The Yin And Yang Of Sudoku

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• The "Miracle Of The Fi...
So today's puzzle has a lot to live up to but who better to do that than the mighty Phistomefel with his sudoku called Yin Yang Kropki Sudoku! This is another magnificent hybrid of a classic logic problem and sudoku. Give it a try at the link below:
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[Today's music intro is based on a chord progression I heard from the incredible Adrianne Lenker on the song Angels.]
Rules:
Normal sudoku rules apply. Colour the cells black and white such that the set of each colour is orthogonally connected and no 2x2 area is covered by only one colour. The given grey dots indicate that the two connected cells have the same colour. If a grey dot is between two black cells their digits are in a 1:2 ratio; if a grey dot is between two white cells, their digits are consecutive. ALL possible grey dots are given. [ie At the end of the puzzle, when all the cells are coloured and all the numbers are entered, two adjacent black cells may contain digits in a ratio of 1:2 only if there is a gray dot between them. Similarly, two adjacent white cells may contain consecutive numbers only if there is a grey dot between them. The following scenarios are possible without any problems: Two consecutive numbers in adjacent black cells; two digits in the ratio 1:2 in adjacent white cells; and any relationship between digits in adjacent cells with different colour.
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[@istvanmagi473]

39:10: "The negative constraint is something I'm not good at using" A couple of minutes later: Simon instantly spots and uses negative constraint instead of simple sudoku which was also available. The point: Simon is very good at everything. Except using simple sudoku.

[@mikesmith4365]

According to their podcast, he is also good at everything except a handful of Japanese words.

[@jonbrowne8334]

The emerging factor with Phistomefel is that only a handful of people in the world can solve his puzzles! Great to watch but for a mere mortal like me, impossible to solve!

[@moneyforshort]

Some were born to do, some to teach, some to watch. I’ll be the third here.

[@DaniqueBrew]

Happy Birthday Jakob! Thank you for your lovely message!!

[@longwaytotipperary]

😥through Jakob's letter - so lovely - 🤗. 2 days in a row of Simon's guitar into -😍 Congrats to paolo 👏 Yay Phistomefel.

[@duzehalo]

If he keeps going with these puzzles, Phistomefel will soon transcend 😆 Happy birthday, Jakob! My day was quite bad and your words unexpectedly made it better. Thank you 💖

[@ragnkja]

Blue isn't a great colour to put pencilmarks in, so green and purple is a better pair of colours because it's just as colourblind-friendly as blue and orange, but easier to read numbers in.

[@robert-skibelo]

Very good suggestion. Over the last year I've seen many fellow-viewers make good suggestions about improvements to technique or the software, but sadly I've never yet seen any of them adopted or even acknowledged.

[@crystalgehrt8861]

My son who is seven really related to the letter at the beginning. Today he was very upset when he had to clean his room (I'm sure you remember how big feelings can be when you're little), and later, I surprised him with the zoo. He was so happy when we pulled in, and he said, "Mommy, when I was so sad earlier, I wanted to die, but I told myself 'There will be other moments. This is only one moment.'" His smile lit the car. I asked if he was glad he didn't die now, and he said he definitely was.

[@FleckerMan]

They really do have big feelings don't they (and didn't we!), this was touching to read; great to see someone at that age taking in and using that valuable lesson, so eloquently shared by Jakob, that is too easy to forget in difficult times at all ages

[@jasminedavis6686]

Honestly, now I live alone I'm now having to be the adult annoyed at the mess and the child that doesn't want to clean it up

[@GarageCrafter]

Beautiful message, Jacob. Happy birthday!!!

[@w0rmblood323]

I have chronic insomnia and depression too, I'm in full agreement; CTC is a source of profound joy for me also.

[@roobk17]

very excited to watch!! needed a good relax with some ctc, and a phistomaphel puzzle is no better way than to do that!! and Jakobs message at the beginning, too sweet ♡ i feel as though lots of people turned to you as a sort of 'therapy' as your content is very grounding (i know i certainly did) much love ♡

[@hewholimpsmartin]

Phistomefel scares me Your ability to crack these puzzles so fast terrifies me

[@jakobpueh1091]

Wow. I never thought to read so many comments regarding my email. Thank you very much to eceryone who wrote. You had me in tears. I hope you are all having a wonderful time.

