Season 2: Rat Run Sudoku returns!!

[@martysears]

Hello! Hehe lovely and unexpected to see this featured less than 24 hours after I published it. I've been beavering away over the last few weeks making lots of shiny new episodes for phase 2. This felt like one of the easier ones, and a good one to kick things off with, as well as a good introduction to the redcurrants. It was originally a bit easier, as an extra wall forced the pathway at the beginning, giving the 1 and 2 in box 1 straight away. So I tried removing the wall, and that cheeky redcurrant in box 7 was a last minute 'addition', and seems to be the thing that people are taking a while to spot, which makes me happy :) I think it's because it's a bit far away from box 1, where its effects are felt, so is easy to overlook. But hopefully that makes it more satisfying and unexpected when noticed. Thankyou for the lovely feature Simon, you did a few bits differently from how I thought about it, but that's to be expected in a puzzle with a ruleset this powerful, where lots of digits come at once, giving you lots of potential places to derive similar information from. But overall you broadly followed the solve path :) Thanks to all the kind commenters too! And to Chinstrap for his very generous and thorough testing and very useful feedback. 💜

[@MasterHigure]

I thought the redcurrant in box 7 was wonderful. Seems like the prefect disambiguator if you ask me. I also like redcurrants better than blackcurrants personally, so I'm glad to see them included.

[@Andizottel]

I always love your comments (and your puzzles, of course) with all the bits of interesting extra information. I especially appreciate the parts about your setting process, since I dabble a bit in setting myself. Thank you very much!

[@sjm6280]

I'd never have thought seeing a rat would instantly make me this happy!

[@Norion_Artifice]

@@sjm6280 I feel you!

[@francoisduez601]

Same for me 😊

[@MariaVlasiou]

Couldn't have said it better!

[@A_CC_K]

Yes Rat Run is back, I clicked so fast on the video when I saw the title. Thank you Marty for creating these puzzles and thanks to Simon for solving them brilliantly.

[@Timlagor]

Love Simon finding the hardest conceivable way to work everything out and then saying the puzzle isn't easy!

[@davidrattner9]

Simon..Simon...by far today my favorite part is your love and enjoyment when @ <a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="1080">18:00</a> - <a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="1122">18:42</a>..you explained your joy for getting the 3 and mentioning poo poing ..😁 Just again more magic from you Marty with this series!! Huge thank you to both!!!

[@danbanks9325]

Great to see the return of Finkz 😊 Sears you’re a genius 🤘

[@randms2fake]

Loved it. It's nice to have these easy puzzles featured time to time. (Puzzles I can actually solve.)

[@agoristtaxadvice]

YAY! Love rat puzzles- second favorite rule set after fog

[@dariusmartin6012]

Great Solve Simon. As I was watching the finish I noticed that r7 c6 indexed in reverse with 7-4=3. On that note I was wondering if anyone in the comments knew of any "reverse indexing" sudoku?

[@artyheartylife8588]

Yayyy! This gets a like before the theme music even finishes!

[@A_CC_K]

Same here

[@JaymanOttawa]

A rare case where I wish KZbin allowed us to give two thumbs up. These RatRun puzzles are that good!

[@blobz-1]

Such an awesome puzzle. A worthy addition to the series!! Excellent setting, Marty~!

[@10prozenthimmel]

Oooh, Finkz, what a treat. Schwarzwälder Kirschtorte is not strictly a chocolate cake. The icing is just whipped cream, and there is a cherry filling between the chocolate sponge cakes. Not sure if that would pass the Simon test. At least it’s not yellow 😂

[@kathyjohnson2043]

SK is absolutely yummy, even to a chocolate addict like me!

[@mstmar]

Yay a finkz puzzle. The deduction at <a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="1640">27:20</a> was my favorite in this puzzle. it's so obvious when you see it, but tucked away so you can't see it right away.

[@twanassink7756]

Simon not seeing the double one to make 2 in box 4 had me screaming for a bit also knowing that he probably won’t see it for a couple of minutes.

[@bobbie0976]

Glad to see Finkz back!! Once again I got stuck and had to start over. Don’t know what it is about Finkz, there’s always this one path that I initially miss. Sneaky Rat 😊

[@franzelmagetower]

Yay Finkz, our favorite rat is back. Just no flowers for Finkz please!

[@chrismacgillivray]

Oh snap! Love rat run puzzles!!!

[@aburks41]

Rat run puzzles are the best!

[@Jonas.Nilsson]

Hell yeah!! 54 minutes for me! Fun puzzle!

[@dikinebaks]

<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="2113">35:13</a> FINKZ!!!! I missed you little buddy :D

[@dangrene617]

Was intimidated by the video runtime, but had to give it a shot hoping the first race of the season would be more accessible than the later ones in the previous serious I gave up on even trying. Glad I did! What a joy! <a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="1187">19:47</a> solve time.

[@Jukka70]

I love these rat race puzzles, they're genius. I saw the clip pop up on KZbin, because of the subscription, I was like woohoo another rat race puzzle

[@sleepingstarsasteria]

I finished playing and watching the first season of this series and I open the app just to see the next one has just started. Wonderful timing

[@alexsmart2612]

This is the first time I have ever seen Simon prioritize doing the Sudoku over the "special rules" of the puzzle.

[@grahamania]

<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="41">00:41</a>:58 for me. Another great puzzle worthy of this amazing series! Kind comment.

[@pairot01]

<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="1655">27:35</a> OMG that's incredible! New season, new dots, new tricks it seems.

