"Oh good, a new video from one of the most wholesome channels on KZitem..." "This snake is touching itself orthogonally in lots of different positions!" "...oh my."
@TheGTRacer97
4 жыл бұрын
We need merch with "Nobody puts a nine in the corner"
@markscottuk
4 жыл бұрын
Matias and “bobbins!”
@AAKmKm
4 жыл бұрын
:D and "The snake must not touch itself orthogonally!"
@Wecoc1
4 жыл бұрын
"Well, the two is not a one or a nine, axiomatically" "I'm pretty sure you are familiar with sevens" "All the numbers in the T shape have to be different. And they all have to be the same." "And now we are cooking with gas aren't we"
@annielams
4 жыл бұрын
"This is a work of sublime genius" And of course "Let's get cracking!"
@dominikskorjanc
4 жыл бұрын
Can someone explain lol?
@brookead
4 жыл бұрын
I know it's a smidge childish but every time Simon says "The snake would be touching itself orthogonally" I laugh. :)
@16m49x3
4 жыл бұрын
( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)
@Afterthoughtbtw
4 жыл бұрын
If you think about it, this puzzle was all about spotting inappropriate touching.
@Willnewman-Jugheadjones
4 жыл бұрын
brookead I can’t unread your comment and now I am laughing every time he says it. 😂
@planetrinaaa
4 жыл бұрын
In lots of positions I’m a pile of dirt lmao
@loops8274
4 жыл бұрын
I busted up laughing the first time he said it even after having read your comment. There's nothing quite like it
@Preston7794
4 жыл бұрын
I really appreciate your thoughts on selecting colours that are easier for colour blind people to see, its actually more useful to use a dark and light colour as opposed to two colours with similar luminosity. I'm red green colour blind, but even still that magenta and light blue is hard to tell apart, it'll be more helpful to use a darker purple and light blue, as then us colourblind people can focus on the difference in luminosity rather than the colour itself.
@Preston7794
4 жыл бұрын
Any colours would be more or less okay, so long as the are quite different in luminosity and/or saturation.
@paulcook2961
4 жыл бұрын
Simon: use {RED, YELLOW, BLUE, GREY} and here's why: I'm mildly red-green colourblind too and out of the 9 colours available, blue and purple are the hardest two to distinguish. Even, ironically, harder than red and green (which are quite dark and light respectively in your software - although these would be the next worst pair). Simon, if you're reading - perhaps some logic will help you to help us here: It seems you think red-green colourblind people can't see red or see green (like the red/green bits of the screen are missing or it's like a blind spot or something?) But actually red-green colourblind people can't tell the DIFFERENCE between red and green. That's the key point. Remember this. So using red and something else which isn't green should be fine. Also green and something else which isn't red is also fine. The blue and purple colours in your software's palette differ only in the amount of red and green in their RGB composition, hence are hard to tell apart. If you want to be mathematical about it, here's a more abstract but more complete explanation. Normal people see colours in 3 dimensions (with R,G,B as dimensions). So you can imagine a colour-cube. The 8 colours with the highest contrast from each other represent the corners of this cube and would be called black, white, red, green, blue, yellow, magenta and cyan. Imagine now collapsing this cube diagonally like a cardboard box without a top and bottom so the R&G dimensions merge (so the red & green corners join up and the magenta & cyan corners join up). This is now a 2 dimensional rectangle that is like the 2-dimensional colour space that RG colourblind people see. In this 2-dimensional space, the four corners (i.e. highest possible contrast) are black, white, blue and yellow. You can maintain reasonably high contrast by adding either red or green to this set (but not both) and by adding magenta or cyan (but not both). In your software, the "blue" is quite light and like cyan (hence the difficulty - pure blue in an RGB sense would be fine). Obviously black and white are unsuitable for shading over the top of a black&white puzzle. But that still leaves us with clear sets of three that are mutually high-contrast even to us RG colourblind weirdos. To summarise, based on