Someone needs to make a Sudoku puzzle with nothing to reveal under the fog. Simon will surely greatly appreciate it and be very satisfied with revealing it.
@HunterJE
3 ай бұрын
Ooh that's devious, so like a blank-grid miracle ruleset but sold as a fog puzzle?
@Quintinohthree
3 ай бұрын
@@HunterJEBonus points for an extremely long ruleset and double bonus points for any negative constraint.
@pascal6871
3 ай бұрын
All black dots are given fog without any black dots 😂
@aithne99
3 ай бұрын
@@pascal6871 That was surely a glorious solve.
@iceberg54321
3 ай бұрын
Kinda already did that, it wasn't great. The fog just makes the puzzle solve less stressful.
@mikebarta4887
3 ай бұрын
Amazing that there was so little under the fog to force this to a single solution
@Pathogenus
3 ай бұрын
i love those fog of war puzzles that subvert expectations and make you look elsewhere than a revealed clue
@KurtHugoSchneider
3 ай бұрын
this puzzle is almost completely solvable without the 'pond' rule (where non snake cells must be able to get to the wall)... i overlooked this rule when i solved the puzzle, and found the solve path to be completely brilliant!! the start of the solve i imagine is similar but after determining the snake had to have 4 entrances/exits to box 7, you could eliminate the case of 3 entrances coming from box 8 since it prevented the snake having 8 cells in box 8 (with an elegant interaction from the 5 in box 9) and you could eliminate the case of 2 entrances from box 4, with a beautiful interaction involving the 1 in box 1! the grid can be almost fully filled but i couldn't untangle the possible snake path in box 8, until i reread the rules... it kinda makes me sad though because the intricate logic used to fill the grid wasn't necessary or even intended if you use the pond rule :( if anyone wants an adventure you can try to not use the pond rule until you've determined the snake path through every box other than box 8! it's beautiful i promise!
@philwheatley5057
3 ай бұрын
I completely forgot that rule and finished in 32 minutes
@bait6652
3 ай бұрын
Try finishing it without revealing fog
@Alezyy
3 ай бұрын
I would have NEVER expected you here, what a crossover
@pouletbelette
2 ай бұрын
@@Alezyy Kurt has even appeared on the channel as a setter once. He's a long time friend and viewer of Cracking the Cryptic.
@colej.banning2419
2 ай бұрын
@@pouletbelette I only even recognize his name from CtC. I think Simon said he does music?
@Mephistahpheles
3 ай бұрын
@41:07 I'm particularly amused when Simon puts the mouse *exactly* on the thing he doesn't see.
@objectshowfan362
3 ай бұрын
I just finished an especially exhausting 30 minute walk (I'm trying to pull myself away from gaming and be more active) to this video in my recommended. This is the perfect video to watch whilst taking a rest from that walk.
@mikoajgutowski7747
3 ай бұрын
Keep it up, healthy gamer!
@objectshowfan362
3 ай бұрын
@@mikoajgutowski7747 Thanks for the encouragement, but I don't need it. Self-discipline keeps me going. I felt tired after 10 minutes, but went for 30 anyways because I committed to 30 beforehand and thus stuck with it. Motivation is fleeting, but self-discipline is forever.
@dontmindme2844
3 ай бұрын
Wait??? Simon using blue for a pond of water? Inconceivable!!!
@dylanlenn7836
2 ай бұрын
I do not think that word means what you think it means
@chris5619
3 ай бұрын
Happy birthday @SvenCodes!
@ocularzombie6679
3 ай бұрын
no freakin way mine is tomorrow that's so crazy
@titusadduxas
3 ай бұрын
1:26:11 - Wow! Discovering that snake idea must have been hugely satisfying. Well done Jolly Rogers! Brilliant puzzle.
