Thank you Simon for featuring this puzzle! It was a lot of fun to construct, and I am so glad you and others have enjoyed it. Wishing you and the CTC team all the best!

@dinane

Ай бұрын

I loved it. Thank you!

@puritan7473

Ай бұрын

This was a wonderful puzzle sir, I agree 100% with Simons comments!! Thank you for such a creation.

@davidrattner9

Ай бұрын

Wonderful setting from you!!! Excellent job!!

@FrancisFjordCupola

Ай бұрын

Loved watching the solve. Bit too sick to try myself now. Thought it was genius. Excellent.

@nickellis999

Ай бұрын

Brilliant puzzle. Thank you very much.

Indexing idea: Use the pen tool to draw a line between the two pilled digits, and then use that same color to highlight the indexed cage.

@nathanmays7926

Ай бұрын

i colored each region, and flashed the pills with the region color

@parksantiago3511

Ай бұрын

If you did enough, coloring the pill the color of the rest of the region it is indexing also works and it looks less mess imo

@Tsunami14

Ай бұрын

Exactly my thought as well. Otherwise, it gets taxing very quickly to keep track of the relationships.

@johnharriman85

Ай бұрын

@@parksantiago3511 small point IMHO: the 39 pill serves as complete cage AND pill, so I think flashing helps to keep all the region colors unique.

@jimmyh2137

Ай бұрын

Instead of a line between use it around the border of the (pill's) cells

This is such a fantastic puzzle. Already after testing it, I was sure it had to go here. I think you have done a great job of adapting to the new ruleset and explaining the logic that comes from it, Simon. In particular, I liked your tricks with the 12 candidates. There were some logical steps I had missed in my own solve. Thanks for this great video solve! And, of course, big thanks to CaptZebraCakes for setting this gem!

"Alexa, I seem to be stuck" "It's sudoku, Simon."

@CrankyOtter

Ай бұрын

Very Simon to deduce the two 6 options in box 8 from logic in Box 3/5 rather than seeing that the 6s can only be where they fix the 6/8 pair in box 5.

19:00 An absolute masterpiece. I am in awe of the construction skills of CaptZebraCakes. 👏

I didn't know how much I needed Simon to play Fix you but that alone made my whole week, thank you

I have absolutely no idea how to even begin with this puzzle lol

@joelwagg8314

Ай бұрын

It took me a while (I'm getting quicker though the more I try!), but the first important thing is that the most limited digit is the tens column of the pills. That combined with the fact cages cannot sum to 10 or 11 is suddenly interesting for the two cell cage...

I was very proud of myself that I worked out the 45 cage and the pill that had to say 45 because of the 2-cell cage that had to be 39 and so on. And I did the mapping of the digits in the 45 cage that were missing in its box as well. But all this took me already nearly 50 min (that I started last night before bed and continued this evening for a bit) and then I didn't know how to deal with all the 5-cell cages... still I had a great time with this. I am always happy when I can do a little of it without Simon's help but I still get to watch Simon solve it. When I solve it myself completely I don't usually have the patience anymore to watch Simon solve the same puzzle.

What an amazing puzzle! I was intimidated at first, thinking I could not possibly break into the logic. But after pulling out a note pad and going through ranges of sum options, the path forward came so naturally! BRAVO!

Simon "Ah.. Oh yes, ah.. um.. ah! That means...! Ah!" me: "whaaaat!?" also me: "Let him cook"

A Simon guitar intro had me hit “like” before even watching the video.

32:27 such a randomly satisfying "Ahh"

This puzzle was a fun exercise in notation. I tried a few options and settled on drawing a colored line through each pill corresponding to a colored fill of each cage.

Simon to a Puzzle: "I will tryyyyy to solve you!"

I loved this puzzle. Can't wait for Simon to love it too.

I haven't played a sudoku in years but every time I see one of this guy's videos I absolutely love it

Wow. Wow wow wow. I'm so glad that I tried this one before I watched Simon's solve. What a spectacular puzzle, and what a beautiful solve path when you go about it the right way.

