I Wish I'd Created This Puzzle

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[@jordanasseo5117]

I have been very depressed lately and today in particular all I could do was stare at a wall until I decided to watch one of Simon's solves, and now I'm finally getting myself to make a meal thanks to his positivity and sheer brilliance, and that of all the setters he admires. thank you:) ❤

[@davidstorrs]

I'm glad that something helped. I hope things improve for you. Are you able to get treatment?

[@jordanasseo5117]

@@davidstorrs working on it:)

[@davidstorrs]

@@jordanasseo5117 Good. I hope it happens soon and works well.

[@waneasle]

I'm so glad to hear this! Thank you for sharing ❤️

[@anwenroberts7887]

I feel this so much Jordan. I use Cracking the Cryptic for when I'm so stressed I feel paralyzed, and it allows me to focus on something slow and calm, but also intelligent and positive. Hope you feel better soon

[@Qwerty-li5ij]

That classic: 'Let's get cracking' at the start of every video... Words can't describe it

[@MonkehBuns]

It was embarrassing how long it took me to realize the double meaning. "Let's get started" and "let's get to solving."

[@michaels4340]

@@MonkehBuns Ah, yeah, hadn't thought of the first one

[@SCOMBAG]

Watching Simon resolve this puzzle is truly a work of art. Listening to his sense of wonder and enjoyment at resolving the complexity of the puzzle is pure entertainment.

[@MyriamTT]

Simon should have learned by now: every time he gets stuck, it is because he forgot to do Sudoku (of all things...)

[@leileleileleile]

truly!! haha

[@Manigo1743]

Or because he forgot to undo something he tested earlier. That is a classic fail too.

[@icuddlecats1]

So many people watch these amazing videos, can't more of us hit the Like button.

[@CrackingTheCryptic]

That would be much appreciated :)

[@davidstorrs]

@@CrackingTheCryptic I hit that button as soon as the page loads, don't even have to watch the video first.

[@davidstorrs]

@@CrackingTheCryptic Oh, speaking of appreciated: No song? :sadness:

[@PauxloE]

You need to have a KZbin account (and be logged in) in order to be allowed to like, you don't have to have one for watching (and be counted as watcher). This might explain the big discrepancy.

[@rodgbise]

@@davidstorrs DITTO

[@chrisbattey]

I don't usually comment with my solves, but I used possibly the most convoluted SET logic I've ever seen for the break-in, and I wanted to share. Start with col 2 + trident + col 8, and swap the bulbs in C2/C8 out for the arrows in C3; the sum is still 135. Then the second set is box 4 + col 5 + box 6, and swap the arrows in C5 out for the bulbs in C6. Remove cells in both sets, and the two sets must still have the same sum. Now, the first set has four 2x2 regions within boxes 1, 3, 7, and 9 - specifically, the intersections of rows 2/3/7/8 with columns 2/3/7/8 - plus a few extra cells in rows 1, 5, and 9. Take those four 2x2 regions and use an inverted Phistomefel Ring to swap them for cells in rows/columns 1 and 9. You now have more cells overlapping with the second set, so cancel those out as well. What remains in the first set is five cells each in row 1 and 9, and two cells in row 5, whose minimum sum must be 15 + 15 + 3 = 33. The second set, however, is just the four bulbs in C6/C8, and their maximum is 34 if they're both 8/9 pairs. Which means either you have a 7/9 and an 8/9 pair in those four bulbs, which requires you absolutely minimize the cells in the first set, or all four bulbs are 8/9, which means you have to add 1 to a single one of the cells in the first set, giving you either 1/2/3/4/6 for row 1 or 9, or 1/3 for row 5. Simon's approach was certainly cleaner, but I had fun putting that chain of logic together. Maybe I'll build a puzzle around that break-in myself sometime...

[@th.nd.r]

That is one of the most brilliant sudokus I’ve ever seen. Incredible setting by GBPack, and incredible solving by Simon. I hope to see more GBPack on the channel in the future if they keep this up!

