If You Don't Like Brilliant Puzzles, Don't Watch This.

[@acanimations1223]

I love how cracking the cryptic is literally the ONLY channel that KZbin gives notifications for on time for me, they have good taste

[@stevieinselby]

WOW. I didn't have a clue how to get started on this so let the video play ... when it got to around the 25 minute mark, I realised I was seeing a couple of things that Simon wasn't (yet) so gave it a go from that point, and completed it in a further 80 minutes from there (which by my maths is about the same time as Simon took!). My reaction on finding which 6 was shaded was very similar to Simon's 🤣 KNT, take a 🎀, that was insanely good.

[@sjm6280]

Pencil puzzle Saturdays is the best invention since the potato peeler!!

[@longwaytotipperary]

I love how excited Simon gets solving a difficult puzzle!

[@Playmaker6174]

It’s funny how the video is long just because it’s mostly Simon explaining every single logic ever and it’s just rather one long straight journey throughout and no real hardcore stuck instead. A great solve and an even greater appreciation for KNT here and by the way, this is just only one of his fine works out there x) (Also poor Simon at 44:00 didn’t notice the 3 gray cells sequence from there)

[@Playmaker6174]

Tbf, 1:02:20 kind of validated the thing then hehe

[@DonDigidon-gd3wi]

First time realizing that KNT should be spelled instead of reading it like an aussie

[@Squishy3757]

As always when you “don’t know where to look” examine right under your cursor.

[@fredericfaulkner9116]

That was exquisite. Beautiful logical deductions from start to finish. Not that I don't enjoy puzzles where the primary difficulty is a single monstrous break-in; but the small, constant series of simple jumps is this puzzle was almost zen.

[@gogothewind123]

One of the most ludicrous puzzles I've ever seen on the channel. How does anyone even come up with that?!?

[@Jonas.Nilsson]

Hell yeah!! 1 hour 45!! Popcorn is ready!!

[@Hydrabogen]

Spent 70 minutes on the puzzle being hardstuck because I confused which cells were supposed to be "cave" and which were "wall". These rules were hell to get right

[@A_CC_K]

Did I understand the rules: No, I am still enjoying the brilliant puzzle and video: 100% I am, best way to spend a Saturday evening.

[@davorinmestric969]

31.50 the answer is connect it trough the 3 clue, then down. One segment goes to the 2, the other to the 4. He got confused in trying to avoid connecting 4 and 2, but forgot to update this logic if you use a 3 along the way.

[@davorinmestric969]

Oops, straight through rule prevents this.

[@myfyrmadocjones]

Looking at this puzzle and I feel like Homer Simpson with the cymbals banging in his head. 😱

[@xerodeus2337]

at 24:00, why couldn't the loop go up to the right diagonally into that green above the green three? why did it have to go left? I didn't see anything in the rules saying the loop had to pass orthogonally. Edit: it seems that's just an inherent rule, I wish it was called out explicitly because it was really hard to progress not knowing if you could only move the loop orthogonally.

[@carrotisalie]

Wow I searched up cracking the cryptic because I randomly felt like a sudoku and there's a new one perfectly in time.

[@10prozenthimmel]

It‘s not a Sudoku tho as It’s a Saturday 🤣

[@carrotisalie]

⁠I did comment before watching because I was so excited. Watching it now

[@stephenbeck7222]

@@carrotisalie you can basically set an alarm clock to CTC videos. 8:30 and 11:00 UK time every night.

[@Afterthoughtbtw]

Best day of the week.

[@Afterthoughtbtw]

What an insane(ly good) puzzle. Now, if you'll excuse me, my head hurts. My brain has been scrambled somewhat.

[@olivier2553]

Around 1:38, you could demonstrate that is the 1 and 2 ends do not connect directly, they would have to take both intersection, effectively isolating the 7 and 8 ends. That may have been a couple of minutes faster. That said, pfffuuuiitt! what a puzzle!

[@In_42_Space]

Just started watching Simon start solving this and this rule set is mad 😜. No wonder we are getting a movie today.

[@marcbennett9232]

this was brilliant! love the saturday puzzles.

[@VijayaGopala]

This loop is quite similar to the ways of love - it never goes straight.

[@TheNikoado]

You could nearly add another rule. "The path will never take the most straight forward route you would expect, and will almost certainly have rinky dinks"...

[@haraldlonn898]

Totally great work. Thanks.

[@Piatato]

Ahhh, yeah that's a great one 😄

[@LednacekZ]

took me an hour of watching to understand the rules

[@RhiannonAgutter]

Love the puzzle but in future could you avoid using red lines on green shading please Simon? It’s not very colour-blind friendly

[@jonnanino]

This might be later in the video if im right, but i think simon may have missed an option for the bottom row early in the video. He was working off of the logic that the two lines in the bottom rows could not connect because it would connect a 2 and a 4. This made sense until the bottom line encountered a 3, at which point it no longer made sense to use the logic from earlier. There might be some other logic that precludes it, but i don't think that was considered. This puzzle is awesome to watch nonetheless!

[@enchanter1520]

You're right. But I don't think he did any progression based on the logic that those loop ends couldn't meet, after they encounter a 3. They did not connect for other reasons.

[@fredericfaulkner9116]

56:20 for future reference :D

[@leiz8048]

good puzzle

[@Gnarlf]

Ohhhh my good. One look at the grid and the time and I'm already shivering from excitement. This is going to be fun.

[@FirenWithLime]

Okay I won't.

[@cycklist]

Clickbait is demeaning.

[@MisterM2402]

Just part of KZbin's game you have to play. So long as the content of the video actually matches the title, it's not the worst thing in the world, I guess. Probably wouldn't get many views if you called it "Cave Stations by KNT" or "CtC Video No. 5361".

[@theWebWizrd]

​@@MisterM2402 You absolutely don't have to play that game. A channel don't have to do anything imaginable to attract whatever views they can get - if that wad the goal of this channel, don't make a channel about sudokus at all. You cultivate the audience that you create content for. By creating clickbait you cultivate a worse community, which I think is much worse than a smaller community. I hate, hate, hate it with a passion.

[@cyanophage4351]

Simon, you're pronouncing "non" wrong. You're saying "nun". "non" rhymes with "gone"

[@jonnanino]

Might just be a dialect thing! It's good not to assume something as wrong when it could be right for someone else.