Logic Masters Deutschland e.V.

Wanna Make You Nine, Better Get In Line

(Published on 27. December 2025, 14:40 by ThePedallingPianist)

This is my response to Scojo's setting prompt for a couple of weeks ago, as redeemed by isajo4002, which was to make a puzzle with multiple solutions depending on choices made by the solver. Thank you to Ikemanga (I. K. Jaffer) for testing!

As per isajo4002's request, all 5 versions of this puzzle must be solved in order to find the solution code for LMD, so...
***PLEASE REMEMBER TO TAKE NOTE OF R1C1 AFTER EACH SOLVE!***

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Normal 6x6 sudoku rules apply.

Divide grey lines into one or more distinct segment(s), each of which sums to X.

The difference between two digits separated by a white dot is shown in the dot.

Before solving, decide whether you would like X to equal 5, 6, 7, 8 or 9. The difficulty of the puzzle roughly correlates to the size of X.

Solution code: R1c1 (top left digit) of each version of the puzzle in order (X=5, then X=6 etc.)

Last changed on on 27. December 2025, 14:40

Solved by PierreTombal, SKORP17, IcyFruit, Piff, aqjhs, EFlatMinor, Krisonium, Exigus, ViKingPrime, Mikemerin, tuturitu, Qodec, Scojo, TJ , rkond, vitaminz, DragonEgg, widjo, Neumino, dorverbin
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Comments

on 30. December 2025, 15:07 by vitaminz
Beautiful stuff. I felt like I was learning the grid as I went up. 5-8 all took me about the same amount of time as my learning matched the difficulty increase, but then 9 blew me out of the water!

on 29. December 2025, 15:52 by Qodec
Wow I can't believe that this exists, 5 excellent puzzles combined in a single grid with such variety. I'm in awe.

on 29. December 2025, 00:50 by Mikemerin
The fact that you could have 5 unique solutions is incredible, even more impressive considering each sub-puzzle was still engaging, with different strategies needed as the sums got larger.

on 28. December 2025, 22:06 by ViKingPrime
Further proof that a ThePedallingPianist 3-star is your average solver's 4-5 star. Some challenging logical knots to unwind in this but well worth the effort.

on 27. December 2025, 20:09 by PierreTombal
Fun sequence of puzzles.

Difficulty:4
Rating:92 %
Solved:20 times
Observed:1 times
ID:000QPZ

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