I find interesting (and this is not particularly about Simon, this is general to how people are in general) that Simon was perfectly happy for YEARS with the automatic checker at the end the puzzle, but for the last year or so any time a puzzle does NOT have the solution included he becomes very nervous about it being correct. It's a clear demonstration how we tend to become reliant on things even when they start out as "little extras" we don't think about. Things that start out as simple comforts become must-haves.
it's kind of similar to when he is solving fog puzzles where the digit you entered is immediately validated by uncovering some fog. when nothing changes in the puzzles (because there was nothing new to reveal) he tends to get nervous that the entered digit could potentially be incorrect.
I saw Simon mis-pencil the 9 into box 6 - the tension built as I waited to see what else it would break, and how far back he might need to unwind. He got lucky, it only had a local effect. I think it slowed him a bit, the various 5789s pairs would have solved sooner, I think. In any case, he was still faster than me: 29:33
A puzzle that looked like a flower. Why surely I would have the power To solve it right quick With a swish and a flick. Yet I've been here for hour after hour.
i love hearing the joy in simon’s voice the moment he cracks another part of the puzzle. he has such an admiration for the beauty of these puzzles and it’s great to see because it really is an art
I think this is the first sudoku with a beyond basic rule set that I tried and solved and it was really nice. It only took me 19.56 which I'm really proud of, so i will definitely try them more often. For the head of the tulip i applied a lot more of the pressure of the given 2.
An elegant way to exclude 2 from R3C5 and R5C7 is to realize that if you put 2, the arrow would have to be double 1, e.g. for R3C5 being a 2, R2C6 and R1C7 would 1, R2C7 would be 4 to sum up to 5 ... and the other arrow would have to be 2-3 but it can't, due to R3C5 being already a 2. The logic is of course symmetrical, so you end up with 34 pairs, vertically and horizontally.
I finished in 22:26 minutes. Aad's puzzles are so fun, with such unique logic. This one was fun, especially, seeing that 12 in the middle box, which forces everything across the arrow bulbs. Great Puzzle!
Fun fact for Simon - tulips are not always red, they can come in many different colours... red, white, orange, pink, purple, probably more. Think of the famous pictures of the Netherlands with their colour-coded striped fields of tulips. Having said that, I did colour my tulip in red for this puzzle!
Lovely puzzle 🙂 Have to point out Simon's error at 22:22 when he pencil-marked the cells in box 6 - that should have been a 578 triple, not the 589 that he inserted. This error eventually led to the double 9 in that box at the end. Moral of story - Simon should avoid fully pencil-marking 😁
Took me 40 minutes. But yeah it was easy. I am just bad at sudokus. For me solving some it's very rewarding, so i am always happy when the upload some good while easy sudoku
Simon, you are right, the talking part of the brain is in the front part of the head. On left or right side depending on whether you are left-handed or not.
That sound you hear in the distance isn't elk bugling. It's your friendly neighborhood were-reindeer trying to solve this puzzle, making significant progress, then discovering it's broken and shouting "NOOOOOOOOO!"
18:40 Beautifully approachable and elegant. I was going to suggest that the SI unit of joy be named after a favourite constructor, but ran into trouble trying to settle on just one. So many excellent setters highlighted on this channel.❤
There is a wonderful book by Daniel Kahneman about the two different types of thinking - subconscious and deliberate/logical - called "Thinking, fast and slow". The author was a scientist who figured out how we judge things and make decisions. He later won a Nobel prize for his work. It is definitely worth a read; very interesting stuff!
11:27 "And now I'm going to embarrass myself by failing to spot some basic sudoku" Or basic arrow math anyways, not removing 4 pencil marks from the ends of two-cell arrows with a maximum sum of 4 or something like that... ;)
Very nice puzzle! The break-in along the stem is pretty nice, and the way of eventually disambiguating the 34 pairs in row and column 5 is clever. My time today was 13:55, solver number 10986.
Your sub-conscience and your brain being considered different isn’t as weird as you think. They undertake fundamentally different roles in taking care of you
I discovered a whole bunch of 3-4 pairs on the rose, which I colored purple and green. The next step was to discover that the pink digit in box 8 had to appear in column 4, where I had already found a 3-6-7 triple. The rest was smooth sailing. It took me longer than it probably should have (just over an hour), but this was a fun puzzle with a very satisfying solve path. Well done.
Managed it up to determining the central 7 arrows values but had to resort to brute force to place the 3-4 pair. Went back to watch that part of the solve to see how it was meant to be done.
This took me longer than I’d like, about 40 minutes since I missed a key deduction on the r7c1 circle (took me a while to spot it couldn’t be 6, making a 45 pair in the box), but I really enjoyed the break-in and liked the puzzle overall
Sorry, but it wasn't simply a miss click. At 22:10 you worked out you still needed 5678 in box 6, you entered the 6, then said that left you still needing 589, and you deliberately pencilmarked 589, despite 9 already appearing in the box.
This might have been "approachable" and "easy" but it took me almost 75 minutes, including getting stuck twice and having to watch Simon to learn how to move on. So I can't take any pride in this as I didn't solve it on my own. The double nature of these "easy" puzzles. Either I get happy for managing to solve them, or get disappointed in myself for failing when it's supposed to be "easy".
@12:10 Huh? If the 2 is on the tip of the arrow in box 3, then the arrow into box 2 (or 6) has to be a 1 (3 is too big, 2 conflicts)....turning it into a 3, not a 4. @19:12 Turns out the 23 pair does produce a 3, not a 4. The other arrow in box 2 has to be 14....and can't have the 4 at the tip, but the box 2 (or 6) arrow can have a 1 or 3 on it....turning it into a 2 or 4. So....not sure how Simon reached the conclusion he did.
If you want to experience several of parts of your brain talking to you Simon, you should Try Disco Elysium. Which is, of course, brilliant. And I challenge you to not get the 'sorry cop' achievement.
Very nice and fun puzzle. And almost 0 difference in solve time between me and Simon (this is my way of hiding, that while it took Simon about 10 minutes to solve, it took me 100 minutes (and 5 seconds), i.e. I did not think it was that easy at all, but I did manage).
50:04@#3940. It took a long time for me to figure out where the symmetry broke, but once I discovered that sneaky little conflict in C6, the rest of it fell into place.
Which 9? (Your timestamp doesn't match with a 9 entry). Edit: If it's the 9 in box 8 at 17:10, then it's a naked single. The cell sees 123567 in the box and 48 in the row.