[@joelstevens5670]

Been catching up on the sudoku videos on the channel and this is without doubt one of the best puzzles I have ever had the pleasure of solving. The trio of swordfish on 9s, 8s and 7s using the trident shaped cage was spectacularly brilliant setting and it just led to wave after wave of enjoyment. Combinations of arrows, swordfish, x-wings, cage and box geometry, it pretty much had everything (there was even some optional S.E.T in there)! I imagine it must have taken a whole lot of time and effort to set so a massive thanks to GBPack for creating this gem and to Simon for an amazing job of showcasing it. Stunning puzzle. :)

[@Waggles1123]

Some SET between (Row 1 + Row 9 + The trident) = (Column 3 + Column 5 + Column 7) will give you a relationship that limits the four bulbs on the right to 7/8/9 and a set of digits in rows 1 and 9 to 1-4 plus a 5 or 6 with one degree of freedom. It doesn't work as the break-in but it would save some logic midway through the puzzle.

[@davidg11235]

This was actually how I broke it in. It wasn't easy from there, but my partner and.I eventually got there over the course of a few hours. :)

[@pouletbelette]

I love it when Simon and I are synced and see the next step almost at the same time. That was the case today. Great fun!

[@masu33]

Wow! So original! Love it when off-the-shelf "methods" like stingray and x-wing cannot make into a bruteforce approach by themselves (but still needed) and the other things needed are this elegant, proper deduction. Well done, thanks for the puzzle to the designer and for the solve to Simon I mostly did the same as Simon, would be interested if there are other paths. Took me almost an hour, but not because I was doing nothing... I was contemplating and calculating a lot... and it was fun.

[@abraxas2658]

30:06 This is something I note at the beginning when there's a cage with nine. the cells outside the center square must be repeated inside, but by simple sudoku, the tips of the trident cannot be repeated in the cells on the same row, meaning the 8 must be in one of those two cells and the 7 must be in the bottom two. Feels a bit like folding oragami.

[@greysalt3792]

This was truly fascinating to watch. I really love how you break these puzzles down for people like me, who have never done a cryptic puzzle. It genuinely is very easy to follow along with and makes me want to attempt a couple puzzles like this! I think I'll have to download your app and give it a shot. Great stuff mate, keep it up!

[@inspiringsand123]

Rules: 04:30 Let's Get Cracking: 05:52 Simon's time: 35m13s Puzzle Solved: 41:05 What about this video's Top Tier Simarkisms?! Bobbins: 1x (15:55) Knowledge Bomb: 1x (14:44) The Secret: 1x (04:53) And how about this video's Simarkisms?! Beautiful: 9x (00:54, 10:43, 10:45, 11:56, 15:58, 31:16, 31:22, 34:48, 42:06) Brilliant: 6x (01:41, 03:29, 14:53, 22:19, 24:19, 24:21) Obviously: 6x (00:27, 06:01, 12:36, 25:04, 27:50, 28:43) In Fact: 5x (26:16, 33:19, 33:39, 34:23, 36:11) Ah: 5x (04:35, 17:20, 26:16, 26:30, 38:19) By Sudoku: 4x (32:08, 35:13, 40:08, 40:12) What Does This Mean?: 4x (15:04, 21:36, 24:37, 28:18) Sorry: 3x (15:27, 15:46, 35:34) Wow: 3x (27:22, 41:03, 41:07) Clever: 2x (14:56, 41:07) Break the Puzzle: 2x (14:27, 22:42) Gorgeous: 2x (11:33, 27:19) Stunning: 2x (41:55, 42:00) Good Grief: 1x (27:22) Bother: 1x (21:25) Apologies: 1x (37:09) Horrible Feeling: 1x (20:21) Ridiculous: 1x (22:09) Going Mad: 1x (41:57) Surely: 1x (40:04) Think Harder: 1x (29:21) Most popular number(>9), digit and colour this video: Ten (10 mentions) One (79 mentions) Orange (19 mentions) Antithesis Battles: High (5) - Low (3) Even (3) - Odd (0) White (7) - Black (0) 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!

[@eboone]

What in the world

[@highpath4776]

"Back in Business" (again), "That Must be a ... Something", The Ah - that has sort of become an Arh,, (sounds like he trod on an electric plug ..!. , "Back to the Thinking Board", "Resolved by a Something" , "I can't See"

[@tessabrisac7423]

Could you include “thingy thing”?

