The Yin-Yang Sudoku Marvel

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Today's puzzle is by Phistomefel and it's called Yin-Yang Sudoku. It should go without saying with his puzzles but this is a quite incredible sudoku. Play it at the link below:
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Rules: Normal Sudoku rules apply. Some cells have to be coloured grey. All grey cells have to be orthogonally connected. All white cells have to be orthogonally connected, as well. No 2x2-region may be completely covered by grey cells, or completely covered by white cells. The clues outside of the grid indicate the sum of all grey cells in the respective row or column.
The puzzle was published on Logic Masters Germany here:
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athin's Yin-Yang puzzle, which Phistomefel recommends as a way of teaching yourself how these puzzles work, can be found here:
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Hi! We're Simon Anthony and Mark Goodliffe, two of the UK's most enthusiastic puzzle solvers. We have both represented the UK at the World Sudoku Championships and the World Puzzle Championships. We're also "cryptic crossword" aficionados. Mark is the twelve-time winner of The Times championship and Simon is the former record holder for most consecutive correct solutions to The Listener crossword. We hope we can help your puzzle solving while also introducing you to some of the world's best puzzles.
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@akosbakonyi5749 3 года назад

""Or have we ;)"

@Varksterable 3 года назад

This remark and the tip of the glasses made me lol! Simon, I'm not going to big up your acting tallents, but as a presenter you have certainly found your niche. I did try watching some very early uploads. Let's just say you have improved immensely. :) (Just don't tell them about the new /// - //// or _//_/ on this channel. New codes at 543266232363)

@Windgonner 3 года назад

I almost fell out of my chair.

@kimberlypreston6204 3 года назад

Funny thing happened while watching this: I didn't realize I paused it. I was watching thinking wow, Simon sure is giving this a stare. I started to wonder why he wasn't saying anything. Usually he comments even a little while he's thinking. After a while it dawned on me that it was paused. hahahahha.

@deszeldra 3 года назад

I've done that before! And sometimes I think I've paused it and he's just giving it a little extra long stare :)

@karosvaron8643 3 года назад

My Wi-Fi is a bit spotty sometimes so sometimes he is having a good long think and other times I have disconnected. But I cannot always tell which it is. I have gone to fix the Wi-Fi and all of a sudden he starts talking.

@mightworth3735 3 года назад

The best thing is: yes

@nadines.1107 3 года назад

My wifi got stuck once and Mark was brooding over a problem for a minute or so, seemingly. I admire how they usually put their thought process into words. So i was surprised. Turned out my wifi was having trouble.

@stevieinselby 3 года назад

I often try the puzzle, get stuck, watch the video until there's an "a-ha" moment, pause the video, go back to the puzzle. Sometimes when I next get stuck, come back and unpause the video, it takes a few seconds before I can tell that I _have_ unpaused it, Simon is very good at staying _perfectly still_ when he's thinking in silence 🤣

@alistairsanger3111 3 года назад

My record with Phistomefel's puzzles remains untarnished. 100% fail record achieved. Nice to watch how it should be done.

@CreativityCurve 3 года назад

Can I just say I love how ol' Phisto always provides example puzzles for his unusual rulesets? Such a thoughtful guy

@46lespaul 3 года назад

Honestly nine times out of 10 I always get more confused by the example than just watching the solve

@mollberg3501 3 года назад

When I first found this channel I thought to myself how the hell do you solve these kinds of puzzles with no digits. After subscribing I've learned so much and now I don't hesitate to throw myself at whatever you post. But I can honestly say this is the first puzzle I've tried (though, in all fairness, I've only done a fraction of the ones posted) that I couldn't eventually solve...hell I had no clue even where to start. So I "cheated" and looked at the first few minutes of the video to try to understand the thought process, as I have never done a similar puzzle before. After sort of getting a grasp of it, I started coloring the grid, checked the video and to my great relief I hadn't gotten it wrong. From there on the solve was pretty straight-forward. I just want to say thank you to CtC for teaching us so much and to the people who contribute in the comments, and most importantly to the artists who create the puzzles. Thank you, thank you. And Merry Christmas to all!

