These Colors Don't Run - Pride Flag
(Published on 24. June 2025, 16:25 by etoler)
Normal 6x6 Sudoku rules apply.
[PAR] Parity lines: Digits along the red line must alternate between even and odd.
[DW] Dutch whisper lines: Adjacent digits along the orange line must differ by at least 2.
[NAB] Nabner lines: No two digits on a yellow line may be the same or consecutive with one another.
[GW] German whisper lines: Adjacent digits along the green line must differ by at least 3.
[RS] Region sum lines: Box borders divide the blue line into segments with the same sum.
[ECH] Echo lines: The purple line is filled with a repeating sequence of one or more different digits. The full sequence must appear at least twice along the line and must always repeat in its entirety.
Solution code: Row 5, left to right
Comments
on 24. June 2025, 17:25 by glum_hippo
Happy Pride! Nice theme. Very difficult puzzle, though, for me. I wasn't sure how best to approach it. By the way, if I put spaces into my solution code the validator won't know or care about the difference :-)
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Happy Pride! I appreciate the feedback. I set out to create puzzles that were somewhere between "easy but interesting" and "tricky but not monstrous." Some of this series will push those boundaries a little, but I hope they're all enjoyable!
Also, I didn't realize the solution filters out spaces! When I first started solving, it seemed like the "no spaces" qualifier was standard, so I just stuck to it. But I'll save the keystrokes in the future!
- Erin
