Think Outside The Snake

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@dusanpokorny4893 2 года назад

Hi Simon, filuta here, it was such a pleasure to see you battling my puzzle, thank you so much for featuring it and for your kind comments too, it really made my day!

@joelstevens5670 2 года назад

Hi Filuta. Just wanted to say…that was absolutely stunning. I mean, I was lost for words at how clever parts of the solve path were (so clever in fact that I thought I’d broken it twice before the truth dawned on me both times). That must have taken simply ages to set but the result was worth it. Many thanks and congrats on a quite brilliant construction which will live long in the memory (and regarding kind comments making your day, this sudoku definitely made mine). :)

@davidrattner9 2 года назад

Lovely, sublime puzzle from you!! Very unique rules. Congrats on your feature and your great setting skills!

@dusanpokorny4893 2 года назад

@@joelstevens5670 thank you so much, yeah, the setting didn't take more than a week in the end I think, but surely was quite intense, I made so many versions (and also so many mistakes), before eventually getting to this final form

@dusanpokorny4893 2 года назад

@@davidrattner9 thanks a lot!

@sirmonkas4879 2 года назад

Kvalitný hlavolam!

@jonathanross6260 2 года назад

At 59:29, the snake could also have dipped down and ended in R9C6, thus avoiding the 9 cell orange region. The reason R8C7 had to be orange, was due to it not being possible to put a 9 in the three cell region above it.

@michadajewski6786 2 года назад

Spotted it as well. I was trying to figure it out how it breaks with no results - thanks for the explanation!

@xaethos 2 года назад

I had to very purposefully stop myself from shouting at the screen in horror when he skipped that over. Then I paused the video, scrolled down the comments section, and here we are. Goodness... who knew Sudoku videos could be such thrillers‽ 😂

@Alsadius 2 года назад

@Miha Zidar TBH, he'd probably have figured it out when he hit a contradiction - he's made missteps of that sort before. But yeah, that's a good argument for why you can't do it that way.

@reganmartin4126 2 года назад

I think 'someone' saying "Hmmm" while reading the paper would be hilarious! Maybe you could do a quick little video similar to Mark's 1 minute Wordles! Give it a go! Also.....excellent puzzle and solve! Loved it!

@mremumerm 2 года назад

how about someone saying "Hmmm" while watching Mark do his 1 minute Wordles?

@leeway3739 2 года назад

Simon: I'm going to solve this logically. Simon 10 minutes later: I *feel* like we have to come into this box.

@longwaytotipperary 2 года назад

OK - an hour video of Simon's melodious voice while I tackle all my chores. Then I'll check again later to watch how he solves the puzzle! 😊

@davidrattner9 2 года назад

Beautiful choice of words to describe his voice!! Enjoy finishing chores. :-)

@longwaytotipperary 2 года назад

@@davidrattner9 thanks, David!

@leojs5673 2 года назад

CtC has definitely saved many of my dish washing sessions 🙃

@longwaytotipperary 2 года назад

@@leojs5673 😃

@DanFre40 2 года назад

@@davidrattner9 Unless you confuse yourself by reading it as "malodorous", like I did....

