Can This Puzzle Master Handle an Expert Sudoku Puzzle?

Sudoku Part 1 - a massive change of pace! I normally do puzzle video games, so traditional pen and paper puzzles are out of the ordinary for this channel. How well can I perform at Sudoku?
Edited by: Tyler
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[@Aliensrock]

This is actually the first puzzle I've done with a timer above my head, I'd consider adding a timer for other puzzle games if it doesn't look like ass

[@maker0824]

The time has come

[@paws2448]

Yes

[@ourdailybread8874]

@D: 156 in same column 78 in same row and 234 in same box

[@UltraLuigi2401]

Aliensrock doing sudoku while CTC is doing the witness, pretty weird.

[@Vikznoko]

Speedrun random new puzzle games would be a fun adventure

[@flosiepoo]

The title of this video reminds me of Simon's "Sudoku Expert Plays The Witness" series from Cracking the Cryptic. Would be really cool to see Tyler get some sudoku coaching from him or some other collab involving sudoku. Cool video as always!

[@randomstranger623]

YOOOOOO, that would be dope.

[@joshuangerng2119]

Yeah ctc Nicw

[@rankinsean]

Yeah first thing I thought of was CTC

[@FloOwey]

CTC's The Witness streams are *hilarious*. Not only are they really enjoyable, the chat constantly spams "BEAM" and suggests games Tyler has already played (Baba, the sausage one, The Room, Myst, ...). I'd love to see an actual crossover!

[@Bibbedibob]

Epic Crossover

[@SuGerMarLo]

I like how CTC and Aliensrock somehow managed to switch content with each other unintentionally.

[@Nevir202]

Yea, that's pretty hilarious. Though this sudoku app is terrible lol

[@baobaomeow]

lol

[@columbus8myhw]

CTC has their own sudoku apps, by the way!

[@WanderTheNomad]

@@Nevir202 what features is it missing that makes it terrible?

[@Nevir202]

@@WanderTheNomad Corner pencil marking only, (unless maybe he just didn't use it) no color highlighting, doesn't support custom puzzles.

[@piethedye3948]

first cracking the cryptic plays the witness, the aliensrock plays sudoku.

[@juggernaut93]

And Tyler started with a good bit of Goodliffing :D

[@GermaphobeMusic]

Ha, I knew there'd be overlap between their audience and this one!

[@colbyjbruh]

I was about to comment exactly that!

[@Azua5]

Bobbins

[@juegariel5717]

7:35 "I see like a bunch of 6 9s everywhere, it's a very **nice** setup." -Tyler 2021

[@rmlgaming2091]

"The 69 pair is creating a double laserbeam"

[@K0nomi]

i honestly shouldnt be surprised this much of tyler's viewership overlaps with ctc's

[@TheRubySpider]

I mean, the viewers of Simon’s Witness stream also relentlessly shouted BEEEEEEEEEAM!!!!!! So I wouldn’t be surprised if it’s a lot of the same people doing it in both communities.

[@tobydavis499]

Wtf is ctc

[@thebeardyyc]

@@tobydavis499 yea, no idea what a ctc is

[@TheRubySpider]

@@tobydavis499 CTC stands for Cracking the Cryptic. It is a KZbin channel known almost entirely for Sudoku solve videos. Two sudoku experts each post daily videos of themselves solving very challenging, creative, hand-crafted sudoku puzzles. A couple of weeks ago, one of the guys of Cracking the Cryptic started streaming a play through of The Witness, which anyone who follows both CTC and Aliensrock finds to be an incredibly hilarious coincidence with this sudoku video.

[@treevenant4481]

Sauce?

[@Scuuurbs]

Tyler: “And now we’re really getting somewhere.” Me: “Now we’re really cooking with gas!”

[@kierancallahan7756]

bobbins

[@TheRubySpider]

Tyler, of course, started the solve by Goodeliffing the grid.

[@nanamacapagal8342]

@@TheRubySpider Big bobbins.

[@So-yq1iy]

I love how he knows there called a pair but renames them to laser beams

[@TheRubySpider]

Aliensrock puzzle games have to have a beam. It’s the law.

[@mmmmmmmmmmmmm]

@@TheRubySpider B E A M

[@Nevir202]

You should join the Cracking The Cryptic Discord and check out some hard Sudoku variants. There's SO much more than just classic and killer sudoku.

[@BreadOnInternet]

Imagine Tyler doing a miracle sudoku lol

[@Mathtriqueur]

@@BreadOnInternet Yes, I want to see him do the miracle sudoku.

