You've Been Framed!

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Today's sudoku has been recommended to us LOTS of time over the last few weeks. It's by Math Pesto and it's called Framed. It's staggering how symmetrical the set-up is and it has a beautiful solve path. See if you can find it!
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Normal sudoku rules apply. Digits in a circle appear at least once in the four surrounding cells. Adjacent digits on a green line differ by at least 5. Any set of three sequential cells on an orange line contains a low digit (123), a middle digit (456) and a high digit (789). Digits on a purple line form a set of non-repeating consecutive numbers (which can appear in any order).
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[@mathpesto]

Thanks so much for featuring another puzzle of mine and for all your kind words about it, Simon. A beautiful solve as always! For those who are curious, here's my solution guide for Framed: docs.google.com/document/d/1xgdToQitETwOghIqZocNWsRGrciM0tRIMbPdu-mXZVc/edit?usp=sharing

[@longwaytotipperary]

Thank you!!!

[@davidrattner9]

Another beauty from you math pesto and congrats again on the double feature today!! :-) Very wonderful for including the solution guide!!!

[@steve470]

A beautiful puzzle and an enjoyable solve - I don't often see those together. Fantastic job! Thanks for creating and sharing this.

[@sampathkumar-ej7xl]

Thanks for a lovely puzzle with just the right amount of complexity for me.

[@AdmiralMinell]

I noticed that none of the lines have repeated digits even though the rules would technically allow it. The circle digits have a hidden purpose!

[@WayneDupree1101]

That moment when you get mentioned in a CtC video! 😮Thanks so much guys for mention myself and AJ! I really had no idea they emailed you too 😆 Keep up the great work... More updates on totals and other info soon!

[@TheSpazattack540]

That ending was truly impressive from a setter's standpoint. Getting the entire puzzle to be solved EXCEPT for every single 4 and 5 is incredible.

[@blahfasel2000]

I don't think that was the intention of the setter at all, Simon just didn't notice the significance of the 4 in the circle at around 45:24. At that point the 4/5s in boxes 4 and 7 can be resolved with a good chunk of the grid still empty, because putting a 4 in r7c3 would put a 4 in r6c2 which would break the circle.

[@TheSpazattack540]

@@blahfasel2000 Well, intended or not, it's what happened, and that's pretty cool

[@diogogadotti3555]

the heartattack of how the hell am i gonna disambiguate this into look at the 4 into smiling has to be proposital HHAHAHAHAHHHAHHAHAHA

[@KalOrtPor]

​@@TheSpazattack540 I think it was intended too because picking r7c3 just ends up proving r6c2 is the same digit to note their effect on another box, versus just starting with that box directly to prove r7c7 is the same as r6c6 which ends up being the same idea.....Granted starting with r7c3 saves a couple steps, but at that point the puzzle is nearly done and most of the empty grid are write-ins. You end up with the whole rest of the puzzle solved but not a single 4 or 5, unraveled by a single circled 4 clue. The remaining 4-5 pairs telegraphs to the solver what they need to do next, I can't imagine the setter not being aware of it just because it can be accomplished slightly earlier.

[@timotab]

it took me ages to realise that the 45s around the 4 clue could be the same. I thought I'd broken something. So I started watching the video, with my almost complete solve visible so I could see what I'd done wrong... and I hadn't! Simon kept using the same logic I had! So when he said he was starting to worry about the 4s and 5s, I paused the video before he tackled them, and I had another look. I very quickly realized that they did indeed both have to be the same, and thus finished without actual help (other than confirming I hadn't yet made a mistake). 68:44 for me. But I'm pretty proud I actually completed it.

[@PaulDk]

This happens to me so often as well! I get stuck, watch the video, and get an idea how to proceed before they even get close to the problem i was stuck on. Feels so good to not actually have needed the help.

[@Sam_on_YouTube]

I knew the COULD be the same, but my last deduction was that they HAD to be. That took me a while to spot. You beat me by a few minutes.

[@ouwebrood497]

Yes that last step was a nice touch.

[@funkr4674]

I got 65:20! I was stuck on the same problem, but I was still progressing with the rest of the puzzle while I was thinking about it so it wasn't too much of a time sink for me, I loved this puzzle :)

[@funkr4674]

Actually found it out by checking if they both could be 4, probably the same way Sam did, I quickly figured it out soon after

[@BertBergaf]

I was already wondering why that 4 was given in the quadruple, didn't seem necessary. Great way to finish the puzzle

[@falloutfan2502]

One could say that it was almost a chocolate teapot! I really liked that finish.

