Synergies
(Published on 1. December 2024, 04:00 by Playmaker6174)
Yeah, good setters do make mistakes sometimes, who would've thought...
To compensate for this unfortunate moment, I would aim to take some small breaks and hope to find better alternatives for that retry at some point. For now, I'll pick another cool sudoku puzzle as a substitution for the beginning of this month.
The puzzle below followed right after my previous Boundaries of mine and this one has a lot of similarities with that puzzles in terms of the interactions between the 'relatively familiar' constraints. I placed this puzzle as a solid 4/5 in terms of estimated difficulty over here, but I hope you enjoy the solve overall!
Rules:
- Normal Sudoku rules apply: every row, column and 3x3 box contains digits from 1 to 9 each once.
-Within a cage, digits sum to the small number written at the top left of that cage.
In this puzzle, X is the same total for those two particular cages and needs to be deduced.
- Digit[s] along an arrow sum to the digit in the circle cell attached to that arrow.
- Along a light orange line, each set of three sequential cells must contain one digit from set {1,2,3}, one digit from set {4,5,6} and one digit from set {7,8,9}.
- Along a green line, two adjacent digits have the difference of at least 5.
Puzzle: F-puzzle - Penpa plus - Sudokupad
Good luck and have fun solving!
Solution code: Enter column 2 from top to bottom, 9 digits long
Comments
on 5. January 2025, 15:27 by Piatato
Very cool, although quite tough for me!
on 11. December 2024, 17:35 by Neokart
Nice puzzle! Lots of cool interactions.
on 8. December 2024, 16:42 by crossoverdoc
wonderful puzzle. haven’t tried boundaries yet so looking forward to that next.
on 2. December 2024, 20:34 by econtrout
Wow! A very nice puzzle...subtle interactions...more like 4-Plus for me.
Thanks!
on 2. December 2024, 19:48 by madhupt
This is such a well-set puzzle. The interactions are very intricate and the break-in to get the parity of R5C5 is so cool. It gives way soon thereafter. Thanks for sharing this.
on 2. December 2024, 11:19 by Snookerfan
Sublime! Thank you
on 1. December 2024, 14:16 by Myxo
Beautiful puzzle!
on 1. December 2024, 08:35 by rameshsrivats
Very cool puzzle
on 1. December 2024, 04:55 by askaksaksask
I think i enjoyed this puzzle even more than boundaries. The flow here! Those sneaky interactions were also a blast to uncover. Just wonderful! Bravo
