Thank you so much for doing yet another of puzzle of mine and cograts again on 600,000 and many more. And this probably is a bit more special to me considering I am the moment on the UK and I am enjoying it so far!
@chrisbaeyens4513Ай бұрын
Thank you for your puzzle! So which version of the rule did you intend?
@davidrattner9Ай бұрын
Fabulous from you as always!!! Loved it!!
@longwaytotipperaryАй бұрын
Thank you Dorlir!!
@suburbanplanktonАй бұрын
Simon made things harder than they should have been. When he read the rules, he said "the snake can't pass through the cells that are separated by a white dot"...which, in my opinion at least, is unambiguous...but then interpreted that to mean (going by the text in the video) "the snake cannot pass through a white dot", which is a much less strict rule. If he had stuck to the original rules as he read them, it was clear; there are two pairs of cells that are separated by white dots, and the snake can't pass through any of them.
@RichSmith77Ай бұрын
@@suburbanplanktonIt becomes a more interesting puzzle, and still not too difficult, with the less strict interpretation that Simon used. I don't know Dorlir's original intention, but in my view it only improves the puzzle with Simon's interpretation.
@Zephyrhash2Ай бұрын
I see Simon finally decided to show us his true chiseled abs in the thumbnail
@olivier2553Ай бұрын
It is only fair that Simon's six pack introduces a 6x6 sudoku.
@GuardOfGaiaАй бұрын
But is it from all the wineglass lifting on the 19th hole?
@stephenmccarthy1795Ай бұрын
If Simon was right about the alternative interpretation, it would have said that the snake cannot pass through a white dot, but it says cells separated by a white dot which includes both cells on either side of a white dot.
@D4N1CU5Ай бұрын
Yeah "cells separated by a white dot" seems pretty unambiguous to me and Simon said that twice. It's confusing because the writing on-screen says "cannot pass through a white dot" which seems to be pretty clear also but is NOT the same as what he said.
@livmas10Ай бұрын
He altered the instructions for us after he finished the puzzle. The instructions we see are not the ones he had
@VijayaGopalaАй бұрын
39:44 the center mark in r3c4 is inherited from a non-standard note and prematurely excludes 1.
@ProfMonkeysАй бұрын
I was about to come comment on this and I am happy to see someone else spotted it before me.
@aliciamessina2923Ай бұрын
How unlucky for Simon, that the puzzle worked out even with that mistake
@mummabear7537Ай бұрын
If you enter the digits into the grid that he has at that point, it still works out that way even allowing for r3c4 to be a 1. The 4 in r3c6 forces a 2 in r2c6, which forces r2c4 to be a 4. This makes r5c4 a 3, causing r1c4 to be a 1 ... and therefore r3c4 is a 5. Yes it was a leftover mental note from the start, but it still has to end up that way in the long run.
@buffgbobАй бұрын
@@mummabear7537 Clearly it had to be that way, since it wasn't contradicted by the unique solution. However, it wasn't deduced, which is why it is considered a mistake.
@MeeseeranАй бұрын
That thumbnail goes hard
@emilywilliams3237Ай бұрын
I sat back and watched this one even though I suspect I might be able to solve the puzzle myself. Thanks, Simon, for bringing sudoku to us every day (and to Mark, too)!
@PassionPopsicleАй бұрын
Whoever did the thumbnail has my eternal love. Cracking the cryptic has now peaked.
@amoswittenbergsmusingsАй бұрын
I can say from own experience that CtC has a tangible mental health benefit. These guys are saving the healthcare system $$$ every day. Having said that, when in doubt *do* seek help and do *not* self-medicate, even with CtC viewings. Again, I speak from experience. God bless Simon and Mark for their services to humanity.
@MattOGormanSmithАй бұрын
Swings and roundabouts. Some of these puzzles can drive you crazy, although I guess watching a competent solve will always provide a remedy.
