Going Round in Circles
(Published on 10. September 2025, 13:59 by phil_the)
This puzzle was set for one of Scojo's Setting Saturday Prompts where the randomly chosen constraints were german whispers and counting circles.
Play in SudokuPad
Place the digits 1-9 in every row, column and 3x3 box
Adjacent digits along a green line must differ by 5 or more.
A digit in a red circle is equal to the number of red circles containing that digit.
Solution code: Digit in the top right cell
Comments
on 20. September 2025, 00:33 by sujoyku
Thank you for this fun puzzle, Phil!
on 19. September 2025, 23:49 by ViKingPrime
Haters gonna hate but this puzzle was loads of fun.
on 12. September 2025, 03:36 by VitP
interesting approach to resolve the multiple deadly patterns at the end
on 11. September 2025, 16:43 by Black_Doom
Some really cool steps here, the ending was super nice too
on 10. September 2025, 16:36 by Onkel_Dagobert
Boy this was hard for me. Excellent logic though, very satisfying in the end. The second step after the fairly easy break-in was also very clever I think.
on 10. September 2025, 16:00 by EmX68
Excellent puzzle!
on 10. September 2025, 14:34 by Megalobrainiac
Gotta send some love for the short solution code!
