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Place a subset of the digits 1-9 in each row, column and box (you can use different sets for different regions). Digits cannot repeat in rows, columns, or boxes. The sum of Row 6 is less than the sum of Row 5, which is less than the sum of Row 4, and so on (indicated by the thermometer). Box borders separate the blue Region Sum line (as in r1c3-6) into segments which sum to the same amount. A red entropy line (as in r1c1-3) must contain an equal number of low (1,2,3) middle (4,5,6) and high (7,8,9) digits. Adjacent digits on a green German Whisper line (as in r5c3-5) must differ by at least 5. Digits on an arrow sum to the attached circle. A black kropki dot separates digits with a 1:2 ratio.
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0:00 Theme Music & News around the channel
2:22 Rules of today’s puzzle
4:30 Start Of Solve - Let's Get Cracking! - Zábava
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Mark trying to make a black dot be a 1 and a 5 was my favorite part of this video :)
Yeah especially as I used the opposite to get the digits as I worked out that it was 1,2 or 2,4 in the dot however a 1,2=3 rules out both 1,7 and 3,5 on the blue line
I also used the fact all 4 bottom rows have 123 to say there must be123 in each four bottom box and as I had a 2,4 on kropki I extended to 1234
The deduction ending at 18.11 where the 24 in box 3 removes a 4 on line 4 which place a 4 in box 4 which resolves the 48 pair in column 6. Now, that 24 pair was staring at the 48 pair all of that time.
Several roundabout deductions in this puzzle.
I actually like that Mark overlooked the black dot there, because when he ruled out the 1-5 because of the 8-sum, he said "isn't that...I've never come across that before, but that works I think..." I like when Mark or Simon make verbalize that sort of thought. I think it gives us mortals a look into the mind of these expert players who have completed just an unimaginable number of sodukos and similar puzzles in their lives. They remember these little "rules" that pop up in puzzles that their brains use to very quickly deduct certain little things in puzzles. They'll often comment how they know something about a rule almost instinctively, but it's just because they've seen so many different patterns.
A simpler reason that the ends of the whisper line are low is that, were they high, the end of the lower arrow would be at least 6, making the upper arrow total at least 10, which is impossible.
Row 1 has a max of 27 (369 on the entropic plus 9 from the arrow), but that places two 9s on box 1, so it has to be 26 for the thermometer not to break and that solves the sum of each row.
@@pairot01 That was my break-in. Did some "set theory" on the blue line and got four digits in box 1 had to be at least 26, and those had to be from all three entropy sets.
A much simpler way of getting to this is, that row 5 must have a sum of 22. So you can only divert by 1 from 1-2-3-4-5-6 making this row 1-2-3-4-5-7. Now the 7 has to go in the middle of the German whisper with 1 and 2 on its side.
1-5 on a kropki dot, genius 😂
13:20
Extremely simple but beautifully elegant and a great way to introduce such chaos to beginners. Really enjoyed the way it linked together.
11:15 finish. It took a minute for me to register how the totals interacted top to bottom, but once I got past that it was smooth sailing. A nice little puzzle, good job!
Something I’ve learned from Simon in entropy puzzles is a 3 cell line/arrow that sums to a single digit total must have 2 low digits and 1 middle digit. So the top row in the puzzle must have all 3 low digits (one on the red line and 2 on the blue line), 2 middle digits and 1 high digit. The max value of that configuration comes from 1-2-3-5-6-9, which gets us the 26 constrained sum for the Thermo and also puts 8 in the top circle (since 9 can’t go on the blue line in the top row).
I don't see how this constrains whether the arrow is an 8 or a 9. The top row doesn't have to have a 9 at all, so I don't think it's relevant whether 9 can go on the blue line.
@@frankthompson9630 Stephen is saying the only way you can reach the minimum total needed for the top of the thermo (26) that contains three low digits, two medium digits and one high digits is if you maximise the digits in each of those categories. Hence 1,2,3,5,6,9. There needs to be a 9.
That's pretty neat. My way was to realise I needed 3 and 6 on the entropy line, and you couldn't make three digits on the equal sum line sum to 9 without either 3 or 6, so that maxed out at 8 (and had to be 1+2+5).