@chocolateboy30018 күн бұрын
I finished in 52 minutes. I really enjoy these small grids that have factoring as its solving. I needed a calculator to do it, but it was very fun seeing the minimums and ruling out 6 immediately. In my opinion, the rule states that only the white dot is the limitation, rather than the cells it touches. It works out both ways, either way. I enjoyed this one. Great Puzzle!
@KinadaАй бұрын
The way I read that rule is that it can't access either of the cells separated by a white dot at all. Thankfully the puzzle is solvable without that because I went off the of wording in the text and not what he was reading in the video unfortunately. It clearly states that it can't pass through either of the cells.
@jasonb111222Ай бұрын
Love seeing a puzzle where I can beat the time from CtC, though CtC is of course explaining their work the entire time.
@rentalcustardАй бұрын
This would have taken me twice as long without the easier rules, I think! Very clever stuff and I'm very proud to have solved it in under 20 minutes.
@toshlaforest9472Ай бұрын
I don't see how Dorlir's wording of the rules leaves room for interpretation. They were written pretty clear in my opinion, and were not meant to be as Simon interpreted them. Still mindblowing to see how Simon found the solution nonetheless.
@studgerbil9081Ай бұрын
could've been more clearly stated as "cannot pass through either of the cells separated by a white dot."
@A_CC_KАй бұрын
Having a rough day, but it has been made so much better now there is another cracking the cryptic video to watch.
@FunIsGoingOnАй бұрын
@@A_CC_K Logical, if logical cryptics are a sorted way for you contrary to real world things. I feel you.
@travisgoettl7929Ай бұрын
I am soo excited!!! This is probably the first time I have beaten your time in completing a puzzle. I probably wouldn't have if you didn't spend so much time explaining your thought process but normally I still don't beat your time! 🤣
@craftyrafАй бұрын
34:50 I came to the conclusion of this 1-2 pair after 2 minutes (assuming the snake can't pass through any of the cells with a white dot): In box 3 you need a 3 AND a 5, so the only digits that are left AND consecutive are 1 and 2...
@jonathanwest6266Ай бұрын
I believe Simon erroneously leaves the X in box 3 cell 3 at about 22:48 - he placed it there by observing it would be off limits if the snake went into cell 6 - when he observed the snake could not go in cell 6 he should have removed the X in cell 3 and found another way of excluding that cell.
@jonathanwest6266Ай бұрын
Ok he spots it later!!!
@In_42_SpaceАй бұрын
Already happy with this one and have only read the video title!
@In_42_SpaceАй бұрын
Very happy with the video as well. Great logic and the joy that Simon finds in discovering it just brings a smile to my day.
@reaperskill6 күн бұрын
21 minutes here. Once I got the prime factorisation of the digits that were being skipped, things went quite fast. Honestly, proving that it didn't pass through the spaces with the white dots (rather than just not passing through the dots themselves) was trivial once I knew which boxes it had to visit.
@KradlumАй бұрын
@39:52 Simon pencil marks the 1s in box 4. Why can't R3C4 also be a 1?
@TahgtahvАй бұрын
You can rule it out with Sudoku, but ya, he forgot that he just had a 45 there from the start and it wasn't a real pencil mark.