[@th.nd.r]

I agree with@@tessabrisac7423 . Thingy thing, timestamp 25:13

[@Zift_Ylrhavic_Resfear]

I found a totally different break in : consider colomn 3 and 7 and box 5, then remove the trident from them. Then replace the arrows by their circles, and you have a handful of cells that must add up to 90, but the maximum you can put in is 92 (by the nature of the trident, all highlitghted cells in box 5 are seen by r4c8, making these cells 56789 = 35 at most). This means row 1 and 9 have a 9 in them in those cells, which puts a 9 in the trident, which in turn put a 9 in r4c8 (since you need a nine in either box 5 or r4c8). By putting a 9 in r4c8, the highlighted cells can now only add to 91, which puts an 8 on the arrows in column 5, then 7 in colomn 5 needs to be in row 1 or 9, at which point the maximum you can make the highlighted cells is 90, which is what they also actually are. From there it's not much different from Simon's solve.

[@Raven-Creations]

Simon, you're doing it again. You had four digits to place in R9 - 1235, two digits on box 8, and two in box 9. Box 8 contained both 3 and 5. Did you look? No, of course not, that would be sudoku. Instead of a 12 pair in box 8, and a 35 pair in box 9, you had 125, 12, 235, and 35. It's no wonder you keep stalling and asking "what do I do now?" when you have such rubbish pencil-marking. Genius setting by GB Pack. Such elegant use of simple geometry to make what turned out to be quite an easy puzzle once its secret was out.

[@G.Aaron.Fisher]

16:10!!! I think this was the best solve I've ever had. I think I owe it all to having done Fishnet first, as this uses a very similar opening pattern.

[@andrewclark8129]

The Agadmator CtC crossover we didn't know we needed

[@michaelmele3954]

Yes! I'm so glad Simon watches Agadmator. Or is the community of KZbin personalities small enough that they all know each other?

[@TangledRose]

I'm not math inclined or even play sudoku. But I absolutely love watching Simon solve these puzzles. I find myself watching a video at least once a day. Thank you for existing

[@longwaytotipperary]

I love how Simon is so appreciative of a good puzzle. And how he takes the time to explain things. Oh - when he calls something a thingy thing I always think of Thing 1 and Thing 2 from the Cat in the Hat. 😄

[@Gonzalo_Garcia_]

21:51 for me. That’s one of the best break-ins I’ve ever seen in a sudoku puzzle. Absolutely incredible logic, I loved every second of the solve.

[@emilywilliams3237]

Such a fun video. I really love it when Simon gets thoughtful and quiet and then says, "Got it!" I so enjoy your enthusiasm, Simon. I gave a thought to giving this puzzle a try but ... well, I am learning more and more. Maybe next time there is something along these lines. And I also agree with the commenter from earlier who wonders why more don't give these videos a thumbs up? As I am writing tthis, there are over 32,000 views, but less than 2000 likes. Surely more of us liked it, right? (Oh one more thing ... I have really enjoyed the comments recently by Simon along the lines of, "If we do another book ..." - very exciting.)

[@feldegast]

watching Simon solve these puzzels is so soothing, I put them on at the end of the day just to unwind :)

[@CilantroGamer]

I enjoy so many different variant sudoku - from those that barely interact with the normal sudoku rules, to those that are barely deviated. This puzzle is marvelous precisely because of the sheer density of good sudoku it facilitates. Bravo!

[@CrankyOtter]

Just knowing some can make & someone else can solve this is satisfying. I particularly like that it stays similarly difficult thru the majority of the puzzle - although I doubt I could have solved any of it. Certainly not without having watched this channel.

[@sampathkumar-ej7xl]

A fantastic puzzle that indeed lived up to Simon's "I wish Id Created this puzzle" title. I wonder if anyone broke in using SET. I got very close but with 5 digits in Row 1 and 5 digits in Row 8 and 2 digits in middle box adding up to 4 arrow bases in col 6 and col 8. The 4 arrow base can max add up to 34 which left one degree of freedom with the 12 digits in 3 rows add up minimum of 33 (15 + 15 + 3 )

[@sidneysmallwood]

I cant be the only one who genuinely has no clue what’s going on 90% of the time but thoroughly enjoy watching

[@Coyotek4]

25:36 ... I absolutely LOVED the break-in for this sudoku! Wonderful puzzle!

