41:20 "if forced to i can do sudoku" he says, ignoring the placable 9 in box 7
@studgerbil9081
5 ай бұрын
and the 3 in box 9 a few minutes later. classic Simon.
@aithne99
5 ай бұрын
The resolved 2-9 pair in box 3 and the 678 triple in row 7 waiting patiently.
@thunderking2456
5 ай бұрын
Loved that the fog being revealed barely helped the solver and it was almost entirely logic of the rest of the rules.
@57thorns
5 ай бұрын
A few cage sums was all, but they were rather important.
@JDHutchison
5 ай бұрын
I have to admit that it was only until a few videos ago that I realized Maverick was an airplane, not a bird or house cat.
@bobh6728
5 ай бұрын
I’m trying to figure out how Maverick is so close to Simon’s house.
@aralornwolf3140
5 ай бұрын
@@bobh6728, Living next to an airport while living under the flight path for planes taking off/landing. *Lived on an Airbase in his youth*
@Patterner
5 ай бұрын
you missed the opportunity to say "it's not a cat, it's not a bird, it's a plane!"
@vezonn8010
5 ай бұрын
Well it's actually a helicopter
@MattYDdraig
5 ай бұрын
39:58 Very clever throughout, especially the subtle directional steer at the start.
@puritan7473
5 ай бұрын
Simon: "I'm almost tempted to colour it..." Me "What a relief, thankyou!!"
@RichSmith77
5 ай бұрын
And then, shortly after, he quit doing either (for non-snake cells). I was waiting for r89c5 to be coloured blue for almost 40 minutes 🙄.
@puritan7473
5 ай бұрын
@@RichSmith77 IKR
@Anne_Mahoney
5 ай бұрын
Unfortunately, color and fog don't mix very well -- I always find it hard to tell which cells are still befogged. 😼
@chris5619
5 ай бұрын
I can't imagine not enjoying a FoW puzzle, or down rating it as Simon said. Absolutely one of my favorite types of sudoku. If anything, the fog helps follow the logic.
@NinjarioPicmin
5 ай бұрын
haven't watched the video yet, or solved/looked at this particular puzzle, so not saying it about this one at all, but in general, you can absolutely make a bad puzzle even with fow, a bad puzzle with fow or a fow puzzle that uses fow badly are both more than possible to exist
@chris5619
5 ай бұрын
@NinjarioPicmin oh absolutely. But Simon said at the start that overall they seem to be down-rated. And I guess I'm also biased towards the puzzles that appear on this channel, which in general are not bad puzzles. I have however played many FoW puzzles not featured here, but generally from setters who have proven themselves to be setters of good puzzles, and good FoW puzzles.
@glum_hippo
5 ай бұрын
In fact the fog helps you not have to worry so much about where to look… meaning that the importance of the author’s skill of ‘telegraphing’ the intended solve path is diminished. That’s not a criticism per se, just a feature
@iceberg54321
5 ай бұрын
Yah, the fog in this puzzle just detracted from drawing in the cages. @@glum_hippo
@dolf370
5 ай бұрын
@@glum_hippo That's what I kind of like with them, you get focused on the right thing by default and don't have to chase around the full grid to figure out what logic to pursue (which is thankful for me that normally take 3-10 times longer to solve puzzles than the average puzzle solver in this community).
@sanabas1
5 ай бұрын
@53:30, you haven't ruled out the possibility that the snake goes around r5c9 by using 5 cells in box 6, and then also takes r2c9 & r3c9. It turned out to be a lucky error, and it meant you skipped one extra bit of elegant setting. It took me a little while staring at that before realising that the important bit was that every possible configuration meant 5 digits in box 6, and therefore the 16 cage must be 1249. Now the 1249 quad in r1 means that r1c9 has one of the 5 digits in the largest cage, so the rest of c9 can only have 4 of those digits. And that is what prevents the snake taking r3c9, and forces it to take r4c7. An amazingly good FoW puzzle.
@gemma4952
5 ай бұрын
Could you explain how you got from "there are 5 digits in box 6" to the 1249 configuration for the 16 cage? I've been staring at it for quite some time now
@sanabas1
5 ай бұрын
@@gemma4952 Because of the rule about neighbouring cages not sharing a digit. The big cage which has at least 5 digits in box 6 can't have a 9. It neighbours the 16 cage in box 2, which we know has 4 different digits. So those two cages have 9 different digits between them, and as the big cage has no 9, the 16 cage must have the 9. The other 3 digits must add to 7, the only way to get 7 in 3 digits is 124, so the 16 cage is 1249, and the big cage only has 35678s.
