zetamath reacts to Simon solving Nine Rooms

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@kevinbrownsword9558 11 ай бұрын

This was a fascinating insight. Thanks for the reaction video. It’s nice to put a person behind the name

@zetamathdoespuzzles 11 ай бұрын

Glad to "meet" you! I hope to see you around the stream more!

@davidrattner9 11 ай бұрын

Thank you so much for your live reaction video!! Love these from you and going inside your magnifecent mind! Happy Thanksgiving!!

@JohnRandomness105 11 ай бұрын

Okay, I'm too late for the live reaction. I first saw Simon's video and your live reaction in process. I decided to try the puzzle myself, but after preliminaries, I had to be led by the hand for the early part. I think that I continued on my own after Simon placed the 4 in block 4. (After Thanksgiving Evening Dinner) I pushed through most of the way, until I discovered on the application of the rule to the last block, that I'd broken the puzzle. It was very far back, too -- and due to a mental glitch common for me. For some reason, I switched odd-even with block 2's gray circle. Things seemed to go quicker and easier once I corrected that. I broke the puzzle a second time, but I only had to backtrack a few entries. Then I solved the puzzle. 12:00 I watched an scene of "Are You Smarter Than a Fifth-Grader?". A question was, "What's the number following 2, 3, 5?" The intended answer was the Fibonacci 8, but nothing ruled out the following prime number. 18:40 Speaking of complex rulesets, Simon's puzzle yesterday was an arrow sums puzzle, with counting tacked on. The ruleset seemed complicated, but it wasn't too hard to figure the consequences, and the consequences were easy to understand and remember. The arrows summed to one 9, two 8s, three 7s, and four 6s. The 9-arrow omitted 1, the 8-arrows omitted 2s, the 7-arrows omitted 3s, and the 6-arrows omitted 4s. Only the digits 1234 were used on the arrows. 25:00 With that kind of left-right symmetry, I often use letters in place of numbers. Then I can bury the left-right ambiguity until something resolves it. 26:10 The way your head moved when Simon discussed the 4 in the center of block 4 reminded me of later in Simon's solve where he places 4 exactly there, with the 2 in the ten's place. 39:30 I paused the video once he said where 4 in block 4 went, and began the explanation. That's when I went on my own. I did nothing wrong with this part. I saw a rather interesting issue with block 7, where I went after this. I might mention it later. Simon's video is all new to me now. 40:20 Block 4 has a 13 pair in column 1. Block 7 has almost a 13 pair in column 2. I couldn't rule out 3 from the circle, though -- exactly one situation allowed it: 7 in R7C1 and 12 in the adjacent cells. It didn't help that further work put the 7 there, and the circle was limited to 35. 54:00 I did worse with the gray circle in block 2. (My brain switches things.) 54:40 I colored the summing cells all light gray. 56:30 Block 2 row 3 is a 25 pair and a 3. Difficult for R3C4 to be 2? Perhaps difficult, but not impossible. 59:30 8 is surrounded by 3, 7, and the one's digit in the pill. 1:14:00 Dyslexics Untied!