Knightmare on Mount Pleasant Avenue
(Published on 25. March 2024, 22:21 by HalfBakedLunatic)
The Rules:
• Normal Sudoku Rules Apply
• Digits in a cage must sum to the number in the corner of the cage
• Cells separated by Black dots must in a 2:1 ratio, white dots must be consecutive digits
• Knightmare rules apply - digits a 'knights move' apart can not sum to 5 or 15
Solve Online here (right-click and open in new tab):
Knightmare on Mount Pleasant Avenue (Cracking The Cryptic)
Leave a comment and let me know how you like it!
Puzzle by David Workman (aka "HalfBakedLunatic")
Solution code: Column 7 top to bottom
Comments
on 24. July 2024, 21:38 by Jrosas
Great puzzle. I need to read rules. In this case I saw “knight” and assumed knight move constraint and wasted a lot of time.
on 25. June 2024, 03:57 by Kawkaz
I was so proud of myself for solving this!
Unique puzzle with lots of attention required to solve it.
Thanks for the puzzle!
on 10. June 2024, 14:12 by HalfBakedLunatic
added shading to killer cages, just for cosmetic purposes
on 13. May 2024, 18:59 by dendrobium
Tricky but fun!
on 1. April 2024, 15:08 by HalfBakedLunatic
Thank you everyone for the great comments! I had been working on a different (totally unrelated) puzzle a few weeks prior and I spotted an interesting pattern. I took a screen snip and set it aside, and then went back and worked that idea into this puzzle. It came out even better than I was even expecting and I'm happy everyone is enjoying it :-)
on 1. April 2024, 15:03 by StephenR
Nice one, thanks, quite tricky to scan I find.
on 27. March 2024, 03:55 by thespeak
I really enjoyed my time with this puzzle. I’m a big fan of knight move constraints, which seemed to both help and hinder my process as I kept wanting to make inaccurate deductions based on my expectations. This constraint got me out of leaning on old knowledge and really made me think outside of the box. Sometimes I had to think out of the box within the box! Would definitely recommend this to anyone interested in fresh logic with the knights move.
on 26. March 2024, 15:15 by Black_Doom
Beautiful construction! Puzzles involving any chess constraint can be tricky to scan, but this was exceptionally smooth from start to finish
on 26. March 2024, 09:51 by Bankey
Very nice puzzle, and novel ruleset. Thanks, @ HalfBakedLunatic :).
on 26. March 2024, 05:12 by ryanprobably
Unique, tricky, and satisfying!
on 25. March 2024, 23:01 by anyeyeball
Cool puzzle! The Knightmare rules are fun and hard-working. Thanks for sharing.
-- Hey, thank you anyeyeball. I struggled with the construction on this one, very convoluted logic, but I'm very happy with the way it turned out. Glad you liked it!