@amoswittenbergsmusings 3 года назад

Today's limerick: A mathematician in Oxbridge Gave lectures at Sudoku College. Though highly regarded, He often bombarded The students with trivial knowledge.

@LucyXuCovers 3 года назад

Today I found out Simon went to Cambridge, I wonder which college 🤔

@amoswittenbergsmusings 3 года назад

@@LucyXuCovers Thanks for your reply. Would Oxford really have been a possibility? They don't have senior wranglers like Simon over there... I *wanted* to write Cambridge but the clashing vowels forced Oxbridge - which perhaps had the advantage of not upsetting Oxonians. With this comment I spoiled that. Ah well.

@goblinkoma 3 года назад

Well guys, we did it. We upgraded from "knowledge-bomb" to "knowledge-rocket".

@nerdiconium1365 3 года назад

At this rate, we’ll reach CTC-ICBKM(Cracking the Cryptic Intercontinental Ballistic Knowledge Missile) in about a month or two.

@wren4077 3 года назад

sounds like a downgrade to me tbh

@goblinkoma 3 года назад

@@wren4077 a thing u can shoot over hundreds of kilometers is a downgrade from a stationary thing? Nah i dont think so..

@scrossb 3 года назад

can’t wait for the Knowledge Mauler

@samus88 3 года назад

I love how these are literally two separate puzzles, altho you can't solve either without the other... so I guess they aren't separate at all. But I love that you can solve the Yin Yang regions without having a single digit in the grid (other than pencil marks), and then work on the Sudoku. Great stuff.

@CapKhoury 3 года назад

Exactly. The fact that you don't need digits is all the more amazing because you DO need the pencilmarks. Just knowing what possible numbers of gray cells each row/column sum could admit is not enough to solve the Yin Yang.

@PH34RB 3 года назад

"I know what Mr. Goodliffe would do" Oh! The slander.

@wren4077 3 года назад

I just love this little "beef" they have over bifurcation

@markschaal6050 3 года назад

I don't mind the fake beef, and I don't really mind all the times Simon lies and says he doesn't use bifurcation, but it does bug me quite a lot when he says/implies bifurcation isn't logical.

@ThereIsAnExtension2UndoHandles 3 года назад

Cracking the Cryptic: Mission Approachable

@Raven-Creations 3 года назад

I had a whale of a time shouting at the screen for this! "You can't have a checkerboard", "put in the 89 pair in row 5 to give a 789 in C8", "finish the 9 clue" and so on. What a hoot. I stopped short of calling you a wombat, but almost wished I had when you mentioned it. Never mind, there's always next time. In case you "have" Simon, this is for your eyes only: thanks for continuing to provide a quantum of solace by giving us a view to a fill.

@martinepstein9826 3 года назад

The ending was tense because I was afraid you would miss the 9 clue and finish the solve with some bonkers logic.

@Kokurorokuko 3 года назад

That is not Simon's way

@cravenkey 3 года назад

@@Kokurorokuko it is though 😂

@laszloliptak611 3 года назад

I believe that without using the 9 clue at the end the puzzle does not have a unique solution, so eventually he had to use it.

@Kokurorokuko 3 года назад

@@cravenkey sorry, I thought "bonkers logic" meant some wrong logic, not strange way.

@Raven-Creations 3 года назад

Although he's much too polite ever to say it aloud, I'm sure he's always thinking "I'm gonna have to logic the shit out of this".

@aruvi444 3 года назад

If not cast, I'd definitely like James bond to get foiled by a villain briefly and saying "bobbins!"

@tomaskot9278 3 года назад

The logic in this puzzle made me smile several times. I have no idea how do you construct a puzzle with such a clever and linear solving path.

@danburrows9635 3 года назад

There is something insanely satisfying about watching a whole grid of pencil marks get resolved in one big logic chain at the end there :)

@topilinkala1594 Год назад

That's why I like when sudoku ends in BUG. The plethora of pairs that resolves in your eyes is so pleasurable.

