One Of The EASIEST and Most BEAUTIFUL Sudokus Ever

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** TODAY'S PUZZLE **
Confiable is James Sinclair's 100th sudoku published on Logic Masters Germany and we predict this will be a puzzle long-remembered. This is APPROACHABLE and yet absolutely beautiful and will have you shaking your head in wonder... Let us know if we're right!
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Rules:
Normal sudoku rules apply. Digits in a cage cannot repeat and must sum to the small clue in the top left corner of the cage. Digits along an arrow sum to the digit in that arrow’s circle. Digits in cells separated by a black dot have a 1:2 ratio (ie one digit is double the other).
The puzzle Simon mentioned in the introduction is called Region Geometry and it's by Emre Kolotoğlu. If you have some minutes free, you can try it at the link below. (Simon's solve is unlikely to appear because the video is 3hrs 36mins long and the KZfaq algorithm will not be kind to it.
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0:00 Theme music & puzzle introduction
0:26 Region Geometry - the unwatchable video
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3:50 Rules
5:01 Start of Solve: Let's Get Cracking
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@James_Sinclair 4 ай бұрын

Thanks so much for the feature! Very happy to be able to give you a break after Emre's puzzle 😁. On top of being my 100th puzzle on LMD, this one first appeared in Artisanal Sudoku, where I publish five new puzzles every week (I'll occasionally cross-post one on LMD, but most are only available there). The name, by the way, is a little bit self-deprecating. I feel like I set a lot of puzzles that rely on cages and arrows and near-symmetry, and I worry that it's a well I draw from too often, but it's also a formula that seems to work and has resulted in some of my favorite puzzles. Hence "confiable", Spanish for reliable (possibly related: I set a lot of puzzles and am running out of English words and phrases to use as names 😆)

@stevenape377 4 ай бұрын

I solved this yesterday from your newsletter and loved it very much. But I was happy to see Simon featured it on the channel as well, so I could watch it and experience the logic once more :) I thought Simon's solve flowed very well and really showed off the beauty of the puzzle (I'm still quite a bit slower than he.) Thanks James for your beautiful work!

@Paolo_De_Leva 4 ай бұрын

This was really beautiful. I am really glad you decided to keep using this formula. By the way, *near-symmetry* means this can be solved with *placeholder digits,* as I did. But in this case mirror-symmetry is broken in places that are difficult to ignore (the *black dot* in box 1 and the *arrows* in box 5), so it is not easy to apply this trick, and probably not needed for most people. For sure, Simon would have been slowed down if he had used them. He was able to intuit everything in the blink of an eye, while I needed placeholders to understand that both the 16-cages contained a *9* (and, by the way, similar logic can be used immediately after to rule out 5 from the circles in boxes 2 and 7.)

@Socialdogma 4 ай бұрын

I was sad that I had solved it because I realized that there would be no more puzzle to solve. Just beautiful.

@QuarkTwain 4 ай бұрын

Funny, I read "confiable" as "confineable", and I used that as a hint which really helped me out! It's a truly elegant puzzle.

@navster100 4 ай бұрын

That 59 pair was genius

@rafaelrust3561 4 ай бұрын

i think a 3 and a half hour video is just what channel needs!

@coconuts2513 4 ай бұрын

Here to add to the list of people who would watch a 3 and a half hour video.

@coconuts2513 4 ай бұрын

Possibly not all in one go, but I would get through it eventually 😅

@krtwood 4 ай бұрын

I love it when the title says it's one of the easiest puzzles of all time and I can't solve it so I get to feel like a complete fool.

@dolf370 4 ай бұрын

He he, know what you mean, took me almost 96 minutes. On the second attempt. But I did manage.

@stephenbeck7222 4 ай бұрын

Yes, but just remember Simon has always had a tendency to exaggerate the hype and also to try to write a somewhat clickbaity title for the algorithm. For the first few years of the channel, the sudoku videos averaged about 15 minutes probably. It’s only recent history that would have Simon call this one of the easiest (also it’s in contrast with the 3 hour solve he did on the same day).

@iambicpentakill 4 ай бұрын

Do what I do: 1 Do some stuff 2 Get stuck and watch Simon 3 Swear and keep going 4 Repeat as needed

@dolf370 4 ай бұрын

@@iambicpentakill I do that sometimes, though not very often. Have I gotten into it, I also try to battle it out. If I really get stuck, I mostly just give up and watch the solve.

