World Championship Compass Puzzle

[@brianrichter8255]

Awesome puzzle! I have one suggestion for the app. The color white isn’t needed because you can “Delete” the color to get no highlighting, so there’s room for one more useful highlighting color. That would allow this puzzle to use a different color for every block.

[@Riskomul]

I like these compass puzzles, please do more of them, took me 11 minutes to do this one.

[@G.Aaron.Fisher]

Ditto. They are my favorite sort of puzzle on this channel.

[@ralp3649]

Same, i like these and it only took me 12 mins c:

[@RanhothChord]

I think my favorite part of the puzzle was the zero in the upper right coming into play at the very end. The whole top-right compass gave no information the entire solve until the last second when it finished everything off

[@JFeingoldlink]

I do hope you'll do some more of these. They are such fun.

[@jimpikles]

I really love these puzzles. That one was definitely the trickiest we've had so far, but I still managed it pretty ok I'd like to see some more hard ones.

[@CockroachED]

Is there anywhere on line to find more of these puzzles. My Google Fu has failed me.

[@Desteny6]

Same :( Need more of this!

[@bravosk8erboy]

Help

[@ytwtchng6532]

Keep doing these if you can!!

[@reecemcguire2135]

This was definitely harder than the previous compass puzzle you posted, but not by terribly much. Solved in 11:22. I started with the incredibly limited bottom right two clues, and the two directly above the central clue. Using heavy restrictions from those 4 clues made figuring out the central clues basic route very quick to see, and a couple remaining limiting factors made the 7s route and possibilities pretty fixed as well. I think Simon being so brilliant and noticing (so quickly into the puzzle) that the 7 had to wrap around the grid actually hindered him a bit here. But as always I appreciate him taking the time to explain his thought processes.

[@oogajiggawooga]

This puzzle is a great example of why white should not be one of the colours on the keypad

[@Sianistic]

Didn't quite know how to get started, but by solving along the beginning I cracked it at ~15minutes after appreciating the general shape of the central square and that the '7' needed to be on both sides (i knew that it should probably hug the edge of the grid all the way around since there probably wouldn't be anything getting beyond it)

[@JimmyLundberg]

Love these! Got it in about 10. The tough nut to crack is to realize the "_seven_ area" must be split up. You could have completed the perimeter logic on the "_seven_ area" much, much earlier. With it filled in, the rest of the puzzle is a breeze. (I'm confident just mentioning it is enough for you to understand why, but I'll type out some of my reasoning below anyway). As soon as you know the _seven_ won't fit, a quick scan reveals that no other region can "wrap" around it (and touch the perimeter while still allowing the _seven_ to reach the bottom right), which in turn means *row 8, column 9* must belong to the _seven_ . *R9c9* & *r9c8* are still unclear at that point, but it should become apparent very shortly that we're looking for 2 _sevens_ on the right side (and 5 on the left), making *r9c9* the only option.

[@sabinrawr]

My "official" time was 8:08, but I didn't launch the app until well after you started. Specifically, right after you pointed out the purple perimeter restriction, which is what blew the puzzle open for me. Great video!

[@xyzzyx7812]

These are actually quite fun variant of puzzles. I would love to see some of these from time to time

[@studio.kaedinger]

Took me about 7 or 8 minutes. I started at the same hint as Simon and got the middle area almost immediately figured out. Took me a minute to realize the 7 is split, but finding the perimeter was easier than made clear in Simon's explanation. From there it almost fell in place (the lone 6 was too easy), I just fiddled around the lower middle a bit.

[@alexklink9777]

First time ever trying one of these puzzles and it took me just over 19 minutes!! I’m fairly proud of that

[@ink2467]

I love these puzzles

[@jeremymcguire7069]

This one took me just over 5 minutes. For some reason this particular type of puzzle really suits my abilities. I'm much slower on other puzzle types.

[@ManiacalKiwi]

More compass puzzles please!

[@Wonderland_Jutomi]

Sweet puzzle! Took me a solid 18 minutes to get this one solved. :D

[@shane8037]

Simon, more of these.

[@shane8037]

Ok I just finished it, and I have to acknowledge this is beautiful and probably uniquely awesome... I mean more tough compass puzzles, even if not of this caliber.

[@guricomfotodeanime9704]

Took me 54 minutes, but I loved every second of it! Where can I find more puzzles of this kind?

