Pac-Man Sudoku
(Published on 9. October 2020, 13:52 by Stavros96)
Pac-Man Sudoku
Themed rules: It’s Halloween… and those pesky ghosts have returned to terrorise the town. Unfortunately, the Ghostbusters are busy, and there’s only one other man who can restore peace to the town… Pac-Man.
It’s up to you to guide Pac-Man around town, collecting the last remaining power pellets, so he can eat all four evil ghosts. In order to eat the ghosts, Pac-Man must first pick up a power pellet to make them vulnerable. Each time Pac-Man gets a power pellet, he can only eat one ghost before needing to grab another pellet. Once Pac-Man has eaten his last ghost, his path ends and Halloween will be saved… until next year!!!
Rules:
- Beginning in the yellow cell (R7C5), create a 1-cell wide path that cannot cross itself or touch itself orthogonally, but can touch itself diagonally
- The path must alternate between circles and coloured cells (beginning with yellow) until all circles and all coloured cells are taken
- The grey cells are walls. The digit in a wall cell indicates the number of path cells in the 8 cells around that wall
- Circle cells are unique odd digits, square cells (the 4 coloured cells) are unique even digits
- Row 5 and Column 5 wrap around, meaning the path can pass through one end and come out on the other side (like in Pac-Man)
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Solution code: Row 3 and Column 6
Comments
on 14. January 2023, 17:51 by Lucx
I liked the Pac-Man part a lot. Thanks for the puzzle. Took me quite a while to figure out that is actually not that hard… Can‘t wait for the Donkey Kong Sudoku ;-)
on 17. February 2022, 14:51 by sunnyjum
Great puzzle! It had a bit of everything, both in design and the required solve path.
on 6. July 2021, 14:05 by WallE-93
nice sodoku. took me 5 trials and 54 min in the last. Liked the logic and i was blind a lot of times to find the numbers.
on 1. June 2021, 02:25 by Ryx
Great puzzle! I liked how you needed to mix different elements to get to the answers sometimes. Took me a while, but if you looked, there was always a next step.
on 5. November 2020, 19:57 by harrison
Incredibly cool idea...fun execution
on 15. October 2020, 02:46 by cam
Terrific!
on 13. October 2020, 21:54 by MorganFreeee
Very fun to solve! Love it
@MorganFreeee Cheers! :)
on 12. October 2020, 18:21 by Sktx
Very nice puzzle ! The Pacman mashup is quite nice, the rule set fits perfectly. Not extremely hard logic, but consistent difficulty throughout the solve, I really enjoyed it !
@Sktx Thanks!
on 12. October 2020, 00:18 by SudokuExplorer
Loved it! Thanks :-)
on 9. October 2020, 22:27 by ThrowngNinja
So is a ghost cell counted as a path cell when counting up the path cells for the grey cell values? I'm assuming yes?
@ThrowngNinja that’s correct, once a ghost is taken it becomes part of the path
on 9. October 2020, 19:04 by dBass
liked it a lot, very entertaining solve
