One Knight's Sudoku Pilgrimage

[@Kairamek]

The amount of fog cleared with those first two digits was very satisfying.

[@JohnRandomness105]

Definitely for me. I only watched enough of the solve to unstick myself at a point. So I haven't yet seen his initial clearing.

[@meggen033]

Great solve Simon, and huge congratulations to you and Mark on hitting 600k. I've been watching you guys since 2020 and rarely miss a day. Thanks for the feature and I'd like to thank the ever joyous Sujoyku for testing the puzzle for me. Thanks for everything you do for the sudoku community and keep up the great work putting out so many wonderful puzzles each and every day. Cheers and God Bless 😎

[@emilywilliams3237]

Great puzzle, and I love this comment. Strikes all the notes for me!

[@davidrattner9]

Wonderful puzzle from you with excellent combination of fog, knight and cages!! Thank you for this!!

[@kathyjohnson2043]

thank YOU for a joyous puzzle!

[@Anne_Mahoney]

Nice puzzle: this was fun to watch.

[@myidea7898]

Fabulous puzzle. Keep em coming meggen033!

[@tawilk]

thank you Simon for making these videos and getting me back into problem solving. I've had a few rough years emotionally with family and health and finding a place in this world. your videos and kind demeanor help lift me up and help me forget about my problems. thank you!

[@kathyjohnson2043]

Hope life treats you better from now on!

[@philipjames1599]

First time I’ve attempted any of the puzzles on the channel. Managed it in 49 mins. Hopefully bodes well for future solves

[@tessabrisac7423]

Bravo!

[@Yttria]

That's an impressive time for a first time solver.

[@meggen033]

Nicely done!

[@tatikorovkina]

It happened to me as well! I'm so impressed with myself tbh, I started it as a joke initially xD

[@valentinspasov5712]

36:20 Yes, Simon 9 could be on the tip of the thermo that has 8 and 7 below it..... OH WAIT can it be anywhere else ?

[@57thorns]

That is Simon, a genius at the start but those things makes him human.

[@57thorns]

Then there is the green in box 7 as well...

[@GregDorn]

I was yelling the same thing at the screen. Spend 2 minutes deducing that the thermo has 7 and 8 but fails to conclude 9 is at the end which that one digit would have cascaded and finished the puzzle when he said "something else has to be available".

[@malvoliosf]

@@GregDorn OK, let’s be honest with ourselves here: if Simon were perfect, would we enjoy CtC more, or less?

[@Cthulhus_Mum]

Much less. He’s brilliant AND he makes the rest of us feel smart 🤣

[@davidrattner9]

Your joy in solving Simon is so contagious!! Every day is such a treat for us. Thank you for making this channel and community for what it is. Beautiful, sweet and fun puzzle Meggen033!! Wonderful combination of everything working together!!

[@meggen033]

Thanks! glad you enjoyed!

[@blobz-1]

What an absolutely stunning FOW/antiknight puzzle!! Awesome!

[@chris5619]

Two of my favorite variants for sure!

[@bluemoonflame342]

Knight and Fog are already two of my favorite rules, and this combined them in a really fun way. Awesome puzzle!

[@Azasam16]

“An arcane technique known as sudoku” 😂

[@qwill2019]

@@Azasam16 I was going to comment this exact quote 😂😂😂

[@FrancisFjordCupola]

I think this is the first puzzle I might have completed swifter than Simon (but I didn't need to do any explaining to anyone but myself). Loved the point where I noticed the 8-cage must be a two cell cage and that it saw both 12 so it was a 35 which then proceeds to untangle most of the cells... up to and including the six. Then I saw the three cell thermo and intuitively I thought that would be a 789-thermo. Simply lovely. Edit: 37:26 Simon says "we're still one deduction away, that's my sense..." Which should be that only 39 haven't been placed in box nine. With one of the cells being on top of the thermo. With the bottom two cells of the thermo being 78. And being unsure earlier about where nine could go in box nine. Eventually Simon notes that there is a knight's move on r8c7 making that a three and placing the nine on top of the thermo. Never change. :P

[@MisterJDagger]

It takes Simon several more minutes to solve, but I was fascinated by the bulb in box 9. Once Simon discovered the coloring for pink 789, and green 789, @33:45, it forces the top of the bulb to be the red 789 digit by knights move, and by bulbiness it forces the red 789 to be a 9. The puzzle is fantastic, with a great many little "tips and tricks" that are useful to know about knights move, fog, and bulb. Well done Meggen033.