@christopherbowers7236
5 ай бұрын
if you go back a space and round that loop, there arent enough digits to reach the 4-cell cage, even if the 2nd last is a 9-cell cage
@sanabas1
5 ай бұрын
@@christopherbowers7236 But it could be an 11-cell cage with only 5 different digits, and then it can reach. It only breaks in that configuration when you show that r1c789 would be made up from those 5 digits as well, meaning those 5 digits appear too often in box 3/row 9.
@christopherbowers7236
5 ай бұрын
@@sanabas1 i didnt even consider a cage bigger than 9. Because its usually against the rules hah
@toby2714
4 ай бұрын
This has to be one of the most wholesome KZitem channels ever. Love it.
@spargles
5 ай бұрын
Thank you so much for the shoutout Simon! I'm so glad you enjoyed my nail art!
@Daymickey
5 ай бұрын
I actually paused and figured it out when he said to and I felt so proud!
@penningmeestercgkdelft9159
5 ай бұрын
Simon at 41:22: "if forced to, I can do sudoku", removing a 9 pencilmark in r9c2... Also Simon: forgets to place the 9 straightaway in r8c2 for the next 26 minutes 😀
@chocolateboy300
5 ай бұрын
I got 111 minutes. Realizing the break-in after being lost for 30 minutes was very satisfying and the rest of the puzzle felt very nice. Fog of Wars are always my favorite and this one was fantastic!
@goldshield10
5 ай бұрын
I never thought these two worlds of mine would collide, but I am so excited for it! Roller Derby is a full contact sport played on quad roller skates. It is played on either a flat track or curved track with a complex set of rules, but the best analogy I have found that works is to describe it as a Rugby Scrum on wheels. I highly recommend looking a few matches up on KZitem to gain a full appreciation for the sport. Greetings from another CTC Roller Derby player.
@twistedhope13
5 ай бұрын
Hi! Where do you skate?! I'm whacks
@goldshield10
5 ай бұрын
@@twistedhope13 I am part of a league here in South Africa, we do Flat Track Roller Derby.
@twistedhope13
5 ай бұрын
@@goldshield10 cool! I skate with Minnesota
@Zardoz37
5 ай бұрын
That was hard! But very rewarding. The way the cage size constraint and the adjacent cages can't share digits constraint interacted produced very original logic.
@kuroraiko986
5 ай бұрын
I had an epiphany about triangular numbers watching this video. 15 is the triangular number for 5, 5x3, but for 9 it's 45, 9x5. Following the pattern, 7's is 7x4, which is correct. The thing that just clicked as I paused the video and mulled it over is that there are 3 lots of 5 you can make with 1,2,3,4, and 5, {1,4}, {2,3}, and {5}, summing to 15. There are 4 ways to make 7, and 5 ways to make 9. 🤯 I think this will greatly help me with a lot of variant sudokus
@sanabas1
5 ай бұрын
The pattern works for even numbers too. The triangular numbers go 1x1, 1x3, 2x3, 2x5, 3x5, 3x7, 4x7, 4x9, 5x9, etc. You always add 2 to the 2nd number, then 1 to the first, then 2 to the 2nd, etc. The first number is the number of ways to make it using only pairs/a single number. So 7 is 4x7, 4 ways to make 7, 8 is 4x9, 4 ways to make 8. And it's always a case of taking the number and the number + 1, and halving the even one, so if you needed to you can work out bigger numbers without needing to check the entire pattern. So to get the triangular number for 16, it's 16, 17, halve the even one, and get 8x17 with 8 ways to make 17 as a pair/single number.
@RackalackDinner
5 ай бұрын
Thank you so much for the birthday wishes!
@rogue5882
5 ай бұрын
Puzzle idea: A ship going through the grid with the fog revealing ‘uncharted territory’ by making the blue sea lighter colour , sea monsters appear, etc.
@jackpittman7232
5 ай бұрын
I like to follow along with Simon, and I’m proud to say that this is the first puzzle where I’ve solved it before the end of the video!
@AaronSmith-i8y
5 ай бұрын
I like to keep the video paused after rules. I know Simon tends to be faster than me even with his explanations but it's great to finish a puzzle without having to hit play.
