10 Puzzles In 1 Sudoku!?!

[@OlafDoschke]

At parity parties, you'll find Simon in a corner with the 3.

[@longwaytotipperary]

3 times!!!

[@vitowidjojo7038]

Spotlighted

[@okubi0]

Nobody puts Simmon in the corner

[@258thHiGuy]

I love that he told us the secret even when it isn't actually true for what he's trying to do

[@olivier2553]

But at least Simon did not have to repeat it when he did use it in the second phase.

[@danielszanto2955]

It is much more straightforward to prove the mini diagonal placement by thinking where the else the central digit goes.

[@tremkl]

Puzzle: Normal Sudoku rules do NOT apply. Simon: Can I use the secret?

[@livesolhaug]

😂❤

[@alibabapirce9782]

30:00 so this is 8 so cage cant be 8/7. damn he overcomplicates this way to much :D

[@EmonEconomist]

Gosh that was exactly how I started 😂

[@AngryKettle]

If you're wondering whether to try this one or not, don't worry about the time. There's just a lot to explain. This is extremely approachable and beautiful. Go for it!

[@GijsvanDam]

Thank you! It was approachable. One thing that slowed me down was the late realization that digits within cages cannot repeat, *also* in the first stage of the puzzle.

[@rachelstelmach698]

Thank you for this encouragement! I'm pretty new to these puzzles, so it took me a while to get through, but it was a really satisfying and fun solve once I got there!

[@kaloyandivanov]

36:30 There is a key combination implemented by Sven to invert the selection, you can only select the middle cells then press Ctrl + i to select the rest. ( :

[@josephgamal3135]

or he could have just used ctrl + A to select everything, then holding ctrl and deselecting the cells in the middle

[@brucedwuk]

It's so encouraging to watch these puzzles over time and then move from 'No idea' to 'Done it'. Took me ages, but I got there. Thanks to this wonderful channel, especially to Simon and Mark. Oh and being able to check that you haven't made any mistakes on Sven's app is an absolute game-changer

[@akk1yyy381]

Have got so much trained by Simon's methods that when I tried to solve by myself, I used the same pink shading for the centre cells....then switched to see Simon's solve and saw the exact same thing....

[@Coldheart322]

I hope Simon realises that with a 3x3 grid, not only do you have a \ repetition, but the other two digits occupy the same pattern of cells. I think Simon would have helped himself if he had spotted that and used it with more confidence. Once you have a corner cell, either it's the diagonal value, or it takes up the other two remaining valid cells.

[@KeiFlox]

The birthday and anniversary announcements are so fun and wholesome, one of my favorite parts of a CTC video. I also love them because it shows people from all over the world and of all ages are watching CTC!

[@longwaytotipperary]

Ditto!

[@emilywilliams3237]

I entirely agree. I also loved the successful-solvers-of-Patreon-rewards listings when Simon used to read the names for some of the same reasons!

[@TurquoizeGoldscraper]

32:34 for me - not many Sudoku puzzles can legitimately get 3 3's in the corners.

[@MichaelMoore99]

Yeah, with normal Sudoku rules, you can get a max of 2.

[@praematura]

Tested this one a while back, 25:54 for my time, it was really a lot of fun! Major props to AnalyticalNinja for this one.

[@glum_hippo]

Parity Party is one of my favorite constraints… I’ve made nearly 30 of these published on LMD. Simon, I had no idea the constraint was so troublesome to you! But I’m glad you jumped over that shadow of yours to showcase this gem of a puzzle! ❤

[@Rdlprmpf12]

Parity party secret (proof is quite trivial if you think about it): An even clue always points to an even number (possibly 0) of odd digits plus one even digit. Corollary: The total number of digits is always odd. I think that could have sped up the solve at a few points.

[@Gonzalo_Garcia_]

13:24 for me. I love these 10-in-1 puzzles so much, absolutely fantastic!!

[@BryanLu0]

It's so funny that Simon told us the secret even though it doesnt apply to Mean Minis 23:07 Simon as usual, misses Sudoku. The 5s can't go on the diagonal, but they still need to appear in the box

[@MaierFlorian]

Simon: each box sums to 45. Me: not in this puzzle, no secret in this one, sorry... one box could in the first step sum to up to 72 or as low as 18 x)

[@SupremeOverlord24]

I like the way that the 'secret' in box 5 is that the digits in fact add up to 14!

