The Sears Tower
(Published on 28. November 2023, 02:00 by ViKingPrime)
PUZZLE:
RULES:
Normal Sudoku rules apply.
• German Whisper (green): Digits along each German Whisper line must differ by at least five [5].
• Killer: Digits within a cage must sum to the number in the top-left corner.
• Smarties (peach/turquoise): Each peach dot connects digits of a different difference (across all peach dots); each turquoise dot connects digits of the same difference (across all turquoise dots, to be deduced by the solver).
INTRODUCTION:
Introducing the "S.Marty" dot! If you know anything about Marty Sears and the puzzles he likes to create, you'll already have some familiarity with how this puzzle plays out. I hope you enjoy!
(P.S. if you're having trouble finding the Sears Tower, apparently they changed the name to "Willis Tower").
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- "The Sears Tower" (German Whisper/Killer/Smarties)
- "Put the Pedal to the Piano" (Dutch Whisper/German Whisper/Palindrome)
- "Uncharted Weters" (Zipper/Ziffer/Wetering)
- "Uaine, Bán agus Flannbhuí (or 'Tingo Unchained')" (Dutch Whisper/German Whisper/Irish Dots)
- "Oil, Water and Soap" (Inequality/Killer/Schrödinger)
- "From A te Z" (Arrow/Nabner/Renban)
Solution code: The digits along Row 5, left-to-right.
Comments
on 24. January 2024, 21:41 by MarthaB
Great, fun, math challenge puzzle. Another that I'd started, and stalled. So glad I went back to it - and solved!
on 4. December 2023, 01:03 by marty_sears
This was a lovely puzzle, I was thrilled to have a puzzle and indeed a new type of dot named after me haha! What a lovely surprise.
Aside from that though, really cool twist on same difference and different difference lines, and there were some really nice aha moments in this.
on 4. December 2023, 00:38 by sunevora
Very nice inner puzzle with the Smarties! Enjoyed it thoroughly, but felt more like a 3-star to me.
on 28. November 2023, 23:52 by Snaques
I may also have underestimated the difficulty and not looked into too complex deductions at first so it took a while. So 3/5 for me.
That being said, it was a very fun puzzle to solve so thank you VP!
on 28. November 2023, 20:29 by ryanprobably
Maybe it was just due to the novelty of the smarties dots, but I actually found this puzzle to be closer to a 3* for me. Nice one!
on 28. November 2023, 17:57 by mathpesto
Really enjoyed the smarties dots; would love to see more of this :)
on 28. November 2023, 15:53 by WeakSolver
Very nice, loved it.
on 28. November 2023, 03:58 by Kippar
Delightful puzzle. I like the logical deductions that arise from the Smartie dot.