[@Summer_Daze]

Hope you had a great day, love from South Africa 🇿🇦

[@Keyboardje]

@Jakob Pueh I'm a bit behind with the sudokus, so I'm a bit late to thank you for your very moving wishes and wishing you a great 23rd birtday, so... let me be the first to now wish you in advance an *EVEN BETTER* 24th birtday!

[@th.nd.r]

Okay a few things: 1) Happy Birthday Jakob! Those were beautiful words that brought me to tears. Thank you so much for sharing your light and I hope today is extra special good to you💙 2) Great puzzle. Loved the ruleset and conception of it especially. Yin Yang and Kropki work so well together, thematically and otherwise. 3) Impressive solve as usual Simon! 4) Wonderful musical performance :)

[@Raven-Creations]

What a fascinating puzzle - very interesting the way it gradually unwound. Regarding the letter at the start, I used to really suffer with insomnia, and it was really debilitating. By the time I'd managed to put the day behind me, the bed was too warm, and I felt under pressure to fall asleep quickly, or risk not waking up in time. The pressure to fall asleep only guaranteed not being able to fall asleep. I conquered it "accidentally". I adopted the attitude that it doesn't matter if I stay awake all night, I just needed to make sure I was thoroughly rested. Rather than trying not to think about the events of the previous day, or what I needed to do the next day (which would ensure that I actually did think about them), I would think pleasant thoughts, like imagining walking through a forest. I also found that leaving on a playlist of talking books, set so quietly that I could listen to it, but not be disturbed by it if I fell asleep, helped by providing a background burble, masking sounds from the house (central heating pipes creaking etc.), or external noise from traffic, sirens, police helicopter, randy foxes etc. Instead of simply being a way to make the best of a bad situation, taking the pressure off falling asleep, and just relaxing, actually made sleep possible. It happened so naturally that I never really noticed that I no longer had a problem. I still occasionally have a sleepless night, but by spending the night in a relaxed state, I am still able to get up in the morning, feeling refreshed.

[@Novellous210]

Hearing that email read mad me cry because it was so lovely. Thank you for sharing that!

[@KevinNijmeijer]

Jakob, your letter had me in tears. Thank you for the beautiful words. 👏 I wish you all the great nights of sleep that you want!

[@jakobpueh1091]

Thank you. I am in tears reading the comments. This is truly an amazing community

[@spreekstem]

Happy birthday Jakob! A big hug to you and one for every other person struggeling at the moment. ❤️

[@MattGriffiths81]

Conditional negative constraints like this make my brain melt. The amount of times I say "Oh this can't be... no wait, yes it can".... Still a very nice puzzle, finished in 69.28 which I'm more than happy with.

[@carolaverill217]

Happy Birthday Jakob! Sending love to you.❤️

[@jakobpueh1091]

Sending love back

[@sebastianvonbuchwald386]

Thank you for your lovely message, Jakob! You're not alone. You got this. Big hugs.

[@jakobpueh1091]

Sending big hugs back to you

[@reganmartin4126]

A beautiful message by Jacob (Happy Birthday!), lovely guitar playing by Simon, and a fabulous puzzle to boot! What a great day! Thanks!

[@piarittersporn]

That was exhausting but very exciting. It took eternities and several restarts until I finally realized that consecutive digits without white dots are allowed for the color with the black dots and a 1:2 ratio for the other color. I had to look twice at Simon for the distribution of the colors, otherwise I would probably still be in despair. And to Jakob: I wish you all the best and happy birthday. Your letter was wonderful. I feel the same after some very horrible years, culminating in an accident at home three months ago. Waiting for healing I find my medicine here, with which I can often forget my pain and my impatience.

[@inspiringsand123]