[@jorybuechner9775]

Actually, it does help figure out where 5 goes in box 7 at the very end of sooner, which unravels the rest of the puzzle, no coloring needed. If 5 went on the purple line then the 4s in box 7 and box 4 would break the quadruple with the 4.

[@diogogadotti3555]

what a 4.

[@MisterM2402]

84:24 for me. This puzzle just didn't let up, every deduction was a hard-won victory. Admittedly, 20+ minutes of that was spent not noticing you can't put 3 next to 7 on a German Whispers line, but hey.

[@KAPsub2]

The 4/5's all across the puzzle coming undone at the very end was easily my favorite part. So satisfying!

[@shawnward6607]

Yey a new CTC Video for me at my desk eating my sando! Said again but I wont be mad. Thank you Color Simon and Pencil Mark for the excellent content for the last 2+ years... Lets get(edit) to 600k. Good luck and good will everyone.

[@inspiringsand123]

Rules: 04:38 Let's Get Cracking: 07:55 Simon's time: 42m11s Puzzle Solved: 50:06 What about this video's Top Tier Simarkisms?! The Secret: 5x (14:11, 14:20, 14:32, 14:34, 14:36) Bobbins: 1x (25:07) Three In the Corner: 1x (30:33) Chocolate Teapot: 1x (28:05) ​Scooby-Doo: 1x (42:13) Diddly Squat: 1x (42:28) And how about this video's Simarkisms?! Ah: 14x (03:12, 10:25, 15:53, 16:03, 17:27, 17:27, 18:45, 21:40, 24:37, 31:58, 35:59, 37:24, 46:27, 46:58) By Sudoku: 10x (27:58, 32:07, 41:07, 41:16, 42:31, 45:36, 46:52, 47:22, 48:01, 48:04) The Answer is: 7x (06:47, 12:17, 15:26, 17:33, 28:57, 39:45, 42:11) Beautiful: 6x (00:32, 22:00, 29:50, 30:25, 36:07, 50:07) Sorry: 5x (03:34, 03:37, 03:42, 19:13, 21:34) Clever: 4x (26:29, 26:33, 38:44, 50:25) Hang On: 4x (18:55, 18:55, 18:55, 31:37) In Fact: 4x (14:19, 15:48, 25:40, 49:27) Shouting: 3x (02:51, 04:12, 04:21) Stunning: 3x (23:18, 50:07, 50:10) Middly Digit: 3x (27:32, 44:55) Good Grief: 2x (26:29, 42:06) Stuck: 2x (13:47, 13:51) Lovely: 2x (16:03, 40:51) Deadly Pattern: 2x (46:27, 46:40) Gorgeous: 2x (22:14, 42:06) Fabulous: 2x (01:06, 02:10) What Does This Mean?: 2x (18:39, 23:59) Nature: 2x (06:02, 26:12) Pencil Mark/mark: 2x (42:41, 45:53) Goodness: 1x (20:24) Bother: 1x (38:16) Out of Nowhere: 1x (31:01) In the Spotlight: 1x (30:36) Fascinating: 1x (38:41) Incredible: 1x (01:42) Take a Bow: 1x (50:10) Approachable: 1x (00:46) Facetious: 1x (12:07) Disappointing: 1x (13:49) Unbelievable: 1x (02:13) Obviously: 1x (00:33) We Can Do Better Than That: 1x (41:44) Next Trick: 1x (43:56) Cake!: 1x (02:49) Symmetry: 1x (00:29) Most popular number(>9), digit and colour this video: Forty (2 mentions) One (95 mentions) Blue (19 mentions) Antithesis Battles: Low (37) - High (25) Even (2) - Odd (0) Higher (2) - Lower (1) Row (18) - 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!

[@RJ_Eckie]

I love these stats and wondered whether Simon was aware of them! It would make me pretty self conscious - as it seems Simon felt as well for a minute. Either way, great work on these!

[@kevinmartin7760]

Does the count of 'Ah's include when he mused about whether you counted Oohs and Ahs separately? Does the count of Ahs include the oohs and ohs?

[@andreyefanov8021]

Still hope to see three in the corner loosing it's religion counter!

[@WayneDupree1101]

Hope you know I couldn't do the counting without your excellent stats! Thanks to you too Inspiring Sand!

[@twigsvsticks354]

I really appreciate how much work you put into these. Especially since you do these on almost every video. Thank you for doing this! Keep it up!