@krtwood 4 ай бұрын

@@iambicpentakill I do that quite often. I find I am quite a bit faster than Simon when I have him paused.

@danielharmon1204 4 ай бұрын

I wanna see the 3.5 hour solve! I watch these on the treadmill sometimes and that would be great!

@millerlite1127 4 ай бұрын

I’d watch a 3.5 hour puzzle.

@Timlagor 4 ай бұрын

At 3.5 I know I don't even have to try -and at 1.5x speed that's only a bit over 2 hours :D

@Moolers 4 ай бұрын

I've been waiting for a 3 hour video ever since we first broke 2 hours, so yeah, I'd watch it, after trying to solve it myself, of course.

@MattYDdraig 4 ай бұрын

💯

@pacman52280 4 ай бұрын

I would definitely watch a 3.5 hour video. Hopefully enough people like your comment, so Simon releases it here also.

@EllaABo 4 ай бұрын

Absolutely!

@johndaily263 4 ай бұрын

A good reminder that “approachable” and “easy” are not synonymous. 15 minutes in and I have one number.

@siorac1147 4 ай бұрын

I had three digits after a couple of minutes but now I'm at the 25 minute mark without any more progress apart from some pencilmarks. I think it's not easy at all and not even particularly approachable. I'm sure there is some crazy, out-of-the-box logic that geniuses see immediately but that's not what approachable means I think. An approachable puzzle is when you have multiple avenues to break in - this one looks like it requires one specific thing to really break it open and without that it's hopeless.

@nalulumbay 4 ай бұрын

I got three digits in the first 5 minutes and don't know how to proceed.

@kristenmitchell86 4 ай бұрын

I'm glad you guys posted this, I thought I was just dumb. 17 minutes, 2 digits and nothing to go on.

@mitthrawnuruodo9 4 ай бұрын

Took me just under an hour, and a good chunk of it was figuring out the 20 cage. Had so many pencil marks that once it started to go, it folded like origami.

@PerStarback 4 ай бұрын

It's a very nice and beautiful puzzle, but that is not at all "one of the easiest sudokus ever". Not even close. The channel should really stop using that kind of titles, which can scare people off from variant sudokus forever.

@MH-dn3jz 4 ай бұрын

I'd definitely watch a 3.5 hour solve, but I've also come to appreciate setters who can make concisely beautiful solves too.

@Jordan_Asch 4 ай бұрын

I've been watching this channel for about 3 years now. I have never tried to solve the puzzle myself until today, solely because I watched the first two minutes of this video and heard that the puzzle was easy. I just finished the puzzle. It took me 230 minutes. I broke the puzzle multiple times. It was amazing and horrible. I am scared to finish this video and see Simon finish the puzzle in about 15 minutes. I love the videos from this channel! I think I will stick to watching the puzzles for a while before I try to solve one again! EDIT: I watched the video and I’m amazed that I seemingly solved the puzzle backwards. I placed the 3 in box one by placing it in boxes 3 and 7, then proving that it could not be in the cage in box 1. I don’t know how I even finished it at all, but it was worth it!

@rampantunease6517 4 ай бұрын

Solve a puzzle till you get stuck watch the video until Simon is explaining the logic. He usually says something like "this cell". Pause go to puzzle look at the cell and see if you can figure out where he goes next

@CrankyOtter 4 ай бұрын

I consistently try to logic backwards of what Simon does. ie, If he uses color to rule out options, I flail because I try to use color to rule in options. I don’t know how or why but this happens a lot. If I get stuck, stuck, I watch a bit until I get un-stuck. My good times are usually double the video length 😜

@LiquorStoreJon 4 ай бұрын

I did this puzzle the other day - it has a lot of very sweet logic, and was a fun puzzle to complete! Thanks to James for your weekly sudoku emails!

@nickatty462 4 ай бұрын

Agreed: there are lots of puzzles of this level of beauty and approachability: well worth a subscription.

@jamesmoriarty8415 4 ай бұрын

I would love to watch a 3.5 hour puzzle on this channel!

