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When two Sudokus become one

(Published on 27. September 2025, 18:15 by SharpFox)

I've had the idea of ​​half cells for a while, but for a long time I didn't know how to implement it in SudokuPad. I've now found a solution. Important: the cells on the diagonals remain empty and have no effect on the lines!


SudokuPad
Help for scanning: separated grids for normal Sudoku
Rules:
  • Normal Sudoku rules apply twice. The grid looks like a normal 9×9 Sudoku. However, each cell is divided by a diagonal from bottom-left to top-right, forming two triangular halves. Each triangular half contains its own digit. The lower triangles together form a complete Sudoku (rows, columns, and 3×3 boxes must each contain the digits 1–9 exactly once). The upper triangles also form a separate, independent Sudoku with the same rules.
  • Green lines are german whisper lines. Adjacent digits on such lines must differ by at least 5.
  • Pink lines are renban lines. They contain a set of non-repeating consecutive digits.
  • The blue lines are region sum lines. Box borders divide them into segements and all segments have the same sum.
  • Digits on an arrow sum to the digit in the attached circle.
  • Red lines are parity lines. Each pair of adjacent digits on that line must contain one odd and one even digit.
  • The peach line is an entropy line. Every three consecutive cells on the line must contain one low (123), one middly (456) and one high digit (789).
  • Digits on a thermometer either increase or stay the same, starting from the bulb end to the tip.

Solution code: Row 5, first all upper, then the lower triangles (18 digits):

Last changed on on 1. October 2025, 15:28

Solved by SKORP17, residentholy3, Flinty, Gnubeutel, SPring, Phurba
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on 1. October 2025, 15:28 by SharpFox
New SudokuPad version with conflict checker, help for scanning/regular Sudoku, better solution code

on 28. September 2025, 20:48 by Gnubeutel
I love the idea.
BUT 9x9 is too large and hard to read. Maybe do a 6x6 or even a 4x4 with the rule. Please for love of god!
The error checker doesn't validate boxes. You could use Extra Regions to make that work.
And lastly having the solution code alternate is NOT the way the copy function in sudokupad works. Row by row would have been nicer.

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