[@andrewclark8129]

This is the first time in three years CtC has posted a puzzle I've already solved. Granted I don't finish a lot of puzzles found on LMG, but I was really proud to have finished this one. It's a gorgeous puzzle.

[@deusleniosantosdonasciment529]

I did in 27:37. For a Simon's solve of 50 minutes, I was incredible fast, now I'm thinking that probably made a lucky guess somewhere haha. I decided to watch the video to find my mistake and discovered that it wasn't me who was fast, but Simon was a bit slow: what he find out at 20:19, was my first step and after the puzzle really flowed smoothlly. (Any language mistakes it's because English is not my first language)

[@soulbound11]

36:25, my best time comparing to a video. Great puzzle!

[@elvagabundo4607]

Math Pesto, what a wonderful puzzle, fantastic logic all the way through and the piece de resistance at the end to finish up the deadly pattern....perfection itself! BRAVO!

[@nattixer]

I've been looking forward to watching CtC all day! Thank you for making each and every day feel worth getting through ♥

[@ferdinandpurczeld234]

Solved on my own, exactly 80 minutes on the mark! I might nominate this as my favorite sudoku of 2022. :)

[@Coyotek4]

24:45 ... a picturesque sudoku with wonderful logic using all the various line restrictions Nice puzzle!

[@markp7262]

36:09 finish. Definitely some phenomenal logic on this puzzle, with a great ending! The orange line in the upper left quadrant I actually worked in the opposite order from Simon. I was able to get the bottom digit of the line first, which led me around the rest of it and placed all of the numbers. Such fun!

[@franzvanpoppin9418]

33:32 for me. Great puzzle! The interactions between the different kinds of lines is something I didn't encounter to this extent before. :)

[@crystalgehrt8861]

I really feel like I've been framed. It just boxes you in slowly, by inches, right up until that little 4 quadruple at the end! Excellent work!

[@jukmifggugghposer]

That has to be one of the best finishes to a puzzle I've ever seen

[@kiralovesmusic]

20:35 i was just telling my friend about how i binge watch both your and agadmator’s videos. glad to see that you also know him. thanks for the great videos, much love to you both

[@chris5619]

I love this channel! I also love that I've been able to solve more and more puzzles lately on my own. The reason for my comment though: I was able to solve it. And of course I used the 45 coloring at the end to get to the disambiguation. I didn't realize what it would be at first (I actually started the coloring by noticing that the 45 pair on the entropy line from box 2-3-6 had to be different, coloring those two first, and even thinking maybe that would be part of the disambiguation). But then I noticed the 45 on the circle and realized that was going to be it, and that they'd have to be the same to solve the puzzle. I love that Simon realized he knew what would happen before starting coloring. Thank you so much for all the time you put in to sharing these videos with the world!

[@warren_r]

This took me 45 minutes.... which seems extremely appropriate given how the puzzle ends!! Never felt like I really got "stuck", it just put up a really good fight and is surely one of my favourite puzzles this year.

[@stevieinselby]

Great puzzle - took me 35 minutes. Another way of looking at the whisper in box 9 is to ask what happens if 7 or 8 goes one on the knuckle and one off the line. The one on the knuckle then needs to be flanked by two small digits, but the entropy line _also_ needs two small digits, which means we need four digits from {1,2,3} in the box ... so that doesn't work, and the 7 and 8 must _both_ be on the whisper line.

[@zirco77]

Honestly, I though Simon said "Aahhh!" more than 5 times per video on average ;) especially on those "ah!" moments that may occur a few times, you know those "Aah!" with raised index, then 5 seconds total freeze, then "Ah!", pause, "Rrrriiight...". And of course, not only this does not bother me at all, that's part of Simon. That wouldn't be Simon without that ;)

[@highpath4776]

The stat counter hasnt done all the vids, so simple division doesnt work

[@lorenb6066]

What a great puzzle. 👍 loved the start, middle and end! Colouring low middle and high did the trick for me and flashes at the end for the 45s. Not sure of my totatl time as I went wrong the first time but 2nd time round did it in 33:04. 2 years ago, I wouldn't have even known where to start! Thank you CTC 😊

[@ConflictZv]

Managed to struggle my way through after restarting twice. 67 minutes on the third attempt and what a satisfying victory! The early deductions come easily enough but the focus required to balance the interactions of the lines while not breaking the circles is not easy to maintain! An incredibly brilliant and intricate puzzle, loved every painstaking second! Now to watch Simon solve it in a much more elegant fashion than my own :)

[@OnAFitnessJourney]

Got it in 70 mins, the brrakin and the last 4 5 disambiguation was awesome, now time to watch how Simon did it.

