Just How GORGEOUS Is This Sudoku?

[@Thexscha]

Simon at 12:41 "I find Dutch whispers quite difficult". Me, a hard-of-hearing Dutch person: "same" 😂

[@erikbreathes]

me, a non-dutch speaker: same

[@AndrewLevesque-b1w]

😂

[@emdiar6588]

I call them "fluister lijnen", but it doesn't seem to make them any easier.

[@therealAQ]

(aqjhs here:) this puzzle was made for Scojo's weekly prompt, this time it was about look-and-say and dutch whispers, which seemed daunting at first... so the ill omen was the random choice of constraints.

[@richardlabrie515]

I thought it was named like this because it kind of look like a biblically accurate angel!

[@therealAQ]

@richardlabrie515 biblically accurate dutch whispers does sound ominously hilarious

[@NickCombs]

Oh nicely done! My guess was that untied laces are an ill omen because you're likely to trip and fall.

[@MonkehBuns]

I was sure it was an anagram and kept trying to rearrange the letters. 😂

[@AJMixup]

I thought the lines were 2 people arguing until Simon said they were laces 😭

[@Blazico]

I had an exam this week and after I read the notes on the first page i genuinly said "let's get cracking" to myself.

[@youthproblem]

An aglet is the name for the plastic tips on a shoelace, an eyelet is the name for the hole

[@niklasknapp]

Isn't hole already the name for the hole? 🤔

[@willemm9356]

More precisely, eyelet is the name for the ring that reinforces the hole. And aglet is a song from Phineas&Ferb. ;)

[@PierceArner]

​@@willemm9356 I can't help but think of that song every time I see that word.

[@niklasknapp]

Isn't one of them Winnie Pooh's best friend?

[@Mentro140]

Their true purpose is sinister

[@SnowTheJamMan]

8:36 Speaking of ill omens, today i solved my 666th sudoku puzzle (i screenshot every slove and keep track of them in a folder) since i discovered this channel in June of 2021, it was a wild ride, and continues to be. Cheers

[@srwapo]

🤘

[@michaelmatter1222]

Screenshot folder gang rise up 😎

[@srwapo]

@@michaelmatter1222 only the one's I'm able to (mostly) solve using coloring alone. I just love the coloring puzzles!

[@Dido01]

35:57 If I have picked up one thing from Simon, it is to start colouring like a toddler on a sugar rush as soon as possible - so that's what I did with this one. After the initial look-and-tell-clues (getting the 1, 2, 3 and 4 into to middle box) I went all-out with 9 colours, solving the puzzle completely before ramming in the numbers. Very satisfying. (And yes, I also adopted Mark's pencil-those-thermos-as-if-your-life-depends-on-it. 🤭)

[@eminsahingoz1677]

I just happened to encounter this channel only a week ago yet I absolutely loved it. I downloaded your steam and mobile app. After I finish the free games I will buy the dlc’s definetely. I love your videos man keep up the good work. Your enthuaisim about puzzles gives me joy

[@tessabrisac7423]

Welcome!

[@chocolateboy300]

I finished in 61:36 minutes. This was a really cool variation on the standard Dutch Whispers rules. Figuring out box 5 was such a joy to do. I think my favorite part was utilizing the parity shift change that occurs to force 3 off the look and say clue for the right line and for forcing the left line to have a 9 as a 5 would have to exist next to one of that digit on the line. The rest felt very fun and fresh. I very much like the grid furniture in this one. There is something satisfying about the loops versus just straight lines. This has to be one of my favorites. Great Puzzle!

[@Sakura_Sabre]

you were right the first time about the holes in the shoe being eyelets. the word you were thinking of when you said aiglet is aglet, which is the tip of the shoelace.

[@titusadduxas]

1:31:07 - Wow! What an amazing puzzle. Before joining CTC I would have just laughed and moved on but incredibly I was able to complete this one.

