NYT Hard Sudoku Walkthrough | April 27 2024

[@Inkwelder]

That restricted 9 in the beginning took me the entire puzzle. Immediately saw the hidden triple, and proceeded to pencil nearly every other cell in the puzzle over the next 30 min. Finally I saw that I didn’t respect my corner marks, got the 9, and the rest of the puzzle fell into place. Your videos have been so insanely helpful for me learning! Thank you! ❤

[@mikeo9863]

I struggled, the puzzle kept hanging on. Kept finding things expecting it to collapse and it didn't!

[@kennethli4531]

Yeah, I also think it's a hard one

[@spfy]

Very hard one, took me over an hour! We both found the 46 pair which created pointing 4s in box 5, but you saw the pointing 4s right away and I completely disregarded my corner marks instead.

[@Louise-hr1li]

Thanks to learning from these videos I solved this in 32 mins using NYT format. Also felt I must be missing something a lot of the time. Nearly gave up.

[@ianpendlebury9503]

I got the NYT trick/geometry at the start, but was hung up forever.... and then gave up. I scan on a sequential numerical basis, but ended up with 3 or 4 in r9c4. Your 46 pair in C5 resolved it to a 3 at 17m solved it thereon. How could I not see it? So much to learn. Thanks.

[@danmcconnell5941]

Def hung up on this one for awhile. Took me 24 minutes! But I eventually got it.

[@jonbrowne]

24:32 to solve. One of the toughest ones for a while!

[@evnoonan]

Stayed on the struggle bus with this one! The only solace I take is that I got stuck in pretty much the same places - so at least I know I’m in good company!!! Those pointing 4s - I said some bad words when you found them since I missed them too!

[@Geets-H]

Same here!!

[@user-id7qc9zz8q]

what are corner marks

[@StephenRahrig]

Gahh the pointing 4s at 17:13 was what I was missing.

[@AB-jm3iu]

👍

[@user-id7qc9zz8q]

could u go through why that number is a 3 at 21:12

[@OceanicAir815]

It couldn't be a 9,8,7,6,5,2,1 due to the numbers already in the column/row leaving only 3 or 4. But if you look in the center set of boxes, he has corner marks for the number 4 meaning that 4 can only go in those two places. In doing that, it means 4s are pointing downwards, eliminating the possibility for 4 to be in that square leaving a single 3. Hope I explained it clearly enough!

[@user-id7qc9zz8q]

@@OceanicAir815 u are the goat

[@harrybusacay471]

Missed the naked single 3!

[@donnyh3497]

This one was really hard for me

[@johndoe-gq1wp]

Viewing these comments, I guess I’m an idiot bc I can’t even solve them at all, let alone within an hour or two haha

[@paulakeay4317]

To be honest this puzzle was unusually tough for a NYT hard sudoku. I started learning about techniques and playing them every day, and now it’s a very enjoyable hobby and I can usually finish a hard puzzle in 10 minutes.