Sudoku Variants Series (225) - Greater than X Sudoku
(Published on 20. March 2018, 00:00 by Richard)
Greater than X Sudoku
Solve online in F-Puzzles or Sudokupad (thx snowyegret and sisk0!)
Place the digits from 1 to 9 in every row, column and 3x3-block. In all cases where the difference between two neighbouring digits is X, there is a greater or less sign between those digits. Digits must be placed in accordance with the signs. It is part of the puzzle to find the value of X.
Solution code: Row 8, followed by row 9.
Comments
on 11. December 2025, 09:59 by Richard
Updated links for online solving.
on 9. February 2025, 12:14 by sisk0
Sudokupad link:
https://sudokupad.app/ztixlb20gs
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Hi sisk0, how did you manage to get the greater than symbols in the sudokupad app? I am preparing another puzzle that uses this symbols and I have no idea how to get them in my puzzle. Would love to hear how you did that!
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I am not sure if there is a better way but for this puzzle I seem to have done the following layers:
1. Given digits
2. Regions (not sure if this was needed?)
3. Cosmetic symbols with white rectangles to cover the lines where the greater than signs should be. For this puzzle I seem to have used fill/stroke color white, stroke width 2, width and height 40.
4. Cosmetic symbols with text size 50 with the < and > characters and varying the angle.
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Thanks for your quick response!
I had the white backgrounds in place already and tried the signs with lines, but that didn't work. I'll try the text next. Meanwhile I found that in Penpa+ these signs are standard available, but they are a bit thicker what I don't prefer... We'll see what it becomes.
on 23. August 2022, 06:42 by Richard
Added links and tag for online solving. Thx Nick Smirnov and snowyegret!
on 25. July 2022, 15:09 by snowyegret
https://f-puzzles.com/?id=25fjz5lb
on 10. October 2021, 14:01 by Nick Smirnov
Penpa:
https://git.io/JrspW
on 22. March 2018, 22:44 by Statistica
Also ich fand es mindestens vier Sterne schwer, aber ich habe wohl was Einfaches übersehen(?)
on 20. March 2018, 19:08 by Richard
Grammar mistake fixed.