40:52 my time, 2nd time in my life faster than Simon! I only saw the rules and got a thought, that I must solve it myself. Brilliant puzzle!

I am always amazed at watching these videos. You look like you have so much fun with these puzzles. I hope that one day, my logic and puzzle skills allow me to enjoy puzzles of this difficulty.

That was really neat, thanks. At first look a bit of a headscratcher, but once I got my eye in my biggest challenge was understanding my own notation for which sum related to which cage.

I finished in 127 minutes. This was a brilliant puzzle with a cool ruleset. I love the kind of logic this produced, calculating for regions elsewhere. Discovering that the 12 pill had to go in the top right corner, due to a 12 pair seeing all the others, was fantastic to see I think my favorite part was seeing that the 12 in r5c5 had to go into column 9, disambiguating that cell, leading to a massive chain of digits. I really liked this one. Great Puzzle!

Very beautiful ruleset ❤ And the puzzle is perfect. Good job Captain ❤

I was screaming about the 5 in box 5 as soon as you filled the 14 pill! Very interesting puzzle though!

@guywithoutpfp

Ай бұрын

I was waiting for him to notice the 3 in box five from about halfway through the video, and had to wait until the very end

@andymoss

19 күн бұрын

There’s no way in hell I could even start a puzzle like this never mind finish it, but Simon’s abject basic sudoku towards the end was hilarious!

Beautiful puzzle, beautiful solve, topped off with Simon overcoming chromatic disappointment to clean up redundant colouring! 😉👏

OMG I cant believe the 5 in C6R4 was the absolutely last digit to be placed. It was given by basic Sudoku at 43:58. I have notice that Simon has a penchant after placing a digit to NOT scan that digit's Column, Row and Box for what falls out from the digit placement, but rather immediately has a compelling urge to look in completely unrelated areas for a unrelated New complex Logic foot holds then gets stuck for 2-3 minutes. Simon would instant be a level higher (than the obviously very high level he already is) in Sudoku solving if he only forced himself to scan Column, Row & Box after every digit placement, before going of on the next Complex Logic search.

Love watching Simon solve a puzzle like this, it makes me so happy and you feel no problems in the world when he is solving it :)

Finished in 38:12. It helps to figure out what the limits are for each cage and use that by process of elimination with the unique killer cage sum rule to figure out which pill represents which cage. Fun puzzle!

With the amount of unlabeled killer cage puzzles you do, it would be really nice to have a way to mark killer cages where the markings: 1. Sit nice and small in the corner 2. Don't disappear when you enter a digit 3. Order based on input (eg. so you can type 21).

Very neat solve! Unfortunately I had a complete spasm and mistakenly thought that the cage with the 12-pill had to add up to _more than 20_ (as Simon would say, "naughty brain!") because I knew it couldn't add up to exactly 20, and so ruled out all of the 4-cell cages as options ... and funnily enough, everything went wrong after that 😢

Teenage cages are a great idea! Both in sudoku, and for teenagers.

yet another satisfying and intelligent solve! I'm a very casual sudoku solver so this is way beyond my level of capabilities but your videos are always so fun and relaxing to watch and I understand every single solution you explain, thank you:)

The back of my head feels like its expanding or being tickled everytime I listen to his logic

53:30 - Time to be remembered. At that time Simon placed 2 consecutive digits in the grid WITHOUT mistiping!!!!🤣

42:10 Directly after founding R1C2 is 6 or bigger I saw C2 has 3x 6,7,8 and 9 and once only 7 and 8. So the 2, 7 and 8 had to be a 2.

I got stuck on this one but it made a lot of sense when I watched the video!

This new pill rule is actually really exciting. Imagine applying it to something other than killer cages, like a diagonal clue for example. There's so many possibilities

Fascinating design....looks to have 7 solutions without the given...crazy how a given can wrok a rulset. Interestinf how the cages are grouped into 7 pillset and 2pillset

Your birthday wishes and genuine personality just make my day, the puzzles are also great 😅 This is an incredible ruleset though, almost remids me of a game of Risk in a few ways.