@GQSmoos
5 ай бұрын
This puzzle took me over two hours to solve by I enjoyed it a lot. I was making really great early progress but hit an absolute wall. I just scrubbed through your video because I wanted to timestamp where I was stuck so any future reader could see and it looks like I solved this *wildly* differently than you did. That’s pretty unusual for a fog puzzle!
@Paolo_De_Leva
5 ай бұрын
It would be very interesting to know how you solved for the *8-digit cage.* That was seriously hard. In short, the crucial step in Simon's solve was, in my opinion, understanding that the 8-digit cage contained at most 5 digits, which makes it impossible for it to use *r3c9...*
@nhilario7638
5 ай бұрын
Hey Simon! I was just wondering if you'd find it interesting to have an eye tracker on during your solves. I thought that it could be annoying for you to see the actual grid, but maybe it can be toggled just on the video. I'm not sure if that's a great idea but it could be nice!
@Coyotek4
Ай бұрын
Took me two sessions and over an hour in total, but I found my way through the fog Nice puzzle!
@ericpraline1302
5 ай бұрын
If you do crtl A and then go to the drawing tool you can press delete and it will delete all drawn items in one go.
5 ай бұрын
I *really* loved the break-in on this puzzle!
@NinjarioPicmin
5 ай бұрын
I've been waiting for a new fow puzzle over the last week or so, nice!
@BozoTheBear
5 ай бұрын
Oh wow, what an amazing puzzle! Thoroughly enjoyed solving this - 77 mins well spent!!
@dannstarrjp
5 ай бұрын
Love FoW puzzles and this one was definitely one of the best (and hardest ones) I’ve ever solved. Not the worst time either (for me), just over 1.5h for a puzzle that took Simon well over an hour too
@christophdietrich4240
5 ай бұрын
Dear Simon, at 52:15 you made the deduction that the snake couldn't go through R2C9 too quickly. The orange region could have gone up in C9 via R6C9, R6C8, R5C8, R4C8, R4C4, R3C9, R2C9, R2C8 with there being only 5 digits in column 9 and cage 6.
@manuper11
5 ай бұрын
The snake can't touch orthogonally, also you mistipped R4C9
@theta4951
5 ай бұрын
This wouldn't work because the number of remaining cells (in the final 2 cages) is 12. Taking this route would require too many cells.
@actionic135
5 ай бұрын
@theta4951 Why is it 12? Couldn't the orange cage starting in C9 have been larger than 8?
@mstmar
5 ай бұрын
I came in here to point this out. we can still use the logic that the 16 clue contains a 1249 and so the orange cage needs to contain 35678 plus extending the 16 cage like simon did without knowing the exact path of the orange cage. We can then prove at 56:20 that the snake doesn't go into box 3 through col 9 as stated because r1c9 is a 6th cells with "orange" digits. i.e. you can only put 2 of 124 in col 9 if you go that way.
@robertfouquette1232
5 ай бұрын
This is correct, it doesn't have to touch orthogonally and there is nothing in the rules that says the last cage is eight. It could be 12 cells long using christoph's (corrected) path and continue to R2C7 R3C7 R3C6 and then joining the four cell cage which would start at R3C5. However, once you look at this, knowing R1C789 are of the values 5678 and the cage must contain at least four of 35678 (if you go a more direct route) eliminates this as a possible option and forces the lower path.
@dinane
5 ай бұрын
I just got to the first digit and LAUGHED. I already love this puzzle and I am only at the first digit.
@dinane
5 ай бұрын
Oh my goodness, now as Simon catches up (I basically try to stay ahead of him and pause if I sense him catching up) he got a different first digit than I did! My first was r9c3!
@xerodeus2337
5 ай бұрын
love love loved this puzzle. I love puzzles like this that are very hard but very very very fair. This was lovely!
@pascalm1305
5 ай бұрын
At 50:58 Simon concludes that the orange cage can only have 5 different numbers and can thus not pass the non fogged cell (R3C8) because there would be to many orange cells in column 9. Which is true if you go straight but if you make a C shape in box 6 like he did at 50:24 and you go left in row 2 of box 3 it would work wouldn't it? You'll only have 5 orange cell in box 6 and 5 orange cells in column 9. The box would have a total of 10 or 12 cells but that was nog against the rules. I get why it couldn't be like that later on when the numers where clear but at that time in the solve I believe it would kept the option open. I'm I missing something?
@arpwable
5 ай бұрын
Indeed you are correct, he overlooked that possibility there
@Paolo_De_Leva
5 ай бұрын
Yes, this was discussed also elsewhere in this section. See, for instance, christophdietrich4240 and mattmayoh9680's comments.
