Questions tagged [grid-deduction]
Puzzles such as Sudoku or Kakuro, where the final state of a pre-existing grid must be deduced logically through clues placed within and/or around the grid. Use with the [logical-deduction] tag. For puzzles where you are given a list of clues which can be used to compose a grid to solve them logically, use the [logic-grid] tag instead.
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Didn't you ask me for a crossword?
An entry in Fortnightly Topic Challenge #forty-seven: "Wacky Sudokus"
Here's that crossword you asked for... Sorry, what's that - you didn't ask me for a crossword??
TASK: Solve the puzzle ...
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Skyscrapers in Sudoku!!! - SS#10
An entry in Fortnightly Topic Challenge #47: "Wacky Sudokus"
Other puzzles in this series
Welcome to the tenth puzzle in this series! For more information about the series, see the first ...
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A Puzzling Sudoku (Warning: Hot!)
An entry in Fortnightly Topic Challenge #47: "Wacky Sudokus"
A Sudoku with an oddly familiar shape. Here's a Penpa Link.
Rules:
Normal Sudoku rules apply
(Special) Thermometers:
The ...
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A 7x7 Suguru - SS#9
An entry in Fortnightly Topic Challenge #47: "Wacky Sudokus"
Other puzzles in this series
Welcome to the ninth puzzle in this series! For more information about the series, see the first ...
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Nurikabe: The Super-Kabe Attacks!
This puzzle is another Nurikabe, but with a new twist for me: it's a gigantic Super-Kabe! It's also, in my opinion, quite tricky and has some interesting deductions. I hope you enjoy!
Rules of a ...
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The Blank Sudoku
An entry in Fortnightly Topic Challenge #47: "Wacky Sudokus"
(h/t to Beastly Gerbil, whose 1,2,3... Trinary!!! puzzle provided inspiration for this puzzle)
This puzzle is a normal Sudoku, ...
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A Difficult Wacky Sudoku - SS#8
An entry in Fortnightly Topic Challenge #47: "Wacky Sudokus"
Other puzzles in this series
Welcome to the eighth puzzle in this series! For more information about the series, see the first ...
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A Scrumptious Sudoku Sandwich - SS#7
An entry in Fortnightly Topic Challenge #47: "Wacky Sudokus"
Other puzzles in this series
Welcome to the seventh puzzle in this series! For more information about the series, see the first ...
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Sudoku… with 10 digits? SS#6
An entry in Fortnightly Topic Challenge #47: "Wacky Sudokus"
Other puzzles in this series
Welcome to the sixth puzzle in this series! For more information about the series, see the first ...
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Are there any games like 0hh1 but with bigger grids?
I am loving 0hh1 but I got bored by the largest grid 12x12. Are there similar games but with much larger grids?
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Compoundoku wants REALLY BIG and WACKY!
This is an entry for Fortnightly Topic Challenge #47: Wacky Sudokus.
Rules of Compoundoku:
Solve both left and right Sudokus.
In addition, the board below them is the Compound Board of both Sudokus.
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Nurikabe: The Twisty Corridors
This puzzle is a Nurikabe. It is a little tougher than my previous one, which was designed for newer solvers, and it has a particularly squiggly solution that I found pleasing enough to post - hence ...
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A Mosaic Sudoku - SS#5
An entry in Fortnightly Topic Challenge #47: "Wacky Sudokus"
Other puzzles in this series
Welcome to the fifth puzzle in this series! For more information about the series, see the first ...
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Stop BorgBot before it's too late!
There was a deafening metallic thunk as the rogue AI locked the door of the PuzzlingCorp server room, trapping the engineers inside. A countdown appeared on the computer screen... and began counting ...
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Sudoku + Nurikabe = Sudokabe
The following Sudoku has a nice little twist: after solving, use the numbers in the green squares as a basis for a Nurikabe puzzle. You can create a new grid for the Nurikabe (a 9x9 grid with the ...
