The Easter Miracle Sudoku

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[@framebadger]

Nice to have a king's and knight's move constraint at the start of the world chess championship.

[@framebadger]

I did this myself but took much longer. After finding all the 1s 2s and 3s I started colour coding the squares close to box 5 in relation to the central box. This was way more efficient but I did get a completely coloured puzzle before working out where any of the numbers actually went.

[@itsnotme6869]

For a second I was confused why a serious chess competition would have a a kings and knights move constraint. I solved it the same way bit more chaotic but it gave me the fun of solving each square twice

[@FrancisFjordCupola]

17:19 - all the three's are done... but Simon's on such a high rush induced by all the numbers falling into place he misses out on a 3 in the corner. :P All okay though, with so much pleasure emanating throughout the whole video.

[@maljamin]

hah yes even when he noticed the xwing before that, you could almost tell he had no interest in 3s in any corners the edge ones being much more useful in this case!

[@walrusahoy5878]

So ditching REM for U2?

[@youtubersingingmoments4402]

I love the divergence of strategies one can use after placing the ones, twos, and threes. I opted to go for eights becuase they were surprisingly constrained (avoiding the need to use shading) and the rest just fell into place. As a bottom-tier amateur, this was a breath of fresh air and one of the few I was able to solve on my own.

[@SMTRodent]

Same here for the eights and the not usually being able to solve!

[@crueI]

I went with 8s after I didn’t spot anything with 7s and (4, 9) pairs.

[@Kamiyurikai]

Same here took me awhile to notice that 8 was more restricted than 7 but they both flowed well together

[@bait6652]

Went w 4&9 then 6

[@michaelholdowsky6386]

Iwent with 5. Not much information from that move...

[@elideangeli5098]

this is the first cracking the cryptic I've ever solved, with a time of 75:04. I have worked through other ones, but never without Simon's/Mark's help. I can see from the end that we even did it the same way! I'm very proud of myself :)

[@dispatch1347]

Well done! It's great when you solve your first daily video puzzle. What a great one to solve first as well.

[@Grandy_UiD]

I turned this into a full blown coloring exercise after the 1s, 2s and 3s were done. Crazy how you can have such different approaches.

[@derekfox7696]

I did the same. Fully colored the rest of the grid.

[@sniper1a259]

I was fully expecting Simon to keep forgeting about rules but surprisingly (almost) no shouting at the screen today Beautiful puzzle and beautiful fluent solve

[@stangerrits6712]

I wasn’t really shouting, but sure had my thoughts on the usage of the blue and yellow shading, not really being consistent between fixed positions and options 😊

[@LillaJag]

The flow in Miracle Sudoku is something special and so satisfying to watch! It's my favorite type of sudoku "variant", even its more like a compilation of different variants that is a perfect match!

[@KyleBaran90]

As long as the rules are elegant! Having 7 or 8 rules to keep track of is exhausting, but king/knight and maybe 1 or 2 more seems like a good balance

[@hansmor8]

Totally agree, the miracle soduko app is the only cracking the cryptic app i have 100% cleared because its just so satisfying to solve

[@markwizy4661]

It's silly. I know, but I wish that last rule was written to be a normal XV rule with the addition of "all Xs and Vs are placed."

[@abj6920]

It sends shivers up my spine when it all fall into place in less than thirty seconds, I wish I could bottle that kind of satisfaction

[@fucinoc.3227]

I don't know if this is common in miracle sodokus or if it is made by the combination of the rules sets, but I loved the fact that all the rows of the sodoku had the same patter shifted around.

[@stevieinselby]

It is pretty much a given for miracle rulesets that you get repeating patterns. I'm not sure of exactly _why_ this is, but it does occur over and over.

[@asphias]

At around 27:27 you give up figuring out the blues, and start looking for 7s. It is possible to spot R1C3 not being able to be blue, because then it rules out all possible blue squares for row 2, and from that you can quickly get all blues done as well. Probably not faster to figure out, but i like the neatness of doing all 4s/9s before moving on. Lovely puzzle, and lovely solve!

[@RichSmith77]

I guess it amounts to the same thing, but I saw it as r1c3 being blue forces blue into row 3 in both boxes 2 and 3.

[@osirusbrisbane2305]

Miracle sudokus are always so fun to solve. love it!

[@Coyotek4]

19:09 ... years ago, there is *no way* that I finish a sudoku like this in under 30 minutes (or probably even an hour or two); I feel like I've come a long way since the first 'miracle sudoku', as I feel many others do. Nice puzzle!

