Foggy Knight (Dynamic Fog)
(Published on 22. December 2024, 00:33 by riffclown)
Rules
Normal antiknight sudoku rules apply.
Cells a knight's move apart in chess may not be the same digit.
Digits on an arrow sum to the value in the bulb
Cells separated by a black dot have a 1 to 2 ratio. Cells separated by a white dot are consecutive. Not all dots are necessarily given.
Dynamic Fog : Some cells are covered by fog. Placing correct digits may or may not affect the fog..
Link
Solution code: Row 1. Nine Digits no spaces
Comments
on 5. February 2025, 01:45 by Zarlino
Very enjoyable: thank you.
on 28. December 2024, 16:11 by itsid
Fun indeed, and true true, the fog ONLY stops you from thinking ahead (or astray) it doesn't help nor hinder in any way; but this is a one star puzzle, so what "challenge" would you expect?
on 22. December 2024, 19:58 by baltoguy
Fun puzzle. Try to get as far as you can without the anti-knight constraint and see how it plays.
on 22. December 2024, 17:47 by abadx
One star puzzle for sure. When solving it I had the same feelings as others solvers: dinamic fog was almost of no use towards signing a clear solve path. I didn't have to think about what cells were revealed and why. Just using sudoku was enough.
on 22. December 2024, 13:30 by PuzzlePatzer
lots of fun - thanks for sharing.
on 22. December 2024, 11:17 by alefenu
Didnt use the arrow clue in box 9. Puzzle was easy but fun
on 22. December 2024, 08:09 by zonny
Pretty sure the solution path I found was different from the constructor's intention as the fog reveal was a little odd! Nice opening, but it could definitely be made more challenging with less clues.
--The intent of this puzzle was to be extremely easy with multiple paths. It's over clued with different fog paths on purpose. -- Riffclown
on 22. December 2024, 06:35 by macintux
Nice puzzle. My only complaint: you can get quite far without the knight’s move constraint, so it’s easy to forget about it and get stuck.
Or maybe my memory just sucks. Which it does.
on 22. December 2024, 04:09 by NotSoMagnifique
Delightful!
on 22. December 2024, 03:25 by TheNineElements
Solve Time: 6:11
I rated this 1/5 difficulty
Nice beginner-friendly variant Sudoku. The break-in R5C5 cell is neat and a nice idea for an approachable kropki deduction. The arrows + other kropki dots followed some patterns/logic used in other kropki puzzles, and this puzzle could serve as a nice intro to the variants for a beginner. I consider myself somewhere between intermediate-advanced, so a lot of the ideas here were intuitive for me - but I think the logic could be very informative for beginners.
The overall variant logic was nice, though I believe I diverged from the intended solve path about halfway through as I didn't use one of the arrows and was using classic sudoku to make eliminations for the arrow - but either way the solve was nice (at least, I don't think I used one of them - but I was sort of 'speedrunning' this puzzle so I may have pencilmarked arrow eliminations intuitively without realizing). As far as I could tell, the solution is unique so skipping that deduction shouldn't be logically problematic. Since this is a 1* difficulty puzzle, I think that this alternative solve path is fine, and utilizing the arrows may be easier path for some solvers.
If you are a beginner solver, or have never solved puzzles with these rulesets, this puzzle will be a nice introduction. If you are a more advanced solver, and looking for a quicker puzzle that doesn't require a big time commitment, this puzzle will also serve that goal as well.
--Thank you for those kind words and I agree. There are a few paths through this puzzle and not all of them require some elements. This was also a learning puzzle for me exploring the different paths for dynamic fog and the tools used to create them. --riffclown
on 22. December 2024, 01:31 by wuc
Nice dynamic snack thx.
on 22. December 2024, 01:22 by ccotreau
Fun puzzle. Nice use of dynamic fog
