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** TODAY'S PUZZLE **
We've had lots of recommendations from Reddit users to try Mystery Killer Primes by Shintaro Fushida-Hardy. It's a 5x5 grid with a beautifully simple ruleset. The puzzle itself is a joy (and very approachable) and feels almost like a discovery. What a debut!
Play the puzzle at the link below:
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Rules:
Each row and column contains the digits from 1 to 5 once each. The digits in each cage sum to a prime number but no two cages sum to the same prime. Digits in a cage MAY repeat.
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(Simon's solve of this puzzle is on Patreon.)
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@shintarofushida-hardy4739 25 күн бұрын

Wow! Thank you for the feature! I definitely agree that it felt like a discovery, the setting-experience was almost all spent trying to find a "valid final configuration" (rather than thinking about the logic necessary for solving it.) It was an amazing coincidence when the final result was logically solvable. Glad you enjoyed solving it as much as I enjoyed setting it!

@stevenape377 25 күн бұрын

Loved it, wonderful little puzzle!

@sacredsock8031 24 күн бұрын

I wonder if the same trick is possible for a bigger grid, something for Simon to really get his teeth into?

@Qurqirish_Dragon 24 күн бұрын

@@sacredsock8031 Maybe, but not a full 9x9; the sum of all primes less than 45 is less than 405 (why 405? it's a secret....🙂), so either repeated digits must be allowed, or there would need to be uncaged cells.

@meamemg 24 күн бұрын

@@Qurqirish_DragonBut 45 isn’t a constraint in a 9x9, just as here where one of the boxes summed to more than 15.

@Qurqirish_Dragon 23 күн бұрын

@@meamemg As I said, repeated digits would have to be allowed, and I also checked - there wouldn't be anything nice for the break-in like this had; 405 is hard (if possible ) to get from even consecutive primes. Definitely not the first X primes (skipping 2, of course)

@martinepstein9826 25 күн бұрын

The break-in of this puzzle is wonderful. Not super difficult but it teaches you something new.

@cryam6428 25 күн бұрын

Yeah it's just fun to see how elegantly the prime digits and the sudoku rules overlap.

@eyvithorgeirsson6028 24 күн бұрын

Sometimes you don’t need to have very complex logic for a puzzle to be fun

@aaronwelch5391 25 күн бұрын

While solving this, I just today noticed that the "3 in the corner" confetti pattern is unique every time. I don't know why, but that made my day. Cheers to Sven for that little nugget of goodness. Makes the ol' secular 3 even more special 🙃

@bosslca9630 13 күн бұрын

I love the approachable out-of-the-box Sudokus like this. I didn't do the 'whole puzzle sum' to get the secret sums of Primes figured out, but it's amazing how effective min/maxing cages can be in a puzzle like this.

@LorisLaboratory 25 күн бұрын

Jumped right in to try it when I saw the shorter time 😆 Very enjoyable!

@nlatimer 25 күн бұрын

I saw your comment and decided to do the same for the first time ever

@chris5619 25 күн бұрын

Simon was so sure of himself today that he didn't even check the answer!

@penningmeestercgkdelft9159 25 күн бұрын

Yes indeed ;-)

@navster100 24 күн бұрын

I mean it was pretty simple logic and he did technically check it himself at the end even if he didn't use the checker

@davidalderson 25 күн бұрын

I also coloured the cages different colours after finishing this lovely puzzle. Simon has taught me well.

@TheGreatSpanishBaldwin 25 күн бұрын

I colored them all first 😂

@SimonStienen 25 күн бұрын

@@TheGreatSpanishBaldwin And I actually took the middle ground and instead assigned the colors to the different potential primes, then kept on coloring the cages accordingly. 😹

@ashleydampier4745 25 күн бұрын

My goodness, I feel so star struck!! Thank you so much for the very warm and kind welcome to the UK! And thank you Emma for the shoutout. It really made my day ❤️ P.S I hope you all enjoyed the warm weather I brought with me from sunny SA😉🌞

@VacantPsalm 25 күн бұрын

So THAT'S where the "3 in the corner" thing comes from. I feel like that was an even bigger secret than "the numbers 1 to 9 add up to 45."

@SenselessUsername 24 күн бұрын

Yeah Mark doesn't do the singing, only Simon.

@chipsounder4633 24 күн бұрын

There has been an occasion or 2 where Mark had had a yodel 😂 🎤 I think proving it's position should be sung when you get 2 3s in opposing corners.

