Brace For Impact
(Published on 10. January 2025, 10:42 by MSDOS)
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After solving James Sinclair's recent and brilliant puzzle "Calibration", and then seeing it featured on CTC, I was inspired to set something that featured some long renban lines.
I hope you enjoy!
Rules
Normal sudoku rules apply, and all clues are standard.
Renban Lines: Digits along a purple renban line form a non-repeating set of consecutive digits in any order.
Odd/Even: Digits in a square (grey or blue) must be even. Digits in a grey circle must be odd.
** Blue squares must also contain the same digit. **
Partial Kropki: Digits separated by a white dot are consecutive. Digits separated by a black dot are in a 1:2 ratio. Not all dots are necessarily given.
Play on SudokuPad!
Solution code: Column 8 from top to bottom. (9 digits)
Comments
on 13. January 2025, 20:48 by Cialoh
Lovely, lovely, lovely setting! It really made me brace patiently and feel the impact all at once!
MSDOS: haha, this is such a perfect interpretation of the title considering that I just named it after the renbans that look like curly brackets (sometimes called braces)! Thanks for the comment!
on 13. January 2025, 00:30 by Chaka
Wow, this was so much more than I expected from such a quite simple ruleset! Brillant setting, thank you so much for sharing!
MSDOS: Thanks Chaka! Glad you enjoyed it :)
on 11. January 2025, 10:06 by moHa
Just lovely! thank you for sharing. Had a blast solving this
MSDOS: thanks so much moHa! :)
on 10. January 2025, 22:39 by skuntsel
Amazing puzzle with some tough logics near the central box! Thanks for setting it and for the opportunity of using letters during the solve.
MSDOS: Thanks skuntsel! glad you liked it!
on 10. January 2025, 22:20 by wuc
I love the clever ideas in this one. The subtile pressure of the renbans in particular. Great setting thx.
MSDOS: Thanks for saying that wuc! Much appreciated :)
on 10. January 2025, 21:41 by sujoyku
Very nice puzzle! It was quite hard for me, but a really enjoyable challenge. Thank you, MSDOS!
MSDOS: Thanks so much sujoyku! Glad you stuck with the challenge!
on 10. January 2025, 14:29 by MSDOS
Code fixed.
Sorry everyone, I mistyped column "7" when I originally activated, changed it to 8, but LMD cleared the code when I updated or something. Should work now!
on 10. January 2025, 12:56 by jalebc
code?
on 10. January 2025, 12:48 by rameshsrivats
Cool puzzle. The solution checker said I had solved it, but the code seems to wrong.
on 10. January 2025, 11:54 by jalebc
code?
