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↬ Count-the-Whispers Loop ↫

(Published on 16. December 2023, 07:11 by ElChiglia)



---- RULES ----

Normal Sudoku rules apply: Fill the grid with digits 1 to 9 appearing once each in every row, column, and 3x3 box.

Whispering Loop: Draw a single 1-cell-wide loop of orthogonally connected cells into the grid. Different loop segments cannot touch, not even diagonally. The loop acts as a German Whispers line, i.e., adjacent digits along the loop must differ by at least 5.

Circles and Squares: The values in each pair of circles and squares, connected by a green line, must differ by at least 5. All circles must furthermore lie on the loop. Digits in squares count the total number of loop cells in their respective row or column (outside clues), or 3x3 box (squares in the grid).

Kropki dot: Cells connected by a white dot contain consecutive digits.

---- LINKS ----

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This Sudoku is part of my series of "build-your-own-loop Sudokus". If you liked solving this puzzle or if you prefer other combinations of loop logic and constraints, feel free to give the other sudokus of the series a go too:

Loop Logic Loop Constraint Further Constraints
Entropic-Zipper-
Loop
Counting Cells Entropic Line Zipper Lines
X-clues
Hiking-through-
the-Fog Loop
Signposts Dutch Whisper,
Polarity Line
Kropki Dots
X-clues
Renbanimo Loop Pentominos
Guiding Cells
Renbanimos Kropki Dots
Odd cells
Deceiving Loop Wrogn Clues Wrogn Clues 9 different
constraints
Count-the-
Whispers Loop
Counting Cells German Whispers Kropki Dot
Whisper-me-
Sum-thing
Loop
Line-sums German Whispers Kropki Dots
Road Running
Loop
Road Runner Parity Line Kropki Dots
Magically
Modifying Loop
- Incrementers,
Decrementers,
Nullifiers
Magic Squares,
Killer cages,
Kropki Dots
Skiing Loop Gates German Whispers Kropki Dot,
Between Lines
Behaving Loop 3x3 boxes Polarity Line Kropki Dots
Magical Loop Guiding cells Modular Line Magic Squares
Foggy Loop Guiding cells Parity Line Fog of War,
Killer Cages
10-Suȵ Loop Moon-or-Sun 10-Line Killer Cages
Counting Loop Galaxies Counting Line Killer Cages,
Kropki Dots,
Quadruple Clues
Shining Loop Moon-or-Sun Parity Line Killer Cages
Interfering Loops Slitherlink
+ Masyu
Entropic Line
+ Parity Line
Killer Cages
Slithering Loop Slitherlink Entropic Line Killer Cages,
Little Killer
BigBang Loop Galaxies Parity Line Row/Column Indexer,
Kropki Dots
Summing Loop Star Battle Region Sum Line Killer Cages,
Skyscraper,
Kropki Dots
Whispering Loop Star Battle German Whispers Sandwich Sum



Solution code: Column 8, followed by row 8

Last changed on on 19. January 2024, 17:25

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Comments

on 18. April 2024, 06:51 by virus_dave
Cute and fun! I kept messing up the logic to form the loop, but once I started over it all fell into place. Nice puzzle!

on 18. December 2023, 12:15 by kwantisimo
It's always a pleasure solving puzzles in your series :)

on 16. December 2023, 23:48 by Peter the Dog
Excellent puzzle

on 16. December 2023, 16:13 by yttrio
This was a really fun addition to the series, with the circle/square clues working quite beautifully!

Difficulty:3
Rating:93 %
Solved:31 times
Observed:7 times
ID:000G72

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