[@oswaldchangerton5328]

Love these

[@XylobeX]

I managed it in about the same time as you did, but I thought my solution must have been wrong; the clumpy areas along the bottom seemed to me like they wouldn't be allowed

[@ardemus]

This was fun ands challenging. I love that you have your own app. FYI, it would be nice to pause he timer or have it pause automatically when the page is the in the background. The puzzle says it took me 4 hours because I left and came back to it after my yard work.

[@joshuaherman3015]

Thank you for the puzzle! This took me about 12 minutes.

[@antinewbie]

the first puzzle i completed "quicker" than in this video :D ...being aware of him losing a lot of time while explaining everything

[@Afterthoughtbtw]

Huh. Took me 10 minutes exactly. Your intro makes me think I must have made a mistake but I can't see one! Now to find out if I did or not.

[@WildAnimalChannel]

Took me 34 minutes. Firstly by getting the top left square and then by trial and error and guesswork!

[@DrZaius3141]

I don't know, that was kinda easy... about 10min. There was some assumption on my part, but the wrap-around from the 0/0/0/7 felt immediately apparent.

[@shane8037]

-/-/-/7 really, since the zero means zero That was the last part I got so I'm not sure I agree it's instantly apparent, but yeah these aren't a very hard style of puzzle, just good clean fun

[@DrZaius3141]

@@shane8037 Yeah, sorry, my bad. But with the centre bit having 5 in the south and only 4 to the west so it can't crawl down and 3/2/1/- bit having 3 to the west that are forced to be southern, you can quickly see - or feel as I put it - that the south-west corner just doesn't have enough space for -/-/-/7 to fill it's quota.

[@Czeckie]

really nice puzzle. Took me nearly 20mins, but most of the time I've spent panicking after I realized the "seven" region can reach over the field and I wasn't able to disprove the possibility. Turns out that was a misguided effort.

[@njerzynek]

@0:26 which is the one you posted the day before? I found 1 you posted on the 8th which was 6 days earlier!

[@kamikazegargoyle]

Got 8:55, finding these a lot easier than sudoku so perhaps my brain is just visually oriented

[@msolec2000]

This is beautiful.

[@Thepian0man13]

Great puzzle, it took me a while to realize the 7 couldn't fit. finished it in 15 minutes

[@danpowell806]

I had the bulk of the logic completed in seven minutes flat, largely by abusing the uniqueness requirement to reject possibilities and using some heuristics that aren't precisely forced (like assuming that the 1-up area doesn't go out of its way to block the center). My Sudoku times are typically 4x as long as 'par',

[@danpowell806]

@@qc1okay Competition-grade puzzles have a unique solution.

[@danpowell806]

@@qc1okay The concept of a 'cook' disagrees.

[@lalalolo5666]

So much fun

[@CreeperGoesBoom59]

I spent a solid twenty minutes on this puzzle and couldn't get it figured out... Went back and watched the video only to find that I'd misunderstood the rules. I must've been thinking of those slither-link puzzles- I thought the regions had to be single file like that. Whoops!

[@IrishknifeRD]

i got it right! 12 minutes.

[@pocoapoco2]

Well I typically scratch my head endlessly at the tougher normal sudoku’s, but I solved this one in about 6 minutes.

[@gizel4376]

lol, same, probably the first time i did it faster than the video

[@Nleil]

My logic was same with simon but I took an hour

[@YelibamPlays]

Nice puzzle. My time: 13.50

[@charliechuckleberry5307]

The instructions to this puzzle are harder to understand than actually solving the puzzle.

[@jundannidaaulhaq8473]

This puzzle solution is unique?

[@M4ke4l]

yes

[@JimmyLundberg]

Right after seeing the first compass video, I made one myself. A month later, I found that it's a fairly neat puzzle if I may say so. I do think it's simpler than the one in this video, but I'd love some feedback. Nobody gave it a go last time, but I'll try again: prnt.sc/o2ds97 It's in image form, but it should still be easy to solve digitally (via good old MS Paint, for example).

[@simondee2493]

Thanks for that, Jimmy. Set it up pretty quick as a background in excel. Then enjoyed the solve. I got it quite quickly, but worth the effort. Thank you, Mon.

[@JimmyLundberg]

@@simondee2493 Thank you! That makes me happy.

[@shreksthongg]

i clicked on the link and the image won't load for me. I'm not sure why

[@JimmyLundberg]

@@shreksthongg I dont know either; still works for me.

[@shreksthongg]

@@JimmyLundberg Of course, now it decides to work. I'll go ahead and give it a try.

[@mhelvens]

I got it in ~15 minutes. I think I just took some lucky guesses.

[@n8style]

Funnily enough I took exactly 23 minutes 6 seconds to do it! What a coinky dink! lol