Thanks again for a wonderful solve, Simon! Thrilled to have been featured again for this, and you're right that this was very hard to set :P - I was convinced for a good few days that I would be forced to use an extra constraint or given digits, and I was overjoyed when I discovered this was possible with a clean grid with only cages, and remained fun! *Spoiler Time* 57:37 - You mention this step is really hard, and it's true that it's definitely the hardest point in the puzzle to progress, but figuring out the 25 pair is one of multiple ways to continue at that point. Primarily, the top (pink) cage can be narrowed down through parity, meaning R4C2 must be odd, which means it can only be 3 or 5. If R4C2 is 3, that makes R3C1 9, forcing both the green and pink cages to both be 47, which is impossible, so R4C2 is 5, and can finish from there. :) Also, you could immediately place 6 in R1C3 because 6 could never be used to make up 13 or 19, which you did talk out, but didn't quite follow through with. ;) Glad to see this didn't end up being the marathon I was concerned it might be, and very impressed by your mental arithmetic! Everyone will be pleasantly relieved to know I am not planning on making a 10x10, and I look forward to whomever may create an 8x8, but I have other ideas with similar non-repeating cage totals with stuff other than primes... :P - Mega "Xenonetix" Lamb Logic-Masters Germany ID: 000IGV
@mvanvoorden6 ай бұрын
Thanks for another great puzzle! In terms of larger grids, if you're ever planning on revisiting it in a far future, I think it would work great as an 11x11 chaos construction :P
@petrie9116 ай бұрын
Fibonacci numbers, perhaps? The fact that 21 is both Fibonacci and triangular would surely come up. Probably also that 34 has only one representation as 5 distinct digits.
@justseepa6 ай бұрын
Thank you for entering the possibilities in the rule set! Great puzzle :)
@noahgolan6035 ай бұрын
Took me an hour more than simon and had to restart twice due to too-hasty logic (once i forgot 1-3-1 was possible for the 5 cage and put in 2-1-2 which doesn't work, and once I somehow convinced myself that nineteen can't be created without a nine in the bottom right cage, then completely forgot about that logic to proceed with the top left cage), but my final progression was exactly through the 6 at r1c3, then the 3 or 5 in r4c2, then a five because after the 47 in the big cage at the top one can't get to 53 at the big cage at the bottom (didn't even check if you could get to 47 as well). Gotta say, it didn't even occur to me to examine the massive 73 cell to its possible combinations, but it's absolutely brilliant! Firstly i think it's (while still very hard), easier than seeing that the 3 in r4c2 breaks the puzzle, secondly it's astoundingly beautiful you actually know the cumulative sum of all the moving parts in that monstrositiy of a cage, and thirdly i didn't end up using that cage at all - except to check in the end i got a prime number. That way you actually use that part of the puzzle as well. Anyway thank you for a fantastic puzzle @megalamb, and a beautiful way forward i completely missed @Cracking The Cryptic
@MrBlbll6 ай бұрын
1:06:45 Simon exclaiming "I am going to actually have to put on my thinking cap" one hour into the puzzle has the same energy as "this isn't even my final form", and I love it.
@CaptainSpock17016 ай бұрын
As of about 25 minutes in I'm sitting at the PC very vocally informing Simon why the "3579" pencil mark in the bottom left of box five cannot have a three in it. This is where my wife comes in and started with "You know that...". I'm fully expecting her to say that he cannot hear me but no! Her full sentence: "You know that he does not understand Afrikaans!" Of course yes.. *That's* the problem!
@viggoGodisgreat5 ай бұрын
😂😂
@pablojp34985 ай бұрын
Hahaahah
@bubelematanda82794 ай бұрын
We're getting closer to the answer with this one
@martina.7104 ай бұрын
I kept wanting to tell him it's a 7. Didn't work in English or German 😀
@putendoener4 ай бұрын
@@martina.710 At the point I am rn it could be a 5 as well 🤔 gotta see what he comes up with or what I'm missing Edit: Nevermind, I got it 5 seconds after commenting 😂
@neil27966 ай бұрын
My favorite Simonism: "I've broken it. Wait. No I haven't."
