Aad Pulls out another Cracker

[@stevieinselby]

Great puzzle, and not too Aad 😂 The key question you missed around the 18 minute mark was to ask where 9 goes in row 5 or in column 9, which resolves things a lot more straightforwardly. Took me about 15 minutes, despite being awake at 3am with a lousy cold, so I'm quite happy with that!

[@a18181818]

After the first breakthrough, asking where the 9s go in columns 9 and 5 is a cleaner way to proceed.

[@SirBradiator]

Love how Mark immediately forgets the King's move

[@emilywilliams3237]

For about a minute, is all, right?

[@tylerowens]

To be fair I did too 😂

[@catnip420]

An approachable puzzle from Aad? That doesn't happen very often!

[@inspiringsand123]

Rules: 02:56 Let's Get Cracking: 04:19 Mark's time: 25m16s Puzzle Solved: 29:35 What about this video's Top Tier Simarkisms?! Knowledge Bomb: 1x (02:33) And how about this video's Simarkisms?! In Fact: 6x (06:32, 21:26, 23:41, 25:53, 26:07, 28:10) Pencil Mark/mark: 6x (06:39, 17:29, 19:25, 25:22, 26:29, 26:38) Ah: 5x (15:08, 18:19, 20:56, 25:53, 26:01) Sorry: 4x (05:40, 19:25, 22:16, 22:55) Deadly Pattern: 2x (28:52, 29:20) Obviously: 2x (08:12, 12:39) Weird: 2x (16:34, 16:34) What on Earth: 1x (05:36) Goodness: 1x (03:41) Bother: 1x (24:35) Clever: 1x (29:36) Extraordinary: 1x (16:53) By Sudoku: 1x (11:45) Hang On: 1x (14:19) Wow: 1x (08:27) Most popular number(>9), digit and colour this video: Seventy Nine (6 mentions) Two (66 mentions) Purple (5 mentions) Antithesis Battles: Odd (3) - Even (3) Row (26) - Column (18) 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!

[@emilywilliams3237]

This puzzle looks so straightforward, but I see a 30-minute video from you to solve it, Mark ... I will put it on the list. Every Aad puzzle deserves a try, for sure! Thanks for this video, a great pleasure, as always. (And I loved your expression, "over-egged a quite rich pudding"!!)

[@MeriaDuck]

8:43 yep, poor king has already been forgotten 👑 (resolved quite quickly)

[@thanderhop1489]

maybe my first time finishing a puzzle faster than Mark :)

[@thebitterfig9903]

Lovely puzzle, 19:42 for me. I find that the King's Move rule felt very natural since I've been doing a lot of Star Battle/Queens lately.

[@ericobarrera6580]

21:10 for this puzzle. pretty cool and approachable

[@megaminxpll]

That one totally fell apart at the end, done in 12:46. Nice Puzzle once agaon from AvdW.

[@Kirbyfan87827]

Finished in 11:09. Easy if you remember the king's rule!

[@DarkChasm]

I love how Aad's puzzles are really Aad's puzzles. There's a very elegant simplicity to them and it's very recognizable. Very lovely, not too diff❤❤

[@shawnmichajluk2044]

Fantastic puzzle! Thanks Aad.

[@tBagley43]

27:49 pretty good

[@raysouth1952]

Very enjoyable and not too hard. As with all arrow/thermo puzzles, asking where 1s and 9s can go gets you quickly on the way after the initial break in.

[@bristolrovers27]

An elegant well constructed puzzle, nice break in, especially if you remember the kings move constraint, and thoroughly enjoyable. Around the 32 minutes mark for me 😊

[@alvaropallete]

23:59 good time

[@driverdave8156]

When column 7 was down to only a 1/9 possibility, if you would have seen the 1 had to go in row 1, because there was already a 9 in the row. you wouldn't have needed the coloring.

[@tommmyyyy11]

I love how fast he forgot the Kings move again :D

[@ganimede17]

00:29:23

[@Coyotek4]

21:40 ... I fared better on this than many other Aad sudokus Nice puzzle!

[@MrCharlieArgo]

29:43 for me, nice puzzle

[@lovlydragon1312]

It took me 1:10:08 to finish, I had a lot of difficulty spotting the kings move restraind in combination with basic sudoku once I finished my arrows and thermo's.

[@michaelandersen-kk4fc]

at 6.50 he is talking about a triple in row 6, is it just me that is stupid ??? I can´t see it. is that a Y-wing or something ????

[@MadsOcto7]

Sometimes he talks faster than he should 😅

[@stevieinselby]

It's a 4-digit triple, which isn't really a triple at all...

[@srwapo]

17:45 with a couple of minutes fixing a mistake (having a 2 look at a 23 pair and typing in another 2).

[@Paolo_De_Leva]

Wonderful. I am looking forward to solving this.

[@Squirrel42300]

Starting a daily reminder for mark to check for a kings move rule

[@TurquoizeGoldscraper]

28:23 for me.

[@manudude02]

My logic for column 9 was completely different, I said if r8c9 was a 4, r5c9 would be a 5, and you need one of those to make a 7 or 8 arrow in r1c9, so the arrow must be 6, which then means the thermo must end 7-8-9 since there is no number lower than 4 available

[@renedekker9806]

Mine was even easier. There must be four 6789’s in column 9. The only places they can go at that point in the solve, is one in the arrow circle and the others on the thermo. Thinking about where 6788 go was fruitful in general in the beginning.

[@alvaropallete]

I just thought where could 9 go in column 9: not in the arrow bulb, and in thermos it could only go on the tips, so it's fixed. Then, where could 9 go in column 5: same logic, but now r6c5 is seen by the 9 in r6c9 found previously

[@LednacekZ]

14:59 for me. horrible solve. many mistakes.

[@zobososhizion6478]

00:25:41