Is V Greater Than, Less Than, or Equal to 5? (Original)
(Published on 6. May 2024, 00:00 by HalfBakedLunatic)
The Rules:
• Normal Sudoku rules apply
• "V" can be either "inequality" (points to smaller digit) or "digits sum to 5" or both. If the two digits do sum to 5, the "V" can be in any orientation and does not necessarily indicate greater than/less than.
• Digits must not repeat in cells that are a knight's move apart.
• The digits in a cage must sum to the number printed in its corner.
• Entering a correct digit will clear the fog from around that cell.
Solve Online here (right-click and open in new tab):
Is V Greater Than, Less Than, or Equal to 5? (Cracking The Cryptic)
Leave a comment and let me know how you like it!
Puzzle by David Workman (aka "HalfBakedLunatic")
Solution code: Column 5, top to bottom
Comments
on 17. May 2024, 22:36 by HalfBakedLunatic
Pointing everyone to the revised (corrected) version of the puzzle: https://logic-masters.de/Raetselportal/Raetsel/zeigen.php?id=000I46
on 17. May 2024, 06:08 by jinkela114514
3.5* difficulty for me
on 7. May 2024, 19:03 by sanabas
Great fun, but felt a lot easier than 5*
Surprised how many superfluous clues there are too.
on 7. May 2024, 07:12 by Deino42
62:05, as someone who is far from an expert, I think that’s pretty good for a 5-star! Especially since I did it without a solution link, and probably 15 minutes of that was backtracking due to an incorrect digit. Very nice puzzle, I really like the scattered fog.
on 6. May 2024, 19:59 by Criptonight
Dat was bijna drie uur, en pure vreugde de hele weg!
on 6. May 2024, 15:19 by HalfBakedLunatic
Updated link with embedded solution
on 6. May 2024, 14:57 by CHRosenthal
Important bug: if I try to use letters to represent digits, the fog will be cleared revealing hidden clues
--- Thank you @CHRosenthal, someone else pointed that out as well. I just updated the link with the embedded solution, the fog doesn't work correctly without that.
on 6. May 2024, 05:31 by bansalsaab
Speechless.
