Sudoku Variants Series (288) - Battlefield Sudoku
(Published on 30. September 2020, 00:00 by Richard)
Battlefield Sudoku
Inspiration for this variant comes from Christoph Seeliger, who was in turn inspired by the inventor of the type, Big Tiger.
Solve online in Penpa (Thx SudokuExplorer) or in F-Puzzles or in CtC-App (Thx Nick Smirnov!)
Apply classic sudoku rules.
Consider groups of the first X cells and the last Y cells of a row or column where X is the digit in the first cell and Y is the digit in the last cell. A clue outside the grid indicates the sum of the digits where these groups overlap, or the sum of the digits in the gap between the groups if they don't overlap.
Solution code: Row 4, followed by column 6.
Comments
on 20. November 2021, 16:17 by Richard
Added links for online solving. Thx Nick!
on 15. November 2021, 17:39 by Nick Smirnov
F-puzzles:
https://f-puzzles.com/?id=ygbctnkr
CTC App:
https://tinyurl.com/47pvmpuh
on 11. October 2020, 11:33 by AnnaTh
That was fun!
on 7. October 2020, 21:23 by HaSe
Beautiful puzzle, 3 stars are ok, I think. Battlefield is new for me, great idea.
on 2. October 2020, 09:24 by Richard
I am surprised by the fact that this one is currently the hardest of the entire SVS. In my opinion this shouldn’t be very hard. In fact, my goal was to make a relative easy and accessible example of Battlefield since I think the others in the portal are on the hard side.
I agree fully with Christoph; experience pays off here!
on 1. October 2020, 15:04 by Realshaggy
I guess the first one of this type is never easy. Experience pays of a lot here.
on 30. September 2020, 11:52 by marcmees
To me 2/3 stars would do, very accessible ... thanks for the nice puzzle Richard
on 30. September 2020, 07:30 by cdwg2000
Maybe, I missed something, for me the difficulty should be four stars, haha，Nice one big challenge.
on 30. September 2020, 06:05 by Richard
Added Penpa Link; thx SudokuExplorer
on 30. September 2020, 02:44 by Greg
Great puzzle. Found it challenging from start to finish.
on 30. September 2020, 01:31 by SudokuExplorer
Thanks for the fun puzzle! :-)
Here's a penpa+ link: https://tinyurl.com/y2o8djx6
