The Emergence Of A Sudoku Goddess

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*** TODAY'S PUZZLE ***
The sudoku world is full of some of the planet's most exceptional brains. But even in such elite company, Jay Dyer and her puzzles still shine incredibly brightly. Tonight's sudoku, Emergence, is her latest and has a 5* difficulty rating. Oh and it's also been described as just about the best region sum sudoku ever...

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Rules:
Normal sudoku rules apply. The 3x3 box borders divide a blue line into segments. The sum of the digits along each segment is the same for that line. Different lines may have different segment sums. Eg r4c7+r4c8 = r1c6+r2c6+r3c6 = r1c7+r2c8+r3c9+r3c8

*** THE LORD OF THE RINGS SUDOKU HUNT RELEASED ON 1 JUNE ***
We've just launched the sudoku event of the summer! Blobz' puzzles and Ted Nasmith artistry combined in one of the most beautiful, approachable and fun hunts we've ever published. Get hyped!!! Teaser puzzle here:

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- Simon's solve of Sky-Skyscraper by Phistomefel has just been uploaded for our patrons.
- and Mark's latest solve of The Times Club Monthly cryptic crossword

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▶ Contents Of This Video ◀

0:00 Theme music & puzzle intro
1:27 The chance to reach 600,000 subscribers
2:22 The Lord Of The Rings Sudoku Hunt
2:47 Rules
4:00 Start of Solve: Let's Get Cracking

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Thanks for the solve! I'm glad I got to see you solve this one; with the number of different ways the clues interacted, I was curious if people would find different paths through it as a result. The way I looked at the break-in was something you touched upon later: one of the red/yellow dominoes has to appear in its entirety in the purple quintuple, along with three more digits. That limits the dominoes to being 11 at most, and the other three digits (which include r4c16) summing to at most 7. Other than that, you had the logic pretty much as I had looked at it.

jaydyer

The greatest trick the Devil ever pulled was convincing Simon that it wasn't Maverick driving the combine harvester...

JaymanOttawa

I finished in 142 minutes. This puzzle is a work of art. Jay has done it again. While it was hard, I didn't feel lost or bogged down at all. Everything felt very natural in its flow. I, especially, liked the part where 4 and 5 were locked into the lines in row 4, leaving r4c1 without a 5. This, combined with no 5 belonging in column 1 in box 7, leads to the disambiguation of the line in box 1, giving it a value of 11 since 5 must now belong on it. This puzzle was full of cool tricks like that. It is just incredible construction. I don't know how Jay keeps doing this. She creates such clean puzzles that are also fun to solve. One of my favorites. Great Puzzle!

chocolateboy

Jay does this thing in her puzzles consistently in which each piece is highly interactive with the other pieces. Here, each of the region sums feels highly dependent on the others, but then they also each have magnificent internal logic of their own. Solving this as Simon has is incredible; he's excellent at finding one deduction, applying it to the next, and so on, until the picture becomes clearer. And setting it is amazing too! It must be like seeing a whole game of chess and knowing how it's going to play out. What a mind. Jay is a genius.

FirHydrntsRFirEaters

It makes me laugh really hard to think that Simon's videos are now not only being interrupted by Maverick but also by a combine harvester 😭

In_TheMoonlight

This is one of my all-time favourite puzzles that has been featured on the channel. Incredibly hard, but it feels like a miracle that it solves without any given digits. Always feels great to solve a 5 star difficulty puzzle too.

lunardancer

Simon missed a really elegant deduction at 28:30. The digits in row 4 box 6 that are on the region sum line either add up to 11 or include the green digit, since the pair adding up to 11 that goes unused in the yellow region must show up somewhere in row 4. If they add up to 11, the only way to make it work on the segment of the line in box 2 is if it was 128. However, that would make the grey digit in box 5 3 and the red digit would have to be 8, ruling out a legitimate way to add up to 11 on that specific region. Thus, the green digit has to be on the region sum line in box 6.

Dotesmite

Finished in 42:13. The break-in was just lovely with the same sum lines forcing requirements on the digits in row 4 and column 1.

Fun puzzle!

frankjiang

Jay Dyer is such a master at setting with such deep logic and deductions. Constant thrill to see a puzzle of hers featured. Wonderful solving Simon .

davidrattner

beautiful puzzle... I 'solved' it with a lot of help from Simon... even so it was such a beautiful solve and I felt proud of the bits of logic I did spot and follow, but yeah needed help

Cymindis

Always love being early to a Jay Dyer puzzle!

danielharmon

Are you suggesting your neighbour's got a brand new combine harvester? Maybe one day he'll lend you its key :)

phillipculley

Lorks, I suffered for this puzzle and it did not flow for me, but I was never going to give up on a Jay Dyer puzzle because you know they will always be worth the effort. It didn't kill me so I guess it made me stronger.

ericpraline

Sublime solve by Simon. Pretty sure this qualifies for 5* difficulty and Simon was simply on beast mode today.

crashtextdummie

*Divine* construction❗
Ridiculously magic from start to end. Phenomenally innovative, even though it was based *only* on a *widely used* variant constraint.
👏👏👏👏👏👏👏
Ridiculously brilliant solve by Simon as well
👏👏👏👏👏👏👏

Paolo_De_Leva