@HunterJE
3 ай бұрын
33:40 Another interesting thing to note about the "pond" at this point is that it must reach the edge by way of box 4, and while there must pass between the "head" and "tail" (if it doesn't it will form a barrier keeping the snake from completing)
@chocolateboy300
2 ай бұрын
I finished in 209 minutes. This was one of the hardest puzzles I have done. I had some intuition about the puzzle, but it was so hard proving that it was correct. At some points, it felt like I was going around in circles. I pushed through and was able to complete it. It was a lot of fun, but proving that bottom section was really hard. Great Puzzle!
@Cid0484
3 ай бұрын
When he explained that there could only be two 7s in the last two rows, I was absolutely certain he was going for the 7 in column 9. The fact that this 7 took him almost another 15 minutes, is one of the things why I love Simon 😂
@piarittersporn
3 ай бұрын
It took me ages ... especially in box 8 .... to work out the snake, but it was an absolutely great and exciting puzzle.
@Zeekfox
3 ай бұрын
I love the premonition from Simon at 57:22 of people shouting at him why something is incorrect. However, it's not the snake connection he just made, but the one before where he drew a 5-cell segment in box 7 that must contain the digits 7 and 9 by circle rule, 7 plus 9 plus three other digits (at least 6 in total) is greater than 20. But Simon doesn't catch this flaw in the way he drew the snake at that moment.
@ericpraline1302
2 ай бұрын
Not mad keen on snake-type puzzles generally, but thought this one was really nifty. Setters really are continuing to show great creativity.
@frankjiang1857
3 ай бұрын
Finished in 77:07. I go the snake in about 40 minutes, but then spent the next 30+ minutes trying to figure out the sudoku and forgetting the last rule of the puzzle. Fun puzzle!
@pascal6871
3 ай бұрын
This was a really entertaining solve. Especially cool was how all the rules kept veing relevant at all stages. Often rules only matter for the break in or clarify edge cases but not here. Great puzzle and video
@HunterJE
3 ай бұрын
The real challenge of this puzzle is trying to say things like "six snake segments" without getting your tongue too twisted
@maljamin
3 ай бұрын
sakes snig sneckmints. there.
@Hakucho64
3 ай бұрын
Wow, what a puzzle. Nearly gave up a couple of times, but kept on plugging away trying different things (lots of what-ifs) and eventually got it out.
@MatthewBouyack
2 ай бұрын
Absolutely brutal! This one took me almost five hours! I found it very difficult to narrow down the possible snake paths in boxes seven and eight. Quite happy I was able to (eventually) get it done!
@SunnyJJC
3 ай бұрын
I'm halfway through this puzzle but its already one of my favourites featured on the channel
@longwaytotipperary
3 ай бұрын
Happy solstice!! Happy foggy puzzle day!!
@NormalTheBand
3 ай бұрын
The easiest way to describe "orthogonal" is simply that it is the opposite of diagonal. Highlight the 4 orthogonal squares and mention that they are not the 4 diagonal squares. It's a very clean explanation
@Sponsie1000
3 ай бұрын
l guess, but it feels less clean imo to explain a term by pointing out what it isnt. Also this wont be an issue for square grids like sudoku, but in general your definition would kinda break if we were to apply it non-square grids (triangular/hexagonal/etcc). In contrast, "Two cells sharing an edge/side" is pretty clean/simple to understand and it's true for any grid :]
@RichSmith77
3 ай бұрын
@@Sponsie1000If anyone were to try to claim connections along an edge in a triangular or hexagonal grid were in any way orthogonal, I think I'd rage quit the puzzle immediately 🙂. Orthogonal connection ends up meaning "connected along an edge" *because* it's a square grid. It's a simplification that applies in the case of a square grid, and no other. (A mathematician or lexicographer would also say that a snake that ONLY connected along diagonals, technically also only has orthogonal connections. It's just "orthogonal" has come to mean something else in the sudoku world.)
