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Cooped Up

(Eingestellt am 13. Dezember 2025, 21:16 Uhr von sshrpe)

It's getting late at Green Farm. You must help all of the turkeys must make it safely through the paddock and into the coop for the night, without waking up the fox!


COOPED UP


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RULES

  • Sudoku rules apply: fill the grid such that the digits 1-9 appear once each in every row, column, and 3×3 box.
  • Each turkey must have a path to the coop. The paths may move orthogonally or diagonally. They may not pass through fences, or diagonally through fence posts. The paths may not cross themselves or each other, or visit the same cell twice. No cell except the coop can be visited by more than one turkey.
  • The Fox will attack any turkey that goes onto its cell, or any orthogonally adjacent cell (highlighted in red). No turkey path may pass through any of these cells.
  • Stiles (shown with a chevron symbol '>') can only be passed through in the direction the chevron points. Each chevron points to the smaller digit of the two cells it is between.
  • Cells with grass shoots must contain even digits.
  • The cells containing the turkeys, the fox, and the coop must all contain different digits.

Path Rules

  • Along Adele’s path (A), adjacent digits must differ by at least 5.
  • Along Beyonce’s path (B) digits must alternate between odd and even.
  • Along Charli’s path (C), every set of three adjacent cells must contain one low digit (1,2,3), one middle digit (4,5,6), and one high digit (7,8,9).
  • Along Dido’s path (D), each cell's digit must be higher than the previous cell. Box borders ‘reset’ the value, so the first cell visited after crossing a boundary may be lower than the previous cell.

I hope you enjoy this puzzle. Leave a comment below to let me know how you get on!


Lösungscode: Column 9, top to bottom


Gelöst von SKORP17, IrishDevil, Crulamin, Zyrafika, redgecko, Vaccinia, philolologue, Piff
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Zuletzt geändert am 20. Dezember 2025, 10:23 Uhr

am 14. Dezember 2025, 18:21 Uhr von philolologue
Question as I'm starting: does each turkey's path include the cell the turkey is on?

Update: Never mind, I assumed the turkeys and coop were on the path, and solved accordingly. This was a REALLY fun puzzle, made some wrong assumptions about the paths several times and had to backtrack but only added to the fun! 56 min for me!


sshrpe: well thank you so much for the kind words which are very appreciated! And yes, the turkeys and the coop are included as part of the path, apologies if this is unclear. I’m very glad to hear you enjoyed the puzzle!

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