@musaburakerdihan5148Ай бұрын
It can be 1, but Simon was lucky it doesn't change solution, he just forgot 45 means snake needs to collect 4 and 5, not regular pencil marking
@inspiringsand123Ай бұрын
Rules: 02:10 Let's Get Cracking: 06:49 Simon's time: 35m29s Puzzle Solved: 42:18 What about this video's Top Tier Simarkisms?! Three In the Corner: 1x (38:19) Scooby-Doo: 1x (26:51) And how about this video's Simarkisms?! Snake: 150x (02:34, 02:40, 02:55, 03:04, 03:10, 03:24, 03:41, 03:51, 04:01, 04:29, 04:41, 04:44, 04:51, 05:04, 05:26, 05:42, 05:42, 05:45, 06:20, 06:36, 07:09, 09:30, 09:41, 10:06, 10:14, 10:19, 10:32, 10:38, 10:55, 11:06, 11:10, 12:26, 12:26, 12:42, 12:48, 13:51, 14:08, 14:15, 14:54, 14:59, 15:04, 15:06, 15:21, 15:41, 16:00, 16:03, 16:27, 16:30, 16:51, 17:08, 17:11, 18:14, 18:54, 18:56, 19:12, 19:21, 19:28, 19:58, 20:02, 20:10, 20:16, 20:16, 20:53, 21:02, 21:10, 21:16, 21:20, 21:43, 21:47, 21:53, 21:53, 22:08, 22:10, 22:29, 22:33, 22:35, 22:35, 22:37, 22:37, 22:42, 22:44, 22:46, 22:59, 23:13, 23:26, 23:31, 23:36, 23:53, 24:46, 25:07, 25:13, 25:54, 26:03, 26:09, 26:16, 27:11, 27:15, 27:23, 27:49, 27:55, 28:01, 28:03, 28:06, 28:11, 28:13, 28:21, 28:24, 28:32, 28:42, 28:49, 28:51, 28:51, 28:54, 29:56, 30:17, 30:26, 30:27, 30:43, 30:56, 31:16, 31:16, 31:19, 31:26, 31:32, 31:56, 32:04, 32:06, 32:11, 32:13, 32:14, 32:49, 32:53, 34:17, 34:50, 35:01, 35:41, 35:45, 36:22, 36:27, 37:16, 37:33, 37:38, 37:58, 38:02, 38:12, 38:50, 39:12, 40:20, 41:44, 42:01) Touch Itself: 12x (02:45, 19:12, 21:55, 22:08, 22:35, 22:46, 22:48, 23:34, 23:36, 30:45, 32:13, 36:27) Ah: 8x (16:00, 24:13, 24:22, 24:29, 29:19, 30:04, 30:51, 34:45) Clever: 6x (29:23, 29:26, 32:49, 32:53, 34:58, 39:36) Brilliant: 5x (06:41, 39:39, 42:22, 42:27, 42:27) Sorry: 4x (18:23, 19:38, 19:47, 24:29) Obviously: 4x (08:21, 25:50, 28:21, 33:09) Wow: 4x (36:18, 37:47, 41:06, 41:06) By Sudoku: 3x (32:28, 34:23, 34:30) In Fact: 3x (04:04, 07:24, 08:25) Weird: 3x (09:56, 18:33, 33:53) What a Puzzle: 2x (42:22, 42:24) What Does This Mean?: 2x (02:49, 09:23) Good Grief: 1x (34:58) What on Earth: 1x (09:48) Nonsense: 1x (31:21) Naughty: 1x (22:10) I Have no Clue: 1x (36:32) Stuck: 1x (07:06) Lovely: 1x (11:09) Extraordinary: 1x (00:35) Discombobulating: 1x (06:52) Approachable: 1x (01:37) Hang On: 1x (19:34) Full stop: 1x (42:27) Box Thingy: 1x (23:01) Pencil Mark/mark: 1x (40:34) Most popular number(>9), digit and colour this video: Ten (8 mentions) Two (99 mentions) White (10 mentions) Antithesis Battles: Even (3) - Odd (1) White (10) - Black (0) Row (2) - Column (2) 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!
@MarinaArtDesignАй бұрын
What is this?
@smylesgАй бұрын
34:57 This is sick. Did you retire this entry?
@smylesgАй бұрын
@@MarinaArtDesignYears ago, Inspiring Sand created a bot to catalogue common words and phrases Simon and Mark use. It's grown quite a following. We look forward to it every video. I challenge myself to identify phrases I know have appeared, but aren't yet catalogued.