[@katiekawaii]

Same

[@wallacexixctc7115]

I love the graphics of the lines

[@constantsong]

It took me 109 minutes, but i solved this one without any hints. Very proud of myself!

[@SirBradiator]

I believe the way to produce these lines is that they are not put into the sudoku software but are part of the background image.

[@therealAQ]

@@SirBradiator not background image, they are indeed put in the sofware.

[@FireTruckFuel]

That's even more impressive then! I suppose having clues as a background image is a bit dangerous considering the option to "hide background image." Would need to include that in the puzzle rules.

[@Squirrel42300]

A-G-L-E-T DONT FORGET IT! -phineas and ferb

[@Naib0930]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/qJCnpoxmeLaIsJYfeature=shared

[@FryGuy1013]

I liked this puzzle, but I thought the rules could be a little clearer, as I was sort of expecting the look-and-say clues to not include the cells marked with the dots, sort of like how arrow circles aren't including in the sum of the digits on the arrow. Reworded, it would be "...one digit indicates how many times the other digit appears on the line (including the cells marked with dots)"

[@olanmills64]

Thank you! I was looking through the comments to find this clarification before starting

[@davidhughes7174]

Thank you Simon, you made that look easy.

[@praematura]

This was a wonderful sudoku! I did need a few nudges from the very beginning of Simon's solve to help me in box 5, but after that was able to make it through without further assistance and finished in 36:22 (conflict checker off). Many thanks to aqjhs for a beautiful puzzle!

[@Rubrickety]

This was tremendously fun to solve, and right in the difficulty sweet spot for me. I finished in a shade over an hour.

[@veggiet2009]

"let's pencil this digit in... This could be 6... This is 6"

[@paula-zzz]

I really enjoy my down time with ctc each evening :) thank you!

[@FrancisFjordCupola]

To be fair, Simon, the western-most shoelace does enter one of its three boxes twice; which might be mistaken for four boxes easily. Same goes for the eastern-most shoelace.

[@daanperelachaise]

Very elegant puzzle. I like the new ruleset idea and the Sanskrit design. 28:08 for me :)

[@Paolo_De_Leva]

Beautiful logic and beatiful *spline* curves. Much better than the usual broken lines (made of straight segments). I hope setters will adopt this graphic technique for all kinds of lines in the future.

[@coloripple]

What the puzzle looks like to me is 2 derpy lovely sockpuppet-like entities playing cards, but the left one is peeking. The top 2 laces are the entities, with dots as their eyes. The bottom 2 laces are their arms, dots as their hands. Since the left one is leaning over both of their cards, I think he's not playing fairly. Let's hope Simon's solve will make him pay for that naughty move.

[@coloripple]

In fact, maybe the right guy is a profile portrait with one eye and a mouth, looking shocked that the left guy is being so cheeky...

[@sophieliu8735]

I love that I could see it that way because of you!

[@katiekawaii]

Totally see it.

[@n8style]

loved the rules in this one, they work together really well

[@herrjemeneh368]

15:20 THANK YOU. I thought I was going to lose my mind when he said they all go into 4 boxes....

[@MORISENSEIISGOD]

One sign that I am becoming as good a solver as Mark and Simon is forgetting to read the rules (in this case the anti-knight rule) and being unable to progress because of it. :D I started this puzzle this morning but got so stuck and came to the video and when Simon read the anti-knight rule, that was a bobbins-worthy moment. In seriousness though, it is a disturbing trend that I am missing rules easily nowadays.

[@Frank_Alias_Frank]

Very nice puzzle. Took me only about two and a half hours to solve. So I call it approachable 😉

[@A_CC_K]

Beautiful looking puzzle, can't wait to watch Simon solve it with beautiful logic.

[@Paolo_De_Leva]

Try yourself first. It is very fun and not very difficult. I would say about 5 stars out of 10

[@alanclarke4646]

Simon: there was a mistranslation ( actually the Bible has a LOT of mistranslations and non-translations ), and in the original Hebrew, the Number of the Beast of Revelation ( not the Devil ) was actually 616.

