A Sudoku With Only 4 Given Digits?!
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Normal sudoku rules apply. In addition, both marked diagonals must also contain the digits 1 to 9. Cells that are a knight's move apart (in chess) cannot contain the same digit. The central 3x3 box must form a magic square.
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Wife: what are you doing still looking at your phone at 2 AM?
Me: looking for naked singles in this area.
This comment is underrated
this was hilarious you made me laugh anlot
Really good one
I really hope you didn't actually say this to your wi- sorry, ex-wife.
Its easier to explain
"We're actually able to finish the magic square, I don't know why I'm surprised by that but I just am." Yeah cant believe we solved it , we're a great team.
Dora the explorer vibes, but the good kind :)
*puts hand on chin* yes, yes we did really well there... [goes off, over-confidently picks up her easy sudoku book, looks at first puzzle, cries]
Good work team!
@Dosing Psychedelics got some in my freezer right now lol
yee yee
'Puts down a 5 in the middle'
Oh yeah, it's all coming together
Kronk!!!!! Oh how i've missed you!!! Finally something I know on this vid!! ^.^
I don’t know why this is funny but it is
I've heard about the diagonal rule before but the magic square is a first for me. Anyways is 5 the only solution in the middle for 3x3 squares?
@@okamishiranui7841 Going by what he said, 5 is the only number to go in the middle of a magic square, by rules of elimination. The surrounding numbers vary a touch, depending on any fixed/already placed numbers.
How the fuck on earth 5 is the only choice for center? All number have a same role. I dare to say you can put any number in the center except 3,8,4 and 2, just imagine each number replaced by a color. This puzzle has not only 1 result but also dozens, maybe hundreds results (sorry I haven’t watched the whole video yet)
I was lost almost the entire time but I figured out the final nine before he did and frankly that’s win in my book.
I managed to do the same but the fact that we did work that out before him is the reason we're not as good as him, it wasn't the right time for the 9 to be solved
Same but the 4 in the center of the bottom row at 22:08 when he marked the 4s in rows 7 and 8
Dude, this guy just seems so happy about the little things in life. The way he chuckles when he sees how cleverly the puzzle was made is so wholesome. Be like this guy. Enjoy the little things.
Dude, when he investigated the 2s to find out that magical link that plots everything nicely back to the start of his investigation, i nearly jump from my chair. This rewarding feeling is something that's been missing from my math class my entire school life. It gave me a new appreciation for Sudoku
@@Gquain yeah.....
Me: A six goes there
Him: A three goes there
Me: A three goes there
🤣🤣🤣
The hardest part was the magic square and completing another line in next square. The diagonal and knight's move make the rest of the sudoku easy.
@@Mermaider nani?!?
@@Kurdent1 sure thing! The actor or the football player?
No clue who they are 😂😂
@@Mermaider you totally lost me. Are you the mermaid from Disney?
That must be a 5 there
Me: couldn't agree more
GEUSSED IT C:
Yeah that one was obvious tbh
It could also be a 1 or 9...
@@A7m0spher1C , I felt so smart tho...
the comment is about 5, has 5.5 likes, had 5 comments before me🤯
After beating a medium difficulty sudoku challenge on my phone in an hour, yes, I think I'm ready for this.
It's quite interesting how these knights move puzzles tend to end up rotationally symmetric. If you rotate the puzzle 180 deg and overlay it with itself, all cells sum to 10 (in other words, when reflected through the center point, all 1s land on 9s, 2s on 8s, 3s on 7s, 4s on 6s, and 5s land on themselves).
Amazing that you noticed that though
thats such a cool thing to notice!
I rate that
Oh, beautiful, thank you for sharing!
Thats so satisfying to look at, thanks!
I yelled "7" at this guy and he figured out my credit card number minutes later
I told him I don't know my social security number, and he figured it out after a few minutes based off my height and age.
@@MajorMilk lol
I don't think that's possible though.