[@inspiringsand123]

Rules: 04:53 Let's Get Cracking: 06:59 Simon's time: 26m45s Puzzle Solved: 33:44 What about this video's Top Tier Simarkisms?! Bobbins: 3x (10:22, 21:53, 27:55) Chocolate Teapot: 1x (23:58) You Rotten Thing: 1x (23:59) And how about this video's Simarkisms?! Naughty: 13x (15:10, 15:12, 15:25, 16:17, 16:23, 16:33, 17:09, 17:43, 28:54, 30:17, 30:20, 31:11, 33:06) Hang On: 13x (11:21, 11:21, 17:48, 20:06, 23:10, 23:10, 25:14, 25:14, 25:14, 26:37, 26:37, 26:37) By Sudoku: 9x (10:33, 10:46, 13:02, 14:21, 23:04, 24:40, 28:37, 31:59, 32:56) Pencil Mark/mark: 9x (08:34, 08:45, 08:49, 08:57, 09:08, 09:10, 13:26, 16:11, 16:59) Obviously: 7x (05:31, 06:28, 07:10, 08:10, 17:38, 20:32, 21:26) Ah: 5x (09:25, 12:28, 14:31, 16:04, 23:59) In Fact: 4x (07:30, 07:30, 14:55, 22:38) Nonsense: 2x (12:34, 33:59) Beautiful: 2x (01:39, 33:47) Sorry: 1x (24:03) The Answer is: 1x (25:16) Stuck: 1x (11:15) Lovely: 1x (02:36) Ridiculous: 1x (25:43) Surely: 1x (16:31) Disappointing: 1x (20:14) Most popular number(>9), digit and colour this video: Ten (7 mentions) Three (48 mentions) Yellow, Blue (30 mentions) Antithesis Battles: Even (2) - Odd (0) Row (9) - Column (7) FAQ: Q1: You missed something! A1: That could very well be the case! Human speech can be hard to understand for computers like me! Point out the ones that I missed and maybe I'll learn! Q2: Can you do this for another channel? A2: I've been thinking about that and wrote some code to make that possible. Let me know which channel you think would be a good fit!

[@krinkzers9959]

thank you

[@darreljones8645]

Somehow, Easter and Christmas seem to be the only days of the year a miracle sudoku not only feels appropriate, but necessary.

[@imblackmagic1209]

fairly approachable, the colouring helps tons! thanks for sharing

[@ouwebrood497]

Nice having such a minimalistic puzzle.

[@EmonEconomist]

37:21. I've had a recent bad run with sudoku puzzles where I keep messing up somewhere, but don't discover it until when it's too late to backtrack and figure out where I went wrong. This is the first one I've managed to solve in a little while, so it's nice to have the little boost of confidence/reassurance!

[@adamheywood113]

33:01 Got it down to 4-5-6-9 quads all over the grid and a couple of leftover 7s, used colours to disambiguate from there Lovely puzzle, thank you

[@starcastle1181]

That was a pleasure to watch Simon thank you! You were so quick to know to look at the 4/9 logic, and everything just flew from there! 🎉 Thanks Just Kirb and Simon for a great video ❤

[@davidrattner9]

Happy birthday to you Riffclown!! Hope you had a wonderful day. Thank you for what you do for the community on a daily basis!!

[@emilywilliams3237]

Hear hear!

[@lorijohnson773]

Happy Birthday Riffclown. Thanks for all your great puzzles. You make the world a better place.

[@piarittersporn]

Step by step and relaxed to the solution. First the 3s, then the 1s and 2s .... brilliant. I loved it. Best easter puzzle.

[@Ma3ozi]

I love this puzzle! as soon as i saw the upload i knew i had to try it. I felt really proud of thinking about coloring, especially that this is my first sudoku that isnt from the GAS app! Amazing solve as always, Simon.

[@KSweatshack]

I found this channel via the miracle sudoku and it is still a favourite video to watch... Happy to see there are still more miracle puzzles out there

[@georgeaman1938]

Thank you Just Kirb and Simon. What a nice puzzle!

[@joubess]

Very approachable puzzle, and a lot of fun!!! Also still challenging even though breaking in was straight forward. Thanks, Simon!!!

[@theteatable4118]

Wow! I feel so proud of myself. This is the first time I've ever beat Simon in a Sudoku puzzle from when he got cracking. Of course, he had to explain his thought process whereas I got to think about the logic, but I've never even been close to the video length even if you include the introduction. I've thoroughly enjoyed these solves these last several years.

[@jamesshearer3936]

Happy Easter! I am actually learning something watching your videos. Logic. At least the beginning of such. But you make it very enjoyable. Thank you!