@glum_hippo 4 ай бұрын

There’s another critical moment of asymmetry across the diagonal, in box 5

@Raven-Creations 4 ай бұрын

@ 10:15 - "The only break in the symmetry is this black dot" - and the arrows in the 14 cage. I did like the way the 59s worked to force the 16 cages both to be 1249. There was similar lovely logic on R9C3/R3C9, forcing them both to be 3 - in theory, they could have been 356, but there's a virtual 67 in R9C4-9, and R4-9C9, so 6 was ruled out, and the 59s pull a similar trick forcing 5 into R9C4/5 and R4/5C9, ruling out 5. Also, because of the 12 pairs in boxes 2 & 4, the two circles in box 1 had to be 789, but that meant that the 20 cage couldn't have more than one of 789 in it, so it had to be 569. The 6 had to go on the dot with 3, the arrows were 78, and had to be 34 or 35, and the 59 in C1 said which was which. Your flirtation with blue revealed that there was the 67 pair mentioned above (which was symmetrical), but you failed to spot it, and had you tried the same with the 59s you'd have spotted that neither of the arrows in the 16 cages could be 5 either. Sadly, you missed a lot of the gorgeousness by doing sudoku of all things! What's got into you? I prefer more of a challenge, but this was definitely one of the most beautifully constructed puzzles, and it was very enjoyable spotting all the logic.

@thebitterfig9903 4 ай бұрын

What I found really lovely about the black dot in box one was not that the digits in it were themselves immediately vital, but that it fixed a pair into the other two digits in the cage, and that’s what made the biggest difference.

@martysears 4 ай бұрын

That was classic James… the symmetry and the use of well known constraints to create something very interesting that feels fresh. As you said, it is a formula that works… and as long as you enjoy setting these kind of puzzles and people enjoy solving them, that’s all that matters! Happy 100th puzzleversary! 🎉

@Paolo_De_Leva 4 ай бұрын

Simon's speed to figure out that both the 16-cages contained a *9* (@8:25) was impressive. 👏👏👏👏 I needed *placeholder digits* to understand that. It was not easy to use them in this case, though, because mirror-symmetry is broken in places that are difficult to ignore (the *black dot* in box 1 and the *arrows* in box 5).

@brenthooton3412 4 ай бұрын

Thank you! I was close to that point with 9s when I got stuck. This comment was the nudge I needed to push me over the top without resorting to giving up and watching Simon effortlessly solve it.

@hugodiazroa 4 ай бұрын

@@brenthooton3412same

@Paolo_De_Leva 4 ай бұрын

@@brenthooton3412 Glad to be of service 😏👍

@georgeaman1938 4 ай бұрын

Thank you Simon and James Sinclair. What a nice and approachable puzzle! Took me a while to see the impact of 5 and 9 in box 5 to boxes 6 and 8, but after that it was a smooth sailing for me.

@acantilado 4 ай бұрын

I will definitely watch the 3.5 hr video! (Across 4-5 viewings but still would watch!)

@reubenmckay 4 ай бұрын

3.5 hr solve? YES! All the yeses. Can't wait to see it! We all know it's going to end up on Patreon.

@GuilhermeCarvalhoComposer 4 ай бұрын

Let me be one more to join the choir of praises to James's Artisanal Sudoku: it reall is that good. And an excellent solve by Simon today as well, his joy is palpable!

@noahgiamei 4 ай бұрын

This was a treat! Elegant and musical (like a familiar classical tune). After watching many an arduous solve, I feel vicariously relieved for you.

@ocean_waves71 4 ай бұрын

Wow! What an amazing piece of puzzle-setting work. It really is beautiful.

@kapochung9990 4 ай бұрын

one of the best 'empty retangle' tutorial ever.❤

@Cthulhus_Mum 4 ай бұрын

Adding my voice to those happy to watch 3.5hr puzzles! (Probably not every day, but once every couple of weeks would be a genuine treat 🥰)

@martinyyt 4 ай бұрын

Lovely Puzzle. Recorded 127:50 for my solve but I forgot to pause the timer at least once along the way. It was a case of slow and steady to chip away at the path with occasional glances at Simon's solve - how did he know that was a 12 pair, for example - to help direct my focus on the logic but ultimately I did it on my own!

@user-wv1zl4kg9v 4 ай бұрын

This is the first puzzle that has looked attemptable and I was able to solve in 22 minutes! Really great work and happy to finally beat one of the puzzles featured on this channel.

@rouxbixcube69 4 ай бұрын

I'm convinced they know how much of an appetite for long videos we have and they tease them to hype them up. not mad about it

@leco4529 4 ай бұрын

I receive the Artisanal newsletter, so I’ve already done this sudoku. It was very interesting watching how Simon did a sudoku that I’ve already done.

