Thermal Balance
(Eingestellt am 16. Juli 2024, 16:20 Uhr von gdc)
This puzzle is similar to yin-yang/negator puzzles, but uses another modifier (hot/cold cells) instead. Thanks to the testers. Enjoy!
- Sudoku: Normal Sudoku rules apply.
- Yin Yang: Shade some cells so that all shaded cells are orthogonally connected and all unshaded cells are orthogonally connected. Each 2x2 area of the grid contains shaded and unshaded cells.
- Hot/Cold: The value of a shaded cell is one more than it's digit. The value of an unshaded cell is one less than it's digit.
- Arrows: Values along an arrow sum to the value in the attached circle.
- Kropki: Values separated by white dots differ by 1. Not all dots are given.
Lösungscode: The shaded (hot) digits in row 8, left to right.
Kommentare
am 16. September 2024, 11:11 Uhr von AsgarArn
This was an entertaining solve with new concept to approach, smooth consistent solve!
am 8. August 2024, 16:26 Uhr von ThymePass
My first experience solving a yin/yang and hot/cold sudoku and it was lovely. Thanks for putting this together :)
am 5. August 2024, 01:33 Uhr von fajoogaloo
Loved the logic of the hot/cold. Very smooth solution path. Great puzzle :)
am 2. August 2024, 20:31 Uhr von mathpesto
Gorgeous setting! You managed to make a very approachable puzzle with a difficult ruleset.
am 19. Juli 2024, 15:00 Uhr von Wuschel
Nice and easy. Great puzzle!
am 18. Juli 2024, 19:35 Uhr von madhupt
Fantastic!
am 18. Juli 2024, 10:26 Uhr von Nemefish
Very fun puzzle. If you know the tricks of Yin Yang this will be a breeze
am 17. Juli 2024, 20:10 Uhr von Big Tiger
Aside from spending 45 minutes going down the wrong path because I entered a wrong digit by accident, I had a lot of fun with this one. Challenging enough to be stimulating without being so hard that it's just depressing lol.
am 17. Juli 2024, 13:28 Uhr von Perladel
Very enjoyable!
am 17. Juli 2024, 05:29 Uhr von SamuPiano
Great use of the hot/cold! After working with a similar constraint for a puzzle I'm releasing soon, this was a nice one!
am 17. Juli 2024, 02:31 Uhr von ViKingPrime
Absolutely beautiful. The Hot/Cold constraint is one of my favourites and it's used to perfect effect with the colouring; feels like such a natural pairing, hopefully we see more puzzles like this from you!
am 17. Juli 2024, 00:04 Uhr von rictech
Excellent puzzle! Very cool how it came together. Love the yin/yang hot/cold idea!
am 16. Juli 2024, 21:06 Uhr von wuc
Wow. Approachable great puzzle. Refreshing hot cold rule. Great flow. I loved solving. Thx.
am 16. Juli 2024, 19:46 Uhr von sujoyku
Thank you for this fantastic puzzle, gdc! I have to admit I was a little anxious in the beginning since Yin Yang is not really my forte, but the solve path was telegraphed so well and full of fun deductions that I am glad I gave it a try. Unfortunately, I confused hot and cold at one point which forced me to rewind. At this point, I had figured out so much though, that I could quickly finish after I had corrected the flawed logic. Gorgeous setting! Thank you for setting and sharing!
am 16. Juli 2024, 18:29 Uhr von Abdul the Killer
Like all your puzzles, this contains some delightful and unexpected logic. Bravo!
am 16. Juli 2024, 17:10 Uhr von gdc
@Guillem98 for this one I didn't decide the shading upfront but incrementally deduced the shading as I added more clues. But for other puzzles (like suguru's surge), I went the other way around and worked backwards from a set of only 600 (ish) solutions with a pre-defined shading. Which approach is better (imo) depends on how many local versus global constraints are used.
am 16. Juli 2024, 17:00 Uhr von Guillem98
I loved solving this puzzle, I personally have never seen a combination of the rules set like this.
I have a question for the setter (out of curiosity), do you draw the cold/hot path first? Or as the puzzle demands?
am 16. Juli 2024, 16:49 Uhr von chippers
Lovely, thoroughly enjoyed the solve.
