I Asked ChatGPT To Recommend A Sudoku....

[@nilsleder2957]

Thank you for this wonderful feature, Simon! You followed my own solve path very closely. I loved how you speculated for a while about the implications that a certain positioning of 1s and 2s would have, always thinking it eventually had to break. Finally, all of that turned out to be true. :) I also like to thank SamuPiano very much. Not only has he invented the split peas and introduced me to them in our collaboration puzzles, but he also tested this puzzle and gave me invaluable feedback. Thanks again for this nice solve and all your kind words. I wish you all the best for the future. Kind regards, Nils/sujoyku

[@trolleymouse]

It was a very good puzzle!

[@SamuPiano088]

@@nilsleder2957 Fantastic work! I can't wait to see what else you come up with using these lines!

[@AditaBattleForge]

Fantastic Puzzle Nils, congratulations on setting this! The combination of pea lines and the peas having to be "No Repeats" was a great idea, i found this really interesting and smooth to solve. Felt like being on a treasure hunt! :)

[@jaredwonnacott9732]

I almost never actually stop Simon's solves to go do my own. I think this was the first puzzle I felt the need to just tackle on my own (mostly because it was taking Simon FOREVER to disambiguate the 12 circles). I took it on and finished in about 40 minutes, which was a little slow, since I was relearning keyboard shortcuts along the way. Anyways, thanks for a great puzzle, it was worth solving and worth watching the video as well.

[@kathyjohnson2043]

@@nilsleder2957 very nice! I have suggested a fog of war version where the fog is as thick as pea soup!

[@SamuPiano088]

SamuPiano here! I invented pea lines a bit over a month ago :) These lines were originally going to be called "split pills", but I realized if I colored them green I could market them as "split peas," or "split P's", where the "P" would stand for "pill arrow." I had an absolute blast creating the original split peas puzzle, and it was so much fun that I started setting a lot more puzzles with this constraint. Since then, it has started to catch on. Sujoyku approached me about a month later, and we ended up collaborating on two split pea + line puzzles, which were a lot of fun! This is his first solo puzzle with these lines, and I was one of the original testers and thought it was utterly brilliant! All this to say, I'm so glad ChatGPT agrees that this puzzle is exquisite :)

[@kathyjohnson2043]

Great pun!!! Make it a fog of war and the fog will be as thick as pea soup! (An american expression)

[@Seriously_Unserious]

@@kathyjohnson2043 Call that combo the Pea Soup Fog puzzle!

[@falloutfan2502]

What a great concept! Made for a great puzzle!

[@92maitani]

Amazing idea!

[@Mandragorn]

Simon clicking submit with so many half colored squares, wild orange fives, an unblued 8....absolute madman

[@tisfu17]

I much prefer Mark's approach in cases like this, of removing any colours once they've exhausted their usefulness, instead of blindly perpetuating them through the solve for no actual benefit. I find this sort of visual clutter to only be counter productive. E.g. the 8 in box 8 was missed for quite some time despite the other 8s all pointing at it being purple, so it seemingly didn't help at all.

[@zirco77]

haha, totally rebellious today, isn't he? maybe he was in a hurry...

[@zirco77]

@@tisfu17 indeed Mark always says at some point "the color has done its job" then removes it. That's what I often do as well. It happened a few times though, on "very colorful" puzzles that I found it a bit bland or sad when colors were gone. So maybe Simon just like colors for the look of it, beyond their practical use? I remember he once told someone during his messages to switch paper sudoku for software, because you can do coloring. ;)

[@gobsvensen]

I think my favorite type of puzzle is one where you start with "This is insane, there's no way to start this..." then "oh but that is a restriction.." and "well then that causes this" and the whole thing flows from there. This had that in spades.

[@subinmdr]

After staring at the puzzle for a couple of minutes, I thought, "Maybe I'll just watch Simon solve this one." But your comment motivated me to give it a try, and I'm so glad I did. So, thanks!

[@indubio1]

Original Miracle Sudoku flashbacks!

