"If you're watching this video at normal speed" I love the recognition for us weirdos that watch pretty much every video at 2+ times speed haha

I finished in 127 minutes. This was a super tricky one to solve. My brain seemed to hone in at the bottom left and I saw that there was a limitation on how many and what kind of high digits can exist in the cages of row 9 and column 1. It took me a long time, but I did see that r9c1 had to be low. I couldn't see much of anything. I thought about what would happen if the 10 cage did not have a 1 and saw that it broke. That forced my 1 in column 1 to be in box 7. Other than that, I found nothing. I was able to see that r6c4 had to be high, but that was it. I decided to do something I rarely and try out SET Theory. I took row 9 and column 1 as one set and compared it to box 7. That gave me r6c1, r9c1, and r9c4 plus the cages minus 45, which was 17, compared to the rest of the German Whispers in box 7. This really helped and it forced some key cells to be low. I was able to rule out 2 from r9c1 and I started to make major progress. I maxed out the German Whisper and the puzzle practically finished itself. If that is the intended way, the that is one of the trickiest puzzles I have done. Regardless, I was really happy incorporating SET Theory as that is my weakest skill. Great Puzzle!

"This is so Zetamath-y!" Missed ya, man! Glad to see another puzzle of yours!

Ooh, I love that album, especially Crying. I’ve seen Joe Satriani live a couple of times, amazing. Paused to write this, I’m now going to watch what the wonderful Jay Dyer has in store for us today.

This is such a good puzzle - very glad to see it featured

I managed to solve this in... a comparable time to Simon's, and am now 2/3 of the way through watching Simon's solve, and I only just now realized... I never used the rule that no two rows, no two columns, and no two boxes can use the same set of digits! I wonder how much less difficult the puzzle would have been if I'd remembered that rule was in play?

Wow, that was brilliant. I attempted my first cryptic the other day and got absolutely nowhere. Now I have a better chance for next time. Thank you very much for an entertaining video!

aww I saw the thumbnail and was so sure we got the "example of a ying yang shading", which Simon does almost everytime when explaining ying yang rules, as the solution for shading in this puzzle (I may have skipped ahead to check, my excitement couldn't be contained)

There is a band called Thudermother, and one of the members is called Linnéa Vikström. Probably she who has birthday today! Happy birthday Linnéa 🎉

I'm currently at the Royal Albert Hall seeing the Australian Pink Floyd Show (they're so good!!) I'll be watching this one later. Hopefully I'll be able to catch some of the live stream on the way home 😅

The puzzle (or ruleset) is broken, a sum is the addition of two or more numbers.

The extremist is a cracking album! Pun completely intended

Awesome video

Rules: 05:54 Let's Get Cracking: 09:14 Simon's time: 1h3m01s Puzzle Solved: 1:12:15 What about this video's Top Tier Simarkisms?! Bobbins: 4x (32:49, 32:49, 32:49, 41:32) Three In the Corner: 4x (1:03:22, 1:09:52, 1:10:06, 1:10:17) The Secret: 2x (11:02, 11:08) Maverick: 1x (56:02) And how about this video's Simarkisms?! Ah: 18x (14:43, 16:47, 20:15, 24:16, 26:22, 28:07, 33:03, 33:06, 36:00, 36:04, 38:23, 39:34, 41:32, 48:29, 53:15, 56:37, 1:09:32, 1:10:59) Checkerboard: 12x (11:14, 11:56, 12:44, 13:10, 19:43, 19:43, 22:35, 22:35, 23:53, 24:37, 38:02, 56:19) Beautiful: 11x (20:19, 20:21, 24:16, 24:33, 27:14, 36:04, 45:59, 55:08, 1:04:14, 1:13:13, 1:13:13) Sorry: 8x (04:53, 05:28, 31:15, 31:58, 42:45, 54:03, 57:49, 1:08:14) By Sudoku: 6x (26:01, 42:07, 42:10, 52:29, 55:48, 57:05) Clever: 5x (20:21, 36:43, 55:08, 1:04:11, 1:12:44) Hang On: 5x (19:00, 53:15, 1:04:01, 1:04:01) In Fact: 5x (01:39, 02:09, 12:02, 53:36, 55:39) Pencil Mark/mark: 5x (41:44, 49:02, 57:08, 58:49, 59:38) Gorgeous: 4x (24:43, 26:25, 48:21, 1:11:35) I Have no Clue: 3x (31:58, 32:01, 1:08:56) Stuck: 3x (22:54, 29:08, 42:25) Brilliant: 3x (04:12, 1:12:09, 1:12:34) Cake!: 3x (03:30, 04:14, 05:40) Good Grief: 2x (45:59, 54:03) Incredible: 2x (00:51, 02:03) Obviously: 2x (13:52, 38:46) What Does This Mean?: 2x (21:45, 22:47) Triangular Number: 2x (15:59, 21:38) Goodness: 1x (01:57) Bother: 1x (1:00:33) Naked Single: 1x (1:05:03) The Answer is: 1x (12:36) Nonsense: 1x (27:47) In the Spotlight: 1x (1:10:20) Lovely: 1x (27:11) Extraordinary: 1x (02:47) Deadly Pattern: 1x (1:10:36) Come on Simon: 1x (50:45) Shouting: 1x (03:09) Spider-Sense: 1x (14:30) Magnificent: 1x (00:59) Puzzling: 1x (1:12:31) Whoopsie: 1x (1:06:41) Phone is Buzzing: 1x (10:50) Progress: 1x (1:06:30) Wow: 1x (43:20) That's Huge: 1x (43:20) Nature: 1x (1:11:10) Weird: 1x (40:11) Most popular number(>9), digit and colour this video: Ten (5 mentions) Two (107 mentions) Blue (111 mentions) Antithesis Battles: High (2) - Low (0) Even (6) - Odd (0) Highest (2) - Lowest (0) Row (20) - Column (20) 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!