your software's palette and the explanation above, the set {red, yellow, blue} will be mutually high-contrast to virtually everyone (except those who are totally colourblind - i.e. see only shades in brightness of a single colour which is EXTREMELY rare - or those that are literally actually blind - who presumably aren't watching this channel). If you need a fourth, you could consider grey which is in medium contrast to all colours. So you have {red, yellow, blue, grey} as a fairly guaranteed set. I've not seen a video yet where you really needed more than 4 colours. In the set {red, yellow, blue, grey} you could swap green for red and/or swap purple for blue and have an equally good set of 4. The worst possible choices of two would be {blue, purple} and {red, green}. I hope that all makes sense. Note that about 8% of males are mildly colourblind (imagine squashing that cardboard box but not completely flat) so that red vs green is low-contrast and cyan vs magenta is low-contrast (i.e. physically close in your nearly-squashed box). These choices will help those people. The number of people who have some other form of colour blindness, for whom my suggestions won't help, number something like 0.001% or less. If you have 220K subscribers and they are 50% male, then we're talking about 9,000 people that you will be helping. In my own case, I can just tell the difference between blue and purple (i.e. if you pointed at a box coloured with one or the other, I could tell which it is) but when the whole grid is coloured blue vs purple, I cannot see the pattern. It may as well be randomly-coloured. Summary: RED, BLUE, YELLOW, GREY is a safe choice for 99.999% of non-blind people.
@vanguard2960
4 жыл бұрын
yeah basically use colors that are as different from each other as possible. I'm Red/green color blind and purple/ blue have also been the toughest to distinguish for me. the way it works is every color looks darker to me than to someone who's not R/G colorblind. Red and green both look browner to me than someone else, hence the name. but in general it's just important for colors to be different from each other
@paulcook2961
4 жыл бұрын
@@vanguard2960 That's all very well and true but isn't helpful to a fully colour-sighted person as ALL colours look different to them. Two things we know about Simon is that he wants to help (he said so and the blue and purple is an unfortunate and ironic error) and he's good at logic. So hopefully he'll see my post and it will do the trick.
@angelowentzler9961
4 жыл бұрын
I seem to recall Simon himself is colourblind?
@HolyChez
4 жыл бұрын
From the rules: the snake must contain one 1, two 2s, three 3s, four 4s, five 5s, six 6s, seven 7s, eight 8s, and nine 9s.
@randybartlett3042
4 жыл бұрын
That's an outstanding deduction
@D4N1CU5
4 жыл бұрын
Came here to say this
@finngallagher2369
4 жыл бұрын
This was my first thought, I’m surprised Simon never used this to deduce what could and couldn’t be snake
@Awkwerp
4 жыл бұрын
@@finngallagher2369 he does, but only with the 1 digit
@bitzibaerlie
4 жыл бұрын
And he uses the reverse logic for 7s, 8s and 9s to figure out they have to be snake parts later on. You have to, really.
@cscatliff
4 жыл бұрын
Simon saying "ta-da" was one of the most satisfying things I'll hear all week I'm sure.
@diyasharma96
4 жыл бұрын
Who's the lucky lady ;P ? (Just kidding, of course)
@shrek8004
4 жыл бұрын
“Uhhh NO wait YEAH no actually both” Words of a wise man
@evah4431
4 жыл бұрын
"All the other eights have to be snake!" I do adore these comments sometimes, they would make absolutely zero sense out of context
@CSmyth-
4 жыл бұрын
<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="771">12:51</a> "Up or that way" most of us would say "left" but you do you, Simon. That's why we love you, lol.
@gombospatrik
4 жыл бұрын
Few minutes? If "few" means 111, then yes, I gave myself a few minutes of puzzle joy.
@leporid257
4 жыл бұрын
mood
@CGEWNope
4 жыл бұрын
Good job for finishing though
@sykesmason2325
4 жыл бұрын
Simon: "That's gonna be the 1." Also Simon: Takes another 2 minutes to put a 1 into that square.
@Xeridanus
4 жыл бұрын
As he said though, it didn't really help him.
@sykesmason2325
4 жыл бұрын
@@Xeridanus Agreed. I just find it interesting that Simon gets so focused on the complexities that he skips over the trivial.
