World Champion BLUNDERS On Cracking The Cryptic

World Champion BLUNDERS On Cracking The Cryptic - Sudoku Analysis 56

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@SmartHobbies Ай бұрын

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@BradJames878 Ай бұрын

I was very hesitant to attempt this puzzle and video because I was concerned I would become discouraged and sad. But after finally doing the puzzle and watching the video, I don't care. It took me 39:21 to do the puzzle unaided, and I don't care. This world champion comes across as someone whose brain may be extremely developed in some areas, but not as high in others. I'm a retired machinist of over 30 years, and if I continued to cut on a piece of metal after I had clearly scrapped it, I made things even worse and I'd get called into the office. I'm sitting in my warm apartment, drinking coffee and playing sudoku, and this world champion is sitting in the middle of a freezing cornfield. All that aside, Timberlake asked us to explain what we do if a warning flag comes up that we had made a mistake. (This usually happens to me towards the very end of a puzzle.) I will allow myself about 10 seconds to try to rectify the error. If I don't quickly realize what I did wrong, I will click off the puzzle and go do something more productive. It's not worth it to me to try to repair the puzzle, for I'm usually way over time anyway.

@SmartHobbies Ай бұрын

That’s a fair response Brad to just move to something else if you can’t work the error out. I have done that before or just started a different puzzle.

@Ramakrishnagm Ай бұрын

PPP solve 15 min. Remember 5s mini X wing and 49s 493 UR row 6,7 col 1,2, I think other UR I got. I'll watch video now I hope it nice. Thanks for the puzzle. Saw vedio solved under 3 min is wonder. Nice to here. My first pair is 38s in box2, 38s in row 3, col 6.

@SmartHobbies Ай бұрын

Nice. Thank you for sharing.

@ke9tv Ай бұрын

Darn! I spotted the same shortcut with the 49 unique rectangle... and had a brain fart placing the 3 in such a way as to force it rather than avoiding it. After going through a whole lot of the rest of the puzzle, I wound up noticing the rectangle of 49's, and backing up all the way to where it wasn't a rectangle of 49's. The rest of the puzzle was straightforward. And that was an unusually good recovery for me. Usually I wind up restarting.

@SmartHobbies Ай бұрын

Glad you didn’t have to restart. Nice job seeing the 49 UR.

@anaayoung9142 Ай бұрын

11:19. I had to stop 3 times while solving. But it was better this way because I was getting lost every time 😅 At least I could solce by myself. Thank you! 😊

@SmartHobbies Ай бұрын

I am happy to hear that Ana. Way to persevere.

@JohnRandomness105 Ай бұрын

I did the puzzle, and it took me quite a long time. At least, I didn't bifurcate and I didn't use uniqueness. I thought that I made decent progress early on with the middle horizontal band, but alas, I found myself slowing down and centermarking the grid. Every once in a while, I noticed something among the clutter, and sometimes, that would produce a string of digits. Just after centermarking everything, I found and applied a finned X-wing in 6s. It was probably superfluous, definitely accidental, but it gave me a 14-cell. Right near the end, I thought I'd broken the puzzle when I saw that I'd broken my marking. I noticed that 89 could still go in block 3, column 9, and ploughed on, hoping against hope that the puzzle wasn't broken. I actually finished it. 3:50 PtV: I can't figure out why she placed the 4 there. I can see in the grid that she can place a different 4 in column 6, block 8. When I centermarked that region of the grid, the fourth cell of the 49-rectangle was 349. The uniqueness rectangle didn't occur to me, and placing block 8's 4 didn't occur to me either until I filled out block 8. 11:00 Backtracking after an error? In Sudokupad, I usually backtrack until checking tells me that all my digits are correct. Once in a while, I have an idea where I might have blundered.

@SmartHobbies Ай бұрын

I haven’t used the checking feature, John. I might need to start. When I mess up with paper and pencil, I usually have to go all the way to the beginning.

@georgesthibaudeau1533 Ай бұрын

Neat puzzle. I was a bit slow doing it notation free, but in the end, it was not so complicated. When I got to the 49 uniqueness issue, I did the same as our champion. The reason is easy: the only way to avoid the uniqueness conflict is to send the 9 in some position in column 3 of block 7 (where it joins the 28, and hence 9 in r2c2 and in r6c1, and 4 in7c1 and 3 in r7c2. Thanks for posting. most enjoyable and impressive to see how this young lady works.

@SmartHobbies Ай бұрын

I learn so much by watching her solve, and by the viewer comments as well. Thanks for sharing.