@istvanmagi473
2 ай бұрын
I don't think there is any need to explain this word. Simon does it as a meme. And it gets longer and longer every time-
@NormalTheBand
2 ай бұрын
@@istvanmagi473 I think thats disingenuous. Simon does a great job teaching concepts every video just in case this is the first CtC video one might click on
@edhunterofmaidengrad
Ай бұрын
I was able to finish in 80 minutes! It actually flows very well; every step was tough but I never came to a point where I just stared at the grid with no clue. I wasted a bit of time trying to start with the unfogged clue at the beginning, but it wasn't long before I got on the right track. What a great puzzle.
@warren_r
3 ай бұрын
Very very happy with my 61 minute completion time. What a puzzle!! The logical steps required to figure out the path through box 8 is a real standout for me.
@Tringard
13 күн бұрын
Getting to this one late, but it was an incredible puzzle. I very nearly gave up a few times with the plan of just watching Simon solve it, but I'm glad to have stuck with it. The snake with fixed sum lines was such an interesting constraint to work with.
@josephlewis7945
3 ай бұрын
it pains me that he didn't see the 1 digit in box 1 sooner
@Crocodile_Appreciator
3 ай бұрын
I mean, he was cooking in box 9 before it, so it's not like he was wasting too much time
@Roblilley999
3 ай бұрын
First thing I saw
@gi0nbecell
3 ай бұрын
About that: Did I miss something in the rules that said the snake had to visit every box? I get Simons reasoning about the snake _if_ it visited box 9 at all, but I didn‘t get why it was forced to do so from the get-go. Same goes for box 1: Sure, _if_ the snake visits box 1 it can only do so in r3c3, which then has to be a 1 (and the snake has to continue to r3c4 and r4c3 to not take any more cells in box 1), but why does it _have_ to visit _any_ box besides box 4? As I read the rules, it could be a very short, 4-cell snake containing the digits 1 through 4, all contained in box 4, making the puzzle essentially impossible to solve.
@josephlewis7945
3 ай бұрын
@gi0nbecell in the rules it says box N has N number of cells on the snake so the snake has to visit every box
@djekhex
3 ай бұрын
@@gi0nbecell "Box N must contain N amount of snake cells". if you put 0 snake cells in box 9, 0 does not equal 9 so that would breaks the rules.
@emilywilliams3237
2 ай бұрын
This was very interesting. Especially interesting was what you discovered at the end, that practically nothing was actually hidden under the fog. I think that the rules of the puzzle did the work, and the fog was just like an extra layer of frosting for Simon! Thanks for the video, Simon. I had to watch this one in segments, but I am very glad I returned to it to see the entire thing!
@CPTEP46
3 ай бұрын
I want to know if constructors are intentionally putting 3’s in the corner, just to make Simon happy.
@MattYDdraig
3 ай бұрын
34:54 Stunningly good, especially the devious slithering in box 7!
@paulellingham9358
3 ай бұрын
Clean up our snake and think harder 😂😂 So innocent.
@daavor
3 ай бұрын
I have to agree with Simon that one of my pet peeves/worries with these types of fog puzzles is whether I'm expected to recognize a digit from it's bottom half. I much prefer the "quad with ?" approach that lets the constructor force certain digits to reveal in certain squares fully.
@Mark199201
3 ай бұрын
Hi Simon/Mark! Did you hear the PM programme with Evan Davies on Radio 4 yesterday (19/06/24)? At approximately 51 minutes 40 seconds Dave Gorman and Katie Steckles were discussing cryptic crosswords and whether the clues were getting too old without youthful references! You might find it interesting! I'm not sure I can post a link, but it's on BBC Sounds
@Hakucho64
3 ай бұрын
I often think that about the cryptic crosswords in the Sydney Morning Herald. Luckily I'm the exact demographic to understand all the necessary slang and cultural references! 😛
@MattYDdraig
2 ай бұрын
There was a Guardian article yesterday or the day before on this subject also, with quotes from Mark, and a mention of CtC.
