It's Mark here! Let me know if you agree that Simon's solve of this puzzle proves he is a mad genius! (I did not solve the puzzle his way at all)
@10prozenthimmel22 сағат бұрын
@crackingthecryptic I’d really love to see Mark’s solution to the same puzzle too 🤩
@Timlagor22 сағат бұрын
The surprising thing is that you didn't already know ..or course when he says he won't pencilmark the thermos what he doesn't mention is that he just knows the restrictions in his brain so he doesn't need them on the screen
@debrabowen427622 сағат бұрын
I don’t even need to watch the solve to agree with you!
@vjay429722 сағат бұрын
I agree with you Mark.. also I would like to add that you are a sane genius.. 😉
@vjay429722 сағат бұрын
I'm talking about the colours, of course
@pnmrv23 сағат бұрын
“I try and do thermometer sudoku just by staring at them” - Simon the Great
@stumbling22 сағат бұрын
Need to update the intro to reflect Mark's 13th Times Crossword title.
@ronjohnson691622 сағат бұрын
I love watching Simon do thermos. It's so alien to my way of thinking about them and so often I learn mad ways to think about the situation.
@Squishy375722 сағат бұрын
Hmm. Simon ribs Mark for over pencil marking and says it’s confusing and proceeds to color the grid in just as many colors.
@kathyjohnson204321 сағат бұрын
I would argue that all of those colors ARE pencil marks; Simon is just more colorful than he realizes.
@MarkBennet1000123 сағат бұрын
When I first solved the puzzles in the CTC thermo app I was hot on pencil-marks, because I was not so confident about seeing the logic quickly. I then re-did all the puzzles trying to pencil-mark as little as possible. That improved my solving, but it takes time and practice to get good. There are puzzles where you have to think about the logic, and this can be obscured by the pencil-marks and there are others where identifying triples and quadruples is essential to the solve (this can be done by thinking if you practice, but comes immediately with pencil marks if they are straightforwardly there). A third type of thermo puzzle has (sometimes very) short thermos and SET- based logic based on getting the bulbs and tips into different SETs. All varieties are interesting and Blashyrkh has come up with another stunner. When I am analysing puzzles to see where the pinch points might be if I am stuck, pencil-marks are still my default, because I can't always hold all the logic in my head. And what a lovely solve this was by Simon, showing what is possible.
@biegeldog22 сағат бұрын
I love how many times he overlooks the single black three. Keep up the brilliant work!
@MeriaDuck20 сағат бұрын
I sometimes have the same experience, not seeing given digits in sparsely populated grids. Also Simon is quite well known for not doing Sudoku in variant puzzles for as long as possible 😂 And neither of them are meticulous in cleaning up pencil marks. They're big brain enough, my pea brain requires quite a bit of meticulousness to solve even easy puzzles 😂
@eefaaf23 сағат бұрын
"Wieder zugeschlagen"="Strikes again"
@Mozart400023 сағат бұрын
1:27 "Very nice! The master of the thermos has done it again."
@JetoXr23 сағат бұрын
'let's stare at it and see' hilarious
@leeuwevdh23 сағат бұрын
Simon is the maddest genius I know!
@cotroneigiuseppe88823 сағат бұрын
He is genuinely mad!!!
@HeiniGurke23 сағат бұрын
I have watched too much of these videos. Every time I think about something there is this voice in my head -- if I come to a conclusion it says "In fact! That's it", if not it says "Bobbins".. This is a really peculiar way to get into my head. English is not even my native language. Or maybe I've just watched the right amount, because it sometimes really helps.
@joshandreassen736123 сағат бұрын
Just wait until a bobbins sneaks out in front of other people…😂
@HeiniGurke22 сағат бұрын
@@joshandreassen7361 .. oh I was thinking about Bilbo Bobbins from Lord of the Rinkidinks.
@daniele_9320 сағат бұрын
Same here, not a native english speaker but I solve sudokus by thinking in english with Simon/Mark voices 😅
@JohnPretty120 сағат бұрын
"Bobbins" is Simon's made-up word.
@A_CC_K23 сағат бұрын
Simon is a genius and a brilliant one too. Love the puzzle.
@livedandletdie21 сағат бұрын
I mean Simon is pretty much a genius. He's very eccentric though, but still a genius for sure.
@IAmKillerPotato21 сағат бұрын
Mark is a butcher, Simon is an artist
@AleksandrYgA21 сағат бұрын
Managed to do this one in exactly 24:00, very nice thermo interactions, not to hard but not easy as well
@daanperelachaise22 сағат бұрын
11:02 for me (solver 497). I hereby want to advocate for heavy pencilmarking ;)
@HobbitJack123 сағат бұрын
I like seeing simple puzzles!
@srwapo20 сағат бұрын
62:13, SUPER impressed by how the thermos interact, but I basically did a lot of bifurcation to see it. This is harder than any of the puzzles in your thermo app! (though I'm only half finished, though I did several 10 stars in there)
@LednacekZ23 сағат бұрын
had full set of pencilmarks in the solve. it helped me to find the 2s and 8s.
@wanderlustwarrior22 сағат бұрын
54:12 for me. That was tough but fair. I didn't see something I should've spotted much earlier.
@MariaVlasiou23 сағат бұрын
We agree.
@caolanmoore402722 сағат бұрын
I love the way simon says thats impossible
@10prozenthimmel22 сағат бұрын
17:04 you can sometimes tell when Simon is really excited, then he tends to lose his educated RP accent just a little bit. Here he says “I’ve spotted I’, I think.” 😊 (Can’t type small I with an apostrophe 🤣)
@Timlagor22 сағат бұрын
37:00 If only Simon could see black digits he could have kept his pencil marks
@Argoneui21 сағат бұрын
I found this pretty brutal, surprised to see all the low times here, what am I missing?
@richardglover31421 сағат бұрын
I surprised myself by completing this. Started by saying could this be a 1 (R3C5), and it flowed very nicely until it broke. Then it seemed more intuition and went well and finally phistomefel ring elimination.
@Kirbyfan8782720 сағат бұрын
Finished in 23:13 with help from the video.
@denisdodelin-m1e22 сағат бұрын
Less than 1/2h. It's abnormal, I must have missed something somewhere and get lucky. I'll watch the video to learn what it was ^_^
@caolanmoore402723 сағат бұрын
I once tried to solve a thermo sudoku the mark way and i was just immediately lost in the sauce so i guess im a simon solver?
@TurquoizeGoldscraper21 сағат бұрын
53:37 for me - I have no idea how I solved it.
@Sinisest112122 сағат бұрын
I use pencil marks. Max what i had pssible to see same thing with way slower speed.
@domanski12344223 сағат бұрын
5 seconds 😮
@scottwestleysmith319623 сағат бұрын
I see the link to play this puzzle, but I don't see a link that would allow me to make my own.
@AlmostM23 сағат бұрын
They often get puzzles from Logic Masters DE, you could try to make a puzzle there.
@SourceOfBeing23 сағат бұрын
Have you or Mark ever set a sudoku and "tricked" the other into solving it?
@robertcousins227422 сағат бұрын
37:38 for me
@dudbike23 сағат бұрын
I am a Mark solver. Not good enough to be a Simon solver.
@williammorris727922 сағат бұрын
That implies Simon is better, yet it is Mark who keeps winning Sudoku competitions (in addition to his amazing success in cryptic crossword competitions).
@LednacekZ23 сағат бұрын
23:07 for me. nice logic, difficulty is even through the whole sudoku. not that hard. solver 132.