Handlebars: Is this Sudoku About Bicycles or Facial Hair?

[@BatteryAcid1103]

Acid here. Thanks so much for covering my puzzle! I'm still relatively new to setting, so I greatly appreciate all the feedback in the video and here in the comments. I love seeing all the different interpretations of the image in the grid haha. For the solution path, I mostly focused on the flow of the puzzle. I wanted a balance of slightly harder deductions followed by a flurries of digits, as if tension is building in the puzzle, then suddenly breaks and yields several digits. Overall, I'm very happy with the puzzle, and I'm glad that people enjoy it. :) And I've learned to put more thought into the colors I use... I hope the puzzle is enjoyable enough to make up for some of the eyestrain and headaches I've caused.

[@SudokuSleuth]

Than you for the puzzle and visit Acid! Really looking forward to your next puzzle 😀

[@drengskap]

That looks a lot more like a bike than a moustache to me! The German whisper lines at the sides are easy. Relating them to the renban lines in the middle, that's not so easy. This one took me 47:24. And I agree with a previous commenter, it's difficult to read the numbers over those purple lines.

[@someblokeontheinternet]

I see handlebars on a bike, riding through a forest

[@SudokuSleuth]

Agreed!

[@anaayoung9142]

The renban on the middle did really a good job! I coloured everything of course 😎 I can see a person on a unicycle balancing with their arms! 😅 Thank you! 😁

[@shanemenken5729]

Some viewer feedback. The thick purple lines make seeing the center digits difficult. Perhaps use a grey line or a less dense chroma on the purple. I'm old, my eyes are weak. Thanks

[@SudokuSleuth]

I agree with you. Not a lot I can do about the colours though, sorry.

[@oakleyg2870]

Phenomenal puzzle!

[@SudokuSleuth]

😁

[@boydegg]

35:33 another great puzzle. good fun to solve

[@psiphiorg]

Did you specify that 6:28 was supposed to be an ad break, or did the KZbin algorithm pick that spot itself? (Right after you said, "I'll be right back".) Either way, I found the timing amusing. Usually KZbin's ad breaks happen in the middle of a sentence, and I have to rewind a few seconds after the ad to get the flow of what the person was saying. But to the puzzle itself, it was an interesting exercise! My time today was 19:09, solver number 1236.

[@SudokuSleuth]

I did not no, that’s quite funny 😂 A few years back I gave up on terrestrial TV, and cable We moved our TV watching habits to steaming and KZbin We ended up going KZbin premium after getting tired of the ads and never looked back So I’m embarrassed to say, I have no idea where the ads play on my content if at all!

[@stevesebzda570]

1:07 No, interestingly, that's a bicycle ("handlebars" included) going past trees. And those are the pedals at the bottom. Slueth, are you stuck on "handlebar mustaches" for the moment for some reason? Fynny, but that's a "bicycle." Cool, though (and onto the puzzle). 😂

[@RilianSharp]

when i open the link to the puzzle, there's a shape like an eyelash on the screen in a random spot and orientation. it grows and moves with the screen as i zoom in and scroll. i am baffled. what is this? has anyone else seen this?

[@garydornjr8623]

Not a clue. What a mystery this is.

[@SudokuSleuth]

Yea, maybe April fool’s day joke!

[@gordonglenn2089]

The virtual eyelash on the screen is a funny thing that Sven added a few days ago just to mess with us!

[@RilianSharp]

i thought it was part of the design of the puzzle at first. but when i closed and reopened the puzzle, it was in a different spot.

[@stevesebzda570]

93 , interesting.. I had a few mistakes , so I had to backup Worked out nice Some cool things in there (namely, those 1s attached to those two possible 6s up col1) Nice one..

[@geezerama]

The pedals ain't at 180 degrees. Just saying for the pedal pedants. Great puzzle. Thank you.

[@kvom01]

96 minutes (but I was watching both baseball and gold at the same time) 🤪

[@neil2796]

Broke it 3 times. Succeeded on the 4th try. I was just making stupid mistakes.

[@TurquoizeGoldscraper]

19:11 for me - is anyone else distracted by the mark in R7C4?

[@geezerama]

I've had a small eyelash mark that I can move around the screen with a rubber tipped stylus.

[@TurquoizeGoldscraper]

@@geezerama Sven added it as an April Fool's joke. It must already be April 1st wherever the site is hosted, or his joke is that he's doing it in March.

[@allendracabal0819]

I don't see anything. Was it removed, or am I just missing it? The R7C4 box appears normal to me.

[@TurquoizeGoldscraper]

@@allendracabal0819 It appears randomly, and you can move it around. It looks like a small hair (like an eye lash) on the screen. There is a setting to turn it off.

[@geezerama]

@@TurquoizeGoldscraper Ha! I'm getting slow in my dotage.

[@itskittyme]

180 minutes xD

[@SudokuSleuth]

Wow! Well done for sticking it out!

[@itskittyme]

i had to restart a few times (keeping the time) and i was also overcomplicating things because not seeing the more obvious things@@SudokuSleuth