Very erudite as usual. Also funny / charming when you had to adjust your standard explanation about only explaining the secret to your favourite people to accommodate not actually knowing what the secret is in this case.

BADGE, as your fourth guess would have eliminated B, D, and G leaving C for CROWN and ensuring the win.

"5 is definitely a digit" oh the knowledge bombs

Thank you for not making all the 0s dark green. It was going to be really annoying if we had everything nice and symmetric.

This was brilliant.

They should add another chapter marker for some of these to mark the first digit entered :D

Mad? Brilliant? I would like to add insane to the adjectives describing this puzzle. I seriously can't believe I was able to solve without Simon's help. From the giggling comment of Mikal, I think I'll watch Simon for a bit. I don't see why I should be the only one to have suffered mental duress.

I like that this is a puzzle that both takes Simon over an hour and doesn't take him almost that long to get the first digit in the grid.

We like long videos simon

Now has 858 solves... 859 solves.

Embrace the pencil marks, Simon. BE the pencil marks!

Got lucky getting the B with 3rdguess, even though my 1st word was all grey. Done in 4. ASIDE YOUTH BLOCK BROWN

I love puzzles that really mess with your brain. This is amazing

Not so speedy for me 07:26 I had to watch you for some help 04:34 nice, coloured everything 21:25 not easy, for some reason, but I solved alone Thanks! 😆

At 54:13 I thought it was boring to find out the colours digits already, so I tried solving it without actually putting in the 5, or I put it in as a pencilmark, knowing it was there but technically not knowing 4 was next to it. It was entirely possible to completely colour the grid with green and purple 19s, 28s, 37s, and 46s respectively. I found that very beautiful since it shows that the puzzle actually always has two solutions unless you decide on which colour is low and which is high, which you do through r9c2. I was very surprised to see as well when simon was all in on colouring that he never finished colouring r6 with the rest of the greens, he might've coloured a lot more if he did that, or even, as I did, colour the whole puzzle. I urge you to try and solve it this way, it was way more fun. It actually requried barely any thinking about the lines more than some situations giving: "Oh a 37 can never go next to a 46 of the other colour".

My times: Fire Medallion: 9:56 Light Medallion: 6:33 Water Medallion: 21:59

Very approachable, not at the territorium where it almost solves itself. Great nice flow. Enjoyed the puzzle.

Five guesses for me: Steam - Flock - Woody - Grown - Brown

I saw the video was over an hour, and thought I wouldn't have time to try the puzzle myself, so I started watching Simon's solve. About 10 minutes in, I'd been getting each little deduction before Simon did, so I thought "maybe this suits the way my brain works and I should have a go"... it ended up taking me two and a half hours even knowing how to get started, but I enjoyed every minute of it! (Well, apart from the point where I made a very silly mistake that took a long time to spot...)

Lovely puzzle :) 00:53:50 for me

I finished in 66 minutes. This was a very enjoyable use of geometry in a puzzle. I loved how box 5's orientation allowed some of the arrows to always equal the same number in the bulb. I think my favorite part was seeing that r5c3 and r7c5 as well as r5c2 and r8c5 were two different digits that respectively saw r7c3 and r8c2. This surprisingly solved that arrow immediately. That was such a cool trick. The rest went well and I finished strong. I really enjoyed the way this puzzle worked. It was so satisfying. Great Puzzle!

Very beautiful 3 puzzles.

I’m late to the party but I remain #TeamFinkz 💜

Fire: 9:00 Light: 11:05 Water: 19:00 I struggled with the irregular sudoku 😬😬

Funnily enough, I had almost the exact same word pattern as Mark: QUEST - PLAIN - FROWN - CROWN - BROWN

Two zeroes didn’t get their dark green shading and now I’m sad.

It took him just 16 minutes to get to something i took more like an hour to do with the aid of technology, talking about figuring out the combinations, this man is way better at thinking than we often give him credit for!

Hahahaha great episode today, well done Mark! ❤

My break-in, after identifying R6C5 as a 3 because of the pythagorean triple, was realizing that row 5 of box 5 added up to 12 by virtue of roping. Since the minimum of the portion of that arrow in row 4 is 10, R5C4 is a maximum of 3. But the 3 next to it means it's actually only a 1 or 2. This means the portion of the arrow in row 4 is actually 11 (because of it were higher it would have to include a 7 or 8 and would break the arrow) and thus R5C4 can only be a 2. Since the 2 in box 6 is now NOT in the arrow, the arrow is 1-8, and now we know all the digits.