@colej.banning2419
2 ай бұрын
1:12:44 "the ultimate finder of Dr. Spocks" It attracts a lot of pediatricians?
@SirBradiator
3 ай бұрын
26:27 I would always work on the assumption that if the constructor needed you to know what was in the circle they would have constructed the clue to be fully revealed rather than partially hidden.
@CauchyIntegralFormula
2 ай бұрын
48m10s. That sum condition was much more powerful than I initially realized!
@user-jw8ey4fv1l
3 ай бұрын
I have a question, but I don't know if you have answered it. So, have you ever gotten stuck on a puzzle, and if yes, would you consider trying it again? (Awesome videos, and even though solving them is fun, watching you is very entertaining)
@grahamania
3 ай бұрын
00:56:42 for me. Amazing puzzle. Loved it from start to finish! Kind comment.
@britlion
3 ай бұрын
1:12:40 I can't resist pointing out that Simon is presumably confusing Doctor Spock, the childcare chap, with Mister Spock, the star trek logician. And yes, I'm a pedant.
@anaayoung9142
3 ай бұрын
Ssssssspecial ssssssudoku for ssssssssure! Thanks for the ssssssolve! 🐍😅
@puritan7473
3 ай бұрын
Congratulations, Happy Birthday Sven!!
@gregind01
3 ай бұрын
It was great listening to Simon hiss along to his commentary with statements like "sssixss sssnake sscellsss in boxss sssixss". 😁
@efa666
3 ай бұрын
25:03 kinda disappointed that Simon didn't do some paraphrase of "that's a Smith and Wesson, and you've had your six".
@Stompound
3 ай бұрын
This is possibly my favorite fog of war sudoku of all time
@benoitranque7791
2 ай бұрын
Congrats on 600k!
@angec9908
3 ай бұрын
Simon not wanting to say something illogical because it brings out the “Dr. Spocks” which itself it illogical because Dr. Spock was the baby doctor and /Mr./ Spock was the logical Vulcan 🤣
@homestar92
2 ай бұрын
I really like how it took the realization that the triangular number for 7 was too high before Simon realized that the water didn't all have to connect to *the same* boundary cell.
@Yttria
2 ай бұрын
Tough one, although half of that was me missing a couple obvious things including the part of the rules that required the snake to start and stop in box 4. Finished in 127:24.
@gencolik
3 ай бұрын
New song idea for snake puzzles Simon. "Unsnake my heart, say you love me again"
@PhilBoswell
3 ай бұрын
Hard to believe I'm the first to say this, but *Dr* Spock was a paediatrician (or possibly a pediatrician, I think he was American ;-) whereas the person to whom you refer is *Mr* Spock…
@caffeinemonster7242
3 ай бұрын
@01:12:44 - Mr Spock, not Dr. Spock (He says, proving your point 🙂).
@RecreationallyCynical
3 ай бұрын
Did it in 54:31. Happy birthday, Sven!
@ronjohnson6916
3 ай бұрын
Neat. I'm terrible at snake logic but for once could follow all of the logic. The rules constrain the path in a way that was not at all apparent on first viewing.
@stephenmccarthy1795
3 ай бұрын
Chevron effect is lovely. Simultaneously funny, beautiful, impressive, and annoying.
@JohnDBlue
3 ай бұрын
"That might be fine" is such a Simon thing to say after putting in a possible snake path that creates an ending for it in the wrong box 😅
@bobblebardsley
3 ай бұрын
I'll be honest, when Simon said he was going to start in box 9, I thought he was going to colour in the whole box and then look somewhere else 😅 How very wrong I was...
@57thorns
3 ай бұрын
33:47 was the last deduction I managed before derailing. r4c4 has to come out, forcing the snake composition of box 5. Because if r4c4 is snake then r5c4 also is snake amd the fifth cell is r6c4 and the pond is surrounded.
@xXFoiXx
2 ай бұрын
This one would be a lot more fun to play if we could also draw those lines.
