The Bosnian Miracle Sudoku

[@tnx301]

My favourite quote: "I'm desperate now, I'm doing Sudoku"

[@ostensibly531]

Same. Here after being triggered about past trauma.

[@CMVBrielman]

Drives me batty when he’s so focused on the unique rule set that he doesn’t grab the low hanging fruit of simple sudoku.

[@penningmeestercgkdelft9159]

Even when some logic seems to be obvious and Simon would be able to skip some logic steps in view of speed, he always shows perfect patience to explain every step to the viewers without hesitation... That is something which I find quite impressive!

[@jeremypalmer5695]

"Nevermind I did it my own way" classic Simon, and a great life philosophy.

[@penningmeestercgkdelft9159]

Unfortunately, Frank Sinatra never played sudoku... ;-)

[@carolinefreeman4546]

I think that should be Simon's moto, he always uses different logic to what I'd expect and gets beautiful results.

[@debrabowen4276]

Simon is such a natural teacher. I never tire of his explanations of the basics. Very clear and somehow extra soothing!

[@stuartmckinnon9190]

Yeah... I like to study his ways... and his leadership traits. Such as.. always saying WE instead of I.. despite him clearly doing all the work.

[@stormsurge1]

Bosnia mentioned 🎉🎉🎉

[@henryordish]

and the extreme unsmoothness of its roads 😂

[@aleksapupovac]

🇧🇦🇧🇦🇧🇦

[@Waggles1123]

While I find it makes the coloring take *slightly* longer, I like doing my german whisper loops like this using light/dark green marking. It makes the bishops moves SO much easier to see, and I think it might make your point on how that works a little easier to see as well.

[@travholt]

I loved how, bit by bit, new constraints introduced themselves as I was solving. Brilliant!

[@josephbentley7780]

26:53 for me without assistance from the video; the Bishops Color theorem helps a lot on these puzzles. For example, I broke into the bottom left quite early since column 3 has 6789 in it already. It must leave the bottom left corner through column 3 on a 1234 bishops color. It can't touch itself on row 6, so it must take row 8 and use R8C2 - R8C4 to do so.

[@caffgeek]

I did the same thing. Bishop's colour was the 🗝️

[@aleksapupovac]

Row 3 logic is my favorite part of this puzzle. I think Simon would have appreciated this solve path.

[@davidrattner9]

Thank you Qodec for sending email to Simon for having a go at this and recommending it!! Congrats on debut Cale!🎉🎉 Look forward to seeing what else you set with in future.

[@thejuggler42]

Wow, what a lovely puzzle!

[@TurquoizeGoldscraper]

38:38 for me - When I saw this I thought: "How is this solvable?!" Once I got started and made the first few steps I realized it's not too hard.

[@capjeanlucpic]

Tongue twister: Can you say "top chocolate teapot" five times fast?

[@AmaniLimo]

BOSNIA MENTIONED RAAAAHHHHH on another note I've been following this channel for so long and it's so trippy to see Bosnia randomly mentioned lol

[@Salman-os7pr]

Finished in 55:08, I love it when I complete a puzzle and go through Simon's solve realizing how the findings, the steps (even the colors used) where soo similar! Ofcourse the student has traits from his teacher

[@Rubrickety]

Amazing puzzle. It's remarkable that the bottom half of the grid can be resolved with nothing but the whisper rule.

[@tonymanngreenwich]

What a beautiful puzzle. "Smooth" is the exact word for the solution path - thoroughly enjoyable!

[@marcbennett9232]

very nice! my favorite part was the triple in box 3 forcing the loop down

[@NZStarlight]

Was a fun solve! :) Incredible that a sudoku with so few clues solves so naturally!

[@pairot01]

This one was a fun one! Half way through I noticed I had exhausted all given clues and thought "there's no way this collapses now with a forced whisper!"

[@randommusic4567]

Anyone else's mind go to BosnianBill

[@isaacthek]

As always when solving a German whispers line, we use the pick that Bosnian Bill and I made...

[@isaacthek]

It's nice to know there are others in my weird overlap of lockpicks and sudoku...

[@Yttria]

Fun approachable puzzle. Fell asleep halfway through the solve so not sure of the actual solve time but the clock stopped at about an hour.

[@Miamariamusic]

Its wild to see bosnia mentioned so randomly, especialy on a sudoku chanell, lovely video simon love from bosnia❤

[@Stompound]

Maverick right on time to celebrate the solve

[@danielszanto2955]

I think anyone but Simon would just go over to the airfield and ask for their schedule.

