The Miracle Sudoku 2
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- čas přidán 26. 07. 2020
- This is one of the most exceptionally brilliant puzzles we've ever seen. You can try Ri Sa's incredible Thermocouples sudoku here:
cracking-the-cryptic.web.app/...
Rules for Thermocouples:
Normal sudoku rules apply. Cells separated by a knight's move (in chess) may not contain the same digit. Digits increase along thermometers, starting at the bulb end.
The puzzle was published first on our discord server (link below) and then on Logic Masters Germany here:
logic-masters.de/Raetselporta...
The logic makes sense when he says it, but I NEVER would have been able to come up with the logic alone
you will, the question is how long it would take
@@whythosenames true
like sherlock holmes
Keep practicing and watching :)
Exactly
Him: "I'm so tempted to look at sixes now."
Me: "Do it you absolute mad man!"
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
Why am I watching a man solve a sudoku puzzle in 45 minutes while I’m in my bed at 3:00 am
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?
Simon's ability to ignore the obvious gimme, and wander off to the opposite side of the grid for ten minutes is nothing short of breathtaking. Sometimes I think he's trolling us.
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.
I am SO excited I actually managed to solve this one, took 2 hours but I needed someone to know
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?
Lol poor Simon will forever think he’s being pranked
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?
“Therefore those three squares all have to be 1”
Ok, that was seriously impressive.
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
Nobody make a better sudoku than this one or Simon is going to have an emotional breakdown.
Trying to imagine how that therapy session would go.
"It was just.... so BEAUTIFUL..."
A sudoku with half a number pre-filled
Drinking game: take a shot every time he compliments the puzzle. You'll be dead by the 10 minute mark.
by the 10 minute mark he has still yet to put a single number down.
I call this one Stickman Kamasutra.
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...
I just find it so inspiring that a grown man can find so much joy in a sudoku puzzle that he almost cries at how elegant it is
You know, I was never into sudoku. I just couldnt figure out the thought process behind it. I watched the previous video of yours on Miracle Sudoku, and the way you expressed your thought process just clicked with me. I managed to solve my first sudoku without help. And the next one, and the next one. Its so much fun! So I made a little challenge for myself. Solve one or more sudoku puzzles each day for a year. Lets see how it goes! Thank you!
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.
36:40 cue me screaming "YES YOU CAN" because of the 3 in box 6 🤯
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
This video is the exact reason of why I love this channel.
Truly has everything I love about it :')
I enjoyed all 42 minutes of watching Simon solve this puzzle. It was the answer to everything.
I see what you did there.
Miracle Thermo Knight Sudoku sounds like a mecha anime series from 1986.
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
Is there any way we could get one of these master setters on the channel to go through how they setup these masterpieces?
They had a video on their Patreon from one of the setters. Check it out.
Join the discord server.
Okay CTC community, the goal is to now get Simon to cry on camera by making him solve a beautiful puzzle
>Everyone goes over to the merch page to buy a T-shirt of Simon crying at the beauty of the thermometer construction
When I figured out the two thermometers saw every cell in each other I was so proud...it took me an hour
I thought he was going to solve a blank puzzle with some crazy ruleset, lol!
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.
God that was vicious. Took me literally an hour and a half, 1:29:57, but I DID it. No hints. It fought me every step of the way.
My time was similar. About 30 minutes to notice the key, but like you said it kept fighting. Very cool puzzle.
I've only watched 2 of these videos but both times he believes he's getting trolled at the start, only to be blown away
Saw the title. Saw the time. No thanks I’ll just watch this one
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
Did I ever think I would be getting emotional watching a man getting emotional playing Sudoku? I did not.
We have witnessed pure beauty in the form of Sudoku and it has left a mark on our souls.
If sudoku was an art exhibit, this puzzle is the sisine chapel. Its stunning how it could have been constructed. And once again Simon shows us why cracking the cryptic is a worldwide phenomenon with another fantastic solve. I am merely a sheep and Simon is the Shepherd. I shall go where he directs me!!!
That was one of the coolest opens I've ever seen.
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 :)
Whenever I do sudoku puzzles now, I hear your voice in my head as I work it out!
