Clover Sets Simon A Puzzle!

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** TODAY'S PUZZLE **
An absolute honour and treat today as one of the finest constructors in the world sets a sudoku for Simon. It's called Consecutive Thermo and it's by clover! This is a quite lovely puzzle - do try and have a go at it if you can.
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Normal sudoku rules apply. Digits along thermometers must increase from the bulb end. In addition, digits along thermometers must be consecutive, such as 23456.
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@sudokuclover9111 11 ай бұрын

Thank you so much for the lovely solve, Simon! You may have forgotten, but I believe you mentioned in an unrelated email thread a while ago that you were a tiny bit jealous that Mark got to do all of the Clovers... you may have been going through a period of very long challenging solves at the time! Thus this puzzle, which I'm glad to see had just a tiny bit of a kick to it. :)

@pacman52280 11 ай бұрын

Clover, I would love to see you come up with a puzzle that has this exact ruleset, and it would fall under the category of "Approachable,, but very difficult."

@davidrattner9 11 ай бұрын

Just another fabulous thermo and setting from you. Constantly cherish your puzzles.

@MeriaDuck 11 ай бұрын

Thanks for amusing all of us having Simons as proxy ❤ I'm curious how you watch Simon solving this and hearing his comments. Surely must be fun.

@longwaytotipperary 11 ай бұрын

❤ your puzzles!

@emilywilliams3237 11 ай бұрын

This was beautiful, as always from you, Clover.

@SriKacor 11 ай бұрын

A nice stranger showed it to me on the train. We solved it together. I loved it. Thank you, Stranger

@daveturner5305 11 ай бұрын

Absolutely beautiful Clover. You did him up like a kipper. Simon's predilection to avoid Sudoku prevented him from noticing the 3 in the corner for some time. Props.

@philwheatley5057 11 ай бұрын

Sometimes you just need to embrace your inner Goodliffe! I worked out the options for the 2 pairs of thermos immediately, pencil marked them and was finished in 11 minutes. I was done at exactly the point that Simon was saying he was not prepared to mark all the options. 🙂 I think Clover knew this and was playing with you!

@GregJonson 11 ай бұрын

I just love that after Sven added the three-in-the-corner confetti, every setter and their mom is constantly putting 3s in corners.

@Soliloquy084 11 ай бұрын

I wonder if it will (has?) ever become a rule: "There must be at least one three in the corner".

@_aullik 11 ай бұрын

I mean the chances are not low. There are 4 corners and only 9 numbers. Yes i know the math is a lot more complicated, but my simple math still gives you a ~40% chance which is not that little.

@stephenpassmore7306 11 ай бұрын

And it never fails to make me smile

@tom.prince 11 ай бұрын

I would've guessed that people would have been doing that even before that change. I certainly would've.

@SvenCodes 11 ай бұрын

It's actually occurred to me that I need to be careful, lest I unduly influence setters too greatly!

@Aliessil 11 ай бұрын

17:58 for me - Simon's refusal to pencil mark definitely slowed him down a ton! 😀

@ceevio_art 11 ай бұрын

...as usual😬😬...

@gregind01 11 ай бұрын

Clover you are evil 😈 playing to Simon's weaknesses, and I love it! 😂 I played it working out just how limited the options on the thermos are and found the puzzle much easier to solve that what Simon went through. Well played Clover! 👌

@HunterJE 11 ай бұрын

If this ruleset comes up again in the future feel like it should be set this up with purple thermos if the software makes that possible, since that's the conventional color for renban lines and the clues in this combine the restrictions of thermos and renbans...

@danielepicone1480 11 ай бұрын

Well, clover definitely has a gift for setting puzzles where the continuation is signalled so strongly. Solved this in 18m52s. One of the rare cases I am quite faster than the video solve.

@margaritashcheglova8670 11 ай бұрын

Hi Simon, glad you liked my little picture! There was a CTC video in May, I think the long puzzle which nobody had solved before, where you mentioned Fawlty Towers and I just couldn't stop thinking what a convenient setting it would make for a Fawlty story!