@Speak22wastaken
4 ай бұрын
Wait, does this mean there was more than one solution?
@Speak22wastaken
4 ай бұрын
Or the puzzle was unsolvable
@jimdavis2683
5 ай бұрын
39:55 Thank you for eliminating those Xs! (I think this has come up in the past, my 2c seems like almost anything is better than the big X's.)
@Tsunami14
5 ай бұрын
Agreed. Though I also have to say that the choice to reuse green for the 2 corner-adjacent cages didn't sit well with my OCD.
@chris5619
5 ай бұрын
I was a little tripped up by the puzzle name at first. I thought the "22" was part of the name. And early on, once we determined the cages shown, it was possible to make a 22 cell snake to connect them all in the middle, and I thought maybe that's where it was going. That was quickly proven wrong by logic, and I didn't realize until after the solve that it is just the setter's 22nd FoW puzzle in this series!
@eddieharwood7788
5 ай бұрын
I used Simon a couple of times to help me, but both I had already done as far as I watched to, which gave me the confidence to go back and carry on. A great puzzle, and for me doable.
@ericpraline1302
5 ай бұрын
Very well engineered, thanks, and it worked out nicely once I'd remembered all the rules. Even while making progress kept wondering how it would resolve itself but of course it did.
@niped10
5 ай бұрын
I really enjoyed this one! Was a great solve.
@JohnGottschalk
5 ай бұрын
I've started playing them before watching in the last 5-10 puzzles, and this time I managed to get through with only looking at the video once, and it was only 1 break-in conclusion I'd missed (there's only four numbers of 1,2,3,4 in a row 🤦 at 30:30). Still took me 2 hours to finish 😅. But just wanted to thank you Simon for getting me from a sudoku newb, to consistently attempting and mostly on my own completing these fairly high difficulty sudokus.
@chris5619
5 ай бұрын
After about 15 minutes, I went back to read the rules. Glad I did, because I totally forgot about the 4th sentence in them!
@francoisduez601
5 ай бұрын
46:19 for me. What an extraordinary fog of war! ❤ The beginning is not so hard but the last big breakthrough in box 2 is just breathtaking, I am glad not to have given up before finding it on my own!
@TheMeanderingduck6
5 ай бұрын
I haven't watched Simon's solve yet but loved when I realized that the 16 cage HAD to be 4 unique digits, and I knew there had to be an 8 or 9 cell cage connecting it, but that cage could only use a maximum of 5 digits, I then knew it couldn't cross into box 3 (via the exposed cell not being part of a cage which was the perfect distance to force the snake to turn thus cutting off the entire northeast area from being snake) and THEN realizing a 9 had to be in the 4 cell 16 cage forcing 1249, and then 35678 for the 8 cell cage... it was glorious. Absolutely glorious.
@battle00333
4 ай бұрын
at 47:00 if you count the tiles after the len2 cage, to the end of the 16-cage, you end up with 12 tiles. Thats how you can deduce it must be a Len8 cage connecting to the Len4 sixteen cage
@frankjiang1857
5 ай бұрын
Finished in 43:36. The key to the whole puzzle was the snake and the limitations around the cage sizes. Very interesting way of setting the fog of war up. Fun puzzle!
@Speak22wastaken
4 ай бұрын
My strategy for the start was to draw both in different colours for visualisation
@emilywilliams3237
5 ай бұрын
This was very fun to watch, Simon. You love the snake puzzles, and it definitely shows! Thank you for the video!
@Anne_Mahoney
5 ай бұрын
Simon likes snake puzzles partly because he gets to talk about how the snake mustn't be naughty! 😸
@emilywilliams3237
5 ай бұрын
Yeah, I would rather think it’s because he loves the particular type of logic. Let’s think that, shall we?