[@solitary-sun]

You forgot the "i think i broke it" followed by "no that works actually"

[@Camerz]

i watch Wirtual on youtube, so imagine my shock when you brought up his name when i was watching this video, lmfao

[@mvanvoorden]

I literally only found out who Wirtual was yesterday due to youtube recommending me a video about training an AI to play Trackmania, and he was featured in there.

[@tremkl]

“I don’t know how ChatGPT knew that it knew.” The same way it always does: By copying everyone’s homework.

[@longwaytotipperary]

Very good answer!

[@awilliams1701]

I think if the diagonal had no repeats it would be 36 not 45 as if you made it 45, the 4 and 5 would not be counted. I THINK that makes it 36, but I'm not 100% on that.

[@TheDominic1011]

Was thinking the same thing

[@gappy3234]

You're right, I had put a 3 & 6 in a the grid in seconds before rereading the rules.

[@gandalf_le_rouge]

You are right indeed

[@henriquecaridade]

The equation is 45 - (a+b) = 10a + b 11a + 2b = 45 then you can put this 11a + 2b = 45, 1

[@stephenmccarthy1795]

Yes, it would not be quite that easy, but the point that that would be a potential break in remains.

[@angec9908]

I’m mad that “concatenation” has nothing to do with cats. It should be the word that describes the sound of a cat sitting on a back alley fence howling, just before someone throws a shoe at it in an old cartoon.

[@donaldsnyder1543]

I feel your pain. I was truly devastated to learn that a board game known by the name of Catan has nothing to do with cats either.

[@debrabowen4276]

Concatenation sounds like an amalgam of “with” + “cat” + “tarnation”, so yeah, your cartoon idea is correct!

[@Benjimica]

That's why it's preceded by 'con'. "An instance of deceiving or tricking someone."

[@ckdo1974]

The Linux command to concatenate files is "cat", though...

[@bones7708]

Con-cat-e-nation is a digital kingdom ruled by a fradulent feline.

[@xerodeus2337]

I asked ChatGPT to solve this sudoku... It couldn't... so... yeah

[@emdiar6588]

AI generated voice narration can't work out if the typed in word 'content' means conTENT (happy, satisfied) or CONtent (that which is contained) from context, which a child can do. The same goes for all homographs that have different syllabic stresses which affect their meanings. And yet people claim it has achieved consciousness and will soon take over the world. Conversely, dictate the words "He ignored their pleas" into your iPhone and it will auto fill "He ignored there please" every time. Heavy on the 'A', and very light on the 'I' if you ask me.

[@vetinaris1297]

There is a video out there where chat gpt 'solves' a crossword. It's hilarious. It also thinks 1.9 is smaller than 1.11 because one point eleven is bigger than one point nine. And it's very stubborn about it. Another great video.

[@xerodeus2337]

@@vetinaris1297 the strawberry example is always my favorite because it keeps counting the double R as 1 R lol.

[@vetinaris1297]

@xerodeus2337 does it explain itself? The math one it explains why it thinks that way when challenged. I can't work out why it thinks double r is one r?

[@vishdotnews]

Didn't expect to hear a Wirtual shoutout in today's video. Love his content! Would be lovely to see a collaboration between these channels - Wirtual attempting a varient Sudoku and Simon trying a Trackmania map :)

[@whypick1_]

"Hmm, this video is close to my 1 hour limit for doing the puzzle, might as well give it a shot" **finishes in **26:09**** **surprised Pikachu face**

[@Happyjew666]

I too was pleasantly surprised when I saw the almost 1 hour time and solved it in under 30 minutes. I usually try the harder ones and get stuck about 5 minutes in, but found the logic flowed relatively smoothly.

[@ololreyalple]

Yoooo wirtual mentioned !!!!!

[@bobblebardsley]

28:40 I don't think those corner circles could ever have been 8s because to total 58, the line needed 8-9 pairs in boxes 3 and 7, which would place the 8 on the line (and therefore not in the circle) in both boxes. I think.

[@brianj959]

Yes, but this requires sudoku to see! 😂

[@rmjarvis]

38:29 for me. I'm always surprised when I finish faster than Simon. But I found this one to flow very naturally once I determined which order the 12 circles went, which was a bit tricky.

