Go forth and multiply
(Eingestellt am 28. Juni 2023, 19:23 Uhr von Nightmare2805)
Normal Sudoku rules apply.
On arrows digits must multiply to the number in the arrows circle.
On thermos digits must multiply from the bulb end. (i.e. every digit along the thermo must be a multiple of the previous digit.)
Digits in a cage cannot repeat and cannot sum to a prime number.
Purple lines must be split into 2 segments with digits that multiply to consecutive numbers.
Digits may repeat on a purple line if allowed by other rules.
A segment of a purple line can be of any length.
Some examples of what purple lines could look like can be found here
This puzzle is available on CTC and F-Puzzles
Lösungscode: column 1 and column 9
Kommentare
am 28. August 2024, 01:54 Uhr von Lodinn
Great puzzle!
Interestingly enough, for me it's closer to 1-2 stars, definitely not over 2. Probably people finding different things hard; multiplications I learned in primary school, but they never taught me to find some medusa jellyfish or whatever have you with just regular sudoku :p
am 18. Juli 2023, 18:58 Uhr von Nightmare2805
Raised the estimated difficulty to 3 stars after multiple people suggested 2 stars was to low.
am 15. Juli 2023, 03:57 Uhr von mnasti2
Neat break-in
Edit by the puzzle creator - Thanks for solving. Glad you liked it.
am 5. Juli 2023, 20:27 Uhr von Nightmare2805
Rephrased the rules to say "purple line" instead of "renban"
am 5. Juli 2023, 07:39 Uhr von morgannamodeaura
great puzzle! more difficult than 2 stars surely, though.
i agree that calling the purple lines renbans is confusing; i had to think of them as completely new constraints to get my head around them.
Edit by the puzzle creator - Thanks for your feedback. Glad you liked it.
am 29. Juni 2023, 17:25 Uhr von asp1310
I'd hesitate at calling them Renbans. Maybe just say "purple lines". This would give a visual clue that it's something to do with consecutive numbers (due to using the normal Renban color), without using the specific term which explicitly only means "a set of non-repeating consecutive numbers".
For example, I saw a puzzle recently in which the creator used the normal cage dashed border to contain certain boxes...except because they didn't use the normal cage rules (digits could be repeated), they called them "areas contained within a dashed line" instead.
Edit by the puzzle creator - thanks for your feedback.
am 28. Juni 2023, 21:05 Uhr von nunc
Wow, I'm stunned. I never thought that this might work out so well... This is indeed a littel miracle. Thanks a lot!
Edit by the puzzle creator: Thanks for the nice words. I'm glad you enjoyed it.
am 28. Juni 2023, 19:00 Uhr von Nightmare2805
This is an improved version of a puzzle i posted a while ago.