@benwhite5734 24 күн бұрын

@@SenselessUsernameMark sings sometimes, just not every time. Also sometimes he'll say the full lyric but without singing.

@javimartinez1014 10 күн бұрын

Wait when did he say it? I cant find it in the video I really want to know >-

@angec9908 25 күн бұрын

Of course Maverick just took off. I’m convinced he’s got your office bugged.

@randommusic4567 25 күн бұрын

Nah, he knows that Simon post's these videos at 8.30 each day

@daveturner5305 25 күн бұрын

@@randommusic4567 Worse the control tower spies on 'im! 😁

@13vatra 25 күн бұрын

Of course Mark knows Simon's schedule 😜

@user-gj5uc4yx3i 25 күн бұрын

In the US today is Mothers Day. Upon seeing the length of the video I had the thought that Simon may have been saving this puzzle for today so he would have more time to celebrate the Mothers in his life. Silly bit of nonsense but I do hope all the Mothers watching have enjoyed the day regardless where you call home. Fantastic Puzzle!

@ritalex22 21 күн бұрын

This was the first puzzle you've posted that I managed to solve, I'm so proud 😭

@Bandit-ou3ld 25 күн бұрын

Hey Simon, I have been a long time viewer and I just wanted to say that I love your videos and especially shorter ones like this. Keep up the amazing work! I also was wondering if you have any more fog of war puzzles planned? Those are my favorite to watch! Anyway thank you so much for the amazing videos!

@CrackingTheCryptic 25 күн бұрын

Thank you! We have a whole app of Fog Of War puzzles almost ready :)

@settralives 25 күн бұрын

@@CrackingTheCryptic Sounds great, will they be approachable? I'm still very inexperienced!

@Alex_Meadows 25 күн бұрын

@@settralives There have been two GAS fog-of-war sudokus posted on the Discord, both of them fairly recently - 07 December 2023 and 08 February 2024. (There was also one on 01 April, but that was Philip enjoying himself).

@gaboratoria 6 күн бұрын

That was pretty fun It's cool how we each approach a problem from a different angle

@n8_n 25 күн бұрын

4:31 for me, probably my fastest ever solve relative to a CtC video. Realizing the 75 logic immediately helped a lot, it flowed from there.

@ElectricFury 24 күн бұрын

Yeah, that logic held me back for ages until I realised and then it all flowed naturally from there

@chipsounder4633 24 күн бұрын

Amazing how a base premise for a puzzle can yield such amazing logic. The mini miracle.❤

@SuperCraft1999 23 күн бұрын

This is the first time I tried finishing the puzzle before watching you and I got it! It was great fun playing and watching you afterward I realise how lightning quick you were completing it. Bravo

@erp1011 25 күн бұрын

Great little puzzle. 28 mins for me. Not the usual 3 day marathon it takes me to solve one of Simon's 50min videos. Now to watch the professional do it

@JoshuaPullin 24 күн бұрын

First completed puzzle from the channel for me, decided to give it a go after seeing the video length. Thanks for bringing something new each day!

@MattYDdraig 25 күн бұрын

3:12 A nice little numerical oddity but pretty much fills itself in after a moment's thought.

@gianlucatartaro1335 20 күн бұрын

Wow, this was the first time I have EVER solved a puzzle faster than Simon! Granted I know he takes the time to explain his reasoning, but considering I can often take 2-3x the amount of time on some puzzles, this feels great 😅 I honestly got it by listing out all of the primes that the squares COULD be and quickly realized that 3-19 were the only primes possible. I then figured out where the 3 was and that it was 1,2 and that led me to narrow down which one was the 5 of the triples and narrowed it down to 2,1,2. After that, everything else just kinda fell into place without any other extremely hard thinking 😅 SO HAPPY ABOUT THIS MOMENT!

@anaayoung9142 25 күн бұрын

Yes!! Usually I have trouble in this kind of puzzle, but I am happy to be able to solve this one alone! Thanks 😊

@VeritasUnae 2 күн бұрын

Came back to tackle the “precursor” as it were to the other solve and was very pleased with a reasonable 11 minute solve. Now do I dare attempt the 6x6? Maybe tonight, haha. Thanks for sharing these fantastic sudokus, Simon, and kudos to the setter for a wonderful little problem.

@n0bl3hunt3r 25 күн бұрын

Really nice to have a short video and primes are such delicious numbers.

