Brilliant puzzle.

Another brutal puzzle. Glad I didn’t give up and ended up solving…it all made sense once I thought about double 7!!

WHICH->PICKY->CLAIM->CUMIN. Again, shown a total superiority over Mark with his 5 attempts. Just joking!:)

A rare 2 today, MINCE which gave four yellows, then straight to CUMIN. Great video as always Mark!

5:26 this was really fun, turned out to be a full coloring exercise for me and filled in the numbers in the final seconds 😄

Thanks Mark for featuring this puzzle and also mentioning my book. As usual, a wonderful solve. This was one of my favourites from the book as well because of the solve path and also the way it was designed.

2:35 minutes for me, definitely the fastest i ever solved one, but i also did one recently that was very similar to this, just with a "hidden circles" twist on top, so this was pretty much just an easier version of that one

26:19 for me. Really nice construction.

WHICH CLAIM COMIC CUMIN

Very slick setting, thanks.

What's a cumin anyway? I missed yesterday and lost my streak but i don't think i would've gotten it.

MARVEL CHARACTERS ALPHABETICALLY DAY 8: BLINK-NIECE-CONIC-CUMIN I was NOT expecting cumin to be right, but the only other option turned out to be CHAIN. Why didn't I think of CHAIN??

Very nice, doable but challenging.

'We can't CAVIL at WHICH CIDER had a CUBIT of CUMIN in it, can we?'

gg ez

Got it in 4 but took me a while to come up with cumin after the third try. ⬜⬜🟨⬜⬜ BRIEF ⬜🟩⬜🟩⬜ TULIP 🟨🟩⬜🟩🟨 MUSIC 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 CUMIN

Mark’s opening word sequence currently: TRUTH KNOWN VIEWS FIRST FIXED MINDS OTHER THEIR HEARD ABOUT TAKEN CRIED YOUNG LARGE NORTH PLACE HOUSE THING GIRLS VISIT COMES WHICH Theme: The 5-letter words from Jane Austen’s novel “Pride and Prejudice”, in order “I see no occasion for that. You and the girls may go-or you may send them by themselves, which perhaps will be STILL better;

I absolutely love the naked single 5 from box 7 glaring us in our face the whole time and not being placed till 15 minutes in, it shows how skilled a person you are that you dont even need all the give away numbers to complete a solve. This is me being genuine not sarcastic i know it could be taken either way so i want to make it clear i truelly enjoyed it.

Lovely construction. After the first easy box 8 I stared at it and finally saw the way the clues combined to make the way clear. After that each remband in turn proved crucial.

If you continue the colouring, then it's clear that R2C6 and R5C8 are the opposite colour from the 8s near to them. Then either R2C2,4,6; or R4,6,8C8 are a 123 triple depending on which of purple and green is low. Either way R2C8 must be 4 or 6, so R1C7 and R3C9 are from 123, and you get a 46 on R2C2,4 and on R6,8C7. From there, the puzzle is fairly easy.

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Ancient Greeks invented Atoms, as smallest part of matter. They could prove the existence of Atoms by using drop of mixed oil and ether poured on top of bowl of water. As ether vaporized, oil separated into a broken blanket atop of the bowl, because the substance couldn't just keep dividing infinitely to create complete cover. Today we know, that they actually discovered molecules. When the French scientists discovered atoms, they named them after the Greek Atom, thinking they found the smallest possible part of matter. When we discovered protons, neutron and electrons, we had to start talking about elemental particles, because it was too late to use Atoms now. But then, experiments shown that even protons must divide, even if only for fractions of time too short to be thought about. They named these particles quarks, as that is word for non-sense, and the experimental results were total non-sense at the time :)

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A gem of a puzzle with simple rules that earn your respect once you get started.

I half-expected R4C5 to NOT be part of the 'in a circle' clues, because it's actually more of a very rounded 'U' shape.😄

18:33 for me

Woah weird. I literally have that SAME Taskmaster episode open on KZbin paused in a window that was to the left of this window when you brought it up! I was very confused for a second haha. Never expected Taskmaster to show up on CtC!

Excellent puzzle, lovely flowing logic from zetamath as he does. Video has me little squirmy but we love you anyway Simon. I wonder if you ought to get keyboard that makes it easier to hit the number keys blind - either a numpad or some bumps or something. (I thought muscle memory would set in, but it's been years now and you very regularly hit the wrong number and correct when you see it on the screen)

Excellent puzzle and video. @14:17 an *X-wing* on *9s* was available in *rows 3* and *4,* powerfully acting on *columns 1-9.* You can find it easily by carefully pencilmarking the empty cells in *rows 4* and *5.*

Really enjoyed this and was willing you to get it but your genuine humility is so refreshing compared to u tube celebrities thankyou Simon

The "normal sudoku rules apply" clause is on a different team

Funny hearing Simon say he wouldn't mind doing a longer video on Japanese sums when this video was suggested to me shortly after the recent over 2 hours long japanese sums sudoku video

33:34 for me and solver #2147.

Why doesnt 1468 work for the nabner lines?

Tiles

1:21:30 Simon loves his unnecessary coloring but at the same time gives Mark a hard time for excessive pencil marks. Chromatic messiness is not a lesser sin though....

31:45 Simon spent a long time on a crazy deduction to prove that you can't put a 9 in either 9 region in box 1, which was really cool to hear! However the way I saw it was just that if you put a 9 in one of those squares, it breaks the 17 region regardless of if it's green or gray (if green you cant make 17 in 2 cells without using 9, if gray you can use 7 but then you need 10 more and there's no high digit left because the 14 region uses 6 and 8). So that to me was easier than what Simon eventually did. Still cool though!

Simon making sense of why I find it easier to do cryptic crosswords by reading all the clubs bottom to top!!! I always start with the last down clue and read every clue back towards one across notating and annotating as I go and only then once I’ve answers what I can within the clue list will I look at the grid and see what of the answers I have I can place for maximum impact to then attempt clues I didn’t pick up ok first inspection.

17:50 complains about the only symmetry breaking condition he has being not much...

The rules doesn't say anywhere, that "normal sudoku rules apply" or anything about digits not repeating on rows/columns/boxes. Is it supposed to be left for the solver to discover whether sudoku rules apply here or not?

21:28 worlds most disapointing 3 everyone

I desperately want this to exist in my native language. I'm proficient in English, but I have absolutely no chance at any of these because of the obscure references. I could probably do it in Swedish though.

waiting for the lying clue to be "normal rules apply" and "there are 5 lies"

I took about 3 minutes and said "Nope, I'm just watching this one". Using a theorem analogous to uniqueness, I am now 1hr into a 90 minute video that must be solvable or Simon would not allow me to watch it. There is not a single digit placed, and not enough remaining clues to disambiguate everything ( so I foolishly believe) and yet I somehow know that the combined insane genius of both Phistomefel and Simon is guaranteed to provide a unique solution shortly. I definitely am not worthy. Thank you both and I hope to see a setting video for this puzzle. Now back to the insanity and some serious head shaking on my part.

Love the added elegance of green one-upping gray (23 vs 22). Close game between these two teams!

18:50 it looks like it's just a variation of phistomefel's ring but using different rows, right?

11:45 for me and solver #8517.

17:36 for me nice puzzle

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