Sunny, with a chance of fog
(Eingestellt am 23. März 2025, 01:35 Uhr von pdyxs)
What a bright and shiny day - even the renbans have turned yellow! Surely nothing could possibly go wrong...
Rules
To start, you need to know these rules:
- Sudoku: Fill the grid with the digits 1-9, so that each digit occurs exactly once in every row, every column and every 3x3 box.
- Renban Lines: Digits on a line form a set of non-repeating, consecutive digits in any order.
Later, you'll need to know these as well:
- Encroaching fog: The grid is not covered in fog. Placing a correct digit in a cell will summon fog to that cell, and to the 8 surrounding cells. No guessing or erasing of digits is required.
- Kropki: If two cells do not have a grid line between them, their digits are consecutive. If a renban line is hollow between two cells, the digit in one cell is double the other. Not all kropki clues are given.
Notes:
- In this puzzle, constraints are being rendered in non-standard ways.
- The colour tool will not work, and the line tool is strange. Such is the price of summoning fog!
How I made this
I've written a short post about how I made this work. Check it out here.
More Experimental Fog puzzles:
- The grid of forking paths
- Recounting the counting
- A murder most fogged
- Cartography
- Whispers in the mist
- Some Things Fogn
- Recounting the Rooms
For more puzzles, follow me on Bluesky at @pdyxs.bsky.social
Lösungscode: Row 9, from left to right
Kommentare
am 21. April 2025, 12:29 Uhr von JoBerlin
I was very hesitant to try this puzzle because I imagined with the encroaching fog I would have to memorize the given lines.
But thankfully that was not the case! Great puzzle
am 20. April 2025, 22:03 Uhr von abadx
A very nice idea. great experience
am 27. März 2025, 22:16 Uhr von The Bard
I don't know how you might fix this, but it was a bit hard to see the clues from the fog rolling in. To me it looked like there were 3 shades of grid lines which was confusing.
Great concept of adding clues with the fog.
am 27. März 2025, 14:31 Uhr von davidz32z
Such a good puzzle and a great original idea! Would be nice if the kropki grid lines were a bit easier to see.
am 26. März 2025, 03:53 Uhr von ostio456
Great puzzle!
am 26. März 2025, 00:41 Uhr von dzamie
Clever! Guessed how you'd done it, too, which was cool.
The kropki rule was a little tricky. The hollow line was confusing but quickly resolved; however, the "no grid line" was really difficult to see. I got stuck for a few minutes just because I couldn't quite make out that a grid line didn't actually exist between two squares.
am 25. März 2025, 08:36 Uhr von MattJones
Brilliant! So ingenious
am 25. März 2025, 06:11 Uhr von pdyxs
rules clarification
am 24. März 2025, 22:11 Uhr von MattJones
Brilliant! So ingenious
am 24. März 2025, 06:02 Uhr von pdyxs
Thanks for the lovely comments everyone, I'm so stoked that you all enjoyed the puzzle so much!
@superdog good catch, I was thinking of updating the rules a bit anyway so I'll be sure to incorporate this
am 24. März 2025, 00:47 Uhr von superdog
Very engaging and unique puzzle! Extremely small rules nitpick, I would suggest wording the second kropki clue as "If a renban line is hollow..." for clarity (I spent a bit trying to decide if a grid line could possibly be hollow)
am 23. März 2025, 20:09 Uhr von Azukay
Incredibly enjoyable puzzle, gorgeous setting all around, one of my new favourite setters
am 23. März 2025, 19:48 Uhr von ravan
very neat, and so creative, thanks for the puzzle!
am 23. März 2025, 17:59 Uhr von rares495
Gorgeous! Thanks for setting.
am 23. März 2025, 17:42 Uhr von chubnatty
A really enjoyable twist on FOW. Maybe a bit easier than 2 stars? Thanks for the fun!
am 23. März 2025, 17:04 Uhr von kublai
... or, how I learned to stop worrying and love the fog.
am 23. März 2025, 17:02 Uhr von mellowrobinson
Freaking awesome
am 23. März 2025, 14:47 Uhr von Lorena
I solved this with my girlfriend, who only solves sudoku when I trick her into doing one with me. I tried to explain to her how original you are, so I said: “90% of the people who make fog sudokus are doing the same thing as everyone else”. She then tried to finish my sentence: “…and pdxys is in the 10%”? I answered “No”, and she looked at me in confusion until I continued: “pdyxs IS the 0.1%”
am 23. März 2025, 12:59 Uhr von Fra314
Wow, so fresh and creative! Great puzzle!
am 23. März 2025, 04:28 Uhr von etoler
Really cool! Off to read the post and figure out what the heck you did here...
am 23. März 2025, 02:12 Uhr von arteful
once the fog is there, the clues are a little hard to see, but besides that, really fun!
