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Today's puzzle... it's called Wave Particles and it's by TotallyNormalCat... It's one of the most fascinating sudokus we've ever seen and it nearly fries Simon's brain. You can play it at the link below.
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Normal Sudoku rules apply. In cages, digits must sum to the small clue in the top left corner of the cage. Digits must not repeat within a cage. Digits along an arrow must sum to the digit in that arrow's circle.
Although not part of the rules, TotallyNormalCat did write the following on the Logic Masters Germany page:
'What's this 5 doing in the grid? Why is that there?'
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@robinbaich169 3 жыл бұрын
"Do have a go ..." No thanks, Simon, although I'm sure it would be the most enjoyable 9425 hours I ever spent on a puzzle.
@Obnoxiouspatriot 3 жыл бұрын
It will forever amaze me how you can sit their for 50 minutes and only place two digits and still have a consistent set of logic that we can follow. Definitely some real talent to explain the logic out while working.
@KeithGrant 3 жыл бұрын
“I’m not bifurcating; I‘m thinking” needs to go on a t-shirt
@CheeseBodyBeing 3 жыл бұрын
What’s bifurcation?
@KeithGrant 3 жыл бұрын
@@CheeseBodyBeing Instead of making a logical deduction, bifurcation is when you basically plug in a possibility and follow it through for a while in the hopes it breaks and you can eliminate that possibility
@CheeseBodyBeing 3 жыл бұрын
@@KeithGrant Thank you.
@pandagirl7144 3 жыл бұрын
I once did that early in a puzzle Got all the way to 6 digits left and found out it broke the puzzle and I didn’t actually remember when I started it That was when I was 11 that was 11 years ago then I made a vow to myself to always figure out the answer by logic and never guess
@remybeauchamp 3 жыл бұрын
I wouldn't be able to solve this puzzle if my life depended on it. This is the type of puzzle I don't even try to figure out the logic and simply enjoy having Simon explain it to me as he figures it out.
@sirgeremiah Жыл бұрын
I can do the logic of these, but I have trouble spotting the weak spots (so I'll have a place to think through some logic). With this one, I had to do what little I could, then wait for Simon to mention a weakness. I'd pause before he explained any of the logic or the conclusion, and go until I got stuck again. I keep hoping I'll get better at knowing what to look for to find a weak spot to consider the logic.
@felixkerkhoff8599 3 жыл бұрын
You are the only channel to have titles on your videos that are clickbait AND understatement at the same time.
@darrenhundt 3 жыл бұрын
true fact
@diacor4life489 3 жыл бұрын
This is so true 😂
@donatello_8691 3 жыл бұрын
Coming up with difficult logic must be normal amongst cats
@MaartenKuif 3 жыл бұрын
Simon: "This one is called wave particles." Simon 2,5 minutes later: "We call them planets." Me: Noooooooooo
@eyadh258 3 жыл бұрын
Electrons 😆😆😆
@renedekker9806 3 жыл бұрын
The title "wave particles" is well chosen. It really feels they are in a superposition at the beginning, until you do the measurement, and the wave function collapses.
@mbakenemdusink9757 3 жыл бұрын
@@renedekker9806 precies!
@Verse84 3 жыл бұрын
I prefer planets and orbits.
@ColinTimmins 3 жыл бұрын
@@renedekker9806 Bang on as to the choice of name for the puzzle. Very fitting in a satisfying way. =]
@nikitashaitan9984 3 жыл бұрын
Incredible Standing ovation for both Simon and TotallyNormalCat
@n_a8917 3 жыл бұрын
Easy heuristic. If the video is >45 minutes, I don't even attempt it. Time to settle in with coffee!
@taliesinbreen 3 жыл бұрын
Samiest same that ever samed. *raises coffee*
@tomwilliamson4270 3 жыл бұрын
If the video is >45 mins I often struggle to keep up even just watching it
@Crocodile_Appreciator 3 жыл бұрын
I have a hard limit of 35 minutes with Simon and 25-30 minutes with Mark (Simon takes longer to explain things).
@HonkeyKongLive 3 жыл бұрын
LOL whenever he says "You can try it at the link in the description" and I see the video length I just have this moment of "NAH YOU'RE GOOD BRUH."