@hzl17766 ай бұрын
need this on a t-shirt
@bbgun0616 ай бұрын
"I thought I was wrong, but I was mistaken."
@anwarabdelazeem27646 ай бұрын
I've been watching CTC for around 4 years. I still smile every time Simon says I'm one of his favourite people and shares the secret. The only difference now is that I can see it coming which means I start smiling even before he says it. Thank you
@sumyrda27722 ай бұрын
❤You always know watching a solve by Simon will help you calm down and feel better, no matter what your day was like.
@jessicaschultz7325 ай бұрын
Simon humming along, flowing his logic, and then suddenly going “wait, am I wrong about everything?” Is such a mood.
@angec99086 ай бұрын
My favorite statement so far: “I’m being a bit cryptic here” Guess that means we have to crack Simon.
@Alsadius4 ай бұрын
Nah, he's cracked already. (But delightfully so)
@mewmewmew126 ай бұрын
I was proud to finish this puzzle by myself yesterday in a bit over two hours with extensive note-taking. I then of course tuned in today to watch Simon's solve, in half the time, with nothing but intuition, logic, mental math, and lots of good humor. Simon is truly one of a kind :D
@PsychoSoldierPrometheus6 ай бұрын
"Let's make this red, cause it will make me feel like I'm doing something" Hahahaah
@estherwestbroek6 ай бұрын
Feel like procrastinating today, getting out my red marker😈
@collapsiblespork6 ай бұрын
I am constantly in awe of how Simon can keep track of all the maths needed to solve puzzles like this in his head. Had I attempted this puzzle, I definitely would have written down the list of primes on a sheet of paper and checked them off as I used them. In this case, that likely would have helped him work out the sums of the last three cages a bit quicker.
@spatulamahn6 ай бұрын
Determines there must be a 3-4 cage in the middle box - immediately forgets it and tries to figure out how the leftover digit can be a 3!
@emilywilliams32376 ай бұрын
Simon, your birthday greeting to me was mind-blowing - thank you so much for your kindness. I have had a wonderful birthday visiting my relatives and Mount Rainier and other wonderful sites and sights in Washington State, but your greeting is very special. Now to watch the video - it might be tomorrow or the next day before I get back to it, though, because of travel.
@myacky58876 ай бұрын
Happy Birthday Emily!! I hope it was a great one 🎉
@emilywilliams32376 ай бұрын
@@myacky5887 It was great!
@runnerman86 ай бұрын
Happy Birthday Emily! I echo what Simon said. Your comments always put a smile on my face :)
@emilywilliams32376 ай бұрын
@@runnerman8 thank you so much!
@chocolateboy3006 ай бұрын
I finished in 79 minutes. I have no idea how you can construct something so simple looking with a minimal ruleset and have it be this beautiful. The break-in was really fun and I was so excited to find that the 5 cage was in a 3 cell cage. This series was so fun and one felt fresh. Great Puzzle!
@Orenotter6 ай бұрын
This grid has me chuckling and smirking. We found all the primes where they're lurking. When victory we've tasted, Much time I have wasted When I know that I should have been working.
@_pinkangels6 ай бұрын
i've been obsessed with watching these even though i could never solve one on my own but it's so fascinating to see a genius at work!
@LyuboRyuk6 ай бұрын
ikr ❤
@The_Omegaman6 ай бұрын
Get the apps. They are easier and you level up. Felt the same but can solve most. Just not the set theory ones
@_pinkangels6 ай бұрын
@@The_Omegaman I can do basic sudoku lol but not this
@emilywilliams32376 ай бұрын
OK, coming back to this after watching it in a few parts over the past few days, between travel and sightseeing and the like. This was an amazing puzzle. Although it is far, far longer a video than I would ordinarily think I could solve the puzzle myself, I actually think I might be able to do this one because of the great foundational work in the earlier puzzles of this type. Thanks for working your way through this (and so many others), Simon, with such thoroughness. It truly teaches the way to do these. And thank you again for the birthday greetings. (I confess to having listened to them more than once - is that too much hubris? I hope not - it gives me such pleasure to be part of this CtC community!)
