Shrouded Snowmen
(Eingestellt am 9. Dezember 2025, 06:00 Uhr von SecondBlue)
Placing a correct digit in the puzzle will reveal the immediately surrounding fog. No guessing is required.
Snowmen are 1 cell wide and 2 cells tall. The base of a snowman is a larger number than its head. Snowmen cannot be orthogonally adjacent to hot digits (7,8,9) otherwise they will melt. Snowmen also cannot contain the hot digits (7,8,9). All possible snowmen are given.
Pink Renban lines are a set of non repeating consecutive digits in any order. All pink Renban lines are 3 cells long.
Numbers on thermometers increase in value from bulb to tip.
Black kropki dots share 2 numbers with a 1:2 ratio White kropki dots share 2 consecutive numbers Not all possible kropki dots are given.
Solve in SudokuPad
Highlightable Hint 1: All possible snowmen are given is a negative constraint. This means that anywhere in the puzzle where a snowman could be is shown with the snowman image.
Highlightable Hint 2: We don't see a snowman in box 3 so where can 9 not go in box 3?
Highlightable Hint 3: The black kropki dot in box 3 is restricted to only 1 pair of digits. Which digit is forced in row 3 column 9?
Thanks to everyone who solved and especially those who commented on the 2025 snowman puzzle series.
Here are the links to the other puzzles in the series;
1) Diamond in the snow 1 ★☆☆☆☆
2) Snowtropics 1 ★★☆☆☆
3) Shrouded Snowmen ★★☆☆☆
4) Snow Many Skyscrapers ★★☆☆☆
5) Hotline ★★★☆☆
6) Killer Snowmen ★★★☆☆
7) Snowtropics 2 ★★★☆☆
8) Snowtropics 3 ★★★★☆
9) Zero Chill ★★★★☆
10) Diamond in the snow 2 ★★★★☆
Lösungscode: row 9 (left to right)
Kommentare
Heute, 03:23 Uhr von SecondBlue
Added links to the other puzzles in the 2025 snowman series.
am 15. Dezember 2025, 21:49 Uhr von QuiltyAsCharged
Lovely! Note that SudokuPad has a little bug with emoji loading. So if you open the puzzle and don't see the snowman image, just hit refresh and it will appear :)
am 15. Dezember 2025, 17:48 Uhr von kiutiekubus
i love this puzzle so much!! thanku so much for designing it, i had so much fun trying to solve it :DD happy holidays!!
am 14. Dezember 2025, 04:04 Uhr von SecondBlue
Tweaked the hints to explain negative constraint. If you haven't encountered negative constraint before it's understandable why this puzzle seems impossible.
am 14. Dezember 2025, 00:58 Uhr von SecondBlue
Added some highlightable hints to help with the break-in.
am 11. Dezember 2025, 04:15 Uhr von NotSoMagnifique
That negative snowman constraint was the cherry on top!
am 9. Dezember 2025, 14:51 Uhr von PinkNickels
Had to think through the ending a little with the negative constraint to resolve the doubles and triples. Nice one!
am 9. Dezember 2025, 10:16 Uhr von Flinty
They're snow longer shrouded! Lovely puzzle :)
