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no knights no kings no nightmares

(Published on 27. July 2025, 00:22 by Ungesundheit)

This puzzle, or at least the break-in for it, literally came to me in a dream last night, during the part of my sleep cycle where I usually have nightmares instead. Therefore I have named this puzzle in celebration of its origin.

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RULES:

NORMAL SUDOKU RULES: fill the grid with digits 1-9 so that none repeat within a row, column or box.

RENBAN: Digits along pink renban lines must be a non-repeating set of consecutive digits, in any order. Note: there are two pairs of renban lines which cross each other creating an X. These lines are to be treated as separate from each other- lines of length 2 rather than length 4.

MINIMUM CELLS: Cells with arrows around them pointing to the inside of the cell must have a digit smaller than the rest of the digits adjacent to that cell.

XV: Cells with an X between them sum to 10. Not all Xs are necessarily given.

ANTI-KNIGHT: digits cannot repeat within a (chess) knight’s move.

ANTI-KING: digits cannot repeat within a (chess) king’s move.

Sweet dreams!

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Last changed on on 27. July 2025, 14:37

Solved by TroublesomeOrca, Davos, Tacocat, Fisherman, jalebc, rainingfish, MPQ, gxorgx, addie, zonny, annnz, Exigus, selador31, luuu, SKORP17, Frankster, cmigas, Kigor, Onkel_Dagobert, Gullie, whtshername, ... tgstar, weiken, Fizz, sarabtx, Joyofrandomness, Donald X., cg24, Llamaths, Julianl, paranoid, TaeChi, ClarityC, bcreturnee, saturnic, meowng, Isfan, Joozd, Graphael, LordBidoof, noodlehead, ManuH
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Comments

Last changed on 5. August 2025, 05:41

on 5. August 2025, 05:40 by Joozd
Stared at it for over two hours before something in my brain got the trick, but got there! (in another two hours or so)

on 29. July 2025, 02:49 by EMCaoloft
This was a beautiful solve. I'll sleep soundly tonight.

on 28. July 2025, 09:47 by gadgetgreen
Very nice coloring puzzle. But the renban crosses should use different colors.

on 27. July 2025, 14:37 by Ungesundheit
Edited to clarify rules following feedback

on 27. July 2025, 13:34 by Gambit
Excellent puzzle...thanks for sharing.

on 27. July 2025, 10:24 by Exigus
Lovely puzzle.

on 27. July 2025, 05:24 by Fisherman
A Golden Dream.

Last changed on 27. July 2025, 14:34

on 27. July 2025, 04:03 by Davos
Maybe important to note that the Renban-Xs are crossing length-2 lines and not splitting length-4 lines.

Ungesundheit: Thankyou for pointing that out, will update the rules :)

Difficulty:3
Rating:91 %
Solved:60 times
Observed:4 times
ID:000OED

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