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This is the eighth sudoku in my series of "Build-your-own-loop Sudokus". If you liked solving this puzzle or if you prefer other combinations of loop logic and constraints, feel free to give the other sudokus of the series a go too:
Loop Logic | Loop Constraint | Further Constraints | ||
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Road Running Loop |
Road Runner | Parity Line | Kropki Dots | |
Magically Modifying Loop |
- | Incrementers, Decrementers, Nullifiers |
Magic Squares, Killer cages, Kropki Dots |
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Skiing Loop | Gates | German Whispers | Kropki Dot, Between Lines |
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Behaving Loop | 3x3 boxes | Polarity Line | Kropki Dots | |
Magical Loop | Guiding cells | Modular Line | Magic Squares | |
Foggy Loop | Guiding cells | Parity Line | Fog of War, Killer Cages |
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10-Suȵ Loop | Moon-or-Sun | 10-Line | Killer Cages | |
Counting Loop | Galaxies | Counting Line | Killer Cages, Kropki Dots, Quadruple Clues |
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Shining Loop | Moon-or-Sun | Parity Line | Killer Cages | |
Interfering Loops | Slitherlink + Masyu |
Entropic Line + Parity Line |
Killer Cages | |
Slithering Loop | Slitherlink | Entropic Line | Killer Cages, Little Killer |
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BigBang Loop | Galaxies | Parity Line | Row/Column Indexer, Kropki Dots |
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Summing Loop | Star Battle | Region Sum Line | Killer Cages, Skyscraper, Kropki Dots |
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Whispering Loop | Star Battle | German Whispers | Sandwich Sum |
Solution code: Column 8, followed by row 8
on 24. May 2024, 03:15 by virus_dave
Very fun! If there was a way to quickly deduce the polarity without bifurcating until a breakage, I didn't see it. However, once I established the polarity, everything else more or less progressively fell into place.
I haven't done enough of this kind of puzzle to really feel like i understood _why_ things were playing out the way they did, but it was nice to see :)
on 6. November 2023, 16:08 by mathpesto
Fantastic ruleset and a very fun solve :)
on 4. November 2023, 01:22 by rich_27
I've solved all your loops so far (bar foggy loop, which wasn't out when I started the series), and this is hands down my favourite. I misread the rules and tried to solve for odd-even parity rather than high low and wasted a lot of time getting some way through that, then spotted my mistake but somehow managed to think that I was trying to solve for lines in cells being multiples of 10 rather than consecutive groups of 10. It became so much easier when I read and understood the rules correctly!
I think this one especially is a really beautiful construction with a lovely path to solve; everything flows really nicely when you figure out what combinations you can have!
on 29. October 2023, 16:21 by samuel1997
This is brilliant! Felt stuck for 30 minutes in the middle of the solve but thankfully I can find the trick, and then the solve is smooth.