[@jimbothefuzzy]

@@danielszanto2955 A pilot friend of mine suggested that Simon might have a radio tuned to the local airport frequencies. Just so he knows when Maverick is going to take off and land. Because regular guest appearances are important.

[@haxingsheep]

Sudoku, word searches, and connect four, those three games are enough to keep me entertained for a lifetime.

[@rainbowsprinklez]

... I actually did it. I solved a Simon puzzle.

[@PuzzleQodec]

Congratulations!

[@grahamania]

00:35:48 for me. I followed a bit different path to the solution than Simon, which always worries me a bit that my logic was flawed :) Loved the puzzle, so glad it was recommended to the channel! Kind comment.

[@thesolarfutureenthusiast1102]

There was some lovely logic that was missed by Simon's brilliance 🤣 The loop had to pass by both sides of the right circle for any number of reasons and the bishops move prevented the 2 being on the loop without needing to spot orange. I also had a path through c2 in box 8, because the bishops move 4 was impossible r7 and r9, before joining it up to the loop running through box 4

[@bait6652]

One of the greatest methodologies if u only watch sudokuing with this channel is checker boarding .... I enjoy colouring But don't like set-replacement much And I rarely see the swordfishing eventho it's obvious when u see them using it...but checkerboarding is a good one

[@77kaczka77]

❤ this puzzle and Simon’s solution

[@angec9908]

Maverick has your office bugged. And I think he’s the one who sets off Alexa (which hasn’t happened in a while).

[@Hybridrofl]

So happy I was able to complete this one, because it was just lovely to solve. Genuinely incredible puzzle.

[@eddieharwood7788]

What a brilliant puzzle. I was like a fog in that there was so often only one place to look which always seemed to lead me forward. Amazingly I did it without having to backtrack to some silly error.

[@wanderlustwarrior]

30:32 for me. That was fun! And more so once I got more colorful with alternating lows and highs.

[@JimJim-gw8wd]

44:02 for me. Chuffed to bits with myself just for solving that. That was a really pleasant and enjoyable puzzle. Now i get to watch Simon play, let's get cracking :)

[@KANPAI666OPPAI]

Got it in 38:46. Not bad considering I don't particularly have patience for puzzles with figuring out paths/loops/etc, but the given clues were surprisingly enough to help you get start and the GW aspect does a lot of work to inform you of each next cell in the loop.

[@David_K_Booth]

Lovely puzzle! Possibly not one for a complete novice, but a good confidence-builder for anyone who is getting to grips with variant sudoku. it's particularly clever how the loop threads through the bottom of the grid, despite there being no clues at all in those four rows.

[@aqwkingchampion13]

First time coming back after a while. Solved in 1:15:45 A slow solve for me, but I’ve never really kept up, and I’m just proud I was able to do it.

[@davidh.4944]

47:06@#3471. A bit harder than I'd hoped, but easier than I expected. The way the bottom chute resolved was an impressive surprise. Very good.

[@bi1iruben]

seeming lack of clues for bottom 3 rows, but proved very approachable if remember Bishops rule with German whispers.

[@tiemen9095]

Nice puzzle! Not too hard but never felt repetitive, making for a very enjoyable solve!l.🎉

[@tBagley43]

1:28:38 fun puzzle, really surprising that it solves uniquely

[@andremouss2536]

19:20 By the checkerboard argument, the 2 in the central box must be grey. Since the loop has to enter and get out of the upper part, we see that R4D5 must be part of the loop and then R3C6 is grey.

[@zacharyleonard9413]

29:30 for me. A really fun puzzle.

[@DarrenNakamura]

Finished in 40:16. I always like a good orthogonally-moving German whisper.

[@EelcoWind]

23:55, could have been a bit faster I think. But it was a joy! With snake loops I always start with a checkerboard of light green and lighter greens for highs and lows. That helps with the break in and seeing a pattern further down the roa... snake.

[@lunardancer6047]

Fantastic puzzle. 34:18 for me, which I think is a pretty reasonable time.

[@piarittersporn]

Wonderful puzzle. Only the beginning was quite difficult.

[@donaldsnyder1543]

Almost an hour but I did it with some video help. Neat puzzle. Can't say I've done too many loop puzzles.

[@xerodeus2337]

yeah perfect commentary on this puzzle it was very very smooth

[@Jodawo]

Happy 7th Anniversary.