Rules: 04:41 Let's Get Cracking: 07:34 Simon's time: 47m17s Puzzle Solved: 54:51 What about this video's Top Tier Simarkisms?! Phistomefel: 6x (00:26, 00:37, 04:33, 07:37, 22:26, 56:38) And how about this video's Simarkisms?! Ah: 11x (18:54, 27:10, 27:10, 27:24, 28:00, 36:12, 40:20, 41:10, 44:32, 45:23, 49:30, 52:40) Clever: 8x (11:19, 12:45, 31:58, 31:58, 49:47, 55:49, 56:29, 56:38) Checkerboard: 8x (09:18, 19:44, 19:56, 20:14, 20:20, 20:42, 24:22, 25:01) Beautiful: 7x (03:26, 25:21, 28:38, 28:38, 32:04, 37:03, 41:10) Sorry: 6x (26:09, 27:26, 42:58, 45:23, 45:56, 50:04) By Sudoku: 6x (38:27, 47:40, 49:26, 49:36, 52:20, 53:33) Good Grief: 5x (36:37, 41:03, 48:33, 49:04, 56:31) Hang On: 5x (11:40, 19:40, 38:44, 39:44, 45:00) Wow: 5x (44:11, 48:43, 48:43, 48:43, 48:43) Magnificent: 4x (00:35, 00:40, 57:23, 57:27) Obviously: 4x (26:14, 36:19, 39:33, 54:49) What on Earth: 3x (12:01, 22:17, 37:07) Pencil Mark/mark: 3x (30:37, 41:25, 45:28) Useless: 2x (36:06, 36:12) Brilliant: 2x (03:42, 32:04) Break the Puzzle: 2x (09:22, 16:08) Deadly Pattern: 2x (54:25, 54:28) Gorgeous: 2x (16:45, 37:47) Masterpiece: 2x (57:37, 57:40) In Fact: 2x (06:42, 56:19) Bother: 1x (35:14) Out of Nowhere: 1x (49:06) Stuck: 1x (45:23) Astonishing: 1x (01:42) Of All Things: 1x (38:27) Next Trick: 1x (51:11) Fabulous: 1x (01:49) Jaw-dropping: 1x (01:39) What Does This Mean?: 1x (42:11) That's Huge: 1x (25:13) Nature: 1x (06:32) Most popular number(>9), digit and colour this video: Fifty Three (2 mentions) Two (112 mentions) Blue (110 mentions) Antithesis Battles: Even (7) - Odd (5) Black (45) - White (12) Column (10) - Row (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!

[@ehhov]

I really hoped the count of twos would be in the millions

[@ldamoff]

Lovely tune at the beginning. Such a pleasant start to a brutal solve.

[@briannashoemaker1962]

Jakob, we don’t know each other, beyond our mutual love of puzzles. As someone who also battles depression and anxiety, I want you to know you are loved, I love you and wish you the very best this year and the strength to keep cracking on.💜💜

[@jakobpueh1091]

thank you very much. Sending lots of love. Someday we will both be well.

[@foalspreshow]

Thank you so much for sharing that message from Jakob, I needed to hear that today ❤️

[@jinbe-san]

Love all these guitar openings lately!

[@christianarbeiter6235]

Jakob - Happy Birthday from another Austrian Sudoku lover!

[@jakobpueh1091]

Dank dir schön :)

[@madeleinearancibia]

Happy birthday, Jakob! I hope you had a wonderful day full of joy and sudoku

[@colin1toronto]

Happy birthday Jakob. Your letter was beautiful and touching. I feel alot like you do and I've gotten so much joy out of this channel and working on puzzles to help take away some of the stress, anxiety and insomnia. I'm wishing you the best!

[@dzaijn]

Love you Jakob! The world is yours no less than it is anyone elses.I hope you get to breathe in a lot of love today and that it fills your chest with peace. You are amazing!

[@sampathkumar-ej7xl]

Jacob your letter read out by Simon was touching. Thanks to cracking the cryptic some of us get to experience the joy of solving maths based puzzles created by brilliant minds from around the world. Hope you have a happy healthy birthday and times ahead.

[@emilywilliams3237]

Lovely guitar composition, lovely email from Jacob (Happy Birthday, and may you find much to be happy and contented about today and always), amazing solve. The create-a-region puzzles are definitely in Simon's wheelhouse, and he makes quick work of them. The Yin-Yang reminds me of a puzzle type I used to do - I should go searching for that again, as I remember enjoying it very much. Thanks so much, Simon, for this video.

[@bobbis.172]

Unexpected tears brought on by Jakob's email. Your channel has helped me a lot as well. 🥺

[@koekiesbakker]

A beautiful message, Jakob!

[@badradish2116]

"all possible gray cells are given" doing this without making the puzzle easy blew my mind

[@anwenroberts7887]

This is a weird reference, but the final yin yang pattern on this reminds me of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi inside of a plant cell. Super cool solve!

