Simon & Mark Solve Sudoku Together!
** TODAY'S PUZZLE **
We wanted to say thank you to DiMono for his May Patreon reward and he suggested we might like to tackle one of his "beast level" puzzles... so today both Simon & Mark take on Everything Is Rihgt, an astonishing construction that must be solved twice; once with the clues treated as being true and once with the clues being treated as false!
Play the puzzle at the link below:
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Rules:
This is a puzzle that must be solved twice! Normal sudoku rules apply. Normal Killer, Little Killer, Quadruple, Kropki, Thermometer, Palindrome, Maximum, Minimum, and XV rules apply (see below for detailed rules). Red clues are each at least one of normal Skyscrapers, X-Sum, or Sandwich clues. After solving the puzzle, save your solution, because it's time to solve it again as a Wrogn puzzle! All clues in the grid must be made invalid in the finished solution, and red clues cannot be ANY of valid Skyscrapers, X-Sum, or Sandwich clues. To be considered invalid, the maximum cell must be less than AT LEAST one adjacent cell, the minimum cell must be greater than AT LEAST one adjacent cell, thermometers must NOT increase from bulb to tip, and quadruple circles may have some BUT NOT ALL listed digits in the surrounding cells. A "less than" sign effectively becomes a greater-than-or-equal-to sign. A "greater than" sign effectively becomes a less-than-or-equal-to sign. ADDITIONALLY, when solving the Wrogn version, no digit may be the same as it was in the Right version. i.e. if R1C1 was a 1 the first time, it may not be a 1 the second time. IT IS IMPOSSIBLE TO SOLVE THE WROGN VERSION WITHOUT FIRST SOLVING IT NORMALLY
Correct rules would be:
Killer: Digits cannot repeat within a cage and sum to the small clue in the top left corner of the cage (if given).
Little Killer: Clues outside the grid with an arrow give the sum of the digits in the direction of the arrow.
Quadruple: The digit(s) in a circle must appear at least once in the four cells touching the circle.
Kropki: Cells separated by a white dot must contain consecutive digits; cells separated by a black dot must contain digits in a 1:2 ratio (ie one digit must be double the other).
Thermometer: Along a thermometer, digits must increase from the bulb end.
Palindrome (grey lines without bulbs): digits along the palindrome must read the same forwards and backwards.
In a grey cell with four arrows facing outwards, the digit in the cell must be greater than the digits in the four orthogonally neighbouring cells.
In a grey cell with four arrows facing inwards, the digit in the cell must be less than the digits in the four orthogonally neighbouring cells.
XV: Cells separated by an X must contain digits summing to 10.
Sandwich: The clue outside the grid gives the sum of the digits sandwiched between the 1 and 9 in that row/column.
X-Sums: The clue outside the grid gives the sum of the first X digits in that row/column, where X is the digit in the cell at the start of that row/column.
Skyscrapers: The clue outside the grid gives the number of buildings "seen" from the direction of the clue (treating each digit as a building with a size equal to its value and noting that taller (higher) digits therefore obstruct the view of shorter (smaller) digits.
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▶ Contents Of This Video ◀
0:00 Guitar music (Clay Pigeons) and puzzle intro
2:50 Birthdays
3:43 Kid's Hunt Out Yesterday on Patreon
4:28 Rules of the puzzle
13:20 Start Of Solve - Let's Get Cracking!
Пікірлер: 373
I've been looking forward to this. Thank you for solving this conclusion to my Wrogn trilogy. I'm glad you enjoyed it!
@crashtextdummie
Жыл бұрын
Perfect puzzle for this type of endeavor. I tip my hat to you for this construction!
@michaelsoremekun7053
Жыл бұрын
Conclusion? Will 100,000 views change your mind?
@user-fq6fc5gi1o
Жыл бұрын
I've been watching CTC almost daily for over two years now. This contraction blew my mind. THANK YOU
@davidstorrs
Жыл бұрын
Brilliant puzzle. Great job setting that!
@pouletbelette
Жыл бұрын
Super clever and super fun, as always, DiMono! Good job! And greetings from Montréal, fellow citizen.
Simon "outsourcing" sudoku scanning 😂
@maspleben
Жыл бұрын
😂😂😂
@nochsta
Жыл бұрын
Especially funny, considering he doesn’t like using the conflict checker.