@fatercoelho7476Ай бұрын
new title sugestion: "a severe case of over complicating something simple"
@darthrainbowsАй бұрын
Nice! I crushed Simon's solve time on this one; finished in 26:07.
@shardj5151Ай бұрын
I had to make a page full of notes to solve this in 90 minutes, and Simon's over here doing it off the top of his head in less than half that! I think I spent too much time figuring out possible prime number combos and snake lengths vs the number of 4s and 1s in the snake rather than just doing sudoku really, a lot of the stuff I figured out by eliminating possible prime combos Simon just did by sudoku.
@hannahgoldberg1064Ай бұрын
8:37 but read the rules as intended and the ‘no 3 or 6 except in box 3’ feature really narrowed things down for me. Very fun puzzle, thanks!
@chipsounder4633Ай бұрын
Wow ❤. I would like to give credit for the absolute masterpiece and for the factorisation methods.. Learning more and more everyday in this beautiful logical journey. Keep up the great abs 😎
@n8styleАй бұрын
Congrats on the 600K!
@Crios54Ай бұрын
Haven't started the puzzle nor the video yet but this thumbnail is incredible! X)
Grey shading or large red crosses Simon? Twin concepts in one puzzle churn my brain.
@VijayaGopalaАй бұрын
Surprise! Simon has difficulty reading the rules 2 times.
@B1GB1RDB4G3LАй бұрын
Looking good Simon
@CatzHoekАй бұрын
I've never paid attention on the thumbnails but lol ... i certainly noticed that one
@rmjarvisАй бұрын
Finished in 8:40, but it felt slightly unsatisfying, since I didn't feel like I had completely proved my snake path was the only possible one. Now I'll watch the video and see how Simon proved it, since I'm sure he did.
@MrGuibigАй бұрын
That thumbnail had me click on the video! This is golden :D
@adnagapot18 күн бұрын
I thought it was relatively simple because I worked out the absolute minimum path for the snake to take (there's not very many options) then working out that there aren't enough 1s to extend the path at all
@petrie911Ай бұрын
We should see more product conditions. The way it forces you to take certain digits and avoid others due to factors is neat.
@michaelmatter1222Ай бұрын
"The snake is forced to go through that little passageway." 🤨 No jokes please.
@brianshillingАй бұрын
@6:08 for me. Knowing you have to hit 5 columns for the 5s, and also no cage can have more than 3 squares, because two must have 3 snake squares makes the snake fairly easy to draw with 0 digits on the board
@pascalhaeringАй бұрын
Can you explain this a bit more? I can't see how you deduct that no cage can have more than 3 (snake) squares.
@AleksandrYgAАй бұрын
10:14 for me which is strange considering the video length. I'm gonna watch the video to see if I made some lucky guess or there was any other flows in my logic.
@mikew6644Ай бұрын
Went from feeling impossible to a 15 minute solve once I went and got the prime factors from 600,000
@sjm6280Ай бұрын
Why did he use Xs instead of gray shades similarly to box 6?
@RichSmith77Ай бұрын
I know. He usually uses purple (pink) for the snake and green for cells where the snake cannot go. I did it using these colours just because I'm used to seeing Simon use them. It leads to a far less cluttered grid than having circles and X's proliferate. You can just shade box 6 in green once you know the snake doesn't go there, and gradually shade other cells purple and green (or the colours of your choice) as you progress.
@piaritterspornАй бұрын
Brilliant puzzle.
@NaHBrO733Ай бұрын
22:51 for me (first interpretation). I think the first interpretation is the intended one. The second interpretation is much easier, It immediately fixed the shape of the snake for you.
@frankjiang1857Ай бұрын
Finished in 88:17. For some reason, I swapped boxes 3 and 4 in my mind and came to a solution with a deadly pair and multiple snake possibilities. Finally, re-evaluating my solution, I realized my problem after about an hour and finished the puzzle in less than 30 minutes :(..... Fun puzzle if you don't mess up your box numbering :(.