@johnh2052
2 ай бұрын
At 56:30, Simon draws a plausible line distribution of box 7. The reason this fails is that the 5-cell line includes both 7 and 9, meaning it's a minimum of 22. EDIT: Never mind. He sees exactly this issue 8 minutes later.
@donaldsnyder1543
3 ай бұрын
Viper in the fog ? 😮 I guess we've been introduced to the three most dangerous letters in sudoku , R.K.O.!
@Rach881101
3 ай бұрын
51:42 for me. Nice puzzle!
@PathOfShrines
Ай бұрын
Great puzzle. 63:03
@mrtrunin
3 ай бұрын
It’s going to be one good video. I just know it!
@peterhowitt3861
2 ай бұрын
21.01 - surely R3 C4 and c5 could have also been a 7/8 pair adding up to 15
@Tepalus
3 ай бұрын
49:14 for me. Not too difficult. Once you get certain restrictions and implications the puzzle has a very nice flow. :)
@Nerdnumberone
3 ай бұрын
I wonder if the fog made this easier than seeing the scant circle clues.
@michaelmele3954
2 ай бұрын
Finally! 51:48
@andremouss2536
2 ай бұрын
52:20 what to do now ? Well, sudoku as always, putting a 7 in R7C9 !
@Timlagor
3 ай бұрын
I keep being incredibly clever and getting nowhere!
@carlscheuermann3684
2 ай бұрын
at 57:45+, Simon draws three border crossings between boxes 4 and 7 and immediate concludes R6C3 has to be a corner, so he connects it. But couldn't it have been the end of the snake? (For as much as he knew at that point in the solve...)
@craigfjay
3 ай бұрын
47:50 This idea wouldn't work because box 8 would have 2x single segments containing 1 and 5, both being in row 7 which already has a 5 in
@jonkess2768
3 ай бұрын
At 58:43 i feel like he explored both versions of the world and both versions are indentical in box 4? So whatever happens with the snake C3R4 has to be a snake end 5 and C1R6 has to be snake end and a 1 and C3/4R6 have to be connected by snake. Ok he noticed it shortly after :)
@srwapo
3 ай бұрын
70:58, lotta time spent just looking for what to do next, seemed like thinking about the sums of non-snake cells were super important. I thought I broke it for a while before realizing that I only saw the bottom of the second digit of the clue in box 3 and what I assumed was an 8 could actually be a 6.
@michaelmatter1222
3 ай бұрын
Exquisite!
@imsquash2581
2 ай бұрын
This is sports for me.
@MaxPower2719
3 ай бұрын
19:08 Well, that was anti-climactic 😂
@Paolo_De_Leva
3 ай бұрын
Intriguing ruleset. I am looking forward to solve it and I bet it will be phenomenal. Thank you Simon for featuring it.
@oddbarnett
3 ай бұрын
41:17 - Dooh-Dooh
@Gonzalo_Garcia_
3 ай бұрын
25:05 for me. Fantastic puzzle!!
@karlmortenlunna2417
3 ай бұрын
26:12 for me today. Nice puzzle!
@douglasmagowan2709
3 ай бұрын
At minute 33. The top left cell of box 5 (R4C4) cannot be snake. And then the center of the box cannot be snake, giving all of the snake / not snake cells in the box.
@martinomasolo8833
Ай бұрын
Hi Simon! Love your work! A quick feedback: The colors are too dark and whn they are not useful it gets a bit annoying honestly...
@Kirbyfan87827
3 ай бұрын
Finished in 47:16 with help from the video.
@luizguilhermebandeira8609
10 күн бұрын
1:21:52 THREE IN THE CORNER
@marcbennett9232
3 ай бұрын
it is absolutely insane to me how few likes you guys get compared to how many subscribers you have.
