch was correct! :)

@amoswittenbergsmusings Год назад

Wow, I did not spot that. Thanks.

@jasmin3006 Год назад

This was a total treat! 17 minutes in I realized I made a mistake at the beginning so I started over and then it took me about 38 minutes to solve it and I enjoyed every second of it! Great puzzle, great diamonds, can only recommend trying it out!

@VeritasUnae Год назад

Just under 35 minutes clear! Now to watch Simon’s solve 😊

@VeritasUnae Год назад

Definitely agree with Simon that the beautiful construction leading to knowing every number has to be on a diamond, and the way that the magic square helps disambiguate through those middle columns is just very very clever.

@zorandrndarevic1444 Год назад

All sudokus with high symetries deserve separate cc book :) Love Aad's interesting artistic puzzles..

@carolinefreeman4546 Год назад

Yet again I used different logic from Simon to get the answer. The three digits on each coloured line can not share a row or column in the middle box. If they did - for example, say the blue digits were 6, 7 & 4 then in column 4 (where 6 & 7 are both in the same column in the middle box) both the blue line digits would have to be 4. It took me a while to find that logic but once I did it was easy to work out from there. A very enjoyable puzzle.

@theashen Год назад

Superb. Approachable, beautiful, and totally immersive

@przemekmajewski1 Год назад

32 minutes solve. Very elegant, moderately approachable.

@fredgoes9608 Год назад

This was a very enjoyable puzzle. It took me 25:09. Thanks to Aad !! Een hele fijne puzzel, dank je wel. 👍🏻

@beth7808 Год назад

I am surprised that Simon didn't color the grid immediately. I colored all of the yellow, blue, and green digits and it helped! This is one of the few times my time was faster (slightly).

@nationandy Год назад

I had a good chuckle when i saw the pattern too :)

@lexyeevee Год назад

whoa, 20:23! nice little series of patterns to unfold, thank you aad for a delightful puzzle :)

@nothayley Год назад

60:07 because my scanning is abysmal, but I'm proud of myself for figuring out right away that the spare digits had to be yellow

@joubess Год назад

Great solve, Simon! That puzzle was a lot of fun but it took me 67 min to solve. It didn't seem like that much time had passed, I was totally absorbed!

@Coyotek4 Год назад

11:21 ... elegance, sudokufied Nice puzzle!

@sicoles Год назад

Aad's puzzles are always so elegant

@listey Год назад

I only needed to see the video title to know this would be an Aad puzzle.

@RedBarchetta2019 Год назад

This was a great coloring puzzle!

@_JustinCider_ Год назад

This puzzle was crying out to be coloured. Yellow, Green & Blue - 3 of each in each row, column & box. Made for a time of just over 25 mins. Slower than Simon's solve but faster than the video, so that's a win for me :)

@adrianhead6272 Год назад

Aad's puzzles are definitely becoming simpler - completed in 14m12s. The given digits instantly solve the magic square which in turn denotes the triples.

@andrewgrant6516 Год назад

Well played, sir!

@TheNewAccount2008 Год назад

Solved in 12 Minutes... That was quite easy for an Aad puzzle, but really nice.

@chuckmanion1128 Год назад

17:36 Everything about this puzzle seemed to just click for me. It was a really fun puzzle with an intriguing bit of logic.

@llsilvertail561 Год назад

"If in doubt, look where the cursor is." I'm dying XD. He's learning

@erinasnow Год назад

I am not a big sports fan, so I never felt something if our countries team did well. But when I see Aad’s sudoku’s, I do get a sense of Dutch pride

@christinechandler8757 Год назад

This was a fun one! 😊

@rarrmonkey Год назад

I coloured the digits on the diamonds to match the line colour and it gave me triplets. this box has 3 yellows, this row has 3 blue ect. my overall time was slower than Simon but from a logic and viability perspective, i feel it was an advantage to colour the whole grid.