@LeaAddams 11 ай бұрын

34:27 - I think this is the first time I've solved a puzzle in less time than the video length. This was genuinely gorgeous. Thanks, Clover! 😊

@longwaytotipperary 11 ай бұрын

Yay new word - shibboleth- Emily and David will also be happy for that! Bobbins has made its way into my exclamations ( replacing a few that needed to be replaced 😉)

@davidrattner9 11 ай бұрын

Absolutely infinity % I am about new word and that you called it out to both of us my friend.🫠

@longwaytotipperary 11 ай бұрын

@@davidrattner9 😊

@Mama2AWE 11 ай бұрын

Happy to have solved in just under 2 hours...love it when I don't have to rely on listening to Simon to progress...although watching Simon after I've finished is entertainment! Fairly new at this and I take breaks and come back when I can. Maybe someday it'll be 20 minutes, but in the meantime I've got life interrupting sudoku time. I'll take it!

@timlarsson 11 ай бұрын

32:04 for me! Happy with that, considering I'm not a quick solver.

@lixinzheng9670 11 ай бұрын

Wait that's me, thanks for the birthday wishes :)

@mjkluck 11 ай бұрын

Clover's puzzles are the best.

@b0kkeee 11 ай бұрын

I love how you keep the integrity of the puzzle by not pencilmarking. I started with looking for low and high thermometers but got stuck. First one I tried after watching for three years!

@chrisbaeyens4513 11 ай бұрын

Loved it. Clover is the setter I always look forward to and alwyas enjoy her puzzles!

@michaelmatter1222 11 ай бұрын

I've said it before and I'll say it again, this clever person is SO clover!

@emilywilliams3237 11 ай бұрын

Loved this video and solve and puzzle!! Your reactions to the possible reasons why Clover suggested this for you in particular were amusing and fun, Simon. Thanks so much!

@blobz-1 11 ай бұрын

John Cleese has a love for Killer Sudokus. He mentioned that during his one-man show last year in Sacramento, CA, that my wife and I got to enjoy!

@Ardalambdion 11 ай бұрын

Clover is unusually kind this evening. I am glad to have you back after months without you.

@Henrique_BP 11 ай бұрын

OMG. I've finished in 15:10. I can't believe. First time I solve a somewhat hard one of this channel, without help from the video or without taking too much time compared to the video.

@quothacreations3465 11 ай бұрын

suspecting that Clover would have exploited Simon's resistance for extensive pencil marking, that's exactly what I started with on the two sets of 4-length thermos, which broke the puzzle wide open. well played, Clover, and thanks for the fun puzzle! Simon, entertaining as always, thanks.

@gerardadamiak917 11 ай бұрын

I was sick for a whole day because of allergy, but video from my favourite channel will surely help with struggle :)) cheers from Poland

@956675 11 ай бұрын

That was a lot of fun. Brilliant as always Clover.

@sxmchn 11 ай бұрын

Love Clover's puzzles! Always some nice logic, not too hard yet not too easy either. Loved it!

@Jodawo 11 ай бұрын

I thought it was Philip Newman's Gas Puzzles that give Mark the most grief. You learn something new everyday when you tune in... LOL

@gooseberry41 11 ай бұрын

I think this sudoku is made for Simon is the sense that is does not require full pencil mark of long thermos from the beginning.

@raysouth1952 11 ай бұрын

That was great fun. I love Clover’s puzzles.

@Xiuhtec 11 ай бұрын

Solved in just shy of 30 minutes. Very fun and beautiful puzzle!

