Moo's Final Boss
(Eingestellt am 19. April 2025, 09:26 Uhr von Laake)
Moo's Final Boss
Hello team. Today I present another birthday present sudoku for my pal Moo. This is inspired by my favourite AnalyticalNinja puzzle Advent Calendar, and also Moo's stupid comment that he made one time about trying to put 10 into a puzzle. Big ups to the aforementioned AN for testing, as well as Lorena, Brodioh, and one of my smooth in person friends woop woop o/
This puzzle has two stages. If you solve on SudokuPad, the answer check will trigger on completing the first stage, with the completion message having a link to the second stage. If you are a pencil solver, first up I respect that, however you'll have to print off multiple copies or use a rubber/eraser after the first stage. Sorry!
Phases:
- Phase 1: Each 3x3 box is to be completed as a mean mini. For each box, select 3 digits from 1-9 to fill the box with. Digits can't repeat in a row or column of the 3x3. (EDIT) Knowledge of phase 2 existing is not necessary to completing phase 1.
- Phase 2: Now, delete all digits except for the central digits of each 3x3 box. Then, divide the grid into it's four 6x6 quadrants. Each quadrant is to be solved as a Quattroquadri. (place the digits 1-9 once each into the 3x3 boxes such that they don't repeat within rows and columns of the 6x6 bold outlined region) (If you are playing on Sudoku Pad, I have lovingly done the deleting work for you in the second link)
Rules:
- For both phases, the following rules are in effect:
- Ace is high - For all constraints in the puzzle, 1 has a value of 10. All other digits are unchanged.
- Killer cages - Digits in a cage can't repeat, and the values must sum to the number (or to an odd/even number if indicated) in the top left corner of the cage.
- Arrows - Values along an arrow sum to the value in the attached circle. Digits may repeat along an arrow.
- Kropki dots - Where two cells are separated by a black dot, one value is double the other.
- German Whisper - Adjacent values along a green line must have a difference of at least 5. Digits may repeat if allowed by other rules.
- Renban - Purple renban lines form a set of non-repeating consecutive values, in any order.
- Thermometers - Values along grey thermometers must strictly increase from the bulb (grey circle) to the tip.
- Region sum line - Box borders divide blue lines into segments. Each segment must sum to the same total. Different lines may have different totals. Digits may repeat if allowed by other rules.
SudokuPad: Click Here
Enjoy... pretty please?
Lösungscode: Bottom row of phase 2 (lol 12 digits long sorry for those who don't like long solution codes. I think this puzzle will take up more of your time than the time taken to type the code in though by a few orders of magnitude.)
Kommentare
am 2. Mai 2025, 21:03 Uhr von Untoasted1003
Thank you for many hours of fun! I love puzzles that can be worked on from multiple directions. Big enough to feel like a journey but never too challenging to get discouraged (which tends to happen for me on harder puzzles with few rules...)
am 22. April 2025, 13:38 Uhr von TVDK
Very nice. Both phases were great, though my solve was not helped by confusing my 1(0)s and basic sudoku.
am 21. April 2025, 01:35 Uhr von Exigus
That took a while, but well worth it.
am 20. April 2025, 15:28 Uhr von Snookerfan
Fantastic puzzle! I really enjoyed this one. I find it truly amazing that a single setup can constitute 2 different and interesting puzzles, just be modifying the rules. Thank you
am 19. April 2025, 23:07 Uhr von CalvinM
Wow, this was a truly baffling puzzle. I remember having several different "oh no..." moments, such as when I realized that I can put a 5 on German Whispers lines and on black Kropki dots, or when I realized I could (and did) put 1s on the ends of thermometers. I found the second phase of the puzzle to be harder than the first (as was expected), and I got stuck a few times, but I thoroughly enjoyed this. I had to rewire my brain both in terms of the mean mini rule (I kept trying to use Sudoku to place digits!) and in terms of the 'Ace is high' rule, which my brain never seemed to fully accept lol.
I fully expect to try to solve another puzzle and have to stop my brain from believing that 1 is 10.
am 19. April 2025, 14:36 Uhr von zeniko
This was beautiful, not overly hard, but quite complex (to the point where I got stuck in phase 2 at the same „odd“ cage and not allowing repeated digits was again the answer).
Thanks for sharing and for the help.
am 19. April 2025, 14:02 Uhr von Franktothejay
Edit: Wow, you would think after finishing the puzzles I would realize 1 isn't a 1... but alas, I did not. Very good puzzle.
Is that odd box in the first puzzle supposed to be an even box? Maybe I'm missing something, but when I checked the solution, it was wrong and that was all I could figure.
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Oh no it's very baffling at times (if there was a way to just put 10 in the grid I would, but hey hoh). The worst was when I'd solve other puzzles after I was right in the mud of setting this, and still assume 1 = 10
am 19. April 2025, 13:32 Uhr von Laake
Slight rule clarification, you don't need knowledge of phase 2 in order to solve phase 1 :)
