Do you know my Secret?
(Published on 18. August 2021, 04:05 by Jakhob)
Do you know my Secret?
This is the second puzzle I've created and I had an idea for a pretty different type of break in for a puzzle (similar to a few things I had seen before but I wanted to put a slightly different twist on it) I've finished it and confirmed it has a unique solution, but I'm worried that the break in might be too hard to see. I wanted it to be challenging but I am hoping to get as much feedback as possible as to if the break in is too hard to see or if it's hard but still interesting enough that the puzzle is still good.
Rules:
Normal Sudoku Rules apply
Digits in cages must sum to the number in the corner of the cage
Digits along arrows must sum to the digit in that arrow's circle
Solution code: Row 5 followed by Row 9 no spaces
Comments
on 21. August 2021, 02:32 by Tilberg
Thank you! Many roads lead to Rome, I guess. :-)
on 21. August 2021, 00:04 by Jakhob
@Tilberg: PulverizingPancake's response was as follows "yeah I don't think you need to change the puzzle. I think you telegraph it well enough, as a lot of the other clues are either self-contained enough to not add much insight to the break-in or introduce too many degrees of freedom, and the most important ones are clumped together in a suggestive way. I believe I started with the Aad SET and reduced from there, but I think a much cleaner way to do it is to add columns 4 and 5, add box 6, subtract r6, and subtract box 8, which cancels out a bunch of stuff and leaving r2c4+r5c9=18. Nice puzzle :slight_smile:"
Here is the link to the message on discord: https://discord.com/channels/709370620642852885/712987186655395895/877405322686378095
on 20. August 2021, 11:52 by Tilberg
@Jakhob: Thanks for the reply. Can you link to PulverizingPancake's comments?
on 19. August 2021, 00:59 by Jakhob
Thank you for the wonderful feedback Tilberg. The original intended SET breakin was based around Aad's SET but with one column slightly shifted, but reading your explanation and reading the explanation in the CtC discord from PulverizingPancake I can see both of yours were much simpler ways to see the same thing that involve looking at a lot fewer rows columns and boxes, and I actually end up liking those a lot more actually than how I thought of it originally
on 19. August 2021, 00:44 by OhHeyGuysItsMax
Very nice puzzle, can't believe I figured it out on my own. Very well done
on 18. August 2021, 07:10 by Jakhob
updated typos again (solution code had a typo really sorry about that everyone)
on 18. August 2021, 04:19 by Jakhob
Corrected some typos
