This is part 3 in a series of related puzzles. You can see all the puzzles in this series on my website at kammer.xyz/blog/sudoku/photocopied.
You can also visit the logic-masters pages for the other puzzles in the series:
You have been gifted a large collection of puzzles from a friend. You sift through them looking for interesting ones and find photocopies of puzzles from an old book of puzzles, filed under "puzzles with no given digits". The original book is nowhere to be found and the photocopies are in black and white.
You can see the original photocopies on the webpage linked above, but the images are too large to upload here
You assume the original had a unique solution, but can you still reconstruct that solution? The rules below are listed for the entire section of puzzles, so you can't be sure whether all three line types actually exist in any of the puzzles.
Your goal is to figure out what the original solution to each puzzle was. I have transcribed this puzzle and put it on sudokupad for your ease of solving!
Solution code: Bottom row, left to right
on 8. September 2026, 20:21 by QuiltyAsCharged
I've now completed the entire photocopied series and I really enjoyed it! I was stuck at the start of this one for a while, until in a flash I saw the clear starting point.
on 4. August 2026, 22:17 by gkammer
Changed a couple typos.
on 25. July 2026, 19:43 by gkammer
Edit: made an implicit assumption explicit.
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