this comment literally had me on the floor in stitches. You killed me

Damn this comment was actually fucking golden idk who you are or were you came from idk if you're a guy or a girl but pls fucking marry me

You literally (and I mean literally) made me spit out my water lol.

wow... this joke is for a VERY specific audience. I have tears in my eyes.

Pleaseeee explain... We wanna join in on the fun

nice, saw this comment at exactly 3am xD

Wait this video is 45 minutes long?

@@SwissSergeant97 Saw it at 4:00 am ;)

Quarantine does some weird things to your recommendation. Hence why I was brought here too

Because you've lost control of your life?

you will, the question is how long it would take

@@whythosenames true

like sherlock holmes

Keep practicing and watching :)

Exactly

great job bru

@@utryping very nice

Fantastic! 😁🏆

Well done! I spotted the thermometers seeing each other relatively quickly, but had no idea how to go on from there.

I feel the same way. I spent an hour on it before I went to sleep, then another hour after. Has anyone else found that your brain figures out Sudoku when you sleep on it?

I agree. Especially since most of the time he also sees things I would never see in a million years.

Yes I’m screaming about the 8 because it’s the first time I see something he doesn’t, but then he goes on about thermometers and im just trying to keep up

Sometimes the simplest things to others is missed cuz they're looking for more complex answers 🤣

@@2PieceandABiscuit sometimes you can think _too_ far outside the box

Throw in the occasional briefly-incorrectly-placed digit (mistake with the keyboard press), and the effect is quiet stressful.

4 minutes in and I thought the exact same thing haha

And Mark is worrying that Simon will prank him back, so he doesn’t trust Simon’s assessments either

@@ragnkja lol now any of both trust each other, and there will always exist a conspiracy impression

a gorgeous puzzle that includes a way thermos and knight constrains have never been used before 👌

Has he ever actually been pranked?

That was perhaps the most impressive moment in the video for me. 30:27

How does he get that those two cells have to mirror each other?

@@fitzpeters So look at the bottom middle 9. The middle right spot is either 2 or 4. all corners have a number. If the top 1/3 is a 1, it rules out the middle row. This means the same 1/3 has to be in the middle right. Then you move to the middle 9. Left and middle row are both ruled out of the 1 because they are in the same lines. the right row has both corners filled in so that means the middle right value has to be the same 1/3 pair. and all 3 of these spots are the same value. I would never have spotted this, myself

@@Okkebeltman Ah! I was being dense. Thanks!

We did a full 360

Trying to imagine how that therapy session would go. "It was just.... so BEAUTIFUL..."

A sudoku with half a number pre-filled

by the 10 minute mark he has still yet to put a single number down.

How are you coming along with that challenge?

How are you doing so far?

So when did you quit?

@Ivan Volovnyk let people have their things

@Ivan Volovnyk Noone said it would have to be hard, and ''let people have their things'' 'could' mean something like "hey, please don't invalidate a challenge someone has set up for themselves" Just because it is not a challenge for you, does not mean it is not a challenge for them.

Truly has everything I love about it :')

I see what you did there.

I was screaming the exact same XD sometimes I feel like he’s trolling us 🤣

@@sweatersev haha bless him, i bet we (definitely me) miss plenty of stuff like this when solving lol

lol watching the 3s stand unsolved just a few minutes after he placed 3 1's by miraculous logic was agonizing

They had a video on their Patreon from one of the setters. Check it out.

Join the discord server.

How dare you make me laugh out loud

Let's not.

@@ariel_haymarket Let's knot

No jokes please...

Well, there was at least one naked single...

It could be the name of the closing credits song to a Sudoku anime lol

Its main villain could be the Thermo Galaxy Killer, which was the name of another puzzle featured on the channel recently.

Episode 26 never aired outside Japan due to excessive naked singles.

@Jean-Noël Clink if there's a karuta anime, and a go anime, there can be a sudoku anime. And I bet it would be entertaining XD

@@AlRoderick hehehe

agreed. I love it - and when I say "love it" I really mean that I'm almost having orgasm (figuratively speaking) - when it takes pros 20-30 minutes to even pencil-mark the first few digits into a sudoko. I simply LOVE watching them try to figure out how to start a puzzle. It's the most delicious thing to watch in a sudoku solving :)

My time was similar. About 30 minutes to notice the key, but like you said it kept fighting. Very cool puzzle.

We have witnessed pure beauty in the form of Sudoku and it has left a mark on our souls.

He has done that a couple times. Look up skyscraper and sandwich sudokus on the channel. At least I think they are called that.