01110111 01101111 01101111 01110011 01101000 01100010 01100001 01101001 01110100
@@EJandEmmanGonzales 01110010 00101111 01110111 01101111 01101111 01101111 01101111 01110011 01101000
@@vinnig9075 01001000 01100101 00100111 01110011 00100000 01110011 01110000 01100101 01100001 01101011 01101001 01101110 01100111 00100000 01110100 01101000 01100101 00100000 01101100 01100001 01101110 01100111 01110101 01100001 01100111 01100101 00100000 01101111 01100110 00100000 01110100 01101000 01100101 00100000 01100111 01101111 01100100 01110011
"That's a naked single"
Stop talking dirty to me
😳
Omg lmao 😂😂😂
Stolen
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
Get outta here
Rules: 00:49
Let's Get Cracking: 02:43
Puzzle Solved: 24:40
Simon's time: 21m57s
And how about this video's Simarkisms?!
Wow: 3x (11:36, 11:36, 14:22)
Bother: 2x (21:41, 22:16)
Obviously: 2x (01:32, 10:04)
Good Grief: 1x (10:38)
Eyes are Drawn: 1x (14:40)
Axiomatically: 1x (04:30)
Naked Single: 1x (21:13)
Clever: 1x (14:04)
Beautiful: 1x (24:40)
Fascinating: 1x (14:22)
Elegant: 1x (11:36)
Going Mad: 1x (20:26)
Hang On: 1x (11:54)
Most popular number(>9), digit and colour this video:
Fifteen (14 mentions)
Seven (50 mentions)
Yellow (2 mentions)
Antithesis Battles:
Odd (3) - Even (1)
This has to be taken more time than the actual video xd
I love lists like these! If you can make these you probably watch this man a lot. So just for the record there's another naked single (6) mention at 22:58
Inspiring Sand is a bot. And Simarkisms is words that Mark and Simon usually say when they are solving a sudoku puzzle.
At first when you were going over the constraints I was initially thinking "this is impossible" but they actually help you narrow things down, especially the knight's move constraint!
I feel like the kid in high school who contributes nothing to the group project but still gets an A
described my feeling exactly!
But you feel like you actually contributed something.
Omg YES
@AsiaNPC Is everybody in cheerleading a cheerleader? A leader cannot lead a leader, so whats the point in having so many leaders and nobody to lead??
@@snowjix a cheerleader leads the cheers of the audience i guess
Did I just watch a man solve a sudoku puzzle for 25 minutes with no background music or personal interest in sudoku? Yes, yes I did.
Was I thoroughly engrossed the entire time? Yes, yes I was.
Basically sums up me
I actually like sudokus
Fascinating for sure
its kinda late at night, im tired, i do have to go to bed since 2 hours cause i really shoud rest, but i just watched this video and totally can agree with your comment XD (I should go to bed now)
Yes except I was mildly like sudokus, ever buy a book when I was in high school
I’ve never heard of magic squares or anything like this puzzle, I just do regular ones on my phone. This was really fun to watch
Here is the funny thing about this. This was the first video I ever watched on this channel. I didn't really even know about regular sudoku and never knew about these variants. I am also a fairly dim bulb when it comes to solving puzzles. This was so out of my league that I couldn't even understand it let alone try to get one number into the grid. But I have been an avid watcher and have been attempting to solve these puzzles every day since this. I decided to come back and try to solve this one just to see if I could do it without Simon's help. I did this puzzle in 17:04 and I was watching a basketball game that was distracting me on the side.
This just shows what incredible teachers Mark and Simon are. I can solve about a third of the puzzles on here now, and with some slight miniscule help, can solve more than half.
Good going
I think this is a similar story for many viewers (including me) because this video went viral
Imagine wanting to solve a sudoku and suddenly being forced to know the rules of chess
Pretty sure he actually screwed up the knights move on the 2's unless it doesn't focus on how knights actually move
Pretty much stopped watching after that 😒
And the 3's
@@lithonious636 The knights move only implies the landing spot of the knight not the actual path taken there. But Sudoku rules also apply so the lane of the 2's and the 3's is also removed inadvertently
How come the sodoku book i bought don't comply to the knight's move? Is the knight constraint a must? Tq
Him: "that's a four and that must be a 5"
Me an intellectual: " ah yes numbers"
XD
Matmitichion
Numbers Mason, what do they mean?
