Sudoku Variants Series (384) - Sudoku - Distant Relations
(Published on 14. September 2022, 02:00 by Richard)
Distant Relations
Inspiration for this type comes from Big Tiger (#1 and #2).
Solve online in Penpa+ (thx Steven R!)
Apply classic sudoku rules.
An arrow indicates that N cells in the direction of the arrow, a digit one greater or smaller than N is placed, where N is the digit in the cell with the arrow. All possible arrows are given.
Solution code: Row 5, followed by column 8.
Comments
on 4. March 2024, 09:48 by Piatato
Wow, that was surprisingly intense!
on 2. November 2022, 23:34 by Krokant
The negative force is really strong in this one. That was fun. :)
on 12. October 2022, 17:59 by pin7guin
Ich hatte erst auf den zweiten Blick eine Idee, wie ich einsteigen konnte. - Danach lief es schnurgerade durch.
on 18. September 2022, 08:52 by Big Tiger
Woo-hoo! I'm honored! Almost as good as being on Cracking the Cryptic, ha ha. And fun to solve your version. Same logic, just the trick of finding what cell will trip up the first placeable digit and then slowly grinding away from there.
on 14. September 2022, 23:04 by mZbZ
Great, great, great!
Such an interesting mechanic, was convinced that it would just litter the grid with arrows but so satisfying to see the clues come together
on 14. September 2022, 08:49 by Richard
Added tag and link for online solving. Thx Steven R!
on 14. September 2022, 06:54 by henrypijames
Wow I totally misunderstood the rules and broke the puzzle right away. I thought "N cells" means "N number of cells", but you mean "N steps" instead.
Another incredibly powerful deployment of ######## ##########, and once I understood it, only 2 stars difficulty.
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Reply: yes, that good old negative constraint again! :-)
on 14. September 2022, 05:37 by explodingsnail
Great puzzle! Never seen this variant before and it was very fun!
on 14. September 2022, 05:36 by Nylimb
Very nice! I got stuck for a while because I'd missed an application of the negative constraint. After that it was easy.
on 14. September 2022, 04:03 by derKrampus
Penpa+ link missing an arrow in R3C2
on 14. September 2022, 03:06 by Steven R
Penpa+ with solution check: https://tinyurl.com/5y8pxvaw (edited following derKrampus' comment, thanks)