@praematura 4 ай бұрын

Solved this earlier this week in James's "Artisinal Sudoku", and I will admit I needed a small hint, but did make it through in 17:12! Really wonderful puzzle from James, but then again, there's a reason I'm subscribed to Artisinal Sudoku, as I think all of his puzzles are wonderful. 🙂

@DanielMorris1 4 ай бұрын

I found myself smiling all the way through Simon's solve. Wonderful!

@nemoyatpeace 4 ай бұрын

This was fun! I used a modified phistemofel ring, using the cages in boxes 5, 6, & 8, and r78c78 to break in and determine the 12 pairs in boxes 2 & 4 as well as some other things.

@bristolrovers27 4 ай бұрын

James is an exceptional creator of ellegant puzzles, its well wortj subscribing to his weekly newsletter

@raysouth1952 4 ай бұрын

What a delightful puzzle.

@Stratelier 4 ай бұрын

Wow, this was lovely indeed. At a first glance, it didn't _look_ approachable ... until it did.

@TemujinReads 4 ай бұрын

I can't be the only one who loves pencilling in a symmetrical grid like this, only to be sad when it comes time to break the symmetry and start filling in the actual digits.

@eddieharwood7788 4 ай бұрын

This is about perfect for me. I can solve it in around 40 minutes. Stretcjes my mind and doesn't take too long.

@elfakyn 15 күн бұрын

Thanks so much for featuring more accessible puzzles. I love variant sudoku with a mix of rules, but I don't have the experience (yet) to tackle the hard ones. These accessible puzzles let me share in the joy of some of the more interesting and fun logic.

@snowden719 4 ай бұрын

11:26 for me, really lovely flow where everything isn't too hard but it does take a second of thinking to see it

@Sujisan4 4 ай бұрын

I'll counter and say that no one can watch Simon solve a sudoku and not fall in love with the channel. Best channel ever.

@olivier2553 4 ай бұрын

48 minutes, that hurts. Because I miss-read the logic about the 9 in the 16 boxes, I was stuck and had to watch Simon, but before and after that point, it was smooth sailing.

@LorisLaboratory 4 ай бұрын

Surprise surprise, I'd also watch a 3.5 hour video 🤣 I love the epic ones and as the channel videos regularly clock in over an hour, that keeps pushing the definition of epic length 😁

@markp7262 4 ай бұрын

12:01 finish. A very fun little puzzle, some nice logic but not too easy. Excellent!

@stevesebzda570 4 ай бұрын

Yes, this was really put together nice. Right to the very end. Very cool..

@marcinmleczko4565 4 ай бұрын

Please release the 3,5h video please

@philipisbest 4 ай бұрын

Lovely puzzle! Took me watching the video to get the 35 psuedo cage logic, I'm always terrible at remembering to add up numbers to form sets. After that it was smooth going, very fun solve :)

@Gonzalo_Garcia_ 4 ай бұрын

7:33 for me. Very fun puzzle, really liked it!!

@thesatty 4 ай бұрын

So much fun. I love a puzzle that moves quickly every now and then.

@dicebar_ 4 ай бұрын

Once you've determined the contents of the 16 cages, you can actually bounce the 67 pair from box 9 around to have them both look into box 5. Combined with the 59 pair also looking into box 5, the 4 becomes a hidden single.

@penningmeestercgkdelft9159 4 ай бұрын

When highlighting r6, r9, c6 and c9 in blue, and box 5, 6, 8 and 9 in orange, it is actually possible to construct a sort of asymmetric Phistomefel Ring which helped me a lot with the break-in!

@SqueakSqueakleton 4 ай бұрын

This puzzle had 400 solves by the time Simon solved it, By the time I solved it, which is about 5 hours after the video had posted, it had been solved over 4000 times. A 10x in solves in only 5 hours!!!!

@victorfinberg8595 4 ай бұрын

oh yes, this is a beautiful puzzle. classic james sinclair

@stevieinselby 4 ай бұрын

A very neat puzzle 👍🏻👍🏻 I found all of the logic that Simon used, but at 24 minutes it took me quite a bit longer to _find_ it all!

@AshleyTheSwift 4 ай бұрын

I absolutely demand the 3.5 hour solve. I would love to have that to watch in bits and pieces as I do artwork. Please Simon, I beg of you! It's my birthday in two weeks... of that sways you.

@zach84379 4 ай бұрын

Took me 67:16 but I'm just so excited to have been able to solve a CTC puzzle at all! :-)

@EuropaE 2 ай бұрын

This was the first sudoku covered on this channel that I actually tried on my own, and I had to peek at what Simon did next 4-5 times. It still took me 93 minutes to complete, but I guess I shouldn't have expected much better from my first variant sudoku. Simon really does make this stuff look easy, lol.

