This Sudoku Solve Made Me Cry

This Sudoku Solve Made Me Cry

3 years ago
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https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/4aydan/the-miracle-sodoku-solve

I do not know much about Sudoku other than the general rules of it. When I was a teenager I completed maybe three of the "very easy" ones from a book while I was on a bus ride or a flight. I am not particularly predisposed to see the beauty or art in the construction or solving of a puzzle. I have seen artistic masterpieces, which I find mesmerizing and nice to look at but rarely make me feel emotional. Perhaps it's the times we're living in, a rough last few weeks, or the fact I stumbled across this video while aimlessly scrolling YouTube videos about Call of Duty at 4 in the morning because I couldn't sleep, but this viral Sudoku puzzle pushed me over the edge.

"The Miracle," constructed by Mitchell Lee and solved by Simon Anthony on YouTube, consists of just two prefilled numbers and a host of highly constrictive rules: