Plato's Fever
(Published on 16. November 2020, 17:12 by steelwool)
Plato is feeling unwell. As a hypochondriac, he has thermometers for all occasions.
These thermometers have different scales, which always sum to an odd prime.
All the thermometers have different prime sums. They are all here somewhere! But Plato has misplaced some.
Solve the Sudoku to find the missing thermometers.
Click this link to solve the puzzle on
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My apologies if some have found it difficult to work out the solution code. Yes, this puzzle is easy - I wanted to give you something to think about!
In the example above there are two solutions for 13, the first in reading order is 1237, not 1246. I hope this helps.
Solution code: Enter the digits of the missing thermometers, beginning with the lowest sum thermometer, in order of increasing sum.
The location of a missing thermometer is the first one you find with that sum, in reading order (T-L to B-R).
Follow this with the row and column number of each thermometer in turn, again by increasing sum.
Comments
on 18. November 2020, 11:40 by steelwool
Added a comment about how to work out the solution code!
on 17. November 2020, 14:30 by StefanSch
Ich habe den Lösungscode verstanden, aber hartnäckig das falsche Thermometer eingegeben ...
Ansonsten: Schönes Rätsel!
on 17. November 2020, 13:49 by wilsig
The solution code is the most difficult of this puzzle
on 17. November 2020, 10:30 by StefanSch
Ich habe den Lösungscode verstanden, aber hartnäckig das falsche Thermometer eingegeben ...
Ansonsten: Schönes Rätsel!
on 17. November 2020, 04:38 by panthchesh
Your solution code was a puzzle of its own!!!
on 17. November 2020, 01:26 by Wampan
Great puzzle, but the solution code is too confusing.
on 16. November 2020, 20:38 by Greg
For the people struggling with the solution code, you can draw in 2 more thermometers yourself that sum to a prime not used so far in the puzzle. Solution code is the digits of those two thermometers, and the co-ordinates of the bulb of each.
@steelwool Thanks Greg. It seems the solution code is trickier than the puzzle! I added an example.
on 16. November 2020, 20:29 by SudokuExplorer
Like others here, I've solved the puzzle but the solution code is too confusing. Maybe provide an example of thermometers and what the solution code should be in that example.
on 16. November 2020, 19:48 by jchan18
The puzzle wasn't too bad but I have no idea what the expected format is supposed to be. It would be helpful if you could include an example for the format!
on 16. November 2020, 19:16 by ArchonE
Excellent puzzle, but the solution code is awkward for sure.
on 16. November 2020, 18:40 by ThrowngNinja
I do agree, I am very confused with the solution code
on 16. November 2020, 18:24 by MartinR
Puzzle itself is not too difficult, but it took me several attempts to work out what form the solution code should go in, so it may be worth clarifying that, possibly with an example