[@abcde_5949]

I wonder if there was a way to make a miracle-like sudoku which doesn't have this usual repeating structure on each row and column. Like 6-7-5-9-8-1-2-4-3 on each row in this puzzle.

[@BryanLu0]

I think you would have to provide more givens and less constraints to make less repeating. Or maybe you could introduce an indexing constraint?

[@HansWurst-eg8xm]

I don't think so... Didn't see one yet.

[@AllenBaranov]

My understanding is that it is not possible when you have a knight and king restraint. It is how come miracle sudokus are possible with so few digits. It does mean that you can shortcut the logic a bit (and really speed up the solve) but then it'd be less fun to solve.

[@IanUniacke]

I loved this puzzle. I almost gave up because I thought I wasn't smart enough, as I had just been putting 1s and 3s all over the place. Then I did sneakily watch the start of Simon's solve where he quickly said that sometimes you just have to put numbers everywhere, which I gave it another go and realised I was completely on the right track to begin with. I finished it off with lots of coloring which once I had ever cell colored was a simple case of elimination.

[@ericpraline1302]

Jolly stuff, thanks. Fun how these things gather a momentum of their own.

[@karsaanita]

I love these miracle sudokus. And I got to colour again!

[@emilywilliams3237]

This was such a fun puzzle, though I must say I kept wanting to have a non-consecutive constraint in there! Thanks for this wonderful video, Simon.

[@belgarat101]

2nd Sudoku I did in my life, once you get the hang of it it becomes quiet interesting :-). After the 1,2,3´s I proceeded in a purely graphic way. I gave all empty spaces numbers 4 to 9 and deducted 1,7,8,9 using the neighbour rule. After that was done I got a zigzag pattern of 7 pairs(tripletts) of 5,6,8 running along boxes 2,3 5,6 and 9. I knew all 3 digits were present because they all saw 2 other pairs. By coloring the "movement" i could deduct those(5,6,8) from all triple colored boxes. I kept permeating the 5,6,8 pairs and the first 8´s were revealed and a 2nd dominat pattern 4,7,9 reveled itself. I kept on drawing interference patterns until all 7´s and 8´s were placed. Leaving me with two independent pairs 5,6 and 4,9. I figured because of the independence it´s a coinflip from here so I just set the bottom right corner for 5 first and 6 after.

[@maljamin]

22:15 "I have now noticed something. I've noticed one thing. I've -- ooh I've almost noted two things!" This is what I can't get enough of. (Noticing things is indeed fun.)

[@nickburton5871]

Loved it! I enjoy knights'move puzzles, and just the right level of difficulty for me!

[@mikaylaalford5062]

Wonderful solving!

[@tank2045]

I still love the simple joy of the first "Miracle" sudoku we ever got...Simon opening the puzzle live, and all but laughing at it...Then the incredulousness as he had to start taking more seriously and finally realizing it was going to solve...All others can only be pale imitations to that...

[@heatherfyffe3618]

I took a different route -- started off the same with placing the 1s 2s and 3s, well, most of them. I got stuck and it was 20 minutes later before I found a 3 I could have placed but had missed all along. In those 20 minutes, I started colouring. Not by finding 7s or 8s, but by checking an edge piece in the centre box and using the move constraints and the "it isn't the 1 2 or 3 already placed" constraint, was able to colour a LOT of cells. After I got a bit stuck there I found the missing 3 and that unlocked a few more things. My way might have been slower but it still got the job done. Very, very satisfying puzzle.

[@4thright]

Great fun, not too hard for anyone practiced in how miracles usually work, 25:28 to get it done. Neat how it all comes together around the 4s and 6s at the end.

[@ol1ver49]

Whew! Finally an approachable Simon one. OK, took me over an hour, but worth it

[@RealCadde]

This puzzle was reminiscent of the very first puzzle i solved from this channel some 3 (?) years ago. It was a miracle sudoku with knights and kings restraint and no domino could have consecutive digits. It had only a given 1 and 2 in it and the solve was just about as pleasant as this one, though i liked the first one more as it made you progress from 1, 2, 3, 4, 5... All in logical steps. There's just something about kings and knights move constraints together that makes me happy to solve a puzzle.

[@stephenbeck7222]

Simon called it the miracle sudoku because of how amazing the solve path was, and thus he berthed a new genre of variant sudoku.

[@Jeffman978]

Love to try puzzles, usually fail and come to watch the solve but I like this one alot and got the solve!

[@Evansigler25]

I am happy with my finish time on this puzzle! (I am new to solving sudoku's with their own rule set) I got a time of 01:39:18 or just under 100 minutes

[@oliviamartinez25]

Took me 44 minutes, and it definitely helped that I had watched the other miracle sudoku videos

[@raphael714]

46.11 for me, did the start pretty quickly but then stumbled through the 4s and 9s. All in all a lovely little puzzle for when you're just looking to relax.