[@bidibanda]

Happy birthday Jakob! Hope you have a wonderful day! ❤

[@abraxasnl]

Happy birthday, Jakob! You’re the best 👏

[@daveturner5305]

Dear Simon & Mark. Would it be possible for you both to record at a greater 'volume'? I have to listen at the maximum volume that my equipment can play in order to hear you. I have no problems listening to most other channels. Regards Dave

[@jessicatait1867]

Happy birthday Jakob! Beautiful words. I’m ready to start a campaign for this to be the Queen’s Christmas message, it was very touching. Best wishes, Jess.

[@jakobpueh1091]

thank you sincerely. It would be amazing if the queen was to say it

[@Ulija100]

Much love to you Jakob!

[@BertBergaf]

Blue is black, orange is white + three different kinds of negative constraints really messed with my brain - even while just watching the solve

[@bryanroland9402]

The explanation about checkerboarding reminded me of a puzzle Simon solved some time ago where he thought that some squares were hopelessly isolated from others in what seemed to be a flawed puzzle but after a quick call to Mark, who told him to think harder, he found the path round the apparently insurmountable obstacles. Can't remember the details. What was the title of that video?

[@nsigfusson]

"The Eureka Sudoku" from 12th of October 2021

[@julieannmyers8714]

Happy Birthday, Jakob! ❤️✌️

[@GoopyCharbonara]

Happy birthday to you Jakob! Thanks for your lovely words ❤️ I hope this day brings more good than bad! There's no way I could solve this one myself right now but I look forward to watching the solve 😮

[@garrettsmith9788]

Orange is NOT the new Black!

[@plum2584]

I found a logic! (24:02) Because of the logic done in box 7, r6c3 has to be blue. r7c3 is either blue (creating a checkerboard pattern to avoid) or is orange (creating a 2x2 to avoid). I am posting this at 24:30, so if he comes back to this later, I don't know. I'm just happy I found something before Simon at this point.

[@plum2584]

So he did colour it blue, but from different logic. I found an alternate route! just for one square, and I don't know if it would have changed the solve path but still... I'm cool?

[@shteevuk]

14:42 "Avoidage" is my new favorite word

[@bobbynotsobrown]

Hey Jakob! Alles Gute im Nachhinein! Kopf hoch, egal wie finster es manchmal auch sein mag, wie du so schön geschrieben hast, es gibt immer Licht, auch wenn man es manchmal nicht sofort sehen kann.. Glaub an dich, and keep a stiff upper lip - luck will find you! Alles Liebe aus Österreich

[@mikes.8647]

"Orange is consecutive and blue is black". Simon, April 2022

[@ruudbaaij6539]

“He injected the puzzle with nuggets of genius” This is definitely something only Simon can say

[@nicoles7652]

Happy birthday Jakob. I loved your message and hope especially this birthday, you can find more good than bad when you're reflecting

[@jakobpueh1091]

Thank you. I have today. It has been a splendid one

[@kathyjohnson2043]

@@jakobpueh1091 wonderful to hear!

[@stumbling]

After yesterday's heavenly puzzle we are plunged straight down to the depths of hell!

[@Paul-cn3ij]

Definition of backtracking - Seeing the video is just under an hour. Being determined to also complete the puzzle in under an hour. Realising it's a Phistomefel and quickly 'realigning' expectations.

[@Paul-cn3ij]

67 minutes. Bugger.

[@insectbah]

Wishing you a very (belated) happy birthday Jakob! Thank you for your words

[@tristiancorbett8896]

Happy birthday jakob I really get where your coming from as I am there too big love from the UK

[@jakobpueh1091]

Big love. Hope all will go better for you soon

[@tadperry1817]

Simon versus Phistomefel is always so fun to watch. For me it is like Sherlock Holmes versus Moriarty. Who else would like to see a modern-day reboot of Sherlock Holmes and Watson with Simon playing the role of Sherlock and Mark playing the role of Watson, but actually everything is set in the modern day, using their real names and jobs, but their hobby is solving crimes? I would definitely watch it and I would love to write the script and move to Britain and be a successful TV show creator for the BBC as an expat American in my historical motherland, but alas! I dream far bigger dreams than anyone ever gives me credit for actually being capable of living up to!! Also, I want to share a pint with Simon, because he seems to be a humble, kind, funny and gentle soul.