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This is an Odd Sudoku - SS#4
An entry in Fortnightly Topic Challenge #47: "Wacky Sudokus"
Other puzzles in this series
Welcome to the fourth puzzle in this series! For more information about the series, see the first ...
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Greener Grasses: Nusi's Birthday
Here is another Greener Grasses puzzle.
Also, happy happy birthday to my fellow Indonesian puzzler, Nusi! I'm sorry that I realize the puzzle was broken in the last-minute checking so a single letter ...
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Shattered Webs - SS#3
An entry in Fortnightly Topic Challenge #47: "Wacky Sudokus"
Other puzzles in this series
Welcome to the third puzzle in this series! For more information about the series, see the first ...
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1, 2, 3… Trinary!!! (SS#2)
An entry in Fortnightly Topic Challenge #47: "Wacky Sudokus"
Other puzzles in this series
Welcome to the second puzzle in this suduko series! For more information about the series, see the ...
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Stupendous Sponge
General Notes
This puzzle takes the form a 9×9×9 level-one Menger sponge
whose surface is divided into 648 1×1 cells. The aim is to draw
a single non-crossing loop along its surface by connecting the
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The Blind Killer - a new series! SS#1
An entry in Fortnightly Topic Challenge #47: "Wacky Sudokus"
Other puzzles in this series
Welcome to a new sudoku series! This series will run for the duration of the current Fortnightly ...
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My sister has gone Puzzled again
I once got a letter from my younger sister. It reads :-
Hello brother,
How are you? I am fine. I have seen you have given me a lot of gifts, thank you for that. Here's a present from my side. Since I ...
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2021 Unpainted Masyu
Paint some white circles to black such that the Masyu will be uniquely solvable and:
Exactly 2 of 11 white circles on the left forming '2' should be painted black.
Exactly 0 of 12 white circles on ...
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Shikakui Hebi: Similarities
Introduction puzzle: here
So, my first Shikakui Hebi puzzle didn't go well, so I'm trying again! Only this time, no more arrows. Instead, it's now a nonogram-like!
This is a Shikakui Hebi puzzle. ...
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Sashi Park: an introduction
This is a Sashigane-Statue Park hybrid. The rules might look complicated, but they're just the two rulesets smushed together. Familiarity with both genres will help.
Rules
Statue Park (adapted from ...
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Tetrikabe: Parallelogram
Rules: (Nurikabe section shamelessly stolen from an earlier puzzle by @jafe)
Numbered cells are unshaded.
Unshaded cells are divided into regions, all of which contain exactly one number. The number ...
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Nurikabe: A Gentle Walk in the Hall of Giants
This puzzle is a Nurikabe that is designed to be a gentle introduction to the genre, with a learning curve of progressively harder deductions. It is encouraged for first-time solvers and those who ...
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Shikakui Hebi: Introduction
Shikakui Hebi is a new grid deduction puzzle I invented. It translates from Japanese which means "Square Snake". It quite sounds like Slitherlink, but trust me, it isn't.
Rules of Shikakui ...
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Kyudoku :- Merry Christmas?
Previous Puzzle:- Kyudoku :- Introduction
There will be numbers in a grid. You just have to circle nine unique numbers (1 to 9) such that each row and column has sum of 9 or less. In some puzzles, one ...
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Kyudoku :- Introduction
This is a Kyudoku Puzzle. I have made the rules myself.
There will be numbers in a grid. You just have to circle nine unique numbers (1 to 9) such that each row and column has sum of 9 or less. In ...
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Embassy Park - A Grid Deduction Puzzle
An entry in Fortnightly Topic Challenge #45: Flags
This grid deduction puzzle is a variation on the OP's previous Office Park puzzle. You are given a set of seven buildings, which are tetracubes, 3-...
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Easy As LITS: Lots of “S”s
This is an Easy as LITS puzzle (LITS variation), where you shade cells to form tetrominoes
Rules taken from Grandmaster Puzzles:
Shade exactly four connected cells in each outlined region, to form an ...
