Ludo-ku
(Published on 4. April 2021, 09:07 by PrimeWeasel)
Normal Sudoku rules apply.
Killer Sudoku rules apply; digits cannot repeat in cages.
Digits within discontiguous areas with the same colour (even the pale yellows) sum to the same total (e.g. the region of 4 blue cells has the same sum as the separate region of 3 blue cells).
This grid shows a game of Ludo in progress. Ludo is a four-player game, in which each player has 4 pawns of one colour that begin in the corner of the same colour and have to end up in same colour in the middle. The pawns in this grid are represented by cells with circles, and pawn cells always contain an odd digit. Each pawn must travel along a clockwise path along the white cells, starting from its corner and ending in the cells of the same colour in the central area. Whenever a pawn would move from a cell into another cell containing a digit smaller than the cell it currently occupies, the edge between those two cells is marked with a red dot.
Ludo-ku
Solution code: Column 3, row 2
Comments
on 23. April 2022, 01:28 by Piatato
Nice and creative! I hoped to give this one a rating, but alas!
on 8. June 2021, 18:40 by perpendicularfifths
As a low-level solver myself, this puzzle made me feel like a genius! Amazing how many different kinds of logic you fit into the board.
Thanks for solving! How did you end up solving this one as a first puzzle?
on 4. April 2021, 17:33 by marcmees
I played the game a lot (when younger) so I thought I would win this one fast but it's only when I remembered to put also the pawns (my print came without) that I was able to finish it. Very nice design. Thanks for the fun.
~Thanks for playing marcmees! Glad you liked it!
on 4. April 2021, 16:48 by panthchesh
For those of you who remember "Sorry", the red dots only have a negative constraint in the white areas.
~ I'm not really sure what you mean with the 'Sorry' comment, but yes, the red dots only apply to the white zone
on 4. April 2021, 10:38 by PrimeWeasel
Minor change