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
I'm something of a mathematician myself.
Sudoku with 1 given number: "This is absolutely mad"
Sudoku with 4 given numbers: "This is absolutely mad"
I love this channel.
I mean, it is hahaha
Decided I wanted to try this by myself before watching him unveil the solution. Took me just under an hour and 45 minutes to complete, and it was super satisfying to finish it. It was neat to see how he was able to arrive at the solution, especially because I ended up solving the magic square in a different way but still ended up at the same result.
I took 18 minutes to solve it and my answer is completely different than his but yet its correct.
@@Vedika1 This almost certainly has a unique solution, so if your solution is different then it is likely not correct.
@@htjjidr5rk But like it all matched. So how only one solution could be a correct solution. was there any other condition that was to be followed while solving in order to have that unique solution?
@@Vedika1 What is your solution? Did you check it with the software?
@@htjjidr5rk Yeah I did check it with the software and it said looks correct.
Never in my 19 yrs of existence would I have ever agreed with anyone that one day at 2 in the morning I would be watching a guy playing sudoku
God, its 5:34 am here and I'm doing exactly the same
This is where CZcams needs "reactions" cuz I wanted to pick an "LOL" icon.
@@dylanculver1796 lmao nights young
Same frickin boat here
Its 4:13 am for me lol
It just makes me so happy to watch this man be so passionate about something. He’s getting genuine joy out of this
And sharing that joy with the world!
this is proof that you can put anything on youtube if you help your audience follow along. Oh that was so beautifully resolved :) Well done. I never heard of these extra rules.
"That square is actually a naked single, that square is a 6"
Wow me and that square have a lot in common
This needs to go right to the top!
Underrated comment
"This is a four/eight combo, and that four is pointing at it to resolve it"
-Me and my gf in public.
@@JohnEsse honestly a perfect response
This is the funniest comment I have ever fucking seen.
"We've done all of the 2's all of a sudden... Wow... Wow... How elegant is that?" This guy is amazing!
mimi88 British ppl be like:
Grid is empty. Guy just adds his own numbers, and that's it. Hi is not solving anything, he is making it
never been so confused yet satisfied in my life
My mind isn't wired to understand this at all, but it's so lovely to watch someone good at what they do, working away with such joy
Watching a 25 minute sudoku video wasn’t part of my evening plans but I’m not complaining
Finn V algorythm finest, me aswell:D
12am her and im halfway trhrough the video....fascinating O_o
I dont know how time passed. I was very involved lol
cheers mate!
Isnt it magical...lovely video
As someone who loves this channel, I'm glad the comments are filled with people who got recommended this out of nowhere and enjoyed it.
I happen to be one of those people. Turns out this is now his most viewed video within a week.
I beleive its because James Charles tweeted about his channel
@@Hamza-nv2kw That helped it, but I was one of the people who was recommended this specific video by YT and I am hooked
In watching this at 1am and I’m not complaining
Evan James 1:40 AM for me. I honestly thought the sudoku puzzles I did were pretty hard. Seeing 4 numbers tore me a new one but either way, great channel tbh. Never thought there’d be a sudoku channel.
This was the first CTC video I watched during the summer of 2020. I stumbled upon it simply because it had shown up as a recommended video despite having never watched a sudoku video before. I clicked it, I regret nothing.
I love how far this has come in two years. 4 given digits and 25 minutes is a GAS puzzle these days 😂
This is one of those puzzles where making the puzzle is probably harder than solving it.
I am pretty sure, computer generates this with a little help
@@erokMine I feel like writing a computer program that can generate these kinds of puzzles with the specific constraints would be pretty daunting as well.
I figured it would have been laid out with the rules in mind, and then just removed most the digits
As someone who's attempted to make crosswords: that's every puzzle.