@dolf370 3 жыл бұрын
My limit is more like 20 minutes for Simon and 30 minutes for Mark.
@marcomorain 3 жыл бұрын
I’d love to see a reaction video of the setter watching Simon and Mark solving their puzzles.
@sverbaken 3 жыл бұрын
Yes! I am so on board for this
@pandagirl7144 3 жыл бұрын
Someone recorded their reaction to Simon doing their puzzle and put it on the discord a month before this video came out
@jimmyrayes1871 3 жыл бұрын
@@pandagirl7144 n se
@DiMono 3 жыл бұрын
I'm pretty sure 50 minutes for two digits is a new record. Congratulations, TotallyNormalCat! And good job Simon for plugging through the logic.
@weskingston264 3 жыл бұрын
I knew at a single glance that this puzzle was well above my pay grade, but this is exactly why I love this channel so much...To share in the struggle with Simon, get a better handle on the incredibly deep logic involved in a puzzle like this, and to celebrate his breakthroughs along with him. And can I say that TotallyNormalCat must be a mad genius or a time traveler (or possibly both)?! What a puzzle!
@susanne5803 3 жыл бұрын
I have taken to dig into sudokus I find very pleasing for two to three weeks and re-solve them until I start "seeing" the logic Simon and Mark are seeing after max 30 minutes. I enjoy that greatly and I learn a lot. The moment I "see" a bit of logic that I didn't even understand a week or two ago fills me with as much joy as Simon the solution of the whole thing.
@pandagirl7144 3 жыл бұрын
@@susanne5803 Watching these videos has made me better at Sudoko and I want to do my own channel or at least a miniseries on my channel and I wanted to take inspiration from cracking the cryptic i could call the miniseries “solving the sudoko”
@timdorr 3 жыл бұрын
I think this puzzle demands a setter's video to go along with it.
@idannen 3 жыл бұрын
Yes, please!
@flabort 3 жыл бұрын
Indeed, this was a crazy one. That it took Simon 53 minutes to get his first three digits, and then just 12 minutes to get the rest of the grid, goes to show just how tough it must have been to discover this in setting it.
@matthew456turner128 3 жыл бұрын
The scary part is that Ahaupt and Phistomefel are probably watching this and licking their chops at the idea of creating their version of this psychotic puzzle.
@mmrrxx2000 3 жыл бұрын
Oh please no 😳😳😳😳😳
@Kalinleios 3 жыл бұрын
Oh please yes ^^
@Scanlaid 3 жыл бұрын
Totally Normal Hauptphist will be Simon's ruination. A 3 hour video with a break and light luncheon provided.
@pandagirl7144 3 жыл бұрын
Phistomefel did actually create their own And specifically asked cracking the cryptic not to do a video on it
@mceajc 3 жыл бұрын
Absolutely jaw-dropping. Those first few digits were astonishing; to watch the possibilities collapse as Simon bent the puzzle into focus. The starting position seems utterly ludicrous for the rule set and information. Hats off to you Simon for solving that in well under a week!
@WilliamGardnerBob 3 жыл бұрын
"to watch the possibilities collapse" -- And now you point out the absolute genius of the puzzle setting and naming to go along with it. Simon slowly "collapsed" the possibilities of the "wave function" until he'd determined the values of the "particles". A more perfect Sudoku parallel of particle physics could not be made.
@francoisduez601 3 жыл бұрын
There is a digit given, TNC has been quite generous!
@marchogrouch5795 3 жыл бұрын
Probably the only reason to place the 5 there is to ensure the puzzle will only have 1 solution.
@francoisduez601 3 жыл бұрын
@@marchogrouch5795 indeed 😉
@JasperJanssen 3 жыл бұрын
Not to mention a whole 5 cage totals.
@ChrisHallas 3 жыл бұрын
Me, watching 50 minutes of an explanation to something and even though I technically followed it, I'm still not 100% sure I even understand it; "I am clearly an idiot!" Me, spotting a 3 pointing at a pencil mark a minute before Simon does; "I am clearly a God."
@HarleyCringe 3 жыл бұрын
This channel became my comfort channel
@amoswittenbergsmusings 3 жыл бұрын
You are one of a huge crows.
