Anti-Knight Thermos 2
(Published on 4. January 2023, 10:47 by Jeet Sampat)
You're Going Places
Note: If you really want to try something challenging, then you can solve this puzzle without using any pencil-marks. It is logically possible without excessive multi-colouring to be fair.
Rules:
Normal Sudoku rules apply.
Cells separated by a knight's move (in Chess) must contain different digits.
On thermometers, digits must strictly increase from the bulb-end.
Try it on the CTC app or on f-puzzles.
Puzzle:
Solution code: Row 5 (left to right) and column 8 (top to bottom); 18 digits, no spaces.
Comments
on 8. January 2023, 11:23 by Jeet Sampat
Thanks for the feedback, everyone! To compensate for the difficult puzzle, I will post an easy but (hopefully) just as satisfying thermo puzzle next week :D
on 8. January 2023, 11:06 by Fisherman
This is a highly aesthetic puzzle.
on 7. January 2023, 12:24 by Kabuki73
Great puzzle! Not easy at all, I needed lots of coloring and more than 2 hrs, but I enjoyed it from the very beginning to the very end!! Thanks!
on 7. January 2023, 05:57 by snoswal
Loved the puzzle and definitely had to use all the pencil marks and coloring I could! Very nice interactions with the thermos and the knight constraint
on 5. January 2023, 21:10 by mse326
To anyone who tried his no pencil mark challenge may god have mercy on your soul. I used colors, numbers, and letters to their fullest extent and if you'd have given me the hieroglyphs and the greek and cyrillic alphabets I'm sure I could find a use for them too. Maybe I missed something but 4 star difficulty seems might generous
Beautiful puzzle though.
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Jeet: This comment got me xD
on 5. January 2023, 16:56 by Snookerfan
Great puzzle! Hard to imagine though anyone could do this without pencil-marks, I found it hard enough while I used them to almost full extent. Thank you
on 5. January 2023, 14:42 by GauravM
Took me nearly three hours, but the way the thermos interact is just wow.
on 5. January 2023, 12:46 by eddy
Great puzzle! Especially with excessive coloring ;)
on 5. January 2023, 07:42 by laky
It's difficult for me to do this without coloring and pencil marking(╥﹏╥)
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Jeet: I just meant it is possible without excessive multi-colouring. Also, it is very very difficult so you're good. :)
on 5. January 2023, 06:01 by Elliott810
Brilliant puzzle! Thanks:)
on 5. January 2023, 04:56 by TheRiddler
What a brutal puzzle! I did use excessive colouring AND pencil-marking :-)
Very nice!
on 5. January 2023, 03:51 by jhow25
Can you have repeats on the different branches within the thermo? e.g. can R5C1 = R9C5?
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Jeet: Yes
on 4. January 2023, 20:04 by Playmaker6174
My goodness, what a battle of logical deductions this is! I really enjoyed the main ideas of this puzzle but dang, did I struggle so hard later on.
I doubt that I could ever finish this puzzle without some notation/coloring xD
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Jeet: Haha! Glad you were able to make it through. I wouldn't have said it was a challenge if it was "sort of doable". :P I made a few different versions with this idea, but I think this was the best I could do to keep it doable, and also preserve the beauty of all those logical deductions.
on 4. January 2023, 13:06 by slowbiex
what is the diagonal from box 4 to box 7? a palindrom or a thermo with bulb to be defined?
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Jeet: The thermometer starting in box 7 branches into three pieces; one in box 4 (R6C2 and R5C1), one in box 5 (R6C4), and one in box 8 (R8C4 and R9C5). So it's not a diagonal grey line but three overlapping thermos. Does that make sense?
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ah, ok, thanks for the clarification!
on 4. January 2023, 12:05 by by81996672
nice puzzle!Thank you!
on 4. January 2023, 11:01 by Jeet Sampat
Thanks for the comment and for testing earlier on the discord server, @antiknight. I can't wait for you try my next colouring puzzle :P
on 4. January 2023, 10:53 by antiknight
I really liked the early deductions in this puzzle :) Thanks