@@PuffleBuns adding extra constraints should be nothing for a well-designed algorithm. However, if the base Sudoku algorithm is poorly structured and takes too many shortcuts... bodging the extra constraints in could be a problem.
"Oh that's easy so this must be __ and this has to be __"
Me who probably couldn't solve this in 25 days: Oh yeah it's so obvious.
M_X_C_N probably?
Same
I'm trying to solve it right now! The timer is on two hours, and I'm at 14:20 of this video....
It took my 20 minutes of abusing the check system to do it
Actually try it before thinking so poorly of yourself. You might be surprised. And, if not, just remember all of these skills are learnable, not some magical natural talents. ^_^
Me: doesn’t know anything about sudoku
Me: yeah let’s watch a 25min video of a sudoku
So fun coming back to some of these a year later. "Only 4 digits?" Oh my poor summer child. You have no idea what's coming.
This guy should have written the finale to game of thrones
everyone would kill each other and resolve problems with mathematical equations and I feel like I would be into that
It is absolutely fascinating that none of us really searched for this, yet here we are
iustinian negrei I wouldn’t say none, a few of us are regular viewers 😉
@@redinator5 but did you search for it or you found it on your home screen?
I got here from a chess video and down the rabbit hole I went hehe
4/20 sent me here
@@pickyvanilla thats gold
nearly 3 years after this was uploaded and it first showed up in my recommendations, it was recommended to me again. Only now I'm an avid cracking the cryptic watcher and it's all thanks to this video. wow time sure does fly.
This is way more exciting than I thought it would be
the pure adrenaline i felt when he started cracking off all the two's
aha same😂 quality comment
Honestly I was so confused...my last three brain cells hurt after all of that
Fair enough. Though that's not even the difficult part of it all.
yea, never heard of the "knight's move" rule but it is a pretty powerful constraint
Hell, when he started cracking off 2s and I was starting to grasp the rules and also realize "oh, 2 has to go there"
Is it just me or did anyone else thought at first: Extra rules makes it even harder, but actually that rules out a lot of possibilities and makes it easier.
Extra rules always makes it easier.
The less possibilities the more you can say for sure to rule other possibilities out.
Especially if you can write down the possibilities for each unique square.
@@mauer1 to be honest i play sudoku completely different now. :D before I didn't know what the small numbers were for lol.
Without the Knights move, diagonals and magic square, I reckon that would be unsolvable
@@britishgovernment7053 it would be easily solveable, though it would have more than one solution.
@@mauer1 Interesting, would be good to see that done as well
"And we've done all the twos all of a sudden" made me laugh for some reason 🤣
Fantastic construction! Amateur sudoku player here so I hadn't solved puzzles using magic squares and knight's rules before, which made this super interesting to watch and figure as we went along. I actually paused and kept working it out myself and playing the video when I got stuck, and watching how the knight's square and diagonals' rules applied helped me go on! So much fun to solve! Thanks for a great video!
Me after him practically solving the entire puzzle: “the 1 HAS to go there”
Him seconds later: “The 1 goes here”
Me: YES IM BIG BRAIN
I saw something he didn't see for 10 minutes and I feel so smart even though I wouldn't have been able to solve the puzzle on my own
@@lookimnotracistbut5695 What did you see?
@@lordtalonmarsden826 That was 1 week ago I don´t remember "useless" stuff that long sorry
@@lookimnotracistbut5695 understandable pls have a nice day
1 out of 9.
Man: solves whole sudoku and shows little to no excitement
Me: *figures out a number before him and is excited like a kid hearing the ice cream truck drive by*
especially near the end. there was so many possible ways to end it, I just took advantage of him pausing for 2sec to see one he didn't. meanwhile I would've spent 10 hours on the first 10 min of the video.
I was only moderately excited to place the 4 in the bottom row 2 minutes before him at 22:00. It only shows how many ways there are to solve a puzzle.
Michael Robertson i was talking about that 4 too haha 😁
I figured out the top left square's 5 way before he did, and I know next to nothing about sudokus. I'm sitting here silently cheering in the dead of night.