@Sujisan4 3 жыл бұрын
Yep. I agree.
@Lindzolt 3 жыл бұрын
Simon’s reaction at 54:19 is perhaps the truest expression of joy I have ever seen
@andreynogueira7419 3 жыл бұрын
That must be one of the happiest moments in Simon's life
@shyrealist 3 жыл бұрын
I was persuing the comments when that finger click pulled my attention back jolly quick!
@stephenbeck7222 3 жыл бұрын
The reaction at 50:15 is even better. Mark had a big fist bump in a video last year sometime, somebody should compile these moments when they have big emotional outbursts.
@balthazarbeutelwolf9097 3 жыл бұрын
@@stephenbeck7222 Well, that earlier reaction was the true breakthrough, and Simon's reaction looked more like relieve than joy. From our side we get spoiled a bit, because we only get to see the successful solves, not the ones in the poison cabinet, where after an hour of hard work things were going nowhere. (This reminds me of the difficulty of teaching science students how mathematical proofs work - textbooks and journals only contain proper proofs, not the botched up ones with fallacies you need to avoid.)
@fabianh3343 2 жыл бұрын
@@andreynogueira7419 As Simon would say, this is as much fun as you can have with your clothes on ;)
@driverdave8156 3 жыл бұрын
I wonder if these setters ever think: "Damn, thought I had him with that one!" lol
@remybeauchamp 3 жыл бұрын
We don't get to see the puzzles they can't solve so I guess the answer is yes!
@The_Omegaman 3 жыл бұрын
@@remybeauchamp i think the unsolved is a myth.
@ericpraline1302 3 жыл бұрын
@@remybeauchamp I can't conceive of a puzzle that Simon couldn't solve.
@PuzzleQodec 3 жыл бұрын
I know you probably didn't mean this seriously, but I'll answer anyway: it's a big no. If we put logic in puzzles that we think is the coolest in the world, we want to share it! "Damn, I was hoping he wound find that one!" is much more likely. Qodec here btw.
@StephanSpelde 3 жыл бұрын
I've been following this channel since before the James Charles and Kurt Hugo Schneider shoutouts and this might have been the best Sudoku (solves) I've ever seen!!! What a puzzle this was!
@siorac1147 3 жыл бұрын
I am absolutely floored that ANYONE managed to solve this puzzle. And then Simon knocked it out in an hour. While explaining things throughout. One of the all-time great solves. I do not feel bad that I got nowhere with this.
@notsecure6855 3 жыл бұрын
"We can start to think about the world in its correct position because we are ordering the universe into its proper constituency." I said the exact same line today when I was teaching my high school physics class. That's a very weird feeling to hear someone say that right back at me.
@jonhansen9622 3 жыл бұрын
This video needs a million thumbs up for that solve
@ClemensKatzer 3 жыл бұрын
41:10 "A major breakthrough: Eliminated one of 4 possible digits in first cell!"
@sanctionbuster 3 жыл бұрын
Mark would have have proud of you, Simon!
@CrackingTheCryptic 3 жыл бұрын
Mark is. Mark
@codevii9063 3 жыл бұрын
It blows my mind watching the way your mind works. I would never in a million years be able to find the break in to that puzzle. But then to watch you use the weird roundabout 1 logic to find the 3 and the 9 in box 7 when simple sudoku gave you the 9, then the 3, then the 1 and 5.... well, either way, you bring a smile to my face at the end of every day. So glad I found this channel. Keep up the good work!
@cybroxde 3 жыл бұрын
I genuinely appreciate how every time I am starting to get annoyed by s setters convoluted train of thought, Simon is just absolutely amazed and grateful that the puzzle exists in the first place.
@hydra147147 3 жыл бұрын
In fact, just these three arrows alone are forcing 1, two 2s and two 3s or two 4s into purple+green. And the five in the grid makes it them all the remaining digits. Just a stunning setup.
@ivoluijendijk5529 3 жыл бұрын
This needs to be one of your 1 million + views videos as well. Simply beautiful to watch you struggle with and finally solve this incredible puzzle! I could never do this myself but I was genuinely thrilled for you at the 50 minute mark's epiphany! awesome video!