I'm a real big fan of knights move and thermo sudokus, and I'm really glad to see you covering these types of puzzles! The logic on this one is genius as well and took me an hour and 3 minutes to solve.
when i first learned the classic sudoku rules when i was young, i never could have imagined sudoku to be this mind blowing and exciting, with all these different rules and patters to give it the best of twists
i somehow stumbled upon this channel and watching simon solve these difficult sudokus with joy is the best part!! im a noob but i definitely enjoy big brained moments like these, maybe ill learn a bit and solve one of these puzzles myself in the future
The way he says "5 lives at the bottom of the region" sounds like Bob Ross to me-
just watched a man do a sudoku puzzle for 42 minutes and i have never been so happy to see a video randomly in my rrecommended section
love how the properties of knights translates so well into sodoku
@11:00 As soon as Simon found the relationship being the second pair of Themros in the top-right, my brain jumped ahead as he was explaining to recognize that the 7 digits within are also set 2-8 because the bottom Thermos' 1s below see both bulbs by column, and the 9s at the ends see both ends by the same box.
Oh yes, this is going to be quite the clever puzzle to watch unfold!
I love when you get so excited that you miss small things. Like the 3 which resolves the 23 pair that you say you can't resolve
It took 6 hours 43 minutes!
Having solved the first Miracle Sudoku in around 1.5 hour, I suspected (because this video is longer) this one is going to be harder,
but I didn't think it would be that much harder.
It was later miraculous to see how elegantly and steadily he solves the puzzle, instead of long pauses I've had.
His experience certainly shows.
It was my second sudoku in a long time (after the first Miracle Sudoku).
This puzzle is just perfect. There is no other way of describing it.
One of those where you just have to applaud both setter and solver.
I was so happy to be able to solve this puzzle! 1h23min is honestly not a bad time for a puzzle this difficult.
I thought at first that the numbers were supposed to increase sequentially, and for the longest time I was wondering why he didn't start by putting an 8 before the 9 on the board. Great video!
I've been doing every single puzzle showcased on the channel for a few months now and I think this is the best I have done so far. God knows I've loved many of them, but this one is such a masterpiece. It's incredible. Hats off to its creator, as well as CTC for introducing it.
The thought process at 29:45 with the 3 cells that have to be the same was incredible
Simon’s joy and wonder elevate this to an all-time classic! Thank you a million times for this.
This video needs more views. I'm commenting to help the algorithm. C'mon CZcams, show the people Simon crying at such a beautiful puzzle! I loved it
Before: I heard many people saying this is one of the greatest puzzles, it might be an overstatement.
After: This is one of the greatest puzzles, I’m telling you!
For a moment, I thought it was an actual prank, because the word "risa" (Ri Sa) means laugh in Spanish hahaha
"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 just missed this video as I started watching near the beginning of August. What an amazing puzzle! And Simon's raw emotion when confronted with the break-in is infectious.
Beautiful puzzle Ri Sa, well done. 😎 Thank you for featuring this Mark and Simon 🙏
Every bit of praise this puzzle receives is completely justified. What a stunning puzzle and a joy watching you solve it
33:33 I can’t blame him given the mind melting nature of this puzzle, but he sure overlooks a lot of knight’s moves in here.
Like not realizing that the 5 in r2,c3 forces the five in box 4 to be in r6,c4
This channel is the single reason why I now like puzzles
I keep getting impressed by the level of ingenuity you guys cover in these puzzle videos. Keep the great work going!
Oh my god, this is puzzle of 2020 year! What a brilliant puzzle! Took me an hour of pure logic, with so minimal material.. Real miracle!
10:26
Now I watch how Simon did and I had the same reaction as his at that moment :D
Ahh, this one. I solved this puzzle when it was first released in the Discord server! Absolutely brilliant break-in! :)
An absolutely remarkable puzzle. I love watching Simon for hints to get me ahead of where I got stuck
i adore how the thermometer of the only given didget is the last to be resolved
the top thermometer was so blown away by the logic at 30:20 that its bulb fell off! 😂
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.
There’s a hidden rule in every miracle sudoku. In this one each number has to be next to a set number. So 6 always has to be next to 1, 7 next to 5, 3 to 2, etc.
This was really entertaining to watch. I love hearing your thought process while solving these.
I've been watching nearly every day since the original Miracle Sudoku, and I have to say this is my favorite puzzle yet.
First time I've ever given one of these a like before even seeing the whole video (12 minutes in). Utterly sublime construction!
I love this guy, hes always so happy and innocent, im so glad he doesnt have any toxic people watching him and saying mean shit in the comments
"Mean shit!"
EDIT: That sounded funnier when I typed it. I think I should go to bed now.
I always love how the tone of your voice changes when you find the entry point to these amazingly beautiful and extremely difficult (at least for me) puzzles. It's so much fun to watch. Please keep your joy and share it with us for the next decades.
When he said "That idea is sumblime, it makes me want to cry" XD. Quite possibly the greatest arrangement of words I have ever heard.