@inspiringsand123
5 ай бұрын
Rules: 06:50 Let's Get Cracking: 09:39 What about this video's Top Tier Simarkisms?! Bobbins: 2x (35:47, 1:10:48) Maverick: 2x (28:10, 1:14:55) The Secret: 2x (07:08, 1:12:17) Knowledge Bomb: 1x (10:47) Three In the Corner: 1x (1:17:48) You Rotten Thing: 1x (1:05:40) And how about this video's Simarkisms?! Snake: 114x (00:33, 08:36, 08:36, 08:47, 08:53, 09:01, 09:08, 09:20, 09:55, 10:30, 10:38, 10:42, 10:44, 10:46, 10:51, 12:44, 12:52, 12:52, 13:10, 13:10, 13:47, 13:49, 13:49, 13:56, 13:56, 14:01, 14:04, 14:06, 14:15, 14:21, 14:29, 14:29, 14:33, 14:36, 14:51, 15:39, 15:56, 16:01, 16:04, 16:09, 16:17, 16:17, 16:21, 16:49, 17:32, 17:44, 19:13, 19:15, 19:51, 19:53, 19:56, 20:15, 20:22, 20:42, 20:57, 21:01, 21:11, 23:34, 23:36, 23:40, 23:48, 24:52, 24:58, 25:12, 27:15, 27:59, 28:22, 31:07, 31:28, 31:28, 31:34, 31:34, 32:40, 34:55, 34:58, 35:07, 35:43, 37:06, 37:09, 37:12, 37:13, 37:13, 40:25, 40:42, 40:45, 42:09, 42:09, 42:13, 42:13, 42:25, 42:25, 42:47, 43:04, 43:06, 43:08, 43:15, 43:24, 45:11, 45:14, 45:31, 49:39, 50:34, 53:20, 53:25, 59:23, 59:29, 1:00:13, 1:00:16, 1:00:18, 1:03:26, 1:04:51, 1:06:03, 1:06:13, 1:18:03) By Sudoku: 13x (03:36, 34:15, 35:51, 36:34, 37:06, 44:36, 56:16, 57:05, 57:08, 1:00:04, 1:00:56, 1:05:35) Ah: 12x (11:25, 15:13, 15:13, 29:45, 36:32, 42:02, 44:13, 44:13, 51:07, 51:07, 1:01:42, 1:12:05) Touch Itself: 10x (08:39, 08:41, 08:56, 09:08, 31:46, 32:42, 42:15, 43:24, 43:37) Hang On: 9x (11:09, 18:23, 22:16, 22:16, 41:56, 41:56, 41:56, 45:19, 1:14:46) Sorry: 5x (16:47, 20:42, 35:07, 59:39, 1:01:58) Brilliant: 5x (1:09:59, 1:10:02, 1:18:16, 1:18:37, 1:18:37) Goodness: 4x (11:07, 29:48, 43:28, 1:12:10) Stuck: 4x (02:31, 02:48, 25:28, 1:12:05) Beautiful: 4x (38:38, 51:10, 1:16:03, 1:18:28) Gorgeous: 4x (29:45, 29:48, 50:36, 1:15:49) What Does This Mean?: 4x (21:31, 41:09, 1:06:20, 1:14:28) What on Earth: 3x (03:46, 36:06, 1:01:42) Clever: 3x (15:01, 15:13, 54:13) Shouting: 3x (03:19, 04:25, 06:27) Obviously: 3x (56:39, 1:05:55, 1:07:21) Pencil Mark/mark: 3x (1:01:58, 1:11:02, 1:15:40) Cake!: 3x (05:04, 06:14, 06:40) The Answer is: 2x (23:02, 1:15:58) Naughty: 2x (09:15, 42:15) Lovely: 2x (1:07:55, 1:10:38) Of All Things: 2x (41:00, 58:09) In Fact: 2x (11:39, 59:15) Wow: 2x (21:57, 32:11) Good Grief: 1x (19:56) What a Puzzle: 1x (1:17:51) I Have no Clue: 1x (06:01) Ridiculous: 1x (54:07) First Digit: 1x (35:32) Unbelievable: 1x (30:50) Phone is Buzzing: 1x (40:49) Symmetry: 1x (23:14) Triangular Number: 1x (38:06) Weird: 1x (27:33) Most popular number(>9), digit and colour this video: Sixteen (26 mentions) Five (86 mentions) Orange (21 mentions) Antithesis Battles: Low (2) - High (1) Even (4) - Odd (1) Lowest (2) - Highest (0) Black (2) - White (0) Row (13) - Column (11) 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!
@Dragonslayer-vf3vv
5 ай бұрын
The video has existed for 12 seconds
@francoisduez601
5 ай бұрын
So?
@MadsOcto7
5 ай бұрын
@@Dragonslayer-vf3vv yes.
@MeriaDuck
5 ай бұрын
@@Dragonslayer-vf3vv gotta love silicon 😂 ( see faq )
@Rubrickety
5 ай бұрын
Finally wrestled this snake into submission in 134:45. Figuring out how to somehow leverage that 16 cage was quite a challenge. Wonderful puzzle!