[@v0id_d3m0n]

I did it in 63:42. This was so much fun! It was a bit of a slow start for me (first time doing parity party), but I loved every second of it! Really cute puzzle and some nice deductions.

[@thomasjulian1025]

I always love when Simon's mind ignores basic sudoku and finds the strangest ways to get around it.

[@MichaelMoore99]

*news voice* "For our upcoming story, Sudoku Man refuses to do sudoku in sudoku puzzle."

[@stevieinselby]

Great fun - finished in 30 minutes despite having to unwind quite a bit of the final puzzle because I had made an unwarranted assumption in box 9. It feels like Simon would have saved time if, having found the only possible pattern of digits in box 7 and then proved it for a second time with colours, he had then used it in box 9 a few seconds later...

[@davidblake6889]

Having never seen a 'Parity Party' sudoku, or a 'mean mini' sudoku, it took me a while to understand how it all works. Having done so, I was seeing the 'mean mini' solution to boxes far more quickly than Simon. Much shouting ensued. However, his solve of the full puzzle was awesome. I could not come close... How the heck did analytical ninja set this? He must be a black belt ninja of analysis.

[@davidrattner9]

Hope your brother had wonderful birthday Simon! So glad tried and showcased this puzzle. Cant wait to hear you bolt out poetry for all us.

[@TheHunterMPG]

Very approachable and loads of fun - I recommend everyone has a go at this lovely puzzle!

[@emilywilliams3237]

That was very fun. Thanks for the puzzle, Analyticalninja and for featuring it, Simon. I loved hearing the children's voices as the video ended! I must say, I was confused by the changing of parity rule when it applied to a single digit, because in fact it didn't apply. I wish that had been more clear to me. Maybe something like, " Single digit clues might give the first digit only, regardless of the parity of the second digit." I must say I puzzled quite a bit over those, even when I watched the video, Simon, because I felt that it was breaking the rule, but it did not seem possible to solve the puzzle unless parity was immaterial in the cases of single-digit answers.

[@tinarion3598]

I really enjoyed box 4. It made me laugh when Simon thought he'd backed himself into a corner with the 8s. I can totally see how the mean-mini logic fries the brain when you're so conditioned to "Normal sudoku rules."

[@joeg451]

the proof for the repeating diagonal reminded me of a very tiny version of "roping", which also always exhibits at least one diagonal shape

[@aspinninggreycube1270]

34:29 Loved this puzzle, relatively straightforward solve but still leaves you mystified as to how it was created.

[@brianarsuaga5008]

WHAT A FUN PUZZLE! Tricky without being brutal, neither easy nor trivial. It's the definition of "approachable." I LOVE The way that the first phase of the puzzle teaches some tricks about the novel (to me at least) parity party clues, and how i just grew more and more familiar with them in the second phase as I realized how restrictive they really were. I think this may be my favorite puzzle on this channel so far, just for how much of a blast it was to solve.

[@mattiascrowe2549]

33:22! Once you showed me what mean minis were it was all algebra! Exciting!

[@TBH_Inc]

Simon, you’re driving me crazy! For the mini puzzles, there’s only 2 possible patterns. You figured out the diagonal one quickly, but at least in the first 30 minutes, you missed that the other 2 digits both form a pattern of 1 digit in the corner, and then the other 2 digits are a knights move away. For example, in box 1, you got the 5 in the corner right away, and since digits can’t repeat in boxes, you know the other 5s can’t both be a knights move away. That forces the other 5s to be along the diagonal (which in conjunction with the 8 clue, unlocks the whole puzzle). Also as a reminder, an odd and an even can never add up to an odd number. So an even clue will have either 1 digit or 3 digits. And so if those 3 digits don’t work in the cages, you can instantly know it’s just the 1 digit.

[@kiethhyde]

Thank you. I noticed that right away and waited the whole puzzle to see if he noticed so I could come find out if nobody else commented this I would have. Makes solving them as simple as knowing the three numbers and the placement of any two digits. Of course the cages and parity make it so even one digit will do.

[@Pointlesschan]

The knight move pattern (Simon missing it) drove me crazy too

[@RichSmith77]

"an odd and an even can never add up to an odd number". You might want to think about that again.

[@dididi3430]

Watching your videos is like a little piece of haven during these hard times in Israel. Thank you for giving us such divine reprive.

[@alirion649]

Simon's deduction on the 22 clue in the final stage was an impressive find. But I found it much faster and easier to use all the outside clues in the bottom two rows, all were very straightforward at that stage. Fun puzzle!