[@meggen033]

Thank you! Glad you enjoyed the puzzle!

[@KANPAI666OPPAI]

Got it in 33:02! Was not expecting to have so much fog cleared once I disambiguated the 12's/34's, but it was so satisfying to see all that board cleared. The break in took a bit of time, but then the rest of the puzzle was a smooth deduction of where everything goes and who everyone is thanks to those thermos. Very enjoyable!

[@CloudedGaurdian]

The fact that Simon is so much smarter than me, and so much better than me at Sudoku, and yet still manages to make absolutely asinine *dumb* "deductions" will never cease to amuse me. 36:28: "9 *could* be at the top of the thermo... but I don't think it *has* to be..." The tip of the thermo has to be the biggest number. The other two are already confirmed 7 & 8. What *else* is going to go at the top??? It's sure as summer not *3* !

[@Coldheart322]

Loved solving this puzzle. Had it not been for this channel and using the colouring technique, I doubt I would have done it. But it flows nicely, with a rewarding explosion of numbers mid way through.

[@jacobblunden563]

This is one of the first puzzles I've ever been able to do without watching a single second of the video. Usually I need some help in one or two sections (generally the break in or a moment where I get stuck) but I was able to do this one in an hour without needing help. I'm so happy

[@GeekRedux]

One of the most satisfying break-ins in a puzzle. Great job!

[@keefyg]

Really enjoyed that. Great combo of fog and colouring. Thanks

[@emilywilliams3237]

A lovely video, Simon. I tried the puzzle first and could see how it was going to work, so I stopped so that I could have the pleasure of watching you in the limited time I had available tonight. Thanks so much - wonderful in every way. (I love knights move puzzles, and the chess app is really fun!)

[@davidrattner9]

Love knights move puzzles..and combined with fog..was delectable for Simon to solve. Hope you had a wonderful 4th of July today!!

[@arthurgershon477]

simon: this is meant to be spectacularly good and not too difficult me: \*cries in incompetence\* 95' for me, taking ages to piece together what you geniuses can put together instantly... i should just be happy i was thinking mostly along the same lines and resign myself to be immensely far behind you experts, but i still hope to close the gap somewhat though indeed this was spectacularly good... many compliments to the setter -- i can't even begin to dream of fathoming how you geniuses create such works of art

[@estherwestbroek]

I took 90 mns because I couldn't get my head around the fact the five-cage colours have to pair up and already did... Don't worry, I used to take even longer, but Simon is a good teacher and I'm sure watching will make you faster. You are not alone!

[@osgrim7078]

Such a satisfying solve! Felt different to most Fog of War puzzles, which normally involve growing a clear patch incrementally rather than jumping all over the grid and clearing most of it in one fell swoop! Love the way the solve path switches from low digits to high digits half way through, too!

[@dwdei8815]

I loved this one! Absolutely wonderful dynamic from the toe of its show to the top of its hat.

[@themuffin437]

24:43 for me, a fantastic fow puzzle with a really fun break in

[@brachypelmasmith]

this one stumped me for a long time. I managed at cca 100 minutes just because i didn't want to give up. very satisfying to see fog cleared.

[@antonfogt]

What a great Puzzle!!! Combining two of my favorite variants (fog and knights move) and the fact that the cages restrict each other in that way :D As always... thanks for a great solve Simon! you always seem to help understanding the logic and getting on when I get stuck

[@frankjiang1857]

Finished in 26:14. Interesting break-in with where the cages can be in the fog and the knight moves eliminating certain possibilities. Fun puzzle!

[@titusadduxas]

43:02 - Another gorgeous FOW puzzle. Took me quite long to get the break in but once I had it flowed very nicely.

[@gregwilcox8347]

This one had all my favorite rules: knight’s move, cages, thermos, and fog.