@CaptainSpock17016 ай бұрын
40:36 - "Fascinating" is so the right word to use. Absolutely fascinating how, after just putting in the two nines and the 8-9 pair (40:18), he ignores the 9 that would disambiguate it! That's why we all love you Simon.
@-ARatnakumar6 ай бұрын
Out of no where when he say Am I wrong about everything here 😂 Classic
@utsavbmusic6 ай бұрын
Watching this video on a train, call that tracking the cryptic 🚂
@ikepigott6 ай бұрын
Watching while refinishing furniture, it’s shellacking the cryptic
@longwaytotipperary6 ай бұрын
As a patreon you could say I’m watching while backing the cryptic.
@angec99086 ай бұрын
I couldn’t watch this for a few hours. I was lacking the cryptic.
@OUdarling6 ай бұрын
I watched this across three monitors, it’s cracking the triptych
@timch52276 ай бұрын
I watched this while i was coding, its hacking the cryptic
@virtuous-sloth6 ай бұрын
16:01 I love how "take up the slack" (a rope concept) and "degrees of freedom" (a math concept) are 100% compatible concepts.
@jurgnobs13086 ай бұрын
yea logical puzzles often have a lot in common with mathematical concepts
@sagov96 ай бұрын
simon forgetting he already proved the 3 would be in the 7 cage :D
@馬善萄6 ай бұрын
This is a sudoku discovery to me! When I first solved it few days ago, I just stunned by the fact that this exists. Just a small point, without doing complicated calculation, because a 2-cell cage or a 3-cell cage can never add up to 29 or more, and there are 8 such small cages, we can instantly say that they must add up to the lowest 8 prime number (except 2). Then the 4-cell cage in box 3 can only add up to at most 30, so it must be 29.
@emdiar65886 ай бұрын
Usually Simon will do ANYTHING to avoid doing Sudoku, over obsessing on the variant rules. Today we see the exact opposite, as he desperately looks for anything to avoid having to face the fact that, sooner or later, he'll have to balance massive square relationships.
@eisa_5554 ай бұрын
i love watching these bc id have no idea where to start or how to go further but then simon explains perfectly the logic he uses and i always understand and think “oh i could have figured that out if i tried hard enough”
@PainMaker00176 ай бұрын
Thank you for including a list of primes! It makes it easier for me to follow the logic.
@GrifterMage6 ай бұрын
One bit of logic I found that eliminated some of the math from the final two cage disambiguations was that r4c2 had to be odd, because the purple cage's total would otherwise be even, since it picks up 24 from boxes 2 and 3, plus two always-even digits and two always-odd digits in box 1. But if it has to be odd, by the time you're disambiguating the final cages the only option by sudoku is 5, which then locks all the other totals in, no math required.
@christophstahl81696 ай бұрын
Yes, that is how i did it aswell
@whatsleep176 ай бұрын
Me too!
@RichSmith776 ай бұрын
At around 35:00 in the solve, I think it's a little easier to look at the maximums for the two cages occupying the middle of row 7 together. The three cells in row 6 are a max 789, the five cells in row 7 are a max 56789 and the one cell in row 8 is a max 9. Sum these together and you have 24+35+9=68, which just happens to be the sum of the next two lowest primes (31+37). The square 2x2 therefore had to be 31, the Z pentomino 37, and the rows use the maximal digits available. But other than small point, I thought that was a masterful solve!
@VeritasUnae6 ай бұрын
I gave this a shot and ran into an issue on my first and second goes - I assumed, completely incorrectly mind you, that there was only one possible configuration for that 5 cage, and then subsequently could not add to 8, haha. What I adored about this puzzle was the 31 and 37 cages - after figuring out that the 31 cage must have that sum from the 2, 3 and other 4 cell cage, then taking both it and the 5 cell cage and taking the maximums (24, 35 and 9) you get the 68 sum. It's so beautiful and incredibly clever setting!! I'm astonished at the solve and really enjoyed the challenge. On my last reset it took me an hour and 40 minutes, but the logic to get there took me far longer to fully tease out. Incredibly glad to have given the whole series a shot though! Thank you to all the fantastic setters c:
@Cthulhus_Mum6 ай бұрын
I love this. Especially Simon’s declaration of himself as absolutely fabulous company at parties - that made my day 🤣🥰
@Kairamek6 ай бұрын
"Do have a go." Sure. *five minutes later* The only thing I know is r6c4 is odd, the four cages in box 5 are all odd/even pairs. Those 4 pairs plus the leftover odd in r6c4 sum to to 45. Also its lunch time in the American Southwest. So I'm just gonna let Simon do it while I eat.