[@SonicGamesPlayer]

Took me 65 minutes with some incredibly bad scanning, but it is such a beautiful puzzle, every deduction felt really smooth (especially liked the logic around the 4 quadruple clue!)

[@Matilda_the_Hun]

What a clever ending! I missed the effect the 8 in box 7 had on box 1 for an embarrassingly long time, so I ended up taking a very different path than Simon. I found coloring the entire grid hi/med/lo to be very helpful

[@Tringard]

In hindsight (and seen watching you do it), this is beautiful in how each deduction leads to another corner producing a new deduction. But in the midst of it, every bit felt hard fought never shifting into a clear flow for me.

[@BeheadedKamikaze]

Packed with all sorts of different Maths ... like Pesto! Bravo

[@Arcessitor]

Took 26:45. Scrolling through, it seems at 33 minutes in you get to the location of 78 in box 9. You can do that at the very start and it's the first deduction I made. I don't know if you go through the same deduction, but whatever is on the 5 difference line twice cannot be 6 or 4, therefore to appear on the orange line it must be the bottom-right cell of the grid or you would have 4 of either 123 or 789. The other high-low digit r8c8's group must make an appearance on the orange line twice, therefore cannot have another of its modular group be in r7c7, therefore 7 and 8 can only be in the square if they are r8c7 and r7c8. That seems to lead to a much quicker solve path, where you can immediately fill in the 6 on r9c4, among other things.

[@ericpraline1302]

Lovely stuff, as ever from Math Pesto. Glad to say I started with box 9!

[@zackleonard8559]

I liked the interactions between the orange and green lines, very nice puzzle.

[@rlrstrong]

This one was very cool! I wish the newspapers would publish these more interesting sorts of Sudokus.

[@th.nd.r]

Great setting and solving!! Especially loved the way it finished with the 4s. Way to spot 3 in the corner! Reminder to everyone watching this: please check out the CTC Discord! Also Simon, your repeated phrases are part of why I love watching you, please keep them up!!!

[@Swisswavey]

25 minutes. That was fun. Very clever construction and really enjoyable to solve. Thanks for sharing it

[@wigermiddelkamp8064]

Woohoo, first time ever to solve a puzzle with 50 minute + video length with no help from Simon or Mark at all. I did it in 50:20 💪

[@warren_r]

Nicely done!

[@nkorppi]

Absolutely loved solving this one. Used the Phistomefel variation to place digit 1 in column 9 and another in box 9.

[@Edos512]

so beautiful how one ends with all 4-5 pairs

[@menturinai1387]

The way the end was set up was fantastic!

[@steve470]

25:13 for me. Beautiful puzzle and an enjoyable solve.

[@IAmParadox_]

This is the first puzzle I’ve attempted to solve completely on my own, it took me 3 hours but I managed to fully do it! Usually I watch to get the break in from the video and then pause until I’m stuck, but I persevered and did it! I’m so chuffed

[@l3igl2eaper]

Finished in 37:12 I'm actually stunned I finished a puzzle before Simon. Wow.

[@jessevennard2640]

The way Simon found the 9 in the corner. He always finds different ways from me. I just figured the corner cell was the only entropy that couldn’t repeat within box9. This one was fun for me

[@elektrikblu7331]

46:45 finally the pencil marked 8 in box 2 is put out of its misery lol

[@dustinkeier9176]

Absolutely AMAZING ending! Wonderous puzzle!

[@piarittersporn]

What a wonderful puzzle, which was rather easy to assemble thanks to the three different types of lines and finally to solve step by step. After my solution, I looked at Simon's path and found that I wasn't the only one who had a temporary problem (or question mark) with the many 4-5 pairs towards the end and was glad that I hadn't done anything wrong.

[@jorava8768]

That ending with 45 pairs was a beautiful finisher!

[@jessevennard2640]

I really liked the logic to open box 7. Beautiful puzzle

[@JosueSantiagoG]

Thank you for the entropy explanation! I was one of those confused people.

[@amysteele2488]

What a lovely finish to a very clever puzzle!

[@jaega4247]

Really enjoyed this puzzle. A lot of ways to get started, and a lot to distract your eyes from what's most important, without making it all feel too cluttered. As for solving, I got stuck at 8's and 9's for some reason in box 1 & 4, with several different opening leading to the same result. Turns out I kept making the same mistake every time, and failing to see and mark the true position of 9 in box 1 as a possibility. Took me way longer, and more attempts than needed, but I feel it speaks a lot for the puzzle if it's able to keep me coming back for yet another try before taking hints from the video!

[@hibernator8198]

Sat in an airport with a delayed flight, thank you Simon for soothing my boredom.

[@KANPAI666OPPAI]

71:51 - misplaced a 5 early on based on some faulty reasoning and got burned when it came time to unravel all the 45 pairs I was left with and hit a wall 🤡. Still, fun solve playing off of the relations between the different lines! Good stuff!

[@Jesthers]

Solved this one all on my own, though I was yet again stumped for quite a while as I had missed being able to solve a 2-3 pair by using a 7 on a German whispers line. That's probably the 3rd or 4th time that exact thing has happened, I need to be more alert to those 7s when I place them.

[@HunterJE]

27:45 Can actually place the 8 in r6c9 here, because put it on its other pencil marked space in box 6 you can't put a high digit in the vertical leg of the top-right entropic...

[@andrewness]

"Not sure if Wayne distinguishes between my oos and my ahs" So long as you know your ahs from your elbows, you will be fine.

[@virtualnuke-bl5ym]

I've been absolutely loving the free puzzles on the app! The only problem for me is that I'm only on puzzle 10 and yet I'm finding it quite impossible to find the logic. I can stumble through it by peeking at the hints but I don't think I'll be able to solve anymore without the hints lol.

[@nescirian]

I solved this one before watching the video, and was surprised to hear Simon say it has a 3 star difficulty. I usually only solve 1 or occasionally 2 star puzzles, and didn't find this one especially challenging. I wonder if it got bumped up a level due to solvers being less familiar with entropy lines, or if it just means I need to try more 3 star puzzles.

[@SnugglesPlays]

I have been struggling with one of your puzzles in your free app which features german whispers, as this is something I've never come across before and did not know the "secret" about it...that you can't ever have a 5 on a green line or that you can only have 4 and 6 on the edges. This may prove helpful when I go back to it now! 🙂

[@CauchyIntegralFormula]

59m54s. Lovely, great final deduction

[@nickellis999]

Beautiful puzzle

[@Rose-ou2xj]

On a day I'm feeling poorly, seeing a long video is exciting!

[@snuggie12]

What really helped me was in box 9 knowing that 456 belonged in R7C7 and then one of each on the wings (since they can't be on the green line.) That tells you where 78 goes. I foolishly got stuck for 5 mins where I had the numbers filled in on the orange lines but hadn't updated their color which told me the order of the numbers on the other wing.

[@Gwommy]

I agree that a chocolate teapot isn't very useful, but it sure does sound good!

[@felemi]

So i had to listen to that REM song, just like every time when Simon puts a 3 in the corner. Btw i've got today the Cracking the Cryptic book (thanks for the 500sub coupon code), and oh man.. That book is amazing. There are so many things to explore, so I think maybe there is an easter egg hidden on the pages. (If not, there is an opportunity in the sequel) ((sorry for my English, i've learned from computer games, so i knew the word plate armor before i knew what a fork or spoon is))

[@davidh.4944]

I worked on it for over an hour, but I must've gotten something backwards, as it all fell apart when I thought I had the right hand side resolved. It is not an easy one for keeping track of everything, and I just don't have the energy to go through it again, so that's it for today, I'm afraid.

[@inwalters]

28:06 - 28:08 Prince Pondicherry again asks that you quit disparaging the usefulness of his chocolate teapots. 😁

[@Leindy3]

Wayne, Id love to know how often Simon says Bobbins per video :'D I love the phrase

[@nilslin]

What a nice finish!

[@MyriamTT]

Great puzzle!

[@theashen]

Did this in a totally different order than Simon, begining in box 7 then box 9, but didn't take tremendously much longer than him. Really loved the 45 disambiguations at the end

[@theashen]

Was weird to see Simon struggle with the 78 in box 9, when the entropy line shows what it must be as soon as you know that it only has 1 high number, and 2 each of middle and low

[@kevinjschuster]

Loved this puzzle. Beat Simon by a couple of seconds though I put that completely to the fact that I don't have to explain my logic out loud.