@inspiringsand123 2 года назад

Rules: 04:13 Let's Get Cracking: 06:59 Simon's time: 1h15m23s Puzzle Solved: 1:22:22 What about this video's Top Tier Simarkisms?! Bobbins: 2x (03:06, 1:19:44) The Raven: 1x (11:04) Three In the Corner: 1x (1:18:57) And how about this video's Simarkisms?! Snake: 78x (00:22, 04:15, 04:25, 04:37, 04:44, 04:47, 05:00, 05:13, 05:15, 05:38, 05:42, 06:14, 06:24, 07:33, 07:36, 07:38, 07:59, 08:01, 08:17, 08:20, 08:25, 08:40, 08:43, 08:52, 08:57, 09:20, 09:30, 10:11, 10:18, 13:15, 13:28, 13:28, 13:31, 15:23, 15:54, 16:06, 16:15, 16:28, 16:44, 16:54, 19:10, 19:46, 21:48, 22:01, 22:03, 23:44, 23:46, 23:49, 24:41, 26:40, 26:50, 26:57, 28:30, 29:25, 29:41, 29:41, 29:55, 31:51, 34:00, 38:28, 39:52, 46:09, 46:11, 46:15, 46:58, 48:25, 48:43, 49:06, 49:10, 49:11, 49:13, 49:18, 49:24, 59:31, 59:33, 59:35, 1:22:55, 1:23:00) Ah: 30x (09:45, 10:23, 23:38, 28:38, 28:42, 31:43, 40:45, 42:05, 49:06, 49:22, 50:41, 50:41, 51:18, 51:20, 1:00:48, 1:01:34, 1:01:58, 1:01:58, 1:02:59, 1:03:44, 1:03:48, 1:05:19, 1:07:04, 1:07:14, 1:10:26, 1:13:06, 1:16:47, 1:18:50, 1:19:07, 1:20:33) Touch Itself: 19x (04:22, 06:17, 06:18, 06:24, 06:26, 06:29, 06:31, 08:43, 08:52, 10:20, 13:29, 15:23, 15:33, 38:34, 38:36, 46:13, 49:08, 49:13, 58:50) Hang On: 9x (07:19, 22:48, 28:20, 29:31, 29:31, 1:02:59, 1:15:18, 1:18:00, 1:19:38) Sorry: 8x (02:51, 04:44, 06:48, 11:13, 48:13, 50:19, 57:39, 1:06:23) Goodness: 7x (16:08, 23:04, 23:49, 1:13:47, 1:22:24, 1:22:45, 1:23:12) Surely: 7x (10:39, 10:43, 10:47, 15:08, 27:30, 31:11, 1:12:37) Stuck: 6x (02:34, 54:36, 54:36, 1:06:26, 1:08:21, 1:08:25) In Fact: 5x (06:24, 35:13, 45:56, 58:52, 1:23:18) Wow: 5x (24:56, 32:33, 42:15, 50:30, 55:14) Nonsense: 4x (09:45, 22:07, 28:25, 57:57) Clever: 4x (00:45, 59:02, 59:18, 1:22:27) By Sudoku: 4x (44:31, 1:02:17, 1:02:26, 1:03:44) Obviously: 4x (13:37, 24:09, 36:27, 53:43) Pencil Mark/mark: 4x (1:03:06, 1:16:37, 1:20:48, 1:20:54) The Answer is: 3x (50:44, 1:13:20, 1:14:25) Brilliant: 3x (03:19, 1:23:07, 1:23:07) Have a Think: 3x (22:23, 23:28, 1:04:25) Unique: 3x (06:40, 55:08, 1:22:52) What on Earth: 2x (12:02, 1:09:44) What a Puzzle: 2x (54:58, 1:22:24) Naughty: 2x (15:33, 46:15) Beautiful: 2x (51:23, 1:02:07) Extraordinary: 2x (00:20, 03:52) I've Got It!: 2x (1:13:06) Progress: 2x (41:07, 1:06:30) Nature: 2x (52:01, 56:45) Good Grief: 1x (1:22:16) Missing Something: 1x (1:20:14) Ridiculous: 1x (59:18) Bonkers: 1x (03:59) Plonk: 1x (57:18) Most popular number(>9), digit and colour this video: Twenty Two (11 mentions) Three (83 mentions) Orange (161 mentions) Antithesis Battles: Even (5) - Odd (0) Column (25) - 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!

@lucas411_ 2 года назад

this is hilarious wtf XD

@nordy1220 2 года назад

I absolutely love this puzzle. At first, it feels like bifurcation is the only way forward. But, through some experimentation, you realize there are tons of really weird geometric restrictions (like how do you connect the 1 to the 3s?). Slowly these “lessons” continue to stack up until you get this mind-blowing, holistic view of the snake, and suddenly there’s only 1 way to make it all work. I really felt like I was doing science during this puzzle-experimenting with different hypotheses and then making conclusions. There IS a fair, logical path through the puzzle, and discovering that was the real joy for me :) many thanks to filuta for setting this, and to Simon for letting us watch it unfold.

@joelstevens5670 2 года назад

Well said Nordy, I totally agree. It’s the restriction in box 6 which I loved and how it forced where most of the snake went but finding the final section of the snake in box 3 was almost as good. It was just miraculous from start to finish.

