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Cracking the Cryptic (the Youtube channel mentioned in the article) is a great channel to follow. Especially Simon's videos offer great insight into his thought
by pdpi 5y ago
Cracking the Cryptic (the Youtube channel mentioned in the article) is a great channel to follow. Especially Simon's videos offer great insight into his thought process solving through some pretty hard sudokus (and variants). They've also taken on different puzzle games (e.g. The Witness, Baba is You), and it's absolutely fascinating to see how being very highly skilled in solving one type of puzzle does or does not translate into other classes of puzzle.
- jamincan 5y agoI occasionally watch Simon on Cracking the Cryptic and find it interesting how different his approach to solving Sudoku is to mine. I wouldn't even be able to start most of the puzzles he does, but nevertheless, I almost always find myself yelling at him in my head at some point where I see something so obvious to me that he overlooks.
- jamie_ca 5y agoYeah, he's commented many times that his scanning is sometimes terrible (especially I notice when he's working with brand-new puzzle mechanics), but I remain super impressed at his ability to not only work out the complex logic, but do it (a) mostly in his head when there's no easy way to notate it on screen while (b) simultaneously explaining it to viewers in a very understandable fashion.
- yen223 5y agoI would "yell at the screen" whenever he misses things. Then I realised that he still solves these puzzles much faster than I did, which makes me realise he probably just better than me at paying attention to the parts that are important to the solve.