[@57thorns]

25 minutes to follow Finkz to the cupcake. Welcome back!

[@debrabowen4276]

Such a joy to watch!

[@HunterJE]

I am normally not a fan of overshading but it feels like maybe as digits and pencil marks started filling in later in the puzzle it might have been a helpful exercise to start shading cells based on whether they could or could not be on the path based on the indexing rule?

[@stevieinselby]

It would certainly have made more sense than shading _some_ cells that couldn't be on the path in grey, and putting a red X in _some_ cells that couldn't be on the path, and a few cells getting both markings!

[@aliengeo]

Hunter, I misunderstood why Simon was shading the index cells, thought what you described was his intent, and continued to shade unvisitable cells through my solve. It made the puzzle much easier to scan.

[@OddLittleShoppingBag]

See, I remember Schwarzwalder Kirchetorte from my rapt and detailed attention to Young Frankenstein, not from my spotty and dubious attention to my German classes.

[@MeriaDuck]

Love these puzzles. Too hard for me to solve, but they are so great to watch Simon use his party brain for. As many others here, I'd love being at a party with you 🎉😂

[@MasterHigure]

I came across the puzzle by happenstance on logic-masters, and went straight in to trying to solve it. Unfortunately I have yet to have time to really sit down with it, so I haven't gotten far. But I expected this video to come out quickly. Last round I watched the videos without solving the puzzles myself, and then a month ago I went through them all and solved them, having forgotten all the details but remembering maybe a bit of the overall strategy for each of them. This time I'll try earnestly to solve first. Edit: The timer stopped at 9<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="234">3:54</a> for me. Spent a lot of time staring at the puzzle after filling in the first few numbers in box 1. Took way too long to see that A was impossible.

[@gavindeane3670]

Best notification I've had all day 🙂 Just gonna hit the like button first, then I'll get on with trying the puzzle.

[@kathyjohnson2043]

I think the indexing slowed Simon down but he made so MANY other deductions I missed.

[@Timlagor]

It's so strange to me that Simon first thought is about 1 and not the 1st R and C ..but not nearly so strange as the time he spends not thinking about the consequences of red currants

[@wypmangames]

I would like to see a rat run with 2 rats at the same start point needing to find the cupcake with different lines, like finkz needs an entropic line while fredrick nneeds an modular one, the 2 paths may overlap with each other but may not overlap with themselves

[@myfyrmadocjones]

Simon, you need to update the count for Mark’s latest win. 😀

[@brachypelmasmith]

Dropping everything. No sleep

[@srwapo]

<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="2128">35:28</a>, I made a few mistakes, but Finkz gave me the confidence to undo my work and fix my errors instead of "peaking" at the video and I got there in the end.

[@RoderickEtheria]

Doesn't seem like Finkz really likes Red Currants as much as Black.

[@martysears]

😂

[@MrMW2nd]

welcome back finkz

[@annesorensen4004]

Yay🎉 Fun with Finkz ❤

[@MaierFlorian]

Ratrun? Thats a Like before i even start watching 😁🤩

[@A_CC_K]

Same here

[@highpath4776]

Why would teleport B overheat ?

[@gzuskupfer5822]

Gotta say, I am god awful at sudoku but I enjoy the puzzle solving. Started playing your game through steam. Great videos!

[@kathyjohnson2043]

I'm quite bad at anything but the most basic but Simon explains his logic so well, I love following along

[@nb2vcxz]

Oh Ratz! Finkz is back!

[@HunterJE]

SPOILERS FOR END TEXT: Another teleporter malfunction, really hope at some point we get an evil Finkz from a mirror universe, maybe for a liar/wrogn puzzle?

[@HunterJE]

Ooh or a puzzle where every time Finkz uses a teleporter she swaps with her mirror self, and the doppelganger obeys an opposite or otherwise different movement ruleset?

[@minamagdy4126]

<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="2820">47:00</a> for once I'm the one annoyed at Simon finding stuff using sudoku, since a lot of the 1st column is (to me) easier to get by reference to the rule on sums.

[@alexsmart2612]

Lol same here. I don't know about easier, but it was sure more fun.

[@57thorns]

<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="2711">45:11</a> I wonder how we add 3 and 2 to get 3 however?

[@HeiniGurke]

Yay! Finkz 🐀❤

[@vjay4297]

how did you miss the path r3c8>r4c9>r5c8 at <a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="1762">29:22</a> ? #lucky

[@SkillZgetKillZ]

got a time of <a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="2055">34:15</a>. I think I beat Simon on this one!

[@TurquoizeGoldscraper]

<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="1644">27:24</a> for me.

[@MissVindicat]

Which husband. 😂

[@TinchoFigue]

Because i can't like twice, let's like and comment!

[@sillvvasensei]

Is there a rat run sudoku with fog?

[@martysears]

yes if you look at the RAT RUN playlist on the CTC youtube channel, episode 10 (the season 1 finale) has fog

[@aliengeo]

RAT HYPE!!!!!

[@martysears]

🐀

[@TroshKrosh]

❤

[@HunterJE]

<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="2094">34:54</a> Small thing, the 7 pencil mark can be ruled out of r3c1, since it is part of the sums for four different path cells...

[@ronjohnson6916]

Figures that 1+2=3. Happiness. Never looks at 1+1

[@mlloser8318]

You completely ignored the left most red dot for half the video which would save you so much time by solving top left 1 and 2 position

[@pameluh]

❤