@laszloliptak611 3 года назад

This puzzle is really impossible to solve without knowing that the boundary consists of two contiguous pieces, one of each color, because otherwise there will be two pieces of the same color separated by two pieces of the other color, so the path joining the grey pieces will isolate the white pieces just like if there is a checkerboard pattern in the grid. Beautiful puzzle!

@MummenshantzPachinko 3 года назад

Ned’s Atomic Dustbin came to me part way through this solve... “The grey cell’s green only if the green cell’s grey, the grey cell’s green only if the green cell’s grey”

@johnturner3783 3 года назад

The names Anthony, Simon Anthony!

@alvaropallete 3 года назад

and the puzzle Mark did is not by James Bond but James Kopp

@garanceadrosehn9691 3 года назад

I am confident I could never have solved this double-puzzle.

@Varksterable 3 года назад

Welcome back to CtC. It's "Sudoku Anthony" Or "Simuko Anthony" here. No agent would give up their real first name. So.. Easily... especially with the Far East calling for help. (Hold on. What if that _was_ his real name and it was a bluff?) But there's a 4 in c5. And that cage can't be a 35. And because..(fade) Emperor: So you see, we have a problem. Ying is supposed to balance yang; but there is a parity issue. And we cannot place two 4s in box 5. [interlude: numbers 1 to 9 sum to 45]. DONT LET YOUR SNAKES TOUCH THEMSELVES ORTHOGONALY! Q: (who was that representing a new parity-thermo rule) Aw shucks. What a mess. This looks like the work of... Moneypenny: Phistomefel? PMF: Black is white. And white is red. And some of the red plus the green is white. But only the green square is white. When it is not orange! Hahaha. I will see you again, Mr Anthony. Blowfeld: Am I in the wrong film. Or what?

@dollarsing 3 года назад

Simon, you are too hard on yourself. An incredible set and solve. Amazing to watch!

@chesshead 3 года назад

53:08 Not fair on wombats, they would have seen the 9 clue. Might not have known what to do with it, but they would have seen it.

@elcetinski9173 3 года назад

Absolutely adored this puzzle solve today, Phistomefel constantly outdoes himself. Well done Simon!

@flacid0ne 3 года назад

20 minutes in and im starting to see numbers. I love it! Asolutely maddening.

@Rammkard 3 года назад

49:30 find myself repeating "you can't put the 9 there" as though he will hear me if I repeat enough.

@BigAsciiHappyStar 3 года назад

You can't put the 9 there. You can't put the 9 there. You can't put the 9 there - and what I say three times is true :P #yesiknow

@CalvinNeufeld1 3 года назад

Same with the 9 clue in column 8. For what felt like an eternity...

@lizbrooker4635 3 года назад

Hats off Phistomefel and Simon 👏👏👏💖

@Airantu 3 года назад

Started sounding German with how much I was saying Nine there at the end.

@bevstarrunner9472 3 года назад

I was yelling 'Column 8' instead for at least a minute..

@Nyarlah 3 года назад

Nein it didn't.

@jimhester1205 3 года назад

I wish you had used the light grey instead of the dark grey. I really have to strain to see the blue pencil marks on a dark background. The dark grey and the red make them almost completely invisible to me

@jimhester1205 3 года назад

The red is the worst.

@AngrySanta 3 года назад

My new head canon is that Mark and Simon are collectively the new Q

@matthewender3473 3 года назад

In a common pattern, I proceeded straight to the yin-yang start, got a good way, started in on the sudoku, and bogged down a bit. I really should have skipped ISC and played the IPC instead of the other way around. Snap!