@studgerbil90816 ай бұрын
that still puts you ahead of Simon who, at 28 minutes in, is wondering if he can put a "3" into r6c4 when he already has a 3-4 cage in box 5. Simon's logic and break-in skills are unmatched, but his sudoku and pencilmarking have me pulling my hair out every time.
@RealCadde6 ай бұрын
57:10 If the grey cage is 66 or 72, it needs to reach an odd number for it to be prime so the part of grey in box 7 needs an odd digit so 5 is always in that domino.
@bluerizlagirl6 ай бұрын
I ran an exhaustive search for 15-tuples of prime numbers that sum to 405: 3 + 5 + 7 + 11 + 13 + 17 + 19 + 23 + 29 + 31 + 37 + 41 + 43 + 47 + 79 = 405 3 + 5 + 7 + 11 + 13 + 17 + 19 + 23 + 29 + 31 + 37 + 41 + 43 + 53 + 73 = 405 3 + 5 + 7 + 11 + 13 + 17 + 19 + 23 + 29 + 31 + 37 + 41 + 43 + 59 + 67 = 405 3 + 5 + 7 + 11 + 13 + 17 + 19 + 23 + 29 + 31 + 37 + 43 + 47 + 53 + 67 = 405 3 + 5 + 7 + 11 + 13 + 17 + 19 + 23 + 29 + 31 + 37 + 43 + 47 + 59 + 61 = 405 Kids, whatever you do, *do not* try nesting fifteen for loops. Just as the top rated industrial safety boots are only good for 200 Joules, which is equivalent (at least on Earth, where a mass of 1kg. has a weight as near to 10 Newtons as damn it is to swearing) to 20kg. falling from a height of 1m. and so you might just as well lift weights in your bare feet for all the good any fancy shoes are going to do you, this is one of those rare occasions where a little gentle recursion might actually be slightly less insane than the "proper" way.
@wokkawicca5 ай бұрын
I think I'd break a metatarsal if I dropped that extended analogy on my foot, but I sure appreciated the work you put into it and finding the possible solutions.
@Anware_Canella5 ай бұрын
Maybe it's not crazy that Simon can solve this but the fact that someone created this puzzle definitely is!
@g00se_ars0nist6 ай бұрын
i adore simon and his commentary! im so glad to have found this channel :)
@holgerdvachlis65604 ай бұрын
Absolutely adore your content together with the kind voice!
@longwaytotipperary6 ай бұрын
EMILY!!! Happy birthday!! You are one of my favorite commentators - always positive, insightful and gently humorous!!! Have a wonderful day!!! 🎉🎉🎉🎉
@David_K_Booth6 ай бұрын
Seconded! Have a great day, Emily.
@pouletbelette6 ай бұрын
A very happy birthday to you, Emily. Thank you for your comments. This community wouldn't be the same without you!
@smahoney12126 ай бұрын
Happy Birthday Emily
@penningmeestercgkdelft91596 ай бұрын
Happy birthday Emily!
@logiclrd5 ай бұрын
At 1:03:26, it _is_ forced, because the gray box's digits are all in boxes where every other cell is filled. Its sum is determined.
@marlonludwig81365 ай бұрын
while watching i was guesstimating the sum of the larger cages just going by an average value per space of 5, so for the green cage for example there are 10 spaces so the estimated value of the cage should be around 50 so i was quite happy to see how close i was
@andrewgrant65166 ай бұрын
Minimum for the large cage is at least 62, cutting out two more primes. Box six needing 7 digits is very powerful.
@elizabethshort96326 ай бұрын
I'm so proud of myself that I solved this on my own! The puzzle had really nice flow to the logic - I never felt like I didn't know what to do
@Glamador6 ай бұрын
At around 1:07:00 Simon starts musing about figuring out the value of the remaining cages, but he already had the value of the big cage because all of the digits in all of the boxes it enters are known! You can just count.