@mathmethman Год назад

With hindsight, there's a lot you can deduce from the rules and the diamonds before you even begin to deal with the given digits. Some boxes contain 3 green, 3 blue, 2 yellow and 1 spare digit. So altogether the diamonds must cover at least 8 different digits. Notice that there are two 'spare digits' in the same line (and two in the same column) so at least one of these must be on a diamond. Neither can be blue or green (because that would make 4 blue/green digits within a box) so at least one 'spare digit' must be yellow, giving a box containing 3 green, 3 blue and 3 yellow. Hence the diamonds cover all 9 digits with no digit appearing on two diamonds. If we now compare the middle box (the magic square) with its orthogonal neighbours, we can also conclude that each row and each column contains 1 green, 1 blue and 1 yellow. All this will help considerably with the placement of actual digits. The paragraph above also explains why the three colours split so neatly as 123 / 456 / 789. Given the distribution required by the magic square, the only other way to divide these (and still maintain the 1G/1B/1Y logic) is 147 / 258 / 369 which is a different kind of pattern.

@hibernator8198 Год назад

12:17 Simon, 3+7 doesn’t equal 8 my friend. I love the funny little mistakes he makes and yet he still does the puzzle flawlessly.

@andrewcook4873 Год назад

Nice puzzle. The magic square can just be written in and then the square just tells you what the numbers on the diamonds are, very nice.

@andrewcook4873 Год назад

Since Simon didn’t seem to quite do it the way I did I’ll add a bit more explanation. The first thing to note is that the digits on the yellow line must be different from anything on blue or green. So the digits not on lines in boxes 2, 4, 6, and 8 are all yellow digits. And so every row and column in the magic square must contain one blue, one yellow and one green digit. Since we know that 1, and 3 are green and 7 is yellow we can just immediately colour the whole of the magic square giving the colours on all the diamonds immediately.

@spilk84 Год назад

I have to say, in this version of the thumbnail you look exactly like new Miami Dolphins head coach Mike McDaniel! Sorry, just had to get it off my chest, it cracks me up every time! :D

@Raven-Creations Год назад

@ 32:08 How can you not see that 4 goes in R8C5? You've highlighted all the 4s, and there is a 4 in R7 eliminating 4 from two of the three blue cells in box 8. One of the blue cells must be 4, I wonder which? When you placed the 4 in box 9, you should have automatically looked what that did. You did look up, but there are two dimensions in a sudoku grid. This wasn't a shouting occasion, but a hangs-head-in-disbelief moment. Very classy as always from Aad. There's always something special about an Aad puzzle, they really are little gems, and not usually too difficult. I bet you could easily spot one of his puzzles in the Skunkworks challenge. I too thought it amusing that he made us work to find that the lines were 123, 456, and 789, even though, it being an Aad puzzle, you could put money on it being so from the start.

@yichen6313 Год назад

great fun puzzle :)

@piarittersporn Год назад

Very beautiful and funny puzzle.

@videogamersEU Год назад

I think this is the first time when I was massively faster than Simon. Once I had the center box done I noticed, that rows 4,5,6 all have 3 of each color, so center row much have 3 of each color, so when doing pencil marks, just use the central box as a reference and you get all the digits very fast.

@DyanH1 Год назад

18 minutes and 44 seconds for myself and I am proud of that 🎉🎉🎉

@bigredjcom Год назад

Hopefully this puzzle is just as popular as the other one by Aad you mentioned in the video!

@jamesandrewes9640 Год назад

12:18 "Three plus seven is eight". There's a knowledge bomb lol.

@Eli3abeth Год назад

I went looking for this comment hoping someone else had noticed 😂

@davidh.4944 Год назад

56:09. A bit tricky in spots, but at least it flowed well and never hung up for long, unlike the last one I attempted. I enjoyed it.

@KrisCadwell Год назад

12:15 3 plus 7 is 8. Another knowledge bomb!