@Zooobly 4 ай бұрын

46:52 and it felt very good to solve a sudoku again! I haven't done one in ages (at least not one I actually managed to solve haha)

@user-ox9oo6wp6d 4 ай бұрын

I would definitely consider to add Patreon for the 3.5 hours solve!

@zackglenn2847 4 ай бұрын

Had a bit of trouble with this one until I figured out that lovely geometry putting the nines into the 16 cages.

@CrankyOtter 4 ай бұрын

took 38:55 I started in box 9, got the in-box logic & the arrows, and ground to a halt. Something about how Simon explained the next bit of logic shook something loose, and also fixed the digits in the box 6&8 cages, and it was off to the races. BTW, pencilmarking the remaining cells in boxes 6&8 forms a quad in r9 & c9 leaving a 124 triple.

@Yttria 4 ай бұрын

One of the coolest implementations of the Phistomofel ring I've seen in a puzzle. The 4 corner boxes are in the upper left of boxes 5, 6, 8, and 9.

@titusadduxas 4 ай бұрын

48:52 - Another lovely puzzle, though I did keep missing some fairly obvious deductions.

@MarkBennet10001 4 ай бұрын

Another beautiful puzzle today.

@quothacreations3465 4 ай бұрын

@james_sinclair, this was definitely my favorite puzzle from this week's Artisanal Sudoku--so beautiful with such a smooth flow. to anyone not yet subscribed, Artisanal Sudoku is a lovely thing to look forward to at the beginning of the work week (gobble it up in one day, or spread out the enjoyment--one for each work day).

@ElysaraCh 4 ай бұрын

32:10 reasonably happy with this time, there were some tricky bits early on

@krblumen 4 ай бұрын

No matter how many times I watch Simon I marvel how his brain is trained to spot the complex stuff and overlook the easy stuff. My brain works just the opposite

@feldegast 4 ай бұрын

3.5 hours? Please put it on the main channel!

@bertbergers9171 3 ай бұрын

Finished this one in 40:07 found a bit of the beauty, but with all the struggle i bet i missed as much or more of it. Now to watch how the pro's finish this one :P I missed the 35 piece of the breakin on the top, that was pretty and a lot faster then how i slugged through that bit. And i always forget to give a heart in the finished solution box 🥴. Great solve Simon, and yes i would watch 3,5 hours of solving by you. Not immediately, need to make time for that, but I would listen to you while driving for instance.

@inspiringsand123 4 ай бұрын

Rules: 03:53 Let's Get Cracking: 05:06 Simon's time: 17m33s Puzzle Solved: 22:39 What about this video's Top Tier Simarkisms?! Three In the Corner: 1x (15:52) And how about this video's Simarkisms?! Beautiful: 9x (08:09, 08:21, 08:22, 09:03, 14:00, 14:00, 20:24, 22:34, 22:59) Symmetry: 8x (09:14, 09:50, 10:09, 10:11, 10:40, 10:47, 14:36, 23:23) Brilliant: 7x (01:11, 01:54, 03:19, 13:26, 13:26, 22:29, 22:34) Clever: 5x (06:00, 06:55, 14:05, 14:05, 14:11) By Sudoku: 4x (15:09, 16:41, 17:17, 20:08) Obviously: 3x (03:11, 11:26, 12:17) Ah: 3x (16:02, 18:24, 21:32) Lovely: 2x (07:56, 08:00) Gorgeous: 2x (22:46, 23:36) What Does This Mean?: 2x (07:43, 14:55) Good Grief: 1x (08:03) Useless: 1x (17:40) Sorry: 1x (17:37) Our old Friend Sudoku: 1x (06:49) I've Got It!: 1x (00:37) In Fact: 1x (06:06) We Can Do Better Than That: 1x (19:43) Next Trick: 1x (18:15) That's Huge: 1x (19:02) Pencil Mark/mark: 1x (17:32) Weird: 1x (19:15) Most popular number(>9), digit and colour this video: Fourteen, Sixteen (6 mentions) One, Two (37 mentions) Black (7 mentions) Antithesis Battles: High (3) - Low (0) Black (7) - White (0) Column (7) - 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!

@chocolateboy300 4 ай бұрын

I got 44 minutes. It really is nice to get an easy and enjoyable sudoku that flows so well. I very much enjoyed this one.