@Coyotek4 3 года назад

I have a personal 'Hall of Fame' for puzzles that I successfully solved with no guesswork ... I may need a separate section just for 'Phisto' puzzles. I stared at this for about 20 minutes without knowing where to begin. Then I saw the opening sequence of coloring, which led to more coloring ... and eventually I was able to get all the coloring done. Then I had to attack the actual Sudoku part, which had its own challenges. In the end, it took me 50:08 from the moment I started filling in the grid, so about 70 minutes in all. I'll take it. Another phenomenal puzzle from Phistomefel!

@markp7262 3 года назад

49:20 finish. Wow, what a puzzle. I was faster than Simon on the Yin-Yang logic, he was a little faster on the sudoku, and we finished in about the same amount of time. I'll take it! :-D

@yash08100 3 года назад

I love the addition of the button that directly brings us to the RU-vid video!

@halsteadisfat 3 года назад

Phistomefel: You only need 2 colors. Simon: Hold my beer.

@maaleru 3 года назад

Hope somebody will trick Simon into drawing somewhat fun at 1.04

@dummerchenmithirn 3 года назад

I love how you say "how on earth can it be...." and in german we say "Wie zur Hölle kann es...." ("how in hell can it be... ")

@Tfin 3 года назад

The "earth" variant ascended in popularity due to a reluctancy to use "the 'H' word" in the past. Both do exist in English, along with others.

@StorymasterQ 3 года назад

@@Tfin Well this year does feel like hell on earth, though.

@ragnkja 3 года назад

In Norwegian the polite expression is “how in all days”. We do, of course, have some less polite forms of it as well.

@Rubrickety 3 года назад

My fourth success! I was quite proud to figure out the yin/yang part from first principles. Whole thing took me hours of course.

@shaunbrowne9870 3 года назад

Did you ever think you'd be 42 1/2 minutes into a video without a single digit? :-P

@satriomalif8801 3 года назад

The 9 clue gives first hint where the grey cells are, but it makes the problem for obvious fill in the last minutes.

@57thorns 3 года назад

43:23 With the cell highlighted... "what can we do". May I humbly suggest filling in the 4? Since there is a 12 pair in the column.

@Mephistahpheles 3 года назад

@19:35 The 12 can only have 1 more grey. R2C5 must be grey, or there'll be a 2x2 green there. Row 2 done. Row 1 done. (Commenting before seeing if Simon spots it.) @37:00 Pursuing the 9 column: Only 1 of the 3 can be grey. Coming out on row 5 breaks the 17 or 24. Coming out on row 6 breaks the 24 (or isolates part of it). Gotta come out on row 4. (I see Simon rules out row 5 using the green 4x4....that works, too!)

@andrewnelson2525 3 года назад

Great puzzle. Having not done Yin/Yang before (though cave puzzles are similar) I found myself staring at an empty grid going "I have no idea how to start". I'm exceedingly happy I was able to back up and ponder the properties of Yin-Yangs and deduce the crucial fact about the perimeter that was the break-in. The wonderful thing about Phistomefel's puzzles is that they keep having you stop and say What the heck next? and then there keep's being just one more thing you can do if you look long enough. Made a hash of the Sudoku after finishing coloring, though. Kept overlooking sums.

@e38383 3 года назад

"look like a complete wombat" … I will definitely copy that!

@GamerBadger82 3 года назад

My new favourite mood #CompleteWombat 💜

@Frie_Jemi 3 года назад

When you got stuck around 39 minutes, I think I found the next piece of logic necessary... Which of the three white cells in column eight can be extended? If it's row four then both white cells in column 7 must connect living only two greens and column seven - broken! If it's in row five, it would have to be column six seven and eight turned gray and then the other white and column 6 to connect the two sections. If you tried to if you tried to put the two grays in row six, you'd also have to fill column seven again breaking column seven therefore the two gray cells that extend off of column nine must be in row 5! EDIT-well he shot that down pretty quick!LOL I forgot about connecting col 6

@christianschmid1440 3 года назад

Maybe its just me but it would be fun to watch both of you solving the same puzzle. Just to compare both approaches. Not meant to be a race or anything.

@benwilms9136 3 года назад

I'm so glad I could have my name in the same video as such an amazing puzzle!