[@timcotton1782]

Very nice construction. I stared blinking at the grid for almost 4 minutes, then I understood, and each "mini" went quite easilyy with the assortment of clues. Phase 2 was very straightforward and moderately challenging. A pleasure.

[@logiclrd]

Nice :-) This is the first time I've popped open a Cracking the Cryptic video to follow along while you solve it only to actually solve it entirely by myself. :-)

[@logiclrd]

One thing I noticed: In the first stage, whenever you have a 2-cage and a 3-cage in the same box, it's immediately giving you one of the digits (and it's the one that's not in the 2-cage). This makes the middle box completely trivial. Just seeked around the video to check and Simon applied this technique to at least two of the boxes without actually identifying it as a general principle. :-)

[@MarkWiseTechno]

45:31 was my time! That was a nice solve. Challenging but completely fair. I liked this one a lot!

[@bethbromley9590]

yay - first longer one I did in a while. It was such a cool puzzle - though strange to start each box fresh with no help from the previous boxes at the start!

[@rainshadowgamingart2236]

35-ish minutes. Brilliantly done. Got hung up on box five in stage 1. Took me a bit longer than it should've to figure out but I got there in the end. Beautifully logical to the end.

[@dannstarrjp]

This puzzle was too easy for Simon, his brain struggles to compute easy puzzles 😂 it was very easy indeed and he found a way to make it extremely complicated

[@Aliessil]

Wow, 23:02 for me, blitzed through that! Not done a mean mini before but it unraveled surprisingly quickly - you can do a lot of logic by comparing the difference between e.g. a 3-cell parity clue to a 2-cell cage

[@inspiringsand123]

Rules: 07:41 Let's Get Cracking: 11:24 What about this video's Top Tier Simarkisms?! Three In the Corner: 11x (15:45, 15:59, 44:19, 44:26, 45:37, 47:04, 47:12, 49:32, 49:43) Bobbins: 6x (04:00, 04:00, 10:13, 12:47, 12:50, 40:47) The Secret: 4x (11:57, 11:59, 37:58, 44:37) Numpty: 2x (31:47, 31:47) Maverick: 1x (03:47) Diddly Squat: 1x (40:03) And how about this video's Simarkisms?! Cake!: 9x (03:42, 03:47, 04:09, 04:17, 04:39, 04:44, 04:46, 04:48, 04:56) Hang On: 7x (07:45, 10:04, 31:36, 37:40, 40:47, 45:20, 49:08) Ah: 6x (21:41, 23:20, 31:15, 37:15, 40:47, 44:53) Brilliant: 4x (03:24, 05:01, 49:45, 49:48) Obviously: 4x (01:54, 12:36, 26:20, 38:54) Useless: 3x (11:18, 12:21, 23:07) In the Spotlight: 3x (15:48, 47:07, 49:38) In Fact: 3x (07:37, 08:52, 42:58) Goodness: 2x (05:32, 31:47) Sorry: 2x (12:23, 18:15) Clever: 2x (03:20, 43:59) Pencil Mark/mark: 2x (37:46, 37:48) Nonsense: 1x (42:39) Naughty: 1x (12:47) Stuck: 1x (49:02) Fascinating: 1x (00:57) Incredible: 1x (40:47) First Digit: 1x (05:28) Our old Friend Sudoku: 1x (39:01) By Sudoku: 1x (28:28) Approachable: 1x (02:55) Bizarre: 1x (22:44) Whoopsie: 1x (10:46) Plonk: 1x (50:02) Wow: 1x (43:54) What Does This Mean?: 1x (16:35) That's Huge: 1x (43:25) Thingy Thing: 1x (28:28) Most popular number(>9), digit and colour this video: Fifteen, Sixteen, Twenty Two (12 mentions) Three (66 mentions) Orange (3 mentions) Antithesis Battles: High (2) - Low (0) Odd (14) - Even (12) Outside (3) - Inside (0) Black (2) - White (0) Row (12) - Column (10) 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!

[@longwaytotipperary]

Happy birthday to Simon’s brother (and fellow Libra person)! Would love to see/hear the playlist if possible. Andy - enjoy your cake -good to hear you’re not allergic to chocolate! That’s a crazy (in a good way) puzzle! Loved watching Simon navigate between the rule sets. I might actually try this one!