@psiphiorg
5 ай бұрын
This puzzle presented an interesting new challenge. I really enjoyed it! My time was 52:06, solver number 5910.
@mingyue_chen
5 ай бұрын
I might be stupid but it took me forever to realize the snake also cannot touch itself parallelly. I guess in order for the snake to touch itself parallelly it has to touch orthogonally first.
@nicolaboulangergagne2836
5 ай бұрын
wow! Thanks for the blue coverin at the end! You are perfect!
@BulseyeHeart
5 ай бұрын
Thank you for wishing me happy birthday! I'll make sure to send a picture of my cake next year just to spite you! -Luna
@markp7262
5 ай бұрын
53:29 finish. I struggled a bit with the path in the bottom right of the grid, but worked at it from the other direction and was able to push through. A excellent puzzle!
@littlston5319
5 ай бұрын
I started with different first numbers and got to finish it in 67 min. I feel really proud :)
@og_myxiplx
5 ай бұрын
41:15 "9 is not there by Sudoku, if forced to I can do Sudoku". Immediately ignores the 9 in box 7 that's now forced by Sudoku. I could never, ever replicate Simon's ability to beak into and solve these puzzles, but his brain really does seem to spot absolutely everything except Sudoku. 😂
@battle00333
4 ай бұрын
At 47:50 For me I realized the cage cannot go 6 tiles upwards, cus that means it would occupy 6 digits, and the 16-cage needs 4 unique digits. This should help down the line as the 16 cage needs a 1 or a 2, so the snake cannot pass through boss in box6
@Baritocity
5 ай бұрын
The restriction about cage sizes was too easy for me to forget, but still fun.
@bobb9518
5 ай бұрын
1:01:58 Did Simon say he is "going a bit too HAM on the pencil marking"? lol
@Rubrickety
5 ай бұрын
Given how proper Simon is, I wonder if he knows what the "ham" in "going a bit too ham on the pencilmarks" is an acronym of. 🤔 (I didn't until recently.)
@stangerrits6712
5 ай бұрын
He's probably using it in this definition: "(intransitive, slang, originally African-American Vernacular, often followed by on) To enter an enraged and uncontrollable state; to go berserk." Not too bad I think?
@Rubrickety
5 ай бұрын
@@stangerrits6712 My comment was referring to it's origin as "hard as a m*******cker". However, further research suggests that may be a backronym, with its real etymology unclear.
@stangerrits6712
5 ай бұрын
@@Rubrickety I thought you might refer to that less proper meaning yeah :)
@michaellautermilch9185
5 ай бұрын
Given the "3 in the corner" song, I don't think the channel was G-rated to begin with.
@AaronSmith-i8y
5 ай бұрын
I've never cared for the phrase. I prefer "going turbo." I hope there isn't a mature acronym for that one!
@pokertroll320
5 ай бұрын
It too me forever to notice that the “46” had appeared when the fog cleared. I’m glad Simon also took a while to notice
@AndreAy1975
4 ай бұрын
Solved it with help from the video.
@chrishawkins963
5 ай бұрын
57:56 for me - got up to 58:20 in the video in 20 minutes, got stuck for 20 minutes, and after a small hint from simon i saw why r6c8 had to be in the cage, finishing from there.
@sampathkumar-ej7xl
5 ай бұрын
One of the best features of these fog puzzles is that when you get a digit right the fog clears revealing the white grid. With Simon's colouring of the cages and the snake path that magic was removed. A coloured arrow for a snake would have sufficed I thought
@adrianhead6272
5 ай бұрын
Completed in 26m58s.
@srwapo
5 ай бұрын
67:56 with a LOT of help that I really needed. I kept thinking the 52 cage had to be much bigger because I didn't try the math to see that I could get there with four digits. I totally forgot the rule that the cages had to be different sizes. And I wouldn't have figured out how the 16 cage needed a 9.
@Snidbert
5 ай бұрын
I was so proud of myself when I got even one digit in this puzzle, lol
@359Aides
5 ай бұрын
Am I stupid to think that at 53:06 the snake could wiggle to the left in box 6 and still escape to box 3 through column 9? If that's true, assuming R4C7 is snake is not valid.