Ah of course, I see what he meant now!
Great puzzle. Trying the max values on the first row was the key indeed.
The thermo helped me, so thanks Teal! 🤗
Thank you for the solve! 😊
These are always above my paygrade, but I love watching these two amazing minds. So much fun and entertainment!!! Thank You
I thought so myself: But once I discovered that the totals were minimums (21-26) and wrote out the combinations of digits and the ones that are required (i.e. must have a 1,2 & 3 to add 6 digits to 24); it felt right into place.
This one is pretty easy actually
most of them are above my paygrade also. But after having taken some of the easier ones and having solved them along with the video, I've found that, once I understand the rules, I can get a good start on some of these easier puzzles. Although, they still take me a long time to do. I think Schjo's Electric Explosion puzzle took me over 5 hours to solve, but I would do it, stop, and come back to it later when I had spare time. Anyway, solving them along with the video, pausing it, and taking time to think over the puzzle is a great way to practice and get better. It's also fun, because you get to interact with the video rather than just watch it.
They'll always be above your paygrade if you don't try solving them yourself sometimes. The more you try them on your own, the better you'll get. Even if you only get, say, 2 digits into the grid before you get stuck, get the 3rd digit from the video and then carry on yourself until you get stuck again. I'll never be at Simon or Mark's level but I've improved so much through practice (although the puzzles are fun so it doesn't feel like practice at all).
This was very enjoyable! I think you can forgive yourself for not thinking of the minimum for a row, Mark, because the grid was so colorful and interesting in itself! That bottom line was the most boring thing on the page despite being very informative. Thanks, as always, for the daily videos!
I’m not sure why my first comment didn’t show up. Perhaps this will be a moment or 2 behind.
I don’t do anything other than normal sudoku. Everything else is far above my paygrade, but I need to tell you how much I enjoy watching these two crazily talented men. I love your channel!!! Thank You!! ❤
The other (more obvious) reason the 6 arrow couldn't be 1&5 is the black dot.
A delightful puzzle! I enjoyed the interplay between/among all the different constraints.
I literally just put in the last digit of the lovely "Limbo" sudoku that Simon solved in today's video when this notification popped up. Guess I'm now solving a lovely 6x6 one as well :)
Just solved it in 11:49 and it indeed, was very lovely! You did not promise too much :)
glad you enjoyed my debut puzzle! i'm a very new setter and this is one i'm quite proud of, enjoyed watching your solve :D
24:45 for me. Really neat puzzle - I enjoyed how the break-in involved using so many different types of clues in the grid.
Got stuck for a long time, had to watch Mark's solve to figure out what was next. I had missed that the region sum line and arrow that went to the 8 had to be different combinations of numbers. Once I saw that in the video, I was able to get the rest on my own, pretty proud of that even if overall it took me way longer than most of the times I see in the comments! 🤣
I finished in 19:21 minutes. It was quite satisfying to calculate the thermo totals for each row, realizing that they are minimums. At the end I struggled with calculation, only to see the obvious move of an x-wing of 1s. That cleared it right up. Great Puzzle!
Finished in 14:54 and got pipped by Mark. Pretty straightforward once you realize the break-in
Fun puzzle!
Pretty and beautiful little puzzle.
Very fun solve. Took me a while but it was nice to figure out all the interactions and constraints
idk why it took me so long to see the break-in but I'm glad I did
I thought this was going to be impossible for me but I managed it in less than 30 minutes. A really interesting puzzle for sure!
That was a lovely puzzle, and more approachable than it looked at first! I was interested to see that I disambiguated the red line in a different way to Mark - given that you know the red line must contain 3 and 6, r2c3 could never be 9 because all the ways of making 9 in three cells require either a 3 or a 6, and thus the blue line in box 2 would be broken.
I like this small sudoku, it's difficult, but it doesn't take that long to complete.
Delightful puzzle. Well done.
Solved it in 10 minutes. Clearly Mark wasn't in his day, since I almost always take at least double the time he needs to solve a regular sudoku.
14:41. A nice quick solve. Took a few minutes to spot the clever break-in of the top line being at most and at least 26. Once I spotted that, it went very quickly, but not so fast as to be trivial.