@@adaniel2929 You got the names right and those variants are surprisingly restrictive.

Unfortunately, there will never be a truly empty grid because the puzzle would have multiple solutions due to rotation :( No digits plus some restrictions at the side of the grid is the best we can get. Maybe one day the rules will be so strict that one given digit and nothing else is possible.

@Anifco67 Oh, I did not think about that, thanks

@@demerion Also I have seen sudoku that have different restrictions based off of what box you are in.

I tried it, let's put it this way, the last thing I said was "ahhhhhh bobbins"

I did exactly the same

try this one, it's doable, but don' t try to brute force it or anything, it's a an amazing puzzle and the realisations aren't that difficult

10:26 Now I watch how Simon did and I had the same reaction as his at that moment :D

"Mean shit!" EDIT: That sounded funnier when I typed it. I think I should go to bed now.

"Risa" means broken in Finnish :)

Risa means nothing in german :(

@@CorporalJonlan another possibility.

@@sandundhund Nothing in Swedish either :(

In English it means you are having a stroke.

I believe that what happened there is that he hit the color mode and the white button instead of the delete button by accident. :D

@@zackaryburns3266 Simon always seems to use the white colouring to remove colours he's placed in the grid, rather than the delete button. It's caused him issues in past videos, with original puzzle constraints being overwritten by 'white'. Previous comments have suggested he use the delete button instead, but he hasn't learnt this yet.

I play every now and again, idk why this popped up in my recommended a couple days ago but it did and I watch them and its fascinating watching him solve these and its gotten me to play sudoku again

And Mark is anxiously waiting for Simon’s revenge.

It's perfect - I love it!

I *somewhat* overthrew my government, it was only a pseudo-coup

@@jameskivenko The accents are actually different.

I was just waiting for Simon to start calling them pentonoids and hexanoids (like the cousin concept of pentominos etc)

it could, had me yelling at the screen :)

Long before that, when he had the 35 pair in the upper right thermos, it ruled out the 3 and 5 in R4C4. I kept yelling at him to notice it, but it took him forever! LOL

@@buzzly108 He didn't add the 35 pair until 24:31 which is after the point in the comment you're responding to.

It's rare that I notice something he doesn't but it comforting to know I am not the only one yelling at the screen hoping he's catch it ;)

Plus, this thermometer wasn't heplful at all.

I was pretty much screaming "KNIGHT'S MOVE" at the monitor when he was putting in the 6 at 26:50. I have my foibles. ^^'

Mats Lindgren I would be screaming at him for not noticing that the 9 from the beginning is in a thermometer. Would be. But it's currently 5:00AM and I don't have the energy for that :\

can you translate it for non-native speaker?

​@@artursruseckis4242 I believe it means "oh you're having me on" or "you're kidding me" but I posted because it was slang I haven't heard before and thought was funny - definitely sounds very British to my American ears!

You're having a laugh / you're kidding me / you're joking

It's slang for homosexual. Toxic masculinity strikes even in sudokus. Disappointing.

It's a mix-up between "joke" and "Steffi" (...Graf, rhyming slang for laugh).

4 months have passed....how is that start doing...

A 7 or 6 could go below the 9, so he didn't want to rush it

Also, in the short bulb in the top left, 9 isnt followed by an 8 which is why he didnt do the way you suggested

@@chiderakalaji7206 May be I am too noob for this .

@@basantajoshi6213 watching an expert do something tends to do that to people

Not just for looks but to signify that it uses the same logic as the other pairs of thermometers.

That tiny thermo sees the other 2 near it by sudoku/knights

@@danielles3841 The only information the tiny thermometer gives us is "the bulb number on this thermometer is lower than the 9", which was already given as it is in the same square as the 9.

Definitely not chinese characters but I don't know what

There is none of the such! It's much simpler than that. Every thermometer deserves a friend. The length-4 top-right thermo was missing a friend. So, I gave it a friend.

Not even the British are able to comprehend what he’s on about 😂😂😂

You're having a laugh / you're kidding me / you're joking. I've not heard the exact phrasing before but "having a laugh", "having a giggle", "having a giraffe" are all pretty common in the UK. I'm assuming that Jesse / Jessie comes from a cockney slang rhyme, whereby there is someone called Jessie whose surname rhymes with either "laugh" or "giggle". Couldn't find anything on Google either though.

Brit who lived in the USA for 8 years here and I have no earthly clue what he's on about either. :). But it did make me laugh out loud! :)

When you call someone a Jessie you are implying they are feminine. It's derogatory. A schoolyard taunt.

Unless he actually said "Steffi" in which case I would get it. :)