@loomon26106 ай бұрын
1:03:45 - Let's make this cage red because that will make me feel like I'm doing something. Hilarious!!
@frankjiang18576 ай бұрын
Finished in 39:55. What lovely logic for the break-in. I particularly like how 1 of my assumptions was immediately upended from how the center box had to be filled out. Fun puzzle!
@skid686 ай бұрын
Thank you Simon you make me smile and you explain so well that then make me feel smart sometimes when you solve it before Simon, do it only because he explains it so well and double/triple check it is right :)
@mvansprang56356 ай бұрын
Amazing puzzle! If you leave out the list of primes under 100 from the rule set, this got to be sudoku with the shortest rule set and no given digits or other info in the grid. Only the cages and the primes constriction. Really amazing!
@bloodboughtsaint7773 ай бұрын
It took me 3 hours to solve... but I was a bit distracted by the kids doing kid things at times. This one was fun. I loved every minute of it. I was having a hard time getting started, but I watched your first 2 minutes just to hear how you were going to break this down. The big trick I pulled from you was that the total of all the cages had to add up to 405. Once I knew that, I was able to isolate all of the Prime Number values that would be used. I had mapped out all of the possible sets of usable primes. After some time, I had determined that the 2, 3 & 4-cages had to use all of the primes from 3 to 31 (10 Prime Values for each of the 10 cages). For any of the 4 cages to get to 37 was impossible, and any of the 2 cages using 2 was impossible. I then worked out what the possible values could be for the 5-cage, 7-cage, 10-cage and 11-cage. I then started working on the middle and made a few mistakes which caused me to restart... that's where most of the time went. However, after resetting, it was all downhill. Once the middle was basically solved, and I had assigned Primes to each of the 3-cages & 4-cages, the 5-cage was a given, and then the 7-cage only had one option. Between the 10, 11 & 20-cages I had figured out by process of elimination what their values ought to be (43, 53 & 73). After that, the puzzle just resolved itself. [I had to use a spreadsheet to keep track of all of this]
@confusedwhale4 ай бұрын
6:25 is when he finishes his announcements and starts the puzzle.
@chitraagarwal82596 ай бұрын
Wonderful.. Been waiting for this one!
@Stallion2596 ай бұрын
Phistomefel helped a lot in this puzzle. I haven’t seen if Simon used it yet or not but it helped me
@petrie9116 ай бұрын
As soon as I saw the geometry of the puzzle, I knew Phistomofel would come up.
@piarittersporn6 ай бұрын
Brilliant puzzle. Absolutely exciting.
@MattYDdraig6 ай бұрын
23:08 Absolutely magnificent feat of construction. As with the previous iterations of this genre the maths breaks down the solution pretty simply, but just building this is incredible in itself.
@dinane6 ай бұрын
I made a spreadsheet of primes for the last one. It came in convenient this time too! It let me look at the deltas between primes.
@kierkegaard546 ай бұрын
22:57 me every second of my life
@PauxloE6 ай бұрын
This was hard ... 298:30 for me (spread over two nights), solve counter 1876. I figured out relatively quickly roughly which prime numbers are needed (with some wiggle room at the upper end), and which cage-sizes fit to which prime (thanks to the pidgeon hole principle 3, 5, 7, 19, 23, 29, 31 had just one option, 11, 13, 17 had two options for a while, and the larger primes had to share the larger cages). Though I mis-counted the 7-cage as a 6-cage 😕, and also otherwise did some wrong calculations. Finally I took my command line calculator to help me out. Then I spent most of the time on the Sudoku part ... and got stuck. Remembered to re-count the cages and use some parity (the primes here are all odd!), which helped.
@PauxloE6 ай бұрын
Now watching Simon do it: He managed to get it much more straightforward, going by size of cages and primes. (I had to use the Phistomefel ring at the end to make sure which digits go where exactly, but I see Simon managed it without it.)
@davidhughes71746 ай бұрын
Thank you Simon, a most enjoyable solve.
