Putting a Supposed Expert under Pressure
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Normal sudoku rules apply. Numbers inside a BLUE low pressure gauge indicate how many digits STRICTLY GREATER than that number appear in the up to 8 cells surrounding the gauge. Numbers inside a RED high pressure gauge indicate how many digits STRICTLY SMALLER than that number appear in the up to 8 cells surrounding the gauge.
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▶ Contents ◀
0:00 Theme Music & News around the channel
3:17 Rules of today’s puzzle
4:50 Start Of Solve - Let's Get Cracking! - Zábava
Thank you so much for the kind wishes and the lovely feature! We were so relieved when you spotted the 6 at r6c4! The easier way to see it without your spectacularly impressive chain, was that r6c4 sees all of 2345. Your reasoning was spot on for ruling out 1789, leaving only 6 as a possibility. You spotted all of the other key logical steps brilliantly and we are super impressed that you were able to find that 6 without spotting the sudoku eliminations that we intended. Tremendous job with a head-wrecking rule set!
Happy Birthday!!
@@emilywilliams3237 thank you!
This was a mindbender. I can't remember the last time I made so many mistakes in a puzzle. Not a ruleset for my brain! Well done Mark.
Me checking my computer for an email @32:45. 🤣
Unusual ruleset that felt a lot like a negative constraint. Kept getting a bit confused by what the colors actually meant and had to take the opening slow to avoid making a mistake. Finished in 42:12.
The thing that impresses me about watching CTC videos is how few fatal mistakes Mark and Simon make. Once I got the hang of how this puzzle worked, I tried solving it, and I think I was probably on try 20 before I got through it without messing something up. I just kept noting a few digits I was sure of, and starting over with more and more of a head start.
OH that is one of the great songs of the 80s. Freddie and David, David and Annie at the memorial concert.
50:39 - actually quite approachable, although I kept confusing myself with the rules and having to re-check.
Finished in 28:24. Not sure why, but I found this puzzle rather easy. Probably because it was rather easy to spot the break-in and everything flowed pretty well from the limitations of the new ruleset which I love btw.
Interesting ruleset and fun puzzle!
Happy birthday Missing a Few Cards!!
18:13 for me. Very nice puzzle!!
My heart sank when you said you didn't want to look at the circles in row 6, because that's where my break in was. I honestly didn't think it was possible to make progress without r6c4. Bit of a mindbending ruleset, but became a lot easier when it clicked that you could never put a 1 or a 9 in any circle, and that the circles in the centre were way more constraining than they looked at first glance! Amazing puzzle.
The video length plus the unusual ruleset made this a definite "watch Mark first" video. I think that this kind of puzzle is challenging because, perhaps since it is a new ruleset, one does not have automatic reactions to the colored circles. It was colored "correctly" from the standpoint of a digit in a blue circle being relatively low, and one in a red circle being relatively high, but nonetheless since it was "relatively" rather than absolutely, it did make one stop and think every time. I am always amazed at watching you solve these more complicated puzzles, Mark, because you simply see so much more than I do. You know where to look and how to approach things. I take hope, though, because it used to be that I had to think carefully through the difference between thermos and arrows (and woe betide when there were both in the same puzzle!) and now it is automatic for me. So I think I'll get there. Meanwhile, thank you for demonstrating the meticulous attention necessary to understanding how the puzzle works.
The thing about this rule set was .... (a) every time i met a red circle, I said I could put 8 and move on bcos how difficult is it to keep 9 off from surrounding cells; (b) everytime i eliminated a small digit in the red cell, and moved to a next higher digit, suddenly there were degrees of freedom that just didnt exist before because of relative nature... It was so annoying to proceed...Just a real struggle to make one deduction at a time!
Got into this around 29 minutes and realized I was making some horrible deductions in a few places, so restarted and completed in 22:10, so let's say ~51 minutes for my solve. Very interesting constraint, but I horked it badly. 😞 Regardless, wonderful puzzle from FullDeck and Missing a Few Cards, many props to them!
