Pokedoku
(Published on 10. September 2026, 22:45 by dleclair)
Welcome Pokemon trainer to the Doku Region, your journey is about to begin.
Your challenge is to beat all 8 gyms on your way to the pokemon league (the “9th gym”). You begin your journey in your hometown. From there you will find your path from town to town, defeating gyms along the way.
Normal sudoku rules apply.
Draw a line that only moves orthogonally. The line begins at your home (R1C2) and must enter every box only once. The line must pass through the pokeball in each box. Box borders divide the line into segments, the product of the digits on each segment determines the segment’s value. A gym’s value is determined by the 1 or 2 digit number in the box over it. (Read to the right or down)
Within each box, the value of the segment in that box must equal the value of the gym plus the digit in the pokeball. Gym values must increase as your line progresses through the boxes. The blue lines are water and cannot be crossed until you leave the box with the 5th gym.
Good luck on your journey trainer!
Solve in SudokuPad
Solution code: Row 9
Comments
on 12. September 2026, 01:14 by Acamaeda
I had an idea for a Pokemon sudoku rule but I'm not good at making puzzles so someone else can use it:
The mod-3 sets correspond to grass, water, and fire. To beat a Sudokumon, the sum of orthoganally adjacent super-effective squares must be greater than its value.
on 11. September 2026, 09:06 by Saltensity
Very complex and mathy puzzle, the deductions took me quite a long time to wrap my head around. Thanks for this creation and puzzle constraint :)