❤ the guitar intro - just what I needed!!

@davidrattner9

Ай бұрын

Guitar intros from Simon are just magical and special..💜🤎

@longwaytotipperary

Ай бұрын

@@davidrattner9 🧡💙

Took a little under four hours. (Then again, I wasn't pausing while running errands.) I deduced the bottom pill and the 45 quite quickly, filled out most of the 1s and 2s, and everything was smooth from there. I finished it to the tune of "God Only Knows" and "The Other Side of the Wall". I haven't solved in a while -- this was a great puzzle to come back to.

I would not have solved this on my own but WOW what a beautiful puzzle

I found this puzzle quite enjoyable. Not actually too difficult - though I got stuck for a while after forgetting that I had to have a 1-2 pair in a cage label somewhere. 1:52:17 for me!

solved in 23:52 - very good idea. I liked trying to keep track of which cages had which totals

Lovely puzzle and great new rule set!! Wonderful guitar playing for us Simon!!

Just barely beat Simon's time, coming in at 45:06 What a marvelous puzzle!!!!!

Yes!!! Excellent puzzle 😊

A new rule. yes please. thank you Simon and CaptZebraCakes!

I was not expecting to see Simon playing the guitar, but it was very nice!

Took me 02:25:03. Great puzzle, very nice solutions. Took me way too long to find one digit at the end

15:44 for me. What an interesting idea, I really enjoyed this one. Fantastic puzzle!!

A fine example of GEOMETRY and LOGIC leading to a "fairly" straightforward solve. Completed in 13m17s.

Amazing puzzle! Glad I managed to solve it, despite botching the second half multiple times (as is my MO).

9.5 minutes in i'm like, that pill-is-cage one, i'm like okay, it's gotta be a 2 digit number so it's going to be like 3+something high, but it has to be at least 12 so it's two different digits... and i'm like 3+9 boom.

At 15:48 how do you deduct that the pill on the bottom left can't be more than 12? I get that it can't be less, but why not more? ................. Oh,I just got it! Cause it must start with a low digit and the unit digit can't be more than 9! Ah, the beauty of logic!

Simon decided to go cracking the Coldplay today I see 😍 a beautiful intro, a beautiful tribute to the most beautiful band 😍

I got mixed up thinking the cage in box 1 was the 14 cage, rather than the one in box 8/9. Otherwise I managed to follow the logic very well! A challenging and fun puzzle to be sure

Went for it when I saw it was featured and I hadn't solved it - maintaining the quality, I would say - great puzzle.

@MarkBennet10001

Ай бұрын

And I would say I was ahead on some things, but the thing that held me up was (having done all the thinking) not realising that the 23 total was the maximum for one of the cages ... That wasted me a few minutes thinking time. Simon, you are such a good solver - the clarity of your thinking (and the consistency of that) is ahead of mine

Lovely guitar!

Very cool puzzle, and not has hard as I had expected. Took me a bit over and hour even with distractions.

14:50 -- Zebra Cakes is a US pastry snack, like a Twinkie (only its not).

What a clever puzzle!

56:55, I got to the 3,9 cage in box 7 and didn't know what to do from there. Decided to watch the video long enough to be reminded that the 3,9 meant another cage summed to 39 and slapped myself on the forehead and went back to the puzzle to solve it. It was still hard and I seemed to have screwed up a lot at the end and had to undo a bit of work.