@jinkela7295
3 ай бұрын
A little surprised that Simon's first digit is not the 1 in r3c3 lol
@michaelhoffman2443
3 ай бұрын
I missed the one "important part" of the clues which say the snake starts and ends in box 4... and I am watching the video thinking, "How is Simon so confident that the 1 isn't a snake end.... how is he so confident that the 9 isn't a snake end" lol... I will try the puzzle myself again now with that added knowledge lol
@NaHBrO733
3 ай бұрын
1:13:00 While it was infuriating to see Simon not able to deduce what those snake segments are, there is actually no way to continue other than finding the 9 in box 6. Even at 1:17:00, the best you can do is notice the snake in box 6 cannot be 23 (because the short snake in box 5 cannot be 46 anymore), and must sum to 10,10,15 with those two 10's are the same. I was stuck there again before finally finding the triple.
@stangerrits6712
3 ай бұрын
Quite easy to do some math on row 6, if only Simon would know the secret 😂
@Hakucho64
3 ай бұрын
Normally these variant rules are clear to me, but I'm struggling with the one that says "box borders divide the snake into segments which sum to either 1, 5, 10, 15 or 20". Does this mean: A. the segments _collectively_ sum to one of those numbers, or B. each segment in a box _individually_ sums to one of those numbers? I suspect B, but only because there are more elegant ways of expressing A, for example "the snake cells in each box must sum to 1, 5, 10, 15 or 20". However, confirmation would be nice.
@Hakucho64
3 ай бұрын
Also, thinking about it some more, I suppose box 9 could never satisfy condition A, so it must be B. They might have added the word "each" to clarify this, i.e. "segments which _each_ sum to either ..."
@bass2564
18 күн бұрын
You have a snake in the fog that ADDS up the digits in each square it visits, and you call it VIPER instead of ADDER?
@wertiuz
2 ай бұрын
Does the puzzle author perchance have a bay?
@DanielCoto93
3 ай бұрын
Simon missing the 1 in Box 8 for so long hurts me
@six_5000
2 ай бұрын
No clue how to even start. Put four 3s in the corners and gave up
@_koXx_
3 ай бұрын
I am missing something essential in the rules: It isn’t mentioned that the snake has to visit every box! So, how could you start the puzzle in box 9 if you cannot assume that the snake actually visits that box?
@stangerrits6712
3 ай бұрын
You're absolutely right, I saw the same and was expecting much more comments on this!
@ubk-qm4rz
2 ай бұрын
Doesn't "Box N must contain N amount of snake cells" imply that?
@stangerrits6712
2 ай бұрын
@@ubk-qm4rz For many readers it may suggest that, but strictly speaking it’s not correct I think. You can also interpret it like so: ‘for every box the snake visits, it should have N cells, where N is the number of the box’. It’s not stated that the rule of N cells in box N has to be applied for all box numbers.
@_koXx_
2 ай бұрын
That was my initial understanding of the rule as well: If the snake visits box N, than box N has to contain N snake cells. It was only after I couldn't solve the puzzl that I concluded this rule might have a different meaning. The need to assume something like that is in my opinion not suitable for a logic puzzle though.
@RhiannonAgutter
3 ай бұрын
I somehow managed to do this in a miraculous 43:11 and I have zero idea how
@peterhowitt3861
2 ай бұрын
21.01 - I'm wrong, it had to include 2. Duh!!
@_-_-Sipita-_-_
2 ай бұрын
47:48 for me.
@RoderickEtheria
3 ай бұрын
I kept forgetting to consider the length of each snake segment, or I should have done better than my around 48 minute mark.
@angec9908
3 ай бұрын
I cleared all the fog and then got stuck in box 7 based on the math and then I finally realized there was an alternate path 😭
@PhillyMotoXTS
2 ай бұрын
How do you put the lines and X and O in?
@tessabrisac7423
2 ай бұрын
The first icon in the first column under the grid takes you to the settings; click on the first option, “pen tool”, and you’ll have these tools enabled on the right side of the number pad.
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