![]() The other problem here is that the discussion of solving strategies is kind of useless: in particular, the omission of the "45-sum rule" leaves the solver without one of the basic tools needed to solve puzzles efficiently, & the lengthy chart of combinations is misleading: that is by far the worst, most inefficient & mind-numbing way of solving puzzles. Anyone want to take a crack at improving the rest of the page.? - ND 06:51, 13 January 2006 (UTC) Reply THanks! A lot more space-efficient to boot. Per Ndorward's request, I wrote a new paragraph, and erased the direct quote. I have now credited it to myself here-sorry to be the egotist, but if someone wants to write a NEW, ORIGINAL paragraph they are welcome to get rid of my self-quotation here. Though there is a link at the bottom to my page of tips on solving these puzzles, I was displeased to see that an entire paragraph of that page was pasted, without a credit, into Wikipedia, with a few words changed to disguise its origins. Last Malthusian 00:32, 6 January 2006 (UTC) Reply The text 'below' the sample solution was appearing to the right of it - I didn't know how to fix that properly so there's an unsightly line of s in there instead. It’s…” For the second time this month, Anthony struggles to find the adjectives.This article has not yet been rated on Wikipedia's content assessment scale. “Now there is a way to reach these vast audiences from a loft in Reigate. Puzzling then was exclusively a pencil affair and newspapers were the only outlet. His income is still lower than it was – but it’s now climbing fast.Īnthony met Goodliffe at a crossword championships 20 years ago, before the sudoku boom of 2005. He left with some savings and a notion that money from YouTube ads might then pay the bills. “I only did it for one reason and was constantly aware I was working my youth away,” he says. They have launched three apps and a range of merchandise.Īnthony, who has two young children, does not regret quitting his City job. “WTF IM LEGIT WATCHING HIM RN,” one replied.Īnthony and Goodliffe, who is 53 and lives in Gloucestershire, have now increased output to two daily videos and receive dozens of submissions a day from sudoku constructors. “The videos are SO interesting but also help me relax!” he told his 5.5 million Twitter followers. He had been binge watching the channel for days. currently watching videos of a man solving sudoku puzzles,” James Charles, a 20-year-old millionaire American makeup artist with 19 million YouTube subscribers and 2bn views, tweeted last month. “I’ve officially unlocked a new level of boredom. But fame has gone quickly mainstream – and global. Simon Singh, the writer, Rachel Riley of Countdown fame and Bobby Seagull, the teacher and University Challenge star, are all fans. “We focus all our time on solving puzzles but the YouTube algorithm is one that we have not cracked.” “It’s just bonkers,” he says, still baffled. Anthony has watched it race towards 4 million views. It elicited phrases such as “good grief!” and “that’s quite startling, it really is”, but didn’t really stand out. “There seems to be a sort of ASMR-type quality to the videos.”īefore the “miracle” post, the big breakthrough came last month when Anthony put up another 25-minute video. “We’re getting an awful lot of emails saying we’re helping people with their mental health,” he says. Anthony suspects something else is happening. Anthony launched the channel in June 2017 but with its spare-room scenery, low-fi design and split-screen webcam format, it looks like it was made for this moment. The Guardian’s resident mathematician and puzzle master, Alex Bellos, also highlighted the channel and set the “miracle” puzzle for his devotees, noting: “What makes the videos so joyous is the constant stream of ‘aha!’ moments.”ĭemand had already surged in lockdown. “I swear to God, this 25-minute video of a guy doing a Sudoku puzzle is the most riveting television I’ve seen all year,” tweeted Dana Schwartz, a 27-year-old Los Angeles-based author and screenwriter not hitherto known to the English puzzling community. That excitement swept across the web this week, particularly in America, home to 27% of Anthony’s audience. ![]() Simon Anthony solves the ‘miracle’ sudoku.
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