A Partridge In A Pear Tree
(Eingestellt am 27. November 2025, 16:41 Uhr von gdc)
This was made as part of a series on the 12 days of Christmas tune. According to testers (thanks everyone) it should be around 2 stars for difficulty. Hope you enjoy!
Tree: Draw a branching tree starting in the root (🌱). The tree only grows directly up and/or diagonally up (⬆️, ↗️, and/or ↖️). Whenever a cell grows into another cell, their digits differ by 3 or more.
Pears: Pears (🍐) are on the tree. Digits in pears and in the root (🌱) count the number of tree cells in the (5 or 8) surrounding cells, not including themselves.
Partridge: The partridge (🦃) is not on the tree and its digit counts the number of non-tree cells in its 8 surrounding cells, not including itself.
Lösungscode: The bottom row (row 6) left to right (6 digits)
Kommentare
am 19. Januar 2026, 20:33 Uhr von gdc
Thanks @pseudomonas! Uniqueness deductions are not intended or necessary, but I agree that it would make the puzzle a lot easier.
am 19. Januar 2026, 14:59 Uhr von pseudomonas
Love the ruleset! A lot of fun.
There were two points where the assumption that there was one unique tree layout (as opposed to one unique number-grid with ambiguous tree layout) would have led to a much faster solve. Not sure if that was the intended path or not.
Also I spent an embarrassing 30 seconds trying to wipe a pear stem off my monitor.
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ETA: reply to @gdc I took for granted that this wasn't the intended path (given that you hadn't specified in the rules "there is precisely one possible tree" and so deliberately didn't take it.)
am 2. Januar 2026, 14:16 Uhr von gdc
disable antiking (new SudokuPad bug)
am 3. Dezember 2025, 00:00 Uhr von Voidslime
Extremely creative and fun!
am 1. Dezember 2025, 09:11 Uhr von Jewel
Interesting ruleset that flows surprisingly well once you get it!
am 28. November 2025, 21:37 Uhr von puzzlelad
Very fun and topical! Well made GDC
am 28. November 2025, 18:21 Uhr von Sinuit
Loved that! Thanks a lot for creating!
am 27. November 2025, 23:10 Uhr von galium_odoratum
This was mind bending. It took a while to wrap my head around all the implications of this ruleset, but then it flowed very nicely.
am 27. November 2025, 18:09 Uhr von Wuschel
Very nice, thanks!
