The Most Terrifying Name In The Puzzle World Is...

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Жыл бұрын

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Gliperal. That is a puzzler's most terrifying name.
Today he returns to the channel with a puzzle themed around pentominoes. It's ruined our testers and has very few solves on Logic Masters Germany. Can Frodo (Simon) get to Mount Doom without Gliperal's eye spotting him?
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Divide the grid into pentominoes, such that no two pentominoes of the same shape (including rotations and reflections) touch orthogonally. Clues outside the grid indicate the number of borders between pentominoes present in that row or column. [A pentomino is a set of 5 orthogonally-connected cells.]
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@Gliperal Жыл бұрын

I find that comment at 1:20:49 really encouraging, because I did set this puzzle as a sort of introductory puzzle for it's big brother, to teach the solver some new ideas. I was really glad to see you work through the logic with the 2 clue, which suggested something similar might apply to the 3 clue, which set you thinking about the 4 clue, exactly as I was hoping. It would seem that, in including all the desired logic, I did not exactly succeed in making an approachable puzzle (whoops), but I think it is one that is well-suited to the channel. It's interesting what you say about the most terrifying name in the puzzle world, and I think that's because I constantly strive to find new logical ideas, and force solvers to kick out of autopilot and look at things in a different light. And unfortunately that means most of my puzzles find their way into your inbox, because, Simon, you are really good at uncovering new logical ideas. I think this solve is testament to that: You found all of the desired steps with dividing the grid into multiple-of-5-sized regions, and more and more quickly as the solve progressed. A couple steps were even cleaner than the way I had visualized them. The only bit of logic I want to point out is at 1:13:52, where the easier way to progress is to see that green has to take R10C3 or else it becomes an L. Also I take no offence at the implication that I have a myriad of all-seeing-eyes surveying my domain. It matters not that you conquered the mountain at the end; it simply tells me that you are ready for me to make something even more challenging...

@dagmarkratzsch9239 Жыл бұрын

No thank, no praise. Wow, you are such a very very IMPORTANT setter. :-(

@davidrattner9 Жыл бұрын

Just another masterpiece from you!! Amazing setter you are!! I went back and rewatched your interview w/memeristor. Listening to you again made me appreciate your comments above even more. 🙂

@Raven-Creations Жыл бұрын

In that last sentence, you make a menacing threat sound so innocuous, like "I hope, Mr Bond, that you have the deepest of sleeps".

@unbatteristaacaso Жыл бұрын

Wow... so it's game on between you and Simon... :) We should expect something EPIC coming up! :)

@dagmarkratzsch9239 Жыл бұрын

@@unbatteristaacaso No, no! Unfortunately you missunderstood me. That's not a "game" between me and Simon. I love Simon's videos and I see them nearly every evening. I was very astonished about Gliperal's long comment.

@philipmorse6997 Жыл бұрын

Read the rules -> stare the the blank grid for 5 minutes with an equally blank mind -> close the puzzle and sit back and enjoy the video

@thandolwethu3430 Жыл бұрын

😂why? Do I relate to this, so much

@snilefisk Жыл бұрын

Me: Let’s get cracking Me 5 minutes later: Ok, let’s stop cracking now

@justincrane8825 Жыл бұрын

I think I could have stared at this grid for a year without finding the way in.

@VashVicious2 Жыл бұрын

It's a 50/50 chance for me

@RolandWolf Жыл бұрын

Gliperal is what happens when Galadriel accepts the one ring from Frodo. I do love and despair.

@phueal Жыл бұрын

This comment deserves more likes! Especially playing on the LoTR theme that Simon was caught up in.

@justincrane8825 Жыл бұрын

Simon strikes me as someone who’s never looked at a cloud and only seen a cloud, and I envy that even more than his most impressive logical feats.

@HunterJE Жыл бұрын

Something worth noting - now that we can enter letter marks in the solving software that can be super useful for Pentominous and related puzzles, if you have a partial region you know the shape of but not its exact position (e.g. the "I" in row 1) you can put the matching pentomino letter in one of the cells of that partial region to help keep track...

@balkthor Жыл бұрын

Puzzles like this were made for grabbing a nice glass of bourbon, propping your feet up, and enjoying a genius' brain at work.

@longwaytotipperary Жыл бұрын

Totally agree - however I Prefer wine 😁 (and today - chocolate chip cookies)

@listey Жыл бұрын

That is a dangerous idea for me to be reading at 9.30am hahah

@olivier2553 Жыл бұрын

As I watch Simon first thing in the morning, a cuppa for me :)

@balkthor Жыл бұрын

Guys, who’s to say that it’s not the AM for me as well?