@MateoMusic Жыл бұрын
It is so comforting to watch videos from close to two years ago and see that Simon has not changed a bit :)
@dmmax18 3 жыл бұрын
I love how the setters go from cosmology to quantum mechanics for the inspiration
@jovi_al 3 жыл бұрын
I helped name this puzzle 😁😁😁
@Playmaker6174 3 жыл бұрын
These puzzles' setting always amaze me so much, and Simon's ideas to solve it additionally put a smile on my face however long it takes :)
@catnip420 3 жыл бұрын
The podcats was very entertaining, it was interesting to get to know more about CTC outside of regular videos. Hopefully there's more to come.
@MariaVlasiou 3 жыл бұрын
This was exciting to watch. Simon forgot slightly his earlier work and I was so anxious to see whether he would remember or suffer. Amazing to watch. His excitement is contagious. The puzzle is stunning.
@maverickstclare3756 3 жыл бұрын
It's always interesting when he does that, does all that work to determine 2-4 pair along with the 8 but didn't fill it in after placing the 8!
@MattYDdraig 4 ай бұрын
27:37 Another piece of setting genius from TotallyNormalCat. 99% of the time was spent trying to visualise all the options for the three central column circles until finally reaching a conclusion and the board just about filled itself, with a huge sigh of relief.
@soremekun 3 жыл бұрын
The "Yes" at the end really showed true satisfaction with the solve. Good work
@sirgeremiah Жыл бұрын
It takes me so much longer than Simon to solve these, and yet I can't stop coaching him while he's solving. 😂
@jackbryan9615 3 жыл бұрын
50:15 That is the look of pure joy! The sweetest little dance
@orzelgryf 3 жыл бұрын
I love when Simon is calling people who solved the puzzle "brilliant" and then solving the puzzle himself.
@maverickstclare3756 3 жыл бұрын
See also how often criminals are always dangerous and clever - until you see them when caught. e.g. the Twitter Bitcoin hack in 2020 "It's definitely State Actors" - was two teenagers
@doncook4097 3 жыл бұрын
Just love it an hour break-in and 5 min completion. I think it’s the best break-in of all times
@prahas777 3 жыл бұрын
At 54 minutes I found myself saying "Unbelievable" out loud. Truly remarkable!
@nagranoth_ 3 жыл бұрын
So, if this was done by a totally normal cat, I don't want to know how difficult a puzzle a special cat can make...
@clintonevans2003 11 ай бұрын
Normally don’t watch any puzzle over an hour. BUT the logic involved in the solution was brilliant. Well done Simon.
@davidbourke6211 3 жыл бұрын
Bravo Sir! Excellent solve and excellent setting. Hard to believe so much information can be eked out of so little information. Hats off to you and Totally Normal Cat. So out of my league, it's scary.
@xsquaredster 3 жыл бұрын
Well this turned out to be one of the best puzzles of all time, didn't it
@Ale-uf7id 3 жыл бұрын
Rules 2:08 Let‘s get cracking 2:55
@hadegrawar 3 жыл бұрын
Nem todo herói usa capa
@piyushpatel5020 3 жыл бұрын
26:45
@Piatato 3 жыл бұрын
Amazing puzzle! I love the amount of pure reasoning that I had to do in order to make the breakthroughs. I think this puzzle is the one that has made me the most ecstatic being able to solve it! 😅🥲
@Imanureko 3 жыл бұрын
Perfect timing to help me go through the night, thanks Simon!
@amoswittenbergsmusings 3 жыл бұрын
If I would really have become an Englishman after almost 36 years here, I would say "Jolly good show!" and leave it at that. Being a blunt Dutchman I say it as it is: sensational setting and out-of-this-world solving!! Simon reordered the universe. That a human mind evolved for avoiding wolves and hunting antelopes can solve a puzzle like this *must* tell us something about the universe, Simon, you should try your hand at easier problems. I suggest the Riemann hypothesis, quantum gravity or the Collatz conjecture. The universe seems to talk to you in clearer language than most of your fellow carbon based life forms discern. And TotallyNormalCat is Wonko the Sane redivivus.
