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Junk Drawer

(Published on 23. September 2025, 05:00 by Sotehr)


PUZZLE


RULES

Squishdoku: Normal Squishdoku rules apply; place the digits 1-9 at most once in every row, column, and 3x3 box. There are nine 3x3 boxes, which overlap at the dashed lines.

German Whisper Line: Adjacent cells on a green line have a minimum difference of 5.

Modular Line: Any three adjacent digits on a teal line cannot be from the same set of modulo 3 residuals, that is {1,4,7}, {2,5,8}, or {3,6,9}.

Entropic Line: Any three adjacent digits on a peach line cannot be from the same set of low, middle, or high digits, that is {1,2,3}, {4,5,6}, or {7,8,9}.

Dutch Whisper Line: Adjacent cells on an orange line have a minimum difference of 4.

Black Kropki: Cells separated by a black dot have values in a ratio of 1:2.

White Kropki: Cells separated by a white dot have values with a difference of one.

X/V: Cells separated by an X sum to 10, cells separated by a V sum to 5.

NOTES
Expected Difficulty: 2 to 3.5 stars

This puzzle was set for the Setting Saturday Prompt: No Repeat Clues.

There is a high variance for difficulty on this puzzle, dependent on how familiar you are with Squishdoku. If you run into trouble while solving, this may help.

Many thanks to everyone who helped test this, including Prof.Dori, ChinStrap, and Calvinball.


Play [Junk Drawer] on SudokuPad.

Solution code: Row 7, normal reading order.

Last changed on on 23. September 2025, 07:13

Solved by tuturitu, aqjhs, kodra22, Calvinball, gdc, SKORP17, Exigus, dickey, vitaminz, paranoid, Andrewsarchus, 72kchunshuai, Malakree, Crusader175, karlmortenlunna, Scojo, Black_Doom, palpot, ViKingPrime, MathGuy_12, Prof.Dori, Shmartus, mcs131313, Krisonium
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Comments

on 28. September 2025, 21:37 by ViKingPrime
Great use of squishy logic.

on 26. September 2025, 16:09 by Crusader175
Lovely!

on 23. September 2025, 21:31 by Exigus
Id say 3-3.5*. Took me a while to whittle down the options but had a great time doing it. Thanks!

Difficulty:3
Rating:99 %
Solved:24 times
Observed:1 times
ID:000PBR

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