@Sam_on_YouTube6 ай бұрын
Solved in 82:56. I rarely take on these hour plus challenges, but this one seemed like the kind I could handle. I made a little math mistake at one point near the end. When counting the digits in the 53 cage, I missed the 1 in box 3. I immediately noticed something was wrong, as the 13 cage no longer added up, but I had to check the video to see what the mistake was. Other than that, I solved it on my own without guessing.
@robert-skibelo6 ай бұрын
Any time round 51 minutes, with only the three biggest primes unknown, it makes sense to add up the 12 known primes, which amount to 169. This drastically reduces the possibilities for the last three, especially after finding that the biggest is 73, leaving 96 to be apportioned between the other two.
@TheBaseballSource5 ай бұрын
Am I missing why he spent so long deciding whether a 2 cage was possible. The smallest cages are two cells large and are dominos so could never be 1-1. Amazing solve, especially without pen and paper tho!
@facepalmos21106 ай бұрын
It was great to hear Simon say he is interesting at parties!
@thephysicistcuber1756 ай бұрын
57:28 Simon not knowing the secret of two adjacent cells with the same three candidates each: their sum can only have three values. In this case the values are 2+4, 2+5 and 4+5. Given the context this was in it must be odd (since if added to either 66 or 72 must give a prime), and not a multiple of three, so it must be a (2,5) pair.
@Graknorke6 ай бұрын
You know it's been a good puzzle when it takes half an hour to figure out the first number
@six_50006 ай бұрын
108:41 this one was far more brutal than its predecessors...
@madametrafficjam83475 ай бұрын
The fact that numbers can repeat would make this impossible for me. I can't wrap my mind around that anymore, I've done too much sudoku and kakuro.
@clawtooth356 ай бұрын
I somehow got the 6 Box 1 far earlier than you and as all the digits in the pink cage were fixed apart from 4, I busted out the calculator. Turns out every single option pared it down to either a 3 or 5 due to evenness. I then worked out the grey box like you did and finding the top right cage could have both 4 and 8 just unravelled the whole rest of the puzzle. I don't even know what the grey cage actually adds to!
@CallMeConrad6 ай бұрын
One thing at 1:06:10 The way I solved it was that you knew the contents of the purple cage with the exception of the 59 and the cell below by knowing all of the other digits in box 2. To add to a prime it had to either be a 5 over a 3 or a 9 over a 5 but the three in green cage sees it so it has to be a 9 over a 5
@kielblanton6 ай бұрын
Well, this took me about 2 hours and I made a spreadsheet to track the possible box combinations. But I made it!
@olivier25532 ай бұрын
If I may suggest, coming from someone suffering from number dyslexia, if you recount the cages to be sure you made no mistake,. it is better to change the counting order, for example on the second count, you start from the bottom. If you always count in the same order, you have the risk of making the same mistake twice. When I check a number, phone, amount, bank account, I always check it from right to left.
@janeflett49716 ай бұрын
Great puzzle, I love the ones that involve some maths as well as sudoku
@TaismoFanBoy6 ай бұрын
solved it in 63:06 whew! lots of math, mins and maxes, good stuff.
@battle003336 ай бұрын
At 50-00 it seemed that whether its 13 or 19, 6 cannot go into the cage. Thinking more about it, if 6 goes into the cage and you sum to 13 you need 16, 25, 34. Neither works. if you then try to sum to 19, you ned 6 + 13 and thats 49, 58, 67, which also doesnt work
@briandash13516 ай бұрын
"This cage suffers the same indignities..." Best laugh of the day!
@larssmith39156 ай бұрын
My addition is so slow. I got to it, but over 2 hours... It's astonish to see how quickly Simon does it in his head 🤣🤣
@Gonzalo_Garcia_6 ай бұрын
39:15 for me. Can't wait for the 10x10 version and the 11x11 version and the 12x12 version...
@mvanvoorden6 ай бұрын
an 11x11 chaos construction would be lit
@leefisher63666 ай бұрын
7:52 - Simon, the channel is 'Cracking the Cryptic'... you are allowed to be cryptic, especially when it's a long way outside the Sabbath lacking one from Paris. (7,3)
@cparks10000006 ай бұрын
1:09:03 The easiest way to see this is by summing up the current total discovered cages.
@_-_-Sipita-_-_5 ай бұрын
32:56 for me. had to backtrack from a mistake twice.