@yichen6313 3 года назад

Wonderful puzzle! It's challenging, but not crazy hard at any point.

@TheBiggreenpig 3 года назад

51:26 "clue where are you" Heh, that 25 pair in R8 should be solved by now.

@mceajc 3 года назад

I'm now thinking of a book along similar lines to "The Compleat Angler": Simon's musings on Sudoku called "The Compleat Wombat".

@ericpraline1302 3 года назад

Would never have solved this without Simon's insight about the top and bottom rows. Seemed rather obvious once he'd mentioned, but not sure I would ever have got there. A compromised solve therefore.

@bertbergers9171 3 года назад

What on earth is wrong with looking like a winnaar??? They are adorable!! Great job on the puzzle btw!! I would have thought something like the edge would be important, but I am glad you thaught us about this principle, thanks!!

@joelbaker210 3 года назад

"...with apologies to wombats"

@batdowg 3 года назад

Simon, I'm sure others have mentioned it before, but worth repeating: the dark gray in the new app makes your pencil marks really hard to see.

@Tfin 3 года назад

Less so than the black of the old app.

@stevieinselby 3 года назад

@@Tfin I found it easier to read pencil marks on the old black than on the new dark grey _when doing the puzzle myself_ , but the video compression meant that when Simon & Mark used black it was harder to see.

@hapawn 3 года назад

incredible solve, thank you! just one comment, after using the new sw and seeing the latest videos, I believe you should revert to the previous colors for background and numbers. Many of the new combinations render a very bad contrast.

@jovaji72 3 года назад

Good. We've jumped from knowledge bombs to rockets.

@Naomi_Boyd 3 года назад

2000 views, 200 likes I get so wrapped up in watching Simon click buttons I keep forgetting the clicking that I need to do myself.

@Nathannbo 3 года назад

Logic that adds up: Saw the devil therefore watched the video.

@brendabalzan1994 3 года назад

Same

@MisterM2402 3 года назад

Who's more clever: the madman who set this puzzle or the madman who actually managed to solve it? Makes me think of the old "unstoppable force/immovable object" paradox.

@t71024 3 года назад

Just started watching, not seen any of the solution yet. Obviously the perimeter cannot be broken into 4 sections of grey and white; one of the pairs could not be connected. So if the top row had one color in the middle and another at the ends, the end color would have to continue all around the rest of the perimeter. And we can see that the bottom row is neither 0 or 45 so it needs both colors. At least one of the sides has to be all grey or all white.

@Nyarlah 3 года назад

Well, I was on the right track, but I've been stuck for almost 2 hours. At least I got the grey column side right :p Difficult puzzle.

@mickee 3 года назад

I admire your ability to think of very complicated things. But I get frustrated when you almost always miss to fill in just one single cell left in a particular region. And it happens most of the time when you are solving that region and then leave it when there's just one cell left to fill. But great job in finding the labyrinth of grey and green cells! What I did there was try to create a path without lifting the pen. And then just modify as necessary. And I happen to come up with just the same labyrinth so I guess that's the only solution that would satisfy the given parameters.

@rickkrout1804 3 года назад

“Q.E.D.” 😂 I love it

@aloofmeatloaf1467 3 года назад

Check out the big brain on Simon. Great work on the break in.

@necaton 3 года назад

actually what does killer stand for in killer sudoku?

@JanSiwanowicz 3 года назад

It's shorthand for "no repetition" as referring to sums other than rows/columns/regions. So killer cages and killer diagonal sums do not allow repetitions.

@williammedeiros2699 3 года назад

My inner 3 year world: you can’t put two of the same digit in a case because they don’t like each other and they are going to try to kill on another.

@Tintenklexs 3 года назад

@@JanSiwanowicz but this doesn’t add up with the little killer variant where you can repeat across a diagonal.

@nadines.1107 3 года назад

I kinda assumed it was called that because it adds another layer, more badass... only for the really tough. How exactly is it shorthand for no repetition?