[@kevinthurlow8055]

Knight's Tour is where you place a knight on a chessboard and keep moving it until you have visited every other square once only, so it takes 63 moves. There are also "Re-entrant Knight's Tours" where the final move is a knight's move away from the starting square! It takes a bit of practice...

[@roccov3614]

I love a good colouring in puzzle. Took me days, on and off, but thoroughly enjoyed it.

[@saiyanprince989]

I had to stop and close the video at 37:20. Simon's intense need to not do Sudoku was driving me insane.

[@xerodeus2337]

Lovely lovely puzzle! I'm not sure I went about it the correct way because I had a ton of coloring and then got a whole bunch of digits at once, excited to see how Simon solved it. This is definitely a favorite for me for the year so far. Edit: Yes! I found the same break in as Simon, so proud of myself for that!

[@Anne_Mahoney]

One of the things I love about really good puzzles is that the break-in is often so clear. I remember the first time I noticed this: I'd done a moderately difficult one (3* at Logic Masters) and then watched Simon, and was amazed to see he'd started the same way I did. I've come to realize that the best setters make them that way. This is even more true of Fog puzzles but it seems to apply to clear-sky/grid puzzles too. 😺

[@wypmangames]

I dont know why, but that one 9 being kept half red half white is incredibly funny to me

[@sly1024]

He fixed in the last 10 seconds.😂

[@daniielah.7569]

56:39 Definitely one of the more fun and satisfying puzzles I've tried from this channel so far! Specially figuring out the 'pilgrimage' of the numbers through the knight rule, and clearing 90% of the fog just from placing the first few digits

[@MadsOcto7]

Giving up on the twos and colouring everything else is peak Simon 😂

[@MadsOcto7]

Also; having an 7-8 pair in the middle on the thermo begs the question of what we'll put on the tip

[@ronjohnson6916]

@@MadsOcto7 Or where does 3 go in column 9. No matter. He got it all quickly enough and in a more ... interesting way.

[@studgerbil9081]

running out of colors while keeping colors he no longer needs is peak Simon as well.

[@danputnam1317]

A big shout out to England's bridge team in the eurobridge championship also.

[@karlmortenlunna2417]

And to the norwegian team 🙂

[@RichSmith77]

Are we entering the Clifton Suspension Bridge again this year? It's a cracking bridge.

[@chocolateboy300]

I finished in 46 minutes. This was a very satisfying fog of war. Usually, I end of slowly clearing the fog, but this one kept building up until it finally burst open, revealing a tremendous amount of cells. It was very fun to mark the digits with letters in the first half and coloring the 789s in the second half. I would recommend doing fog of war with the lettering tool, because if you accidently mark a cell, it won't clear the fog like with a number. Great Puzzle!

[@arifleischer8285]

Simon being a genius versus Simon making his life harder by missing coloring and the fact that he had a green purple 78 pair on the thermo

[@13vatra]

This was an interesting break in. Once you figure out the cages it suddenly clears up like 90% of the fog.

[@virtuous-sloth]

I enjoyed taking away the colours from 1...6 as I could to clear the way for colouring 789.

[@harriethogarth372]

Absolutely loved this. Wonderful colouring puzzle that was immensely satisfying

[@stefano5634]

The colours in box 8 at the end made me happy

[@RLfirst]

Seeing Simon coloring the grid with his deductions is almost as satisfying as the solve itself 😂 love it!

[@nomophobe]

Simon: loves colouring the grid Also Simon: doesn't notice the colour sudoku placing the 2 in box 6 Also also Simon: despite having just placed the green/pink 7/8 pair on the box 9 thermo, doesn't then realise that also places the 9 on the thermo Also also also Simon: does the rest of the grid infinitely faster (in its most literal sense) than I ever could have, so I appreciate very much the rare moments of being able to feel smarter 😄😄

[@NilsForsman]

36:26 what can be over 78 pair on a thermo that is not 9 ;)

[@chrisbaeyens4513]

No no, you heard the man: 9 has options! 😂

[@gogothewind123]

A 3 apparently 😂

[@mummabear7537]

@@gogothewind123 3 has a swollen head and is full of self-importance as it is constantly singled out for a song. It thinks it is bigger and better than a 9!

