My Strange Zebra
(Published on 17. November 2023, 16:31 by Laake)
My Strange Zebra
Rules:
- Normal sudoku rules apply.
- Shade some cells such that all shaded cells are orthogonally connected and all unshaded cells are orthogonally connected. No 2x2 area may be fully shaded or unshaded.
- When a segment of a grey line is shaded, it acts as a “renban” line. Digits on a renban line form a non-repeating set of consecutive digits, in any order.
- When a segment of a grey line is unshaded, it acts as a “german whisper” line. Adjacent digits along a german whisper line must have a difference of at least 5.
- Each german whisper and renban line must be at least 2 cells long.
I made this one a while ago, but I'm only now getting around to publishing my puzzles to here.
SudokuPad link: Click Here
Enjoy!
Solution code: Row 8
Comments
on 13. August 2024, 14:39 by The Book Wyrm
Fun little puzzle. Neat ruleset with some nice deductions. Not too difficulty either.
on 26. February 2024, 22:50 by Jrosas
I watched Simon Anthony solve this puzzle on Cracking the Cryptic about three months ago and this puzzle inspired me to try to set a sudoku. The beautiful ways the yin Yang constraint affects neighboring digits in Laake’s Strange Zebra made me want to make something similar. Yesterday Mark Goodliffe solved my debut puzzle “One of These Things. . . “ on CTC. Thank you Laake.
on 24. February 2024, 14:47 by heliopolix
Very enjoyable! Thanks for sharing.
on 20. February 2024, 20:30 by yttrio
Fantastic yin yang puzzle!
on 18. January 2024, 09:11 by Schwupel
I should really read the rules more carefully. Stopped reading after the word "german whisper" and missed the minimum length of 2 cells rule. Only after half an hour of zero progress and utter confusion I reread and realized.
Very smooth and enjoyable afterwards!
on 12. January 2024, 17:42 by sacklunch
Beautiful, elegant, and very enjoyable. Loved it, thanks so much!
on 12. December 2023, 16:56 by elpadrinoIV
Initially it went very smooth with the coloring, but I reached a point where I was completely stuck. One path look very promising with very nice logic, and the other one didn't look that nice, but I was never able to prove that the second path had a problem. After a lot of trying I just gave up and decided to go with the "nice" path, which turn out to be the correct one. The logic afterwards was super nice and smooth.
on 17. November 2023, 23:02 by 99%Sneaky
A stellar puzzle with lots of small wonderful deductions. The first ying-yang I've solved and oh boy did I choose a great one to start with!
on 17. November 2023, 18:38 by nunc
Very nice. Reminds me a lot of one that Simon on CtC once solved.