@no_name4796
4 жыл бұрын
me: want try the puzzle the video: the puzzle is done by phistomefel me: screw it! i'll just watch!
@JasperJanssen
4 жыл бұрын
It’s also 33 minutes, so wow.
@no_name4796
4 жыл бұрын
@@JasperJanssen yeah he solves it like it's nothing and then the most of the spectators don't even know how to begin...
@paperspock
4 жыл бұрын
I like trying until I get stuck, then watching until Simon/Mark reveal something new, seeing where I get with that info until I get stuck again, then rinse and repeat.
@gregorymorse8423
4 жыл бұрын
Gitlfriend: "Honey, what are you doing?" Me: "Making my snake divide 8 different pink regions" Should have went with blue I suppose :)
@sanctionbuster
4 жыл бұрын
Just watched the BBC vid. For the record: I loved you guys before lockdown. I hope you and your families are keeping well. Take care.
@geoffpinkerton63
4 жыл бұрын
T-Shirt with " The Snake Orthogonaly Touched itself"
@zanzaboonda
4 жыл бұрын
I hope they make this happen
@Bardathe111
4 жыл бұрын
I thought I might be the only person amused by that.
@covovker
4 жыл бұрын
Rules <a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="78">1:18</a> Let's get cracking <a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="162">2:42</a> Although it's hard to imagine to skip the rules in this case.
@evah4431
4 жыл бұрын
Thankfully they always put them in the description too, so I can always go solve it right away without impatiently watching the start of the video first :D
@brandonfisher5303
4 жыл бұрын
You are doing God's work
@herobrinehunter18
4 жыл бұрын
that heartfelt "yes!" after every time you solve a puzzle brings me so much joy
@Wecoc1
4 жыл бұрын
Well, if he's made one of these before we can easily find it in that spreadsheet now 😎
@rob7849
4 жыл бұрын
<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="767">12:47</a> twelve minutes and 47 seconds in the video and Simon puts his first digit in. Just goes to show the brilliance of this puzzle
@beatrizribeiro2417
4 жыл бұрын
<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="1444">24:04</a> "TA DAAÁ" must be said on ur videos from now ooonnn It was HILARIOUS 😂
@evah4431
4 жыл бұрын
Agreed, that was really adorable
@Tyiriel
4 жыл бұрын
Wasn't like "TaDaaAA", more of a CONFIDENT magician's "TadAAH"
@randomweeaboo
4 жыл бұрын
<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="259">4:19</a> as someone who's colorblind, thank you so much.
@harmony6643
4 жыл бұрын
Same goes for most of us colour-grapheme synaesthetes out there ...
@johan7658
4 жыл бұрын
I‘m colour blind too but it was very hard to see the difference there :(
@heywardhollis1160
4 жыл бұрын
@@johan7658 What are the most contrasting colors for you?
@dkblap
4 жыл бұрын
@@johan7658 agreed - the blue has a green tint. therefore there's a blue-green and a blue-red (purple). When I use the app, the bottom row of colors work nicely for me - red, blue, and the light orange.
@johan7658
4 жыл бұрын
@Heyward Hollis When I solve Sudokus myself, I use grey and any other colour or very hard conrtasts like blue yellow, so I use hard contrasts
@audiosalix1780
4 жыл бұрын
"We need to maintain the integrity of the snake's head" I laughed
@Lord_Volkner
4 жыл бұрын
"Give yourself a few minutes of puzzle joy" is a typo. It was meant to say, "Give yourself a few hours of puzzle torture." Glad we cleared that up.
@Rangar1997
4 жыл бұрын
Anything by Phistomefel, gets an automatic thumbs up
@boggeshzahim3713
4 жыл бұрын
Thank goodness for Mark and Simon. It's nice to find some simple pleasures in these puzzles during these difficult times.
