Fourth Floor
(Published on 22. April 2025, 04:23 by Freegerator)
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Sudoku: Place each digit 1-9 exactly once in each row, column, and 3x3 box
German Whispers: Adjacent digits along a green line must differ by at least 5
Black Dot: Digits separated by a black dot are in a 1:2 ratio
Solution code: Row 8
Comments
on 24. April 2025, 22:17 by achambers2010
Once you know the trick, this definitely feels like a 1* puzzle. However, if you don't know the trick (like I didn't), it's more in the 2* range.
on 23. April 2025, 10:54 by wilsig
1* is appropriate
Very nice
on 23. April 2025, 04:43 by Pegazus
Took me 1:39:18. Not my best time. Was also distracted by a baseball game so probably affected that score.
on 22. April 2025, 18:58 by rstarks
I don't normally comment but I'm a 1 or 2 star solver, once you get the break in it flowed pretty easy. Loved the puzzle by the way!
on 22. April 2025, 17:28 by Snaques
Very nice puzzle!
In these kinds of puzzles the timer isn't the best indicator for the difficulty. You pretty much have to do the puzzle twice, so while it's not the most difficult puzzle out there it will take some time.
I wouldn't mind if it was a 2*, but I didn't really blink when I saw this being a 1*.
on 22. April 2025, 14:05 by haligonian
I definitely agree with @Myfyr MJ that this is not a 1-star puzzle. I'd say a 2-2.5* break in, personally.
Lovely setting!
Freegerator:Thanks! I was between 1 and 2 stars for the suggested difficulty but at this point it's crowdsourced. Guessing the difficulty of my puzzles is 4 star difficulty to me. Thanks for the input!
on 22. April 2025, 11:21 by Myfyr MJ
Nice but tricky. As this is a 1 star puzzle I must have missed something obvious as this took me over 20 minutes to solve.
Freegerator:Thanks! I find it really tough to set the difficulty and almost suggested 2 stars. I chose 1-star because there wasn't much complex logic even though you don't get many digits very quickly. Thanks for the input!
