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Posts: 191 ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Country : The Netherlands | Richard posted @ 2013-12-05 2:10 PM Thanks Deb, for the attention to this project. Recently I have been busy with puzzles for the German Sudoku Championship 2014 and another sudoku project. I noticed once more the incredible number of Sudoku variations and also that there are a lot of types unexplored by me. For this reason I started this ‘Sudoku Variants Series’. It is not my goal to make a full overview of possible types, because there are too many ‘slightly’ different variations. But I think it is interesting to make a fresh variant every week, so at the end the Series provide a very good insight in what the possibilities with Sudoku actually are. Since I will continue publishing a normal ‘Friday-noon-puzzle’ too, I have decided to publish one sudoku variant per week (Tuesday noon). In that case I expect the project will run for a period of between two and three years. Maybe even longer, my list is growing daily at the moment. We’ll see. I will keep you informed now and then about the progress of the Series. If you have any suggestions, questions or complaints: don't hesitate to contact me, either in the forum or with a P.M. Regards, Richard |
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Posts: 191 ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Country : The Netherlands | Richard posted @ 2014-02-22 11:55 AM Richard - 2013-12-05 2:10 PM I will keep you informed now and then about the progress of the Series. Hi all, Meanwhile the Series is running for almost three months, so it is time for an update. I have had an extremely busy period at work, so I was happy to keep the rhytm of placing a weekly sudoku, but I hardly had time to write something here, meaning this update contains links to the first 13 puzzles. The puzzles are easy to medium in difficulty, although most of them have 1 or 2 stars for difficulty in the portal of LM Germany. The weighting system there is a bit out of control. Me was asked if the puzzles could also be part of the Daily league of Extraordinary Ladies and Gentlemen, a facebook group that publishes a challenging sudoku variant every day. You can find that facebook group here. I was delighted that my puzzles can be part of this interesting project! ![]() Here are the links to the first puzzles that I have put online since the start of my project: 000 Classic Sudoku 001 Odd Sudoku 002 No Touch 003 Search Nine Sudoku 004 Position Sudoku 005 Renban Sudoku 006 Consecutive Sudoku 007 Consecutive Circles (new variant) 008 Trio Sudoku 009 Next to Nine 010 Answer Eight 011 Diagonal Sudoku 012 Arrow Sudoku If you haven't solved them yet: Have fun with these sudokus! There's much more to come. ![]() Richard |
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Posts: 191 ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Country : The Netherlands | Richard posted @ 2014-07-03 6:24 PM Hi all, It has been a while since the previous update. So here I am again: 013 Palindrome 014 Symmetrical Unequal 015 Maximum Triplet 016 Extra Regions 017 No three odd/even in line 018 Odd Labyrinth 019 Sum 100 020 Even Sandwich 021 Maximin 022 Identical Blocks 023 Perfect Squares 024 Star Products 025 Odd/even Consecutive 026 Killer 027 Edge Sums 028 Windoku 029 Clone 030 1~9 031 Round off Have fun with the puzzles! I would be happy if you enter the solutions at the website of LM Germany. ![]() |
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Posts: 191 ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Country : The Netherlands | Richard posted @ 2014-10-02 9:46 AM Hi all, Time for a new update on the Series since it has been three months ago again. 032 Anti Diagonal 033 Little Killer 034 Magic Squares 035 Box Sums 036 Non Consecutive 037 X-Sums 038 Group Sums 039 Fortress 040 Mathrax 041 Thermometer 042 Mathdoku 043 Sudoku Low 044 Number 5 is alive Enjoy the puzzles if you haven't tried them yet! |
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Posts: 191 ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Country : The Netherlands | Richard posted @ 2014-12-02 10:07 AM I started SVS in december last year, so the first year is already over. 52 different variants were published, and the end is not in sight. Not by a long shot. Players keep inventing new variants, so my list of possible puzzles has grown over the last year. ![]() Here are the links to the most recent puzzles: 045 Quadruple 046 Anti Knight 047 Prime Killer 048 XV 049 OddMax 050 Bent Diagonals 051 Disjoint Groups 052 Rank Sudoku |
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Posts: 191 ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Country : The Netherlands | Richard posted @ 2018-12-31 2:05 PM Richard - 2014-12-02 10:07 AM I started SVS in december last year, so the first year is already over. Hi all, Four years have gone by, and the Series is still running. Meanwhile, there must be a lot of new Sudoku Enthusiasts, and they may not be aware at all that this series is running. Because of other puzzle activities, the weekly rhytm has been changed to a fortnightly rhytm. At the moment the series contain 246 different sudoku variants, and the end is still not in sight. If you like to solve some sudoku puzzles during this holiday season, take a look here: Sudoku Variants Series Happy new year to all puzzle friends! |