Episcopal Sudoku
(Published on 12. September 2022, 18:09 by Arlo Lipof)
The Collegium Episcoporum has gathered.
Rules:
- Normal Sudoku rules apply.
- Anti-Bishop Constraint. Every odd digit is a (chess) Bishop. Same digit Bishops cannot be placed along the same diagonal.
- Consecutive orthogonal neighbours. Every even digit not on a grey square is a Bishop Assistant, i.e. it must be orthogonally adjacent to at least one Bishop of consecutive value (e.g. an Assistant '4' must be adjacent to a Bishop '3' or '5').
- Non-consecutive orthogonal neighbours. Every even digit on a grey square is a Grey Eminence sent by the Holy See, i.e. it cannot be orthogonally adjacent to a Bishop of consecutive value.
I hope you'll enjoy this puzzle as much as I had fun setting it! Ratings and comments are welcome of course.
Solution code: Column 5 then Row 4 (18-digit number without spaces). Amen.
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