@user-vi6zs8wm2wАй бұрын
Four- year viewer, first time poster (love the channel!). What’s the distinction between what Simon does around 34 minutes, which I would compare to thinking ahead in chess, and bifurcation? Is it a matter of degree? Thx
@RichSmith77Ай бұрын
I'd say yes, it's a matter of degrees. What's considered bifurcation Vs reasonable amount of look ahead is shades of grey rather than black and white. Both Mark and Simon tend to view anything they can see without putting actual digits in the grid as not bifurcating, although Mark seems to be prepared to follow longer chains than Simon will usually allow himself. Simon will sometimes say something's beginning to "feel a bit bifurcatory" if he finds himself pursuing a particularly long chain of logic, and will look for something else instead. A certain amount of look ahead is often required, though. It's just that the more you can avoid long chains of look-ahead logic, the more elegant the solve (usually). It's probably more likely to be closer to the path the setter hoped you would find. (In my case, the amount of bifurcating I'm personally prepared to do depends on how long I've been stuck. 😂)
@sjm6280Ай бұрын
He omitted the digit 1 in his pencilmark of r3c4 and did use that pencilmark
@manudude02Ай бұрын
18:37 to complete here, would have been much quicker, but made a mistake drawing the snake and was having a headache keeping the product low enough before realising the snake can turn in box 4 row 3 instead of box 4 row 4.
@JeffRazeАй бұрын
I wasn't sure which version of the rules I was going to use for my solve, but wound up not really needing to choose. Figuring out which boxes the snake entered wound up blocking off all the affected cells anyways.
@srwapoАй бұрын
44:44 with my last digit being a 4.😊I broke box 2 really badly, for some reason deducing that it had to have four cells on the snake and blowing my total value out of the water. I think I "deduced" that I had to have a 1 on it somewhere, which meant the snake had to go into row 1 to also get a 1 in box 1. And then I didn't know how to disambiguate at the end, forgetting that I had to have a 1 on the snake in box 1. 😅
@MarroniiАй бұрын
I could imagine a "disambiguated en passent check mate" is even rarer than a "double disambiguated bishop/knight check mate"
@fruit3193Ай бұрын
Fun puzzle
@MaierFlorianАй бұрын
I would say this puzzle is 2* only if you take the 4 white dotted cells out of the path by ruling and not by proving. Otherwise it's more a 3*
@praematuraАй бұрын
A bit of thinking on the factorization, then a bit of trial and error on checking out possible paths, and was able to complete in 23:04 (conflict checker off). Brilliant puzzle by Dorlir, many thanks to them!
@przemekmajewski1Ай бұрын
nice 20 mins puzzle :D good job Dorlir n Simon
@six_5000Ай бұрын
34:18 brushing off my abysmal factorization skills
@martysearsАй бұрын
The Master of Minimalism does it again. Outstanding stuff. Am I right in thinking that in the end Simon solved this without using any form of the rule about the line passing through white dots? Seems like the dots were only necessary for kropki consecutiveness purposes only? In any case, I was very impressed at Simon's ability to solve it whilst not being 100% sure of the rules! great video and great puzzle
@MirjamSolbergАй бұрын
@@martysears not quite. In ruling out R4C3 from the snake, he uses the rule to say that if R4C3 was on the snake, the snake couldn't go up through the white dot to R3C3, but would instead go into box 4.
@BetrayedCowАй бұрын
If anybody in the comments wants to feel better about themselves working on this, I just spent over 8 hours actively working the puzzle as if white dots were instead conventionally black dots and meant the digits were in a 1:2 ratio of each other rather than that they were consecutive digits. A lot of the prime factorization and snake logic I did during those HOURS still helped out when I finally decided to read the rules again after the 5th restart and I realized my mistake. So it was a nice quick puzzle after like 10 hours of working and reworking it over the last 3 days. Note to self, everybody makes mistakes, but also actually read the rules and remember the difference between black and white dots if I’m going to just go in assuming I know the rules. It was a very fun and well-constructed puzzle, especially once I realized my mistake, I enjoyed it greatly!