[@KeiFlox]

The playlist is in the video description if you scroll down a bit :)

[@longwaytotipperary]

@@KeiFlox ahhhh thanks!!!

[@RMDragon3]

If you think about it, even numbers are always very restricted for parity party clues. They must always be an odd length ending with an even number (so, 0 odd and 1 even, 2 odd and 1 even...). They can't end in an odd number because adding even numbers always gives even results, and adding an odd to an even gives an odd. So you always need an even number of odd numbers (possibly 0), which adds up to an even number. Then you need to change the parity, so you need to add the even number at the end. Odd clues are less restricted because they can be any length, but the same restrictions tell us that if the length is odd it needs to end with an odd number. If they are of even length it can end in either.

[@markp7262]

22:41 finish. I completely missed the stage 1 rules at first, and it wasn't until I realized that nothing could be solved with my pencil marks that I went back and re-read everything. That made it quite a bit easier. Such a fun puzzle, excellent!

[@oathboundhero1782]

I'm so hyped. Time to get cracking!

[@ronjohnson6916]

I can so relate to Simon's struggles with box 4. So instinctive to remove the 78 option from the 15 cage after getting that first 8.

[@crazydaddy4934]

31:20 for me - very straight forward after I got my brain around to do phase 1. Thanks for this very well set puzzle!

[@KeiFlox]

What a treat, multiple 3s in corners :)

[@queson52]

The most impressive thing about these videos is Simon's head does not explode trying to parse these crazy rules.

[@johngranahan6102]

Loved the video, enjoyed that for once I felt "fast" as doing some parts of this and then we got to the box in the top left and the speed with which you worked out the digit difference must be a 5 and placed it was brilliant to watch

[@MattYDdraig]

30:08 This was truly insane 😂 Saying that, once I finally understood what the "mean mini" meant, by peeking at the start of the video, the actually solve was very simple, but a really clever way of throwing a curveball to the normal puzzles. It certainly made Sven's normally fabulous software buckle in the first stage.

[@馬善萄]

Analyticalninja, thank you so much for giving us 3 3s in the corner in 1 puzzle! (Or should I say 10 puzzles XD)

[@willemkossen]

Thanks for sharing the playlist. I guess part of our tastes overlaps. That might be a function of untalkability at parties, which we share too…. Cheers!

[@frankjiang1857]

Finished in 30:23. Didn't realize that each small box could be solved individually, but as I got used to solving the mean minis that I thought were "solvable," I realized that they were each constrained in their own way. Fun puzzle. Approachable if you really think through how mean minis can work.

[@martink.7497]

Awesome puzzle, those minis were great, and to prove the same digit in diagonal, I watch on it from different view. Whatever number you put in the middle cannot be placed next to it (left, right, up, down) = has to be placed in one of the corner, and the second one will automatically be placed in the opposite corner.

[@titusadduxas]

48:06 - Loved it. I did make an error in part one in box 5 which immediately crashed my first move in part 2 thank goodness. After that it all worked very nicely.

[@srwapo]

35:13, found the 3x3 part fun, some really neat logic in many of the boxes. The second part was quite a bit harder, but I was able to do it logically as long as I focused on individual parts and thought about it for a bit.

[@Nixola97]

I have no idea how I was able to solve this. In the first stage, I kept making assumptions, noticing they were assumption, forcing myself to challenge them, and they kept being right. Solved this in 50:45. Quite a nice puzzle!

[@drumcrazy100]

Wow great video! I was glued to the screen for every minute!!

[@Darknienna08]

So much of this video is me muttering "...noooo" as you confuse yourself around the answer lol

[@ArthKryst]

Damn, I'm so interested in this, starting my solve now

[@Cotick55]

After watching the channel for several years, I used to skip rules explanation. This video surprised me. )

[@gabrieljohnson7997]

Took like 45 minutes but none of that time was spent on long intervals trying to figure out the next step. Constantly making new deductions, for 45 min. Really did feel like ten puzzles in one, a ton of content for 81 cells.

[@EmonEconomist]

Finished in 35:48. It took me a minute to wrap my head around the "mean mini" clues, and then I had a moment of panic after moving to Stage 2 and worrying that I might have messed up Stage 1 and doomed myself... but I got there, and had fun along the way!

[@giacomodibiase9464]

very fun sudoku puzzle. it was my first time doing the minis it was really enjoyable

[@Etterbeer]

Marvelous puzzle. Very enjoyable!