@olivier2553 Жыл бұрын

@@balkthor Ooch! I hope not 7 am.

@livedandletdie Жыл бұрын

I didn't expect Gliperal to be the name, wow, here I was thinking something akin to Phistomefel or Shye, perhaps SudokuExplorer or RockyRoer, I'd even go so far as to say Undar Beyond. Now I'll see if it truly is the most terrifying name in the Puzzle world. Edit: I'm already taken back by the ludicrous simplicity and the lack of clues. So it does feel a bit mortifying currently. Edit2: I gave up after 30 minutes, my head hurts...

@dylanlenn7836 Жыл бұрын

I miss Undar Beyond puzzles

@balkthor Жыл бұрын

Gliperal is an absolute mad scientist, it was actually the first name I thought of when I saw it wasn't Phistomefel since there was no devil. Right up there with TallCat for me. Remember Gliperal's name. It should strike fear in your heart any time it appears.

@phueal Жыл бұрын

Gliperal created this one, kzfaq.info/get/bejne/pLCdepeAuZ2Wkac.html, which I think is the hardest puzzle I've ever seen on the channel. As he put it in the comments of that video: "No testers could solve it, I had to create a solution guide to even get it validated, and at the time of this video going live it still has only 3 solves on LMD." [LMD = Logic Masters Germany] Also a video which the channel called "The Hardest Sudoku Of All", which has a 2h18m runtime, although it doesn't stand out in my head quite as strongly as the rosette one.

@balkthor Жыл бұрын

@@phueal Oh man, I remember this one vividly! Good lord that was an insane solve.

@CaptianKatsura Жыл бұрын

Fun drinking game for this video: Take a shot every time Simon refers to a Y-Pentamino as an N-Pentamino.

@MLWJ1993 Жыл бұрын

That one had me confused for a while 😅

@srwapo Жыл бұрын

1 hour 20 minutes and not a single digit in the grid!

@peterkelley6344 Жыл бұрын

LOL ROFH

@danielrehfeldt Жыл бұрын

I love the whole Lord of the Rings arc you went on this episode

@peterkelley6344 Жыл бұрын

... And the first two rows respresents the furthest Bilbo had traveled from the Shire.

@mute1085 Жыл бұрын

This was quite beautiful and novel, I enjoyed it, thanks! I was lucky enough to figure out the logic with the first two rows pretty quickly, which allowed me to solve this in half of Simon's time. Just sitting there and trying to fit pentominoes in various ways for a couple of minutes till it clicked helped, even though it could be probably considered a sort of bifurcating I guess. But when dealing with maths problems, it often helps to try things out randomly to better understand what's going on before going back to formulating a formal proof.

@vidiot5533 Жыл бұрын

The relief of Simon penning in the border between the gray T and purple L was VERY palpable.

@57thorns Жыл бұрын

At 1:15:00 "It can do neither of those" and so it does both :-) Just love that gem.

@ericpraline1302 Жыл бұрын

Watching Simon's lucid and incisive solve of this made me regret giving up as he makes me think I could have solved it after all. There is no limit to the power of self-delusion.

@HunterJE Жыл бұрын

21:49 Could also add a cell each in the row to yellow and purple, since the green cannot be an "I" pentomino either...

@bobh6728 Жыл бұрын

Simon had to figure it out the “Simon” way. Yours is way too easy!! Took him about 28 minutes to do it his way.

@IlliniRocket Жыл бұрын

Finished in exactly 1 hour. Pentomino puzzles are always fun. I'd love to see more of these. I knew the P at the top had to be paired with an N because it could only be disambiguated with a Y in column 6, but I channeled my inner Simon and waited until I found the logic to prove that Y pentomino. I also really liked the end, where the 'odd' clue resolved the final three pentominoes.

@S_Black Жыл бұрын

I thought it's Phistomephel

@CrackingTheCryptic Жыл бұрын

I am scared of his puzzles too. But I normally feel like I might eventually be able to solve a Phistomefel puzzle if I stare at it long enough. Most of our testers do not feel this about Gliperal puzzles :)

@Kilianna Жыл бұрын

Me too!

@HunterJE Жыл бұрын

Phistomefel is one of those solvers who *can* set puzzles among the hardest, but also puts puzzles at various other points on the "medium-hard to very-hard" continuum, Gliperal is just consistently terrifying...