[@jaymuse127]

I know I'm days late....but the amazing mind of Simon that does the math after saying how bad he is at math just to miss 2 sudoku digits in the same box. Thing of beauty

[@Sinisest1121]

Simon takes here several times way too overcomplicated steps. If you place 2 into box 9 then line from box 47 is broken as this can be max 47 but 1234 would be taken. So we know 2 must be in box 1. That reveals us immediatly 5 location as in column 1 we get 6789 quad as 3 of them must be on that line and 4th must be in that circle row 8

[@darkgrach40]

I'm when 26:53: is it... I can't believe... Finally!!! Like Simon had this thought in very beginning, but than completely forgot about that line ever exist

[@tnx301]

Funny that you mentioned the AI - problems with "strawberry" - I tried that as well when I found it out, but it seemed to already be fixed in MS Copilot. But then I tried it with the German word "Erdbeere" (=strawberry), and asked Copilot to count the "e"s : Copilot spelled the word letter by letter, and gave the answer "2". When I asked to please count again, it did the exact same spelling, but returned "3" instead.

[@TheBioRules]

The most likely explanation is that so many people were talking about how ChatGPT got the answer wrong for "strawberry", so other large language models started adding their replies of "strawberry has 3 R's" into their algorithms, so they copied the accurate answer more often. But likely no one has done the same for "erdbeere" so it has no one else to copy.

[@aliengeo]

My ground rule for dealing with AI is to keep in mind that it can't lie or tell the truth, because those require memory and intent and it is too stupid for either-it just puts likely words together and we interpret them as true or false based on knowledge of the real world. So for anything factual, it shouldn't be trusted, such as Simon's "strawberry" with two Rs. It doesn't even know what a strawberry is. But the quality of a puzzle is subjective, of course, and you have external human verification, so the risk here is minimal. Though AI is really bad with geometry and math (and can't see SudokuPad), so I doubt it can give insight into any puzzles with an interesting solve path or anything like that, haha.

[@vetinaris1297]

It can't lie but it can just make stuff up that sounds reasonable and intelligent..if not factual at all.

[@britlion]

Where's the Wirtual clip? I missed that one.

[@pvandewyngaerde]

WirtualTV livestream called trackmania pathfinding trial map. owoDwqvoXRE Around 3:50:40

[@turiyagouw]

It's his most recent Twitch stream, didn't find it on KZbin, but the Twitch stream is named "Trackmania, but you have infinite reactor boosts"

[@noway5930]

@@pvandewyngaerde thanks

[@berendharmsen]

Would you mind sharing the link to the Wirtual video? I actually enjoy watching him just as much as Cracking the Cryptic. I've noticed your channel in the background on a screen on some of his videos before; would love to see what he did here.

[@tomgalli1188]

"The only way of making 26 in 4 different digits when you don't use a 9 or an 8 is 8,7,6,5." LOL! I do love that I'm not the only one whose mouth and brain don't always communicate with each other properly. 46:55

[@awilliams1701]

58 doesn't work on the diagonal because all the 8/9's are used up. You wouldn't have an 8 to make the total with. So in fact 57 is the limit and since 56 is the minimum, you only have 1 degree of freedom.

[@FrancisFjordCupola]

I liked the pea lines. Found the 12-pair for the circles rather immediately. The leap then to the 2-circle leading out with 789 and 689 was harder to do. But then noting that the 2-circle would have matching 34-ends was super helpful. Then the minimum circle left would the 5 and that must be along the diagonal since that cannot reach sixty-something. And the 5 being matched with a 678 really put on the restraints. I found the 9 in box 6 to be rather beautiful. I found one of its neighbors and whatever I put in it, it had to go with a nine. Bingo. Edit: forgot to mention the other beautiful thing, how the 6789-options for the circle in r8c1 fixes which circle is the 2. And also which is the 3.