[@57thorns]

Wow, I breezed through that in 29m 32s, really good time for rme compared to the video time. A really nice solve with very few clues in the grid it was still a fairly straight forward solve.

[@titusadduxas]

43:18 of pure magic! Absolutely stunning puzzle.

[@ElDillas]

Good morning from New Zealand!!

[@David_K_Booth]

Kia ora! From Otautahi Christchurch.

[@ElDillas]

@@David_K_Booth David!! Ahhh I've missed you my friend! Been a busy one for the past half a year. My girlfriend's mother passed away a few months ago and we have been through quite a bit of stress. How is it going on your end?

[@David_K_Booth]

@@ElDillas My sympathies to you and your girlfriend. Both of my parents passed in the last few years, so I know these things cast a long shadow. I've extended the lease in Christchurch, and I'm going to sell my place in Wellington (it was leaky, and the remedial work has finally finished, so it feels like progress.)

[@nathanmays7926]

how in the world was this set? what a crazy discovery

[@RichSmith77]

@39:55 ".... and a couple of givens that I managed not to forget today." Ahem. The given 2 would like a quiet word. 🙂

[@emilywilliams3237]

Yes, you did it your way, and I think that is fine - in fact, more than fine, it is wonderful and just what I like to see in a video. You love the loop and snake puzzles and you make them seem so easy. Of course, when I try them, I don't find them easy, but that is fine, because I can refer to your video and learn a lot of strategies! Thanks for this video, Simon.

[@davidrattner9]

Love it when Simon does it his own way!! 😁😁

[@Fun_maths]

Brilliant puzzle! Had the best time solving it.

[@Kirbyfan87827]

Finished in 34:09 with help from the video.

[@martincollins11]

What a fun puzzle to solve :)

[@Byron418]

Great solve, great puzzle!

[@rosaking3825]

68:52! Took a while but I solved it myself 🥰 ISH, I didn't realise the bishop colour rule... That helped 😅 Thank you for another amazing puzzle featured 😁

[@daanperelachaise]

17:20 for me (solver 3763). Puzzling is much quicker when you don't have to explain everything to KZbin while puzzling :)

[@quincynash6363]

35:41 fantastic setting

[@chocolateboy300]

I finished in 34:37 minutes. I had never heard of these Bosnian rules before, but they are quite fun to do. The break-in was very enjoyable to figure out, especially determining the parity in box 1. I think my favorite part was near the end of the puzzle, figuring out that in box 8, there had to be a 7-1-7 pathway towards box 9. Great Puzzle!

[@DarkChasm]

excellent puzzle ❤❤❤❤❤

[@Donizen1]

39.27 Loved every second. Then watching Simon do it was total joy, particularly his occasional quotable comments. :)

[@sealed2mybff]

I'm feeling pretty smug about having 11 digits in the grid when Simon only has 7. It won't last, though. I am ALWAYS left humbled when I try to beat him in sudoku.

[@SteffenMarkussen]

Haven't done a lot of German whispers before so managed to go very far without using stuff like a 3 would force the next cell to be 8 or 9 - and yet without resolving more than maybe a third of the digits Simon did, the loop could still be found all the way down to the final two "50/50" choices, which I kinda felt made the setting even more miracolous. Very nice!

[@bowen324]

I'm not too familiar with loops so I struggled near the end because I felt that the 7,7,7 diagonal and the 2,1,2,1 diagonal between boxes 6, 8, and 9 on the loop shouldn't be there for fear that the loop was connecting diagonally. I went back, sure I did something wrong, looked at it again from another direction and found the same logic and said, "Well, I guess it checks out."

[@Zeekfox]

Heh, I didn't notice the "where is the orange/blue digit in box 2?" logic. I instead asked where 1, 2, and 3 go in box 3. We already have all three digits in rows 1 and 3, so row 2 in box 3 is already a triple, which drives the loop direction given the polarity.

