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Saddles and Arrows

(Published on 1. December 2024, 17:30 by Schma)

Better late than never :). The continuation of my saddle rule puzzles comes with a few Arrows to it. Have a look at my "Saddles and Arrows" Sudoku.

After the latest feedback, I change the color of the saddles from brown to pink to allow better visibility of pencil marks.

As always, any comments are highly appreciated. :)

Play on SudokuPad

It helps to activiate the "Draw Arrows above lines" option to see the Arrows a bit better.

The rules are as follows:

  • Sudoku: Normal Sudoku rules apply.
  • Saddle: The pink circle is a saddle point and is always connected to 4 pink lines representing a saddle. Moving away from a circle, digits on a line have to either strictly increase or decrease in relation to the number in the circle. Each circle has two opposite lines with increasing property and two opposite lines with decreasing property.
  • Arrow: Digits along an arrow must sum to the digit in its circle.

Depending on how good your skills with Arrows are, this one might range from easy to tricky but I would rate it at 2/5. If you have trouble understanding the ruleset, check out my first puzzle (Sandwich on a Saddle) where I try to explain the ruleset a bit better. I want to come up with more of these in the future and I would love to see some other setter(s) finding joy with the ruleset :)

Solution code: All digits from row 5 (left to right).

Last changed on on 9. December 2024, 21:07

Solved by SKORP17, arda, jalebc, seeppp, hige, Joyofrandomness, Felis_Timon, DanishDynamite, tiuhto, trashghost, creo, Postnormal, halakani, kkli, Gosciola19, gdc, Hajuhn, damo_89, Alce, sedici, A Lumbercat, ... rlg, teuthida, dingledork, sarabtx, Rearden, thebriskt, maniacaljackal, Nagesh, BakBak, Myse1f, timww572, Finni, WvdWest, candleshine, emmalee256, geronimo92, PippoForte, bhambells, Danekiller
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Last changed on 10. December 2024, 19:38

on 9. December 2024, 21:11 by Finni
Had a go at this puzzle and found I actually had more trouble with the arrows than the saddle rule, haha. I know what I'll have to practice next :D I had a lot of fun solving this one, thank you for making more puzzles!

Schma: Thank you and good luck on your Arrow practice :)

Last changed on 10. December 2024, 19:37

on 4. December 2024, 13:28 by thebriskt
A very fine puzzle, I think I had to restart 6 times before I cracked it

Schma: Thank you for your comment and sorry for the restarts :D

Last changed on 4. December 2024, 07:16

on 2. December 2024, 21:27 by rlg
I think you meant row 5, left to right. Fun puzzle - thanks!!

Schma: classic copy / paste error, thank you for pointing that out and I’m glad you like the puzzle :)

Last changed on 4. December 2024, 07:16

on 2. December 2024, 07:55 by askaksaksask
I liked this interaction!

Schma: thank you for your comment :)

Difficulty:2
Rating:88 %
Solved:54 times
Observed:4 times
ID:000KYD

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