@SonGoku-tz9vt

19 күн бұрын

@@srwapo could you explain to me why that cage has to be 39, I didn‘t understand it

@srwapo

19 күн бұрын

​@@SonGoku-tz9vtI had to go back and redo my work, lol. It has to sum to a two digit number that shows up in a "pill" in another cage. Both those digits see each other, so it can't be a repeat (eg, 11) and can't have a 0. Those two digits, read left to right, must also be the sum of another cage. That means the "tens" digit can't be larger than a 4. Its in a two cell cage, so it's totally can't be larger than 17 (8+9). So I just worked out the numbers 12 through 17. Working backwards, things like 17 and 16 would make that cage, at a minimum, 8+9 and 7+9, which would mean the sum of another cage is 89 or 79. Way too big. So make the tens digit a 4. The biggest that could be is a 4,5, which would sum to 9, which is too small to me called out in any of the other pills. So drop the tens digit to a 3. You can get 3,9 which sums to 12, which is possible in another pill. 3,8 sums to 11, which would have a repeat. 3,7 sums to 10, which would have a zero. Anything lower would sum to a single digit number. You can try a 2 in the tens digit, but the largest it can be a 2,9, which sums to 11 (repeat), then 2,8, which sums to 10 (zero), then everything else sums too small. A 1 in the tens digit is also way too small for the sum to appear in any of the other pills. So, 3,9, in that order, is the only thing that can work there. Sorry, rambling a bit trying to remember all my logic from a few weeks ago, haha.

Coldplay jumpscare. lol, loved it.

Very fun solve. Took me around 80mins but I wouldnt call it too difficult.

I really enjoyed this puzzle, though I needed some Simon hints at moments

A great puzzle. Thank you !

I thought this was really interesting, but even more than how interesting the puzzle was, I was fascinated by how smoothly and easily you could figure out the relationships, Simon. I always enjoy the videos, especially when they're this kind of fun!

@davidrattner9

Ай бұрын

We agree on this kind of fun. 😁

Very clever all around!

That was a fun one 😄👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👍🏻

30:05 I made the same mistake 😅and figured it out a moment later. Had I not seen it, I would have got it right by luck (as it sometimes happens to Simon as well, but that's probably only a couple of times a year, quite less than mere mortals like us)

I was so sure I found something that could have busted the whole thing wide open ... Literally ended up being the last digit he placed 😂😂😂

45:39. Even with the chat at the start I beat you! I think for the second time ever. This padwan of yours is learning...

How he did that @ 26:20 when he said "I got a 1,2 pair in coloumn 5. So that's a 3". How did he pull out that one? Can someone explain plz...

Is there a rule missing from this puzzle that states that every killer cage must have its total referred to by a pill? Simon's argument for why the 2 cell cage must be a 3 9 relies on some other cage's pill pointing to that cage, which isn't necessary from the rules as given. You could just have two pills be the same and point to the same cage that is not either of the cages containing the pills.

@moodragonx2

Ай бұрын

Yeah it's enough to say the mapping is injective or surjective, but neither is technically given. It would also be enough to say no two pills are the same, which would be enough to encompass the last rule as well (ie. replace "no two killer cages have the same sum").

@CrankyOtter

Ай бұрын

Because all cages have 1 pill and every pill indexes a cage total & no cage totals repeat, yes, functionally the rules are that each pill must reference a cage total and those totals are unique. If all pills have a cage total, and pills=cages, this does mean that there are no cages without a given pill for the total.

@abcdentminded

Ай бұрын

@@CrankyOtter Taking the written rules at face value, two pills could potentially refer to the same cage's total. It isn't explicitly written than every cage's sum must appear in a pill

@Sidnv

Ай бұрын

@@CrankyOtter No it doesn't. Cage totals cannot repeat but there's no rule that says pills cannot repeat. The rules do not identify either an injection or surjection, which would be sufficient as the other commenter stated. In the rules as stated, ignoring sudoku restrictions, you could have the pills sharing as few as two total values. 8 pills point to cage 1 and cage 1's pill points to some other cage, while every cage could still have a different value.

Simon, following that superb guitar intro, can you next do Steve Hackets "Horizons" from Genesis' Foxtrot?

One additional feature I wouldn't mind seeing on Sven's programming: On the completion screen it shows how many people have solved the puzzle PLUS how long it took you to finish the puzzle...Adding the average time for all solvers would let you know how you did compared to others...