@inspiringsand123 11 ай бұрын

Rules: 08:00 Let's Get Cracking: 08:37 Simon's time: 25m39s Puzzle Solved: 34:16 What about this video's Top Tier Simarkisms?! Three In the Corner: 3x (21:08, 32:34, 32:44) Bobbins: 2x (02:03, 02:11) Maverick: 2x (33:54, 34:11) And how about this video's Simarkisms?! Hang On: 10x (04:28, 11:41, 20:39, 21:23, 23:33, 24:24, 24:24, 26:54, 30:26, 32:25) Ah: 10x (16:16, 19:00, 19:00, 21:13, 22:22, 27:55, 30:26, 30:57, 32:33, 34:01) Brilliant: 8x (02:48, 03:17, 04:50, 05:46, 07:20, 24:35, 34:22, 34:25) Sorry: 5x (03:27, 11:26, 11:44, 23:53, 23:53) Beautiful: 4x (19:12, 19:14, 26:10, 27:55) In Fact: 4x (09:48, 13:46, 20:39, 24:55) Symmetry: 4x (09:59, 11:52, 16:30, 18:49) Naked Single: 3x (27:47, 32:57, 33:19) Clever: 3x (21:56, 21:57, 26:54) Obviously: 3x (04:52, 16:19, 22:29) Our old Friend Sudoku: 2x (27:27, 30:15) By Sudoku: 2x (31:07, 31:51) What Does This Mean?: 2x (22:51, 27:24) Have a Think: 2x (15:58, 19:33) Pencil Mark/mark: 2x (18:22, 34:39) Cake!: 2x (03:50, 05:18) The Answer is: 1x (17:31) In the Spotlight: 1x (32:37) Lovely: 1x (02:41) Gorgeous: 1x (34:59) Approachable: 1x (01:22) Witty: 1x (35:05) Surely: 1x (21:28) Think Harder: 1x (13:42) Progress: 1x (33:26) Fabulous: 1x (04:46) Most popular number(>9), digit and colour this video: Ten (3 mentions) One, Two (67 mentions) Green (4 mentions) Antithesis Battles: Low (6) - High (4) Even (2) - Odd (0) Column (18) - Row (9) 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!

@carolinefreeman4546 11 ай бұрын

A puzzle for Simon, with thermos? I knew straight away to fill in all the possibilities! A great puzzle and lots of fun

@georgewhyte7096 11 ай бұрын

Enjoyed every minute of that one.

@HalfBakedLunatic 11 ай бұрын

Always love Clover's puzzles 💘

@davidrattner9 11 ай бұрын

You were correct Simon in saying the Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets. Thank you for continuing to showcase outstanding setters and puzzles!!

@RoderickEtheria 11 ай бұрын

Key to this puzzle seems to be that r8c13 are not consecutive. Realizing this was enough to get me two potential worlds, either a world with 5 in r8c1 and 9 in r8c3 or a world with 6 in r8c1 and 2 in r8c3. The 62 world has an obvious flaw with placing a 7 in c2. My break in was considerably different to Simon's.

@davidhughes7174 11 ай бұрын

elegance and beauty. Thank you clover!, and Simon.

@ryandavis5475 11 ай бұрын

Hey Simon. I got a good chuckle out of your changing maths to math in the intro. In the US, we like to think that the (s) is a pluralization of the word and indeed it is a subject that is not one single thing. However, we consider the word the same as sheep. It's both singular and plural. You don't say sheeps, unless assigning it ownership. Not a criticism, but a perspective. I do respect your culture of word usage. After all, we probably wouldn't be able to so easily communicate without England's influence on the colonies. That said, your educational descriptions and speaking out your thoughts processes have greatly helped me in my problem solving skills, as well as made other games like minesweeper become easier.

@FOmar151 11 ай бұрын

22:06; I found the corner thermo by pencil marking all of the possibilities, myriad as they were, and realizing that the consecutive constraint on the thermos in boxes 1, 4, 8, and 9 limited those possibilities. It pared down to one option quite quickly. Goodliffe notation stays winning.

@alithanna 11 ай бұрын

19:19 here. This was a delightful puzzle :)

@martinyyt 11 ай бұрын

Fantastic. Completed in 39:37. Feel quite accomplished in finishing that. Now, to watch the video and see how Simon solved the puzzle...

