Character Replication
(Eingestellt am 17. April 2025, 21:46 Uhr von FireTruckFuel)
Normal Sudoku rules apply.
There are 7 pairs of clone regions in the puzzle. Cells in the same relative position of a clone pair contain the same digit. Digits may repeat in a region if allowed by other rules.
Digits must differ by 5 or more along a green line.
Digits along an arrow sum to the digit in that arrow's circle.
Black dots separate digits in a 1/2 ratio.
Lösungscode: Row 1
Kommentare
am 23. April 2025, 22:30 Uhr von dzamie
Very easy... once you figure out it's a coloring/lettering puzzle. Trying to solve without that is much harder. I gave it a 2* to average it out.
am 20. April 2025, 23:48 Uhr von IFlaig
Cool puzzle, satisfying ending :)
am 18. April 2025, 10:30 Uhr von zonny
What a lovely puzzle! It wasn't that difficult, but I imagine it would seem impossible if you don't find a way in!
am 18. April 2025, 08:32 Uhr von mellowrobinson
I used the letter tool and it was fun and approachable. Really cool that everything can be placed with just the clones. I also liked that the disambiguation took at least a bit of thought instead of being a dead giveaway. Rated it 1* difficulty, without the lettering it'd be much harder, I imagine.
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Setting an initial difficulty is the toughest bit in publishing a puzzle sometimes. Thank goodness this one made it to red difficulty. If you want something that requires a bit more thought at the start give my previous puzzle 10th inning a go. It's got the best break in I've set to date. Thanks for the comment!
-yep, same here. I had one I thought was an easy 1 star, got voted 3 stars. Haha. Cool, I'll check it out!
am 18. April 2025, 03:27 Uhr von VitP
in what world is this a "level 1" ?
it is "borderline intractable".
there should be SOME attempt to match the difficulty rating with reality.
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My apologies, I actually intended to make the puzzle harder than this but with the right starting set of 9 characters, they map out to the rest of the puzzle with little friction. There could have been more non-clone clues but I was worried there wouldn't be anything interesting about the end of the solve. What difficulty level do you think is appropriate?
am 18. April 2025, 01:20 Uhr von mnhuik
Took me too long to solve.
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Restarted,and tried to note cells in row 6 as 1-9.It's amazing that every cell left only one number after a few steps of checking.Very nice logic.
am 17. April 2025, 23:28 Uhr von Freecs
Nice and easy start, but i actually don't see a way to disambiguate the first 2 cells of the blue regions and therefore am left with a deadly pattern.
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Those digits are disambiguated from their placement in box 1. They should not appear in the same row of box 1. Those actually were the last digits to solve during testing so understandable place to get stuck. Thanks for the comment!
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Thanks for the answer. I stared another 30 minutes at the grid till i finally noticed that there is a light-grey region in the puzzle which resolves my deadly pattern. Very nice puzzle!
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I intentionally gave that one a dull color due to it immediately causing roping and I didn't want that to be super obvious at first glance. The app rules may be missing the "7 pairs" line of the rules as well. I might tweak that later, thanks for the insight.