When I first looked at this puzzle, I had no clue, how to start. But after figuring out row1, it flows very nicely. Beautiful puzzle!
Imaging Simon doing this puzzle and not being able to share the "secret".
Excellent show! Thank you.
This was utterly amazing - I did it!!
Very sweet 6x6 puzzle!
6:45
easier:
r5c5 is high breaks the col 4 arrow
13:25
alternate:
cannot make the row 1 arrow add up to 9, because 3&6 are used up
15:45
ILLEGAL to put 15 into a black kropki pair
17:30
mark's off his game:
4 is already committed in row 3
Cute puzzle. Before even figuring out the row totals, you can see that the ends of the German Whisper can't be high ... if R5C5 is a 6 with a 1 above it, that puts a 7 in R3C4 and R2C3 would need to be at least 10!
Had to admit was really slow to figure out the start, but managed to get there in the end, it also helped that once you had the row totals you could figure out that a certain number had to be in each row which helped eliminate some possibilities.
Also nice to see someone who is as skilled and experienced as Mark also can make silly mistakes as well. 1&5 as a Kropki dot made me shake my head in amusement.
Slightly confusing wording - "use subset" suggests there will only be 6 different digits in the puzzle, which is of course quickly contradicted by following rules. I'd say much cleaner is "Place digits 1-9 so that they don't repeat", I think that does the same thing :)
Anyway, very enjoyable unique logic in this puzzle, thanks to the setter and Mark for showcasing it!
Took me 15 minutes, very nice puzzle. I worked myself from the top to the bottom, starting with the red line and the region sum line (that acts like an arrow there). And of course the limits set by the thermo.
Fun fact: it took me longer to confirm the top row had to add up to 26 than it took Mark to solve the entire thing. In the end I did it by working out every possible combination in the red and top-row blue line areas and coming to the conclusion that it wasn't possible for the three blues to add up to nine AND allow legal numbers in the two arrows below them... I feel I did it the long way around. 63 minutes.
Really enjoyed this one. Took me a bit long at 32:47 since I just could never find the right place to look...
Realizing that the top row was restrictive and the bottom row must be minimal was very very neat.
10:01 😢 Still glad 😅 Very nice puzzle ❤
Wow, that one was so fun! Fortunately I recognized the row 1 restriction that resolved the thermo pretty much immediately, so everything flowed pretty smoothly from there. 6:30 solve time.
Clever puzzle. A bit easy perhaps, but most 6x6 puzzles are. Fun to solve in any case.
Using the triangular number for 6 on row 1 (21), and knowing row 1 was at the most 26 gave me all the digits in row 5 and row 6. (11:02 was the lightbulb moment)
23:23, shocked how I was able to use the lines in row 1 to get most of the sums in the grid. At first I assumed r2c3 had to be a 9 and didn't see how it being an 8 let row 1 sum to a higher value, but got there in the end.
I like your funny words magic man
20.15 for me. Took a while for realizing there was a thermometer on the left.
21:12 Fun little puzzle.
5:50 for me. Not that you struggled, but this was so much easier if you'd used the thermo at the start. Because of the entropy line, the absolute maximum in R1 is 26 (not 27 as you originally stated), and the absolute minimum in R6 is 21, so we know the sum of each row. R6 must be 1-6, R5 must be 1-5,7. Since there's only one high digit in R5, the 7 must be in the middle of the whisper line with 12 on either side. This means the maximum on the RSL in box 5 is 8, so the entropy line is 369, the arrow is 8, and the 3 in R1 means the arrow is 125 in R1, and 134 in C4.
@ 15:45 - "I don't know if this is 24 or 15" - on a black dot? Once you figured out by other means that they had to be 24, you pencil-marked 45 as an option to make up the remaining 9 in the row. Come on Mark.
8:27 for me. Lovely puzzle, really enjoyed this one!!
This is the first time I solve a puzzle faster than you (by ``enormous'' 7 seconds). You are a great solver!
Quite an enjoyable puzzle! My time was 9:17, solver number 6663.
25:23 - Fun puzzle!
