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Can You Solve It? Sudoku as a Spectator Sport is Unlikely Lockdown Hit

posted by Fnord666 on Thursday May 21 2020, @05:02AM   Printer-friendly
from the puzzling dept.

upstart writes in with an IRC submission:

Can you solve it? Sudoku as spectator sport is unlikely lockdown hit:

It may not be as hair-raising as Formula 1, nor as dramatic as Premier League football, but Sudoku solving is acquiring a niche following as a spectator sport.

It's surprisingly thrilling, believe me. Just ask fans of the puzzle-solving YouTube channel Cracking the Cryptic, which has seen its viewing figures shoot up over the last two months. Its top Sudoku video has had more than 3 million views.

In daily challenges, the channel's two British hosts, puzzle wizards Simon Anthony and Mark Goodliffe, narrate their strategies and processes of deduction as they attempt to solve fiendishly difficult Sudokus.

What makes the videos so joyous is the constant stream of 'aha!' moments, as well as the ingenuity of the sudokus presented. The puzzle I am setting today, the Miracle, appeared on the channel last week. (Click here for a printable page for all today's puzzles. To solve them online there is a link underneath each grid.)

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  • (Score: -1, Flamebait) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday May 21 2020, @02:16PM (5 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Thursday May 21 2020, @02:16PM (#997382)

    Isn't this all just linear algebra? I refuse to invert matrices by hand - I could do, what a 4x4 matrix on a good day? Fuck that. The computer will do it in 1 millisecond.

    It's like some arcane pleasure from digging holes with a teaspoon rather than using a damn Mexican to do it for you.

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  • (Score: 2) by maxwell demon on Thursday May 21 2020, @07:47PM (3 children)

    by maxwell demon (1608) on Thursday May 21 2020, @07:47PM (#997535) Journal

    Isn't this all just linear algebra?
    No.

    Correctly filled Sudokus don't form a vector space.

    --
    The Tao of math: The numbers you can count are not the real numbers.

    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday May 21 2020, @08:16PM (2 children)

      by Anonymous Coward on Thursday May 21 2020, @08:16PM (#997555)

      Yes they do.

      • (Score: 2) by FatPhil on Thursday May 21 2020, @10:16PM (1 child)

        by FatPhil (863) <reversethis-{if.fdsa} {ta} {tnelyos-cp}> on Thursday May 21 2020, @10:16PM (#997617) Homepage
        Over what field? Care to provide a basis, and a demonstration of for example the two distributivity axioms?
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        Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people; the smallest discuss themselves

        • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday May 21 2020, @10:54PM

          by Anonymous Coward on Thursday May 21 2020, @10:54PM (#997630)

          The field of common sense. I agree with the other guy.

  • (Score: 2) by Mykl on Thursday May 21 2020, @11:17PM

    by Mykl (1112) on Thursday May 21 2020, @11:17PM (#997637)

    I refuse to invert matrices by hand - I could do, what a 4x4 matrix on a good day? Fuck that. The computer will do it in 1 millisecond

    Yeah! And what the fuck is it with those guys who play computer games by hand? When I want to relax, I just set the computer up on my favourite fighting game - CPU vs CPU set to max difficulty. The CPU is going to be better at it than me anyway, so what's the point in learning to play that game?

    And don't get me started on musicians...