[@leickrobinson5186]

Beautiful puzzle! Loved the logic. Had a bit of a false start, so took me 60:28 to solve. 😄

[@nonehandle688]

The aglet is the plastic end of a shoelace. My cat loves a tasty aglet. The hole is an eyelet.

[@tchpowdog]

I looked up aiglet, as I'm sure others have noted, it's the plastic sheath that goes on the END of a shoelace. But that's funny, bc I tend to remember concepts, instead of the words themselves. I would not have never remembered the word aiglet, but I would have remembered "there's a term for the plastic bit at the end of a shoelace and I can't think of it." Whereas, you remember the word and maybe not the concept... Idk, just struck me as funny how our brains work.

[@Kirbyfan87827]

Finished in 1:07:02 with extensive help from the video.

[@PassionPopsicle]

Can't wait for the new sudoku hunt, it looks so cute

[@ericpraline1302]

Having been thinking for some time that my mental decline was well and truly gathering momentum I realised I had forgotten the knight's move.

[@therealAQ]

here i start a petition for Simon to turn off "Outlines on Elements" on his sudokupad

[@Coyotek4]

29:26 ... I fared far better on this one than I thought I would upon first glance Nice puzzle!

[@Gonzalo_Garcia_]

16:32 for me. Great puzzle!

[@shellmichael9665]

Is the “ill omen” referring to the untied shoelaces portending a trip-and-fall?

[@bajsalon]

Simply brilliant.

[@nicocost33]

57.44 for me. A wonderful hour it was.

[@OnkelzFanatiker]

classic me with the classic knight move - I always forget about it lol

[@alienrenders]

57:12 for me. Really nice puzzle!

[@daleomiller]

An aglet is the “thingie” at the end of the shoelace.

[@tangrybird04]

Took me about 1:40:00 but to be fair I didn’t put my 100% attention on the puzzle because I woke up not too long ago before attempting this 😂

[@tangrybird04]

But also I was just slow at wrapping my head around this😅

[@johnathandoe6034]

Phineas and Ferb taught me well for this video ^^

[@piarittersporn]

Beautiful puzzle.

[@TurquoizeGoldscraper]

44:13 for me - I made one mistake when I mistook a line for a German whisper and didn't pencil mark correctly.

[@gdc42]

Solved this around the time it came out. aqjhs put out quite a number of puzzles that use bezier curves. Agreed it is gorgeous and easy to scan if done correctly. Very neat logic in this one.

[@therealAQ]

One day the bezier wizardry may come to your sudokumaker 🤞

[@yaelvercammer5468]

Only took me 3h but I did it :D Lovely solve :)

[@dennislawther1414]

An aiglet is what goes on the end of the shoe lace.

[@jenniferbrien3408]

An aglet is the solid bit on the ends of the lace

[@vvcbbpf5380]

32:10 Holy crap I broke my head on this trying to figure if The 2 Was going with 5 or 6, made 2000 tests. Ive just ignored that 2 and 5 coulndt pair together

[@srwapo]

48:36, not counting all the time I spent thinking about this puzzle on my drive home. And the puzzle told me I made a mistake at one point and I had to undo a bit. Of course, I forgot about the anti-knight's move.

[@RogueAPBT]

This broke my brain a little, but I got it done.

[@HunterJE]

Not sure how much it would have helped the solve but could have used the fact that there's not room for a polarity swap between the purples in boxes 8 and 9 for so long...

[@bait6652]

Nice spline art

[@Epic-1224]

Took me 28:41

[@BLVGamingY]

so did the creator get an idea, throw wet spaghetti on a table and from then on you know *wink wink*

[@MarkElders]

I think the 5th new fog puzzle in the app is missing something. The hint says the first digit logically must be a 4, but I'm pretty confident it can be a 2 or a 4.

[@netnietdeslimste]

The RULES should also state wether or NOT the dots are included in the look and say clues count.