[@aryazandi7070]

It was one puzzle descended from heaven. The main idea was just beautiful. Even after cracking the puzzle, I could still enjoy how smooth and fluent it progressed to be solved. By the way, I started my breakthrough a little bit differently but totally related to the way you did, but I found your way easier. I just wanna explain my way so that you may find a trick to make it look easier. I used sets. I painted columns 3, 5, and 7 in blue. Then I subtracted 3 sets: cage; row 1; row 9. This left me with two equivalent sets, one containing all of the arow cells, and the other, some of 1st and 9th rows' cells along with 2 cells in the middlebox. Since no arrow cell could be 9, I inferred none of the other set's digits, including circles in column 2, are 9. But then I watched your method and continued with it. I feel like there are also great ideas in this puzzle that can be investigated using sets that are worth an explore. But it requires more experienced eyes like yours to look for. Again, while all of the puzzles that you solve are beautiful, this one was undoubtedly one of the absolute bests. Thanks, man!

[@markp7262]

31:24 finish. What a weird looking school of swordfish!

[@dzaijn]

Wow. Gorgeous puzzle! Thank you for sharing your time with us Simon.

[@mycroft64089]

I hate when daylight savings time has us out of sync.

[@bobh6728]

An hour later now.

[@longwaytotipperary]

ditto

[@jwolfe01234]

British Summer Time starts in two weeks and then it will be back in sync.

[@longwaytotipperary]

@@jwolfe01234 yay!

[@joelsifilis]

This is the first puzzle I didn’t need help “breaking in” - I colored a lot more than Simon which surprised me

[@shalaz1981]

Daylight savings is messing with the release times of my sudoku solving fix. Darn you Sanford Fleming!

[@alienrenders]

24:20 for me. Seen this type of puzzle before. Reminded me of the thermo that was done recently with the four bulbs in the same box. Here, the cage acted as the unifying group. And you could repeat all the way down to the 6. Really nice puzzle.

[@tkshots]

beautiful puzzle,beautifully solved

[@PtylerBeats]

I’m not typically a big fan of “complicated” puzzles with a ton of different restrictions, but this breakout was beautiful

[@9MRSG]

Flowed beautifully. Was so drawn the whole time to it

[@samuelcardwell577]

I always love the ones that have lots of different sorts of complications (boxes, arrows, dots etc.), because it's always like "when is he going to bring the dot into play - OH HE'S DONE IT!"

[@michaelholdowsky6386]

an elegant puzzle! Nice break in.

[@tallcat]

Just managed to sneak solving this one in a couple days ago. Brilliantly constructed!

[@956675]

High praise from another wonderful constructor. May I say well deserved.

[@KevFrost]

How much we love the genius of this solve How much we facepalm the accidental 5 pencil mark in box 8. But its easy for us to criticise when we're not actually able to solve anything approaching this

[@orosma868]

Which I thought he might notice when he placed a 5 in the column, but he likes to take a more circuitous route and waited for a 3/5 pair in the row. That's why we love him! Similar to his explanation of why there couldn't be a 3 or 4 on the top 8/9 arrow in column 7!

[@dependsupon]

i adored this it was so fun to follow this logic along. made my week

[@TheSonicPerson]

I'm amazed how you were able to spot that weird swordfish on 9s immediately after starting the puzzle. My solve of it completely relied on SET, I had to use different sum equivalences throughout the grid and some coloring before I could make any real progress.

[@jsharvey1961]

Just simply amazing to watch Simon figure these out on the fly! Well done. :-)

[@sproulja]

11:40 Looks like you found a CAGED SWORDFISH!!!!!

[@Hertog_von_Berkshire]

My old Dad loved cryptic crosswords.

[@thorbjrnhellehaven5766]

I want to call this swordfish "Neptuns Swordfish". This Sworfish is: C3 + C5 + C7 R1 + R9 + Roual Trident region Any swordfish where you have a region doing the work of a row/column, I want to call: "Royal Swordfish" in honor of this puzzle, and king Neptuns Trident.

