Null Pickles, Null Tomatoes
(Published on 1. April 2025, 00:21 by Asi_Pasasi)
This is my third and final (for now) take on the "Null Cells" rule I took interest of lately. I think this rule has great potential and mixes very well with the common variants, and I hope a better setter than me will find interest in it as well and construct their own take on it.
Normal Sudoku rules apply (digits 1-9).
Null Cells: The value of every cell that orthogonally touches a cell that contains the digit "1" is equal to 0.
Sandwiches: Numbers outside the grid indicate the sum of the values between the digits 1 and 9 in the corresponding row or column. (a "9" cell being a null cell does not nullify it from being a sandwich).
Gray squares contain even values.
Sudokopad link: Sudokupad
F-Puzzles link: F-Puzzles
Normal Sudoku rules apply (digits 1-9).
Null Cells: The value of every cell that orthogonally touches a cell that contains the digit "1" is equal to 0.
Sandwiches: Numbers outside the grid indicate the sum of the values between the digits 1 and 9 in the corresponding row or column. (a "9" cell being a null cell does not nullify it from being a sandwich).
Gray squares contain even values.
Sudokopad link: Sudokupad
F-Puzzles link: F-Puzzles
Solution code: Enter row 4 of the solved puzzle, left to right, to verify your solution (no spaces or anything in between, just digit after digit, i.e. 764125389)
Solved by Piff, SirWoezel, SKORP17, Nylimb, VitP, marcmees, Qodec, RockyRoer
Comments
on 6. April 2025, 15:20 by Qodec
Cool idea, great logic!
on 3. April 2025, 13:16 by marcmees
Some very cool SW logic. No bifurcation needed. Thanks
on 3. April 2025, 12:20 by VitP
just like the previous nuller puzzle i did, this one looks intractable at first, but then i did some bifurcation (trial and error), and found that there are some SEVERE RESTRICTIONS here (at least two TYPES)