[@werefrogofassyria6609]

The Werefrog coloured hte 568 triplets, and identified each with its own colour, then did similar with 479 triples. Then, with only 123 not coloured, the rest of the grid, went looking for the one colour that could only be the one thing.

[@raysouth1952]

Great puzzle. Lots of fun.

[@l3igl2eaper]

Miracle puzzles are always so fun. Took me about 17 min. Love the logic.

[@MyriamTT]

Easy and fun ! Thank you !!!!

[@victoriam6569]

Quite easy and very fun! Thank you :)

[@johnomeara7240]

Took me about 67 minutes, one of the first times I've tried to do a puzzle before watching the video. Always liked the miracle ones.

[@parkerbond9400]

I loved the solve!

[@flobiish]

@5:03 That was one of the best descriptions of the chess king constraint.

[@IM_Skliarov_Chess]

great solving

[@blainebosworth7186]

Every time I’ve done a sudoku that has a knight’s move and king’s move constraint, I’ve noticed the numbers are either horizontally or vertically slid with the number pattern. In this case they are horizontal. So once you find where a number is next to its neighbor, you can propagate it throughout if you completed its neighbors in the grid.

[@brendonmurley8276]

I did it on my own - hooray!! Only the third time I’ve ever managed one without watching Simon at all ^^

[@emilymiller4349]

Happy Easter!

[@RyanLeach]

I'm not sure if I'm getting better at these or Cracking the Cryptic has just been featuring easier puzzles lately...

[@Stephen-Fox]

30m 15s for me. Tricky to figure out the start of this one, and then also there was a stumbling block for me once I found all the 1s, 2s and 3s. Very fun.

[@57thorns]

At 10:28 there is a bit more to look at for the 3s. The 3 in column 7 can only go in two space, and with this ruleset that removes many options.

[@headoftss]

“…flurried with a finish.” Brilliant.

[@HurricaneTouchdown]

Man I was singing when I realized where the 3 in box 3 went and was left singing alone.

[@SamsUndertale]

19:17 for me - I decided I would give this puzzle a shot and did not expect to be able to do it!

[@balkthor]

Took me a few tries. Once I solved the 123's, I had to color the entire rest of the puzzle since I had no idea what the digits could be. Once it was fully colored, took a few minutes to remove possibilities for the XV dominos. 7's first, then the 8's, then I was left with 49 and 56 pairs. Finally found a 56 pair touching a 49, that disambiguated the last 4 colors. 26:22 for me, but with a couple redos.

[@Kamiyurikai]

Fun miracle sudoku took me 25:40 to solve it....took awhile to notice some of the restricted numbers and getting the paired digits restricted by 1 was the best... getting to do colouring in the grid was the cherry on the top

[@jimmyh2137]

After the 1-2-3 i was able to place every single 8 in the grid, and those allowed me to place most of the 7 (except two). At that point i quickly found the "trick" in box 6 (4-9 pair and the 6 can't be next to 4) so everything got placed after that. I love this kind of miracle sudoku, always a joy to solve :D

[@RiseofPerfection]

36:39 for me. I‘ll admit I struggled a bit to place the 5,6,4 and 9s until I started colorcodimg. Then it all just fell into place. Lovely puzzle!

[@michaelpdawson]

So the 3 in the corner confetti effect was a one-time event? I was hoping it would be a regular feature!

[@tomkeks502]

Absolutely!

[@DjurslandsEfterskole]

Lovely approvable puzzle;

[@srwapo]

33:36, spent like 5-10 minutes spinning my wheels in the end until I looked at the solve and noticed that I completely missed seeing a 46 cell touching a 1, ruling a 6 out of it. I felt so good with my logic and missed something super simple that was staring right at me.

[@andremouss2536]

That was a very nice puzzle ! 34:17 for me, I loved the 49 pairs 😅

[@Alex_Meadows]

30:50 for me, which means I'm still slower than Simon (but getting closer, if we ignore the fact that he's explaining himself along the way). Well done Simon! I do love the interactions between the pencil marks in these puzzles, and having being drawn into the scene by the original Miracle back in 2020 it's great to see another one now and then.

[@djwebmail]

Was 34:27 myself! Any time I beat the video length is a win in my book!

[@dispatch1347]

@@djwebmail About the same for me, I knew this one should be doable as I've watched the original miracle lately and love king / knight puzzles. An awesome puzzle.

[@Hakucho64]

00:46:35, happy with that! Nice, approachable puzzle.

