Night Club
(Published on 20. October 2025, 05:32 by SennyK)
I hope you will enjoy my second puzzle!
I would be really grateful for all the comments and ratings.
Normal Sudoku rules apply.
Little Killer: Clues outside the grid give the sum of the digits along the indicated diagonal.
Palindrome (gray): Digits along the line read the same forwards and backwards (e.g., 49194).
Arrow (gray): Digits along an arrow sum to the number in the attached circle.
German Whisper line (green): Adjacent digits differ by at least 5.
Renban line (purple): Set of consecutive digits in ASCENDING order (e.g., 3456 or 6543).
Between line (gray): Digits on the line are between the values in the circled ends.
Let's go dancing:Night Club: The highlited area represents a Night Club which can accomodate two full sets of digits (each digit exactly twice) and which is currently fully occupied (only great music playing, I recommend a nice playlist whilst solving this puzzle to feel the atmosphere).
Rooms: Box borders divide the club into 5 rooms: 1 main dance floor connected to the entrance and available for all, 2 VIP dance floors reserved exclusively for one type of digit PARITY each (e.g., 1357 / 2468), and 2 small 1-cell security rooms accessible only to bouncer.
Walls: There are N types of digits on the walls of the club (i.e., on the beetween line, circles excluded). Each digit appears on the wall the same number of times, except of the digit N (e.g., 23424 for N=3). Digit N is a bouncer with security access in the club.
If you liked this puzzle, I recommend trying out my other puzzles:
Symmetrical Fan
Cops & Robbers
Broken Flashlight in the Darkness
Blown Fuses in Electrical Installation
Solution code: Bottom right (9th) box of the grid in normal reading order: left to right, top to bottom.
Comments
yesterday, 18:34 by QuiltyAsCharged
Very fun puzzle! You must read the rules carefully and take a moment to understand the night club policies. But once you do, your night will go smoothly and even wallflowers will have a good time
on 22. October 2025, 01:47 by dzamie
Very creative! I had a bit of trouble understanding the Wall rule, though I managed to get through it eventually. Also, I didn't realize until after solving that there's only one bouncer digit, so it occupies both of the bouncer rooms. Luckily, the puzzle is perfectly solvable without that.
SK: Thank you for your kind comment! I have amended the wording to make it clear that there is only one bouncer, thank you!
on 20. October 2025, 19:17 by VitP
much easier than it seems at first glance.
hint: go dancing
on 20. October 2025, 18:13 by Karitsu
This was great! I was a bit intimidated by the dance floor setting at first (as I am with most dance floors), but once I got the hang of it, it flowed quite easily through to the end. Thanks for setting!
