March Patreon Reward: Guess Again

Matt

Has the solution been posted ?

Jon Forsythe

Will a solution video ever be posted? I solved the Sudokus but couldn't figure out how to decode the numbers and turn them into words.

hint please

Was too busy with work and other priorities to finish before the deadline but all three puzzles took me just under 75 minutes. Very nice set and a fun thing to work through when down with the flu!

Scott Ab

No. Thanks. I'll wait for the solve video.

Want a hint?

Scott Ab

I've resigned myself to the fact that I'll never decipher the word. I'm sure I'll feel stupid when I see it.

I finally solved it, altho' it took over 2 1/2 hours. The first task (which probably took at least 30 minutes) was to create a spreadsheet of the products with their possible 3-digit possibilities. Laborious checking and cross-checking, but it paid off. Wouldn't have been able to solve it otherwise. And I didn't have to keep reciting the multiplication tables in my head. (-;

I can only keep so much math in my head, so I kept another tab open with basic math computations like 144/9, etc. Whatever I needed for the row/column I was working on.

Not immediately, but after a while it became clear

Michael Fish

If you ever played mastermind, it’s like a word version of that

What is wordle?

Aprilise

I think you have to treat the numbers like a wordle

I don't get how three strings of five numbers in three different colours gets to be a four letter word. I'm seriously confused

Connor Mcharg

For future reference, you can just keep dividing the numbers down and listing the numbers you divided them by until you get a list of numbers that can't be divided further (for example, 60 -> 2*30 -> 2*2*15 -> 2*2*3*5) and then select numbers from that list (along with some freebie 1s) and multiply them together to get the three numbers for that row/column - so long as you use each of the numbers from the list once, you'll have a valid combination.

Scott Ab

I feel like the Prodban is highly discriminatory to those of us that stink at math.

Michael Fish

There was a video on the channel about arrow puzzles just before the hunt came out. Simon gave some good clues as to how to approach arrow puzzles with lots of arrows.

Aprilise

I actually wrote out the combinations…

Aprilise

I’ve gotten stuck on the arrow one not even sure where to start but I’m proud of myself for finishing the other two.

That was a blast. This was the first time I was able to do all the puzzles without looking for hints on Discord. Prodban was difficult for me. My multiplication-fu is not strong. I had to write a script to generate a list of the possible combinations.

Michael Fish

There are more than 9 letters in the alphabet…. Does this help?

I've been watching your content for a while and joined patreon this month. Proud to say I've just managed to finish my first monthly challenge ever. What a fantastic puzzles and the wordle part which took me a while but eventually blow my mind with its simplicity and beauty. Great entertainment, keep up the great job :)

This was so much fun. I love it when there's another layer of puzzle running through the set like this. Especially when the puzzles use my favourite constraints and I can actually solve them! (at least, I think I can)

Totaly stuck with the word. Even after resolving 2 times, just to verify the solve is correct.