A Wonderful Discovery - Dedicated to Gliperal
(Published on 21. May 2023, 02:14 by damasosos92)
It is a complex sudoku, that involves a lot of different things and doesn't make life easy to the solver. I suggest you to try other puzzles of my Overlaps series before attempting this one, but feel free to start with this one of course.
A Wonderful Discovery is dedicated to Gliperal, and to his wonderful discoveries. When I was setting it, some of the logic and the geometry involved made me think about some puzzles made by Gliperal, so I didn't have any choice but to dedicate this one to him. Thank you for all the puzzle you made.
Rules:
Overlaps: Every little circle is the center of a 3x3 box. Fill the grid with the numbers from 1 to 9 so that in each row, column, and aforementioned box each digit occurs exactly once.
German Whispers: Adjacent digits along green lines must differ by at least 5.
Little Killers: Digits along an indicated diagonal must sum to the given total. The value of "x" has to be determined by the solver.
A Wonderful Discovery is also available online on CTC-App with solution check.
Have fun solving and please leave a comment if you enjoy it! It helps sharing the puzzle around.
Solution code: Row 9, left to right.
Comments
on 20. October 2023, 22:37 by Madoka42
Not sure what it says about my ability to solve puzzles, but this was way easier than I expected. I had 3 or even 2 star puzzles that I had way more trouble solving.
Even with my totally stupid Math mistake (dividing a number by 6 and getting a result twice as high as normal) that made me stumble a bit, it only took me 70ish minutes to solve this.
Nevertheless I really liked this :-)
on 2. July 2023, 00:57 by damasosos92
I'm amazed of how well received was this puzzle! Thank you so much!
on 1. July 2023, 03:36 by Agent
I have no idea how it was even possible to conceive this puzzle. Brilliant stuff.
on 8. June 2023, 17:51 by Nordy
Extremely beautiful! My favorite type of “very hard” puzzle—the deductions seem so elusive/tricky at first, but once you spot them, they are pure elegance. Lots of really cool logic in this :)
on 31. May 2023, 00:25 by Gliperal
The discovery was indeed wonderful, and a very elegantly constructed set of deductions around it! I am glad to have such a cool puzzle dedicated to me.
on 22. May 2023, 06:26 by alaya
Just like the title--a wonderful discovery!
on 21. May 2023, 18:05 by bodemeister
Very nice puzzle! Used letters to represent digits, which greatly aided my solve. Beautiful interactions on the center German whisper lines. 4-star difficulty for me as I never really got stuck and the solve took under an hour. Thanks for the puzzle!
on 21. May 2023, 07:11 by Playmaker6174
Gorgeous and well-hidden ideas! Took a while to figure them out and throughout the solve, I was just totally invested into the puzzle, those surprising breakthroughs gave me quite a huge smile there x)
