Hot Buddy / Heißer Kumpel
(Eingestellt am 5. August 2026, 14:48 Uhr von PDN777)
Es gelten die normalen Sudoku-Regeln. Zudem finden die Standardregeln für Palindrome, Kropki (keine Negativbedingung) und Thermometer Anwendung. (Die Ziffern entlang der pfirsichfarbenen Palindrom-Linien müssen vorwärts und rückwärts gelesen identisch sein. Benachbarte Ziffern, die mit einem weißen Kropki-Punkt markiert sind, sind aufeinanderfolgend. Benachbarte Ziffern, die mit einem schwarzen Kropki-Punkt markiert sind, stehen in einem Verhältnis von 2:1. Nicht alle Punkte sind eingezeichnet. Ziffern auf einem Thermometer müssen vom Kugelende aus streng ansteigend verlaufen.) Ich schätze den Schwierigkeitsgrad dieses Rätsels für viele Löser auf 1,5 von 5 Sternen ein. Wie immer sind Kommentare willkommen. Danke!
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Kommentare
am 7. August 2026, 15:10 Uhr von PDN777
Thanks everyone for the solves, despite the perhaps dubious formatting! ;-) It honestly didn't occur to me that it would be confusing, perhaps because of @philolologue's observation that in standard sudoku a palindrome can never behave like a thermo. Next time I'll be sure to completely cover the grey line with color. In any event, I'm glad you all found a way through, and I hope you'll be back to fly PDN Puzzles. :-)
am 6. August 2026, 12:15 Uhr von philolologue
This was loads of fun! Easy break-in and a few less obvious steps towards the end to make it 1.5 stars for difficulty as mentioned in the description. Not sure what the fuss in the comments is about the palindromes, pretty clearly can't have a palindrome overlapping a thermometer in basic Sudoku (i.e. with no doubler-type rules changing cell values). Thanks for posting, loved it! 14-min time for me.
am 6. August 2026, 06:08 Uhr von SanFranSam
I agree wtih the other comments about the palindrome lines being outlined in grey. I was about to give up that there was some double secret technique to making the long thermomemter/palindrome work, until i read the comments.
am 6. August 2026, 02:55 Uhr von fallean
Nah I liked it, flow wasnt bad and there was no bifurcation needed for the top right palidrome. But I agree the grey on the palidromes was trippy lol
am 5. August 2026, 21:24 Uhr von michael_787
Outlining the palindromes in grey was a bad idea: thought at first they were thermos as well as palindromes. After I realized, it was plain sailing.
am 5. August 2026, 18:59 Uhr von JVA
Couldn't figure out the top right palindrome without bifurcation
am 5. August 2026, 17:33 Uhr von JVA
Why are the palindromes outlined in grey? Makes them look like they're thermos
am 5. August 2026, 17:05 Uhr von galium_odoratum
1* diff more me. It was overall good puzzle, but the flow was a bit too inconsistent for my taste: the beginning & most of the longer thermos were quite trivial, midgame required some scanning which took a lot more time without being difficult. Still fun to solve.