@navster100 24 күн бұрын

U dont even need to know the sum of the grid to figure it out. I just counted the number of cages and then looked at the maximum and minimum cage values and there were exactly the same amount of prime numbers as there were cages

@nerdygirltaylor 17 күн бұрын

I figured it out by realizing the singular 5 cage in the puzzles max value was 21 iirc and the max prime was 19. Meanwhile the minimum prime was 3 bc 2 cannot work. And then saw the number of primes remaining was the number of cages (I absolutely pulled up the list of prime numbers rather than thinking about that myself lol)

@navster100 17 күн бұрын

@@nerdygirltaylor that's basically what I did other than pulling up a list of primes

@gordonglenn2089 25 күн бұрын

What a mathematical delight! And a very smooth solve, after the introductory calculations.

@olivier2553 25 күн бұрын

It was approachable, but I got stuck with the idea that the 19 was a 14455 cage, not envisaging the 13455 solution and got nowhere from there (all my cages wanting to be 11). I am terrible with cages/killer.

@philipphanslovsky5101 2 күн бұрын

I loved this puzzle. Completely new rule set to me but it becomes very obvious what to with a bit of thinking. Very elegant! The very first time I solved it in similar time as Simon

@mister-8658 25 күн бұрын

12 minutes and 17 seconds the first time I got a faster time than the CTC video length.

@katiekawaii 25 күн бұрын

👏👏

@gJonii 24 күн бұрын

I got 14min! I just heard breakin is cool, so had to try it before watching the video.

@huttj509 21 күн бұрын

I got 6 minutes. Something about this one just went *kerchunk* in my brain and just flowed quickly enough I thought I had to be missing something.

@emilywilliams3237 25 күн бұрын

Very fun - thanks, Simon!

@dinane 25 күн бұрын

Delightful! Thank you! I enjoyed realizing how to start and it was fun to the end. A nice quick brain teaser.

@ClairvoyantTruth 25 күн бұрын

Learning Sudoku it's the odd deep knowledge that trips me up.Simon's logic all makes sens, but I had to look up the list of primes, slowly work it out and I didn't understand, but Simon's logic was sound. That's a deeper knowledge that is hard-fought knowledge

@Moker49 24 күн бұрын

I gave another shot at one of these easy puzzles. I haven't been able to solve any of them. I made a logic mistake somewhere, got stuck, and had to start over about 40 mintues in. In total it took me an hour and a half. Kind of discouraging that the easiest puzzle still takes me so long to solve after watching so many solve videos. But at least I solved it I guess.

@JohnGottschalk 21 күн бұрын

Such a clever lil puzzle, nice and approachable, feels like a lot of more complicated ones you've had here, but a lot easier to get into.

@gustavosarrafflodi7659 25 күн бұрын

Hi! Love the channel and the apps. Just finished all the miracle sudoku on the app - 583 stars🎉🎉🎉. Keep it up guys, you are my nightly therapy!

@TheDingus42 25 күн бұрын

One of the few ive been able to solve off the bat s very enjoyable little puzzle

@chocolateboy300 24 күн бұрын

I finished in 11:43 minutes. Calculating everything in my head was very fun as this wasn't a difficult puzzle. It had some really nice logic to start with prime number 3. I really enjoy these short and sweet puzzles in between doing massive solves. Great Puzzle!

@roccov3614 25 күн бұрын

I liked the progression of discovery in this one. I loved it.

@glum_hippo 25 күн бұрын

Nice discovery from Shintaro! Enjoyed that

@ThomasHDBass 16 күн бұрын

Nice little puzzle - how conveniently the primes add up 🙂 Instantly realized the sum, so it unravelled quickly, 4:33 for me.

@longwaytotipperary 25 күн бұрын

It’s been hot in Georgia, USA since March! Nice puzzle!

@evergreentree8042 10 күн бұрын

I'd placed the two in the corner before I'd worked out what all the primes were going to be and was amazed how you placed half the board before even getting to that. Isn't interesting how everyone's brains work differently?

@SomethingWellesian 24 күн бұрын

10:22 for me. Not as fast as a lot of solvers on here but I often struggle with more mathematical puzzles and this was my first time solving a puzzle faster than the video duration, so I’ll take it!

@kwuite1738 24 күн бұрын

I approached this puzzle from a different angle. I started with determining the number that would have to start outside the first column group to make the group a prime number. After determining it was 2 or 4, I spent my time trying to determine if the line group sum was 11 or 13.