EDIT: I mean the top left 3x3 grid's 5.
The bottom center four you mean? :-)
Absolutely Brilliant! I can’t believe I actually followed along. I had to pause it twice to catch up. Very enjoyable.
Brilliant. I've been playing sudoku for a few years now. I never even thought of using the knight move from chess. I play the hardest level on the app I have, but apparently that is easy in comparison to other sudoku puzzles. Thanks for opening my eyes to different ways of solving sudoku puzzles.
Him: 18 minutes in
Me: Still trying to understand the magic square
20 min in and I'm still trying to understand the knights rule
@@valeria207 6 hours in and im still trying to understand 6
19 years in and I'm still trying to understand why I was born.
17 min in and I'm still trying to understand sudoku
1 month and im still trying to understand your comment
The man managed to entertain us with a single Sudoku level for 25 minutes.
I guess the views are a sign that there are still people with an attention span of over 30 seconds. I was sure that something like sudoku, which requires quite a lot of intellectual effort will not get more than 300 thousand views.
@@Ruzzky_Bly4t My attention span us very bad, I just like sudoku.
RawSloth ikr
sudoku rocks thats why
Right?!
Mate I can't believe I've only just found you - you are completely awesome. Watching this 25 minutes has been my favourite thing all day :)
Everything he just said, I was about to say myself
First 5 minutes of this video: How does this (a CZcams channel with someone solving sudoku puzzles) exist?
By end of video: of course this exists. How did I ever doubt it?
Essentials. Thats what this channel fits in
When I was 5 min into the video I spotted the viewed count (2,23 million) and it had only been on YT for 10 days and was realy shocked that anyone could get over 10 000 views doing sudoku, but damn was this a good video
not sure how I ended up watching this at 4 am, I’m usually watching people build pools in the jungle.
Hahahaha!! I watch the dudes building pools in the jungle also.
I'm convinced the jungle pools are a $$ making scam 💣
Lmaoo
I'm watching this at 1:00 am, so I guess thats better....
Watching it at 2:30am
never seen sudoku in my life but u just made my day by how excited u were to solve the puzzle. had me totally enamored in a puzzle i really didn’t care for. very intelligent man keep doing what you do
I had this in my Watch later for years (well, more like months), and only now got around to watch it.
It was quite fun solving along.
I can’t believe I’ve come this far in quarantine where I’m watching a guy play sudoku
WICKEDGaming pssh no joke man
WICKEDGaming same
How we've fallen.
Yep, the darkest hole of boredom
fr
*puts number in
Him: " Oh look at that now."
- me watching in confusion
HAHAHHAHAHAH
Hahahahahahh😂
This is a mood and a half.
You honestly made me cackle
xddddd
good one
I enjoyed how you got the magic square in the center. I did not even think of how to get the three X rows. It was a pleasure watching how fast you went too.
This old video has given me such an appreciation for the new software and the amazing free app
I have never been so fascinated with a game of sudoku in my life
you have 420 likes and you commented this on 420
@@jespervandijk6003 czcams.com/video/QZXc39hT8t4/video.html
1K th like😂
this isn't the type of let's play i was looking for, but i'm not complaining
LMAO
😂 Same, though.
i was your 1,000th like
@@emray3645 nice
same, same, lol
Congratulations to Cracking the Cryptic and Aad van de Wetering for the number of views on this beauty of a puzzle as well as it's solve. This was my favorite year of sudoku solving. I think Aad's puzzles introduced me to chess moves in sudoku. You can imagine I did not solve them myself.
The newspaper sudoku quivers before this man.
no idea why I'm watching this but I feel like this made my IQ step up by 10 points
your iq levelled up!
I'm feeling pretty stupid myself
indeed
So you doubled your IQ. Nice.
Tony Leech lmao
Don’t know how this ended up on my recommended, but enjoyed it from start to finish. Brilliant work!
Wow... never thought I'd find you here...
Same lmao.