00:27:48 my time. Rarely beat Mark or Simon time by that degree, but looks like fortress-like rules are weakness of Mark :)
Enjoyed this puzzle a lot. Consistent flow. Smooth unravel at the end. Thank you!
I can't believe that I was able to do this puzzle! Really unbelivable!!! 🎉🎉🎉 Maybe I learn one thing or two with Mark and Simon...
Thanks for the great solve, as always Mark 🤗
61:18 for me! That's pretty good considering I'm not great at sudokus.
I got hellishly stuck on this because I'd colored in some of the the circle squares then couldn't see one of the circles due to my coloring.
Fun puzzle. Took a while but not too difficult. I pencil marked all the circles then eliminated as I went. It seemed to flow quite well.
Took me 55 minutes in total over a few hours. Very interesting rule set where it is not always obvious if you should consider the rules as written, or look to fill up to 8 by thinking the other way around. (A red 6 has two digits six or higher around it.)
And the red 2s really messes with your perception.
Brilliant puzzle.
This was the most fun variant sudoku ive done yet.
41 minutes flat with really nice flow.
39:20
Break-in was nice and easy but I got quite bogged down through the middle rows. Clever idea.
First, no dot can contain a 1. For red dots it means there must be a cell lower than 1, and for blue dots, it means all except one are
This could have been a half hour video, if only he'd taken a moment to look at r6c4 when he started spinning his wheels. I was impressed he completed the puzzle in around 10 minutes after he finally looked at it.
Done in 33:05. I'm always torn when I beat Mark's time significantly (rare as it is.) On the one hand it's an accomplishment to be sure, but on the other it means there will surely be much yelling at the screen later as he must have missed something big--I'd never best him otherwise. 😅
56:52 for me
You got bamboozled on the "inversion" of the colors
Mark, c4r6 was a naked single after 2, 7, 8, and 9 are removed from list of candidates. Those digits could be removed because that cell was a blue circle.
This is what I noticed when I solved. I actually just pencil-marked it fully, which was 26789 at the time. And that very quickly narrowed it down to the 6 and solved most of the top three rows.
What amazed me was how little time was left to play in the video before he got around to looking at that blue circle. I feel like I still had 45 minutes to go after getting that 6. Mark - ten minutes, and it was done! 😂 If only he'd looked at it half an hour earlier.
51:49 for me. messed up the ending a bit. lost at least 5 minutes. very interesting set of rules.
the thing i saw that you never grasped was r4c3. despite your best efforts of saying it was less than 7 you never actually removed 7 as a pencil mark. the real beauty was to just ask what happened if it was 6. since it had to be lower than r4c3, it creates a chain of making r3c4 a 7, r3c2 an 8, and r3c3 a 9 (by sudoku) and that breaks the 8 clue you just filled in r3c2.
At 24:35 the blue circle in box five was a naked single.
The thing that was missed early, and I shouted at the screen about: if the red dot was a 4, and the blue dot was a 3, both of these would require a 3 a diagonal away in box 1 or 3, which is a contradiction. It wasn’t “there must be a three in one of them” but “there can’t be a 3 in both of them.”
I like hearing Mark & Simon sing the “that’s 3 in the corner” song! 😊
I hate it, especially now that every setter seems determined to put a 3 in the corner! I stop watching as soon as I can see there's a 3 in a corner so I don't have to listen to it. It's even worse when they spend half of the video discussing whether they will be able to get a 3 in a corner instead of actually solving the puzzle.
@d4v33dd0 Luckily, Mark is doing it way less than before
It's become so cringe now @@d4v33dd0
Why does it say "strictly greater"? Isn't that the same as just "greater"?
53:45 I loved the opening and after three boxes I thought it was going to be pretty easy. However, I got bogged down in disambiguating the rest. I think I missed something because I didn't have that "ah ha" moment again. Wonderful puzzle though.
1:23:05 - I rather enjoyed that - test another rule set to have to get my head around! 😮
The blue circles are more constrained than you realized. The ones in the center of the grid can only be 3,4,5 or 6. This makes the solve much simpler.
The earliest I have ever been to a video