Take the second cover
(Published on 3. April 2021, 19:10 by bigger)
Standard sudoku rules applies. Fill the grid with numbers from 1 to 6 so each digit occurs exactly once in every row, column and 2x3 box.
Skyscraper rule applys. Each digit in the grid is a building of its height. Digit outside is the second digit that can't be seen from that direction.
One is enough, unless you guys want another one.
This puzzle is made by Old Miles from China. Finally, no more take cover series. The most torture and mind-blowing series finally end. Main reason is that it is too hard. I still can't believe I have the idea of take cover and solve all of those.
After this one, I'm on a idea break. I kind of want to share some Old Miles' 2017 puzzle or puzzle with his idea. The thing is, I don't feel the idea on this site any more. Too many puzzles are abusing coloring or stitch up too many rules. It's just not that inspiring. Hard to believe till this day, the most interesting idea I saw (count all Chinese puzzles out) is still placing thermo, shattered palindome and self-killer. Those are the ideas that every Chinese setter would appreciate. What happen to innovative ideas? And there's little developing ideas. The only series I saw with developing ideas is peterchayward's python. Every puzzle has a slightly different rule. I can enjoy the whole series as an idea trip. New tricks were found, Old tricks disabled. Whole New angle towards one rule. That's actually one source of my idea developing. Anyway, hope you enjoy the take cover series.
Solution code: Row 3 and column 3 (12 digits)
Comments
on 4. April 2021, 07:07 by glum_hippo
Your opinion of other setters around here is pretty harsh. Or am I misunderstanding you?
Bigger:I'm just a little bit too disappointed by recent Sudoku variants. I don't think you guys know how our opinions of this site changes. We used to think of puzzle of this site with new ideas. We want to know every new Sudoku variant. Now it's stich-up rules and abused structure with too hard difficulty. The exact things we avoid when setting a Sudoku variant. In a word, we used to think here is the leading variant in the world. Now there's no prove.
g_h —Innovative rule sets and innovative logic are both in abundant supply, I would say. It’s true that the sheer number of new puzzles appearing every day is quite overwhelming, and that makes it harder for the kinds of puzzles you enjoy to shine through. But (1) those puzzles and authors do still exist, (2) their alleged absence wouldn’t stop you from continuing your work and (3) broad generalizations really don’t help anybody. I hope you’ll continue posting and feeling welcome here.
on 3. April 2021, 23:54 by marcmees
Innovating, well developed into a single rule series and Chinese! How spoiled are we?
on 3. April 2021, 19:31 by ranhothchord
https://f-puzzles.com/?id=yjektbxn works but won't test "second cover" constraint
Very cool idea! I've never tried a "second cover" skyscraper before, and it really messed with my head. I liked trying to figure out a bunch of logic I'd never thought about before