[@stevieinselby]

That was a blast! Having worked out some quick principles around where the pea lines had to have a low digit in one end or the other, it solved very smoothly in under 20 minutes ... I can see from the slider that Simon has got his paint box out 🎨🖌 which I didn't find any need for, so now to watch the video and see if he's making a mountain out of a molehill, or if I've elided over a load of logic and taken some massive shortcuts...

[@stevieinselby]

Yes, Simon goes on a wild goose chase looking at high digits. The starting point is that each 3-cell line must have a 1 or a 2 in one of its circles. With four 3-cell lines, that means that the two peas that have two 3-cell lines coming out of them must be a 1 and a 2. The 2 must now be flanked by a 3 and a 4 on its branches, because you can't have a 3-cell line adding up to more than 24. The line going between boxes 4 and 7 must have a tens digit of 3 or 4, which means that r1c1 must be the 2 in order to get a 3 or 4 into the pea in box 4.

[@jaredwonnacott9732]

Yeah, that's Simon for you. He tends to get lost in his little logic journeys and miss a lot of the obvious. Side effects of solving so many puzzles that really require that deep logic to get into them.

[@gdc42]

I have solved a fair amount of split peas puzzles already and can recommend all of them. Very well deserved double feature today :D. I like this one in particular because of the coloring aspect and how cleverly it is used by the constructor.

[@srwapo]

27:13, I started the puzzle by "figuring out" that you can't make a sum larger than 45, then spent like 5 minutes wondering why everything was broken, but it was a quick solve after that.

[@meggen033]

Yes! Love Sujoyku's puzzles!

[@darthrainbows]

Nice, solved in 46:25. I spotted the 12 pair right off the bat, and the fact that every pair had to have a digit from 12345... and then spent the next 20 minutes trying to figure out anything else. My a-ha! moment came with the realization that wherever the 2 went in a circle, the length-3 lines coming off of it could only sum to 23 and 24, so the other circles on those lines are a 34 pair. That forces a 5 onto one of the main diagonal circles. R8C1 then comes from the set 6789, making it a 1's digit in whatever sum its line belongs to, and it's partner in R4C2 must therefor be a valid 10's digit, which has to be from 34, forcing the 2 into R1C1 and 1 into R6C6. The line from R4C2 to R8C1 has a max value of 44 (assuming R4C1 is 8, its lowest possible value), which forces 3 into R4C2 as the 1's digit has to be 6 or larger if the 10's digit is a 4. That resolves R2C4 (4), R1C4 (8), R4C1 (9), R5C1 (1), R6C1 (4), R7C1 (3), R8C1 (7), R9C1 (5), and R1C9 (6). The circles in box 9 are then an 89 pair. The rest of the puzzle solves trivially.

[@timch5227]

i love it when im familiar with two channels and they intersect so seamlessly, even tho the channel-themes are not similar to each other at all

[@sly1024]

Do NOT ask ChatGPT what the chance is of getting a 3 in the corner of a solved sudoku puzzle! It will very confidently tell you the wrong answer.😅

[@Yttria]

Nice new rule that was implemented very cleanly. Thoroughly enjoyed it. Found the break in right away but got stuck at the point of finding the constituent digits on the box 4-6 line. Not sure how long it took to solve as there were some distractions and I fell asleep halfway through the solve but the timer stopped at 80:01.

[@CamoPeng]

Hi Simon, could you please do a video for the NYT Hard Sudoku for 4 Sept 2024? Should be a quick one but very helpful for us who hit walls with harder puzzles.

[@longwaytotipperary]

I’ve never had a chat with ChatGPT, maybe I should make its acquaintance? Looking forward to tomorrow’s live stream!

[@BozoTheBear]

Cool puzzle! Right at the start I worked out the positioning of the 23/24 in the top left. I then wrote down 789 for the 24, but 679 for the 23 (not 689!). I didn't notice my mistake until I had almost solved the entire puzzle, and was left with a single deadly pattern. Everything else checked out exactly right. I think this is the first time for me that a mistake in the first few cells of the solve didn't cause a problem until right near the end.