@pixihawk
4 жыл бұрын
Thank you so much for these videos, in addition to just generally being enjoyable, I've been using them to deal with smaller anxiety attacks quite effectively. That has led me to use puzzles, particularly Sudokus, very successfully for coping with anxiety in general!! And I'm certain I'm not the only one. :)
@yadiracamacho499
4 жыл бұрын
They help me get out of my head when I'm anxious, too. I also used to do sudokus before sleep to help me wind down, killer sudokus in particular. You could try doing origami too, it works for me, specially kusudamas where you have to fold a lot of pieces the same way. The repetition helps me disconnect, it's like meditation.
@TommyTrink
4 жыл бұрын
Right there with you! It's such a great little daily double dose of zen escapism.
@pixihawk
4 жыл бұрын
@@yadiracamacho499 Thank you for the tip, i will try some origami! :)
@lakarto19
4 жыл бұрын
<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="116">01:56</a>:11 to solve!! The time itself wasn't a surprise, I usually struggle heavily with these type of puzzles (puzzles with a component that requires some visual intuition), but this time I am glad that I persisted; as always with puzzles from this setter, there was some beautiful logic throughout.
@9mmiky
4 жыл бұрын
Mr. Simon. Thank you very much for making content. I know things are crazy right now, but my mother of almost 57 years of age thanked me for giving her the gift of Sudoku, as until last week she had never been able to solve one. That's a blessing sir. Truly, thank you.
@asadickens9353
4 жыл бұрын
This is going to sound weird, but, after watching many of your videos, I've started thinking in your manner of speaking. I currently practice drawing every morning and I will think, "Oh look how they use shading to define the edges of this train, just brilliant" or while I am programming iOS I will think, "this bug can't happen because of xy and z, which means it must be w". I don't know if this is a compliment, but thank you 8D
@jr_kulik
4 жыл бұрын
I must thank you for the consistent and exquisite content you are giving us, it’s such a pleasure to watch you. The increased schedule is also gorgeous, it’s amazing to have a new video to fall asleep to every night :)
@thothrax5621
4 жыл бұрын
Wow at first I wasn't overly intrigued by the rule set, but by the end I loved this puzzle, another great one from Phistomefel
@hannahmusum1693
4 жыл бұрын
How can anyone dislike this? They’re only bringing joy to everyone despite everything going on in the world😔🙏🏼
@yazanadwan
4 жыл бұрын
That puzzles me. Why would people dislike their videos.
@danielh1989
4 жыл бұрын
Anifco srsy, then just don’t watch them and let all of us enjoy the videos
@parstoy8337
4 жыл бұрын
@Anifco67 Oh yeah sure, they don't deserve to earn money from creating entertaining content that you have the priviledge to consume without spending a cent on. That's how it works, right? Others do the work, you receive a personal gain from this work by watching, then do nothing but complain how they deserve to not receive anything themselves for that even if you're NOT the one who is required to give them anything even though they practically provide a service for you.
@yazanadwan
4 жыл бұрын
@Anifco67 Dude... it's only a 5 seconds Ad!! They're entertaining you, and you reward them with a dislike? Imagine if someone does that to you. You're unbelievable!
@carasynthiadune9842
4 жыл бұрын
@Anifco67 KZitem premium is only $10 a month and it pays the creators more than the ads do. Plus you get Google music so if you have a Google home you can ask it to play almost any song and it will. Or ask your phone.
@leyubar1
4 жыл бұрын
:( My snake isn't 45 cells long. I'm going to bed to touch myself orthogonally.
@wartortle8843
4 жыл бұрын
watching these videos is propably the most relaxing moment in my day, Im so glad I found you!
@michaelpdawson
4 жыл бұрын
<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="513">8:33</a> - "No! Yeah! Well sort of!"
@honigschlecker1
4 жыл бұрын
Yeah - this i gold! 😀
@bossiebos881
4 жыл бұрын
You forgot the little gasp. :)
@robinvik1
4 жыл бұрын
I didn't expect freaking BBC to call me out when I clicked this video to fall asleep.
@priyambhushan8782
4 жыл бұрын
Loved the BBC video! Really glad to see this channel get all the recognition that it deserves 😄
@Socialdogma
4 жыл бұрын
A bit beyond my capability without assistance but watching Simon’s solve brought a huge smile to my face. Thank you!
