gdc here. So happy to see my puzzle solved here! Thanks Jaze for inventing this ruleset and thanks VikingPrime for the feedback on smoothing out the solve path (spoilers ahead).The intended solve path uses modular math to resolve box 5 - really impressive how quickly and accurately simon captured that.
The modular maths was nice for box 5. I concede I didn't clock that as quickly as Simon and ended up brute-forcing it a little bit, much preferred his / your version! Otherwise I found the solve path very smooth and enjoyable. I especially liked how it felt like solving most of a box and then getting a tiny thread peeking out of the fog begging to be pulled for the next box. Very well constructed gdc.
Those fog puzzles are really satisfying! And nicely streamline the solve path for people like me, who are terrible at scanning a full grid for the next tiny deduction. Solved it in 27:38 (Solve counter 922). Didn't cach the mod3 trick in the central box, but the lines and dots let you narrow down the options until there's only one possible arrangement of digits left :)
@@nmappraiser9926 At least there was no way for him to run away making his typical over complex digit resolution. Perk of fog puzzles I would say, especially one as clean as this.
Right after Simon start filling in candidates in box 4. I admit i did a bit of goodliffing (should that word be capitalized or not?) myself where i had not business filling in candidates yet.
These puzzles so oft kick my buns, But now I don't feel like a dunce. Staying calm and comported I got it all sorted And the puzzle was not broken once! (Leaves a virtual cupcake with a big happy face on it)
"One of these is a one, to complement the 8." Thanks to the "Positive Diagonal" puzzle earlier this week, I'm now imagining the 1 saying "Your figure looks great, 8!"
I LOVE fog of war! Basically every time. Generally encourages a more linear solve path, which I appreciate. Spent a while feeling stumped at the very beginning because I was accidentally trying to add up R6C6 and R7C6 to R5C6 rather than doing the opposite positions on the line. As soon as I realized that, the rest flowed very nicely. 27:27 solve time.
And Mark may be faster than Simon, but he can’t compete with how much Simon has fun singing the song. He loves it too, but without the same innate love for music and poetry.
Loved this one! Tried figuring out the initial black dot stuff by pencilmarking, and when that failed did some maths since that was in the video title!
Whoa! I can't believe that I done it! Super good fog puzzle and very intuitive! The oppening was beautiful as you said! Thank you for the video Simon! 🤗
This channel is among the most wholesome, interesting, and satisfying on RU-vid. Solving some of these puzzles is no small feat, but explaining them step by convoluted step without an ounce of pretense or condescension is astounding. I don't have the patience or skill for half these puzzles, but I will watch happily as long as these gentlemen post content. Thank you for doing what you do!
I really enjoyed this puzzle, I love the lilac colour. It took me much longer than Simon to solve though I’ve only been doing variant sudoku for a few weeks. It feels so good to do be able to do such a cool puzzle that’s difficult but not incredibly hard either 😀.
That was brilliant. I love fog puzzles and suspect that that would might have been harder without the fog because early on it is clear where you have to look.
The funny thing is Simon was right about r6c3 being a 3 or 6. That was a clever break in, I asked if 9 was the second zipper center and it broke the puzzle because of the pressure the black dot was placing in the box. Then went through maximizing the centers because 9s were very restricted with the lines. Took me forever to fix the black dot in box 5 because I forgot about the zipper line rule. Then again at the end to break up the deadly pattern. All in all it was an easy puzzle and I enjoyed solving it. Took my a little under 56 minutes to solve. Edit: Watching Simon solve it made me realize how bad I am at spotting naked singles. The one in box 6 would have made my life a lot easier since that box is where I got stuck at for the longest time compared to the rest of the puzzle.
I finished in 50 minutes. This one was really fun. I quite enjoyed the search for the center in the fog. The logic flowed nicely from that thought. I did get lost searching the difference between an 8 or 9 on a center line before realizing that I had a 6 and 3 on each end, obviously indicating it was a 9. Great Puzzle!
35:26 for me. Really nice solve path around the grid with just enough bread crumbs to give you the next deduction, though box 2's line probably gave me the hardest time in figuring out the next step. Great puzzle!
Simon, this was an amazing puzzle and after solving it and watching you solve it I think I figured something out, fog of war puzzles are incredibly fun to solve because they help discover the logic behind the special rules of a puzzle, helping someone to learn and discover the incredible and fun interactions the rules create. So in short I think fog of war should be the new way people should be introduced to a new rule or logic in order to teach them how to spot the idea behind the absolute magic that this puzzle creates.
Wow this was so nice to see. I did stop the video a few times to think it over. Can’t wait for some GAS version like this to practice and have fun. ❤😊😉
I ended up giving up kinda early based off the nature of fog. In the central box, I did get the 1 and had the correct conclusions on the geometery of the first two lines, I somehow thought the line with the doubled digit would be larger and tried to put the 9 there and the 7 as the center of the other line. When the fog didn't clear, I realized it was wrong, and it just felt like it would be cheating to keep trying digits in the fog.
Got off to a bit of a slow start, but did finally find my way through in a time of 29:17, really nice puzzle! Many thanks to gdc for a very cool fog puzzle!
Picking myself up off the floor that i finally solved a puzzle faster than Simon did! Very nice logical flow, with always just enough to solve the next part
I did way less maths to figure out the middle box. After you know the digit outside the box is 6 or 3 you can deduce that those can't be on the black dot. Then you can see that the bottom of the black dot can't add up to 9 with the digit outside the box. Then you can keep going the way you did.
Sometimes I think the option of switching to condensed rulesets would be helpful. For instance, this could be summed up as -Normal -Fog of war -Zipper lines --All 5 cells long --Orthogonal only --Can't share cells -Kropki dots For non-beginners, that's way easier to read and reference.
Beautiful puzzle. Fresh and nice smoothly composed. So was a Simon’s solution. I love to see both Simon and Mark at their logic work, but (I hope, you are not offended with this comparison) the author is a composer, the solver - the conductor of the digit’s orchestra.
If Mark's expertise is in linguistics, then maybe the title for the Sannaar game should be something like, "Professional Wordsmiths Play Chants of Sannaar" for that sweet clickbait.
Finished in 25:50. That was a very interesting ruleset, I enjoyed that a lot! Only made one significant error along the way (which the fog caught for me so I was able to backtrack and correct my logic).
Simon states that we know the cells of the first zipper line from the start as the line continues into into r4c4 and r6c6 but there is nothing in the rules that states we know this? The zipper line is 5 cells *long* which means it's reasonable that a terminal cell on the line as the line run the full length along it without continuing?
40:02 for me. I usually don't try to solve myself but I'm happy I did with this one. I missed the beautiful math logic at the beggining, but I loved the flow :)
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Brute forced the black dot zipper line as there were only 3 possibilities. As others mentioned it had a nice flow and some fun logic reaching into the fog for moving forward. (27:58 for me)
I usually just watch the solves on the channel instead of doing the puzzles myself, but decided to give this one a go. Took me about an hour, because I got seriously stuck in box 9, trying to figure out the new line and not realizing I could place 9 in the box. Really liked it though.
at the 50 minute mark, giving up and going "I'll just have to watch this video, I'm too stuck" and then I see this comment with the EXACT clue I needed to continue
I made the same "mistake" with the 12 pair in box 9. It took me far too long and i felt really stupid afterwards. Well i guess nothing better than Sudoku to humble oneself
This was one was harder for me since I kept making the mistake of thinking that each line from the center summed up instead of each spot an equal distance away. So much backtracking.