@andremouss2536 3 жыл бұрын
Incredible that the first 6 were placed only 2:40 before the end of a 1 hour solve !
@brock2k1 3 жыл бұрын
44:28 Simon rehearsing his role in "Hamlet"
@angieangel555 3 жыл бұрын
LMAOO
@rickwyckoff291 3 жыл бұрын
That was way too difficult for me to even start but I was rooting for ya the entire time Simon!
@cjjenson8212 3 жыл бұрын
The word for today's drinking game is "beautiful" 💜
@fakjbf3129 3 жыл бұрын
I love the symbolism in the name of the puzzle. In quantum mechanics everything is considered to be in a superposition of multiple states until it interacts with something, then the waveform collapses into a single value. The three particles (or planets as you called them) were acting as if in a superposition where each was a potential possibility, until they eventually collapsed into the pattern you discovered.
@Coyotek4 3 жыл бұрын
58:17 ... I did make one guess, but after solving I went back and was able to quickly rule out the other direction. But I did get the 'break-in' part, and *what a break-in!* Wonderful puzzle!
@Mrpapayaheadrulesall 3 жыл бұрын
1st digit: 33:31 2nd digit: 51:30 last digit: 1:04:42 This one took a lot of brainstorming to start, but after finding just two digits, the rest of the puzzle came together so nicely.
@Raven-Creations 3 жыл бұрын
Well done Simon. Nothing but praise from me today. This one beat me. I was on the right lines, and had worked out the syzygy had to be 9, 8, and 6 or 7, and that the 9 couldn't be in box 8, but without the impetus of having to finish it for a video, I yielded to the pain and decided to watch you suffer instead. Well done also to Totally ABnormal Cat for devising this work of exquisite torture. Such an elegant construction, and so little information, for it to have a unique solution that can be solved logically is just incredible. To conceive the idea and be able to bring it to fruition is just mind boggling. There's nothing normal about that cat.
@rwj_dk 3 жыл бұрын
If Sudoku's evolve much more beyond this I'm beginging to fear that we need a course at University in soduko before you can understand/solve stuff. 🤯
@jacksonstarky8288 3 жыл бұрын
Around 28:30, when Simon ruled out using the 12 cage, my immediate thought was "well, you can use the 12 cage, because you know that the digit in that cage that isn't on the arrow has to be a 9, 8, or 7"... it's not much, but it's a definite pencil mark regardless of the actual position of the arrow sum digits.
@Clocksmith-s9w 3 жыл бұрын
And keeping in mind that the 9 must be 2, 3, 4 on both of its arrows, the only digit in the 12 cage that works is 4. (3 gives clashing 9s.)
@bluebell487 3 жыл бұрын
15 minutes left and only one digit in the puzzle. This is going to be interesting
@Kimakae 3 жыл бұрын
Wow, amazing solve. Thank you Simon and TotallyNormalCat.
@livedandletdie 3 жыл бұрын
Wow, bloody wow, that's all I can say. So much logic to deduce just to place that lone 1, as the first digit, then the logic to place the 3 central arrow sums, and then to ultimately solve the puzzle, it's absolutely stunning and mindboggling, how hard it is just to break in, goodness gracious, TotallyNormalCat is not a Normal Cat at all, he's Abnormally good at setting a puzzle, from which as soon as you've done the break in, is easy, but just doing the break in is so ridiculously hard, that it's almost on the verge of ridiculousness. Truly stunning, I have a whole list of superlatives I could use, but I'd soon run out as they wouldn't be able to amuse my need to project my state of mind, in a well enough manner. All I can say despite it feeling almost like an insult as to how bland it is, is Well done and Good Job, TotallyNormalCat, you truly deserve all the praise for that.
@jaeusa160 3 жыл бұрын
Who cares if it might be mechanically like bifurcation? As a viewer, the manual visualization was great to follow along with.
@bronteman 3 жыл бұрын
Police Officer: YOR UNDER ARREST for Indecent Bifurcation! Simon: But officer, I was just trying to make a logical conclusion
@williamnathanael412 3 жыл бұрын
This is not bifurcation. I don't think there is a way to explain the logic better than to put in the digits arbitrarily on the vertical axis without using vertical logic. This is brilliant.
