Logic Masters Deutschland e.V.

As always, any comments are highly appreciated. :)

Play on SudokuPad

The rules are as follows:

• Sudoku: Normal Sudoku rules apply.
• Saddle: Brown circles are saddle points and are always connected to 4 brown lines representing a saddle (or a hyperbolic paraboloid). Moving away from a circle, digits on a line have to either strictly increase or decrease in relation to the number in the circle. Each circle has two opposite lines with increasing property and two opposite lines with decreasing property. The orientation may be different for each circle.
• Killer: Digits in Cages cannot repeat and sum to the given total.
• Little Killer: Digits outside the grid show the sum of the digits along the indicated diagonal.
• There are no negative constraints.

In terms of difficutly, I would rate the puzzle between 2/5 and 3/5. It is a bit more difficult than the first one I created, so if you have trouble with the saddle rule, check out my first puzzle. I want to come up with more of these in the future and I would love to see some other setter(s) finding joy with the ruleset :)

My saddle puzzle creations
1. Sandwich on a Saddle
2. Killersaddles
3. Whispering Saddle
4. Saddles and Arrows
5. Saddle in the Fog
...more? :)