Mondrian's Masterpiece
(Published on 29. August 2021, 21:46 by steelwool)
Mondrian was admiring one of his paintings and thinking about Sudoku (again**).
He dropped some playing cards (Ace, King , Queen, Jack, Ten - A, K, Q, J, T) onto one of his paintings.
Now he realises he has finished his masterpiece!
All you need to do is decode the value of A, K, Q, J and T to solve the sudoku.
By the way, all the cages that have a sum that can be expressed using AKQJT are shown.
Normal Sudoku rules apply. Killer cages sum to the decoded values (*) and do not have repeated digits.
The marked diagonals each include all the digits 1 to 9.
* For example, a cage total such as KT would be a value of 17 if K=1 and T=7.
** I used this pattern a while ago for this idea, but was never happy with my puzzle, as it was not amenable to a logical approach. I hope this is a better puzzle, and the logic should be much clearer.
Solve the puzzle online at F-puzzles.
Solution code: Enter the digits from row 8 followed by the digits from column 6.
Comments
on 31. August 2021, 06:45 by DanMeehan
And I just finished the original one this past weekend! This one sure is easier. The cages with no repeated digits helped a lot. I didn't even have to figure out the sum for the gold cage in the middle.
-- Hi Dan. I am pleased you did the original, as you were in effect the spur to produce a more accessible version (let's face it, the original is a very hard slog). Thanks for taking the time to solve both puzzles!