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A sudoku that's already filled in for you
The usual rules of sudoku apply: each row and column must have one of each digit; plus, if you divide the whole nine-by-nine grid into nine three-by-three subgrids, then each subgrid has one of each ...
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Hokuro Puzzle 10x10
After introducing this new puzzle type, here is a slightly more challenging Hokuro puzzle.
Hokuro is a grid deduction puzzle inspired by Kakuro with the following rules:
Each cell contains one of the ...
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A flag-packing problem
An entry in Fortnightly Topic Challenge #45: Flags
You are provided with a 9x9 grid of squares and 21 minimalistic flags (pictured below, all shown to scale).
TASK: Assign a colour (Black, Blue, ...
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Sashigane: 5 arrows + 1 six
This is a Sashigane puzzle, where you divide the grid into L shapes.
Rules taken from Nikoli:
Divide the grid into L shaped blocks - one block wide. All blocks must be L shaped.
Cells with open ...
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Sudoku - less than 6 and knight's move
In the following sudoku, the numbers on the outside indicate the first number less than 6 seen in that row/column. In addition, a number in the sudoku cannot be a knight's move from an identical ...
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Nurikolor (Level 9)
Previous Level: Nurikolor (Level 8)
It's been almost two months since I've last done this. Don't worry, I'm not dead, I was just working on this.
RULES:
There are colored numbers on the grid, which ...
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Cross-Pollination
This puzzle is a hybrid of three different puzzles: Cross the Streams (h/t to athin for recalling this excellent puzzle type), Nurikabe, and Tapa. In this puzzle, as with all three of its progenitors, ...
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The First No L Sudoku
Normal Sudoku rules apply. In addition no L-shaped tetromino can contain four consecutive digits (for instance you can't have r2c9=5,r4c9=8). The little killer clue indicates cells on the indicated ...
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Neighbors Grid Puzzle: A Puzzling SE
This is an entry for Fortnightly Topic Challenge #44: Introduce a new grid deduction genre to the community.
Here is a standard Neighbors puzzle.
Rules of Neighbors:
Place one of the digits 1, 2, or ...
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Holiday Madness: Draw a line through all the gifts
Can you collect all the gifts?
The rules:
Start from the star
At each intersection are arrows. You can only move through the intersection in accordance with the direction of the arrow. (e.g If you ...
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Light and Shadow: Equal and Antisymmetric
This is an entry for Fortnightly Topic Challenge #44: Introduce a new grid deduction genre to the community
Light and Shadow is a puzzle where you divide the grid into regions painted either white or ...
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Cross the Streams: Three?
This is an entry for Fortnightly Topic Challenge #44: Introduce a new grid deduction genre to the community.
Here is a standard Cross the Streams puzzle. The genre is invented by Grant Fikes which ...
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Less than 6 Sudoku
In the following sudoku the numbers on the borders indicate the first number less than 6 seen in that row/column. So for example, the 4 at the bottom means that the first number less than 6 seen from ...
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Fighting Fish: An Aquarium-Star Battle Hybrid
This is an entry for Fortnightly Topic Challenge #44: Introduce a new grid deduction genre to the community.
UPDATE NOTE: The original image had the upper right indicator that there are two fish per ...
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Greener Grasses: Around the Trees
This is an entry for Fortnightly Topic Challenge #44: Introduce a new grid deduction genre to the community.
Greener Grasses is apparently a new genre of grid puzzle. Pitched by Joseph Howard and ...
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Sashigane: The Fives Have It
This is an entry for Fortnightly Topic Challenge #44: Introduce a new grid deduction genre to the community
This is a Sashigane puzzle, where you divide the grid into L shapes.
Rules taken from ...
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Stuck on a minesweeper supposedly solvable through pure deduction
I'm playing minesweeper on a website that says you can win using pure deduction without guessing, and I am currently stuck in the top left corner of the map. It's a 30x16 grid with 170 mines and the ...
