Tom Lieber's Microblog

May 20, 2020

Chess-augmented sudoku rules lead to a half hour of lovely puzzle-solving.

yoav shoham sums up the glory in a comment, with timestamped quotations:

03:50 - He’s got to be joking
04:05 - I suspect this is going to be a short video because he’s trolling me
04:20 - I’m gonna give this 5 minutes and then we will probably turn the video off and you’ll never see this and he’s gonna get an angry phone call
05:16 - There is a little bit we can do here
05:45 - This is where you probably can’t go any further
08:28 - Your’e kidding
08:45 - I don’t believe it
09:22 - I don’t believe it
10:48 - Oh my goodness, what is going on with this puzzle?
12:44 - This is just not gonna solve
12:54 - There’s too many places
13:43 - No way
15:14 - That’s amazing
15:41 - You have got to be joking
17:30 - This is just staggering, this is absolutely staggering
18:05 - I don’t beliebe this
18:17 - This is magic. We are watching magic unfold
18:46 - Oh my goodness
19:00 - You could not believe it
19:20 - This is gonna solve isn’t it? This is going to solve
19:42 - I’m not sure I’ve got the adjectives to describe what is going on here. This is like the universe is singing to us.
23:43 - We are watching something extremely special
24:00 - Wow. Oh my goodness me
25:12 - That is an unforgetable puzzle
25:35 - I don’t know what to say. Absolutely amazing