@ericpraline1302 2 года назад

I guess the question is when does experimentation become bifurcation? :)

@joelstevens5670 2 года назад

@@ericpraline1302 I think the key comes down to how large a deduction is (are there many options) and the extent of the chain which follows. Most of the logic which Simon did involved a small deduction (can this cell be part of the snake) followed by a simple chain (if we take this cell, we can now no longer visit this box). The chain of deductions Simon made around box 2 would have also been much shorter had he noted the effect on box 5 (he’d already proved that there were at least 5 region cells in it, so adding 2 more would break the puzzle). Some more shading and pen notation would have been useful of course to show possible region cells and boundaries which couldn’t be crossed (to aid memory). It is worth noting as well that Simon’s approach is often to shade cells gradually as a way of being more careful (which makes sense) but it can make the logic feel more complicated than it actually is (if a snake has to enter a box and leave from that side, we can easily trace 4 cells in one step, rather than adding each cell individually and considering it as 4 steps). As Nordy said, experimenting with the geometry is part of understanding the puzzle and one way to apply that is to look at how the snake travels between digits and boxes. Anyway, I hope all of that makes sense. In general I think Mark uses longer chains, probably because he is able to keep track of them, whereas with Simon it is usually a case of missing the simple chain and then disproving the relatively short one after making things easier to see (and sometimes you just have to find a way, so long as it isn’t totally random guessing). :)

@matteopascoli 2 года назад

Let’s appreciate Mavericks staying all the time under Simon’s window with a pair of maracas.

@G.Aaron.Fisher 2 года назад

I have to brag a bit. This is the best solve I've had this month. 46:01. I think hardest part of the puzzle was completely disproving 2-cell regions. Once I found that 2-cell cages forced there to be a contradictory 6-cell region, everything went into turbo mode. This was sublime setting. It's crazy how Filuta fit interesting killer logic behind the snake part. I'm a bit shocked that this puzzle can even exist.

@MattCurney 2 года назад

55:49 I love Simon’s initial “Hmm” idea.. but am very glad he instead became the Man Who Said “Bobbins”

@theretral1092 2 года назад

I find these videos so inspiring. There are so many points in your progress where I think “ya this is too hard I wouldnt want to do this” but then you push through and I realize that the hurdle I believed to be beyond me, was always in reach with a little ingenuity and persistence. No doubt these puzzles would take me much longer than you but I still leave finish these videos feeling that I’ve improved myself just because I’m reminded that the tools I already possess are capable of accomplishing great things. The fact that u do all of this while providing such great commentary and humor is so impressive. Love this channel sm. You deserve every view you receive.

@Gonzalo_Garcia_ 2 года назад

I can definitely see ‘The man who said hmm’ becoming a big thing, I would personally love it.

@CrackingTheCryptic 2 года назад

YES!!

@wariolandgoldpiramid 2 года назад

@@CrackingTheCryptic Make it happen! Start a Kickstarter.

@th.nd.r 2 года назад

@@CrackingTheCryptic let’s get it going then!!

@AdimasHidayat 2 года назад

hmm..

@RichSmith77 2 года назад

But what if it takes off, Simon makes his millions, and he decides he no longer needs to making Cracking the Cryptic videos. Sounds like a terrible idea to me. 🙁

@RescueMichigan 2 года назад

Small point: At the very end of the snake-building (59:30), Simon didn't appreciate that the snake could have taken R8C7 and then R9C6, which would have broken up the big orange region across the bottom. However, it still couldn't have worked because 3 3-cell regions in just 2 boxes+1 cell and there aren't enough high numbers to fill them.

@simy4158 2 года назад

I thought the same but didn't knew how it couldn't be. Thanks for explaining 👍🏻

@aere481 2 года назад

I agree the logic used to say R8C7 is orange wasn't correct, however if it was blue then it would result in two 3 cell cages of orange that both need to be 589. 4 of those cells are in box 8, so it is broken, and R8C7 can't be blue.

@michaels4340 2 года назад

@@aere481 I think that's what RM was getting at, but yeah: looks like neither of the bottom-right 3-cell cages could have had a 6, and that would indeed break box 8--thanks for the specifics!

@wariolandgoldpiramid 2 года назад

I wound up staying awake until 1 AM watching this puzzle, but it was so worth it. The logic was really beautiful.

@BookofAeons 2 года назад

I usually have a go at snake puzzles and do quite well on them. This one though... I'll just grab some popcorn and watch the logical fireworks.

@th.nd.r 2 года назад

We are still on an incredible run of puzzles. This is great in concept and in action. One thing I loved about it was actually the sudoku in the blue cells in column 8. Well set Filuta, and well solved Simon! I also want to add that “man saying hmmm” might end up being entertaining!

@MartinSteed 2 года назад

I like how Simon completely ignores the existence of that 5 in box 1 :)

@keejay98195 2 года назад

yes!! twice 😩

@ShardyRedVH 2 года назад

My mom saw what I was watching (around 25-minute mark) and asked, "How can you do a sudoku with only that many numbers?" I told her some puzzles don't have any numbers. She just huffed, rolled her eyes, and walked away muttering about how it's impossible.

@pelahnar4 2 года назад

I started watching this channel because of a video titled something like "Sudoku with 0 given digits" and I said "but that's...that's not...possible..." And then I learned how much more there can be to sudoku puzzles than can be found in the newspaper

@bibliopolist 2 года назад

@@pelahnar4 Didn't we all? :-)

@S_Black 2 года назад

Just explain that there are additional rules. She is probably think of normal puzzles. Once upon a time I also only knew Sudoku from newspapers and didn't think they could be more complicated and interesting

@warren_r 2 года назад

Did this one in 88 minutes!! Oh man, this is phenomenal. Probably in my top 10 favourite puzzles on the channel, just for the break-in. I am often wary of using the puzzle title itself as a clue, but in this case it was a huge help for me and I focused right away on figuring out how big the "non-snake regions" could be. It's almost like the puzzle teaches you how to guide the snake around the obstacles, so it actually gets easier and easier. And then it pretty much becomes a standard killer cage sudoku in the second half. SO COOL.

@BeardlessWhelp 2 года назад

I can't be the only person at 1:15:30 just SHOUTING at the screen, "the 5 is RIGHT THERE!"

@ThaStam 2 года назад

55:29 That would actually be a very entertaining thing to do, just imagining it makes me laugh 😂

@taakotuesday 2 года назад

I strive to be a man like simon who can just effortlessly recite The Raven from memory

@Piatato 2 года назад

Amazing puzzle, looking forward to see the video. 🤩

2 года назад

I love "the man who said 'hmm'", such a simple yet versatile concept 😂 it's a perfect idea for a TikTok/RU-vid Shorts channel 👌

@heitron81 2 года назад

„The man who said Hmmm“ 👍🏻 I‘d consider that as typical British humour… mixed with some Loriot.

@piarittersporn 2 года назад

A great and extraordinary puzzle, for which I needed not few of help from Simon regarding the coloring of the snake.

@friendslikeus9823 2 года назад

I need a "The Man Who Says Hmm" series! Please!

@Censeo 2 года назад

This feels like a puzzle tailored to how Simon thinks

@lkdsproductions6762 2 года назад

Suggestion - How about Simon and Mark solve some quite basic puzzles simultaneously to see who's faster. Could be a fun little competition

@f.b.jeffers0n 2 года назад

Not the same, yet still interesting, imo, nonetheless, but Simon solved the 'Blue Dot Mystery' yesterday, and BremSter had solved it a few days earlier. Was cool to see some different logic...

@James_Sinclair 2 года назад

Here's an analogy I always think of when this comes up: Mark is a sprinter; Simon is a marathon runner. If you put a marathon runner in a sprint, they'll definitely finish the race, probably with a respectable time, but they won't win. But if you put a sprinter in a marathon, they might not even be able to finish. (Translation: I'd imagine Mark would beat Simon's time for most puzzles, but at a certain level of difficulty Simon would have the edge, merely by virtue of being able to solve it at all.)

@bibliopolist 2 года назад

When Simon finally starts solving after birthday wishes, some verses from "The Raven", a lengthy explanation of "The Secret" and an overly complicated detour about X-wings, Mark would already be at his fourth puzzle...

@acantilado 2 года назад

Simon’s times would be much faster if he didn’t take the time to give the audience clear explanations on his logic

@GQSmoos 2 года назад

I only found this channel about a week ago but I’ve already binged enough episodes that I’ve gone from “I love Simon” to “Simon is doing this on purpose because he hates me personally”. Look at 1:01:25 There’s a 5 pointing at the 58 pair in box 8. Simon is POINTING AT IT WITH HIS CURSOR! He thinks on it for several agonizing seconds and then he’s like “oh. 6 in box 9. lol” Why do you hate me?

@teddiemercury207 2 года назад

I've never related to a comment more than this one lol

@RenameJames 2 года назад

Simon quoting The Raven ❤

@Jigkuro 2 года назад

Woo! Actually solved one that took Simon over an hour! (Even slower, but still.)

@dontmindme2844 2 года назад

I'm glad this one took Simon so long because it sure took me awhile. Finding the snake wasn't "that" bad but then you look at the grid and think how the heck can there be a unique solution. Yet, working through it one small deduction at a time, it was forced.

@coconuts2513 2 года назад

Mark would be very comfortable doing a jiggle around the grid 😂😂😂😂

@MarushiaDark316 2 года назад

I for one vote for Simon to make that video of him reading the paper and going, "Hmm" in various inflections.

@pelahnar4 2 года назад

I'm going to be thinking about that every time he says "hmm" for awhile

@CroixMedia 2 года назад

Solved it in just over 2 hours. I would like to think that my recent completion of Dungeons & Diagrams from Last Call BBS helped a lot in solving this puzzle.

@willemkossen 2 года назад

Definitely harder hunt. True. I had to give up. Thankfully the new app is very inspiring!

@joelstevens5670 2 года назад

Hi Simon. Just wanted to attempt to say hi and thanks (it’s not easy to catch you these days, I left a longer message in relation to the sudoku stream after yesterday’s video if you’re interested). Look forward to a brilliant puzzle and solve as always (I will of course try it first but I enjoy the way you so often bring the logic out so beautifully in ways others can miss). Keep on cracking. :)

@EelcoWind 2 года назад

2hrs and 5mins, but enjoyed everything about this puzzle.

@peterkelley6344 2 года назад

At 16 minutes in: 'Your really close ... Beep!' At 31 minutes in: 'Beep' 'At 56 minutes in: Umm, Beep!' at 1 hour; 3 minutea; (Parody, hint song) 'You can Umm if you want to ... ' End: Umm, he got it!

@dolphin64575 2 года назад

me: half listening while crafting "Why is Simon reciting Poe's The Raven?????"

@JustJasonMan 2 года назад

Simon ignoring the 5 in R2C2 every time he scours the grid 😭

@hillrp1 2 года назад

"I don't think I can assume [r2c7] isn't a 9" he says while highlighting the naked single 9 in r2c7. I never could have even started this puzzle, but I was trying to encourage you to examine boxes 3 and 6 for a while at the end there

@heitron81 2 года назад

Amazing video!

@leickrobinson5186 2 года назад

58:30 Small error in logic here. r8c7 could be blue, if the head of the snake were at r9c6, dividing the orange region in half. But, it would fail for another reason, as the two resulting three cell regions would have to both be 589, which would clash in box 8. :-D

@n0bl3hunt3r 2 года назад

Some solves are like dancing, others are like blundering around in the dark. But eventually you find where all the furniture is and the waltz can begin.

@scoopthetruth2786 2 года назад

This puzzle was an absolute masterpiece, and a brilliant and well explained solve by Simon. I found a couple of short cuts for determining the snake’s path and min-maxing the region sums/areas which made the solve a bit faster. Time = 56:28. I’m also considering submitting some of my own creations for consideration - would Logic Masters Germany be the best choice, or is there a way to upload them to the CTC website ? Once again, love the puzzles on the channel, particularly the “minimalist” (few, or no starting digits) ones 😎

@Coyotek4 2 года назад

1:07:03 ... another unbelievable snake sudoku; simply astounding Wonderful puzzle!

@tedg1278 2 года назад

When you do supposition tests and explorations put a mark on the spot that you are testing, then when you get to the end of that series of tests use the UNDO to clean all the mess up. It seems like almost every puzzle you have something like what you got at 28:25 happening and sometimes you even have spent a minute or 2 thinking about how some pencil mark got there.

@Panfoj 2 года назад

Thinking about colorblinds when chosing a color. You're a champ

@vicstick75 2 года назад

"... repeated jiggling is Mark's métier" That's just gold.