@Qazqi
5 ай бұрын
I tend to not be great at snake and loop puzzles, and an hour video suggests higher difficulty, but I like fog puzzles and this was a pretty good half hour for me. I forgot the size rule, but wasn't stuck on that for long. There was some logic that I'd say took some creative thinking, so maybe I got lucky that I thought of it early. Box 2 was a really nice surprise and I'm glad I didn't wait long to try it when I got stuck. I'd probably put it at a 3/5 rather than a 4/5. Give it a try if you're on the fence about the difficulty.
@anaayoung9142
5 ай бұрын
AstralSky was smart and evil for doing this a fog puzzle! 😅
@moonmountain_
5 ай бұрын
One obvious clue you missed (but still managed without), is that the revealed white cells that aren't part of a cage aren't in the snake. But it ended up not being that significant anyway, soo... Good job!
@przemekmajewski1
5 ай бұрын
wow, that was pretty hard, started ez, then ofc I forgot about the "all different sizes" rule... nevertheless, a bit over 1 hr and a lot of enjoyment
@piarittersporn
5 ай бұрын
Very exciting puzzle.
@Rach881101
5 ай бұрын
68:19 for me. Interesting puzzle!
@theoldone22
5 ай бұрын
Roller derby is to roller skating as motocross is to bicycling
@veggiet2009
5 ай бұрын
I was gonna describe it to him as "roller skating with violence" 😄
@AaronSmith-i8y
5 ай бұрын
Demolition derby but with skates instead of cars.
@GuilhermeCarvalhoComposer
5 ай бұрын
@@veggiet2009 I didn't need to read her Derby name to know it's spelled Whacks Poetic 😆
@JohnPalmer-ci4my
5 ай бұрын
When Simon places his 1st digit in the puzzle at 35:34 the 9 in box 7 has only 1 square I wonder how long it takes to spot this. Still great solve of a really good puzzle
@nightwishlover8913
5 ай бұрын
Oh terrific! Another short one!!!??!!
@Mephistahpheles
5 ай бұрын
Yowza. Got through it, but totally overlooked the super obvious 135 being ruled out by the 5 next to the nine cage. Duh!?
@leefisher6366
5 ай бұрын
43:08 - "I don't know what the snape of the shake is..." ALMOST Simmon (*) 2024. (*) - If you know, you know.
@grahamania
5 ай бұрын
01:00:04 for me. Great puzzle! Enjoyed it much! Kind comment.
@meeDamian
5 ай бұрын
The puzzle is so much easier when one notices the 9 in 7th box early on 😅
@koeiswit
5 ай бұрын
@21:00 r1c3 could have been the end of the snake right? If it were a one-cell-cage?
@Gonzalo_Garcia_
5 ай бұрын
24:42 for me. Fantastic puzzle!!
@tessabrisac7423
5 ай бұрын
Crazy quick, as usual!
@markmajkowski9545
5 ай бұрын
Got the 9 is box 7 - R8C2 as first digit after forcing the 1234’s into box 7 C7. Very odd first FOW cell ID.
@maciejoe
5 ай бұрын
Hey Simon, I’ve been watching for a long time but I’ve only just today started trying to actually solve the puzzles on my own. Even with how difficult they look when you solve them, I realize you make it look easy in comparison. Would you possibly be able to do a video on Just Arrows by Eric Rathbun? It is a 93% approval, three star difficulty on Logic Masters Germany, and it feels stunning, but I am completely stuck! I fully broke it and have no idea where I went wrong. Either way keep up the great content, thanks!
@michaellautermilch9185
5 ай бұрын
Sadly I messed up boxes 8 and 9 and had to give up due to fog giving away information
@LardoCulo
5 ай бұрын
Is it just me, or did Simon consistently consider non-cage cells as options for the snake in his deductions?
@ReoRis72
5 ай бұрын
Lots of roping in the final solution to this one
@Sujisan4
5 ай бұрын
Phenomenal puzzle, but Simon's pencil marks were atrocious and probably kept him from solving the puzzle faster.
@MrTimstark80
5 ай бұрын
FoW puzzles do not work for me anymore on the Sven Sudoku pad. Anyone else has this problem?
@LednacekZ
5 ай бұрын
58:49 today. I made so many mistakes that it is not even funny. I had to fix at least 10 of them. My marking kept getting in the way, but i was too stubborn to redo it, that i hurt the solve time.
@yapayzeka3183
5 ай бұрын
36:28 1:08:37 r8c2 has been there for ages
@iceberg54321
5 ай бұрын
I think you could have set this puzzle to draw in most of the cage cells instead of having fog? I think that would have been a better puzzle. The fog didn't seem that integral to the puzzle, and sort of made it easier by knowing if your deductions were correct. Fog reveal should reveal more clues then this one did.