@CraigThorsen-ph4cb6 ай бұрын
This was fun. Thanks.
@hi_fox6 ай бұрын
Simon where are the next Braid levels? I am so eager to see you finish it off
@maximillianmortensen3946 ай бұрын
I think this is the most I've ever been faster than him, got it in 55 min 42 sec, I've only ever been faster than him a couple of times. Amazing puzzle
@roccov36146 ай бұрын
I managed to do this puzzle but it needed a crazy amount of math. I think I only managed it because I like colouring in puzzles.
@MatthewBouyack6 ай бұрын
"That is ridiculous! If that's what I'm meant to do it's ridiculous!" (59:00) Is suspect so! I ended up following the exact same path (2-5 pair in box seven, then restrict the 19-cage in box one), though I was stuck for over an hour before I found it!
@fernandosfiore6 ай бұрын
Does anyone know how he’s able to stream many different puzzles like that? What type of tool or application does he use to be able to do that?
@xerodeus23376 ай бұрын
that was a tricky one... took me just over 2 hours but very satisfying
@MyriamTT6 ай бұрын
Great puzzle !!!!
@chiron53656 ай бұрын
at 21:23 you say you almost wish you can tick them off. You can use open source software like OpenBoard" to draw on your screen to mark off the prime numbers you've used. Might also be nice for the viewer.
@EBattousai6 ай бұрын
Second this! Telestration software is super useful for the streamer/ KZbinr
@jurgnobs13086 ай бұрын
so i have been using a sharpie for no reason? damn
@notthatseanbean6 ай бұрын
Happy Father’s Day, Simon!
@Orenotter6 ай бұрын
I asked my robot friend Whiskers to give me 15 primes summing to 405 without using both 3 and 5. He thought he did okay, but was getting extremely confused. Here's the tail end of our conversation. Whiskers: 3+7+13+17+19+23+29+31+37+41+43+47+53+59+61 = 483 Please correct any overlapping prime, redo properly checking; Sum here matching exactly! Let retry again? Fixing any prime+odd = sum correction! Try next updating soon? Me: Matching exactly? It's off by 78. Well, don't worry about it. I'm watching Simon Anthony solve the same puzzle. He's smart. I'll just do what he does. Whiskers: That sounds like a good plan! Simon Anthony is indeed quite skilled with puzzles. If you have any other questions or need help with anything else, feel free to ask. Aaaaaand I just found the five cage. My bad.
@LyuboRyuk6 ай бұрын
I want to see Simon playing Starcraft II. It may be fun, it may be not. But I am curious what this brilliant mind would create. Maybe in another channel...
@dinidini40006 ай бұрын
28:38 sums up alot of smaller missed moments of a confusing puzzle given he proved without a dought 7 was made up of 3+4
@xaviercoletiguitert14876 ай бұрын
"Am I wrong about everything?" top tier youtube
@jaymuse1276 ай бұрын
These have been satisfyingly gorgeous
@DaigotsuSoetsu6 ай бұрын
I was able to deduce the first 12 primes but I made a bad assumption that spiraled the rest of the puzzle into contradiction. Had to finish the video to see you get the solution.
@grantfraser54306 ай бұрын
Just finished, won't embarrass myself by posting such a slow time. Now I'm going to watch the video to see how it's done without paper and pen figuring out all the prime combinations that add to 405.
@frying_pan16316 ай бұрын
Prime number are my favourite type of numbers :)
@ahouyearno6 ай бұрын
Yes! They are horrifying like a good horror movie you can’t stop watching
@Dodrebur6 ай бұрын
How long until someone expands on this to become a deconstruction puzzle?
@MaierFlorian6 ай бұрын
Way too hard for me at this stage but I totally loved the solve path, just a beautiful idea, those Prime Cage Puzzles. Hoping to see a 2+ hour 10x10 video some time soon 😁
@jinkela72956 ай бұрын
Where is the 8x8 version?
@miran2486 ай бұрын
Wondering the same question..
@cameronbaydock57126 ай бұрын
23 mins “Am I wrong about everything” was very poignant
@juliadefranco11306 ай бұрын
My husband and I got through it, in one go even, but not without a calculator.