[@Mark199201]

CTC, Mark: "I have occasionally been known to Goodliffe some of these pencil marks" Tyler: "Hold my beer"

[@connierobinson1090]

++++

[@JaborWithaY]

I can't wait until he starts colouring in the squares and talking about set equivalence theory.

[@TheRubySpider]

And the Phistomafel Ring!

[@squelchedotter]

@@TheRubySpider phistomafel ring is a set equivalence theory technique

[@iantaakalla8180]

And the x-wings and y-wings

[@madjatmusic]

And the secret...

[@Charcoal190]

First Simon playing The Witness, now this. This truly is the greatest timeline.

[@spiggly_digg]

I always end up guessing because I didn’t know pattern recognition existed. I do it while still taking note of which numbers I already had so that if it turns out to be wrong I can go back. That’s the glory of sticking to paper puzzles, you can make up your own notation. (I hope this is a coherent comment) Unrelated but I went to play some sudoku after watching this and now I can’t stop thinking in tyler’s voice

[@crittergonya]

that last part doesnt sound like a problem, he sounds cute lmao

[@jacknguyen5220]

The galaxy brain meme with math equations flying out of your head except it's all just Tyler saying something about laser beams

[@SpencerTwiddy]

That technique actually has a name! It’s called bifurcation iirc

[@yura9301]

CTC and Aliensrock collab when?

[@WanderTheNomad]

Personally I like to start with only noting down the clusters of pairs in each 3 by 3 block so the notes don't get so cluttered.

[@kosie1991]

Cracking the cryptic calls it Snyder notation. Of course after some point you need full notes, but it's great way to start a puzzle until you're blocked. And on easy Sudokus you might even not need to switch to full notation

[@wlll1235]

i always limit the number of notes belonging to a certain number, like "the numbers can have a maximum of 3 notes per 3x3",, that's how i keep my notes uncluttered

[@WanderTheNomad]

@@wlll1235 Yea when I get stuck, I keep increasing the amount of notes I put down until all the empty cells are full of notes, but by then it's not so cluttered because most of the board has been solved. Also, thanks for reminding me of the difference between a 3x3 and a 9x9 area

[@MrSuperZeroh]

Is this an expert sudoku? Hold my XY-wing swordfish bobbins beer! :D

[@batmantet]

Not what I was expecting but as a fellow sudoku enjoyer I’m pleasantly surprised to see this

[@Nevir202]

If you haven't, check out Cracking the Cryptic

[@PaulWilkinsNZ]

If you haven't yet come across the Snyder Notation technique of how to use pencil marks, it makes it vastly easier for you to solve them.

[@PaulWilkinsNZ]

The "magic" of Snyder Notation is that you only mark down numbers that have two possible locations in a 3x3 box. That way when one of that pair gets ruled out, you can immediately place the remaining number.

[@majickman]

I would love to see you play some of CTC's sudoku puzzles, they are extremely challenging.

[@UltraLuigi2401]

8:02 "This 2358 quad" completely ignoring that only one of the four include a 2 as an option

[@namavoid3266]

Literally the day i start playing sudoku this gets uploaded. Tis’ a sign.

[@redinator5]

Love the content, killer sodokus are my personal favorite. You could also maybe do a star battle puzzle, those are pretty fun as well in my opinion.

[@apple_juice_person5595]

Nice Tyler! I love sudoku, and your puzzle-solving style, I would enjoy it greatly if you continued sudoku!! :D

[@robertperry4419]

I’m a big fan of all your puzzles and sudoku is a personal favorite of mine. Glad you had a great time

[@osyrusthevirus2434]

You should try mathematical sudoku. Basically sudoku but you have to solve math problems instead of trying to fit 1-9s across the whole board. So you could possibly get numbers up to the thousands and still be able to solve it mathematically.

[@michielhorikx9863]

Isn't that generally known as calcudoku?

[@charlesjohn3635]

This is really cool, I would love to see more!

[@charlesboudreau5350]

Hey Tyler! If you want some sudoku challenges, I recall the channel "Cracking The Cryptic" who sometimes showcases really advanced sudoku variants. While the videos are mostly about solving them live, you can simply take the starting state and not watch the solution. Some of those were really interesting puzzles who play on the sudoku logic, but sometimes add additional rules that make them much less straightforward to solve. You may like them, but maybe that's the kind of things found in "killer sudoky" I don't know.

[@hauntedsunsets]

I play sudoku a lot, I'm even familiar with some of the more complex rulesets (sandwich, thermo, nonconsecutive, and miracle sudoku) so it's VERY interesting watching Tyler play something I've got some mastery in when normally he's excelling at games I can hardly wrap my head around

[@drewwn8189]

I would love to see some of the super complex sudokus like on Cracking the Cryptic's channel. Ironically enough, Simon's playthrough of the witness inspired me to re-watch Tyler's. Love the crossovers ❤

[@attikitty1355]

I did the exact same!