@timmilatte
4 жыл бұрын
I’ve never heard anyone say “Tada” excitedly in such an intellectual way haha - yet another excellent video! I’ve been following you since before 10k subscribers and I’m stoked that you guys are taking off! You guys so deserve it! (Also, hi from New Zealand) :-)
@sirlight-ljij
4 жыл бұрын
Snake puzzles are such a joy! Visually stunning to watch and creative to solve. Please, please do more of those!
@stephenbeck7222
4 жыл бұрын
It would be helpful for the rules to say that the snake itself divides the eight areas. Otherwise it just sounds like some sort of truncated irregular region sudoku (where the regions are happy to sit next to each other) with an extra snake constraint that finishes the 9x9 grid. Or show an example snake egg grid to show what a finished solution could look like.
@PrometheusZandski
4 жыл бұрын
When I first saw this I thought, there is no way you can make that snake. Just amazing how Simon makes it appear out of nothing and then finishes the puzzle. I had to watch the first ten minutes to get the hang of how things worked. Thanks for the help and the great puzzle.
@jonchambers131
4 жыл бұрын
<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="87">1:27</a>:48 - and I'm really pleased to have done it so quickly! Once you realise how big the region containing the 3 in r5c6 is, then as long as you keep on top of what regions are left and how they could be formed, the snake pretty much draws itself. That just leaves a classic sudoku which isn't quite fall-off-a-log easy but doesn't need any advanced techniques. Me like :)
@BakuSudoku
4 жыл бұрын
Those rules are daunting to read, but soooo pleasing to see in motion. Great puzzle
@marshallgarey2913
4 жыл бұрын
Great puzzle, and it's so fun watching you be so happy solving these puzzles. And congratulations on being featured in the BBC news!
@zalibecquerel3463
4 жыл бұрын
I just love hearing the phrase "THIS SQUARE IS SNAKE!".
@brandonfisher5303
4 жыл бұрын
Kinda hard to use this channel to fall asleep when the puzzles are this good. Wow
@hashtag4708
4 жыл бұрын
I appreciate you putting in the popup of the missed logic at about <a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="1050">17:30</a>. It's nice to see I'm not the only one sometime missing what looks like an obvious step in hindsight.
@karosvaron8643
4 жыл бұрын
I tried really hard not to laugh like a school boy at Simon's comments but he is just too unintentionally funny. He is soo serious about not letting the snake touch itself that he never considers how else it might be heard which makes it all the funnier. Bless Simon.
@topilinkala1594
Жыл бұрын
Sometimes Simon's videos are best comedy show ever. Sometimes they are frustration maxed when he agonicises over something that is in plain view.
@RandomBurfness
4 жыл бұрын
I did this one yesterday, and it was SUCH a delight! Every time I found a new piece of logic, I always cursed my inability to find the most simple of observations.
@ocoltimus6592
4 жыл бұрын
Just watched the interview, you are doing a great work! Now, lets try this puzzle.
@dudaseifert
4 жыл бұрын
love this addition of logic found during editing!
@facilvenir
4 жыл бұрын
I tried the puzzle twice and I failed twice. But the good thing about this channel is that you can always rely on Simon or Mark to solve it for you. See you tomorrow.
@matthewlove4082
4 жыл бұрын
<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="1165">19:25</a> That 3 could have been resolved earlier by looking at where a 3 would go in that 7-cell blue region. It can't go in box 9 because box 9 already has a 3. And the other pencil mark for a 3 in box 6 is on the snake, so not part of the 7-cell blue region. Therefore if box 6 had a 3 in the top left corner, there would be no place to put a 3 in the 7-cell blue region.
@sri_harsha_dv
4 жыл бұрын
as earlier as 8:30 (i spotted it then, waiting for him to solve that)
@mitch4509
4 жыл бұрын
Rules weren't clear. Didn't realize the eight areas couldn't touch each other orthogonally. Also the way the colors are programmed into software is buggy. If a cell contains something that is gray is colored in as gray (head/tail of snake or thermometer) and then changed back to white, the original gray coloring disappears.