@piai55 3 жыл бұрын
You know its an insanely difficult puzzle when every Eureka moment is followed by another 5 minutes of seemingly no progress. Well done to TNC, Simon and everyone who managed to solve this beast
@Sujisan4 3 жыл бұрын
Simon, you are one of the greatest geniuses on the planet. Really, really enjoyed the solve. Can we get TotallyNormalCat to do a video on this?
@cripleripper 3 жыл бұрын
Congrats to TotallyNormalCat for making Simon keep his secret for once! 👏
@ragnkja 3 жыл бұрын
Even with killer cages!
@rosiefay7283 Жыл бұрын
Miss a clue off and there are over 100 solutions. The way these clues work together to produce a unique solution is astonishing.
@tzampini 3 жыл бұрын
I just spent an hour watching a pure genius at work! Bravo Simon.
@BeachHutStuff 3 жыл бұрын
Ridiculously brilliant puzzle, well solved. And you weren’t bifurcating, you were writing down for exposition :-)
@Socialdogma 3 жыл бұрын
What are you complaining about? He gave you a 5 to start.
@christophstahl8169 3 жыл бұрын
That's just the difficulty rating... :D
@truckerob70 3 жыл бұрын
@@christophstahl8169 It's a 5, not an 8
@euanmcdougall1917 3 жыл бұрын
@@truckerob70 difficulties of logic puzzles are out of 5, not 8 or 10.
@francoisduez601 3 жыл бұрын
I think that was the meaning, 8 out of 5 😉
@truckerob70 3 жыл бұрын
@@francoisduez601 It was
@samus88 3 жыл бұрын
How quickly Simon forgot the 8 had to have a 2 and a Difficult Digit as its moons and the 9 a 1 as its moon is heartbreaking lol. He ended up pencil marking them using other digits instead of doing that immediately after placing the 8 and 9 planets!
@dwaynecarswell41 2 жыл бұрын
I saw taht and realized it made the puzzle take longer as he had to refigure that.
@Dragonatrix 2 жыл бұрын
"We're still chatting. We're Chatting the Cryptic." Chatting the Cryptic is such a podcast name, and heck I'm all for it.
@yairgo 3 жыл бұрын
I kept checking the length against how many digits wondering how in the world Simon was going to finish before the end. This is truly one of the setter journeys where you get rewarded for finding the path they set you on!!
@britlion 3 жыл бұрын
Wooow. I came off the podcast and heard Simon waxing lyrical about how good Mark is at crossword puzzles. But this demonstrates just how amazing Simon is at Sudoku. Mark might be faster on a straight up Sudoku, but anything with a break in like this, Simon is an absolute master. I say break in - there isn't really a break in, so much as having to preplot the logic for 90% of the puzzle. Nothing reallly concrete on the grid for over 50 minutes, in a 65 minute video! Very very well done. That's about a million difficulty levels beyond where I am able to play. I take my hat off to you, Sir. TotalyNormalCat: You're an absolute monster. And a genius. Amazing work.
@tricia1072012 3 жыл бұрын
Ourstanding! And I love how Simon says, "all of the logic we did earlier". Ah well, they also serve who only stand and wait. Glad to be of help.
@d4r4butler74 3 жыл бұрын
Royal We it isn't because it is the Inclusive We, where those of us who can only watch and marvel are included in Simon's solve.
@Brian-ej9ew 3 жыл бұрын
Enthralling and entertaining, love your reaction Simon at the end and certainly no bifurcation took place.
@StefanPettersson 3 жыл бұрын
Simon, the center top box is often called box 2.
@emilywilliams3237 2 жыл бұрын
Touring past videos, so very, very glad I came across this one. This is the kind of video that hooked me in to watching this channel regularly. To be sure, my son recommended this channel a couple of months after this video, but I did not fall in love with it just because he did. I fell in love with this channel because of videos like this one. What a beautiful, intricate, unbelievable puzzle - but more than that, what a stupendous solve, Simon. I am in awe of you and your brilliance through watching this video, and I am delighted anew at your delight at the most difficult things that you encounter in these puzzles that you set yourself to solve for us. Lucky us, to get to see this. I see that this video has been watched 84,000 times as I am writing this; it deserves to be one of the multi-million-views videos because of the puzzle itself, yes, but also because of just how amazing YOU are in this video. Simon, take a bow.
