Consecutive Knight's Tour Sudoku
(Published on 30. July 2021, 17:23 by Prutsbeest)
Normal Sudoku rules apply.
A chess knight is placed in the top left corner cell (the blue cell with the given digit 1) and will jump across the board to reach the other blue cell, using knight's moves (in chess), without revisiting any cells.
The green cells (and the two blue cells) are all part of the knight's path, the other cells may or may not be part of its path.
Digits on the knight's path have to be consecutive (example: 1-2-3-2-3-4-5-4-3-4-...).
Digits along a thermometer must strictly increase from the bulb end.
If you like Knights Tour Sudoku's, definitely also check out this wonderful puzzle by Filuta: https://logic-masters.de/Raetselportal/Raetsel/zeigen.php?id=00079W
Solve with f-puzzles: https://f-puzzles.com/?id=yzslaj2x
The break-in requires a bit of logic, after that the puzzle should be pretty straight-forward. Good luck!
Solution code: Row 8 followed by column 9 (18 digits, no spaces)
Comments
on 6. June 2023, 17:14 by Kafkapharnaum
This one wasn't in my backlog, but after solving filuta's Knight Tour and your Knightsrun, of course I had to try this one :D
I quite enjoyed it, it's different than the others from the fact that the sudoku is more involved, which is really cool. More approachable too than the Knightsrun (which felt more like a Chess problem), although of course having solved said puzzles above beforehand definitely helped. I have to mention my experience was more or less the same as mentioned in the hidden comment -- still very nce though, and certainly another very impressive construction!
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Thanks a lot for the solve and the kind words, appreciate it! :)
on 28. September 2021, 17:16 by Prutsbeest
Added German description using Google translate so I hope it is somewhat understandable (sorry for possible mistakes)
on 18. August 2021, 13:56 by Prutsbeest
Added link to filuta's Knights tour sudoku
on 17. August 2021, 17:09 by filuta
btw, my knight's tour puzzle is out since yesterday
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@ filuta: I will certainly give a shout out to your puzzle here, as soon as I manage to solve it :)
on 9. August 2021, 14:00 by filuta
really original and not too hard, I really enjoyed it. btw, by a coincidence I will also be posting (in fact reposting) a sudoku based on a knight's tour and I will definitely give a shout out to this amazing puzzle.
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@ filuta: Thanks a lot for the shout out, really appreciate that! Let me know when it's online, then I'll also give a shoot out here to your puzzle.
on 2. August 2021, 21:28 by Johannes Quack
"The break-in requires a bit of logic...": yes, "...after that the puzzle should be pretty straight-forward.": not really, it's hard until the very end. Anyway: A brillant puzzle, very clever constructed! I love all kinds of combinations of chess and sudoku. 100% from me!
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Thank you very much for your kind words, I'm gladyou liked it! If you like chess and sudoku combo's, you should definitely check out my other puzzles as well ;-)
on 30. July 2021, 19:58 by Lakritze
Amazing idea, i really liked the method to solve this!
Thank you Lakritze, means a lot!
on 30. July 2021, 17:31 by Prutsbeest
Changed description to make it a bit more clear.
