3 Snakes 2 Puzzles
(Published on 19. June 2022, 18:41 by the_cogito)
Rules:
- Latin Square: Each digit 1-9 appears exactly once in every row and column.
- Divide the grid into 3 snakes, which don't overlap and which collectively cover the entire grid. A snake is a 1-wide path of orthogonally connected cells with no branching. A snake may not touch itself, even diagonally.
- Cells separated by a black kropki dot are in a 2:1 ratio.
- Cells containing gray circles must contain odd digits.
- Thick borders between cells indicate those cells are a part of two different snakes.
- Adjacent cells along the same snake must contain digits that differ by exactly 4 or 5.
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Solve on CTC app
Solution code: Digits along the snake starting in r1c1, in order from that point.
Comments
on 28. May 2024, 22:37 by Lucx
Unbelievable… By walking along the snakes, filling in number after number it always felt like „can‘t be true“ that this number again fits… very magical solution. I‘m still wondering how smooth this all went. Great idea and great construction! Perfect set of rules!
on 30. June 2022, 15:23 by Christounet
How can this even exist ? And how did you come up with it ? I'm starting to believe thar some of you guys SEE things in these grids that mere mortals can't see. Like Neo in the Matrix... Well done again and thanks !
Thanks so much for the nice words :)
Sometimes puzzles just sort of fall nicely into place, and you sort of luck into something that feels nice.
I wish I could say that was the case here, but setting this actually took quite a bit of work trying to make sense of what was going on, first with the snakes, then more work figuring out what to do with them. I suppose maybe the magic is in finding the idea to begin with. I wish I could say how that part happens :P I'm glad you enjoyed it
on 26. June 2022, 00:54 by SimplePurpleFrog
Lovely puzzle, very amusing too.
on 20. June 2022, 16:52 by OGRussHood
Once you find the break-in, the numbers just fall into place.
on 20. June 2022, 13:25 by Angelo
Awesome idea with a great execution!
on 20. June 2022, 03:55 by twobear
Wonderful execution on interesting ideas! Thank you!
on 19. June 2022, 18:54 by purpl
The telegraphing in this very minimalistic puzzle is incredible.
on 19. June 2022, 18:52 by Agent
Very interesting puzzle. The snakes and the digits are restricted in weird ways.
on 19. June 2022, 18:44 by LittleBallOfPurr
*Sus eyes emote*..... weird....