@AhsimNreiziev
Жыл бұрын
@@nochsta Except that makes perfect sense. Having the computer do it is cheating. Having a friend do it is still relying on human skill (and human fallibility, although when it comes to the Sudoku part of Sudoku puzzles that's more of a Simon thing than a Mark thing), and so it is cooperation rather than cheating.
@stevesebzda570
Жыл бұрын
"Two heads are better than one," the saying goes.. Funny though 😂
@novemberdag1127
Жыл бұрын
@@maspleben and Mark still missing the 6 in R2C6 for a very very long time
Simon "bup bup bup bup bup so it is a 6"; Mark "beautifully explained" lol
@highpath4776
Жыл бұрын
was there a time for this ?
@welemmanuel
Жыл бұрын
@@highpath4776 20:16
@chris5619
Жыл бұрын
That's funny. But I don't think Mark is being sarcastic about the "bup bup bup bup bup", but being serious about the explanation right before that.
I appreciate it's a bit 'weird' for you to solve together, but I enjoy it immensly to see two frighteningly intelligent people with such different styles work together.
Double the puzzle, double the solve, double the solvers, double the technical difficulties, double the song, and double the fun. What more could we ask for? Cheers all around!!
@hidalgobuscato7957
Жыл бұрын
Double 3 in the corner!
@davidblake6889
Жыл бұрын
@@hidalgobuscato7957 You took the words out of my mouth!
@chris5619
Жыл бұрын
@@hidalgobuscato7957 Isn't that what Emm meant by double the song?
@robinbrown6530
Жыл бұрын
But the puzzle has no doublers in it! >:/
@ReedHarston
Жыл бұрын
It even had a double 1 thermo!
What a delightful collaboration! A bit jarring at times hopping between the two thought processes, but Simon and Mark's personalities play off each other so well. And with two sets of eyes we never had any long pauses between logical steps. If you can get a handle on the technical side of this, I'd be happy to see something like this again on occasion!
@longwaytotipperary
Жыл бұрын
Amen!
@Anne_Mahoney
Жыл бұрын
@@AhsimNreiziev Yes, but at least some of those weren't live solves.
@AhsimNreiziev
Жыл бұрын
@@Anne_Mahoney The ones I'm referring to definitely were. That is, if I understand you correctly and by "live solve" you mean that neither of them had done any part of the solve before doing the video.
A cooperation of Simon an Mark and a guitar-intro, we're getting spoiled! ❤
Honestly, I wish ya'll did more team ups to solve; maybe, it makes it frustrating sometimes, but the banter is just so good. Its incredible the number of daily videos yall pump out so I can't ask for more, but this is good stuff.
The sound of Simon and Mark laughing together is heavenly music!!
@emilywilliams3237
Жыл бұрын
Yes.
@davidrattner9
Жыл бұрын
Such a wonderful treat and joyous occasion for us. Another wonderful reason why this channel is so special!! 🙂
@longwaytotipperary
Жыл бұрын
@@davidrattner9 yes!
This is soo cool. Would love to see them both upload the same puzzle on the same day. Would be soo interesting to see how their minds go with different thought processes to complete the solve
@lindaisyoutubing
Жыл бұрын
They’ve done this a couple times. Not sure if they’re only on Patreon but I know there’s at least two puzzles they’ve both done. And yes, used different logic so it was interesting.
@fulltimeslackerii8229
Жыл бұрын
@@lindaisyoutubing links?
@lindaisyoutubing
Жыл бұрын
@FullTimeSlacker II Sorry, you’d have to go back through their old videos. I can’t even give you a timeline since I’ve been watching this channel for years.
Yay it worked! Thanks for making the co-solve happen!
@pouletbelette
Жыл бұрын
That was quite a treat, wasn't it? Co-solving a Wrogn puzzle. I really enjoyed it. Hopefully, one day they'll co-solve one of yours, Qodec!
This is truly golden -- the co-solve should happen more often
I rarely comment on your videos but I must comment on this. This was a BRILLIANT puzzle. One of the best puzzles I've seen on the channel. It wasn't too difficult. There was very clever, unique, and consistent logic throughout the entire solve - some logic that I've never seen before. This one deserves a spot in your next book!
The speed at which Mark identifies what digits cannot be in a square always astounds me
32:10 "Just keep ignoring me. Do whatever you want." - Mark Believe us, he does that all the time.