[@DinoDaniel]

ooh, pen and paper puzzles, nice! Your content always surprises and delights me.

[@paintywig1159]

Hey I really like you playing sudoku as I got into it a couple months before, I really hope you continue this!

[@austinwanner449]

hell yeah this was really fun to watch, more of this please

[@btf_flotsam478]

2:49 Tyler using the 2-3 pair to place the 4 in the middle-left 3x3 square, and then immediately forgetting about it with the top-left 3x3 square is both amusing and frustrating at the same time.

[@cooldued11]

Tyler, are you in the NSA or something? I’ve been watching a lot of Cracking the Cryptic lately and found it funny to see you playing sudoku as well. If you want to find some challenges in the future for Sudoku you could try some killer sudoku and such like they play, would love to see it personally!

[@kitkat1851]

Damn I never thought sudoku was this complicated I always just knew the basic rules and played the easy ones this shit just blew my mind

[@timduffy7996]

I love how Tyler's notation is SO vastly different from Simon (from CTC). I find it interesting to see a different approach to sudokus!

[@cjdog86]

Used to do these in kindergarten, got ridiculed and pushed toward a path in physical therapy. Ended up taking extra math in college and absolutely loved it. Enjoy sudoku:)

[@GermaphobeMusic]

The final evolution of this channel is Minesweeper

[@redinator5]

Actually he’s got videos on demoncrawl, which is an advanced version of minesweeper

[@GermaphobeMusic]

@@redinator5 Okay, then Solitaire

[@GermaphobeMusic]

@@redinator5 Aaaand he just played hexagonal Minesweeper

[@redinator5]

@@GermaphobeMusic i can’t believe you called it lmao

[@o_enamuel]

i never thought about that "pairs rule", and I did a lot of sudoku in the past.

[@lancearmada]

Ive done sudoku allot on paper but its neat to see someone else do it and make use of the notes so well.

[@julianverweij1637]

I love sudokus. They are super relaxing to make for some reason

[@KR_Kosmik]

This is bringing me back to when I loved doing sudomu puzzles

[@somethingsomewhere4854]

Glad to see you finally playing Seppuku, even gladder that you liked it

[@zaxtonhong3958]

We just need a bridge, and sudoku will have the holy trinity of puzzle games: Beams, Tetris-shapes, and bridges

[@yay_dude]

7:36 "i see a bunch of six nines everywhere, its a very nice setup" lmao

[@ImKirb]

This video threw me back to when I was a little kid at my grandparents house, watching my grandpa play sudoku as we waited for our bread to finish baking, while my grandma played crosswords and other word games. please bro do more pen and paper puzzle games, these throw me back so hard

[@ataino]

"I see a bunch of six nines everywhere, it's a very nice setup, but.." nice

[@maker0824]

it’s funny I was actually thinking about you doing these recently

[@Smoth48]

Wow... watching you solve that really reinforced how intelligently and quickly you think, genuinely quite impressive :)

[@porridgeboi7785]

I like the sodoku, do more, I need to learn how to do these quicker like u

[@dumbcarbattery5916]

Now I want to see Tyler attempt a miracle sudoku :)

[@kirillvoloshin2065]

found your channel by watching mini motorways and did not know you also play sudoku! I try to first put all the obvious numbers without writing the possible ones. For example right from the start you see that in the bottom middle square to the left of 8 is the only place you can write 2 since twos to the left and right block two top rows of this square and 2 from the square in the middle blocks the bottom right slot of yhe square.

[@benjamincurran5799]

Next we're going to see a Cracking the Cryptic and Aliensrock collaboration livestream with the two of them solving a really hard sudoku together!

[@TobyTarpey]

I didn’t realise you did sudoku. My personal best on expert is 1:34 by getting lucky with numbers

[@willuwalk]

Love killer sudoku!

[@GDTGaming]

well this was a pleasant surprise. You should try Kakuro, it can be pretty difficult at times and make your brain hurt from all the adding. It's one of my favorite logic puzzles, next to sudoku.

[@octosaurinvasion]

you really should've linked the website in the description nice video

[@obscure3124]

I don't know a thing about Sudoku but this is still entertaining.

[@crystalspeed7214]

Bruh I watch you and cracking the cryptic so this was a trip

[@Nez-ky7hn]

this was a fun puzzle. i did it in gimp before i watched the video and was slower. Maybe because of the software and having to manually update notes but seeing you get 10 minutes probably not. i'd be all for more pen and paper puzzles.