@RichSmith77
5 ай бұрын
But how would you reveal the cage sums, without fog being lifted? (The 5 cage, the 9 cage and the 46 cage)
@RichSmith77
5 ай бұрын
Also, didn't lifting the fog, to reveal no cage boundaries, occasionally dictate where the cages actually went?
@iceberg54321
5 ай бұрын
It would be set slightly different, sure, but not much different.@@RichSmith77
@iceblade732
5 ай бұрын
At 1:16:05 why does that square have to be a 5 and not a 3?
@KevinLowe-gk5gg
5 ай бұрын
I am puzzled by that inference as well.
@hnizel
4 ай бұрын
At that point, you can use the 46 cage total to determine it is a 5.
@_-_-Sipita-_-_
5 ай бұрын
32:22 for me.
@theredstoneengineer6934
5 ай бұрын
68:19 for me
@zergrush8709
5 ай бұрын
I feel weird opening these videos only to do the puzzle myself while skipping through the video to get some hints. Not sure if you are getting any watch time!
@Swisswavey
5 ай бұрын
I open it to watch the rules, that's it! I think there are enough who just watch the solve without even attempting it themselves.
@denisdodelin-m1e
5 ай бұрын
There is me, who came back because I need Simon to understand rules, then came back again after messing up my solving atempt ^_^ Thank you Simon. Quite a clever solving for a clever puzzle.
@zergrush8709
5 ай бұрын
@@denisdodelin-m1e yeah i do that too sometimes XD
@santisis
5 ай бұрын
50:03 for me.
@sanctionbuster
5 ай бұрын
Had the so got glitchey for anyone else? Mine keeps duplicating parts of the grid...
@Swisswavey
5 ай бұрын
Yeah. Mine does that quite often. It doesn't clear the grey either, just reveals the cage boundaries. It makes it really hard to see.
@Pritchie45
5 ай бұрын
67 minutes
@madsohm
5 ай бұрын
52:20 for me. Very pleased, this didn't come easy.
@chipsounder4633
5 ай бұрын
Sorry about that.. just realised i was wrong so i deleted it. Hahahaha i was right somehow. But i will admit i couldn't have guessed it as there were other options i thought of. Is curve balling the curve ball a thing? 😂😂
@Raven-Creations
5 ай бұрын
"This is why I should never be allowed to pencil-mark in such a ludicrous fashion" - The problem is that you DO make ludicrous pencil-marks all the time. You put in candidates which are already ruled out by simple sudoku, you don't pay attention to existing pencil-marks when placing new ones, and you don't clean up your pencil-marks as you make deductions. You pencil-marked a 6 in R4C6 when you already had a 126 triple in the box. You then marked 6 into R4 in box 6, but still didn't remove 6 from R4C6. You had 5678s pencil-marked in C7, and you never removed 7 from any of them when you placed the 7 in the column. When you made that comment, you had pencil-marked 3 into R3C5, when there's a given 3 in the column. You had 8 pencil-marked in two cells in box 6. You removed 8 from one of them, but of course, you never check your pencil-marks, so you didn't place the 8, which would have resolved the 58 pair in box 9, and in turn resolved most of box 3. You placed 6 in box 6, but didn't remove it from the 56 in the column, which also would have resolved the 58 pair in box 9. When you eventually got the 8 in box 6, you still didn't resolve the 58 pair in box 9. I have no pity for you when your problems are entirely self-inflicted. Don't blame the puzzle for not giving up its secrets when it's all laid bare before you. I was in such a good mood after solving this brilliant puzzle, but watching your solve just left me frustrated. It really wasn't that hard after working out the break in, but you just don't bother looking what the effect of your deductions have, and twenty minutes later announce a great discovery that's been totally obvious for ages. How can such an intelligent man keep repeating the same errors, in public, day after day, and never change?
@tna_handyandy5173
5 ай бұрын
AstralSky, stop making sudoku puzzles. The world needs your brain solving problems.
@Manigo1743
5 ай бұрын
Fog garbage.
@KyleBaran90
5 ай бұрын
For the sake of discussion - what specifically do you dislike about fog puzzles?
@ABodyInProgress
5 ай бұрын
Interesting, I got the 9 in R8C2 as my first digit a lot faster than Simon got his first digit which was entirely different. This is a rare moment for me, just let me treasure it.
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