[@felis_timon]

For transfering the digits from stage 1 to stage 2 you could also select the digits you want to keep and press ctrl and i. Pressing these keys reverts your selection. So the cells that are selected get unselected and the cells that are not selected get selected. It's useful if you want to select all but a few cells, like you did in this case

[@DuncanBooth]

I used ctrl-A to select all digits then just deselected the ones I wanted to keep.

[@yamikuronue]

In the third mean mini, you can see that if you use the wrong diagonal, the leftmost column and the rightmost column are left with a 9-cage and a 7-cage for the other two cells. You can't make two digits add up to both 9 and 7. So you can't select the other two digits, no matter what you put in the diagonal.

[@MubarkAlKhatlan]

I started solving before going to bed, couldn't solve it then I dreamed about it. Tried it again and solved it in 01:12:28. double 3 in the corner was a good reward imo.

[@mrukon9]

Much more approachable than the video length suggests! Took me 74:14 but I never felt stuck for long

[@sirgeremiah]

This was a lot of fiun. I work these around other tasks, and this one made that easy. I'd take a break and do one mini-puzzle at a time. Then I was just left with the big puzzle, which didn't require tracking a long string of logic. Much fun!

[@meeners6433]

THREE 3's in the corner today? What an absolute treat!

[@ninjakillvizard9851]

Omg Simon i dont know why but that sequence around 29:20 with the 15 clue and the outside 8 had me dying 🤣 god that hurt my stomach so bad... just the way you were so convinced you messed up lol 😅

[@ninjakillvizard9851]

This puzzle is all kinds of sudoku rule mix up lol 😆 😅 the logic in these is such a brain pretzel

[@grahamania]

38:44 for me. Didn't expect 10 puzzles (+1 more from Mark) today! Kind Comment.

[@stevesebzda570]

That's interesting (@16:24) "The three digits that we choose have to add-up to 14." [Fit inside the 14 cage] That's interesting, because in some way shape or form, those two clues add to 7+5 (12) so there's a 2 in that 14 cage. [I thought at 1st 257 , but that didn't work with a lone 7 clue - a repeat in one of the rows -- and no diagonal of sorts] That's when I realized, one of those "2s" had to be in the 7 clue (2,5). And that works. So, actually it was a "257," the 7 clue just wasn't a lone 7 clue. Interesting.. 😂

[@stevesebzda570]

Lookin' back on it now (5 hours later) I still can't get my head around it. Because, one of those cage cells is in-common with the 7 clue . Maybe just a happy coincidence, I don't know (but two of yas thought so). I don't know. Interesting though.. 😂😂

[@danielbainbridge9149]

Strange pattern which would have helped a lot, when you proved the diagonal theory with colours you also proved that if the corner number is not in the diagonal then you know the only 2 places it can go, so box 9 when you were solving you knew the 5 couldn’t repeat in the 14 box so it couldn’t be diagonal, thus showing the only other 2 positions it could be in

[@danielbainbridge9149]

The same as box 1, if the 5 wasn’t the diagonal it would have repeated twice in the 15 box ( as proved with colours earlier ) so you know it definitely is the diagonal number

[@HunterJE]

Simon seems to be missing an important half of how the structure of n=3 latin squares (which "mean mini" rules are a specific case of) is constrained, he got that one element must fill a diagonal but never quite noticed that the other two elements are also constrained, each taking a corner and the two cells a knight's move from that corner. Among other things this would have so much more quickly resolved some of the boxes where a corner was known and either the diagonal or the knight's-move-triangle arrangement off that corner would cause a repeat in the cage...

[@everorizon]

No less than three 3's in the corner. It's party for real! In a mean mini it's easy to see that one diagonal is going to contain the same digit. Just by thinking where the central digit goes in the other rows/columns. It just can go in opposite corners. As for Parity Party clues, you could never have an even clue filled in within an even number of cells. A domino adding up to an even number would have no parity change. And for longer runs of digits (of even size) you would always have an odd number of odd digits that would make the sum odd. Furthermore those even clues, apart from the single digit clues, could never start with an even digit. Just because the first parity change would always make the sum odd again.

[@thefallenarm589]

36:30 I just discovered one can ctrl+A to select all and then ctrl+clic to unselect the cells to keep before deleting.

[@Lissaria1]

Interestingly enough if you try to solve it without the individual boxes as a normal sudoku you get 2 deadly patterns (everything is solved the same as the video) of 19 and 59 pairs respectively in columns 6,8 (Box 5,6) and rows 2,6 (Box 1,4) so using the individual boxes as single puzzles to prevent a deadly pattern is really cool way of doing it.

