How to Lose a Sudoku Tournament

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14 жыл бұрын

At the 2009 National Sudoku Championship in Philadelphia, US and World Sudoku Champion Thomas Snyder goes for the $10,000 first prize but writes way too fast in the closing seconds and makes a mistake. Three minutes later, Tammy McLeod would turn in a correct grid to win the tournament and a spot on the US Sudoku Team. Also of note, third place finisher Eugene Varshavsky, seen here in his hooded sweatshirt motionless in front of his grid, was suspected of cheating earlier in the tournament, particularly after he could only place three digits after 8 minutes in the finals. For more info on sudoku and competitive puzzling, visit motris.livejournal.com

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@bristolrovers27 2 жыл бұрын

Kudos to Thomas as I believe it was he that noted his mistake and bought it to the attention of the judges.

@grahamrskelly6042 3 жыл бұрын

It took me 25 min on computer software to do this puzzle. It was also a pretty puzzle, a rather good puzzle for a championship. Thanks for sharing

@FunWithPuzzles 6 жыл бұрын

Thomas is generally careful Sudoku solve making least mistakes. May be this tournament is an exception.

@Riadvfx 11 жыл бұрын

nice to meet sudoku in my life

@DeepakJain007 7 жыл бұрын

on 5th row + 8th column put 4 in place of 6 and on 9th row rplace 6 and 4 with each other. then it will be correct.

@travisbob3884 7 жыл бұрын

MrJen that's wrong

@ThaRandomKid 13 жыл бұрын

@JoserRocksDawg if you look in the very middle horizontal line there are 2 6's in it, and if you look in the right hand side middle box there are 2 6's in that

@liverpooler1997 8 жыл бұрын

lol the description of the 3rd guy in the description is so funny.

@victorrascon1716 8 жыл бұрын

Lol, fucking cheater...

@gogogagagugu2134 10 жыл бұрын

i ran the championship puzzle through a solver and it said the difficulty was "mild" huh. they sure made it easy.

@stevensigns946 2 жыл бұрын

Snyder notation is so powerful

@ryburks2758 7 жыл бұрын

LOL. I entered this puzzle into a sudoku site and it said the rating for this puzzle is "easy"

@LetoAtreides82 6 жыл бұрын

That must have been embarrassing!

@semax123 13 жыл бұрын

i like one of the last commentators in the video who said he should have double checked it (instead of grinning and advertising his book...)

@squaresensei 5 жыл бұрын

Is that Alan Mulally, blocking the view in the initial few minutes ?

@liverpooler1997 8 жыл бұрын

wtf... even the 7th column has 2 6's

@lospollitosmolamos2677 8 жыл бұрын

The third guy is the best kkkk

@gabrielesimionato1210 6 жыл бұрын

I became a fan of Eugene after reading all of his cheating around.

@R0cky0 11 жыл бұрын

you should attend the championship

@klins65 11 жыл бұрын

ERROR In the 4th square we can find the numbers 351-672-869 so what repeat the 6

@gianlucamancuso971 7 жыл бұрын

Sembrava che per tutta la performance facessero a turno a mettersi nell'inquadratura davanti allo schema di Snyder!

@LetoAtreides82 6 жыл бұрын

All hidden singles except for one naked pair, very easy.

@Bigmoneychessevents 2 жыл бұрын

The third guy cheated in the World Open chess tournament too

@R0cky0 11 жыл бұрын

why don't we see your name in the championship?

@Deuxice 2 жыл бұрын

lmao Eugene Varshavsky standing there doing nothing

@copy55 13 жыл бұрын

se a dado cuenta que en el 6 cuadro repite dos veces el 6

@Riadvfx 11 жыл бұрын

1:09s the guy went to put his head into an other camera

@billstpor 13 жыл бұрын

It's pretty easy.. he messed up at some point and started to put duplicates in the solution. At a glance, there's at least duplicate sixes in the center row (R5), and a missing 4, and from that point on (or even before) he continued to build the solution from that error. Basically he messed up, and unfortunately he didn't double-check the solution.

@colossalko 12 жыл бұрын

What difficulty is this?

@arifssaid 3 жыл бұрын

Tournament level difficult

@jajdr 12 жыл бұрын

the title and description are way cheeky.... Snyder is a several time sudoku champion and an ambitious guy -- no reason to be weird and point fingers at him like this.

@joshramos1689 9 жыл бұрын

Cant even solve one box lol

@JoserRocksDawg 13 жыл бұрын

i dont get it O_O

@omgwtfbbqsauceboss 3 жыл бұрын

The guy on the far right mega cheated. There were three rounds and each round had 3 sudoku to solve. He didnt even show up until the third round and then blasted through them in 14 minutes total. During the final puzzle which is this one, he only placed 2 digits and then gave up. The other two people solved it in 4 minutes and 7 minutes. It was this inconsistency that launched an investigation into this guy and hes cheated multiple tournaments.