Simon & Mark together! What a great way to end my day 🙂
Incredible puzzle set, mind blowing that by creating a wrogn, and then correcting it, then making the rihgt one the first solve to allow cross-referencing to become a rule for the wrogn ! I have no words. Then having Mark and Simon seeing different things to reach the same conclusion for cell values, just unbelievable.
This is my favorite episode on CTC so far! Not due to the puzzles (though I thought was mind-boggling and brilliantly created), but watching the collaboration between Mark and Simon was wonderful to watch due to their different techniques of solving. Please make this a feature on your channel (even if only twice a year), so each has a chance to be the driver/advisor.
At minute 55:00, you realise how deep the passion for sudoku solving Mark and Simon have is truly genuine and unique. What a team. Such great communicators!
That was excellent! Loved watching Simon tease Mark about his pencil-marking! Thanks for pushing through the technical difficulties to bring us this absolutely delightful collaborative solve!
😂😂😂 Ok. I work nights, so I am often late to the channel... but I am LOVING this! I have only gotten to them finishing the "rihgt" way, and I am laughing my head off! Mark telling Simon to "do column 5... column 5... ok, just ignore me". It's like all of us yelling at the screen as we watch... but now Simon can HEAR it (yet still tries to ignore it)... 😂😂😂 That was so very satisfying!
Oh happy happy day!!!!🤗🤗🤗 Simon AND Mark solving a DiMono puzzle together + Simon on guitar for intro!!! ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️
@davidrattner9
Жыл бұрын
Was such an incredible day indeed!! Very special!
I’ve never heard Simon laugh so much during a solve. This collab is great. I knew this would be a fun video, but it surpassed my expectations.
I'm so used to watching you separately and enjoying you both for VERY different reasons. To the point where I wasn't sure this was going to go smoothly at all; especially with Simon at the wheel! 😂 Happy to say I was dead wrong.
@highpath4776
Жыл бұрын
It was very similar to the code/bomb collaboration gameplay they did.
What a perfect puzzle to solve this way, the humor of a wrogn puzzle was made even more enjoyable by watching Simon and Mark discover it together!
Think a once a month special would strike a good balance for these sort of videos. I’m sure someone could provide some Tech tips on getting the recordings running smoothly. Am I right in saying the likes of Zetamath often has multiple people on streams / videos. Where there’s a will, there’s a way !! Whether these team ups continue or not. This one was great !!
I love it when you collaborate! Shame about the technical difficulties... but it's worth it in the end!
That was delightful. I would love to see more such tandem solving videos. Thank you both for doing it and wow that was an impressive puzzle.
What a great video, my friends! I loved the collab solve, and I'm glad Simon started to break free from his usual solo solving ways and let Mark speak and include his thoughts as the video went on.
This was a triumph. There was a little bit of hesitation right at the start when they were both spotting different things, but once we got past that, it turned out to be quite the collaboration. I really enjoyed how their styles complemented each other, and how they complimented each other for spotting things. I liked how sometimes Mark wouldn't tell Simon specifically what to do but rather where to look so that Simon could work it out. I liked how Mark would come up with some logic and then Simon would explain it to the viewer. I liked how they kept each other from making typos and silly mistakes. I liked that there was a teensy bit of teasing but you could tell they really respect each other. Just well done overall!
What a treat! Mark and Simon together!
The main thing I'm wondering before watching the solve is what the prevalence of pencil marking will be. I believe this is happening to bring some balance back to the universe.😀
What a treat, a lovely puzzle and it was great to see you solving together. I hope you can smooth out the technological difficulties to make this easier to do in future.
This was good for Simon in that Mark did the Sudoku, and for Mark (who wrongly thinks he should not sing) in that Simon did the 3 in the Corner. It was wonderful!!!
@colej.banning2419
Жыл бұрын
A fair and reasonable division of labor!
I have now watched the whole video, and truly I think I'll watch it again at some point. It was so enjoyable for so many reasons. Of course one of the biggest ones is that the puzzle was so interesting, and worthy of a collaborative solve! Also, because it is always fun to see the two of you together, since we don't see that very often. The logic, the display of your senses of humor, your engagement with the puzzle, everything, really, was just a blast to watch. Thanks, Simon and Mark, for wading through the tech issues to bring this.
I vote we do more of these, yes its bit chaotic at time, but their complimentary effect on solving a sudoku is amazing. I wonder how fast they would be if neither has to 'explain' stuff to us and go on GAS gear 6 full on? Absolute fun to watch.
@peterkelley6344
Жыл бұрын
NEW SUDOKU compention event: Team solving.
