Watch this genius solve insanely difficult sudoku puzzles

This is strangely captivating.

At a time when there’s not very many live sports to watch, we’ve all had to look for alternate forms of entertainment. You might be plugging away at your Netflix queue, or becoming a new NASCAR fan, or… I don’t know, reading books? Little did any of us know that there’s a massive community of people occupying themselves by watching very smart people solve unfathomably difficult sudoku puzzles.

Thanks to Kotaku, I stumbled upon this video of puzzle whiz Simon Anthony solving a “Miracle Sudoku” that gives away just two numbers in a full 9×9 grid. It’s an absolute roller coaster of emotions, and regularly leaves Anthony stunned as he gradually works out the answers.

The video is from the YouTube channel Cracking The Cryptic, which regularly posts videos like these of people solving absurd sudoku puzzles and has a whopping 206,000 subscribers.

 

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