@BigDBrian 9 күн бұрын

This is the first time I have tried one of these puzzles before watching the video. It took a leisurely 24 minutes and it was well worth it =)

@BigDBrian 9 күн бұрын

it's very interesting to see the different approach. My first digit was the top 5 in the T shaped tetromino.

@Rubenhuisman1234 25 күн бұрын

Don't try this when you're tired. You're gonna believe that 9 is a prime number and mess up the whole puzzle

@francoisduez601 25 күн бұрын

9:47 Very nice approachable puzzle! ❤ First time I solve a 5x5 sudoku I think 😊

@psiphiorg 10 сағат бұрын

A lovely puzzle indeed! My time today was 4:49 (alas, not a prime number of seconds, although it is square, 17²=289=4:49), solver number 13230.

@Uncle_Mel 24 күн бұрын

First puzzle I dared to attempt. Took me a notepad to write out all valid solutions for 5-19 without duplicating more than once. Took me 25 minutes :)

@davidrattner9 25 күн бұрын

Fun, neat puzzle Simon.

@JediJess1 25 күн бұрын

This should be fun! Anything less than 9×9 excites me

@brianarsuaga5008 22 күн бұрын

This was WAY more difficult for me than the video time suggested it would be. I went on a long, LONG tangent trying to do parity tricks (since of course, all primes but 2 are odd and you can't make 2 here). Then it took me a long time to start pencil marking 345s to reduce options in the three cell cages! Argh! Really fun!

@acanimations1223 25 күн бұрын

But he didn’t check if it was the right solution, how will we ever know?! 😰

@CrackingTheCryptic 25 күн бұрын

I realised that after I stopped the video. Sorry. I do think it's correct though.

@penningmeestercgkdelft9159 25 күн бұрын

It is correct indeed, as many can tell who have finished the puzzle as well meanwhile 🙂

@PennyLapin 25 күн бұрын

I solved the puzzle in 10:16. Very nice and sweet puzzle. I really like how this puzzle takes a twist on pencil marking and the number groups like pairs and quadruples, having 4 regions take up 4 possible prime numbers and force a 3 sum and 19 sum region. It makes for a very comfortable solution path when you spot it.

@iamjeramy 22 күн бұрын

Man, I didn't even use the secret! That's so much easier! I really should have thought of that. I laboriously worked through which cages could make which primes, and the 7-cage needing the 1.

@tribin82 25 күн бұрын

this really just felt like a sudoku without box logic. it took me about 25 min because i kept forgetting about the repeated digits in a cage and made some mistakes along the way because of that. fun puzzle though

@philc2729 20 күн бұрын

Great puzzle. To be honest, I had taken a break from this channel because the puzzles were getting obscenely difficult for a novice. It is good to vary the puzzles with some clever but approachable puzzles as you indicated.

@DevilishlyDutch 18 күн бұрын

About 12 minutes for me, and what a lovely puzzle indeed!

@Landis963 23 күн бұрын

40:24 for me - had a devil of a time trying to keep the 19 cage from mucking up the rest of it.

@chromaticcaos 25 күн бұрын

Got some help breaking in from simon (told me to look at 75) but I figured out which prime numbers I needed on my own. Ended up solving in 15:16

@nathanmays7926 24 күн бұрын

Let us never conflate elegance with simplicity. This is beautiful.

@DaigotsuSoetsu 8 күн бұрын

70 minutes for me, I felt like I was on the right track the whole time but had to do a lot of guessing and checking other cages. I was able to rule it down to 7 primes pretty quickly but had to write down a lot of different combinations.

@Khetroid 23 күн бұрын

I kinda did this in the opposite direction, starting by identifying the 19, then 17 boxes and started placing digits from there. 3 and 5 were way later (even though 3 should have been obvious).

@dikinebaks 25 күн бұрын

10:38 fun little puzzle easily solved by asking the questions: what are the minimum-maximum primes to write-in the boxes and how many boxes are there? Then the numbers just fell into their places.

@sampathkumar-ej7xl 24 күн бұрын

A gem of a puzzle with simple rules that earn your respect once you get started.

@tylerowens 24 күн бұрын

13:31 as a mathematician this was a very fun little puzzle

@Kinada 25 күн бұрын

It's interesting how well it adds up. I think a 6x6 grid would need to drop the 3 and have a single cell 2 cage to make it work and a 7x7 would take single cell 1 cage. 8x8 looks like it's off by 9 and a 9x9 is off by 14.

@piarittersporn 25 күн бұрын

Beautiful and funny little puzzle.

@reddemunn 25 күн бұрын

Very cool puzzle with a simple idea.