@joostvanrens Жыл бұрын

I'm pretty sure it's Scooby Doo

@MattiasDooreman Жыл бұрын

For anyone wondering (because I had to look it up): 29:43 to feel 'au fait' about it = being familiar, well-acquainted, with something.

@TheNikoado Жыл бұрын

What's more terrifying than Gliperal? A puzzle created by Gliperal and Phistomofel working together!

@fakjbf3129 Жыл бұрын

I love that Simon made an offhanded Lord of the Rings joke during the intro and then just ran with it for the entire video.

@feliomichaels Жыл бұрын

In viewing this video, I've come to the realization I really find the term "setter", for these luminaries of pen puzzle and sudoku creation, to be deeply insufficient. In watching puzzles from Gliperal, Shye, Phistomefel or others, I much prefer borrowing the term used by chess competitions, "composer". Just like a musical composer, each creator has their own unique notes and throughlines that make their puzzles connected and 'familiar'. Gliperal's signature 'the grid inexorably allows you only one way forward, should you find it and comprehend its whispers' is ultimately sort of a different signature from Phistomefel's 'have you therefore grasped the full implications of this ruleset, and if not, are you willing to take my hand on a magical journey of comprehension?', much like a piece from Beethoven is unmistakably different from one from Tchaikovsky.

@tremkl Жыл бұрын

Good to know Gliperal’s many blue eyes are mostly symmetrically placed.

@mycroft64089 Жыл бұрын

I'm a bit too into the metaphor: At 55:30 Simon says "people of substandard intentions" and my mind filled in "filthy hobbitses"

@inspiringsand123 Жыл бұрын

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@flobiish Жыл бұрын

Rules: 6:03

@nonachyourbusiness1164 Жыл бұрын

@@flobiish Humans are still needed! AI isn't quite self-sufficient yet

@flobiish Жыл бұрын

@@nonachyourbusiness1164 I doubt that’s an AI. If I were to guess, it’s probably running a Regular Expression search through the Closed Captions.

@nonachyourbusiness1164 Жыл бұрын

@@flobiish To be a dull pedant, natural language processing AI creates the closed captioning anyway

@ethiopiop7638 Жыл бұрын

good bot

@peaches760a Жыл бұрын

@ 1:14:00 - Green needed to take 2 of 3 cells there. I think an easier approach was to consider if r10c3 WASN'T Green.... That would have more directly forced green into the L shape touching the grey L. So r10c3 has to be green. You can work around clockwise getting up each pentomino to 5 cells: Purple needs to take r10c1 and r7c2. The column 1 and 3 Blue "I"s need to take r5c1 and r5c3. Grey then needs to take r4c3. Looking at r7c4, it can't be Green since it'd make an L touching the purple L, so r7c4 is yellow. Green needs to take r10c5, leaving r5c5 for the last I.

@deadeaded Жыл бұрын

I figured it was either going to be Gliperal or TotallyNormalCat.

@linneavikstrom346 Жыл бұрын

This was such a treat to follow along! Thank you Simon and Gliperal. If anyone has any tips for pentomino puzzles with GAS-standard, please send them along. I'd love to be able to finish one myself!

@Frantasia Жыл бұрын

„The ‚I‘ of Gliperal“ might be my new favorite simarkism

@ivan_osorio Жыл бұрын

The logic for this one really went way over my head with how you reasoned out the groups and how cells could be "given" or "taken". I wonder if it's possible to have alternate solutions or if this is absolutely the only possible way to satisfy the rules. Interesting puzzle.

@RichSmith77 Жыл бұрын

Simon had a logical reason for every time he filled in a cell with a single colour. It could never be a different pentomino. So it's a unique solution. (Also, it's the same solution I reached, although I got there by a slightly less elegant route.)

@Jesthers Жыл бұрын

Had to watch to 35:38 to solve, pretty much just for the direction of where to look next. A lovely puzzle, I do adore these whenever they pop-up. The double 7 clues pairing with the double 5 clues resolving pretty much the entire right-side of the box was super lovely to figure out, I highly recommend this one to everyone :D

@shotdoctor5869 Ай бұрын

It never fails to amaze me how Simon can be so bright and catch the most minute detail to crack a puzzle, then stare at something completely obvious for 9 minutes not realizing what to do. It boggles my mind. The orange can’t border with the red. How would green grow? Make it green. 😳

@FleursetRebellion Жыл бұрын

Oh this was fun! I'm still shocked this has only 1 answer while being so simple. But the logic of piecing together the different pentaminoes was so fun to use. Excited to see the "big brother" version Gliperal mentioned!