@Alex-xl3wh 2 года назад

I'd actually love to see you saying hmmm every day

@deniz5566 2 года назад

This was brilliant!! And if you look at the tail, it is a rattlesnake :)

@anse001 2 года назад

I now giggle every time you go "hmm"

@pelahnar4 2 года назад

1:03:17 I saw a cool logic thing! You considered what would happen if the 5-cell region had an 8 in it. I'd already been considering if it had a 9 in it. Clearly it could have one or the other, but not both. However, if there's an 8 in it, that would put the 9 in box 6 into column 7 and, since the 9 couldn't go in the 5-cell region along with the 8, it wouldn't have anywhere to go in box 3. So, 8 couldn't possibly be in the 5-cell region. I am very proud of myself for seeing this cool logic thing (I waited to post this comment until I got to where Simon figured out there was a 9 in the 5 cell region by similar, related, but not identical logic)

@croissantlover8061 2 года назад

Happy birthday Simon!

@iabervon 2 года назад

I think in order to solve this sort of puzzle with a chain of forward logical deductions, you'd need to prove a set of lemmas about snakes and orthogonally connected remaining regions first, and probably have a way of marking some statements you could deduce, such as that the snake must cross some line you draw.

@realGBx64 2 года назад

Can’t believe Simon is using the same color for bifurcation/demonstration that he is using for the final snake.

@jez9999 2 года назад

Gave up after 10 mins and a few shaded cells. Glad I did. Hellish.

@robertcotton8481 2 года назад

Man who says hmm sounds like neighbor in tool time

@wariolandgoldpiramid 2 года назад

47:20 observation: as soon as you created the "gate" on the right side of the grid, the snake absolutly had to pass through it, so c9 r2-4 could all immedietly turn blue.

@elektrikblu7331 2 года назад

The man who says hmm must sit next to the machine that goes bing

@chitraagarwal8259 2 года назад

Or Beep Beep

@cuttlefish8184 2 года назад

The fact he never noticed the 5 8 pair being resolved in the bottom had me writhing. Brilliant solve though.

@tristanheal 2 года назад

I would absolutely subscribe to "The Man who said Hmm" :)

@lakers1654 2 года назад

This was a tricky one for sure

@e5ten 2 года назад

At around 59:25, couldn't r8c7 still be blue if r9c6 was also blue to prevent the oversized region?

@fuxpremier 2 года назад

At 17:06, Simon uses some weird logic to explain why the snake has to visit every 3 by 3 region based on the fact the total in this region would be 45. It's look like there must be some deeply hidden secret behind this statement. I wish Simon had explained what he meant there. That's some favor he should do to his favorite people!

@azathothgr 2 года назад

59:30 r8c7 being blue wouldn't necessarily create a big region, if the snake ended in r9c6. But it would create two 3 cell orange regions, one of which wouldn't be able to have a 9 in it, i think.

@MaximusLongus 2 года назад

They'd both need to be 589 since 6 is ruled out by sudoku and since r7c6 and the left region share box 8 this breaks the puzzle.

@BookofAeons 2 года назад

59:20 that could have been blue. You could extend the snake to divide that "enormous" region into a 3 cell and a 5 cell. I'm not seeing at a glance what the problem with that is. edit: Ah, you'd have two 3-cell regions poking into box 8, neither of which could contain a 6.

@ariasheikhtaheri2322 2 года назад

my thoughts exactly as soon as Simon said "we've done it" but then i saw that it would not be possible for the reason you mentioned

@EdoTimmermans 2 года назад

Indeed and in addition to that with r9c6 being blue: because one of these 3-cell regions is inside box 8 completely, it is not possible for both of these 3-cell regions to be {5, 8, 9}.

@LeDoctorBones 2 года назад

Yeah, it wouldn't work but I'm not sure Simon realised why since he went over the step so quickly.

@judithcabanero 2 года назад

@@ariasheikhtaheri2322 your name has "kkhta" in it

@DaimeG 2 года назад

I always feel so sad for the snake because it never can touch itself orthogonally :(

@bubbl3guy213 2 года назад

I think I need the man who said hmm in my life now

@Gonzalo_Garcia_ 2 года назад

63:37 for me. I’m not gonna lie, I’m still not sure how I got the shape of the snake to work. On the other hand, I loved the sudoku part of the puzzle. I’ll have to watch the video to fully appreciate the puzzle this time. Edit: Well, Simon path looks very similar to what I did. I guess it depends on what you consider bifurcation for this one.

