Title: The BremSter Thermo Conundrum
Type: Sudoku
Link: Penpa+ link to The BremSter Thermo Conundrum You may use Normal/Large/Medium/Small Blue, Green, or Red numbers in any combination.
Link: F-puzzles link to The BremSter Thermo Conundrum
Link: CtC app link to The BremSter Thermo Conundrum
Variants: Little Killer, Anti-Knight, Heat Map Thermometer
Featured on Cracking the Cryptic, The Rangsk livestream and his own YouTube channel, expert puzzle setter BremSter has created another variant to compliment his Psycho Killer Cages--Heat Map Thermometers. I have created an Anti-knight puzzle that uses his brilliant thermometer to add a little extra challenge. You can find excellent puzzles by BremSter here.
1) Normal Sudoku
2) Little Killer
3) Anti-Knight
4) Heat Map Thermometer
You can try a 4x4 example here.
Solution code: Please enter the digits of Row 7 followed by Column 6
on 4. November 2021, 15:51 by Filto
Became easier once I remembered about anti-knight... :)
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Seems to be a common theme with this particular puzzle. A 9 cell thermo that adds to 45; I crack myself up. Hope you enjoyed it ~ZH
on 20. September 2021, 02:23 by Bremster
I struggled with this quite a lot. Probably the combination of the anti-knight and the heat map thermo. As possible the only person to have done several heat map thermo puzzles before this one, the extra constraint kept tripping me up.
Excellent puzzle, thank you for the honour.
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My only hope is that I was able to do a tiny bit of justice to your excellent constraint. ~ZH
on 17. September 2021, 08:27 by PrimeWeasel
Very nice! Spent an hour and a half on it yesterday and broke it twice... Spent 15 minutes on it this morning and immediately realized that one of the first digits I had put in was wrong. Very well constructed!
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It is easy to miss a deduction in this puzzle. I knew it wouldn't beat an expert solver like you though! Thank you for the kind words and solve ~ZH
on 16. September 2021, 23:37 by Sktx
Hard one, but definitely worth solving. The logic is really interesting, and the setting really powerful. My advice: don't forget the anti-knight constraint!
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Certainly an exercise in scanning. I am honored once again by your kind words. Thank you ~ZH