How to Dot Your V's
(Eingestellt am 4. April 2025, 19:58 Uhr von PhoenixAki)
My 5th puzzle, designed to teach and explore the interaction(s) that arise from a certain combination of clue types in a sudoku. I noticed it while solving another puzzle and challenged myself to come up with ways to utilize it as the theme for an entire puzzle.
Check out my other puzzles if you haven't yet! Listed in order of estimated difficulty (easiest to hardest):
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on my YouTube channel. Try to solve without referring to it first :) I include this here as an option to increase accessibility to my puzzles.
Happy solving!
Rules:
- Place the digits 1-9 in each row, column, and 3x3 box.
- Dynamic Fog: The grid is mostly covered in grey fog. Placing correct digits will progressively clear away the fog, at minimum under that cell, and sometimes in other parts of the grid.
- Black Dots: A black dot between 2 digits means one digit is either half or double the other digit.
- XV: Digits separated by a V must sum to 5, and digits separated by an X must sum to 10.
- Cages: Cells surrounded in dotted-line "cages" must sum to the number in the top left corner of the cage.
- German Whispers: Adjacent digits on a grddin line must differ by at least 5.
- Renban: Adjacent digits on a pink line must form a consecutive sequence in any order.
**In this puzzle, neither German whisper or Renban lines leave the box they are discovered in.**
- Quadruples: Digits contained in a large white circle must appear in the four cells it touches.
Solve on Sudokupad here! Everyone is welcome to solve this on a stream or video, but I would prefer you let me know when such a thing happens so I can check it out (DM me on Discord, same username phoenixaki) :)
Lösungscode: Row 2's digits from left to right (9 digits)
Zuletzt geändert am 22. April 2025, 00:02 Uhr
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Kommentare
am 13. Mai 2025, 10:24 Uhr von RoystonDA
Excellent solution! I felt like a brain box working out the break-in. You soothe my ego
am 12. Mai 2025, 22:00 Uhr von JoeyJoeJoe
Took me 00:57:22 I am slow at these
Zuletzt geändert am 20. April 2025, 11:31 Uhram 20. April 2025, 11:09 Uhr von Nemefish
Overall nice with two quibbles
1) the quadruple clues in most puzzles show the digits in ascending order, so it is a bit off to see them not sorted. 2) most of the time the dynamic fog at least reveals the digit placed so the few times it doesn’t it made me nervous.
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PhoenixAki: Where did the fog not reveal upon placing a digit? It is set to by default reveal fog from cells with correct digits placed if it's not already cleared which I just verified with a quick test re-solving of it.
am 15. April 2025, 01:54 Uhr von PhoenixAki
removed "uhhhh solution video isn't made yet" note because it is made now :)
am 9. April 2025, 23:24 Uhr von fragglerock1981
Ooooh, I REALLY liked this one. Very smooth solve, with a relatively long pause before I figured out the Renban, then it was a sprint finish. Thank you for sharing! A+
am 8. April 2025, 01:59 Uhr von Calvinball
Very nice puzzle! I really enjoyed how consistent and smooth it was the entire way through.
am 5. April 2025, 19:54 Uhr von hardline35
Nice puzzle, thank you!
am 5. April 2025, 02:12 Uhr von PhoenixAki
minor addition to rules to counter an accidental "one step was tougher than it was intended to be" issue. Grid solution and clues are maintained so that solution code is still valid, with the new rule addition (regarding lines not leaving their box) forcing the intended approach to one step in the solve.
am 5. April 2025, 02:10 Uhr von Llamaths
Very nice puzzle! And I learned something new about dots and V's!
am 5. April 2025, 01:23 Uhr von Sralser
I enjoyed thisone
am 4. April 2025, 21:48 Uhr von Azure
I really liked this puzzle. It was fun solving it. That renban tripped me up a little bit. After a bit of thinking, it resolved itself. Thank you for the puzzle!