[@petterfjeldstad3163]

@@mummabear7537but three belongs in the corner 😉.

[@anttilankila1250]

A very clean sudoku with a clear solution path. I enjoyed this a lot.

[@66Morti66]

21:07 for me. I loved this, really great puzzle!

[@nimiugn]

16:36 For me! definitely my favorite and my best performance in a while. The fog simultaneously get clear make my brain happy, and the same for 789 at the end! This puzzle give me double adrenaline and I love it!

[@MarkWiseTechno]

Clocked in at 38:49 on this one. Great example of why FOW puzzles are awesome!

[@karlmortenlunna2417]

Finished in 14:51 today. Really nice puzzle!

[@MyriamTT]

Beautiful puzzle. Thank you !

[@bertbergers9171]

43:49 for me, i liked it a lot! thanks for the puzzle and solve/video! And very much congratulated on the 600k!!!

[@evanbasnaw]

Mod pizza is great. You have a person build out your perfect pizza then they bake it fresh for you.

[@graemeesmith]

It is! I didn't expect to hear about mod pizza on this channel

[@JakeRoeder]

Fog and coloring? I'm in! What a great puzzle. I screwed up the thermo in box 9 which screwed things up on my first solve, but I restarted and took things a bit more slowly and got it the second time around. Fantastic.

[@shellmichael9665]

Having a Brit wish us Americans a happy Independence Day was not what I was expecting at the start of this video.

[@virtuous-sloth]

I love "So now, where is X in box N? The answer is I don't know. But..."

[@Hakucho64]

"I haven't the foggiest" 🙂

[@dolf370]

Puh, tought one, but I liked it, and finally got through it. 1:25:57. I really like that I am improving my solving and get through more and more of the puzzles. Just whish it didn't take forever for me to get through of them.

[@myacky5887]

Nice job!! These puzzles are tough and good times take practice, you'll get there!!

[@rampantunease6517]

38:04 Simon! 😂 purple and green are on the thermometer so we know where the nine is in box nine. 🎉🎉🎉

[@warren_r]

I finished this one in 29 minutes. What a sweet puzzle! Took me longer than I would've liked to realized that I needed to colourize the 789's.

[@Serit76]

I solved this puzzle in 50 mins and absolutely loved it all the way. What an amazing puzzle (that is still very approachable)

[@anderssjøvold]

39:22 I just loved this 💗💗💗💗💗

[@raysouth1952]

Great puzzle. Loved the cage interactions driven by the anti-knight rule.

[@praematura]

Two failed starts as I kept making the same bad deduction, but the third one succeeded in 21:25 (conflict checker off), but combined with the two failed starts, put it up around 30:00 total. Many thanks to Meggen033 for this wonderful puzzle, even though I horked it badly! 😅

[@minamagdy4126]

My time: 35:22. Maybe my first time I finished within the video's length. Beautiful multi-phased coloring exercise

[@Thungon]

I found the first digits the same way, but for the fun of it I didn't put them in. Turns out, you can color ALMOST the entire grid, with only a few chocolate teapots/pairs left at the end. The thermos end up getting them in order. It was very strange to do that in a fog sudoku, but very fun !!

[@David_K_Booth]

Finished in 32m which, in all honesty, felt a bit slow. Really enjoyed the puzzle though. Spoiler: I liked the fact that, when the fog clears, we discover we were given all of the cages at the outset.

[@Sinisest1121]

It is funny when Simon removes 9 from green digits and not noticing on removing that one green actually reveals him green location on that thermo and it also reveals same time that 7 is green, 8 is purple and 9 is red. Time when Simon marks 9 in box 9 is like what can be tip of thermo if you like placed colors that you actually know that thermo first two digits are 78 pair :D yeah it is probably 1 not 9.

[@fulltimeslackerii8229]

41:24. I loved this solve.

[@zan831]

That little shot of dopamine when there is a 3 in the corner

[@SilviuBurceaDev]

31:45, incredible puzzle, my favourite FoW so far.

