The White Sudoku

[@OlliWright]

Thank you for the solve of my puzzle. This was one of a series of sudoku I created based on famous album covers, which can be found on LMD.

[@donaldsnyder1543]

Cool puzzle 😊.

[@longwaytotipperary]

Loved it!

[@Anne_Mahoney]

What a neat idea for a series of puzzles -- I'll have to check them out!

[@jimmyb101]

Congrats and hat off Olli, great work

[@FrancisFjordCupola]

Hi Olli, loved the puzzle (even though I mainly had to wrestle with my own faults marking some cells wrongly). Love the idea of famous album covers. Got so many ideas immediately.

[@Conval-wi5eh]

<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="1350">22:30</a> Simon: *highlights all nines so it can clearly be seen that the last three nines can be placed via sudoku* Also Simon: *solves the position of the nines in a way more complicated way without using sudoku* That was my favourite part! 😂 And to be honest, I solved it by using sudoku and 'my way' wasn't nearly as graceful. I explicitly came back to watch this sudoku be solved 'the Simon way' after solving it myself :) The essence of this puzzle became more clear in this video. Such a fun puzzle!

[@stangerrits6712]

Even the title of the puzzle was shouting at Simon to think more about the 9´s :)

[@angec9908]

A good cheesesteak sandwich uses good, thinly sliced steak and good cheese, not some amorphous cheese sauce. I hope you had one of the good ones. It almost makes up for the trip home. My parents lived in Philly as newlyweds and my mom bemoaned the loss of her daily cheesesteak for more than 50 years.

[@Kairamek]

I would hope it was a good one! He was in Philly when he had the Philly. Making a bad sandwich is not an option if you want to stay in business.

[@In_42_Space]

Love the long videos. But also really enjoy the flow of logic from the sparse clues these short videos have.

[@JSG-YT]

Simon missing how to place the 9's for ages is the thing I needed today, thanks for the entertainment

[@Imperial_Squid]

Imagine if your Philly Cheese sandwich was so expensive it meant you couldn't afford to heat your house, that would make it a Chilly Fees sandwich too!

[@littledevil27rt]

Thankyou Simon! Yes it is England Somerset and we've already started eating the burrata!!! :D

[@janerobson2297]

<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="1364">22:44</a> Let's highlight all the placed 9s and completely ignore the fact that we can just fill in all the rest. Why spoil a sudoku puzzle by doing sudoku!

[@myfyrmadocjones]

<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="1551">25:51</a> for me - i like to try these now if Simon and Mark’s time isnt too long and i look at the puzzle and think, yes I might be able to do this one.

[@MaryVidal-pt8bx]

A guitar intro always makes me smile but this one was especially lovely. Good puzzle too!

[@ibphred]

I was actually able to do this one. It took me <a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="79">01:19</a>:27 but I made no mistakes! I solved completely differently, finding almost all my 1s and 9s first, mainly from being bad at sudoku.

[@isidornimages]

I liked this one. It had a good flow. Took me a bit over 50 minutes, which is a typical for me on these "easy" puzzles.

[@kennetsdad]

Congrats Olli! A Simon feature that’s well deserved. I’m sorry I haven’t visited your twitch stream lately; I moved back to America this summer, so I’ve been busy.

[@MattYDdraig]

<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="1407">23:27</a> Beautiful grid and a great combination of the clue types to achieve this.

[@A_CC_K]

Yay a guitar intro!!!

[@Mujaki]

Only Nine clues? But there are thirteen of them!

[@ewm7347]

Love the guitar Simon, been listening to the HOF version of that quite a bit recently.

[@DontMockMySmock]

Now I want to see a sudoku named after Revolution #5 by Neil Cicierega. "Ladies and gentlemen, this is Mambo Number 5. . . Number 5. . . Number 5. . . Number 5. . . Number 5. . . Number 5. . . Number 5. . ."

