Not Just a Little Killer!
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- Here's where you can play X-Sums Little Killer by Akash Doulani: app.crackingthecryptic.com/bQ...
Normal sudoku rules apply. A clue outside the grid has TWO functions: X-Sums, which sum the first X digits from the clue in its row/column, where X is the first digit seen; and Little Killer, where the clue gives the sum of the indicated diagonal.
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▶ Contents ◀
0:00 Theme Music & News around the channel
1:48 Rules of today’s puzzle
3:10 Start Of Solve - Let's Get Cracking! - Zábava
Thanks for the feature Mark. It always feels great to feature on CTC. As usual, the video was really very nice, with some really nice explanations. This was one of my personal favourites as a setter. I wanted to use minimum clues and yet not make it very difficult. The end result was really satisfying.
I can see this was carefully designed. You reached your goals perfectly. Thank you for this perfectly balanced artwork.
@@Paolo_De_Leva Thank you.
This was an impressive solve from Mark. Very little wasted time and effortlessly advancing through the most difficult parts, seeing all the key logic right away.
Couldn't get it until I gave up and watched Mark up until he shared the trick of determining the (non)placement of the 8s in columns 4, 5, and 6 ... then I paused his video and went back and found it it was now possible -- not exactly easy, clear sailing, but possible. A bit of delicious agony as I puzzled through to the end but very rewarding. Great setting and solve.
I finished in 69 minutes. I had to remind myself of the X-Sum clues whenever I got stuck. Overall, an enjoyable puzzle!
43:59, dealing with the 14 and 28 clues at the top were the hardest for me.
43:26
Really fine use of minimal clues with the complimentary types.
I feel sure I should be able to do this puzzle, and I might try it sometime soon. But for tonight, I am tired, and I just wanted to watch you do it, Mark. Just like a dessert course, it is a bit sweet, a bit crunchy, and definitely delicious. Thank you for this video and for all of them. Very fun!
Finished in 31:15. Lovely logic for how the x-sums and little killers worked with each other to solve the puzzle.
Fun puzzle!
38:15 ... got stuck halfway, hazarded a guess (bifurcation?) and made a lucky choice.
Another excellent puzzle from Akash, it's a total pleasure to solve his creations
Thanks a lot.
19:50 for me. Nice one!
25:10. Almost matched video length. Definitely an eliminate candidates type puzzle which was perfect for my mood.
14:06 Yes, it could be 19 or 46, but the 4 and 6 should be the other way around, because of the 6 in r8c1
22:01 for me. Nice puzzle!
Yey! Nice puzzle to end the sunday! Not so hard, just need to do a little bit of math! Thanks 😊
Very beautiful puzzle. Wonderful combination of the two rules for the digits outside.
Thanks
56:45 for me. Got stuck bad on the vertical sums of the top two x sums.
Congrats on being the first solver as well 😁
Is there a mistake at 19:45? I understand why it can't be a 46 pair, but how does it follow that neither of them can be either of 4 or 6? One of those cells could still be 4 or 6 right?
46 would come from the 13 x-sums clue and the 1st number is already 3, so you need 2 digits that add to 10, so it can't be 4 or 6 because either would require the other for the x-sums :P
Those two cells sum to 10 per the x-sum rule.
13 clue -> the two digits must sum to 10
20:21 for me. I always struggle with little killers for some reason.
I didn't see why it couldn't be a pair of 8 (as explained at 12:54), and I got stuck because of that...
Rules: 01:53
Let's Get Cracking: 03:15
Mark's time: 21m05s
Puzzle Solved: 24:20
What about this video's Top Tier Simarkisms?!
The Secret: 1x (08:36)
And how about this video's Simarkisms?!
Clever: 4x (11:01, 13:48, 16:34, 23:19)
Lovely: 4x (13:08, 18:07, 19:47, 24:36)
Ah: 4x (03:27, 05:13, 09:42, 21:44)
Obviously: 3x (02:35, 03:44, 07:16)
Goodness: 2x (11:34, 16:05)
Beautiful: 2x (13:01, 13:01)
Gorgeous: 2x (12:54, 20:09)
Sorry: 1x (14:48)
Naked Single: 1x (23:25)
Brilliant: 1x (10:53)
First Digit: 1x (02:21)
Approachable: 1x (01:25)
Hang On: 1x (08:30)
Surely: 1x (23:04)
I've Got It!: 1x (10:04)
Progress: 1x (06:50)
Most popular number(>9) and digit this video:
Fourteen (19 mentions)
One (48 mentions)
Antithesis Battles:
Even (2) - Odd (0)
Outside (2) - Inside (0)
Column (14) - Row (9)
FAQ:
Q1: You missed something!
A1: That could very well be the case! Human speech can be hard to understand for computers like me! Point out the ones that I missed and maybe I'll learn!
Q2: Can you do this for another channel?
A2: I've been thinking about that and wrote some code to make that possible. Let me know which channel you think would be a good fit!
00:53:22
54:15 for me
24:38 for me
32:38 for me.
This one was very cool. I might have seen the x-sums concept before in previous puzzles, but this was the first time where it clicked that they're basically representing themselves as killer cages which really helped in narrowing down what the digits in the first cell could possibly be. I made some decent progress before getting stuck later in the puzzle and falling back to the video. I was certain there had to be some trick with the long 13 that I was missing since I basically had nothing going on in that area of the grid, but it ended up being the 14 and 28 in box 2. Really fun puzzle.
Ugh, I hate both x-sums and little killers, but I thought I'd give it a go anyway since the video isn't that long.
Well, I worked on it for 30 minutes and thought I was doing ok, but then it fell apart. It appears I got the disposition of the 8s wrong. I'm not trying again.
I'm confused... I got a different solution. Does it have two ways to solve it? Is there a mistake here? I'd assume I made the mistake but sudoku pad said I had the right answer...
there was no solution provided so SudokuPad can only validate the "Sudoku" portion, since there are no givens you could have put any legit solution and it would validate. But it doesn't validate the x-sums or little killer clues.
55 minutes
19:35 for me. a slow, very slow solve.
30:28 for me and solver #3981.