Posts: 191 Country : The Netherlands | Richard posted @ 2014-12-02 10:29 AM Hi all, As Minyoung Joo already mentioned here, Arvid Baars and I have created a new Sudoku Advent Calender. This time we have chosen to write 24 puzzles that have a combination of two variants in each puzzle. Each day we combine a very well known variant with a less known type. While writing the puzzles we realised there are three ways to make progress in such combination puzzles: 1. normal sudoku rules 2. eliminations or placements forced by one of the two variants 3. eliminations or placements forced by the combination of the two variants. Some of the puzzles in the series contain one or more solving steps in the thrid category; this makes them very interesting puzzles in our opinion. Because those steps may be a bit hard to find, we have written some solving hints for each of the puzzles. Those hints are written in a very tiny font, so you don't need to read them if you don't want to. Otherwise you can copy them into a text editor and enlarge the font size. We hope that players will enjoy the puzzles as much as we did writing them! I'll provide links to the puzzles in this thread every few days. Here is the first puzzle: Search nine vs. Rossini |
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Posts: 191 Country : The Netherlands | Richard posted @ 2014-12-09 12:52 AM Richard - 2014-12-02 10:29 AM I'll provide links to the puzzles in this thread every few days. The calendar is at one third already! Time for a few fresh links: Search nine vs. Edge Sums Thermometers vs. Edge Sums Thermometers vs. Pointing Evens Clone vs. Pointing Evens Clone vs. Edge Difference Arrows vs. Edge Difference Arrows vs. Battenburg Enjoy the puzzles if you didn't yet! |
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Posts: 191 Country : The Netherlands | Richard posted @ 2014-12-20 7:46 PM Richard - 2014-12-09 12:52 AM Richard - 2014-12-02 10:29 AM I'll provide links to the puzzles in this thread every few days. The calendar is at one third already! Time for a few fresh links: Search nine vs. Edge Sums Thermometers vs. Edge Sums Thermometers vs. Pointing Evens Clone vs. Pointing Evens Clone vs. Edge Difference Arrows vs. Edge Difference Arrows vs. Battenburg Enjoy the puzzles if you didn't yet! Time flies when you are having fun. Also when you are extremely busy, with work, hobby and other issues. Nevertheless, here are some more links. We are approaching the last puzzles already. Next to Nine vs. Battenburg Next to Nine vs. Maxed Squares Position vs. Maxed Squares Position vs. Quad Sums Renban vs. Quad Sums Renban vs. Point to Next Even Sandwich vs. Point to Next Even Sandwich vs. Hidden Skyscrapers Outside vs. Hidden Skyscrapers Outside vs. Clocks 1~9 vs. Clocks 1~7 vs. Slot Machine If you haven't started yet, there is a lot of puzzle fun to catch up with! Enjoy. :) Richard |