[@mata2723]

Whoah ! It is beautiful and so hard at the same time but very nice seeing you solve it !

[@charliemurphy1269]

I used SET to solve this, but acted as more of kind of a guide than hard solve. Used the swordfish on 9s and that got me the break in. Great puzzle!

[@maspleben]

What a brilliant construction indeed, great solve!

[@fuuryuuSKK]

One might call this spear fishing with a trident

[@RoselynTate]

25:20 for me -- delightful puzzle!

[@AndreAy1975]

Solved it with much help from the video.

[@fulltimeslackerii8229]

i feel pretty proud that i got to the 9’s bit in the beginning but i really failed to see how it was a swordfish without your guidance. perhaps that can be the next short? i understand x-wings and simple swordfishes that are 3 x 3 x 3 but these variants always get me like in this puzzle

[@G4M1L]

I had an feeling the break in would be about hight digits, considering the 6789s on the arrow circles, which I had filled in routinely. But I couldn't quite get my head around it, so I watched the beginning of the video up until the part with the 8s. From then on I found I've really understood this unusual kind of swordfish making use of the extra region instead of a third row, and could solve it. Great puzzle, tough break-in - at least for me - but once you understood it, very beautiful, with some nice additional logic after that.

[@rungus24]

The only thing more impressive than the speed of the solve in this video is that anyone created that puzzle in the first place. I just couldn't see my way into the puzzle at all.

[@crystalgehrt8861]

What a cool puzzle. I wish I'd set it too.

[@crazyryguy9]

Great puzzle!

[@chipsounder4633]

That was impeccable, when you found the 1234 in box 4 in couldn't stop laughing and the forced swordfish on the 6789s was magnificent ❤️

[@DeathlyDiJ]

so i had to focus on the high numbers ..., i was trying to break it in using the 1, 2 and 3 possibilities in row 4 and the trident in column 5

[@glenjamindle]

I really enjoyed watching this one. I like sequential discovery puzzles.

[@tessabrisac7423]

If you are stuck on the “Guess again” sudoku hunt, you can find friendly help (without spoilers) on the Disord sudoku-hunt discussion channel, it’s really worth a try!

[@thebishop4112]

Loved it, although too clever for me unfortunately. In hindsight I realise the title is brilliant...not only referencing the shape of the central cage, but also a very subtle maritime hint on how to break into it(?). Beautifully done.

[@FernieCanto]

"... and I have a horrible feeling that this is doing nothing." That might've been the single most British thing ever said in this channel. I love it.

[@inf0phreak]

40:54 nooo! He didn't notice that's 3 in the corner.

[@cptroot]

Very good puzzle! I'm mad I spent 20 minutes barking up the wrong tree trying to use set theory and sum limiting.

[@leefisher6366]

25:13 - 'Column thingummy-thing' Simon J Anthony, 2002.

[@PathOfShrines]

Very cool puzzle. In my solve, I found a set relationship between columns 3, 5, and 7 on the one hand and rows 1, 9, and the trident on the other, and it was very interesting but ultimately did not really help me solve the puzzle. :) Eventually I did find the reasoning with the 78, but I was quite a bit slower than Simon: 69:05 in total.

[@Roblilley999]

30:00 only 2 confirmed digits, finished by 42:00, that's my kind of puzzle

[@Icematt12]

This puzzle makes me feel dumb but then really smart because the logic is great once you find it.

[@paulhelm971]

That was a great solve. Was upset there was no song for box 3.

[@cjjenson8212]

every time you say thats "brilliant or gorgeous" we know you become stumped because your commontary doubles in length! do love a good puzzle, that's why we watch👍

[@leefisher6366]

16:20 ish - anyone else screaming at the screen 'The other side is the same!!!' 21:38 ish - anyone else now YELLING the same thing?! 23:50 - anyone else feeling foolish now... since the other side isn't aligned with the orange squares?