I loved the co-op solve! It's great watching both minds working together. I've often wondered on a solve how the other would have done with the puzzle and this gives us a glimpse into that. We need more of this!
HUGE THANK YOU for bringing this video to us!! Loved seeing the joy, pleasure and admiration you 2 have for each other.
I have a busy afternoon, but I'm able to tune in just for the start of this - so fun! More later ...
More of this! Love watching you two solve together. You are both brilliant, but have different styles and I have always wondered what it would be like to watch you together.
Rules: 04:42 Let's Get Cracking: 13:34 What about this video's Top Tier Simarkisms?! Three In the Corner: 3x (17:30, 1:11:03, 1:12:25) The Secret: 3x (55:15, 55:17, 56:18) Bobbins: 2x (25:35, 30:32) The Bot: 1x (24:27) Knowledge Bomb: 1x (44:34) And how about this video's Simarkisms?! Sorry: 13x (13:52, 14:09, 14:12, 16:41, 18:19, 32:13, 36:13, 42:48, 44:18, 49:45, 52:57, 1:03:50, 1:04:18) Lovely: 12x (04:04, 16:21, 20:43, 30:46, 41:23, 46:31, 48:23, 54:14, 54:53, 58:42, 1:02:28, 1:12:12) Hang On: 11x (19:29, 19:49, 24:17, 32:51, 35:58, 38:03, 38:03, 45:34, 47:55, 47:55) Clever: 9x (20:01, 42:36, 46:40, 55:59, 59:29, 1:07:49, 1:08:49, 1:13:29, 1:13:31) Wow: 8x (18:06, 25:08, 32:34, 40:49, 48:39, 56:16, 58:47, 59:34) By Sudoku: 7x (27:25, 28:51, 41:15, 1:05:13, 1:05:29, 1:08:58, 1:11:09) Ah: 7x (19:29, 30:44, 37:52, 46:13, 47:07, 1:03:50, 1:06:19) Beautiful: 5x (21:21, 38:16, 38:16, 41:04, 41:06) Brilliant: 5x (12:48, 38:31, 45:56, 50:48, 1:13:31) Obviously: 5x (13:54, 22:15, 28:10, 53:06, 54:41) Pencil Mark/mark: 5x (15:13, 15:23, 38:43, 1:02:45, 1:02:56) Wrogn: 4x (05:12, 06:06, 06:25, 50:19) What on Earth: 3x (57:21, 1:06:48, 1:08:47) Useless: 3x (14:50, 24:05, 34:32) Incredible: 3x (00:38, 01:15, 1:02:28) Naked Single: 2x (1:10:08, 1:10:13) Nonsense: 2x (29:04, 31:52) Naughty: 2x (31:11, 31:22) In the Spotlight: 2x (19:37, 1:12:27) First Digit: 2x (10:42, 27:37) Surely: 2x (40:41, 42:22) That is Sick: 2x (38:24, 52:42) Good Grief: 1x (24:23) Goodness: 1x (09:03) Stuck: 1x (29:22) Insane: 1x (50:51) Gorgeous: 1x (39:10) Our old Friend Sudoku: 1x (1:03:55) Bonkers: 1x (02:40) Shouting: 1x (03:27) Shenanigans: 1x (47:58) I've Got It!: 1x (1:06:45) In Fact: 1x (45:08) Unstuck: 1x (29:24) Fabulous: 1x (55:51) What Does This Mean?: 1x (18:44) Cake!: 1x (03:15) Most popular number(>9), digit and colour this video: Eleven (9 mentions) One (122 mentions) Red (13 mentions) Antithesis Battles: Even (7) - Odd (0) Outside (5) - Inside (0) Black (4) - White (4) Row (48) - Column (42) 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!
This was soooo much fun! Love you, guys! It made me smile for an hour and 14 minutes 😊
37:50 Simon and Mark didn't realise 9 could go in the left tip of the thermo if the right one breaks it. Here the better way: After doing the sandwich logic in column 6 you can use that 8 has to be in R7C123 which eliminates one of the possible places for 8 in column 6. Recognizing 8 is very restricted in column 6 you will see it goes just in the tip of the thermo. The remaining tip now can't be 9 anymore!
