[TSL S2T2] Lonesome Hockey
(Published on 15. May 2026, 00:00 by NXTMaster)
This was my official submission for the TSL competition. For a quick example of the "Finger Hockey" ruleset, please check out the puzzle Finger Hockey.
Rules:
The puzzle is available on SudokuPad and Penpa. Have fun flicking!
Rules:
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Hitori (Left Grid)
- Shade some cells such that no two shaded cells are orthogonally adjacent, all unshaded cells are orthogonally contiguous, and no row or column contains unshaded cells with identical digits.
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Finger Hockey (Right Grid)
- Draw lines to represent the movement path of disks. Movement lines cannot cross or overlap each other or themselves, not even the start- or endpoints of the disks; i.e., no disk may move into a cell that has had a disk.
- Disks move only when flicked or hit, and each movement is horizontal or vertical without making turns. Every disk must be flicked exactly once and only when no disks are moving. After all movements are done, each region must have exactly one disk that cannot be the disk it started with.
- When flicked, a disk moves until it hits the grid edge or another disk (it stops on the cell adjacent to the edge/disk). When hit, a disk moves in the same direction as the disk that hit it following the rules of being flicked. However, this movement does not count as a flick (it must still be flicked if not already).
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Interaction
- Every disk movement -- be it a flick or a hit -- has an associated distance equal to the number of cell boundaries crossed by the disk during the movement. Each distance corresponds to exactly one shaded cell in the Hitori grid containing an equal digit. There are as many shaded cells as there are movements.
The puzzle is available on SudokuPad and Penpa. Have fun flicking!
Solution code: From left to right, the number of shaded cells in each column of the Hitori grid. For the example animation, the code would be 2102
Last changed on on 16. May 2026, 18:55
Solved by mnasti2, pms_headache
Comments
on 16. May 2026, 19:58 by hepcecob
Please fix the sudokupad version, the top 2 rows are non editable (can't draw or write in the cells)
on 16. May 2026, 18:55 by NXTMaster
Fixed link
Last changed on 16. May 2026, 18:56
on 16. May 2026, 15:53 by hepcecob
Please fix the sudokupad version, the top 2 rows are non editable (can't draw or write in the cells)
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Thank you so much for pointing this out. The converter messed up, so I recreated the whole thing from scratch.