@garybrittain8210 11 ай бұрын

Love to see Mark attempt this puzzle, his pencil marking might work better.

@esperantojoe426 11 ай бұрын

Simon, If I were any good at setting Sudoku, I'd make a puzzle just for you that has a 3 in every corner. Actually, I guess I'd have to be really bad at setting puzzles to do that, but you know what I mean.

@SvenCodes 11 ай бұрын

Normal sudoku rules do NOT apply! ;)

@NguyenBNH 11 ай бұрын

20:11 Due to the combination of thermometers and renban, pencil marking everything was super fast and helpful. As soon as you are able to remove a pencil mark clue from a cell in a thermometer, it caused a chain reaction and you easily remove pencil marks clues from the entire thermometer.

@tiarkrezar 11 ай бұрын

This might be the first time I was faster than Simon, got it in 21:56

@ceevio_art 11 ай бұрын

@@tiarkrezar If I don't beat Simon's times these days its usually because its a super hard break in (he's still the goat for those) but on "regular folk" logic puzzles like this one he's getting slower and slower every week, usually because of his stubborn resistance to pencil marking - its beneath him to pencil mark a puzzle (for some reason.) . I'd love to see him do some GAS puzzles. He'd probably spend 30 minutes on each one - using unnecessary set theory and phistomofel rings when a few pencil marks would do the job.

@tiarkrezar 11 ай бұрын

@@ceevio_art Haha yep, by now I've fully embraced the pencilmarking madness, I go even more all-out than Mark. Thermos are especially annoying to mark though, so I can see why you'd want to avoid the hassle if you can work around it.

@AFT3RDAY5 11 ай бұрын

Yeah, solved it in under 1 hour 🎉 That is a really nice puzzle 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

@ericpraline1302 11 ай бұрын

I enjoyed how the box 3 thermo interacted with row 8 and column 2.

@ukdavepianoman 8 ай бұрын

Really superb puzzle. I love how the thermos interacted together. I got the thermo in box 7 quickly (once I'd re-remembered the consecutive rules!) but didn't spot the impact of thermo in box 3. Comments here helped me realise this. After that it was plain sailing. Simon goes on and on about not pencil marking but that does quickly lead to the break-in

@KSilverlode 11 ай бұрын

I struggled a lot at the beginning of this one, mainly because I remembered the consecutive requirement for every thermo except the one in box 7, which left things ambiguous for far longer than they should have been. As usual, remembering and applying all the rules consistently is crucial to solving puzzles. 😅 I did remember it eventually, and from there the solve was delightful!

@EmonEconomist 11 ай бұрын

18:41 here. That was a fun little puzzle with some interesting logic around the thermo interactions!

@fulltimeslackerii8229 11 ай бұрын

clover belongs in the top 10 of setters along side Aad, Phistomophel, tall and totally normal cat, zetamath.

@piarittersporn 11 ай бұрын

Wonderful puzzle.

@imblackmagic1209 11 ай бұрын

nice! thanks for sharing!

@nunosantiago6813 11 ай бұрын

I'm looking forward to tomorrow's video as I'd love to solve a hard sudoku on my birthday😊

@Gonzalo_Garcia_ 11 ай бұрын

12:50 for me. Awesome logic, loved it!!

@rachel-marieweiss564 11 ай бұрын

29:14 for me-- A really lovely puzzle that had interesting and surprising logic without being monstrously difficult (something that clover constantly shows she has great skill in doing with the GAS puzzles). Seriously impressive setting!

@F_0.1828 11 ай бұрын

I would have loved to see renbans in the rules: -Pink lines contain consecutive digits in any order without repeats. -Digits along thermos must increase from the bulb end. ...with thermos exactly overlapping renbans of course.