@Eckbert1410
Жыл бұрын
Placing 8 in R8C6: R234C6 =139 because of sandwich logic. R1C6 = 2 because >3 x-sum at the top (1 is required in sandwich) R5C6 can't be 8 because R6 would be lower. R6C6 get's reflected in R7C5 (only way the cage breaks) seeing marked 8's in box 7. R7C6 see above. R9C6 would break
This was great, both the puzzle and the dual solve. I hope you can find a technical solution to make this kind of cooperation more painless for you so we can see this more often. Thanks for the great channel!!
I enjoyed this collaboration. It's interesting to see the differing approaches and how they complement eachother.
I'm halfway through, and I must say, it's so much fun to watch two great minds work together, it's so fast and chaotic and I love it ❤ Simon and Mark works well together, as they both have a bit different strengths to fill in on one another 👌
That last deduction 😅😅😅 epic solve 👏👏take a bow
It is absolutely beautiful watching the two of you solve a puzzle! It's crazy how fast you are at seeing and deducing things
Until today I had a very different definition of chaos sudoku.
Fantastic! I've been waiting months, even years, for a video with you working together on a puzzle - please do more of these!
The puzzles you've solved together on Patreon have been my absolute favorite videos, and this one joins that number. I would love, love, love to see more like this.
More of this! Watching you two good friends interact is so much fun!
I know the technical side gave you issues but this was such a joy to watch!!! Either one of you is constantly looking at different things and explaining to the other
This is probably my favorite video on the channel! Lovely to see you two solving together, it even made the puzzle look easy because your skills complement each other so well! As the dictionary definition for complement says: "add to (something) in a way that enhances or improves it; make perfect." and this video truly was made perfect by you working together.
This is one of the greatest things I've been hoping for on this channel, and it was so wonderful to see you both enjoying it and playing off each other, despite the technical hurdles. Well done on the entertainment value, and generally all around. I hope you find a way to do more like this!
DO MORE OF THESE PLEASE
That was incredible! Super nice flow of logic coming from both sides, I loved it! Thank you Simon for taking the time to explain the logic slowly. And the puzzle in itself is a masterpiece. For the special rule linking both grids, I chose to replace all 1's in the first grid by pencil-mark A's in the second one, 2's by pencil-mark B's, and so on, so that my grid was self-sufficient.
That was brilliantly mad! Thank you DiMono for that astonishing puzzle. It requires to be so careful to solve, and definitely much more to build it. Wow! And thanks Mark and Simon for appearing together, that was so lively and... too fast for me 😅 I had your "two-brain power" on pause quite a few times.
How on earth does DiMono come up with such an extraordinary setting?! Just mind-boggling. Very much enjoyed the dual-solve...hope to see more of these in future.
I hate saying this because it is beyond annoying when technology doesn't work, but yes, please make more videos like this! I like your banter and you guys compliment each other well in terms of solving skills. Awesome puzzle and awesome video :).
This was quite the remarkable puzzle and also quite the remarkable solve! It was very interesting seeing both of you together solving at the same time!
I had this open in two windows. One at the end of the first solve, which served as my "snipped" copy and then watching on the second window. Worked out perfectly.
It was such a joy to see you both having so much fun. I would love to see more of this!!!
This was wonderful to watch. It seemed like you two had fun, despite the technological difficulties
Loved you both solving this. On extremely hard puzzles it is a good idea as is flows better without pauses or scanning mistakes. Please make another one it was great. The puzzle is beyond clever also.
Definetly one of my favourite videos on the channel so far, very interesting to see both minds working on things at the same time, fantastic!
Loved it! I would really like more of these joint solves!
That’s an incredibly clever puzzle. Brilliant stuff DiMono.
Great! This is the most beautiful today's news! I hope that in the future this gonna repeat!
This is basically what we've known for 2+ years. Simon will immediately jump to the complicated, convoluted way forward. Fascinating how this man's brain works.
This is my new favourite CtC video. Just great fun to watch. And an incredible puzzle. Thank you Simon, Mark and DiMono!
this was phenomenal. I'd love to see more puzzles like this. I also really enjoyed the interaction between Simon & Mark. Some more cooperative puzzles might be fun too.
Beautiful puzzle! And lots of fun having you both solving together!
I love all the red hearts around the outside
I'm glad you've livened up the birthdays segment by the addition of a puppet companion to the broom cupboard.
