Hi, Jinx!
(Eingestellt am 29. Januar 2025, 16:26 Uhr von Lorena)
Click here to solve in Sven’s SudokuPad
This is not the greatest rat sudoku series in the world. This is just a tribute.
On the first day of April, Minx the white rat decided to pay a visit to her sister Jinx. Minx knew all of the roads in The Netherlands and, being the older and wiser sister, always managed to take the shortest route. There was only one problem: her path was littered with obstacles, which were of different colours. Luckily, blue didn’t bother her at all, but she was deathly afraid of red, and would avoid it at all costs. (The poor thing had been traumatized by some experiments that were performed on her “for science”, but that’s a different story). Minx was torn between her eagerness to see her sister and her fear of the evil, evil scientists, so she walked very quietly, but so quickly that every step she took counted for at least four! In no time, she made it to Jinx who was rejoiced to see her, and even happier when she heard her exclaim: “Hi, Jinx! I’ve brought you cupcakes!”
Note: this puzzle is part of my ongoing April Fool’s series, so I’m going to be just a little bit evil and not give you all the rules. All I’ll say is that normal Sudoku rules apply, Minx doesn’t move diagonally nor jump, and red and blue cells are indexers. The rest you’ll need to figure out by yourself. Have fun!
Column indexers: Red cells are column indexers, so a digit “X” in a red cell in row R, column Y indicates that the digit “Y” appears in column X in that same row R.
Row indexers: Blue cells are row indexers, so a digit “A” in row B, column C means that the digit “B” appears in row A in that same column C.
(I know that this is not the usual way that indexers are explained, I’m not trying to do anything sneaky, I just find this wording easier to grasp, especially for people who are new to them).
Note: For obvious reasons, I do not recommend solving this one on paper. You can try my other puzzles here, although they’re not very paper-friendly either, sorry!
Lösungscode: A certain list of digits (without spaces) that starts with the white rat cell and ends with the grey rat cell.
Kommentare
am 12. Februar 2025, 23:39 Uhr von Lorena
Updated image, thanks Book Wyrm!
am 4. Februar 2025, 00:03 Uhr von aqjhs
out of left field, out of the box, out of the park!
loved it!
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Reply by Lorena: Thank you! I’m honored!
am 3. Februar 2025, 23:57 Uhr von Lorena
Added note
am 31. Januar 2025, 14:30 Uhr von bhambells
I've solved the soduko, but can't work out the solution code? I've justified about 15 different entries long and short but none is right.
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Reply by Lorena: How frustrating! Did SudokuPad tell you your number were correct? The solution should be the path that Minx takes to get to Jinx, including both rat cells.
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Sudokupad said the solution was correct, but maybe my path is incorrect? It relied on a cell being 'blue' if it was both red and blue??? Maybe I don't fully understand this, and I didn't think a 'shortest path' was unique so I tried all options!
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Reply by Lorena: Wow now you’ve got me really confused. How can a cell be both red and blue? I really want to help, I just don’t understand.
am 31. Januar 2025, 00:41 Uhr von dzamie
...oh no, double-clicking a single pencilmark to visualize what I've got marked doesn't work well with this. I have to do it manually...
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Reply: Unfortunately you’re right and I don’t think it’s possible for me to fix it, sorry.
am 30. Januar 2025, 09:37 Uhr von Lorena
Minor addition to the rules for clarity
am 30. Januar 2025, 04:26 Uhr von Paquet Voleur
You've proven my case Lorena: I'm a fool and you can have me running in circles. Now, ferocious as you are, you're probably planning more demonstrations to strengthen my conviction about it.
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Reply by Lorena: You can call yourself fool all you want, you’re still one of the very few people who have been able to solve this! Thank you, by the way :)
am 30. Januar 2025, 01:13 Uhr von Gnubeutel
This was infuriating. Keep it up.
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Reply by Lorena: Thanks for being a good sport about it! I most certainly will.
am 29. Januar 2025, 19:03 Uhr von 12zhime
The puzzle is funny,and I like it very much
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Reply by Lorena: Thank you, I’m really glad!