I don’t even play Sudoku why did I watch this entire video with enthusiasm.
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
2:40 "The testers are using some incredible adjectives about it"
Four letter adjectives I reckon.`
So glad Mark and the team got you to do this one. I did it last week on LMG and was mind-boggled by the logic.
Didn’t even realize this video was 42 minutes long until I finished it and read in the comments that this video was 42 minutes long. A very enjoyable watch that makes you lose track of time.
The 235 in Box 5 was driving me insaaanneee, because it could never have been a 35: it is seen by both 35s in the nearest thermometers!
Then again, I solved everything then missed for several minutes a 24 pair disambiguated by a thermometer, so who am I to fault Simon xD
This puzzle is more of a miracle than Mitchell Lee's miracle sudoku.
This is so interesting to watch after binging a lot of the current Videos. Simon really did learn incredibly much about special/miracle Sudokus since this Video.
That was amazing, straight into the favourites list! Crazy logic!
Absolutely beautiful construction. Seriously impressive stuff there. Wonderful puzzle, wonderful video, thanks for showcasing it. Far more impressive than the original miracle, to my mind, in that it's... Just thermo knight. Nothing fancy in that ruleset - it's thermo knight constructed in a way to imply three extra regions (one size 6, one size 7, one size 9), but rules wise it's just thermo knight.
How can watching a sudoku be so emotional oh goddd🖤🖤
I'm glad I found this gem in the youtube rabbit hole. Once he explained the logic up to min 20 I could solve it on my own. Maybe not much of an achievement compared to others, but I'm proud nontheless. Brilliant Sudoku and I'm hooked :D
Gorgeous puzzle! I love how ever since you guys pranked each other there is a mistrust between you two and you need outsider confirmation about the level of puzzles. Regardless of the difficulty, I love the friendship here.
Simon is so skeptical now of every puzzle haha
And Mark is anxiously waiting for Simon’s revenge.
MFW Simon figures out the opening that I spent ages staring at: O:
MFW Simon misses placing the 5 in c4r6 for 12 minutes: ):<
This channel makes petty bastards of us 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 :\
This puzzle went straight into my favorites.
This one took me an hour and a half to solve but it was a hell of a puzzle. Well worth the time spent, and even more fun to watch Simon's reactions to it.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but at 23:05, a 5 could've been placed in the middle region because a 5 in R4C4 would rule out both options he has highlighted there. So the 5 goes in R6C4.
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 ;)
Ironic... the last cell to be filled was the only cell on the thermometer in which the only starting digit was placed.
Plus, this thermometer wasn't heplful at all.
You can absolutely hear the emotion in Simon's voice once he finds the second thermometer set. Brilliant logic, here.
I can't say this enough. Greatest find in 2020, on CZcams. Amazing puzzle and solution, as always. Great work.
Those new regions should be called “pseudo-regions”/“SuDo-regions”
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)
The longest 38 minutes of my life xD both enjoyment and suffering in an impossible balance. The sole fact that I managed this one amazes me beyond any expectation.
It took me two hours to finish this one, and I regret absolutely nothing. This puzzle's construction and its logic was, indeed, absolutely sublime. I'm at a loss for words. Thanks as always, Simon!
I haven’t watched much, but I really like the feel to these videos. You seem like you just love sudoku and you just happen to have a CZcams channel for it. You seem genuinely happy doing these
14:26 - I thought the video stopped XD
What they hell does "You're having a Jessie" mean? Even Google's confused. XD
Awesome video by the way!
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).
There certainly is something majestic about this puzzle. I'm glad I didn't have a go (I have to go to bed at some point this evening) but it was pure joy watching it get solved, and just in time to watch the second puzzle of the day!
My good sir, you are the Sherlock to my Watson. It makes perfect sense when you grab my hand and lead me through the puzzle but never in a million years will I have been able to solve it on my own. This is the most entertaining channel on CZcams and you guys are certainly my favorite :)
"Oh you're having a jessy" haha
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!
My gosh, I can't even get started, still trying though
4 months have passed....how is that start doing...
just discovered this channel and I'm addicted lol. I never thought this would be so entertaining but it just is
never thought id be so entertained by a man playing sudoku for 45 minutes straight
The obvious way would to start would be putting 8 at the bulb below 9. Why didn't he do that?
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
What’s the significance of the thermometre placements? Chinese characters? Since the thermometre with the 9 is only there for looks
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.
The magic of the 1s is amazing. Nice job, Ri!
I now know there is a reason why Simon is alone in a room with this Sudoku puzzle. Mad respect for you, Simon! Your superior Sudoku skills are astounding!