@xerodeus2337 4 ай бұрын

I think this was my first real solve with no hints/help from the video - and still took me an hour. lol took me a lot longer to enter than I thought it would

@jonbrowne 4 ай бұрын

Yeeaaahh! A beautiful solvable puzzle! Thanks CtC

@jacksonvance7219 4 ай бұрын

We NEED the 3.5 hour solve!!!

@guysfs 4 ай бұрын

Loved this one

@Kirbyfan87827 4 ай бұрын

Finished in 16:54. OH MY GOD this puzzle was so much fun to do!

@JS... 4 ай бұрын

Well, yeah, regarding the title of the video and what Simon says at the end 'It wasn't easy, just beautiful' ...

@dashiellv 4 ай бұрын

Very entertaining puzzle.

@psiphiorg 4 ай бұрын

What a lovely flow to this puzzle! My time today was 16:13, solver number 1239.

@ralphbecket 4 ай бұрын

Splendid fun!

@samueldeandrade8535 4 ай бұрын

Great puzzle. Happy that it is not that hard. I may get a lot frustrated with hard puzzles.

@st3phgr1ce 4 ай бұрын

Excited to be a Patreon member and watch the 3.5 hr solve!

@wenen4510 4 ай бұрын

At 12:02 when Simon wonders if there is some restriction on 5s, there is actually a bit of beautiful symmetrical logic. If R3C9 is 5, then R6C3 is a 5. But now 5 can't go anywhere in box 6. Similarly, if R9C3 is 5, then R3C6 is a 5. In this case 5 can't go into box 8. So you can eliminate 5 from both R3C9 and R9C3.

@Kuhl1216 4 ай бұрын

Please please please post that 3.5 hour video Simon. I’d watch it

@EmonEconomist Ай бұрын

28:34. Longer than I'd like, but I stuffed up early on by trying to make it way more complicated than it needed to be! Once I restarted I did a lot better. It's nice to have these shorter puzzles to unwind after a workday!

@TheREALDocRabbit 3 ай бұрын

This was a very enjoyable puzzle and the symmetry was an added ahah. :)

@Alex_Meadows 4 ай бұрын

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@skid68 18 сағат бұрын

Liked this puzzel, do need some help, did start it with box 9 and around box 5 but missed the 1-2 next to 5-9 so when I head Simon say that I could finish it. So thankyou Simon. Took me like 59min but did manage it :)

@dolf370 4 ай бұрын

"One of the EASIEST", yeah, sure. Only took me 95:43 on the second attempt. I must be the lousiest solver of all on this channel. (I do not even manage to solve the ones I myself construct.) That said, I kind of could see the path and follow the logic quite clearly (at least in the first half before I had to start hunting out the digits one by one). Was a very enjoyable puzzle. Now I'll watch Simon's solve and flagellate myself with disgust over the simple tricks I missed in my solve.

@grahamania 4 ай бұрын

00:16:03 for me. Fantastic puzzle. Simple yet very smooth and fun so solve! Kind comment.

@ellemax4605 4 ай бұрын

*Looks at video title* 😊 *Looks at own attempted solve time so far...* 😶 (1:23:15) ...Well that's enough sudoku for today

@lepannean4231 4 ай бұрын

i do hope we get to see that 3.5 hour video!

@Stephen333 4 ай бұрын

I got 3 digits in the first minute, then it took me about 20 minutes to figure out the 16 cages lol. After that it was pretty smooth. Got stuck for about 5 minutes till i figurednout the naked single in box 3. Fun puzzle though thank you. Also i would watch a 3.5 hour vid

@johnpauladamovsky86 4 ай бұрын

I enjoyed solving this puzzle, because I never got the feeling like somebody was trying to hurt me. But the logic was still very clever.

@jeremylawrence6041 4 ай бұрын

Finally a puzzle easy enough for me to do 😀

@ericpraline1302 4 ай бұрын

This was indeed a very elegant puzzle, although my solve was not 100% smooth, I did have to think on one or two occasions!

@ayakoa2096 4 ай бұрын

7:38 for me lovely puzzle

@frankjiang1857 4 ай бұрын

Finished in 10:35. Very approachable. Fun puzzle!

@kindlin 4 ай бұрын

I thought I could do the "easy" one, as I've done other harder ones, but nope, this puzzle just wasn't for me or something. I got thru box 9 but got totally stuck and no number of hints from Simon was unstucking me.