@KevFrost 11 ай бұрын

One likes to think that constructors start with 3s now, just to give Simon joy. A brilliant puzzle 22:02 here, the right mix of impossible and oh that’s so clever

@dilbert719 11 ай бұрын

20:47. I will admit to a heavily pencil-marked solve path, with a bit of brute forcing around the three-cell thermo in the bottom left, but once I had something to anchor myself around, ruling out possibilities, the remainder of the puzzle snapped into focus. Excellent and approachable as ever, Clover!

@leickrobinson5186 11 ай бұрын

22:43 for me! What a fun puzzle! (I always love Clover’s puzzles!) :-D

@emilymiller4349 11 ай бұрын

Thank you, Clover! 39:00 for me. Very enjoyable.

@benjaminrealy5661 11 ай бұрын

17:40. The thermo in box 3 was the key to breaking in for me. It was limited by the crossing thermos in the corners

@majkgmajkg2613 11 ай бұрын

MY solve: 24:13. Can't believe that... :o Thank you Clover!

@Sam_weiqi 11 ай бұрын

20:30. Very fun. Flowed really nicely.

@tiagomarques9822 11 ай бұрын

This is a lovely puzzle. I went directly to the interaction of the box 3 thermometer and the fact that the 4-length thermometers could only be one of 3 sets (1234+5678, 1234+6789 or 2345+6789): that immediately restricted the box 3 thermometer to a single possibility - curiously, the one Clover mentions in the rules, I believe humourously 😉

@SCOMBAG 11 ай бұрын

It took me about 84 minutes to solve, but I got it on the first try! The hardest part is getting the five longest thermometers figured out after that, it's just a matter of simple sudoku. GREAT PUZZLE!

@raywhite5068 11 ай бұрын

You scored a like from me simply because of the West Wing reference to Shibboleth. BEST full stop. SERIES full stop. EVER full stop. Just to channel another famous scene from Aaron Sorkin

@jefffrank177 11 ай бұрын

I was surprised Simon didn't pick up the modularity constraint in box 7. It took me a wihle of playing with the possible values on the thermos pointing at that box, but eventually I realized, duh, the set of three digits remaining in column 2 and row 8 must have one from each modularity. i.e. Once you have a 1 in the center of the box, you can't put a 4 or 7 in the central cross. I had a feeling this was what Simon would use to break into the puzzle but he essentially glided past this step as he figured out the 3478 in the corners so quickly. The logic is basically the same as what he used just coming from the opposite direction. If you were to put 1 and 4 in the same central row/column of box 7, you break the thermos in that direction because you can never put 2 and 3 on them without a 4. And similarly if you put 1 and 7 together, you can never put 8 and 9 on the thermos without 7. In both cases that leaves you 2 digits that can't go on either thermo and there is only one spot for those two digits in box 7.

@taylorsherry4784 11 ай бұрын

Once the bulbs had to be from 1256, the "cross" in box 7 is 12569 and 2 of those are on a consecutive thermo. That places 5 and 6 immediately which also places the 2 and 9 since 25 and 69 don't leave enough space to fill a thermo. I thought Simon made the break in much harder than it needed to be.

@nickatty462 11 ай бұрын

I needed this hint to solve it! Now to see how Simon did it.

@kgeiger61 11 ай бұрын

Finished that in 23:26. Very nicely done puzzle, Clover!

@inglotto 11 ай бұрын

Yay 36 minutes! Very nice break in!

@roirodriguez9688 11 ай бұрын

I loved this one! I did the two pair of thermos very quick (surprisingly much quicker than simon, when i usually take about x3 times the bests out here) and had it all mainly solved in 12 minutes... then i rushed and made a mistake doing simple sudoku and took 15 extra minutes discovering what i did wrong 🤣 Anyway, lovely puzzle, and a very approachable one

@MaierFlorian 11 ай бұрын

One simply can't make a sudoku puzzle specially for Simon with no 3 in the corner 🤣

@66Morti66 11 ай бұрын

11:49 for me. Pencil marking surely did help a lot here. Great puzzle :)

@Stereomoo 11 ай бұрын

22:29, spotted the right things to do and did them all the way through. Really neat how everything just fitted in place.

