What The Hectare
(Published yesterday, 23:55 by ThePedallingPianist)
This is my very late response to Scojo's setting prompt for the 7th of February this year, for which juggler asked setters to create a puzzle using a new constraint invented by a different setter as part of the previous week's prompt. This is something it seems I set back in February, but never got round to publishing until now, which uses a constraint introduced by Katie Splendor in her lovely puzzle Hundred Acre Wood.
Normal 6x6 sudoku rules apply.
Hundred Acres: The digits inside a cage must multiply to a value of 100. Digits may repeat if allowed by other rules. Additionally, digits orthogonally adjacent to the cage must be a different entropy to their orthogonal neighbour within the cage. The entropic sets are [1,2], [3,4] and [5,6].
Normal 6x6 sudoku rules apply.
Hundred Acres: The digits inside a cage must multiply to a value of 100. Digits may repeat if allowed by other rules. Additionally, digits orthogonally adjacent to the cage must be a different entropy to their orthogonal neighbour within the cage. The entropic sets are [1,2], [3,4] and [5,6].
Solution code: Row 1 (top), left to right
Solved by Sudokode, Pairot, ViKingPrime, gdc, Ph1nt, raveenmallawa, SennyK, NotSoMagnifique, 0wifi, wuc, eladv, Sotehr, Hrothan, katze, kelvin, renewedrebirth, RedBarchetta, barnacle, emoney1374, Terrapin, ranhothchord, nicklase, rocky, mindbottle, Hyoryn, Toxter, damo_89, unlogical, rcg, jcgodart, JVA, Franjo, Snaques, jalebc, marcmees, amirs, teuthida, Wuschel, tjmac28, NeroChaos, CottonFlower
Comments
today, 10:01 by Snaques
These rules are surprisingly restrictive and once you understood those the puzzle was quite approachable and fun.
today, 09:33 by Franjo
Thank you very much for creating and sharing this funny puzzle-snack. Delicious!
today, 06:23 by rocky
So this will sound silly but I've had a rough day, and this puzzle made it substantially better. Thank you very much!
today, 01:13 by wuc
Great fun math exercise thx.
today, 01:01 by NotSoMagnifique
Thank you for this!
today, 00:59 by 0wifi
as mathematically challenged as i am, i had some good fun with it
today, 00:54 by SennyK
Very fun little snack! :-)
today, 00:20 by ViKingPrime
Lovely little puzzle.