@sjoerdglaser2794 Жыл бұрын

For the colorblind, could you maybe avoid using both orange and green? Especially when they occupy the same cell, it's impossible for me to see. (Unfortunately, colorblindness comes in many forms. It's almost impossible to avoid them all.)

@victoriam6569 Жыл бұрын

After reading the description I was afraid I won't be able to solve it. But I did give it a try. I felt I didn't even know how to start but I've got an idea pretty soon. And the puzzle turned out not to be that monstrous. But it was very fun! I did it in less than 1.5 hours and I'm very glad that I tried, and enjoyed it. Thank you so much!

@Mephistahpheles Жыл бұрын

@1:16 NEW SONG! "I see I's of blue and P's of green and I think to myself, 'What a wonderful worrrrrrld'" Heh. "Fairly linear" Working on the top two rows, could've placed 2 more greens 1 yellow 1 purple....but Simon got distracted by boundary totals at the top, then went off on a completely different tangent.

@edhunterofmaidengrad Жыл бұрын

I really gave this a try. I got about as far as Simon did at the 30:00 mark, then stared at the grid for another 60 minutes trying to find the next step. Really tough logic.

@crazypantaloons Жыл бұрын

I managed to reach the "mod 5" epiphany pretty fast in this puzzle. Might be the number theorist in me, but the bottom left corner fell apart as soon as I started sticking stuff in. I was able to see the Roman Numeral 2 and the pentominos that went into it long before the bottom right sorted them out. 40 minutes in total. Cool puzzle!

@anjaschneider5904 Жыл бұрын

More terrifying than Phistomephel? Wow. I won't even attempt it :D

@peterkelley6344 Жыл бұрын

Remember just how terrified used to get with Phistomephel puzzles. Now he admires them!

@miscbits Жыл бұрын

If the pigeon hole principal was a puzzle it would look like this

@adamheywood113 Жыл бұрын

Gliperal is the Sauron of Sudoku lmao

@3838666mm Жыл бұрын

I thought I'm meant to crack the puzzle not my brain in half.

@frederf3227 Жыл бұрын

Poor Giliperal. No one knows what's it's like to be the bad man behing blue i's.

@gmalivuk Жыл бұрын

I did get frustrated with the several minutes of thinking around 35 minute about how to allocate the extra cells from column 6. He'd already noted that 40 is divisible by 5, and since 41 and 42 aren't, no red or gray cells can stick out to the left. QED

@loqkLoqkson Жыл бұрын

Watching a solve like this is like watching Only Connect. I know I can't get most of it, but fascinating to watch.

@mceajc Жыл бұрын

Superb solve - so happy to be able to follow along!

@pairwin Жыл бұрын

How many puzzles has Simon not been able to solve and didn’t show up on the channel?

@robbrown5158 Жыл бұрын

He said it's somewhere between 1 out of 10 and 1 out of 5 puzzles he tries, don't get finished

@billleiker5314 Жыл бұрын

Very interesting question, 2nd channel, "uncracked crytics" are you smarter than Simon, I would feel so proud if I could somehow solve one he couldn't. On the other hand, it would pain me greatly to see him fail.

@Coyotek4 Жыл бұрын

I got too much of a backlog to try to solve all the puzzles on this site, so I'm giving up on some, starting with this behemoth. Too tough for me!

@listey Жыл бұрын

Hi Simon, hoping you read this. There have been some "so and sos" (I'm trying to be polite) leaving spoilers on Mark's wordle shorts. Is there any chance you could block them? They're ruining it for the next couple of days which is really irritating for everyone.

@stangerrits6712 Жыл бұрын

1:19:25 Finally he finishes the border of the grey T-pentomino 😅 Very unsimonesque to not draw borders on the perimeter though. Very nice puzzle with quite a straight solve path it seems.

@mahmoudabdelghany7112 Жыл бұрын

This was insane fun. I made a mistake at the beginning that wasted a lot of time. Got through eventually, very brilliant and fun .. thanks

@dontmindme2844 Жыл бұрын

I saw the length of the video and really this wasn't "that" bad. It helped that I seemed to mostly look at the correct clues in the correct order. Spent a bit of time on one side of the grid when I should have looked at the other first, but it didn't hurt that much. Finished in about 75 minutes but with many unpaused breaks. Probably closer to 45 minutes for me.