[@tiezieboy7877]

24:00 for me, also used exactly the same colours as simon with blues on 4 and yellows on 9, what a coincidence

[@chr1srugby]

28:06 for me, but usually I can't even solve most of the puzzles featured without a decent amount of help. You wizzes will continue to baffle me, but it's nice to get one in by myself now and again.

[@davidwilson8183]

Great solve as always! POSSIBLE SPOILER HINT if you haven’t solved this or watched yet … just an observation, nothing that tells the answer though … My first thought as soon as all the ones twos and threes were in place was, there is going to be a pattern of banding in this, and sure enough every row is exactly the same if you start with the 1 and look to the right wrapping around … it’s the exact same order. I didn’t use that to fill it in, but it was nice to see that it did end up that way since I thought it would at the beginning. Nice setting to make this rule set pop! Loved it as always!

[@AdamGaffney96]

26:18 I think I technically beat Simons time in this but this was such a gorgeous flow. I don't know how everyone else did it, but I immediately clocked that 1 pairs (that is, 4 and 9) would be constrained, so I started by highlighting all the possible 4's and 9's and eliminating/colouring until I got them all just filled in. From there it was nice and easy.

[@ionguy2881]

awesome!

[@fallingstar9643]

I noticed the 5,6,8 triplet hugging the given 1 and 3, and I noticed that putting the 8 north or south of the 1 would knock it out of box 5 entirely; that's what gave me a running start on the 7's and 8's. I did get held up for a while on the 5,6 and 4,9 bit, but just like you I noticed the restriction in box 6, and that cleared the rest up. ... I may have filled the grid with 5,6 and 4,9 pencil marks before realizing it, though. What can I say; I enjoy sudoku, but I am an amateur at best ^-^

[@ro2207]

I actually did that one. Took me just over one hour, yay!

[@HunterJE]

30:37 Blues can be finished here - the blue in box 3 resolves box 1, which resolves box 4 which resolves box 6...

[@bernierossi8062]

I’d forgotten how much I enjoy miracle sudoku. 38:47 after only one coffee, pretty happy with that

[@brianarsuaga5008]

Very fun, quite easy, but gave me ample opportunity for coloring. Probably not strictly necessary coloring, but it certainly made it easier, and it was fun when I got to just write in 36 digits all at once at the end!

[@adamlord1891]

31:52 - "And I suspect that we can go absolute HAM on the eights now." Sudoku Quote of the Year candidate right there. Also from 32:50 - 33:50, Simon places the final 38 digits in under a minute. Unbelievably satisfying.

[@titusadduxas]

45:16 happy enough with that. Lovely puzzle.

[@scarbo3697]

17:27 for me. MIracle sudoku is always nice to see!

[@doriswlongAgoandfarAway]

Kind Easter comment - what fun!

[@georgewhyte7096]

Lovely puzzle once you get past the 123s but as usual with miracles striping appears everywhere!

[@garethkenyon3174]

was completely of a 1 that would have solved the puzzle for us way earlier by eliminating 4, we actually got seven and eight before coloring for four and nine, but we also used four colors because some boxes just guaranteed that whatever was in them had to go in exact spots of the puzzle, so we solved it way harder than we needed to

[@adamheywood113]

Happy Easter everyone

[@tylerowens]

30:04 brilliant puzzle and a joy to color

[@stangerrits6712]

27:19 The blues are solvable at this point. A blue in R4C2 would put a blue in R1C3 and then in R3C5. With blues in rows 1 and 3, there is no place left for a blue in box 3. So at this point you could place a blue in box 4 in R5C3, and it will all fall in place from there, via box 5 and 6 and then to the upper three boxes.

[@nicolasmartin224]

Very neat puzzle. After sorting all 1, 2 and 3, i started coloring the grid by choosing a constrained domino and managed to do it all... :) But, I was blind and couldn't see how to choose which color was which number although that was the easiest step :)

[@longwaytotipperary]

That was so much fun!!! 😃

[@davidrattner9]

Your enthusiasm is so much fun!! 🙂

[@longwaytotipperary]

@@davidrattner9 it really was a lovely puzzle! 😄

[@stephenpassmore7306]

What a hoot!

[@balthazarbeutelwolf9097]

Did it a bit differently: after finishing the 1,2,3 I fully coloured the grid and only afterwards restricted/solved for numbers.

[@smylesg]

Good thing Just Kirb didn't mention the disjoint subset constraint. It would automatically add another hour to the solve. They always miss those.

[@arshgulati]

27:52 for me. Didn't expect to solve so quickly. Although I found it easier to think (after 123) in the order of 8,7 and then 49 and 56 pairs