[@charlier.k4934]

Fantastic, im new to the channel and have watched just a handful of videos and decided to pause this a few minutes in and try to solve it myself on paper. Yesterday! It took me hours. I found it pretty difficult and i had to have a break from it at one point. But ive just finished it and restarted the video and it was fun to see how you solved it almost identically in the same order. Ive done regular sudoku a million times but this was my first time tackling the whole concept of a loop and took me a while to conclude about the 4s & 6s rule! Now I know that, my time to complete another one may be even remotely close to your time! But it was still impressive how quick you progressed. I hope to see another one like this! Great video :)

[@FPbadger]

This puzzle is beautiful. I tried to solve on a plane journey today and probably would've given up if I had more than one puzzle available. So I persisted and managed to break in bit by bit. Proof that I need to be more resilient in my puzzling

[@RealCadde]

24:22 The thing you are not seeing as a next step is R1C8. Can it be loop? If it is loop, it's a low digit. And [123] is not available. So it would be a 4. But it's not on a box corner/edge with another box next to it and that would put double 9 in the box. R1C8 and R1C9 are both grey. And additionally, this puzzle seems to be about more than just low and high digits. It's about modulus digits. [123], [456], [789]. Because 4 and 6 are, not impossible, but very difficult to have on the loop. They can only exist in box corners/edges where there's another box next to it that allows a 1 or a 9. The additional "rule" this creates is that, if you are limited to [123] and [789], you can only have 6 cells in a row or in the same box before you run out of digits. As evident in row 1, where you can't have any 4's or 6's on the loop because 1 and 9 are used up and/or can't go anywhere to accommodate a 4 or 6. Okay, where is orange in box 3? It's partnered with the 6.

[@jurgenbaumann67]

First thing I saw was in maximum one of the given digits could be on the loop. 2 & 6 diagonal touched and not on same side of 5... that means one of them or both aren´t on the loop. And than I colored every cell with bishops move. When they got found as grey I deleted that color, but if not I had seperated all digits on the loop by big or low.

[@Vorash00]

I had a different but similar solve path which makes watching this educational. Picking up tips to make future puzzles easier

[@PinkBear-zz4mi]

20:31 You could have figured out the 1s by using removing the 2 pencil mark at the top above the given 2 and then more elimination. But I know you would never do that because that is the easy way.

[@iambicpentakill971]

"Let me ignore the easy two in box two and do something complicated" - Simon, probably always

[@Aliessil]

Finished in 27:08 (not having to explain anything to an audience 😀). Loved that, didn't expect to solve it that quickly

[@RealCadde]

29:55 "Can we do better" You could at least color the 5 grey In R5C9 and by extension R4C9. Loop must get out so it takes R6C8 and is a 7 or 8.

[@stangerrits6712]

10:58 Wait, what?! Apparently the digit 4 is now naughty, I always tought it was monogamous?

[@smylesg]

11:00 11:44 Since when are monogamous digits considered naughty and unfriendly?

[@aleksapupovac]

19:05 Easier way to resolve this part is to use bishop's color logic Simon mentioned to notice 2 is out of the loop. And if the path continues straight into orange, we have two ends of the loop that have to connect to the part of the loop in r5. But they can't both exit the first 3 rows without touching each other.

[@katiekawaii]

Loved it.

[@darthrainbows]

Nice, solved in 29:35. I beat Simon's time for the 2nd time today 😄

[@jaspersneyers4559]

YESSS ANOTHER ONEEE

[@VonBlade]

If that was any smoother it would have been sung by Sade.

[@LednacekZ]

18:08 for me. it was quite fun. nothing hard.

[@ThePhenomBot]

I don't quite understand why the first digit couldn't have been 1?

[@shantanubayaskar]

Still getting used to the German whisper polarity thing.

[@mattsal8315]

Hi Simon, its not fair to say 4 is unfriendly, it is simply monogamous.

[@marsdenrhodri]

Huzzah! ♥️

[@Gonzalo_Garcia_]

9:13 for me. Great puzzle, very enjoyable!!

[@mudscuffer]

30:14 for me. That flowed really well. Great puzzle.

[@ronjohnson6916]

That's three threes in the corner.

[@warren_r]

Great puzzle, my time was 41 minutes!

[@onlynowonce]

fantastic sudoku! this was a lot of fun! :D

[@gibbbon]

yea, i beat the video's score by 43 sec

[@xerodeus2337]

are there extra solve videos on patreon?

[@AWanderingSwordsman]

35:40 for me. Was pretty fun.

[@xXFoiXx]

Doesn't any corner touch itself diagonally? I never understood this.

[@crashtextdummie]

The rule generally means that if two cells on the loop touch diagonally, they must form a corner of the loop.

[@RichSmith77]

That would be two cells on the loop touching diagonally. The rule isn't about component cells, but the snake as a single entity. After all, every component cell of the snake is a cell that touches another snake cell. That's not what's forbidden.

[@six_5000]

30:54 for me