[@michaels4340]

83:11 here, very nice :)

[@myfyrmadocjones]

5 new fog puzzles - yay!

[@user-sv7bx6gn8n9]

37:53 for me. Nice puzzle!

[@donjennings8050]

"Aglet", I believe.

[@donjennings8050]

Wait, no. "Grommet".

[@awebmate]

"I'll tell you something.." ehm, it is us that have been telling you for the past 10 minutes Simon lol Kind comment

[@thisisanexcellenthandle]

A-G-L-E-T don’t forget it! We’re gonna tie the world together…

[@slvroni]

If It is an anagram. I nominate "IN A LEMON" as in "in a pickle" but lemon because of the yellowish lines?

[@inspiringsand123]

Let's Get Cracking: 08:18 Simon's time: 45m27s Puzzle Solved: 53:45 What about this video's Top Tier Simarkisms?! Bobbins: 3x (20:47, 39:32, 40:10) Three In the Corner: 3x (49:04, 49:06, 51:07) And how about this video's Simarkisms?! Beautiful: 13x (00:19, 00:45, 01:06, 02:13, 31:57, 35:40, 35:43, 41:51, 44:24, 47:54, 54:00, 54:03, 54:26) Ah: 9x (01:38, 01:38, 19:08, 22:07, 26:01, 29:49, 31:54, 44:03, 44:21, 45:26) Lovely: 7x (02:45, 02:57, 38:35, 47:43, 49:47, 53:50, 53:54) By Sudoku: 7x (26:11, 31:16, 34:51, 36:57, 38:24, 49:29, 50:36) Hang On: 4x (21:02, 28:38, 33:45, 46:33) Clever: 3x (21:10, 21:13, 37:45) Gorgeous: 3x (34:56, 35:35, 54:24) Pencil Mark/mark: 3x (20:35, 44:01, 51:20) Bother: 2x (19:50, 50:05) Nonsense: 2x (09:09, 11:55) Brilliant: 2x (05:53, 05:56) Shouting: 2x (05:11, 05:19) In Fact: 2x (09:38, 27:51) Cake!: 2x (04:05, 04:48) What on Earth: 1x (21:33) Sorry: 1x (16:31) The Answer is: 1x (43:36) Elegant: 1x (54:03) Come on Simon: 1x (36:24) Obviously: 1x (25:52) Whoopsie: 1x (50:39) Weird: 1x (18:53) Most popular number(>9), digit and colour this video: Seventy Eight (3 mentions) Five (89 mentions) Purple (37 mentions) Antithesis Battles: Low (16) - High (9) Even (3) - Odd (0) Higher (7) - Lower (7) Row (9) - Column (6) 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!

[@LednacekZ]

i dont know what shape i was scanning , but apparently, I dont know what a knight's move is anymore. horrible fail. i got the box5 correct and then disaster.

[@Ardalambdion]

White noise can also ease tinnitus patients.

[@wanderlustwarrior]

1:25:23 for me. Yikes.

[@robertcousins2274]

48:23 for me

[@concrete.petrichor]

anyone else here learnt what an aglet is from that scene in agents of s.h.i.e.l.d.? 😁

[@CockroachED]

The Question rambling in Justice League Unlimited is what always comes to mind.

[@TheokeS85]

My aglet knowledge comes from the Phineas and Ferb cartoons

[@thisisanexcellenthandle]

⁠@@TheokeS85A-G-L-E-T Don’t forget it!

[@HunterJE]

25:06 Don't even need the chess logic here, the two purple cells are adjacent along the line and no digit is four different from itself...

[@mrkitewine7700]

The sudoku pad version of this is broken, the lines are not drawn in,

[@adamheywood113]

very pretty but no idea

[@MusikCassette]

I think it is neccesarry to include in the rules whether or not the number of instanses include the one on the dot.

[@genalkali1779]

I wish there was a version of this puzzle that was less visually distracting, I feel like it adds artificial difficulty