What a brilliant puzzle. Both versions were excellent. I've no idea how one would go about setting this, it's complete madness. To have a grid where the same rules are either completely right, or completely wrogn, and for the solution to the second to depend on the first just boggles the mind. I didn't even bother trying this, because I wasn't in the mood for a complicated set of rules, and preferring just to watch the pair of you. After watching your solve, I'm regretting that decision. You did well working together. In the games, I thought Mark felt a bit out of it, but he was genuinely useful here. Both solves were nice and efficient. Some of the things Mark spotted, like the 39 in R1, were brilliant. I don't know if it was the presence of Mark, or just the nature of the puzzle, but there was very little sign of Simon doing his normal Simon thing, so nary a shout from me. You always seem to have technological problems when you collaborate. Rather than using the discord server, have you considered any of the video conferencing apps like Teams or Zoom? I've not tried Zoom, but I've seen several other channels use it to good effect. In Teams (and possibly also in Zoom), Mark could take control of the keyboard and mouse, if he wanted to demonstrate a point, although that might get confusing. It pays to be like a pilot, and say "you have control" before handling control to the other.
I can't explain it fully, but I think the "how can you let me get that" at 1:10:05 is the most genuine bit of banter between the two of you so far
17:25 "The tip of the sandwich" sent me into a giggling fit for some reason, I just love how dimono has so utterly confused you with the sheer amount of rules that everything has become a sandwich now
I would love to see more of these. I expect that the technical speedbumps will become less stressful as you get more experience in dealing with them. :)
It's so interesting how different this is from a normal video. They go so much faster, just bouncing ideas off each other and not explaining as much to the viewers. It's a really cool change to see maybe their more natural solving process, rather than the educational style they usually have for us.
For the next time you could have been in the same room? And also you could have put the "first" solve over the rules so we could see it also when doing part 2. Thanks for another great video.
Fantastic joint work. Please do this again in the future. It's a lovely treat!
Absolutely loved it, would love to see Di Mono's video on how he went around setting this.
Loving the team up, hope you can get those tech issues solved so you can do more in the future!
I'm still working on it, but I just have to pop in early to say, the >3 clue in the wrogn half of the solve is probably my favorite clue i've ever seen in a sudoku so far. Just... wow.
This was great fun, Simon and Mark!!! I would love to see it again in the future!
Yay! I did it. It did take me ages and I needed the teeniest bit of help when I couldn’t reconcile the thermo in box 7/8 having not considered repeating digits. Loved it though. Amazing setting yet again!
I thoroughly enjoyed seeing you both solving together. What a treat!
I absolutely loved seeing the two of you solve this puzzle(s) together! Hope there is a simpler technical method abd looking forward to more of this! Great puzzle too, of course!
When will we get a video of Simon and Mark in the same room?
@kr12a2y
Жыл бұрын
That's on OnlyFans
@michaelmatter1222
Жыл бұрын
is the same (Z)oom close enough?
@TheSonicPerson
Жыл бұрын
@@michaelmatter1222 no
@Wecoc1
Жыл бұрын
There's a very old one where Simon does a brief appearance on Mark's video, helps him with a clue, and disappears again. Sadly, I don't remember the name of the video 😅
@longwaytotipperary
Жыл бұрын
@@kr12a2y 🤣
19:00 + 40:04 = 59:04, plus a headache. Insane two-fer puzzle!
You all should definitely do some solves together in person whenever possible. I've seen several videos of chess GMs solving chess puzzles with another GM or an IM and the banter flows a lot better because of no delay.
About 35 minutes each for me (after needing to restart the first half due to a typo in a pencil mark). That was an amazing puzzle, and I loved the joint solve, as well. Thank you, DiMono and CtC!
I loved having both of you solve this puzzle! The energy you two have together on such a unique puzzle was amazing. Please do more of this in the future!!!
My favourite - amazing grid and fun to see Simon and Mark solving together
"there's a 2 somewhere in box 9" Yep, there sure is!
Most invigorating, thanks. To finish in less than four times the combined brain power of Mark and Simon is fine with me.
Haven't even seen anything yet but this is brilliant
@2beinteresting
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They're so happy. Great to see it
This was such fun. I loved Mark's comment "I've solved the entire puzzle in my head" as Simon was reading the birthdays (and it wasn't even a particularly long list) -- it could almost have been true, and you could see Simon thinking "is he serious?" for a millisecond. But once they got down to solving, it was fascinating to see them playing off each other. And then the puzzle itself was quite interesting, though fairly baroque.
This puzzle is monstrous with a ton of obscure logic, I'm glad you two solved it together. Amazing puzzle btw.