@sarabearyt 2 года назад

THE MAN WHO SAID HMM we have to have it

@derekrocco4344 2 года назад

Did this one in 43:02! I *loved* the opener to this one - probably one of the best I've done - but the end (namely filling digits into the big regions) were a frustrating amount of bifurcation :(

@eddiejcc 2 года назад

The Man that said Hmm - I think that could be hillarious

@shteevuk 2 года назад

Been at this one for a day or so. SOMEwhere there's a flaw in my logic and I have literally no idea where ^_^

@crashtextdummie 2 года назад

I feel like there's quite a bit of dodgy logic at several points in this solve pertaining to snake building. For example, the way Simon completes the snake around the 1 hour mark neglects the option of r9c6 being the snake tip, which would create two 3-cell and a 5-cell region, i.e. not broken according to the logic applied.

@MaximusLongus 2 года назад

While Simon doesn't mention it, this solution actually wouldn't be valid. Consider the two 3-cell regions. By Sudoku, the 6s in boxes 5 and 8 rule out that either could contain a 6. Therefore both would need to be 589 triplets to sum up to 22. The 3-cell region completely in box 8 therefore must contain all these three digits. This means, that r7c6 cannot contain either digit required to be in the upper right 3-cell region in question, breaking the puzzle.

@terracottapie 2 года назад

This was a great puzzle and a fun video, but I never want to hear you make fun of Mark again for bifurcating, because this whole episode was one long Bifur-Fest!

@TheJooClemente 2 года назад

The man who says "Hmm"? Quite nice, i would say...

@bruceh8043 2 года назад

Even watching the vid to get help, it still took me 86 minutes to finish.

@HunterJE 2 года назад

Think Outside the Usual Hang-Ups About Bifurcation

@paulwatkins19 Год назад

Nurse. He's lost it again! 10:50 The Raven (begins to eat Crayons!) :)

@berendharmsen 2 года назад

The 5 in box 1! The 5 in box 1!

@judithcabanero 2 года назад

18:06 that IS a domino

@teddiemercury207 2 года назад

I love this channel so much but it kills me when simon is solving really hard puzzles and is blind to the simple sudoku solutions that can be filled in

@BroadwayGaming1984 2 года назад

Hrm?

@michaels4340 2 года назад

59:20 Couldn't that cell be blue, though, if the head were at R9C6? That would split the remaining orange into two more reasonably sized regions.

@gregind01 2 года назад

Hmmm, now I'm never going to hear that expression the same again! lol

@SuperJJAlexander 2 года назад

I want to see how Mark solved this!

@bradmclean4988 2 года назад

Here's my dumb brain thinking the snake has to start at the 1 saying.... This is impossible.

@RichSmith77 2 года назад

Man, I had that cell under the 1 coloured as non-snake for a long time. Until I realised... 🙂

@DanJS 2 года назад

Another vote for the newspaper "hmm" videos here.

@burnheart123 Год назад

10:05 "that's 3 in the corner..."

@PauxloE 2 года назад

59:25 "That [r8c7] can't be blue, this would create an enourmous orange region" - no, if r9c6 is blue, it would still work out, with two 3-cell and 5-cell regions. (It doesn't work out because the 3-cell region above it doesn't have space for a 9 anymore, so no harm done, but the logic was wrong at this point.)

@dore8k 2 года назад

at 1:21:00 column 7 you have 562 poking from row2 at that 9 pencil mark and then you take the pencil mark off lol.... but again, i would never have gotten to that point by my self so i shouldn't really be complaining! lol i like to play smart when i see things but cant do 99% of your solving process haha

@aere481 2 года назад

You should share some pics of the man saying 'hmmm', and let the community see them. I'm imagining you foresaw the platform as a comic strip in the newspaper, but this would make a great platform.

@nagranoth_ 2 года назад

Oh, I understood that last rule wrong. I thought no digits at all were allowed to decrease, but it's just the digits given at the start.

@Seehart 2 года назад

59:27 I don't think you ruled out r8c7 blue here because the snake could then descend to r9c6 to break up the bottom orange area.

@ajjeff1033 2 года назад

I was screaming about the 5 at 60 min

@pelahnar4 2 года назад

55:40 I don't know about making millions from the internet, but I could see a channel full of videos of a man opening a newspaper and saying "hmm" at least getting a small, dedicated audience, and perhaps memeified after awhile