Lol have no idea how it ended up in mine either and same loved every min of it.
Same
David Erick Ramos - Ocarina same
i didn't realize this was a 25 minute video until after i had watched the whole thing. bravo. kept me encapsulated the whole time
Love this puzzle, the first one on this channel I've had the nerve to try
Took me just over 2 hours, but it's my first non-classic sudoku and by far the most difficult one I've ever done so I'm good with that lol
This whole video I'm just: "I like your funny words magic man"
Omega Star my personal favorite part was when he filled the numbers
He speaks dutch if ur wondering
Forbidden app user
A redditor in the wild?
@@gabej5687 no
he keeps saying "we know" as if i actually understand sudoku and im not just watching this at 4am out of curiousity
mikhailo I play Sudoku and even I don’t understand what’s happening lmfao.
It is now 4:13 am and I I'm watching this out of curiosity lol
Perfect feeling!
Me at 3 AM here. Never did a sudoku in my life because I never knew how. And this guy does it like it is a magical thing. Crazy stuff.
@@aby1061 I though is my problem
@@aby1061 basically they added math to sudoku. No matter which way you turn the magic square it will add up to 15. Then they also added a bit of chess into the equation so it makes it easier to discern the location of certain numbers based off a chess knight.
Usually with these videos I just watch, but this time I had a strong urge to go do it.
Took me 44 minutes, though I did struggle a bit with the formatting of the website.
I really enjoyed it!
I love how you get to a certain point figuring out the same blocks, but eventually reach a point of diversion where you finish solving the puzzle in a totally different sequence.
I’d also like to thank you for teaching a few new rules and techniques in sudoku.
*puts a 5 in the middle square*
Me: "outstanding move"
It's really fascinating how the knights restriction actually makes narrowing things down easier.
Yes, restrictions are very helpful in this game.
Honestly a very fun variation on the game, I enjoyed it much more than the solving strategies I typically use for sudoku.
I play it everyday and now after learning this knight move, it's going to be easier.
Lalit Singh Fauzdar the knight move isn’t applicable to all sudoku, nor is the magic square. Both are additional rules for this particular puzzle
I love doing killer sudokus for this exact reason
I used to do sudokus for a break from studying during medschool. I gave one of the hardest ones to my buddy, and he solve it in under 2 minutes. Writing them in from left to right top to bottom. I had always known he had the most impressive memory of anyone I have ever met. But in that moment I felt chills.
This is legit my favorite sudoku ever and I love forgetting the solution to discover it again. Thank you for introducing this to me!
25 minutes of me silently saying “ahh yes of coarse” to myself even though I had no idea of what was happening
i dont even know how sudoku works, but i still watched the entire thing, i dont know why
@@somestranger0283 start from basic ones, they're a really great puzzle
@@somestranger0283 the basic rules are: you need one of each of the numbers 1-9 in every row, column, and 3x3 box. And since there’s 9 cells in each, that means there can’t be repeats. Any extra rules are specific to the puzzle and are explained at the beginning of the video
Course*
@@tacocatt6808 no he meant coarse, sudoku is a rough game
It makes me weirdly so much happy to see him solving this - the way he says "It's so clever and elegant"
Melts my heart every time
Alr, boys, we know what this means(everyone starts becoming sudoku addicts)😂😂😂
Neasi říkal jsem si to samý Veruš
Máš naprostou pravdu Verčo
Čau Verčo
how do you pronounce your name Ms. Trckova
No idea how this ended up on my recommendations, i don't even like sudoku but i watched the entire video and am now looking for online sudoku puzzles. Amazing to watch! :D
That was surprisingly enthralling. Amazing how quickly he solved that puzzle with so few clues.
this guy is so calming he's like the bob ross of puzzles.
Bob Ross’s little brother
FAX
half the time I had to check if the video was paused lol
I recommend you check out Ephermal Rift, he does a shit ton of good ASMR videos, and he even played Minecraft, and made a sacntuary, just type in youtube "Minecraft Sanctuary"
Happy little trees
I love it when you say “what a beautiful puzzle”. That should be your catchphrase
It basically is.
chew
I imagine him saying it at the cashier after finishing a basic transaction.
