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Thermal Balance

(Eingestellt am 16. Juli 2024, 16:20 Uhr von gdc)

This puzzle is similar to yin-yang/negator puzzles, but uses another modifier (hot/cold cells) instead. Thanks to the testers. Enjoy!

  • Sudoku: Normal Sudoku rules apply.
  • Yin Yang: Shade some cells so that all shaded cells are orthogonally connected and all unshaded cells are orthogonally connected. Each 2x2 area of the grid contains shaded and unshaded cells.
  • Hot/Cold: The value of a shaded cell is one more than it's digit. The value of an unshaded cell is one less than it's digit.
  • Arrows: Values along an arrow sum to the value in the attached circle.
  • Kropki: Values separated by white dots differ by 1. Not all dots are given.

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Lösungscode: The shaded (hot) digits in row 8, left to right.

Zuletzt geändert am 16. Juli 2024, 16:29 Uhr

Gelöst von chippers, anonymoose, sarabtx, Guillem98, HumanBirdsong, Notlob, sedici, Flinty, Chilly, 9Rookienumbers, PhrygianFinite, Calesch, kublai, Abdul the Killer, sahi1l, Raistlen, NotThatKindOfDoctor, ... k2u5as, ThirteenDucks, Druselbert, lpq29743, Drewpacabra, widjo, CareBaer, Hark Vitrina, nhc7502, bboom, Thut46, klodser, TommyHMBK, darrenfwl, Jensa, stig, Kyriaas, Salzkoernchen, asii, martin1456
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Kommentare

am 16. September 2024, 11:11 Uhr von AsgarArn
This was an entertaining solve with new concept to approach, smooth consistent solve!

am 8. August 2024, 16:26 Uhr von ThymePass
My first experience solving a yin/yang and hot/cold sudoku and it was lovely. Thanks for putting this together :)

am 5. August 2024, 01:33 Uhr von fajoogaloo
Loved the logic of the hot/cold. Very smooth solution path. Great puzzle :)

am 2. August 2024, 20:31 Uhr von mathpesto
Gorgeous setting! You managed to make a very approachable puzzle with a difficult ruleset.

am 19. Juli 2024, 15:00 Uhr von Wuschel
Nice and easy. Great puzzle!

am 18. Juli 2024, 19:35 Uhr von madhupt
Fantastic!

am 18. Juli 2024, 10:26 Uhr von Nemefish
Very fun puzzle. If you know the tricks of Yin Yang this will be a breeze

am 17. Juli 2024, 20:10 Uhr von Big Tiger
Aside from spending 45 minutes going down the wrong path because I entered a wrong digit by accident, I had a lot of fun with this one. Challenging enough to be stimulating without being so hard that it's just depressing lol.

am 17. Juli 2024, 13:28 Uhr von Perladel
Very enjoyable!

am 17. Juli 2024, 05:29 Uhr von SamuPiano
Great use of the hot/cold! After working with a similar constraint for a puzzle I'm releasing soon, this was a nice one!

am 17. Juli 2024, 02:31 Uhr von ViKingPrime
Absolutely beautiful. The Hot/Cold constraint is one of my favourites and it's used to perfect effect with the colouring; feels like such a natural pairing, hopefully we see more puzzles like this from you!

am 17. Juli 2024, 00:04 Uhr von rictech
Excellent puzzle! Very cool how it came together. Love the yin/yang hot/cold idea!

am 16. Juli 2024, 21:06 Uhr von wuc
Wow. Approachable great puzzle. Refreshing hot cold rule. Great flow. I loved solving. Thx.

am 16. Juli 2024, 19:46 Uhr von sujoyku
Thank you for this fantastic puzzle, gdc! I have to admit I was a little anxious in the beginning since Yin Yang is not really my forte, but the solve path was telegraphed so well and full of fun deductions that I am glad I gave it a try. Unfortunately, I confused hot and cold at one point which forced me to rewind. At this point, I had figured out so much though, that I could quickly finish after I had corrected the flawed logic. Gorgeous setting! Thank you for setting and sharing!

am 16. Juli 2024, 18:29 Uhr von Abdul the Killer
Like all your puzzles, this contains some delightful and unexpected logic. Bravo!

Zuletzt geändert am 16. Juli 2024, 17:29 Uhr

am 16. Juli 2024, 17:10 Uhr von gdc
@Guillem98 for this one I didn't decide the shading upfront but incrementally deduced the shading as I added more clues. But for other puzzles (like suguru's surge), I went the other way around and worked backwards from a set of only 600 (ish) solutions with a pre-defined shading. Which approach is better (imo) depends on how many local versus global constraints are used.

am 16. Juli 2024, 17:00 Uhr von Guillem98
I loved solving this puzzle, I personally have never seen a combination of the rules set like this.
I have a question for the setter (out of curiosity), do you draw the cold/hot path first? Or as the puzzle demands?

am 16. Juli 2024, 16:49 Uhr von chippers
Lovely, thoroughly enjoyed the solve.

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