Trust Me, I'm Lying!

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OK, this is one of the maddest looking puzzles we've ever featured. And just about every single sudoku rule needs to be broken to finish it correctly! It's called Trust Me I'm Lying and it's the dastardly concoction of ChefOfDeath. This is a VERY interesting one!!
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Rules:
Normal sudoku rules apply. Digits in a grey square must not be even. Digits in a grey circle must not be odd. Digits on a thermo must DECREASE from the bulb end. Digits on either side of a white dot must not have a difference of 1. Digits connected by an X must not sum to 10. Digits connected by a V must not sum to 5. Digits on a purple line must not all be consecutive. Adjacent digits on a green line must not differ by 5 or more. Digits in a minimum cell must not be smaller than any of the orthogonally connected cells. Digits in a cage must not sum to the given total.
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[@Chefofdeath793]

Hello Chefofdeath here (formerly disasterinprogress but LMD didn’t let me use that name for some reason)

[@bobblebardsley]

I do love a wrogn puzzle, although I'd suggest fixing the z-index of your minimum/fortress cell symbols because they seem to be hidden behind the purple lines, and I would have taken that to mean that the rule only applied to the indicated cells, and not necessarily to all four orthogonally adjacent cells. Very minor gripe though and only intended as helpful feedback.

[@tedg1278]

Much simpler path near

[@Natzeit]

Just discovered this channel. Now I'm finally caught up and watching the newest videos. Exciting!!

[@thesledgehammerblog]

I have to admit to being a little confused by the anti-minimum cells because I only saw arrows on 1 or 2 sides, so it wasn't until the rule was demonstrated that it made sense. Will need to try again later knowing that.

[@purple4395]

That Simon doesn't immediately sees that the 248 triple's are a triple sword fish is driving me crazy.

[@inspiringsand123]

Rules:

[@warren_r]

My time on this one is 39 minutes. I love the identical 39-boxes throughout... it makes the puzzle look ridiculous from first glance, but it actually gets the solver asking the right kind of question: "Well, if 6 can't go there, where does it go?" ..... super cool. Hope to see more of this constructor on the channel in the future.

[@stevieinselby]

When you spot that there are essentially 3 boxes that are each repeated 3 times (and so the digits in the boxes with identical clues

[@mikeychrisanthus9948]

29:19

[@57thorns]

27:42

[@chitraagarwal8259]

Absolutely beautiful puzzle..super concept and very very elegant. I usually catch the puzzles as soon as they are posted (1 am India time), but went to bed early...saw it in the morning and what a wonderful way to start the day !

[@pbush071987]

A very fun puzzle. A bit of logic that was proven in the video but not verbalized simply is that anytime you have two swordfishes on the same digit, you must have the third swordfish.

[@SMTRodent]

I loved this puzzle! For such a strange layout, it was oddly approachable, just a little mind-bending. Watching the solve was wonderful too.

[@th.nd.r]

We are still on such an incredible run of puzzles. What a beauty of a debut! I hope to see more ChefOfDeath puzzles in the future! All the swordfishes and then the brilliant logic to disambiguate them at the end, so cool! Reminds me of that one puzzle that also has all swordfish which was one of my fav sudokus of all time. Great setting, and great solving Simon!!

[@andrewlloydwebber2616]

Mr. Anthony, take a bow! Wonderful video today. Greetings from Uzbekistan

[@timbeaton5045]

OK, like the last multiple swordfish puzzle, IIRC, we ended up with three 3x3 patterns repeated, diagonally, too. Spotted this when digits started appearing in the grid. Surprised Simon didn;t spot that.

[@LavenderGooms]

This puzzle is a ton of front-work and then just speeds through everything after the first digit goes down. It was satisfying as heck solving this one.

[@johnh2052]

At

[@popiop4]

24:10