Iui
Isaac Eow has was nobody o
This is the first "Cracking the Cryptic" video I ever came across, and I wanted to share that I finally solved it today. :) That's not to say I was working on it constantly; I just came back to it a few times over the months, but kept making mistakes, but today was when I finally solved it on my own, so I'm pretty pleased about that. :)
I can't believe I enjoyed watching someone play Sudoku. I learned so much watching this. Thanks for sharing this.
Don’t EVER help this guy move: “The coffee table goes there which means there must be a lamp in either this corner or this corner.”
underrated
“And the bookshelf goes right there for obvious reasons.”
Me: “Yeah, totally. That makes perfect sense”
Plus nobody wants to help him with his night move.
The fact that the diagonals and knight’s move “restrictions” practically made this solvable is amazing to me.
Exactly. At first I was very skeptical when just seeing the board with 4 numbers, but those additionnal restrictions are actually huge clues and tremendiously help in solving it. Not saying it's easy, I'm no Sudoku expert (I don't really like them).
His software is pretty nice though! Taking notes like this in real life is more... messy haha.
Why? It just gives you more ways to eliminate numbers and figure out the correct ones
SuperUghe exactly. At first glance it just sounds like the “restrictions” would make it harder, when in reality they enable you to solve the puzzle.
Thats one of my favorite principles of game design, you cant always mark the end of the level with a reward, you can spice it up by showing the player where NOT to go
(I know it sounds stupid, but once you have it in your mind you realize how many levels could be upgraded with that phylosophy)
In fact, the three added restrictions (diagonals, knight's move, and magic square) made this sudoku much easier to solve than most regular ones. There wasn't even a single mention of any type of "fish."
Have I been doing sudoku since I was 5? Yes. Am i still confused? Yes. Did I enjoy watching this? Yes. *aggressively sends link to my mother who taught me how to play sudoku*
This was the puzzle that introduced me to chess moves in sudoku. I did not attempt this one on my own. But this is one of my favorites. I still remember watching this one.
Me: “Well, we know there isn’t a 2 in the bottom row...”
He started with a 2 in the bottom row
And the right column...
Walter Reed Jr that’s... that’s the joke
@@walterreedjr6762 r/whoosh
@@walterreedjr6762 Yeah that's the joke man
“25 minutes of a guy playing sudoku? Who would watch that?” 25 minutes later “oh”.
Didn't realize I just sat here for half an hour watching this until I read your comment😂
I even was: "This bloody video of a guy playing sudoku has 3M views?! 😮"
25 minutes later: (presses like button)
This was the amazing video that I found 1-2 months ago that I’m so glad got me to discover this channel
This is my favorite puzzle so far that I’ve seen. It’s not ridiculously difficult, the rules are easy to understand and the symmetry makes it beautiful. Hats off to the creator!
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i really hope he doesn’t focus any of his brain energy on anything else because if he did he could take over the world
Are you saying you don't want to be ruled by this Sodoku Overlord?
We've had way worse at this point I'm not gonna knock anyone before they try.
I already did that :D
WEL DONT GIVE HIM tHe idEa
I think I trust him in charge though
Never thought i would be so interested in watching someone solve a soduko without problem.
I’ve never watched anything sudoku related and thought I would be bored, but I was enamored by every second
ive actually learn a lot of tips from watching this puzzle! the knights move is amazing!
This dude is flat-out one of the most watchable people on the entire internet.
I thought the same...:)) found this today and im so grateful
I love how when he found a naked six at the middle collum lower row he was just so happy.
"Oh and we've done all the twos all of a sudden. Wow. Wow, how elegant is that?" Very elegant my friend, very elegant indeed.
Looking back at some older videos, I truly appreciate the deft in how you present the newer content.
I remember watching this so long ago, and I searched your channel later for it but that failed. And now it finally came up in my recommended now. Yay.