[@turbochrist]

A big sigh of relief as Simon coloured the final 9

[@Pathogenus]

fog of war and colouring puzzle, 2 best things about sudoku in one

[@kirstenkolkman6758]

oh wow i was frustrated at the end when i saw some stuff while simon was looking elsewhere! i was like "you have that five! look at it! it's right there!" brilliant puzzle!

[@AFT3RDAY5]

I love fog puzzles 😄👍🏻 And this required some extensive coloring.

[@brianarsuaga5008]

Very fun! Love good coloring puzzles

[@annikaQED]

This elegantly combines my two favorite variants - anti-knight & fog. And they find the Grail for which they are searching at the end of the quest. in the form of the Dis-ambiguating Thermo, which serves to make all clear! KUDOS-U !!!

[@HoundRogerson]

it took me almost 96 minutes to finish this (95:46), but this was a very fun solve.... and I'm not ashamed to say that I was completely hung up until I started coloring things. After I started making with the colors, it fell into place beautifully.

[@NaHBrO733]

30:42 for me So satisfying to get so many fog cleared at once

[@rightclick1370]

managed to do this puzzle in 29:06 minutes - first time, really, doing fog puzzles by myself it's simply just so interesting how different people think - I just went "top-to-left" in my logic, straight to cage sums and Simon went fully bananazz with all sort of a painting and jumping all over the place - LOVE IT :D

[@davidh.4944]

1:34:59@#6907. That was the longest I've gone on a FoW puzzle without getting any digits. Once I _finally_ figured out the polarity and got a couple in, though, it all shook out fairly readily. It was neat how 789 triple coloring at the end exposed the remaining other digits.

[@Hakucho64]

67 mins for me, lovely puzzle, thanks!

[@Yttria]

It was fun coloring up the grid with colors for 1-4 and then making most of the fog dissipate all at once. Finished in 49:08.

[@jdferreira]

17:17 from me! I don't think I was ever that much faster than Simon before! 🎉

[@n_mckean]

Very clever but approachable. Nice work.

[@andremouss2536]

37:30 99.9% of the time when Simon says 'I cant' quite see...' it's sudoku of course !

[@TheKtuno]

What a fun puzzle! I pulled a Simon though and missed something easy but found a much more difficult way to figure it out! 😂

[@zacharypennington8308]

Simon, never stop forgetting how thermos work. ;-)

[@MattYDdraig]

53:36 with the aid of a much better at knight's move scanning 15 year old to plaster over my inability to see them. Very nice puzzle.

[@MatthewMorris6148]

36:42. I’m usually not a big fan of Fog of War puzzles, but this one was pretty enjoyable.

[@Stompound]

22:05 the fog in the bottom left looks kinda like a horse which I appreciate with the context of the title

[@criticalwyrmling349]

00:55:01 definitely not my fastest solve, but a ton of fun. I'll be interested to watch and see if my excessive coloring was a hindrance.

[@rmath101]

I felt the letter tool helps a lot here, especially with the 7/8/9. I made a lot of progress by pencil-marking 7s, 8s, and 9s before knowing which was which.

[@CoffeeHead27]

43:10 for me! I loved it, had quite a colorful grid at one point that I had to delete in order to figure 789s :(

[@MrBobopoe]

38:00 this time, getting a bit faster on colouring sudokus which is pleasing

[@AlannaStarcrossed]

Fantastic puzzle!

[@manudude02]

43:15, not bad considering the first 23 mins was spent not realising that the 8 cage must be 3-5 when there's no 1 or 2.

[@jurgnobs1308]

the minimum number of rules to get to each tile with a knight is 63. because you can do it without ever going on any twice (and you start on one, so 63 moves)

[@darreljones8645]

As soon as I saw it, I realized the thermometer in column 9 had to be a 7-8-9, to disambiguate those three digits.

[@Sternentier]

Has Simon ever accidentally cleared fog by typing in a digit he didn't deserve? I'd love to see his reaction to that. That would be the ultimate bobbins.

[@peethoagland8907]

Simon pencil-marking box 9 late on was painful.

[@awilliams1701]

green and purple are 7/8 so yes 9 actually does need to go on the thermo

[@markthompson2874]

Yeah, I was surprised he didn't see that immediately, of course it's easier watching than doing.