@WhammeWhamme 25 күн бұрын

At 10.34, squeaked in faster than Simon, yay! Now to listen to him...

@IronLucario2012 25 күн бұрын

Very interesting little puzzle here! Took me 8 minutes... not counting the time it took me to figure out what the different options for the seven primes could be, lol.

@austincellar 25 күн бұрын

Approached, and solved. Thanks for showcasing this one!

@CorrectHorseBatteryStaple472 23 күн бұрын

I think it's surprising that this is even possible. 7 primes adding to 75 that somehow can be added up to with 1-5 5 times.

@RichSmith77 25 күн бұрын

What's up with the grid size dwarfing the input panel/rules pop-up on the last few videos? Rules are almost impossible to read on my mobile screen.

@ElectricFury 24 күн бұрын

This took me 28:16. I spent over 17 mins before I realised that there were only 7 unique primes and could actually place a lot I'd already worked out as "possible". Then I just kept making mistakes, I think the allowed to repeat rule was messing with my brain because I kept repeating in rows and columns too by accident.

@DarrenNakamura 15 күн бұрын

Finished in 16:14. Neat little puzzle.

@angec9908 25 күн бұрын

I love Simon’s righteous indignation in being forced to do sudoku in a sudoku puzzle

@evetheeevee2977 24 күн бұрын

8:07 really fun! I liked it ^^

@Sam_on_YouTube 25 күн бұрын

I went to check if this one had to be the lowest possible numbers and in the process of checking, I accidentally solved it. 5:46.

@praematura 25 күн бұрын

Initially I couldn't add the total of the whole grid correctly and was confused... 😅 Then I realized what I did wrong and it went very fast from there, finishing in just 4:36 (conflict checker off), much faster than I expected! Very fun puzzle, many thanks to Shintaro for it!

@josephbentley1300 24 күн бұрын

7:52 for me, what a neat little puzzle

@Probba 25 күн бұрын

I got it in 3:08! The trick is to assume everything is minimized and wing it

@voncornhole 25 күн бұрын

> Reddit recommendation > 20 minutes Boy, that sure was a doozy. Maybe one day someone on reddit will figure it out

@LithmusEarth 25 күн бұрын

[ 3, 5, 7, 11, 13, 17, 19] Once he said between 3 and 19, I just looked it up the first ten primes, and picked the subset between and saw if we'd have to cut any, there are exactly seven and they add up to 75, well i know what this puzzle is going to do 11 minutes in.

@regularsalamander 13 күн бұрын

This is the hardest one I've been able to solve, took me 46 minutes and 3 restarts

@onlainari 24 күн бұрын

Six minutes, fastest solve I’ve ever done.

@grahamania 24 күн бұрын

00:10:34 for me. Very fun puzzle! Nice how good logic can fit into a small puzzle. Kind comment.

@themuffin437 25 күн бұрын

4:59, nice, quick puzzle that made me think

@BozoTheBear 24 күн бұрын

Loved this! I solved it with help from my 9yo daughter - thanks, Shintaro!

@jordanhibbits5431 25 күн бұрын

5:55, great, approachable puzzle!

@Kirbyfan87827 25 күн бұрын

Finished in 13:09, though I never would have discovered the break-in without n8_n's comment about 75.

@Rach881101 24 күн бұрын

17:46 for me. Nice puzzle!

@BinarySecond 24 күн бұрын

Needed a little help from Simon to get going on the right hand side but I did it :)

@samgillmusic 25 күн бұрын

Great ruleset, very approachable - I solved in 11: 17

@penningmeestercgkdelft9159 25 күн бұрын

Solved it in 7:28. :-) What a wonderful idea for a puzzle once again!

@Kaepsele337 25 күн бұрын

To me this the most miraculous miracle sudoku

@srwapo 25 күн бұрын

21:08, spun my wheels for a bit at the end, breaking the sudoku. Looked at the video and saw that my logic was correct, so I re-pencil marked everything and it ended up working on my final attempt. No idea what I was doing wrong, maybe summing the cage in the upper right incorrectly?

@LukeSumIpsePatremTe 25 күн бұрын

You don't need to know the 5x5 sudoku secret to start the puzzle. Count the cages and then check the cages with biggest possible totals.

@Orenotter 25 күн бұрын

Prime numbers of three five and seven, Thirteen, se'nteen, nineteen, eleven. Ach, trying to break in Twas too much to take in. For me, it were nay slice o' Heaven!