@janerobson2297Ай бұрын
Got hopelessly confused because I kept on thinking the white dots were black dots!
@beseg7Ай бұрын
At the end, I think that the rule that forbids the snake from white dots is redundant entirely, even in the permissive interpertation. Am i missing something?
@Gonzalo_Garcia_Ай бұрын
12:09 for me. Nice puzzle!
@istvanmagi473Ай бұрын
Colour coding for lesser people: one colour of snake, another for non-snake. Colour coding for Simon: black for box 6, green for all other boxes. Giant ugly X-es for non-snake.
@OrenotterАй бұрын
Upon myself I imposed laws. I swore today I'd not hit pause. I would rush and I'd race To keep up with your pace. But slowness remains in my flaws. I promised Jason I'd not pause the video because he doesn't get to work until CTC time is done, but I had to near the end. You just go too fast for me. And since I am a were-reindeer, that's saying something.
@Dodo-kz7ukАй бұрын
12:49 on this one. Once you do a list of all the factors of 600.000 it becomes rather easy. Fun one!
@MattOGormanSmithАй бұрын
You left your 45 aide memoire as a pencilmark, and then you used it to get a 1 when blitzing the end (I had to reind to be sure). Dare I say it?
@MasterPredator93Ай бұрын
39:55 why cannot 1 go into r3c4?
@olivier2553Ай бұрын
That was a lucky mistake.
@RichSmith77Ай бұрын
It could. He mistook the 45 centre pencilmark as telling him the candidates for the cell were already reduced to 4 or 5, but the pencilmarks were from the start, when they just indicated that 4 and 5 had to appear on the snake in that box. It's only right at the end (41:02) that it would change his solution path, but it could be solved trivially from this point anyway. He should have resolved the 3,4 pairs in box 6 first; then the 1,3 pair in box 2; and then he could have resolved 5,1 in box 4.
@caspianmaclean8122Ай бұрын
@@RichSmith77thanks, I was wondering
@lexyeeveeАй бұрын
huh, i also solved it using the weaker rules (in roughly the same time) and didn't realize there were stronger ones. feels like i would've skipped half the puzzle with the stronger constraint in fact!
@BearcrapsinwoodsАй бұрын
can I get an eli5 on how the prime factors of 600,000 dictate what digits make up the snake. I'm a little bit confused? -Thanks
@davidgould9431Ай бұрын
A basic theorem of maths is that every integer can be expressed *uniquely* as a product of primes (ignoring any ones: it's defined not to be prime). That means that, once you have the prime factorisation, there can be no other *prime* factors. The only option left is to get different factors by multiplying some of the primes you've found. Hence, we have 6 and 4 as options as well as 2, 3, 5 and 1. Hope this helps.
@BearcrapsinwoodsАй бұрын
@@davidgould9431 I think I understand it now, thanks for the explanation
@BearcrapsinwoodsАй бұрын
@@davidgould9431 WOW!! this is so simple now that I understand it. I was finally able to finish some of the 600k pack puzzles using prime factorization🔥
@user-kt9vr1wj6yАй бұрын
25:47 for me nice puzzle
@MattYDdraigАй бұрын
9:27 Very elegant solve, admittedly it might have been harder to tell which of box 3/6 was omitted with the less complete rule.
@christinemenard1412Ай бұрын
First time beating Simon's time! I finished it in just over 17 minutes.
@awilliams1701Ай бұрын
what about r3/c3? you didn't prove that. It was only X'd by your example.
@awilliams1701Ай бұрын
oh never mind you caught it.
@LednacekZАй бұрын
14:44 for me. 13 minutes thinking about the line and the other minute was for filling the grid.