@tiithendrikpiibeleht4092 11 ай бұрын

Got this one in 15:46. Quite happy about my time, there were some quite clever places to figure out.

@wrathofnerds 11 ай бұрын

Fantastic thermos puzzle. I nearly missed the consecutive rule and was going to be on a miserable hunt for a solution ahah.

@JohnRandomness105 11 ай бұрын

I finally did it, finding it easier than I expected, even though I broke it my first attempt. 18:30 I began by penciling them in. There's no shame in that. 21:10 Three other corners are still empty, any of which might be a 3. 23:50 IIRC, Block 3's thermo must be dealt with, to disambiguate the other thermos.

@grahamrskelly6042 11 ай бұрын

I did not have to Goodlife to solve, and the solve path was so beautiful that I thought I was missing something...

@LindysRuffians 11 ай бұрын

I live for Simon saying "it's beautiful"

@philipboes2910 11 ай бұрын

The reason for the 4 in the bulb was very nice. I came by it by checking what other digits could be there.

@MissKapanadze 11 ай бұрын

I did it kind of the opposite way. Had a pencilmarked quadruple of 2569 and out of those only 56 could go on the thermo and have me the 4.

@pg5200 11 ай бұрын

Wonderful puzzle indeed ! I'm a pencilmark-mess addict and this time, it helped a lot ^^ 18:00 of enjoyment for me.

@43labontepetty 11 ай бұрын

Me: “use the symmetry Simon!” Simon: “no, I don’t think I will.”

@valeryolympia 11 ай бұрын

22:20 for me!! this is so fast, usually when I read the comments, people do it in way shorter times but this time I was actually so fast!! Win for me today :D

@feliomichaels 11 ай бұрын

A 23:57 solve. There's some delightful pieces of logic, here and there that really make this a fun and worthy one, and the break-in is a fun exercise in understanding correlations in sequences.

@penningmeestercgkdelft9159 11 ай бұрын

16:54 for me. These kind of white-kropki thermometers are quite fun and actually very restrictive! :-)

@gagnier_west 11 ай бұрын

Took me 90 minutes to get this one... one day I'll be as good as Simon

@abblabaabblaba823 11 ай бұрын

21:45 for me; the break-in was very nice, but after that the puzzle felt very rigid doesn't help that I do the patented mark method of pencil marking every possible digit of the thermos

@Coyotek4 11 ай бұрын

25:46 ... took me longer to remind myself that the thermo in Box 7 was also Renban than I'd like to admit, but once I (finally) saw that, the rest player out fairly straightforwardly Another gem from Clover (the Clever)!

@stevieinselby 11 ай бұрын

A slight ricket in the logic for c2 - you _could_ put a 9 in r9c2 so it isn't quite the same as for r8. I found it helpful to notice that the bulbs of the 4-cell thermos could only be 1,2,5,6 and that in box 7 those numbers have to go in c2 or r8, meaning that they all have to be different.

@stevewithaq 11 ай бұрын

Lovely puzzle! 25:59 for me, mostly because I had the two short thermos and their disambiguating cells pencil-marked for way too long without thinking about what that meant... Very much a step-above-GAS puzzle, still approachable, but requiring some careful consideration about the consequences of the consecutive thermos.

@mcalphax 11 ай бұрын

20:02 for me rough start, but after the break-in the rest of the numbers come flying

@TurtleMoonTube 11 ай бұрын

Clever clover!

@flobiish 11 ай бұрын

Renban thermos? Interesting idea.

@steampunkskunk3638 11 ай бұрын

28:20 for me. I used to only be able to solve the GAS puzzles but im starting to solve the harder ones now.

@srwapo 11 ай бұрын

17:05, am lucky that I saw a break in using the bottom three rows right away, applied it to the left three columns, and it just flowed quickly from there.

@lorenb6066 11 ай бұрын

I saw the break in with c2 and r8 pretty quickly, but then got stuck and needed Simon's help 😂