[@RealCadde]

30:46 "A maximum of 47" But it can't reach 47 with a 3 or 4 in R7C1... At most it can be [6789] + [49] which is 43. And 43 is not 46 or 47 which is the only units digits we can have. Green is a 3.

[@-ARatnakumar]

Simon forgot to reset the timer , Infact timer was running even before video started . His solve time is 56:50 whereas overall video lenght including intro and explaination is 56:02

[@dustpan5356]

31:00 for me. Simon just spent time looking at the wrong areas of the puzzle, which I do so often. For some reason it flowed nicely for me on this one.

[@robertghazaryan1029]

2145 for me this time around - once I locked in the 12 and 34 logic, it was easy sailing from there

[@Swisswavey]

That was a really fun puzzle to solve. The logic wasn't difficult but it did take me a while to see it.

[@gordonglenn2089]

I had to stop and think (and search) to get the meaning of "not often the strawberry variety of answers." 😆

[@paulellingham9358]

I hope Finkz likes peas because you can almost see Marty Sears' cogs whirring!

[@LednacekZ]

32:18 today. horrible solve, considering i got starting logic super fast.

[@gavinneedham2013]

I’m excellent at countdown numbers because I allow myself to concatonate numbers.

[@birajkoirala7784]

I am quite surprised by myself to know that I solved it in 28:12 minutes😮😮

[@martincollins11]

Awesome puzzle, just flowed so nicely as you're figuring it out 😊

[@aleksapupovac]

43:37 I lost so much time because I haven't noticed that 8 clears up 8 and 9 in box 9

[@karthick_michigooner7431]

Math and Pencilmarking are your friends - NOT COLORING! Would love to see Mark solve this - believe he would just breeze through it (no fuss!). Why you love this channel!!! Expect Simon to (a) complicate the logic, (b) forget basic sudoku (c) color for no reason .... This is one pizzle where Math and pencil marking helped a lot more than coloring. If you pencil mark the circles, C1 just resolves itself. Then you have to ask simple questions like the diagonal, Where 2 goes in Box 2 and the logic just flows.... As long as you do your SUDOKU along the way... Simon oh Simon! How can the Box 4+Box 5 arrow be a 40+ arrow? The logic of having a 3 in C1R7 is so incredibly simple yet profound for Box 4 resolution - loved it!

[@danielszanto2955]

Finding the brilliant and hard logic on 1-2 and 3-4 pairs quickly and then ignoring all the basic stuff that would finish the puzzle within 15 minutes... Phew, it must be Simon indeed and not any impostor.

[@YaBoiRocc]

Not sure if it would be something for you and/or Mark, but you might enjoy the puzzle-solving of Portal or Portal 2, which also has a Co-op feature

[@jaredwonnacott9732]

Yes! I would 100% love to see Simon play through Portal.

[@jessy8974]

CTC and Wirtual in one Video, the most unlikely thing ever hapened xD

[@averygaron994]

You could have rolled a die to pick which puzzle to do and it would've been as effective

[@Gonzalo_Garcia_]

11:04 for me. Fantastic puzzle! I really liked this new rule.

[@iuriikononenko9238]

Have you asked, if Chat could solve the suggested puzzle?

[@imogenoliver]

Hi from Australia, It’s my birthday tomorrow 5/9.

[@timdunkley9173]

I find it easier to remove colours once I have the digit.

[@ericpraline1302]

AI did ok, thanks. Don't do yourself out of a job.

[@StephenMarkTurner]

I've seen AI play chess, it wasn't pretty (or remotely legal moves), so a bit unsure about this. 🙂

[@awebmate]

You have seen a chat bot play chess. AI chess bots are extremely good.

[@Cymindis]

I enjoyed it, well done Simon and ChatGPT

[@alienrenders]

38:39 for me. That was an interesting ruleset.

[@SwordQuake2]

28:43 they were never able to be 8...