@monkeyunit4533 3 года назад

@@Tintenklexs Maybe that's why those are little killer? Because they need to add up, but CAN repeat?

@dennisc3438 3 года назад

I think it'd be real interesting if they would solve these with an eye tracker active, so we could actually see what they are looking at.

@FirstLast-gw5mg 3 года назад

I can't even make any sense of the recommended yin-yang puzzle, so I really doubt I'll have any luck with the sudoku...

@phisto8015 3 года назад

Wow those are a lot of ads.. :(

@robb1267 3 года назад

1:32 So you're saying.... you're approachable?

@RandomBurfness 3 года назад

7:30 There must be an unshaded cell to the left of column 4 because otherwise you would have many 2x2 areas of shaded cells! No need to complicate stuff with that sudoku logic.

@forentertainment3259 3 года назад

25:52 What a moment!

@viviencollomb-clerc5526 3 года назад

Loved this puzzle! Thanks to the devil! :D

@RealCadde 3 года назад

48:19 And you now got a x-wing on nines in rows 4 and 6, so R5C5 is a nine by sudoku.

@sykesmason2325 3 года назад

You know a puzzle's put Simon through the ringer when he hits it with the triple Bobbins.

@alibabapirce9782 3 года назад

51:00 i screamed so loudly nine clue to the screen that they deported me to germany

@kitsterling8665 3 года назад

I got a really weird feeling of déjà vu watching this one. Especially right near the end.

@wren4077 3 года назад

it's actually called "ptsd" from the older phistomefel puzzles :D

@kitsterling8665 3 года назад

@@wren4077 PTSD is just spicy nostalgia. But yeah, you could be right. xD

@sarabearyt 3 года назад

lovely

@triplea657aaa 3 года назад

How on earth does this madman set his sudokus?

@andrewszaflarski5379 3 года назад

Knowledge rockets!!! 🚀 🚀 🚀

@user-A168 3 года назад

Good

@mattfunnysocks 3 года назад

It’s usually all 81 digits that make me look like a wombat...

@n_mckean 3 года назад

Skips all the intro stuff. Reads instructions about grey and white. Simon starts talking "greys and greens". Me: WTF?

@stevieinselby 3 года назад

It's a bad idea to use white for a specified purpose in these puzzles because then if you're looking at a white cell, you can't tell if it's white because you've decided it _has_ to be white, or uncoloured because you haven't resolved it. The way around that would be to colour the whole grid in green to start with, and then ungreenify cells when you know they are white...

@n_mckean 3 года назад

@@stevieinselby I get that, but it would equally be a good idea to update the instructions.

@Tfin 3 года назад

How I got on: Not at all, as I've been unable to get the example Yin-Yang puzzle given.

@nityantagarwal2532 3 года назад

One of the first days(night) when I’ll watch the video and sleep.

@dustanloot 3 года назад

Finding each puzzles almost impossible in the new Killer Sudoku app

@nadines.1107 3 года назад

To me they are tough as well stuck in the 7th right now.

@shteevuk 2 года назад

@RasperHelpdesk 3 года назад

14:30 am I the only one that sees Trogdor in that meandering path?

@StephaneBura 3 года назад

If it were, it would lack consummate v's.

@RasperHelpdesk 3 года назад

@@StephaneBura Time for a Trogdor V/X sudoku...

@GhostBombGames 3 года назад

I can't even get a little bit of leeway into athin's yin-yang puzzle. I must be missing something crucial.

@RichSmith77 3 года назад

If you want a hint (It's what eventually got me going)... (SPOILER) Any two white circles on the perimeter have to be connected by white circles on the perimeter, and similarly for any black circle. In other words, you can only have one section of each colour around the perimeter.

@Duda-ke3uz 3 года назад

11:23 After 10 minutes, I get absolutely nothing! Me: Dont worry, u are not alone. Even 10 hours, I get nothing :D

@seanmcdermott2035 3 года назад

Slightly unfair on the poor wombat... 🤣

@Answerisequal42 3 года назад

25min in and we have some pencil marks. You can guess if i pass on trying tom olve this or not.