@HirrumiHassanАй бұрын
dobrej blázen :DD
@JoaoVitorDalcinKochАй бұрын
Heyyy, can you say hi to Brazil? I'm really obcessed with sudoku and I love your videos
@user-xc2is3rb7hАй бұрын
Hi to Brazil ! ^_^
@TheRedReidАй бұрын
15:52 for me. Definitely a fluke lol
@SirBradiatorАй бұрын
No Birthday's? Must be a prerecord, is Simon Still on Holiday?
@transrightsbaybeeАй бұрын
nahhh not the thumbnail 😭😭😭
@TimlagorАй бұрын
12:40 I hadn't realised we were allowed to just make up rules! I think you'd have found it a lot easier if you hadn't ever questioned the possibility of going through those squares
@yashmehta9299Ай бұрын
12:20 😎
@jeffreyturvey5881Ай бұрын
5×2×5×3×1×5×4×5×1×4 ×2×5=600,000
@MagoLPАй бұрын
Solved it in 6:59. I guess I got lucky but there weren't that many ways to draw the snake anyway.
@RecreationalCynicАй бұрын
Solved it in 12:11
@TurquoizeGoldscraperАй бұрын
21:37 for me.
@janwnpАй бұрын
The statement that the snake is a one-cell-wide path, disambiguates the rule controversy, i suppose. Since the snake is as wide as the whole square, it cannot pass a square with a white dot, without going through the white dot.
@TheKtunoАй бұрын
"The product of the digits along the snake is equal to 600,000" That's gonna be a hard no for me dawg. Way too many maths for my smooth brain, but I'll happily enjoy watching Simon climb this insane mountain of factors.
@PassionPopsicleАй бұрын
"Insane Mountain of Factors" is my new band name
@TheKtunoАй бұрын
@@PassionPopsicle you have my permission I will follow your climb to stardom with great interest
@theredstoneengineer6934Ай бұрын
32:24 for me
@averygaron994Ай бұрын
Quite frankly, it seems like a pretty bad faith interpretation of the rules to read "the snake can't pass through a white dot" and assume it means "the snake can't pass through cells that are touching a white dot." You've just made up four extra words for no reason
@istvanmagi473Ай бұрын
You are wrong. The wording of the rules was different in the version that Simon had. "The snake can't pass through the cells that are separated by a white dot." Simon read it in the video two times.
@UnaturalShadowsАй бұрын
The text of the rules is made after the puzzle is solved to clarify the rules for the viewer, but they kind of did a bad job of that this time
@caiotmzАй бұрын
I really don't see any ambiguity in the rules. It says that the snake 'cannos pass through a white dot', so it if passes through only one of the cells that touch a white dot it won't 'pass through' the dot.
@David_K_BoothАй бұрын
He rewrote Dorlir's original rules to clarify them.
@roevhaal578Ай бұрын
listen to how he reads the rules, he changed the wording
@rentalcustardАй бұрын
@@David_K_Booththe point is that the original rules don't need to be clarified, isn't it? If the original rules are as shown in the video, they say "the snake cannot pass through a white dot." That rule doesn't strike me as ambiguous. You can't pass through the cell borders where a white dot appears. When Simon reads them out, he reads "the snake cannot pass through cells separated by a white dot." That rule would also not be ambiguous: you can't enter any cell that has a white dot on any of its borders. It seems to me that the need for clarification only arises because of the difference between what's written and what Simon reads out. What am I missing?
@David_K_BoothАй бұрын
@@rentalcustard That the OP is commenting that the *revised* rules are perfectly clear, but that those weren't what Simon was working from.
@rentalcustardАй бұрын
@@David_K_Booth I think both the revised and the original rules are perfectly clear.
@TheMeanderingduck6Ай бұрын
I don't know how the hell my brain managed 8:16 on this one... I realized it had to have 5 5's in 5 boxes, and then once I saw that there had to be only 3 and 5 in box 3 or else the white dot was broken, it just... fell in.