Copycat Copycat
(Published on 24. June 2023, 04:05 by Scojo)
- Normal sudoku rules apply.
- Place 9 'Doubler' cells in the grid so that there is exactly one Doubler in every row, column, and 3x3 box. Each Doubler cell must contain a different digit. The value of a Doubler cell is equal to twice the digit it contains.
- Place 9 'Copycat' cells in the grid so that there is exactly one Copycat in every row, column, and 3x3 box. Each Copycat cell must contain a different digit. The value of a Copycat cell is equal to the value of the cell rotationally opposite itself in the grid, regardless of the digit in the Copycat cell. For example, if r4c3 was a Copycat cell and had 5 as its digit, and r6c7 had 1 as its value, the value of the Copycat cell in r4c3 would replicate the value of r6c7, so the value of both cells would be 1. Note that values rather than digits are copied, so if the opposite cell happened to be a Doubler, the Copycat cell would also have that doubled value.
- Doubler and Copycat cells may not occupy the same cell, and Copycat cells may not be rotationally opposite another Copycat cell.
- Values along a gray Slow Thermometer must generally increase from bulb to tip. Values may never decrease, but may remain the same if allowed by other rules.
- On orange Entropic Lines, every group of 6 consecutive cells along the line must contain one value from each of the following sets: [1,2,3], [4,5,6], [7,8,9], [10,11,12], [13,14,15], and [16,17,18]. Entropic Lines that are less than 6 cells long may contain no more than one value from any set.
Solve the example puzzle in SudokuPad (Note that the sets of values for the entropic line in the example puzzle are [1,2], [3,4], and [5,6])
Solve the full puzzle in SudokuPad
- Copycat Copycat: featuring Doublers, Slow Thermos, and Entropic Lines.
- Copycat Yin Yang: featuring Yin Yang and Killer Cages.
- Copycat Collaboration: featuring Zipper Lines and Odd Lots. (Collab with several other setters)
- Copycat Blues: featuring Region Sum Lines and Same Difference Lines. (Collab with Marty Sears)
- Copycat Choco Banana: featuring Choco Banana and Arrows.
- Copycat Cipher: featuring Ciphered Digits, X-Sums, and Killer Cages.
- Copycat Kropki: featuring Kropki Dots.
Solution code: The VALUES of every cell in row 1, from left to right
Comments
on 24. August 2024, 16:01 by The Book Wyrm
Very mad puzzle. The copycats + doublers made for a lot of interesting options, and these were the perfect constraints to show them off, especially the slow thermos. A lot of fun and interesting logic.
Very impressive minimalist grid as well - only 4 clues, but each used to their fullest extent.
Fairly tricky, especially to get started, and a lot of complex steps throughout.
on 28. April 2024, 00:25 by ViKingPrime
What a journey
on 26. June 2023, 23:41 by jojo81gaming
An epic solve start to finish, the mirror cells adds so much fun to the solve but make everything so much harder!
on 25. June 2023, 16:38 by Kafkapharnaum
That was just utterly bonkers, and very hard all the way to the end. Between double-length entropy lines, long thermos and doublers, that was already a lot to keep track of, without adding mirror cells into the fray, but there were also many traps and some pretty remote possibilities that certainly weren't obvious, wow! I enjoyed it, but that took some doing! How you managed to make all of this fit together in any kind of decipherable way, I have no idea XD
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Thanks for making the effort to solve it! I don't normally like making my puzzles this hard, especially with such a busy ruleset, but there were some crazy interactions I wanted to play with that needed the difficulty to work. - Scojo
