Whimsical Whisper Snake
(Published on 27. January 2024, 00:09 by starwarigami)
Please check out the original Curious Consecutive Snake by Paws and Ben that served as inspiration for this puzzle, if you haven't already
The Sudoku Variant museum has updated its exhibits and a Whimsical Whisper Snake wants to check it out.
It enters the museum through one of the 4 exits (Corners) and wants to visit every exhibit (Box) exactly once, then leave the museum by a different exit.
The snake consists of a single path of orthogonally connected cells that never touches itself orthogonally (diagonally is fine).
Consecutive cells of the snake must contain digits that differ by at least 5.
Solve the sudoku such that there exists a unique path for the snake through the museum.
All standard variant rules apply.
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Museum Guide
- Exhibit 1: XV. Digits separated by the V sum to 5
- Exhibit 2: Arrows. Digits along the arrow sum to the 2-digit number shown in the attached pill.
- Exhibit 3: Quadruples. The digits in the circle must appear in one of the four surrounding squares.
- Exhibit 4: Min/Max. The digit in the grey cell must be greater than every orthogonally adjacent digit.
- Exhibit 5: Thermometers. Digits along the thermometer increase from the bulb end.
- Exhibits 6 and 7: Kropki Dots. Digits separated by a white dot must be consecutive. Digits separated by a black dot must be in the ratio 2:1
- Exhibit 8: Between lines. Digits along the line must be strictly between the digits in the two attached circles.
- Exhibit 9: Killer Cages. Digits in a cage must sum to the indicated total.
Solution code: Column 9 (top to bottom) - 9 digits, no spaces
Solved by Calvinball, Notlob, matzrh, killer_rectangle, marcmees, JayBird, Isael, benzonitrile, jkuo7, m_busuttil, salsais, zrbakhtiar, pisiform, Tamuha, dunder, DiMono, dogfarts, elpadrinoIV, ZornsLemon, bansalsaab, Paletron, trashghost, Min77, XIAOYING, mse326, Calesch, doomedmageknight, Doofenschmirtz, Sewerin, codewizard, SashaBu, PippoForte, cybers, Jonhy
Comments
on 1. March 2024, 15:52 by elpadrinoIV
All the puzzles that I tried of this series have been fantastic, thanks so much for setting!
I'm not a big fan of using the "such that there exists a unique path" part, but in the latests puzzles I didn't need to use that to solve the puzzle, so kudos for that too!
on 5. February 2024, 18:02 by marcmees
nice tour around the exhibition. thanks