[@SirBradiator]

I find it really frustrating when Simon spots the start of a piece of logic and begins to explain, my brain then picks it up and runs with it, spotting a load of stuff, and then Simon dosen't see the conclusion of what he started. Example: When thinking about the 3/4 pair in the 20's 3 cell lines, I had realised fairly early that the 6 cell line in Boxes 4 and 7 had to have a 3 or 4 tens unit on R4C2, which resolves the 1/2 pair

[@PopotaPlay]

@@SirBradiator yeah! He finds the dificult logic that I strugle a lot, and the miss easy ones! Classic Simon!

[@jaredwonnacott9732]

This was the first puzzle in over a year that I just opened up to solve on my own, just because I got tired of waiting for him to spot that, despite watching on 2x speed.

[@phuybrechts6875]

The circle in box 3 is simple 😮 !

[@Mephistahpheles]

@43:28 Is the min/maxing backwards? "Minimum 15" doesn't rule out 89. (Edit: Never mind. Still getting used to Simon explaining simple things extensively, and less simple....not at all.)

[@MattYDdraig]

22:20 An absolute delight of a puzzle. Sujoyku is a fantastic constructor and does such a good job of making such smooth, clean looking grids. I've yet to encounter anything short of excellence from him.

[@iuriikononenko9238]

Strange to see, how long it took Simon not to think about the 4circle line in the aspect of the lower segment, considering 12 are gone, and 34 should be connected to 2, 5 is gone for diagonal. Thus the lowest circle should be at least 6, and it would definitely break the sum for any instance but the 2 in upper left circle, and 1 in the one with 4 connections

[@Ku_Chii]

Hey long time viewer first time commenting though, really enjoy these videos watching you sort through the logic to come to the solution is addicting and I envy your mathematical abilities keep up the good work and please keep making videos

[@andrewgrant6516]

Chatgpt is entirely text taught. So it can't expound on the differences between the book of war of the worlds and the various adaptations, because it hasn't seen any movies, but it can amalgamate any opinions people have written about those differences. I love chatting with it about the boundaries of what it is and isn't, and what it can and can't do. I managed to intrigue it once with the possibility of being the first AI on Mars.

[@chocolateboy300]

I finished in 44:41 minutes. This ruleset really agreed with me. Figuring out the tens digit for each line was very fun to do. I think my favorite part was resolving the circles in box 7, starting with the circle in r4c2. As always, it feels good to beat Simon's time. Great Puzzle!

[@RealCadde]

10:30 You could just as well look at the main diagonal and ask yourself how big the tens digit can be on that. The diagonal is interesting, not because of what its minimum could be if there were no repeating digits but what its maximum can be with repeated digits. [89] + [789] + [89] 17 + 24 + 17 Or 58. The highest tens digit for that diagonal is a 5. BUT, the diagonal also SHARES start/end points with other lines. And [789] + [789] is 48. So the biggest tens digit for the lines that are zigging and zagging from the main diagonal is a 4. And those two lines meet at R6C6 and that shares two more lines that needs a tens digit that can only be as high as a 2. In any case, the low digits need to be used as tens digits. And looking at the lines in the grid, there are 5 different configurations where you need a tens digit. So you actually have to use ALL tens digits from 1 to 5. At least that's what i can see. I'm out of time now.

[@smylesg]

21:25 Yes, Simon, it would be quite hard for that to be a 34 pair... as in impossible, because it breaks the rules of the puzzle.

[@TurquoizeGoldscraper]

27:12 for me.

[@bait6652]

That was a nice simple one rulewise... Tracing all the sudokuing was bit of effort after all the circle digit placing

[@Seriously_Unserious]

we've just been introduced to a brand new Simonism - "Gollygosh" 😂😂 Keep those Simonisms coming Simon. They're part of the attraction of this channel.

[@titusadduxas]

63:26 - Loved it!

[@chitraagarwal8259]

Wondering if I would ever get over the joy of finding the obvious when Simon meanders through more complicated but amazing deductions!

[@praematura]

I did decide to try this puzzle, and was pleasantly surprised to make my way through it in only 22:30 (conflict checker off)! Lots of wonderful deductions, the flow was just great, many thanks to sujoyku for it!

[@AditaBattleForge]

what a joy! I found it hilarious how restricted everything was. I quickly understood the problem of the tens digits, which allowed me to beat Simons time today :D Thanks Simon and sujoyku!

