Logic Masters Deutschland e.V.

am 17. Februar 2025, 03:20 Uhr von bodemeister
Fantastic set of puzzles here, not just about how much can be done with one grid, but that the puzzles had a little bit of bite as well (at least for me)! Sorry my solve is a week late. Had an epiphany this morning about the one piece I was missing.

am 13. Februar 2025, 14:53 Uhr von BenTen
I am completely baffled as to how you managed to create this puzzle. Did you find numerous variations of the same sudoku grid and then work out words that fitted? - doesn't seem possible; or did you think of the words first and hope that they produced uniquely solvable sudoku grids? - doesn't seem possible either!
You must have spent a lot of time and effort in creating this. I found the logic fair at all times and the sudoku was pitched at a perfect level between tough but flowing and so it was never tedious at any point.
Loved the concept, loved the execution. This is a masterpiece in my eyes.
(Plus, great title too!)
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Thank you so much for such kind words and for the great feedback! It's quite pleasing to hear, as I certainly made an effort to make it a fun sudoku puzzle on top of its mystery/instructionless aspect, even scrapping another, valid set that *was* solvable, but unacceptably chainy at times I thought, and I wanted playable examples too, not just the 'main' puzzle. Not to give anything away, but yep, the words came first hehe; I tried others after the current ones had given too much grief, but the other ones broke the setup I was honing in, and which had too much good stuff for me to ditch by then, and so I just committed to tweak it until it worked!
For the setting process, I owe a lot to DadJokes and his Jabberwocky puzzle (as well as AnalyticalNinja's Lego Houses series); if you haven't played these yet, I very much recommend it, you will like them surely as much, if not more! :D

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Thank you for the insider information on your creation process. Yes,that makes sense now but still, I appreciate the time and effort that must have gone into this.
I tried the jabberwocky puzzle on your recommendation. Yes, a very clever puzzle and very fun too.

am 9. Februar 2025, 19:36 Uhr von gfoot
Another nice puzzle, thank you :) This wasn't so hard for me, I found the rules very straightforward to determine this time.

I keep looking back at Multiplicity, but as you said in the note above, struggle to find candidates for rules that are strict enough to disambiguate the main grid, while still fitting the digits in the example grid.
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Thank you for the kind words and overall feedback! Glad to hear that this one managed to strike just that right balance between being not too hard for some, while still managing to puzzle other solvers. As for Multiplicity, please feel free to ask for hints or at least a sanity check in a hidden comment if you want to keep trying solving it, although nobody would fault you for leaving it be, but thanks for giving it a shot anyhow!

am 8. Februar 2025, 21:00 Uhr von Kafkapharnaum
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