He's BACK! The Return Of Phistomefel
86K views · Sep 18, 2026 · Entertainment
Comments · 241
@FatoGamuTheFool · 10 days ago
-start puzzle<br>-deduce things on my own<br>-get stuck<br>-watch simon deduce diferent things<br>-compliment my deductions with his<br>-still stuck<br>-keep watching<br>-he arrives to the same deductions i did<br>-now we both stuck at the same point<br>Fun times
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@alexperez7238 · 11 days ago
Not Simon completely solving everything and not seeing he has already found the 3-5-7 thermo in the lower portion
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@emilybell6691 · 11 days ago
Should've written the rule as "digits separated by a white dot are consecutive. All white dots are given"😂
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@4theostone · 11 days ago
Funny and painful calling out the 15, 37, and 59 pairs that existed for many minutes of the video. Great video!
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@davidrattner9 · 12 days ago
What a way to end the week...2 iconic returns to the community.<br>1st Jay Dyer yesterday.<br>Then today the man himself Phistomefel!<br>I mean it doesn't get any better than this!! Such a treat!!
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@DWestheim · 11 days ago
Simon is so uniquely amazing. He can see things in puzzles that elude me until I have exhausted the entire color pallette available to me, just by staring, but on the other hand refuses to pencil mark the thermo quintuples, and then goes within the same sentence from "it's almost symmetrical, except for this thermo" to "but maybe it's only for the late stage". =)<br><br>That and the Swordfish detour in the video helped me beat Simon's time by almost 20 minutes, which has happened like five times, if that, in all the years of the channel :D
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@jeffmoore688 · 10 days ago
I think the coloring sometimes makes it harder to spot pairs, triples, etc. Especially when they exist in 2 different colors
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@timdorr · 12 days ago
I saw this on my feed and came RUNNING to this video. So great to have another Phistomefel puzzle in the universe!
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@RomanPer · 12 days ago
If you remove all the colors and analyze the solution, you'll notice that the entire grid has roping, in both directions. I have a feeling it was somehow connected to the entire idea of this puzzle.
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@jaredsmith7827 · 11 days ago
Local puzzle wizard attempts dark magic ritual to circumvent the shame of having to rely upon their fairweather frenemy, sudoku [ <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jFsMiAicuYc&t=3172">52:52</a> ]
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@nendwr · 12 days ago
The moment that swordfish came up, I was sure that this was a variant sudoku puzzle with a 5 in the middle of the grid.
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@redsyss2081 · 12 days ago
also my birthday today i truned 25, was watching you for around 4 years thanks for the content man
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