@stephenbeck7222
4 жыл бұрын
Of course if you color something white it turns white. The button you’re looking for is color-delete. That will return then color back to the original state when you loaded the puzzle. Any other delete will get rid of whatever numbers are visible (but leaving corner/center marks that were filled in if you put a normal number on top).
@justinscomp
4 жыл бұрын
Fascinating how you approached this. Thanks for sharing.
@stephenpassmore7306
4 жыл бұрын
Just caught the BBC video, great to see you in your expanded media roles guys. Well done.
@linep.akamhagnus9773
4 жыл бұрын
Watching you solve this everyday is pure enjoyment! You give peace to a very stressful life we have right now, thank you
@alfewenxiao
4 жыл бұрын
when he says "look" it's :D
@Tyrtel
4 жыл бұрын
Kudos guys. Well earned. It makes me actually tear up a bit to see 2 enthusiasts get the recognition they deserve; a bit of sanity in a world that seems to be breaking apart. Keep on cracking!
@thebringoo5087
4 жыл бұрын
I waited more than 31 minutes for the naked single. :D Amazing solving of this great puzzle. Thanks Simon!
@rosebuster
4 жыл бұрын
I like the extra explanation added in the editing about the top right of the snake. I was shouting the same at the screen. Good thing you saw it later. :D
@JPCruz
4 жыл бұрын
After watching the beginning of the video to understand the snake rule, I've just tried the puzzle for myself and got the complete snake. But after that I was really stuck on regular sudoku and couldn't find a solution. Then I came back to the video and the bit about irregular sudoku logic at <a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="1535">25:35</a> was the missing piece I needed to solve it. Amazing puzzle by Phistomefel, amazing solving video by Simon, and an overall fun puzzle to solve! Thanks!
@aaronfuzion
4 жыл бұрын
This is by far my favorite puzzle I have ever done
@arpez
4 жыл бұрын
A neat little detail was hinted at, but never explicitly stated. The snake contains exactly 1 1. 2 2s, 3 3s, 4 4s, and so on up to 9 9s. Beautiful construction as always
@richardfarrer5616
4 жыл бұрын
Are you so surprised about the response. You are the thinking man's Test Match Special. Enthusiastic Englishmen commenting on a sport they love. The compilers play the shots and you bring out all their technical brilliance by analysing how they did it,- and solving a puzzle at the same time.
@AngrySanta
4 жыл бұрын
Ok, Somebody set a sudoku where 6 of the given digits are all nines in corners. Call it 'Dirty Digits'
@RC-zb8tl
4 жыл бұрын
It's always great start to my morning watching these videos :)
@adamheywood113
4 жыл бұрын
Reading the rule set, it seems that the number of cells in the snake, and that aren't in the snake, should be calculable. There are eight non-snake areas increasing in size from one cell to eight, which means the total non-snake area equals 1+2+3+4+5+6+7+8= 36. There are 81 squares in the grid so 45 of them are snake. Furthermore, none of the non-snake areas can contain a 9, which necessarily means all the 9s are part of the snake.
@krisvalkanov1517
4 жыл бұрын
And all 1s are part of the snake 🐍
@not-on-pizza
4 жыл бұрын
@@krisvalkanov1517 Except one!
@bulboushogwash
4 жыл бұрын
@@krisvalkanov1517 don't you mean the opposite? each region must include 1 through n, so all but one 1 would be outside the snake ?
@jaeusa160
4 жыл бұрын
I see your logic started on the same parts mine did.
@NjniaVanDerWald
4 жыл бұрын
That was my starting thought and then I didn't know how to proceed from that.... oh, well...
@dubldee5364
4 жыл бұрын
Holy moly! I've been using you guys to fall asleep as well. Your voices are soothing. Usually play at 1.75 speed.
@ThaStam
4 жыл бұрын
I just realised...even though you can understand it just from reading the rules...the snake has exactly nine 9s eight 8s seven 7s six 6s five 5s four 4s three 3s two 2s and one 1!
@jaeusa160
4 жыл бұрын
There's probably some points where that restriction could be used to progress. Simon uses it on the nine 9s, one 1, and kind of on the eight 8s.
@bluerizlagirl
4 жыл бұрын
There probably is some more logic you can do with the snake; how it carves up the grid into eight regions, and what numbers can be on it. It would be interesting to see if the snake can be solved uniquely without filling in any more Sudoku numbers .....
@adamtaylor5040
4 жыл бұрын
Such a wonderful rule set and puzzle
@Ruddigore
4 жыл бұрын
Was absolutely gobsmacked to see you on the front page of the BBC News website this morning..... Way to go. 👍 Though I was a bit miffed that the BBC didn't actually provide a link to your site. Yet another brilliant puzzle by Phistomefel and, as always, another brilliant solve.
@SourceOfBeing
4 жыл бұрын
I found your channel from "A Sudoku With Only 4 Given Digits?!" but my favourite video is "The Miracle Sudoku".
@hepenypacker
4 жыл бұрын
I agree. I have watched that video about 6 times. It always makes me smile
@kdlsimondistefan47
4 жыл бұрын
That's how i find the channel and my favorite too
@tomgraham3612
4 жыл бұрын
<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="1895">31:35</a> Sh-h dear, Daddy's playing now...
@onurbole7921
4 жыл бұрын
I Googled "how many sudokus are there" and the answer is apparently 6,670,903,752,021,072,936,960. It explains why but I didn't read it, maybe one day Simon will do the math as he solves one of Phistomefel's puzzles.
@bowlchamps37
4 жыл бұрын
Or you just do the math once you reach 10th grade.
@onurbole7921
4 жыл бұрын
@@bowlchamps37 Oh mate, that's unutterably abusive. You must be a cruel, cruel bugger. You should watch more of Mr. Simon's videos to correct your manners and language. I am also almost certain that you cannot possibly comprehend or even read the number of all sudokus that exist, let alone perform calculations using such large numbers.
@EmilyGamerGirl
4 жыл бұрын
Very early, I got the logic that the snake had to contain exactly 9 9s, 8 8s, 7 7s, etc. That did end up helping get some digits in earlier on. Also, the 2-size region was resolvable very early by simply looking at possibilities for it being larger; none of which would work without the snake bending back on itself, or creating a region that is too large elsewhere.
@Greensleeve11
4 жыл бұрын
Following the BBC video I felt I needed to chime in. I found you guys a month or so before lockdown started. I always found classic sudoku kinda boring because they were either too easy or too hard with no real way for me to find a good middle ground. Watching this channel has certainly let me move past that. Thanks to you two I've realized there is something extremely zen about sudoku. The same way Japanese monks practice archery to get into the 'zone,' or 'zen,' I use sudoku and logic puzzles. They tend to be somewhat all consuming in the concentration and focus required. It is a natural way for my brain to shut out exterior and interior stimuli. It lets me forget about anything that isn't "where can 2s go in this grid." And that meditative aspect that comes specifically from being engaged with the content in an all-consuming way... That's something magical and unique to CTC on KZitem. Thank you for this channel. Thank you for sharing your interests. Thank you for being such good teachers. Thank you for opening my eyes to a whole hobby world I never knew existed. And now, I have a puzzle by Phistomefel to solve.
@williamanderson6031
4 жыл бұрын
I just solved it (<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="131">2:11</a>:10)! First Phistomefel puzzle I have ever been able to solve. Thank you Simon and Mark for giving me the confidence and skills to try these amazing puzzles :)
@bristolrovers27
4 жыл бұрын
Lovely to see Simon in his natural habitat a Phostomafel puzzle !!!
@ericgrundmann8086
4 жыл бұрын
"Which is just....bizarre". What a classic quote! Not what I was expecting.
