C.
(Published on 30. November 2025, 16:30 by ThePedallingPianist)
LMDemasi has requested "approachable doppelgängers" for this week's Setting Saturday prompt as hosted by Scojo. This came out a little too difficult, but I'm allergic to adding unnecessary clues, so I made another puzzle to be my actual submission for the prompt (to be published tomorrow evening).
Many thanks to LMDemasi himself, as well as and aqjhs and IkeManga for testing.
DOPPELGÄNGER:
• Fill each cell of the main grid such that every row, column and box contains a 0 and five different digits from 1-6;
• No two rows, no two columns and no two boxes may be missing the same digit;
• For each 0 in the grid, the digits missing in its row, column and box must be three different digits;
• Fill the external cells with the missing digit from the corresponding row, column or box.
LINES:
• Adjacent digits along a hollow orange line must have a difference of at least 4;
• Digits on a pink line must form a non-repeating consecutive set.
Many thanks to LMDemasi himself, as well as and aqjhs and IkeManga for testing.
DOPPELGÄNGER:
• Fill each cell of the main grid such that every row, column and box contains a 0 and five different digits from 1-6;
• No two rows, no two columns and no two boxes may be missing the same digit;
• For each 0 in the grid, the digits missing in its row, column and box must be three different digits;
• Fill the external cells with the missing digit from the corresponding row, column or box.
LINES:
• Adjacent digits along a hollow orange line must have a difference of at least 4;
• Digits on a pink line must form a non-repeating consecutive set.
Solution code: Digits in the row missing 6, left to right (6 digits)
Solved by lmdemasi, tuturitu, Gilliatt, bansalsaab, SKORP17, eladv, aqjhs, RailMan, yellow, Isael, gdc, Neumino, widjo, The Book Wyrm, mahdiosm
Comments
today, 18:21 by The Book Wyrm
Lovely puzzle! Very fun and interesting interactions between the constraints and solved very smoothly.
Last changed yesterday, 18:51
yesterday, 09:27 by RailMan
Very nice puzzle. Can you tell me how you put the curved lines in SudokuPad without using a background image?
---
TPP: Thank you! For curved lines, you can use this website by phil_the (Phil The Hat) - https://philpreen.co.uk/sudokupadtools/PathEdit.html
RailMan: Thank you
