Pick-up Sticks (Turquoise)
(Published on 26. August 2025, 15:09 by marty_sears)
Rules:
Normal sudoku rules apply.
A stick always has a lower total (the sum of its digits) than any stick which lies on top of it.
Any two adjacent digits along a turquoise stick have the same difference. This difference can be different for different sticks.
Solution code: Row 9 from left to right
Comments
on 7. November 2025, 17:35 by ThymePass
A smooth break-in followed by some complications followed by a smooth finish:) Cheers!
on 29. August 2025, 14:47 by meiwanmeiliao
开始挺难的，不过一旦开始了第三个宫的填数，往后的数字就挺有眉目了，非常有新意的题目
on 27. August 2025, 14:54 by vitaminz
I have been waiting for this particular line and you did not disappoint!
on 27. August 2025, 14:45 by Franjo
Trickier than expected - I definitely need more experience with this special type of lines. Thank you very much for creating and sharing another beautiful episode.
on 27. August 2025, 02:52 by mscha
Mikadoku!
Nice one. I got suck early on until I remembered a certain property of same difference lines, which got me until about halfway. After that, it got a bit trickier, but I got there eventually. I gave it an average difficulty, a bit more than the consensus.
on 26. August 2025, 17:06 by ViKingPrime
A little bit of experience with Same Difference lines will go a long way here. The constraint works really well in this format.