@JohnCater5 3 года назад

What’s the all-time record for the longest time before a digit is entered?

@joosttel3349 3 года назад

It's ongoing.

@Kokurorokuko 3 года назад

I'm currently working on it

@_-_-Sipita-_-_ 3 года назад

those puzzles didnt stand a chance, but its the oppossite day

@yishsaur7657 3 года назад

Did I misunderstsnd the rules? Some cells are white, some are gray and all are connencted. But why has the finished solution only green and white cells? Where are the white cells? Simon: This solution is wrong, because there are no connected white cells.

@RichSmith77 3 года назад

He's using green to represent "white" cells. He just needs to distinguish starting cells (white) from filled in "white' cells. He could have filled in the whole grid a different colour at the start and turned them white as he progressed, but it was simpler to use another colour to represent the "white" cells in the solution.

@chardywolfe 3 года назад

😒 The 9 clue... The 9 clue Simon....

@stephenpassmore7306 3 года назад

And what exactly is wrong with wombats?

@mattfunnysocks 3 года назад

Show of hands... who has gotten cross with Simon for not solving the puzzle faster? No one? Just like I thought...

@randywebb8284 3 года назад

Disclaimer: I am not a Sudoku player. But, I have a question about the game if anyone can help me. I am a programmer and decided to make my own Sudoku game for the challenge of it. When checking a basic puzzle, is verifying the rows, columns and boxes enough to verify an accurate solution? If I read each column, each row and each box, put the digits in numerical order, I should get 123456789 for each row, column and box. Is that enough to verify or do I need a more robust check? Thank you to anyone who can help me.

@francoisduez601 3 года назад

For classic sudokus, yes it is enough, because those are the only sudoku rules 😉

@randywebb8284 3 года назад

@@francoisduez601 my intuition was telling me that but I was wanting to make sure since I don't play it. Thank you.

@christiancoester2455 3 года назад

Yes, it is enough.

@wren4077 3 года назад

I could be wrong, you won't really have to check the box. It is part of the ruleset yes, but I don't think it's possible to repeat a digt in a box and still maintain no contradictions in rows or columns what i mean to say is, you probably would just need to check for repetitions in rows and columns. The boxes will work themselves out. Someone correct me if I'm wrong.

@randywebb8284 3 года назад

@@wren4077 If row1 and row 4 are offset by 1 number so that row 1 is 123456789 and row 4 is 912345678 and you have a valid solution with box having 123456789 and you swap rows 1 and 4, the rows will still all have 123456789 and the columns will still have 123456789 but the box will fail the test.

@awilliams1701 3 года назад

shaken not stirred

@deszeldra 3 года назад

As an Australian I must ask you to please not insult wombats like that... :P but then again, if you are comparing a wombat's intellect with your own, I would accept that is not an insult.

@derekfordyce9 3 года назад

19 seconds and already 1 dislike. I don't understand.

@soremekun 3 года назад

Doesn't make any sense. Impossible to have watched the video already as it was just released.

@gengar678 3 года назад

@@soremekun maybe someone just doesnt like this kind of puzzles. I dont't either :) I am sort of waiting for the puzzle to come online and then I see one of these snake type puzzles and I am not into them at all. But Still love the channel so I will give thumbs up anyway. Apart from that the internet is full of strange people haha.

@SirCumference31 3 года назад

It’s a good point but it makes sense to me for someone to be excited to see a puzzle from this channel and immediately like it and then try the puzzle. Someone (probably the same person) waiting for a puzzle to come online and then immediately disliking every day is just weird.

@francoisduez601 3 года назад

Haters gonna hate... 😉

@soremekun 3 года назад

@Anifco67 Well, that can be a discussion as well but it wasn't raised by the OP. Reasons as to why someone may give a thumbs up before watching entire video: They like the channel, support the content creators, showing their overall support, etc.