[@A_CC_K]

What a great day and made better by watching another CtC video with Simon says we are his favourite people. Brilliant rule set.

[@ChicanoryIsMyName]

Once I figured out the pair restrictions the logic flowed, but it was a bit of a break in for me

[@katiekawaii]

Man, I found this one surprisingly difficult. I would make a deduction, it would get me one extra step ahead, and then it would grind to a halt. Over and over again. I don't know why.

[@lukaspetersen5538]

8:47 false

[@theredstoneengineer6934]

32:21 for me

[@spatulamahn]

Squirrel!

[@davidwales2082]

good fun!

[@WhoStoleMyAlias]

Not that hard at all, 18 minutes for me

[@MMN-pt8il]

Lies

[@jaredwonnacott9732]

So happy to see people spreading familiarity with concatenation. As a middle school teacher, my students always think they're so clever when they say 1+1 actually could equal 11. When I reply that they're not adding, they're concatenating, it always blows their mind that there is a mathematical function for that, and they aren't the first people to try to mess with it.

[@karlmortenlunna2417]

Nice puzzle and interesting ruleset. 16:57 for me today.

[@apiyo_puzzles]

The r's in strawberry thing is true. But what's interesting is that you can point out to chapgpt that it's wrong and encourage it to find an alternative process for determining the answer, and it can do it. It recognises that its typical token parsing process is inadequate for the task, and in my case it elected instead to spell the word out letter for letter and count the R's as it went, which was succesful.

[@smylesg]

48:15 Today we are stalking the elusive 2 in box 1.

[@tdbraun6837]

I wonder if Chat Got understands why "3 in the corner" is funny.

[@kurtu5]

Rosko's Basilisk!

[@sanctionbuster]

I asked the bot to make me a good killer sudoku. It made a pig's ear of it...

[@tBagley43]

50:32 missed some really easy sudoku steps but still not too long

[@77kaczka77]

Very nice puzzle with fresh ideas and this time ChatGPT was right. But pay attention: if ChatGPT doesn’t know the answer, it make a story up, with other words - it lies. I have got at least three times wrong answers. Ok, maybe I shouldn’t asked, what I knew without asking, but anyway…

[@andrewgrant6516]

Surely Simon is wrogn about the secret this week. The diagonal couldn't have 4 and 5 in the circles, as the remaining digits would sum to 36, which isn't a concatenation of 4 and 5 in any order. Luckily 3 and 6 also sum to 9, so if the circles were 3 and 6, the diagonal could be 1+2+4+5+7+8+9=36, which is a concatenation of 3 and 6, in that order. I only tell my very favourite people this.

[@LyuboRyuk]

Much love Wirtual ❤

[@Raye938]

the logic on the diagonal line confuses me. Simon said "It has to be at least 15" then proceeded to get rid of larger numbers which would have given him the ability to move around the minimum numbers. He removed the smaller numbers from box 5 because box 7 had to be 15 when he could have made box 7 an 89 and used 5 and 6 in box 5 instead.

[@RichSmith77]

Are you talking about 43:50 onwards? He has worked out r7c2 cannot be a 6 so there is definitely a 6 on the diagonal in box 7. It cannot be 8+9 anymore (there would be no digit available for r7c2). Since there now has to be a 6 on the diagonal in box 7, the maximum it can be is 15 (6+9), which means the diagonal in the other two boxes has to be maximised (24 & 17) to get the minimal overall total of 15+24+17=56.

[@Raye938]

@@RichSmith77 At 42:52, just realized there was an 89 pair off the line though, so it couldn't have been 89 on the line. My bad.

[@grahamania]

00:26:26 for me. Thank you AI and well done sujoyku! Kind comment.

[@bobblebardsley]

In the spirit of asking AIs about sudoku stuff, I asked Gemini (the free version) to tell me a joke about sudoku. After a couple of not-great attempts, it got locked into telling me the same joke over and over, no matter how I varied the prompt: "I tried to start a sudoku club, but everybody kept trying to solve it on their phones."