[@onfire4godjj9]

Thanks for highlighting such a cool puzzle! I wonder if Simon ever checks the solve counter after he posts his solves? This puzzle has over 5800 solves now the day after Simon solved it. I don't normally attempt to solve the puzzles Simon posts, but seeing as my last name is Nine, I had to try this puzzle. 😁 I'm glad I did! I finished and had a fun time!

[@chocolateboy300]

I finished in <a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="1535">25:35</a> minutes. This was such a clean sudoku. I really liked the simplicity of the grid and the rules. It created a very fun solve. I particularly enjoyed solving box 9. The ending was very difficult to see, but I can proudly say that I didn't resort to bifurcation and was able to do it all in my head. I mentally calculated if r7c9 could be a 6 and it was impossible as it led to no place for 7 in box 9. That was so satisfying to do. If I bifurcated at the end, I would have beat Simon's time. However, there's no fun in that. Great Puzzle!

[@stalebananachips3033]

Love the Beatles in the intro! AND BEATLES REFERENCE!? Omg

[@ronjohnson6916]

Not hard, but fun and clever. My favorite type of puzzle.

[@michaelmatter1222]

Beautiful!

[@darrenbent7601]

The White Album had some really interesting songs, Oh-Bla-Dee Oh-Bla Da, Blackbird, I'm So Tired, Helter Skelter, Glass Onion, While My Guitar Gently Weeps, Revolution I, Back in the U.S.S.R. and Revolution 9, and some underrated gems too, Dear Prudence, Martha My Dear, but does anyone remember Everybody's Got Something to Hide Except Me and My Monkey?

[@AnyaJoPilling]

Thanks for choosing my Friday night karaoke song, Simon! I’ll happily sing along to George Harrison. Unfortunately I can’t comment on the puzzle itself because my husband isn’t off work yet (and we like to solve together before watching Simon tackle it)

[@henk-ottolimburg7947]

As a big beatlefan and a Cdc-fan I sincerely thank you

[@saiyanprince989]

Double clicks 9's and immediately dismisses easily putting the rest of them in via sudoku.

[@carolinefreeman4546]

As this didn't take you very long I decided to give it a try and really enjoyed it. A great puzzle.

[@longwaytotipperary]

Always ❤ guitar intro! Also love Beatles! And George Harrison’s “As My Guitar Gently Weeps”. Also will get the approachable app!!! Update: Just bought the approachable puzzles pack!! Let the fun begin!!😃

[@joelstevens5670]

How apt that the White Album includes the songs ‘Birthday’ (that would make the birthday announcements interesting! 🤣😜) and ‘Helter Skelter’ (though this puzzle less so than the previous ones Simon has featured). Great setting to only use the 9s as clues yet still produce a smooth solve path.

[@emilywilliams3237]

I loved this puzzle, which I did before watching the video (unusual for me). And I loved your solve, Simon. I was so intrigued by how may different ways there are to go about this, in terms of the order of thinking about various things.

[@Zackagawea14]

I’m the Zack that emailed in. Thank you so much for the shoutout Simon! Bree was over the moon when she watched this episode!

[@TimWalton0]

107mins, and I really really enjoyed this one. Quite a steady level of difficulty throughout. I'll watch the video now :-)

[@lafiosca]

Beautiful work of art !!

[@eefaaf]

Funny enough, after the initial 2x9, 3x1, 2x3 and the 12 pairs, I started with the middle row to find out where the 1 COULDN'T go, resolving the 12 pairs. That showed where all the 9s had to go to make the sandwiches.

[@samuelcardwell577]

I managed to pip Simon to this solution by 40 seconds, possibly the first time ever or certainly very rare - admittedly I wasn't talking my way through it!

[@davidblake6889]

I took a bit longer than you, Simon, but I really enjoyed solving that one. I do have a request. Please could you delete the colours (and/or lines, circles and crosses) after you no longer need them in your solves. I find that they clutter the grid and make things much harder to follow. I found your solve of the recent fog-of-war puzzle very difficult to follow for that very reason. Thanks.

[@Kairamek]

Since you guys weren't certain when the new puzzle pack would go live, how serendipitous for it to launch at the same time you featured an approachable puzzle.

[@laszloliptak611]

Beautiful puzzle. Solved it in <a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="971">16:11</a>. It seems to me that Simon is just so unwilling to pencilmark cells and is still able to find hidden singles, etc. I myself need to pencilmark cells to notice these. I also have to ask: Prince??? I think you mean Eric Clapton.

[@JeanandKenny]

Love the music and the puzzle.

[@GavinBisesi]

Very approachable, super fun! Took me less than 20 minutes

[@LiquorStoreJon]

Wonderful guitar intro, and a fun puzzle worth trying out!

[@Aliessil]

Finished in <a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="1212">20:12</a> (without getting distracted by Philly cheesesteak sandwiches!). My approach was totally ddifferent to Simon's - after pencilling the first 3 diagonals I found all of the 9s and found all of the sandwiches

[@franzelmagetower]

very nice puzzle with a lovely flow to it. <a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="869">14:29</a> here

[@MacroAggressor]

That poor bottom right square... there was so much you could've done there throughout. Haha, very entertaining solve.

[@mudscuffer]

<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="1383">23:03</a> for me. Quite nice puzzle. It's good to do familiar rulesets as well.

[@frankjiang1857]

Finished in <a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="741">12:21</a>. Fairly straightforward sudoku. Fun puzzle!

[@baritonic]

Really nice puzzle - thank you!

[@squallerrleon]

Needed a hint to finish this in just under 30 minutes. Started with sandwich coloring, then got some help with the 3rd row/column. Fun puzzle!

[@Coyotek4]

<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="1227">20:27</a> ... it was a hard day's solve ... Nice tribute!

[@markp7262]

<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="926">15:26</a> finish. A very fun little puzzle, not too difficult. Excellent!

[@tomaswinnerholt4731]

New update to the CtC-app downloaded! Brilliant!

[@alexandrostheodorosnteris3917]

First comment with your beautiful music beginning ❤❤❤🇬🇷🇬🇧

[@samueltornberg]

<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="2428">40:28</a> for me. Even though my logic could have been flawed in the beginning. I think I assumed at some point that there must be 2 cells between 1 and 9 in the sandwich clues. Luckily for me it didn't bite me in the behind.

[@MyriamTT]

"Number nine" is in the famous White Album also.

[@matthewgraham2619]

If we watch the video backwards, does it say "turn me on simon"?

[@colej.banning2419]

It took me 6<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="202">3:22</a>, but this was still a little more difficult than I typically attempt, so I was proud to be able to solve it at all.

[@falloutfan2502]

What a clever construction! :O

[@chuckmanion1128]

<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="1364">22:44</a> its been a while since I did a sandwich puzzle, took a minute to get back n the mindset but it was still an interesting puzzle.

[@AndreAy1975]

Solved it without help from the video. Nice idea!

[@jorghimvenerablebosstein7568]

Using 2 hints and coloring it took me <a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="2404">40:04</a> which is a palindrome! Dope af! 🔥👍

[@piarittersporn]

Wonderful puzzle.

[@Paolo_De_Leva]

Nice idea.

[@sjm6280]

Why would Simon do sudoku on 9s in a sandwich sudoku? 😅

[@W.Andersson]

To render these comments ;)

[@kathyjohnson2043]

For an added challenge (although the hint was in the title)

[@kathyjohnson2043]

I think the colors made it harder to see the 9s

[@penningmeestercgkdelft9159]

Solved it in <a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="2038">33:58</a>. :-) Very nice puzzle!

[@aleksapupovac]

Good way to solve sandwich puzzles is to highlight 1s and 9s in one color and all the other squares in another color. A good way*

[@aleksapupovac]

I think I saw once in the comments someone having success even giving the 1s and 9s separate colors

[@Paolo_De_Leva]

Excellent construction but for some reason I needed to bifurcate to disambiguate the colours at the beginning, after placing 1s, 2s and the shaded 3. Luckily, I syarted by exploring the wrong prong of the fork, and I was able to prove it was wrong.

