Rank Up 20.Farkov - Whisper
(Eingestellt am 5. November 2025, 06:38 Uhr von Farkov)
This is another contribution to the ThePedallingPianist's amazing Rank Up series, which can be found here, and which was obviously the inspiration for this :)
Rules:
Sudoku:
Within the main grid (inside the thick border), fill every cell with a digit from 1-5 such that digits do not repeat in a row or column.
Whisper:
Draw an orthogonally connected one-cell wide loop that may encompass both the sudoku digits and the fullrank values. This loop acts as a Lovely Whisper line, and all connected values on it have a difference of at least 6.
Full Rank:
A value in an external cell represents the rank of the number formed by reading the digits in that row or column from that direction, where (1) is the lowest such row or column and (20) is the highest.
N.B. If two ranks are tied, the value in both external cells is the lower of the two ranks being shared. For example, if the lowest four ranks are '12453', '13524', '13524' and '15432', the values in the relevant external cells would be (1), (2), (2) and (4) respectively.
Lösungscode: Column 3 of the internal grid.
Kommentare
am 6. November 2025, 08:51 Uhr von Farkov
Typo
am 5. November 2025, 06:38 Uhr von Farkov
Fun facts:
This puzzle actually has a unique solution if you only use one of the 5s as a given digit. Unfortunately it's not human friendly.
This is my second contribution to this series. I'm not sure if that's kosher, but when I this idea came to me it seemed too good to pass up.
I was tossing up between two and three stars for the difficulty level. I ended up going with two, but let me know what you think.
All feedback welcome and appreciated.