@MiguelOliveira87 Жыл бұрын

Amazing puzzle! and fantastic solve :)

@BobHoff Жыл бұрын

"Peas are, at the end of the day, green..." 1:16:18

@mstmar Жыл бұрын

there's a simpler piece of logic at 1:13:35. the green in col 4 needs to grow 2 more cells out of a possible 3. if it doesn't take the bottom left, then it would be an L touching the grey L which is broken. so r10c3 is green. this forces everything else in that corner

@KevinAnnLowery Жыл бұрын

Ironic that one of Simon's first comments in the video is Gliperal's Eye on top of a tower. And one of the first deductions is there's an "I" at the top of the puzzle.

@karsaanita Жыл бұрын

Note to self: don’t start one of these right before going to sleep because it will delay my bedtime by two hours 😅

@notsecure6855 Жыл бұрын

The only problem is that Gliperal himself does not have blue eyes.

@Gonzalo_Garcia_ Жыл бұрын

11:45 for me... on the example puzzle lmao. I'll just watch the video today, I stand no chance against the real puzzle.

@CrackingTheCryptic Жыл бұрын

I know you're quick but I was about to protest ;)

@faddy91 Жыл бұрын

Fairly enjoyed that one. I didn't find it too hard although I had quite a lot of brain fog when it came to placing the I in row 3. 5 minutes of thinking I had broken the puzzle until I got the answer and felt a bit stupid.

@SpydersByte Жыл бұрын

7:45 thats an X cuz if you tilted it it would be? lol but it already IS, CURRENTLY a plus so why not name it that? :D

@karstenr9277 Жыл бұрын

I like the way you solve this puzzle, but the best thing is the set of colors... I'm colorblind, so green and orange aswell as purple and blue look absolutly identical. So there are so many 10 or more cell regions 😂 thanks

@aaronkiwifruit Жыл бұрын

Lovely puzzle, first time solving one of CTC's hour+ long videos. Picking up the multiple of 5 trick early really helped power through it. One interesting observation that I tried to avoid relying on, was that the pentomino you made Red in the 3 column, had to be a Y or S (I think that is an S) to solve to top of the puzzle.

@BryanLu0 Жыл бұрын

Yes, Simon does mention this during the solve

@ChrisWCorp Жыл бұрын

What a very strange but very logical puzzle!

@Raven-Creations Жыл бұрын

N is the new Y? @ 44:55 you claim that the third colour (blue) must be in R3, but that's not necessarily true at that point. For instance, red could be a V extending two more cells into R3, orange could be a P, and blue could make an appearance in R4 with a W starting in R4C7. I think you would have been better considering the other two three clues before embarking on the right hand side. You couldn't repeat the trick you did for the 3 clue in R6, because you couldn't make the cells to their narrow sides be mod 5. Therefore, there could be borders between R1 and R2 in C2 & 4. This places the I in R1, and gives an L at the right of R1/2. Had you done this first, it cuts down the options for red/orange/blue. After getting the I in R3, you could have finished off the left half. The 3 clues meant that there was a barrier down those columns, with each containing just two colours. This means there must be an I in each of C1, C3, and C5. This means there can't be an I in C6, so there must be a Y and an L. The 5 clue in the column means that the Y will take two of the remaining three borders, so the foot of the L must be at the top or bottom. Since it can't go at the top, we know the L is at the bottom, and the Y on top. This forces a TL at the top on the left, and LT at the bottom, and a P and N in the top two rows. The 5 clue in C7 means there can only be one colour between the foot of the L and the branch of the Y. This is at least four cells long, but can't be four, because it touches both L and Y, so it's another I. This resolves the position of the Y branch. Now the lower 7 clue is complete, so there's a run of three cells at the end of the row, which encloses a ten cell area, so it can't extend upwards. The rest is simple. Very nice puzzle. I liked the way that reducing a section down to just two colours formed a wall, with the count of the walled-in cells dictating the possibilities. I also liked the way the 2 clue introduced this idea, making the puzzle pretty approachable.

@Rach881101 Жыл бұрын

Just going to watch Simon attempt this cuz I don't stand a chance of completing it by myself!