[@RodrigoTheHappyDog]

Nice! As someone who's started doing sudokus to wind down before bed, I hope you can learn some of the advanced techniques so I can steal them by watching you :P

[@So0fer]

Next time: Solitaire with Tyler!

[@matt-damionmd5641]

I think I’d like to see you do a sudoku w/out the notes, or few not all notes I think it’ll make it more interesting!

[@HydraWolfTV]

There is a game on steam called classic sudoku, you could try playing through it as like a mini series

[@2001herne]

Thats the CTC one, right?

[@HydraWolfTV]

@@2001herne yeah

[@squelchedotter]

It honestly gets boring too fast, because they're always the same logic. But I did get a few hours of fun out of it.

[@finalfun3641]

i sure like sudokus and even better if there are more kinds of stuff added onto it. for example thermo-sudoku. For sure would watch more of it :).

[@lizzzylavender]

After watching cracking the cryptic so long, regular puzzles seem so boring lol. They end up being nearly the same logic every time

[@lizzzylavender]

@@crimsonvale7337 Oh that’s true

[@Perrseus]

Oh god, tyler uses notation from hell

[@Mythotix]

"There are a lot of 6, 9s which is nice" I see what you did there 😂

[@maxhaibara8828]

Alternate title of this video will be "Traditional puzzle game also has laser beams"

[@arthur1221000]

That is some Goodlife levels of pencil marking

[@SunDry_Marchy]

OOOF. that's some extreme goodliffing

[@gamingwarlord8562]

CRACKING THE CRYPTIC

[@jacksonterry2164]

Even in Sudoku Tyler can't escape the B E A M

[@tylerhammonds4541]

Take a shot everytime Tyler says “laser beam”

[@esotericVideos]

The Goodliffe levels are off the charts!

[@G0Gamer]

Me casually being excited for Soduko

[@falquicao8331]

My God, you put more pencilmarks than Mark

[@RD-nk8os]

You need to stream sudoku as well - especially if it has those variants such as anti-knight sudoku, killer sudoku, thermo sudoku, Kropki sudoku, XV sudoku, etc. It would be interesting to see how would you tackle these kinds of sudoku rules.

[@davidritch5921]

You should try crafted sudokus! One's designed by the community!! There are plenty of classic sudokus that are very well designed

[@MAIcrosoft]

Maybe you should also look into "Picross" or I think the more universal name is "Nonogram". It's essentially "What if Minesweeper and Sudoku had a baby", I'm pretty sure you it's right up your alley! 😁

[@n00bLokumi]

You should do like cracking the cryptic and give us the link to the soduko so that we can do it at the same time, that would be fun

[@johnsandler1967]

Definitely should play killer sudoku

[@paconoack8548]

Murder by Numbers is combination of Nonograms and detective mystery a la Ace Attorney. I think it would be fun to play!

[@principal_optimism]

Done a switcheroo with Cracking the Cryptic

[@craftie7721]

7:37 There is NO WAY this was intentional. NO WAY. also, nice

[@supersonictumbleweed]

I want and need a hexadecimal version of sudoku

[@jonathanschlott8559]

i am an avid sudoku solver and i love that you call them laser beams lol

[@stichyface]

Please do some more sudokus. Try the miracle!!

[@WanderTheNomad]

I never thought I'd see the day.

[@phiasch]

Look up Snider notation as a better way to notate locations (only pencil in where a candidate can go in a box when there are 2 spots)

[@Silver-Rexy]

Sudoku gang really do be out ‘ere killin’ it, represent!

[@nicholasfrantz585]

you take so many notes sheesh

[@mastericepanda4491]

Just watched an old vid where someone asked you to do sudokus lol

[@ntwhoimthtdefinesme]

I actually really enjoyed this video, not sure how you feel about math, but I play this similar puzzle called "Ken Ken" you might like

[@romajimamulo]

Interesting that you go right for noting everything. I tend to start with just noting when they're in a line, or only two EDIT: 1:26 I love that you call it a laser beam as well Edit 2: You missed that a pair blocks one of your 4 locations

[@havenaviaryhaeviary5717]

Oh I miss doing sudoku so much

[@gorvinnethermore2900]

He goodliffed the board

[@survivalextraordinaire3572]

what the heck man. expert sudoku takes me an hour or more XD

[@EmeraldTri]

Everytime you hear “laser beam”, take a drink

[@Vtbr-Fntsyr-TyDin-Ch.-Official]

I recently started playing sudoku and I was going to recommend that you should play it but I see that you already playing it.