@MichaelMoore99 2 жыл бұрын
Bravo! This was amazing. After so much time and struggle getting the first few digits, after the 8 was filled, the last ones flew by.
@piarittersporn 2 жыл бұрын
This puzzle almost drove me insane. I couldn't visualize the 24 possibilities (including the two variants of the 8) of the combinations sufficiently, so in the end more trial and error than pure logic led me to the solution. A really exhausting but very great puzzle.
@judo_ashtray 3 жыл бұрын
50 minutes into this puzzle I start to worry about anyone who might ask Simon about a bicycle over the next few days
@tomiatti1 3 жыл бұрын
26:48 "Can be in any of these squares depending on the orientation of the planets". Well, that's one thing I never expected Simon saying hahahaha astrologer Simon confirmed?
@jonbrowne8334 3 жыл бұрын
After watching hundreds of videos on this channel, that was the best solve I have ever seen! Simon - your logic was total genius and amazing deductions made. It should have been called “line of duty” because it was just as exciting!
@Butchermb_ 3 жыл бұрын
Simon and Mark, thank you for having shared all your skills and techniques over the past year! Those have enabled me to solve this one - though not in one hour - on my own, following almost exactly the logic displayed in this video. On to the next one :)
@aleksandartasevski1576 3 жыл бұрын
A moment of horror when i heard 'Oh no, i've messed it up' 😆 Awesome solving.
@shahinulkhan7879 Жыл бұрын
Just watched this solve. Way beyond my capability. Phenomenal.
@pandagirl7144 3 жыл бұрын
Simon: we are chatting the cryptic me: did Simon just come up with the idea for a weekly podcast where Mark and Simon can talk about the puzzles they did that week
@Samish30 3 жыл бұрын
Simon finds things : 21:20 37:34 39:44 44:01 50:16 52:59 1:04:46 1:05:18 The reactions are as amazing as the puzzle 😂
@alkyycarovny8334 3 жыл бұрын
Podcast was very enjoyable! would like Episode 2 to focus on the history of sudoku (or puzzles like it in general)
@stephenbeck7222 3 жыл бұрын
Competition stories like the one Mark told about the sudoku cheater would be perfect for the podcast.
@alkyycarovny8334 3 жыл бұрын
@@stephenbeck7222 when did he tell that? I didnt hear such a thing in the podcast.
@fade2dblack 3 жыл бұрын
I took the opportunity to color. I made 1-5 green and 6-9 orange. I feel like it helped me get a better handle on what was going on. I still couldn't solve it, but I felt smarter for coloring.
@samus88 3 жыл бұрын
You should definitely start calling them TotallyWeirdCaracal again. A totally normal cat could not come up with this gorgeous Sudoku, I don't think.
@marsdenrhodri 3 жыл бұрын
Absolutely stunning. A total joy.
@57daysproductions 3 жыл бұрын
I watch these before bed to wind down, sometimes falling asleep bc Simon's voice hits some kind of snooze button in my head, but at 2 am I am so enthralled with whatever the hell TNC did with this puzzle, I'm hardly even tired xD
@joshcremer8080 3 жыл бұрын
Great solve, great puzzle. Most certainly needed to watch the video to get past the break in. Thank you Simon and TotallyNormalCat
@Adrian_Grey 3 жыл бұрын
What a crazy puzzle. And an absolutely brilliant solve by Simon. Every second of this was oozing clever.
@aidarosullivan5269 3 жыл бұрын
TotallyNormalCat is once again outdoing himself
@alvaropallete 3 жыл бұрын
It took Simon around 83% of the video to place 16% of the digits in the grid, and 17% of the video to place 84% of the digits. Seems like Pareto Analysis 🤔
@stephenbeck7222 3 жыл бұрын
And for all the time he spent working out the logic in that first 83%, he was actually kind of slow and repetitive in the final 17% in forgetting what he had already learned about the relationship of the arrows and ‘moons’ to the circle ‘planets.’
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