"Two Knotty Four Words"
(Published on 18. April 2024, 01:40 by apete)
Orange lines are entropic. (Each string of three adjacent cells along an entropic line contains one of 123, one of 456, and one of 789.)
Teal lines are modular. (Each string of three adjacent cells along a modular line contains one of 147, one of 258, and one of 369.)
White dots separate consecutive digits. Not all dots are given.
Try "Two Knotty Four Words" here:
CtC
f-puzzles
This is part of my Simon Says collection.
Oh Bobbins
Haven't got a Scooby-Doo
One to One Ratio
Good Grief
"Two Knotty Four Words"
Come on, Brain
Solution code: Rows 5 and 8, no spaces
Comments
on 25. August 2024, 18:43 by garycblack
I had to start over twice because the coloring was getting too confusing! I opted to shade cells that I had accounted for all lines, and that helped draw my eye to the appropriate locations.
My only niggle would be that teal is not a great color for the pencil marks.
Very nice puzzle.
on 9. May 2024, 04:51 by apete
Fixing link
on 23. April 2024, 18:18 by lcy.30
Not difficult but has to be careful. Great pencil marking exercise.
on 21. April 2024, 02:12 by chubnatty
Found coloring to be more confusing. Was easier to just mark the options for each cell.
on 19. April 2024, 05:13 by bozhang2820
I think it would be easier to *not* color the cells but directly mark the possible numbers for each cell instead.
on 18. April 2024, 18:50 by asp1310
Personally, I hate puzzles that mix lines you'd color differently (modular, entropic and whispers). While it's 'possible' to give a cell two colors (here, I used the greys to signal low-med-high, and RGB for the modular groups), the mix of colors means it's nearly impossible to easily parse. Which defeats the point of using colors in the first place!
That said, it was a one of the best puzzles of this mixed-lines type, just a shame the nice logic was tainted by how annoying it was to color/parse the puzzle to see that nice logic.
on 18. April 2024, 08:30 by abadx
quite easy, it just needs a bit of organising and colouring
on 18. April 2024, 04:55 by inthemoonlight
I really enjoyed this puzzle! The logic was very straightforward to follow and it led to a satisfying conclusion. :D