At 16:00 it cannot be 1/5 because of the black dot
7:00... There is an easier way of seeing they are both low, look at the circle that makes up 8 or 9 what its max value? 6, ok so what is the max value of the 3rd part of the whisper? 5, which in turn means 4 is the max value, thus it goes low high low because that digit can never be a 6 unless you start adding fractions into things.
@9:00 To prove the German whisper is low-high-low and not high-low-high, isn't it easier to just look at the green line, propose 6&7 on the ends, and see that this puts a 7 or 8 (or more) on the three cell arrow in column 4 and conclude it must be low-high-low? It's nice to see the maximum for the row thermometer. But that's a long walk to prove something simple.
good evening everyone!
Solved it in 15:09, though I had a bit of a hiccup because I thought 7+2=8. Also I figured out r2c3 was 8 because there's no way to make 9 without using a 3 or 6.
I also used that way in to the 8 (working on the 3digit blue and arrow interplay) before seeing the 6+2 at the bottom of the column.
25:44 for me. Nice puzzle!
46:39 finish for me, I was shocked at how much longer it took me than mark, but then again it's just forming the correct patterns in my brain.
It took me 97 minutes, so your time isn't that Bad, LOL.
I do kinda prefer the shorter videos! I don't always have time to watch all of the longer ones.
08:20 for me. Fantastic puzzle!
32:52 finish and laughing at myself. Instantly did the work to highlight and note the puzzle for the red line blue line and arrow, then proceeded to spend half my time staring at the arrow instead of the thermo rule. Never registering there was a fixed interaction between the top and bottom.
That felt pretty approachable. 10:52 for me.
22:22 to finish. This was an absolute blast
Fun puzzle!! 12:12 for me. :-D
15:39 for me
nice puzzle
Pretty good low difficulty puzzle (did not take me long) but I can't imagine the agony if someone doesn't see the 21-26 thing right away. So I'm not sure if it's actually good for beginners.
I was stumped having missed the top row maximum being 26 and stared at the puzzle with zero digits figured out for about 50 minutes! Once I watched the solve to get to that point, it did click nicely into place.
Didn’t see the Kropki dot in box 3🤣🤣🤣
20:43 for me, but I made the error of figuring out the row totals then not actually filling in the bottom row. Could have been so much faster if my brain hadn't randomly disengaged.
You can get r2c3 much much sooner if you realize the region sums rule requires it to be an even number.
How do you figure? I'm not saying you can't figure it really fast, but it's not due to that reason. I want to understand your reasoning.
@@RoderickEtheria It's simple: I'm wrong. 😆 I think the arrow going right and down led me to mentally overlay an arrow on that blue line going down to r6c3, figuring the sum x on each segment gave 2x in the circle. Oopsy.
@GeekRedux but that wouldn't work anyway because that arrow bulb and arrow would both, in turn, be 2x.
@@RoderickEtheria Yeah. If the arrow bulb is 2x, then it can be divided by 2 to get x (with each blue segment of the arrow being x). So the arrow bulb would be an even number. (Here, I mean "arrow" to be the nonexistent arrow I mistakenly mentally installed along the blue line.)
@GeekRedux except it's only provably an even number in its doubled form, so you couldn't assume anything about its normal form. Which was why even in your suggested case, it couldn't work.
Solved in 13:21
37 minutes for this, always double of Mark or Simon for me.
That is a good one. 17:23 for me.
Nice! 25:06 for me.
4:52 for me.
6:03 for me
This was a fun one, done in 8:18 (conflict checker off), let's look at others times, and... WAIT, I BEAT GONZALO GARCIA'S TIME?! _faints_
Seriously, though, this was great, wonderful deductions to make all along the way, loved it! Many thanks to Teal for the puzzle!
00:22:25
Is there an eyelash stuck on anybody else’s puzzle?
19:41 for me
Euh....I think the puzzle is broken....digits are the same in box 2 and box 6, which is against the rules 🤔
The rules state "you can use different sets for different regions", not "you must use..."
Anyone else fail the solution checker even though you have entered the correct solution?
No. The solution checker works for me. (Have you triple checked your solution against Mark's? 🙂)
@@RichSmith77 First thing I did
I don't like puzzle with arithmetic, I make too much mistakes, it needs too many backtracks. 39:10, nothing to be proud of.
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