NYT Hard Sudoku Walkthrough | Jan 30, 2025

[@Geets-H]

Like everyone else (!!!) I missed finding that 126 triple. This puzzle took me forEVER! Thank you for finding that; I really need to do that kind of checking but I often forget! Neverthele3ss, great puzzle today. I like the difficult ones.

[@remco2777]

Kudos to you mister for finding that 126 triple in 6 minutes. I was stuck with this one.

[@seasearead]

19:02 today. I got stuck and came to your video for help. The 126 was all I needed.

[@Attycrismack]

Great solve Rangsk. Like everyone else. I could not find that 126 triple after 30 + minutes. Could not have solved this one without your video.

[@caseyestok1677]

Gave up at 30 minutes and came here- I don’t know if I ever would have found that 126 triple! Thanks Rangsk

[@danmcconnell5941]

Same except after coming back here after 30 min I saw your comment and I went back to look for that triple and found it. Would have not found it if I hadn’t known what to be looking for though!

[@TopHerGas]

This was a tough one. I saw all of the interesting geometry you did, except that 1-2-6 in column 2. I think that was truly the key to breaking in as I had everything else marked and was stuck for a while.

[@HotelPapa100]

This one defeated me. Never spotted the 126 triple in C2. Found several other interestin non-standard eliminations, but never that triple. I think without this you don't get the puzzle to collapse.

[@haveyouseenitthough]

I think from the amount of views on this one I wasn’t the only one that struggled. Amazing how it collapsed after the C2 triple

[@Keegan-T]

missed the 126 triple, nice find

[@paulb6302]

Tough one today. I needed that 126 but couldn't find it without you!

[@Kolfist]

I found the 3459 quad instead of the 126 triple, I now feel humbled😂

[@altheaquinn7452]

Same here 😂

[@mikkelthomsen72]

Same for me. And it took forever. Ended up pencil marking everything to get this one to open up.

[@arthurgershon477]

50:59, came here to see what i missed and post exactly these remarks, that i had to pencil everything and only cracked the puzzle after taking an eternity to spot the 3459 quad... i bow to rangsk's skills and expertise, i clearly have much more work to do to shore up my poor geometry analysis

[@DixieKoko]

Fun to see you work though this one. I got as far as finding the 23 pair, but didn't realize what that did and I quit when I caught myself guessing. Perhaps I'll give this one another shot tomorrow. Thanks!

[@jon735]

Awesome! Took me ages to see the triple in column 2. Fun to watch you solve it after I’d finished

[@Sg190th]

Was struggling. So I watched your video and at 5:26 I looked like a fool. One of the techniques I forgot to do is checking where the numbers can go in a column.... The 126 just collapsed it for me. Thanks. 32:44 A humbling experience.

[@christophvonmandach9240]

Excellent solving.

[@FillTheGridSudoku]

Another tricky one today! It’s all about that sneaky quad lol … and it was a stubborn collapse even after finding it. 33:43 but I did enjoy the challenge 😀

[@TheSilverfang0]

Missed the 126 triple also and found the quadra after spotting for ages

[@jonbrowne]

17:28 to solve. Difficult puzzle for me today! A very difficult triple to spot!

[@Zavalarlz]

I was stuck on this one for a long while, noticed the 23 pairs, the 8 pointing to b2 and the 89 pair on r1 but the 126 triple was hard and that made the puzzle collapse for me.

[@markscher1968]

At 5:43 you found the 126 vertical triple in column #2. However, by virtue of the horizontal pair of 6’s in row 3, column 7 and 8 and the horizontal pair of 2’s in row 7, column 4 and 5, column #2 no longer has a 126 triple. They become 126, 123, and 12. Please explain how you kept the triple and excluded the 3. Thanks.

[@hectormendoza496]

10:30 for me. Pretty difficult today.

[@big_red01027]

I lost because of _that_ . Unbelievable.

[@493HZ]

Could literally only find 4 in the top right box