** TODAY'S PUZZLE **
We wanted to say thank you to DiMono for his May Patreon reward and he suggested we might like to tackle one of his "beast level" puzzles... so today both Simon & Mark take on Everything Is Rihgt, an astonishing construction that must be solved twice; once with the clues treated as being true and once with the clues being treated as false!
Play the puzzle at the link below:
app.crackingthecryptic.com/su...
Rules:
This is a puzzle that must be solved twice! Normal sudoku rules apply. Normal Killer, Little Killer, Quadruple, Kropki, Thermometer, Palindrome, Maximum, Minimum, and XV rules apply (see below for detailed rules). Red clues are each at least one of normal Skyscrapers, X-Sum, or Sandwich clues. After solving the puzzle, save your solution, because it's time to solve it again as a Wrogn puzzle! All clues in the grid must be made invalid in the finished solution, and red clues cannot be ANY of valid Skyscrapers, X-Sum, or Sandwich clues. To be considered invalid, the maximum cell must be less than AT LEAST one adjacent cell, the minimum cell must be greater than AT LEAST one adjacent cell, thermometers must NOT increase from bulb to tip, and quadruple circles may have some BUT NOT ALL listed digits in the surrounding cells. A "less than" sign effectively becomes a greater-than-or-equal-to sign. A "greater than" sign effectively becomes a less-than-or-equal-to sign. ADDITIONALLY, when solving the Wrogn version, no digit may be the same as it was in the Right version. i.e. if R1C1 was a 1 the first time, it may not be a 1 the second time. IT IS IMPOSSIBLE TO SOLVE THE WROGN VERSION WITHOUT FIRST SOLVING IT NORMALLY
Correct rules would be:
Killer: Digits cannot repeat within a cage and sum to the small clue in the top left corner of the cage (if given).
Little Killer: Clues outside the grid with an arrow give the sum of the digits in the direction of the arrow.
Quadruple: The digit(s) in a circle must appear at least once in the four cells touching the circle.
Kropki: Cells separated by a white dot must contain consecutive digits; cells separated by a black dot must contain digits in a 1:2 ratio (ie one digit must be double the other).
Thermometer: Along a thermometer, digits must increase from the bulb end.
Palindrome (grey lines without bulbs): digits along the palindrome must read the same forwards and backwards.
In a grey cell with four arrows facing outwards, the digit in the cell must be greater than the digits in the four orthogonally neighbouring cells.
In a grey cell with four arrows facing inwards, the digit in the cell must be less than the digits in the four orthogonally neighbouring cells.
XV: Cells separated by an X must contain digits summing to 10.
Sandwich: The clue outside the grid gives the sum of the digits sandwiched between the 1 and 9 in that row/column.
X-Sums: The clue outside the grid gives the sum of the first X digits in that row/column, where X is the digit in the cell at the start of that row/column.
Skyscrapers: The clue outside the grid gives the number of buildings "seen" from the direction of the clue (treating each digit as a building with a size equal to its value and noting that taller (higher) digits therefore obstruct the view of shorter (smaller) digits.
Check Out The Number Of Solves For A Walk In The Mist here:
sudokupad.app/counterstats.html
** NEW SUDOKU HUNT NOVEL BY DIMONO JUST OUT **
A new sudoku hunt wrapped in a real novella has just been released as our May monthly reward on Patreon. It's by DiMono and you need to keep solving puzzles to access the later chapters of the story!
Join us on Patreon for as little as $2 a month to play.
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** NEW GAS PACK: VOLUME 2 IS OUT **
The new GAS (Genuinely Approachable Sudoku) pack is out on all platforms here:
play.google.com/store/apps/de...
store.steampowered.com/app/23...
apps.apple.com/us/app/crackin...
60 original puzzles by Clover, Bill Murphy and Philip Newman!! Earn party hats and dinosaurs with these brand new puzzles!
▶ SUDOKU PAD - Use Our Software For Your Puzzles ◀
You can input classic sudoku puzzles into our software and help support Sven, the programmer responsible for the wonderful user interface we all use to play these puzzles everyday. The app also comes with 12 handmade puzzles from us:
iOS:
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Steam: store.steampowered.com/app/17...
Android:
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ALSO on Amazon: Search for “SudokuPad”
▶ Contents Of This Video ◀
0:00 Guitar music (Clay Pigeons) and puzzle intro
2:50 Birthdays
3:43 Kid's Hunt Out Yesterday on Patreon
4:28 Rules of the puzzle
13:20 Start Of Solve - Let's Get Cracking!
5 авг 2024