[@FleckerMan]

Beautiful - having been watching the stream when zetamath does puzzles (and many great solvers in chat) were working through this, it was so cool to see Simon getting the same things we eventually saw but so much more efficiently; Lovely puzzle as always from phistomephel and a fabulous solve, thanks Simon as always

[@NoahBoah-hz8qn]

Knew the guitar intro sounded familiar. Adrianne Lenker is one of my favorite artists. Very cool to see her acknowledged by my favorite puzzle channel.

[@jeremymcjunkin8954]

Do you know the title? I was trying to look it up but I can't find the song.

[@NoahBoah-hz8qn]

@@jeremymcjunkin8954 “Angels” by Adrianne Lenker

[@jeremymcjunkin8954]

Thank you!

[@Gonzalo_Garcia_]

34:29 for me. Wow, what a puzzle, Phistomefel is really such a genius. I love what he is doing with these combined rulesets, it leads to some outstanding logic.

[@princesskhiya3446]

Happy birthday jakcob!! I hope you had a fantastic day, sending you best wishes and lots of love ❤

[@shteevuk]

I enjoyed this. I was put off this puzzle at first by the tiny text in the rules which made me think it would be complex and perhaps even arbitrary but I found the rules intuitive and the puzzle really fun!

[@thedardis1081]

Happy Birthday Jakob! Much love to you from NY, USA

[@timmccaskey]

First off, nice to hear the guitar (as always). Another data point regarding your NYTXW news: I saw that twitter post about Monday’s puzzle. Weirdly, my internet was phasing in and out as I solved. I took a normalish-for-me time to do it (about four minutes) but due to my network issues, NYT didn’t save my credit. So to preserve my streak, once my net was back, I solved it again. Typing out the answers again after I’d solved it once took a few more seconds than the tweeter’s time to do it the first time (I idled on the last clue so my times were similar.) 53 s is amazing.

[@johnpauladamovsky86]

Phistomefel is the Leonhard Euler to Simon Anthony's Isaac Neutron, where Mark Goodliffe is just another Antoine Lavoisier. Long live Herr Phistomefel, King on the other side of darkness...!

[@ericpraline1302]

Needless to say, another excellent puzzle with some delightful logic from Phistomefel. Was slightly concerned that my solve veered a little towards bifurcation at times, but no more so than Simon's so am happy with that.

[@Geigenzaehler]

That was tough, this was my first Yin Yang type puzzle so I didn't know the tricks. After some time I figured out the perimeter thing but I didn't know the checkerboard trick which would have been a really handy tool. I somehow got there without it but it took way too long and the logic was more convoluted than needed. Very beautiful puzzle!

[@4evafcn]

wow just a like for the letter in the beginning! mental health is so important

[@ExoKiller4]

Simon has a slight tendency of forgetting about the original rules of the puzzle once he's gone into "sudoku mode"

[@AmberLie]

It's okay to not be okay. ♡

[@mattycyt5973]

Happy birthday Jakob

[@flobiish]

When are you going to start a channel of you playing guitar?

[@jeffreyvannieuwkoop6809]

Lovely

[@RichSmith77]

Managed to solve it with a small hint from Simon, at 31:30 - "can this really be 2 or 4" about r3c4. Although I'd stared at it for an age, I hadn't appreciated the power of the negative constraint on the 1248 sequence in row 3.

[@glennhunt5967]

I love how at 49:40 Simon is looking all over the cell for what to do next and all I can see is the 6 staring him in the face next to a 7 🤣

[@SteveTignor]

HBD, Jakob!!!

[@jude1293]

Yes please for easy mode and hard mode for patreon monthly rewards! If they're too hard I often just feel frustrated and sad solving it rather than enjoying it

[@mattmayoh9680]

Took me a little over an hour, felt very slow as I kept forgetting to look at the negative constraint. Fantastic puzzle.

[@zbrown0712]

“This can’t be FOUR because it can’t be CONSECUTIVE with TWO or EIGHT.” Ah yes the good old 2-4-8 number line lol

[@rancid83]

At 28:50 Simon missed a great opportunity. To say "Orange is NOT the new black"

[@aussiecossie5816]

1,2 is both consecutive and a ratio of 1:2. Does either region exclude them as possible neighbouring digits or can they be in either region?

[@RichSmith77]

Excluded from both.