@_-_-Sipita-_-_ Жыл бұрын

1:14:19 for me with some help my eye got stuck in Row 3

@stevesebzda570 Жыл бұрын

@2:12 (Simon talking about the Masters Tournament -- in Augusta Georgia -- leading into who possibly won..] Simon, you forgot to say *SPOILER* there. That's *okay* , I'll forget. [ I forgot already lol ] 😲😆😂😎☕️☕️

@stevesebzda570 Жыл бұрын

The "Eyes of Glyperal" are upon you. [At least four - you can't turn anywhere] Lol. 😲😂😎☕️☕️

@jonathangorman1873 Жыл бұрын

Hello, my name is Jonathan and I'm very clearly a person of substandard intelligence because I wouldn't have had a clue how to approach that puzzle. Nevertheless, despite my own limitations, I can still take a lot of enjoyment from watching a genius at work. :)

@andrewnoble9969 Жыл бұрын

That's "P" in the corner!!!😅

@widgetb Жыл бұрын

37:25 dying

@sirmiro2 Жыл бұрын

Now when I've played in your app with some puzzles I've realized a big flaw. The battery percentage isn't visible. Just had the phone at 3% when someone wrote and interrupted me, so I saw that my phone were dying. It had 45% when I started. But a white background in over an hour drains a lot...

@Barbarinhass Жыл бұрын

You can put it in dark mode in settings -> experimental

@weserfeld4417 7 ай бұрын

Took me almost 3 days to complete. I want to try the big brother now

@weserfeld4417 7 ай бұрын

Border Sum Pentominoes. Very satisfied to solve xD

@blabla-rg7ky Жыл бұрын

well, this was a surprisingly cool puzzle...

@GreenMeansGOF Жыл бұрын

Why can’t pentominoes in row 2 use squares in row 3?

@MencrakP Жыл бұрын

There are 2 pink shapes that are the same, and both are in both borners on the botton

@RichSmith77 Жыл бұрын

There are four blue shapes that are the same.

@sayedguessima428 Жыл бұрын

What is wrong showing videos on failed atempts solving a puzzle? I would definatly watch these, analyze and maybe find the point where things went wrong. Also it would show that you are a mortal as we all who just watch. Showing a video on a failed attempt would even raise my respect and not lowering it as i can see you feel so selfconfident knowing that showing a failure will not make you look like a fool. Dont be afraid of that. Not at all.

@aamocryp Жыл бұрын

They do show some "fails" as in mistypings and times when they'd made a false assumption at some point in the puzzle, or just missed a possibility, but these are still cases where tracking back to where you've been can aid in seeing where you went wrong and give a satisfactory end. Solves where they fail to complete are probably the kind that never really get rolling at all, and a complete halting just doesn't really give anyone anything, other than the people who want to then go in the comments to tell what should've been done, which just doesn't amount to really being kind.

@debrawilden1971 Жыл бұрын

(Did anyone comment that it would be nice to have the same shapes be the same color?)

@myfyrmadocjones Жыл бұрын

It’s the P word isn’t it? EDIT: well it has a P in it anyway! 😂😂😂

@columbus8myhw Жыл бұрын

For pentomino!

@Kascep Жыл бұрын

Could you chose colors that do not affect color blindness so strongly, like the darkgreen and orange or the purple and blue? Also great vid!!

@lainiashcraft9483 Жыл бұрын

AWESOME!!

@stevesebzda570 Жыл бұрын

[Oh, crap. I turned my device off trying to lower the volume -- don't need no smacking of lips and swallowing sounds- crap though] Carry on lol 😲😂

@logiciananimal Жыл бұрын

Anyone ever play Oxyd games? I always hated the pentominoes levels ; I dare say this isn't as bad, since that's all it is.

@darreljones8645 Жыл бұрын

Spolier alert: in the final solution, five of the twelve pentominoes (U, W, X, Z, and F) do not appear.

@michaelbartmann7957 Жыл бұрын

Who could it be?

@joeynessily Жыл бұрын

What was the reason row 2 can’t get any of its 5 extra squares from row 3 .. as well as row 1? There are no constraints on row 3…

@joeynessily Жыл бұрын

Oh I see the explanation at 19:00 now. Answer my own question. 😊

@travisporco Жыл бұрын

what a great puzzle

@LednacekZ Жыл бұрын

i hate pentomino puzzles. i cant solve them no matter how i try.

@six_5000 Жыл бұрын

Woo!

@HerpilyDerp86 Жыл бұрын

Lets gooooo

@_-_-Sipita-_-_ Жыл бұрын

hi ctc can you do a small shoutout to my bday please? its tomorrow april 12th

@longwaytotipperary Жыл бұрын

Happy birthday tomorrow! You might get better results if you send them an email. Email address in the description.