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Christmas Cracker

(Published on 11. January 2025, 04:45 by NotSoMagnifique)

For the 2024 CTC Secret Santa, I was assigned to RockyRoer. I created three puzzles so that I could stretch my skills a little more and give Rocky a worthy Christmas gift. I hope everyone had a beautiful holiday and a splendid New Year!

Rules:

- Normal sudoku rules apply.

- Gray circles - the gray circle contains an odd digit.

- German Whispers - digits along a green German Whisper line must differ in value from their neighbors on the line by at least 5.

- Modular lines - each set of three digits along a red modular line must have include 1 digit from [1,4,7], 1 digit from [2,5,8], and one digit from [3,6,9].

- Numbered Rooms - clues outside the grid indicate the digit which has to be placed in the Nth cell in the corresponding direction, where N is the digit placed in the first cell in that direction. Example: If 2 is the outside clue on the left of R1C1 is 8, then 2 must be placed in R1C8.

- XV sums - digits separated by an X sum to 10; digits separated by a V sum to 5. No negative constraint.

- Kropki dots - digits separated by a white Kropki dot differ in value by 1. No negative constraint.

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Solution code: Positive diagonal digits (from R9C1 to R1C9)

Last changed on on 11. January 2025, 05:51

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Comments

on 12. January 2025, 15:29 by the_fow_fow
Nice puzzle, thank you.

on 11. January 2025, 11:25 by sujoyku
Lovely puzzle!

on 11. January 2025, 05:51 by NotSoMagnifique
Corrected solution code description

Last changed on 11. January 2025, 05:32

on 11. January 2025, 05:30 by jalebc
code?

>>>NSM here - the solution code is the digits along the positive diagonal, reading from left to right.

Difficulty:1
Rating:91 %
Solved:172 times
Observed:11 times
ID:000LJB

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