[@warren_r]

My solve time is 21 minutes. I really liked this one.

[@Gonzalo_Garcia_]

<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="452">7:32</a> for me. Great puzzle!!

[@meJaso]

When you say sandwich you mean the numbers that make up the bread.

[@debbiefischer4935]

That's my favorite Beatles song!

[@Kirbyfan87827]

Finished in <a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="1427">23:47</a>. Great puzzle!

[@arielmoonsoo9219]

<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="2946">49:06</a> for me, so about my usual ratio of video to solve time (perhaps slightly better). I ended up doing red/green coloring for the early stage to help pinpoint the 1s and 9s.

[@longwaytotipperary]

Strangely, KZbin didn’t notify me of this puzzle.

[@joekerr3638]

We got two three squares in the corner.

[@achimsinn6189]

Why is it that I solve those puzzles way differently most of the times?

[@bristolrovers27]

Very nice puzzle

[@benjaminrealy5661]

<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="1082">18:02</a>. Nice puzzle

[@alanclarke4646]

That was a fun one! 😁

[@basilefff]

Solved this one is <a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="36">00:36</a>:44. Very nice one

[@Donrafa189]

😂 I’m glad you finally had a cheesesteak! Where did you go?

[@praematura]

Very nice flow to this puzzle, completed in <a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="1089">18:09</a> (conflict checker off), many thanks to Olli Wright for it!

[@TimWalton0]

I always keep conflict checker on, if I didn't I would miss far too many obvious deductions.

[@Ray-iu7hg]

<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="603">10:03</a> and a quick bit if Saturday fun!

[@ethanl9845]

<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="1539">25:39</a>, liked puzzle

[@myfyrmadocjones]

That was much smoother than my solve.

[@titusadduxas]

<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="1813">30:13</a> - Very nice puzzle!

[@jurgenbaumann67]

594 people solve it after 148.7 days 5.257 people solved it after 149.5 days What can be the reason this riddle got this famous now? 🤨

[@awilliams1701]

The (current) last puzzle on the line pack.....the hints could be better. I reached many conclusions that impressed myself big time, then I got stuck and used help, but the help reaches conclusions without explaining why. So I did bifurcation to prove it. It took me like 2 hours. I would love to know why the line in box 9 has to be 15. You said it was 15, but never said why. At that point I said it could have been 12.

[@susanne5803]

<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="24">00:24</a>:20 - with goodliffing and colouring. 😊

[@awilliams1701]

that intro song sounds familiar. What song is that?

[@HunterJE]

I guess if he did the even more on point White Album track for the intro it would be a little less pleasant to listen to

[@user-kt9vr1wj6y]

<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="1740">29:00</a> for me nice puzzle

[@six_5000]

a smooth & easy <a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="1523">25:23</a>

[@muskyoxes]

Easiest first digit ever

[@davidh.4944]

<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="2839">47:19</a>@#1232. About what I'd expected. I'm not that good at either of these variations. It's only the short solve time in the video that led me to try it out. The first half went ok, but then I couldn't really see how to break through on it, and I only did with a bit of bifurcatory magic on box 9.

[@thebitterfig9903]

Fun little puzzle, <a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="1777">29:37</a> for me!

[@darthrainbows]

Nice, solved in <a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="1289">21:29</a>

[@bait6652]

Nice deduction for 19s...i did a duel solve to place 19 which went pretty quickly.... Dont know which is more fun 9 or 10Xsum dominos

[@bonelessfae4041]

got it in <a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="1130">18:50</a> this was fun

[@bozkayalar]

Wow, solved in <a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="1742">29:02</a> 😎

[@ChicanoryIsMyName]

My guitar weeps, but not this sudoku