@slurpleslixie Год назад

At around 22:00 I think you logic yourself into a bit of a corner - it doesn't matter if 7 ever appears on a yellow line or not you can happily call it yellow. There are essentially 3 groups of three digits - blue, green and "is allowed to be on yellow, but not on blue or green" so it doesn't hurt to just call that third group yellow, even if it's not necessarily the case that a given "yellow" digit ever appears on a yellow line. I mean, you did quickly prove that the 7 is actually yellow, but stil. I found this to be something of a colouring puzzle, because you get some really useful colourings out of it

@ThelsdeKwant Год назад

I'm quite surprised Simon didn't take this up as an opportunity to paint the grid in 3 colors. It seemed to scream that to me, and it definitely helped me spot things and solve the puzzle faster (though I used Orange instead of Yellow).

@specialkalberta Год назад

Amazing

@bkaozzz Год назад

18:18 for me, clever puzzle with a nice flow!

@dangrene617 Год назад

12:20 This one just really flowed nicely

@_kyarumii_ Год назад

1st run took me 33:09 and 2nd run took 14:09. Definitely spent alot of time trying to figure out a way to eliminate possibilities for the yellow line

@soremekun Год назад

This puzzle is book-worthy.

@wanderlustwarrior Год назад

11:52 for me, and damn, I'm *really* proud of my time on this one!

@AndrewBChristian Год назад

A bit of Fourshadowing there… hehe nice puzzle!

@liiiinder Год назад

Another way of saying that the 7 is on a yellow line is that the inner digit that isnt on a line in box 2,4,6,8 must be the digit on the yellow line that is outside the sudoku as the other digits are in the other cells

@werefrogofassyria6609 Год назад

wow, thanks to the lessons, The Werefrog got a better time at 27:33 to solve. Great puzzle.

@stellasdoesstuff Год назад

Took me 22:30! Feels good to be fairly quick on this one, considering how long a lot of other puzzles have been taking me lately

@tinnamchoi Год назад

00:49:54 On the contrary, I somehow figured out that 7 is on the yellow line right from the start. I kinda knew that 5 had to be the center of the magic square but I wasn't sure of it and I didn't wanna just look it up so I spent like 10 minutes proving it myself lol

@57thorns Год назад

Took me 14 minutes, of which one minute was the magic square. Really nice puzzle.

@MegaKotai Год назад

20:26 that one had a real nice flow!

@benjaminvazquez1243 Год назад

31:04 for me. I'm always chuffed when I manage to do a puzzle in less than the video length. I'm going to bed happy tonight.

@awilliams1701 Год назад

nifty puzzle!

@MusikCassette Год назад

since the animation is with sound, it would be great if the sound would depend on the numbers on the path. like a marble running over sound tiles.

@danielyuan9862 Год назад

17:05, a pretty fast one for me. The trick is figuring out which digits belong to which color.

@pattyboone4451 Год назад

Not possible!!!! Got 35:27 - slower than the video length ….. no way I’m making faster than Simon and Mark - I will settle for less than the video😊. Nice puzzle - thanks Simon and Mark for stretching brains a little. And all the fabulous setters that we find on a regular basis.

@herobrine8763og Год назад

32:53 This is called foreshadowing (Box 8 or bottom middle)

@tylerowens Год назад

30:31 solved the magic square in under a minute, knew which digits were on each line within 5. Took 25 minutes to get the permutations and corner squares figured out.

@thesundancekid123 Год назад

The Aad of Sudoku!

@jurjenvanderhoek316 Год назад

12:18 A knowledge bomb by Cracking The Cryptic: 3 + 7 = 8

@scottjacoby2594 Год назад

Haven't watched the video yet, but in doing the puzzle myself, I got the 456 triples in boxes 2 and 8 mixed up and not sure how. Curious to see where I went wrong when I watch the video.

@jasono8783 Год назад

A clean 17:36 for me. Lovely puzzle.

@yanivshemtov9430 Год назад

You can also see that every trio of 3 digits on a line can’t share a row or column in the middle box, otherwise it will force both cells of the same color in the row/column the two cells are sharing to be the same digit, you kinda used it for the first 2 but also for the next trio could have made it faster once you know it’s 4 and 5 then the only possible digit is 6 and for the last trio once you knew 7 was in it then it can’t be a 6 and would have to be a 789, maybe you did realize it eventually or maybe found another solution