[@msolec2000]

To clarify, excluded without a dot, but allowed in either with a dot. (Original kropki rules sometimes clarify that 1 and 2 can be separated by either colour)

[@specialkalberta]

Does anyone know what song Simon was playing at the start? Always nice to hear his playing.

[@jeremymcjunkin8954]

I also asked in a comment above. They gave the artist name. Adrianne Lenker. But I can't find the song.

[@jeremydembek5431]

I have been a long time viewer of the channel and just want to say I've loved your content. That being said, I only watch Simon, not Mark. It would be neat if on videos without your face on the thumbnail there was some sort of corner mark to easily tell who would be performing the puzzle. Lots of love!

[@kathyjohnson2043]

A few ways to tell: when they are uploaded, puzzles solved by Simon and Mark almost always alternate, so if you see one with a face, you can then follow the pattern from there. Secondly, Simon almost always uploads before Mark, so look to see which was uploaded earlier.

[@edoardomerlone2363]

Hi Simon, it's almost two weeks my son wants me to solve Qodec's puzzle published on LMG called 'Black Eyes', but I'm not smart enough. Could you please solve it on the channel? Thank you in advance.

[@selvahechicera4292]

Dear Cracking the Cryptic. It says to color the dots. How do we do that? They are not selectable for color. You can put an x on them using the draw function but since there is no corresponding o it a very good work around Am I missing something?

[@RichSmith77]

It doesn't say colour the dots. It says colour the cells. The grey dots take their behaviour from the then coloured cells.

[@selvahechicera4292]

@@RichSmith77 Wow did I misreads that. Thank you for correcting me.

[@JS...]

Regarding NYT crosswords, probably this channel has made youtube to recommend me Chris Remo's youtube channel where he's been solving NYT crosswords daily for well over 1000 successive days. Nice recommendation in addition to this.

[@TheBranDingo]

Simon, please fix your aspect ratio

[@G.Aaron.Fisher]

1:16:44 for me. Could have saved a ton of trouble for myself if I'd listened to the Yin Yang tips before starting. That break-in was absolutely brutal if you needed to work out the border rules on the fly.

[@maxgreve7856]

Just started the puzzle, haven't watched the solve yet. Can anyone explain, are "double dots" permitted? It seems like it is not allowed for a 1-2 pair to ever form, because a 1 can only kropke with a 2 and whatever color you make the cells, you've got another color not represented, so the negative constraint is being violated. That means 1 can never go on any dot? Or am I misunderstanding something? Want to give it a try myself before I watch Simon's solve, not that I'm expecting to be anywhere near as good.

[@mattmayoh9680]

the negative constraint is different for each colour. one region has every dot black, and all black dots within that region are given. The other region has every dot white, and all white dots within that region are given. So you can have a 1-2 pair on a black dot, because the negative white constraint doesn't apply in that region. Or a 1-2 pair on a white dot, because the negative black constraint doesn't apply in that region.

[@maxgreve7856]

@@mattmayoh9680 Thanks very much!

[@ruokothyan7658]

if the day is cloudy, there might be a stripy-zebra simon looking to the same sky

[@DBCooperSan]

Orange is the new white

[@-BooBoo]

Happy Birthday, Jakob! Thank you for letting us know. The world can be harsh, but it can also be beautiful and supportive. I wish you all the best. To help you celebrate your birthday, I will knit you a special scarf. Do you have a favorite color?

[@jakobpueh1091]

Will you really? :o I usually just wear black and white clothes so I guess black :)

[@-BooBoo]

Oh my goodness, this will be fun! Happy Birthday! 🎂😊🎂😊🎂

[@jasonhoffarth]

why does phistomefel use both spellings of grey in the the instructions?

[@jeremymcjunkin8954]

So we can't pin his secret location down to a single continent.

[@msolec2000]

No one is gonna call Simon for his premature time stop? OK, then.

[@Ardalambdion]

Is the example in 6:30 faulty? I see 2 and 4 touch each other in column 2 without a dot.

[@noambbyp]

Cells must obey the dot only if they are the same color

[@weirdandlazy1]

It takes me 25 seconds to solve a mini crossword; how is that possible

[@HeroDarkStorn]

] Don't mind me, just saving certain subgroup of xkcd fans.

[@miran248]

No views, no comments? First like? What is this?

[@darreljones8645]

(Potential) spoiler alert: Yesterday's puzzle could have been called "The Miracle of the Swordfish".