[@PVempati]

It’s wild to see Simon puzzle over the 698 in box 4 cause he deleted the 78 pair without realising it’s still possible

[@Khetroid]

This was incredibly fun.

[@brianarsuaga5008]

Simon jumping way ahead of me on that 22 clue and then just solving the puzzle without looking at the parity clues again meant that he did it in the most opposite possible way from me, which was a very bizarre thing to watch.

[@stevesebzda570]

36:13 .. [I was havin' a bad day so far] But, right here cheered me up. Because, if you turn happened to turn the conflict checker back on, this would be the point where it lost its friggin mind.!!?! Lol. 😂😂

[@ibdoomed]

29:23 I almost broke my keyboard in frustration. More than numpty, Simon.

[@jordicochegrus657]

3 in the corner in the mean mini AND two in the final solution? What a treat!

[@Pointlesschan]

Yes, and analiticalNinja said in a comment above that he didn’t even consider placement of the 3’s

[@tiagomarques9822]

For the mean minis, you can always count not only on one diagonal being the same digit but on the other digits being the vertices of two identical isosceles triangles, each with one of the remaining corners and the furthest non-corner cells from that corner. You don’t actually need to know this to solve the mean minis, but it makes the solving faster and easier. This was a lovely puzzle, which I managed to solve relatively quickly (still slower than Simon, though). I got caught on silly things, like seeing two different solutions for the box 9 mean mini, until I read the rules once again to see if I was missing something and suddenly remembered a digit may not repeat within a cage… Dear, dear…

[@IgnitedxSoul]

This was my first time completing a puzzle on the channel before watching the video!!

[@VikFearing]

You could have used Ctrl+A to select the whole grid, then Shift-select the centres to unselect them, then delete.

[@shilittletsure]

35:10 for me, and I'm proud I did it without looking at the video for tips, except for the rules part. I was very confused how on earth I'm supposed to put 1-9 in the 3x3 boxes in stage one, turns out, didn't need to. Stage two was pretty easy, some clues I didn't even need (though they were there for stage 1, so still necessary).

[@HunterJE]

36:36 It would have been possible to use a double click to remove the non-centers-select the whole grid (ctrl-A works) and give it a color, then select all the centers and unshade, then double click the remaining shaded cells and delete their contents...

[@eddieharwood7788]

I loved that. 10 very approachanle puzzles. Unfortunately I was careless with box 9 and placed the digits in the wromg places, (not noticing I had 2 5s in a cage. Everything went fine in Part 2 until it didn't. At least it was obvious which of the original central numbers was wrong and very easy to spot why.

[@damon314]

As a mathematician I wanted to mention Latin squares. Latin squares are n*n squares with n symbols placed such that each digit appears exactly once per row and column. Sudoku is a special case of Latin squares, since it also has box logic. Anyway, in this puzzle each box was a 3*3 Latin square. The reason I mention this is there is only one 3x3 Latin square once symmetries and arbitrary symbols are accounted for. Hence any reduced 3x3 Latin Square looks identical. One number along a diagonal, the other numbers each take a corner and the opposite two edges. Might be worth looking into a bit, since I can see it being relevant in other puzzles

[@quatarsr6217]

This was a really fun one to solve!

[@pelahnar4]

I had a couple of great moments of, "oh no, there's only one set of numbers that fit her by sudoku, I probably did something wrong and they won't add up to the right number..." and then they _did_ add up to the right number! It was a case of expecting the parity party clues to be disambiguators, but then they turned out to just be inevitable by that point in the puzzle Puzzles that use the same clues for multiple things are always so impressive

[@markmadsen1791]

Now I want a puzzle with Six 3s in the corners.

[@Orenotter]

This grid is ten puzzles in one. In theory it's ten times the fun. But what I'm realizing: It's so mesmerizing That none of my work's getting done.

[@danny98237]

I don't know if you caught it or not, but an even parity clue will require an odd number of cells, while an odd clue will need an even number of cells. The only exception would be that a single digit odd clue could require only one cell to complete.

[@nataslia2490]

Very lovely puzzle and solve :)

[@paulhelm971]

I even managed to solve this in less than 50 minutes, now going to see how simon solves it.

[@ninjakillvizard9851]

Theres actually four 3s in the corner in the end result of the puzzle lol 😆 😅