[@AussieJohnny]

The Times Cryptic Crossword number 12383 appeared in today's The Australian newspaper. Clue 17 Down: Curious disposition around City is on the level? (9) Answer : RECUMBENT (RUM BENT around EC) The clue Simon explained from the Independent crossword is much nicer. I watched Simon solving that crossword and his absolute joy at that clue was a joy to watch. I have been doing cryptic crosswords for over fifty years and this clue is the best I have ever seen. My previous favourite was from the Sunday Times Mephisto Crossword in 1976-ish. *S = Z + O. Emphatically. (9)* Any guesses?

[@_-_-Sipita-_-_]

50:07 for me. the best strategy is guessing.

[@LithmusEarth]

35 minutes in, I see a 1/6 & 2/5 white dot in box 1. It's been really paired down. Column 2 is pretty rough in general, a lot has been used up.

[@kilograham5]

ugh, that was a lot harder not using the trident-y-sword-fish-thing (which I didn't spot)... I noted that columns 3 + 7 add to 90, and used arrows/symmetry to push digits entirely into row 1, 4, 7 and R6C8... these cells were then pretty constrained to get to 90, and eventually unwound everything, but sadly with a lot of what-if

[@emeraldcitycs6662]

the agadmator reference was a crossover i didn’t expect

[@tamarockstar45]

35:16 I think Simon is hungry.

[@roygbv255]

Wow. That cryptic crossword clue at the beginning gave me the horn.

[@MegaKotai]

After hearing the name GBPack I first thougth of G. W. Peck, a pseudonym under which great mathematicians like Ronald Graham and Paul Erdős published some papers

[@davidblake6889]

I agree with you, Simon. That was a wonderful puzzle. But I disagree with you about something else. You are not inept. In fact you are most certainly very ept indeed. I could not have seen the logic for the break in at all, but I did follow your logic all the way through. Thank you so much.

[@MichaelMoore99]

Still watching and wondering if Simon will spot the thing that I did immediately: Based on the cage and sudoku (maybe through set), the digits in R4C3 and R4C7 MUST map to R6C4 and R6C6 in some configuration. Edit: 30:08 He got it!

[@adrianhead6272]

Mountains from molehills again? Forced geometry here! - completed in 15m42s.

[@THETowandAA]

Having a go... finding nothing relevant for 15 mins ... deciding it's not for me and watch the video...i am nearly 25 min in and he still didn't find any digit... so yeah... decision well made... GO SIMON...

[@leppyr64]

Awww... we have "sprung ahead" to Eastern Daylight time. Back to 4:30. I was worried when the post didn't arrive for a bit. Whew!

[@FleckerMan]

We (UK) spring 27th so only a couple of weeks and it's back to usual time for you :)

[@Muhh1982]

At 20:10, the 8 could be in the arrow in column 7 also, Why did he rule out this possibility?

[@heywingliu9085]

44:26 for me without any help! An amazing puzzle.

[@jonhansen9622]

One day, I hope so solve one of these on my own

[@biayo79]

you could say the "ez/uez" finish in the spanish surnames means "son of" or "the family of"

[@svevo]

go pack go!

[@petercook9780]

So you caught a swordfish with a trident...how fitting.

[@michaels4340]

Simon never quite notices the outer tips of the trident must be in the bottom corners of box 5. Ah, well...

[@RupeWard]

19:30 At this point, why can't the 2 cell arrow in box 3 be 8 and 1? Those cells were coloured blue because you can't put a 9 on an arrow, but that doesn't work for 8s.

[@RupeWard]

D'oh! Realised as soon as I posted. The 3 cell arrow in the same column would have to be 2-3-4 and so also add up to 9. Don't feel like this was explained well in the video but no matter!

[@diegocoppin4819]

It was a pretty good think. Logic and hard but solvable, thanks to his creator.

[@Epinardscaramel]

2:30 I thought your cursor was a bit of dust on my screen 😀 …and you moved it when I blew on it 😅😅

[@nathanpizzey766]

So, not a swordfish or a finned swordfish but a caged swordfish?

[@Anarelion]

You almost got Rodriguez right :) But the Z at the end doesn't have an equivalent in english.

[@tenochtecua8228]

Apart from the brilliant puzzle solving, you pronounced Rodríguez properly :)