Pipemare: Onboarding
(Published on 5. June 2021, 04:51 by MattWCompton)
Welcome to The Pipe Factory! We are so very excited to have you join us as we fabricate the finest pipes for the most demanding of clients. Our pipes are like no other because we shape them like numbers. Why, you ask? Why not!
To help you get comfortable with the process of laying out and affixing pipes, please complete this onboarding course. To complete it, you will need to form a single pipe that travels from the arrows pointing into the grid to the arrows pointing out of the grid. Please ensure your pipe is to-code, meaning it may not touch itself at any point on its path, even at a corner.
Digits along the pipe must be of the correct shape to allow liquid to flow. Liquid can flow through a digit in either direction as follows:
1: Top to Bottom
2: Left to Right
3: Top to Left
4: Right to Bottom
5: Left to Right
6: Top to Right
7: Left to Bottom
8: Top to Bottom OR Left to Right (but not both simultaneously; may vary between 8's)
9: Liquid cannot flow through the 9
But completing the pipe is not enough. You will also need to fill every row, column, and 3x3 box with the numbers 1-9. We know you can handle this because your resume mentions Cracking The Cryptic as a reference. Please, send Mark and Simon our regards.
Solution code: The numbers that make up the pipe, from arrow pointing into the grid to arrow pointing out
Comments
on 6. January 2024, 11:24 by Virux
Lovely!
on 2. June 2023, 02:46 by DanSkorne
I'm pretty new to variants and had never seen something like this before, had the puzzle on my bookmarks for a few months thinking "I'll get to that, but even with all those numbers it seems super complicated"... 13 minute solve, very enjoyable 1* puzzle!
on 14. April 2023, 23:19 by GrenP78
great puzzle. I only missed the normal Soduku rules in the description. :)
on 1. March 2023, 20:12 by lucasp406
Very simple and guided, yet very fun!
on 31. December 2022, 14:32 by LoverOfPi
Wow, a little beauty!
on 1. November 2022, 19:20 by Hirrumi
Hammer
on 15. October 2022, 16:23 by Johnny 97358
What a designing?! The pipe avoid multiple answers!
on 13. October 2022, 21:11 by dameldor
So much fun to solve, very smooth sudoku
on 7. October 2022, 01:46 by dlandrum17
I can not say enough about this puzzle. Love all those fun bridge and pipe game apps. Love sudoku. And putting them together, just WOW!!! Perfect balance of ease with making you think. A great narrative and story telling puzzle. Just brilliant. If you haven't already submitted to CTC do so immediately.
on 4. April 2022, 20:23 by Baktru
I'm very new at Sudoku and this is one that I really enjoyed. I prefer easier puzzles so far, but especially ones that have some special twist to them. Well twisty pipe did the trick. Very enjoyable.
on 8. September 2021, 15:35 by Mody
Das war lustig.
It was funny.
on 6. June 2021, 23:20 by sherrick
Enjoyed this a lot
on 6. June 2021, 17:48 by Sktx
Very cool concept, and good narrative !
on 6. June 2021, 04:33 by Mufasa
Very cool concept.
on 5. June 2021, 22:53 by WallE-93
Nice puzzle. liked the idea
on 5. June 2021, 15:29 by MattWCompton
Thank you for the feedback CJK! Apologies for neglecting the Sudoku tag. I am adding to this and the other Pipemare puzzles.
I'm not super familiar with Penpa but I created a version in it and added the link to the puzzle page. I hope I constructed it correctly. I just use highlighting to draw the pipe in f-puzzles.
on 5. June 2021, 15:26 by MattWCompton
Added a Penpa link and the Sudoku label
on 5. June 2021, 06:52 by CJK
I quite liked this idea! But even if it is an interesting variant, it should still fall in the sudoku category, so could you please add the sudoku tag? :)
Also, as a suggestion: Wouldn't it be better to use penpa-edit in this case instead of f-puzzles, so one can also draw the pipe into the grid?
PS: I can't remember to mention Cracking The Cryptic in my resume ;)