@letsmakeit110

Ай бұрын

this is already a pretty gatekept hobby with every other comment being "took me 10 minutes. pretty slow teehee". Your feature would suck all the joy of solving for beginners. the best solvers solve the most puzzles so most ppl would be below average.

@Anne_Mahoney

Ай бұрын

@@letsmakeit110 Good point; so make it an optional feature, for those who are currently working on speed. Those who will just find it frustrating to be told "the average solve time on this puzzle was 1/50th of your time" can turn it off.

Wow.. one of the most enjoyable hard (very hard for me) puzzles I've solved. Brillant eureka moments. 100:19.

I used letters to link the cages. A in the first position means it's clueing A in the second position. Coloring just got too confusing for me.

Brilliant puzzle.

44 minutes....that took some very delicate colouring and flagging. It's not obvious, but the clues are there.

Simon could break enigma

Do you post covers to KZread? I would be genuinely interested in listening

crazy puzzle but loved it :)❤❤❤

For this puzzle, shouldn’t there be a rule that prevents two pills indexing the same cage? As that was the assumption used to solve after filling in the 45 pill in box 2, then deleting 4 as an option in the tens position if every other pill at 17:41

Great opening serenade

For the hopefully next puzzle with these rules, use the pen tool to re-outline all the cages in different colors then color the pills to match

@AndrewMooreMar

Ай бұрын

The only downside to that is when the cells you want to outline with different colors are adjacent (like the pills on row 5). A cell border can only be colored as one type, so it ends up being a little confusing. I've thought of that approach on different previous cage puzzles, and had to step back for that reason Anyway, I still think it's a great idea, and in this particular puzzle, there would be only two troublesome cell borders

Quite a puzzle here! My time tody was 39:38, solver number 4832.

Mark and Simon are on my Avengers roster alongside the likes of Bob Ross and Mr Rogers.

Ok, there is something I do not understand. 15:31 What is the minimum value of a pill? 12. Ok, easy. But then, that pill is a 39. Why? Why cannot the 39 go in another pill? Why cannot that pill be a 12? That would mean another cage is a 4+5+1+2, for example. I do not get it

@voldy2189

Ай бұрын

because if the pill in the 2 cell cage was a 12 then that means the sum of that cage would be 3. That sum would have to be represented by another pill which would be 03 but 0 is not allowed

@alomejornosasomonami

Ай бұрын

@@voldy2189 Ohhh Thanks!

53:24 , took a while to click but then it was smooth

60:25, wasted like 10 minutes thinking cage minimum sum was 11

@therealAQ

Ай бұрын

same

37:01 for me - took me about 10 minutes to find where to start.

any chance the 600k puzzles could be put on the CTC app?

@LillaJag

Ай бұрын

I hope. The app is the best way to solve on. Patreon is not something everybody has access to..

@awilliams1701

Ай бұрын

@@LillaJag I mean patreon is just a website, so you can get it, but the app is better than sudoku pad. If I tap a number it highlights them. Sudoku pad doesn't. Also I can get smart hints, which don't always work, but sometimes they do. I kind of hate how the steam version of the older apps don't have that (like classic). The android versions all have smart hint though. Honestly they should release everything on CTC. I'd be happy to buy all the packs again. And even the empty stars is a nice feature so I can keep track of my progess when I redo the puzzles again.

Tried to get tickets for Coldplay for the last 2 months, I was late. /me goes to cry in a corner

I was disappointed at the lack of reaction to the MJF reveal at Glastonbury. At least that's how it came across on the BBC iplayer clip. Granted many people at Glastonbury weren't born in 1985.

@pacman52280

Ай бұрын

Well, you and I both know that MJF is better than us, and we know it.

Masterpiece!

Solved in 37:01, but not without having to correct myself a few times.

Cool puzzle - one step leads smoothely to the other.... if you spot it. That was the problem for me, so it took me 67 minutes.

Broooo this was so funny, what happened next?

The one frustrating thing about solving then watching is that Simon inevitably chooses different colours to me.