@ilovemath44
4 жыл бұрын
at <a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="551">9:11</a> the blue region (bottom right) can only afford to add one more square, and if it does it must be th 8 in C9R4, therefore C8R4 must be snake, and then also C7R4. Not sure if someone already commented it. Love the puzzle and the solve :)
@quadparty
4 жыл бұрын
I think your last snake pencil+paper game was my first ever cracking the cryptic video, from which others will have been suggested to me by the algorithm (who knows how the first one was suggested :-) ) so, it's nice to see another, this time combined with sudoku!
@nerdgonewild
4 жыл бұрын
This was a delight to solve, and then to watch Simon solve as well. Just the right amount of effort, mwah!
@forresthenry297
4 жыл бұрын
I LOVE these puzzles where the cells are get colored to form a picture. I can never figure them out on my own but they’re very satisfying to watch.
@J_Halcyon
4 жыл бұрын
Once the 9s are penciled into the corners of box 1 and 7 you can determine that r1c3 and r9c3 MUST be snake as all sets of snake that cover at least one of the three penciled 9s cover those squares regardless.
@antonytragas7553
4 жыл бұрын
Phistomefel providing the goods once again
@MaxWre
4 жыл бұрын
I really really like that kind of puzzle. One of the first I saw on your channel was actually a snake puzzle. I'm always happy when I see a new one :D
@cardstatman
4 жыл бұрын
So much fun. I was able to do it all on my own and discovered all the same logic as Simon except I placed a 7 in the 45 box area using uniqueness as its a Phistomefel puzzle, so of course there is only one solution. Outside of that possible cheat, everything flowed and I had a blast. What a fun puzzle.
@ericpraline1302
4 жыл бұрын
Brilliant puzzle. Think it's important to refer to the LM link which clarifies that "the rest of the cells without the snake form exactly eight orthogonally connected areas, one of each size from 1 to 8. These areas may not touch each other orthogonally, but they can touch diagonally. Such an area of size n contains each digit from 1 to n exactly once."
@ryfors
3 жыл бұрын
As for the colorblind part, it's more important to choose colours that are further away from each other than be mindfull of the red/green pairing. I.e a strong hue of red vs a weaker green is easier to disambiguate than two softer colours such at the two in this video :)
@joaovictorcarvalho6339
4 жыл бұрын
I love the nine in the corner motif
@Akie51
4 жыл бұрын
Your smile and cheerfulness are really contagious ♥ And this puzzle was awesome !
@krayorn6185
4 жыл бұрын
Thanks a lot for doing what you can for people who have trouble differenciating colors ! I'm colorblind and had some trouble in some of your videos, this color scheme does work better for me !
@matthewlove4082
4 жыл бұрын
How are these setters busting out new puzzles every single day?! My god!
@TheNewBeginnings2012
4 жыл бұрын
Hey Simon, I did this one myself, and got stuck 2 or three times, then switched to your video until I got a clue and was able to continue with my solution. I ended up arriving at a different solution that was also correct- the position of the snake and the 8 regions is the same, but the numbers are arranged differently. The 1s 6s 8s and 9s are all identical to your solution, but almost all of the 2s 3s 4s 5s and 7s ended up in different positions. Was this puzzle supposed to have a single unique solution? Big fan of your channel, have always loved solving Sudoku puzzles and I’m grateful for all the new logic and techniques I’m learning here and all the variants you guys are introducing me to. Keep blessing us with quality content, please!
@GeeMasterofF8
4 жыл бұрын
<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="771">12:51</a> When placing the 9 in box 8 you can resolve, that 9 and 4 are connected by the snake and the start/endpoint of the snake and 9 are not. Because 9s are always on the snake, the snake has to go through every Box. If you connect 9 and the startpoint in box there would be no possible way to let the snake go along box 7 without touching itself.
@NightChime
4 жыл бұрын
Me: Box 4 has only one cell left where a 7 can go. Simon, flexing: This triple locks the 7 for Box 4.
@BlueCyann
4 жыл бұрын
<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="591">9:51</a> Ah, you have no idea how happy I am to see thta piece of logic. That 8 was one my crucial insights and I was so concerned I might have been fooling myself and gotten lucky. This puzzle was immaculate.
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