[@randomcubing7106]

31:13 for me, beautiful puzzle

[@xaviarthunders4894]

What a beautiful ending! Bravo♥

[@G4M1L]

This was really a beautiful puzzle. I'd argue with the difficulty rating of 3, if 3 means average. To me it seemed more like challenging, though not brutally hard, so more like a 4. Anyway - very beautiful - the symmetry of the clues (in shape, if not in details), the different pieces of logic resulting from the combination of the different clues. And the finale - disambiguating all the 45 pairs with the final clue. Unlike Simon I didn't check what would be the mechanism, I just trusted that colouring would lead to the answer, and it did - and made me smile.

[@Rach881101]

36:57 for me. Great puzzle!

[@sarahday3297]

I loved that modular puzzle! So beautiful. Always get a kick out of the entropy puzzles.

[@ol1ver49]

Saw it took Simon 50 minutes, at which point I usually give up. But I saw it was startable, persevered and got there. 2 hours plus, but don't care!

[@ol1ver49]

so I'll save the GAS for tomorrow

[@harehnkaundun1406]

I filled up the numbers through similar logic but then messed up my logic on the smaller entropy line. I encountered a contradiction after 1 hr and gave up. I was pleased because I made more progress than I thought.

[@markscottuk]

You have just triggered my Apple Watch Siri :) “no need to apologise!’

[@jadeskyewalker]

Just wanted to write this it could be helpful for someone else out there who maybe watches these videos via a KZbin app on a tv like me. I’ve noticed sometimes it’s hard to see the difference of colors such as yellow and green if they’re next to each other in the puzzle but only if the settings on my tv are too bright. If I put the brightness down and play around with the contrast settings aswell the colors are easily differentiated. I have 2 tv’s in my house, my main living room tv is actually fine I never have to change settings and have no issue but it’s a good tv. But I have a small tv in my bedroom which isn’t as good and that is the one I always have to change my settings for. Im not color blind myself but I know alot of people are but even if your not, sometimes changing the settings of the tv screen can really help actually see the colors properly if you struggle with that.

[@lesternielson9280]

Really Nice Puzzle!

[@andrewszaflarski5379]

Love the shoutout to one of the finest Chess YT channels!!!

[@srwapo]

35:14, liked the rules, was scared by the video length, did a bunch of work in Box 9 and Row 9, felt like it was going well, but checked my work at that point to see if I was missing something stupid. That was correct and I did the rest without looking at the solution. Was a little slow at a couple of points, but was shocked at my time being so much shorter than the video length. I also was scared I had a 2,7 deadly pattern in Boxes 2 and 3, not remembering to use the line in Box 3 to figure that out!

[@etienneschramm83]

71 min for me. What a nice puzzle!

[@TurquoizeGoldscraper]

49:27 for me - and I needed a hint from Simon to get started.

[@Spore809]

Love watching your videos before going to bed, Could the background of the sudoku inverted or make darker. It's hard for the eyes. Dose the sudoku app also have a darkmode?

[@steve470]

The app has a dark mode (in the advanced settings), but I'm guessing that Simon would get more complaints if he used it for the videos than if he didn't.

[@wanderlustwarrior]

55:53 for me, including having to restart from the beginning after I broke it. Still, I'm happy I'm doing well on these.

[@peterstockhausen8806]

Don't worry Simon, if Wayne is not differentiating your oohs and aahs, he soon will.

[@Sam_on_YouTube]

79 minutes, but I cracked it. I wasn't expecting a deduction so late that there had to be 2 identical digits around the 4 in the circle. Once I found that, I knew that digit had to be 4 and the last bit unwound.

[@Orenotter]

A hero comes! Simon, he's named. For solving Sudoku he's famed. He takes on lines disparate, Rem band and whisper, yet In the end, Simon was framed.

[@lauracortes7720]

wow what a beautiful ending!

[@darthrainbows]

Wow, one of the rare puzzles I solved faster than Simon! Of course, I wasn't taking the time to explain my solve to a youtube audience, but still, pretty good.

[@juliadefranco1130]

Tried ths puzzle three times, was encouraged by the relatively accessible break-in, got contradictions all three times. I'm still not sure what I did wrong.

[@uncgoalie]

what a beauty - 55 min

[@emilywilliams3237]

Simon, we love your Simarkisms, and those that are more peculiar to you are very charming. This was a wonderful video, a perfect end to the week. Thank you! (I like the puzzles that have to do with various kinds of lines.) The finish, discovering the two fours around that marked quad clue, was very fun.

[@chipsounder4633]

The last clue was available looking at c2 and 3 the 45s had to be the same by sudoku so how could they ever be 4? That would have broken the quadruple 😃