Anti-♔ Series Ⅶ - 2ⁿᵈ XV (The Stained King)
(Published on 14. August 2021, 10:47 by tsc)
My second XV/Anti-King Sudoku for everyone who likes it colorful.
Standard Sudoku rules apply
❶ Anti-King: cells that are a king's move apart in chess cannot contain the same digit
❷ ⅩⅤ: Cells separated by a X sum up to 10, cells separated by a V sum up to 5. Not all ⅩⅤs are given
❸ The inequality symbols point to the smaller digit
Links:
f-puzzles | CtC app | penpa
Former puzzles in the series:
Solution code: column 9
Comments
on 19. February 2024, 19:49 by PinkNickels
What a beautiful puzzle. Took me about 25 minutes of extremely careful coloring and Goodliffing before I broke in, then the solution followed rather quickly. Amazing fun to solve this. thank you!
on 14. August 2021, 18:26 by tsc
Changed difficulty from easy to average due to solver's feedback
on 14. August 2021, 16:31 by Ragna
Tolle Interaktion zwischen Antiking und VX! Das hat königlichen Spaß gemacht. Vielen Dank! :-))
[tsc] Vielen lieben Dank für die Rückmeldung! Freut mich wirklich sehr zu hören dass ich Interaktionen gefunden habe die Spass machen.
on 14. August 2021, 16:05 by Sktx
This one should be called "Smallpox", which was the true anti-King (Louis) XV... Great interactions between the anti-king and the XV clues. Some very nice logic here. Not an easy puzzle to me though, while it doesn't use very hard techniques, it makes the most out of the variants used. I would rate it 3 stars, almost 4. A great puzzle !
[tsc] Nice idea for the name and thanks a lot for your feedback. In case I am doing one more with a XV (ie sum of 15) constraint I will certainly use your suggestion.
Regarding difficulty: I also saw it on a high 3, but both testers on the ctc discord server tended towards 2. Will change it to three now.
[Sktx] Haha, it was rather a joke, but if you want to use it for a puzzle, please do :). Maybe there is a clever trick that makes the puzzle a 2 starsif you spot it ? I would be curious to know how the testers solved it if they think it is a 2 stars.
[tsc] one tester was explaining that they had some practise by testing the former version of the puzzle. with a "warm up" it can feel easier.
