While constructing one of these 6x6-Sudokus with Global Entropy, I discovered some interesting geometric properties that lead me to make some more of them. The most interesting four of them have been compiled here. Enjoy!
Rules:
This puzzle consists of four seperate Mean Minis with increasing difficulty.
Fill each grid with six of the digits 1-9, such that no digit repeats in any row, column or box. Which digits are used needs to be determined individually for each grid.
Global Entropy rules apply: Any 2x2-area must have at least one low (1,2,3), one medium (4,5,6) and one high digit (7,8,9) in it.
Additionally, the following variants are used:
Grid 1 (Killer): Digits in a cage must sum to the indicated total.
Grid 2 (Kropki): Digits seperated by a white dot must be consecutive. Digits seperated by a black dot must be in a ratio of 1:2. Not all dots are necessarily given.
Grid 3 (Renban / Little Killer): Digits on a purple line must form a set of non-repeating consecutive digits. Digits along the indicated diagonal may repeat and must sum to 21.
Grid 4 (Sandwich): The clues outside the grid indicate the sum of the digits between the highest and the lowest digit in the respective row/column.
Solution code: row 5 of each grid (in reading order)
on 4. April 2024, 20:00 by Piatato
Very neatly set. Global entropy, though ...
on 4. June 2023, 01:42 by MicroStudy
only thing missing from this highly neat set of puzzles was a sudoku X grid
on 16. March 2023, 04:51 by Paquet Voleur
Wow! What an elegant set of little puzzles! Amazing!
on 16. March 2023, 03:11 by rmm466ss
This was a very nice set of puzzles! Thank you for the time and effort that went into these!
on 16. March 2023, 00:33 by thoughtbyte
Wonderful puzzle, loved this twist on entropy, thanks Myxo!
on 13. March 2023, 22:53 by Mad-Tyas
A really beautiful idea to combine the entropy constraint with 6x6 sudoku like this. And the execution is fantastic!
These little puzzles really pushed me out of the comfort zone that I'm used to when I solve entropy puzzles. Cause most of my tricks and techniques for 9x9 entropy sudoku were worthless :D
But I thoroughly enjoyed the challenge. Thanks Myxo!
on 12. March 2023, 16:58 by Raumplaner
Very skillfull adaptation of the Entropy logic into 6x6 grids. Many thanks Myxo!
on 11. March 2023, 23:14 by cornish-john
Lovely set of puzzles! Good warm up to the rules with the first half to the trickier last two
on 11. March 2023, 22:54 by lerroyy
Very nice pack!