Questions tagged [sudoku]
A Sudoku is a puzzle consisting of a grid to be filled with symbols, such that each constraining unit contains each symbol exactly once. The typical example is a 9x9 square to be filled with the numbers 1 to 9, where the constraining units are rows, columns, and 3x3 blocks.
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Double sudoku - two-digit numbers, the 1s and 10s places both form Sudokus [closed]
Using distinct 2-digit numbers from 11-99 that have no zeros, fill in the grid so that the tens digits form a Sudoku and the units digits form a (different) Sudoku.
There might be a mathematical way ...
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Escape from Sudoku!
An entry in Fortnightly Topic Challenge #50: Escape Rooms
I hesitated to enter this in the Escape Room FTC, but I definitely was inspired by the challenge to create this puzzle, and it is, in some ...
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Chessdoku Level 1 (beginner)
I just tested out a new type of puzzle here (sorry if there's any confusion with the titling) called Chessdoku! Welcome to level 1. Here's the grid:
Your goal is to get one black and one white piece ...
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Chessdoku Level 0 (trial)
Welcome to Chessdoku! It's like Sudoku but chess! This is level 0, so it's a trial run and will be fairly simple to solve (level 1 has been posted here). This puzzle is just for the concept. Here you ...
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Trivia… sudoku
An entry in Fortnightly Topic Challenge #49: Pub Quiz Camouflage
Please do not search the answers online (hence the no-computers tag), otherwise it would be too simple to solve this puzzle. I tried ...
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Checking for cheating in a Sudoku puzzle?
This may be a question for a Maths forum, but was wondering if anyone has ever seen something that may guide me to a solution.
I am writing a Puzzling Site at the moment, which will naturally include ...
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Wanted: Sudoku data in CSV
I am a computer science student looking for unsolved sudoku games that are valid and available in a comma separated text file. Does such a prepared data set exist and where can I find such a data set? ...
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Pento-Doku: Pentominous + Sudoku
Intended for Fortnightly Topic Challenge #47: Wacky Sudokus, but I was too slow making it... not for lack of trying, I assure you
This puzzle is both* a Pentominous and a Sudoku**.
Rules
Solve the ...
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A Final Digitial Sudoku! - SS#14
An entry in Fortnightly Topic Challenge #47: "Wacky Sudokus"
Other puzzles in this series
Welcome to the final puzzle in this series! For more information about the series, see the first ...
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This Sudoku Park iS LIT!
An entry in Fortnightly Topic Challenge #47: "Wacky Sudokus"
The grid below is a normal Sudoku grid with normal Sudoku clues, but the completed grid also houses a Statue Park! The completed ...
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Sudoku: Odd Bonds
An entry in Fortnightly Topic Challenge #47: Wacky Sudokus.
Edit: Clarified three of the rules.
Rules:
Normal sudoku rules apply.
Inside the sudoku, there exists one "loop".
The loop ...
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A Fractal Sudoku - SS#13
An entry in Fortnightly Topic Challenge #47: "Wacky Sudokus"
Other puzzles in this series
Welcome to the penultimate puzzle in this series! For more information about the series, see the ...
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Sudoku with no grid and no numbers!!? - SS#12
An entry in Fortnightly Topic Challenge #47: "Wacky Sudokus"
Other puzzles in this series
Welcome to the twelfth puzzle in this series! For more information about the series, see the first ...
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Sudoku in Technicolor!
An entry in Fortnightly Topic Challenge #47: "Wacky Sudokus"
This puzzle consists of three overlapping Sudokus, coloured red, blue and green, so each cell will contain three digits, one of ...
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10X10 Sudoku with a specific requirement
Let's have a 10x10 grid. We want to create a Sudoku in which, in each row, the pairs (a+b), (c+d), (e+f), (g+h), (i+j) add to one of the following numbers: 7, 9, 11, 13, or 15. Can you construct a ...
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This Sudoku takes a step up! - SS#11
An entry in Fortnightly Topic Challenge #47: "Wacky Sudokus"
Other puzzles in this series
Welcome to the eleventh puzzle in this series! For more information about the series, see the first ...
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Sjudoku II - A greater challenge in the world where 9 is 7
This is more difficult instance of a puzzle posted here.
Rules similar to Sudoku applies:
In each disk, the numbers 1,2,...7 should appear exactly once.
No line may contain duplicate digits (note ...
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Tackling The Triptych
Normal Sudoku rules apply. Numbers on thermometers must increase, starting from the bulb end. Killer clues indicate the sum of three digits in a cage, which cannot include repeated digits. In columns ...
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Sjudoku - in a world where 9 is replaced by 7
Sjudoku (sju = seven in Swedish).
Rules similar to Sudoku applies:
In each disk, the numbers 1,2,...7 should appear exactly once.
No line may contain duplicate digits (note that there are lines in 3
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An experimental sudoku
(Here is an experimental Sudoku created by me, however, the "box" constraint is not originally mine, but it'd be fun to try out this constraint.)
Rules:
Normal Sudoku rules apply.
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Ever heard of a W-Sudoku?
You may have heard of a type of Sudoku called an XV-Sudoku. In such a Sudoku, cells connected with an "X" must sum to 10 and cells connected with a "V" must sum to 5. In this W-...
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Sudoku Logic From Another Planet
This is the brutally hard Tatooine Sunset Sudoku puzzle by Philip Newman ... except the Noble Happy Star has goofed! Two of the digits have been swapped and there are multiple solutions. Fortunately, ...
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Suko-kulink (Sudoku, Suko and Slitherlink tri-brid)
Rules:
The lower part of the puzzle is a sudoku. Basic sudoku rules applied.
The upper and right of the puzzle are suko puzzles.
The numbers in circle and to the selected square has the same number ...
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Sudokus everywhere 2
Every 9x9 box is a valid sudoku, making 4 sudokus in all. Hopefully this one is a little more challenging than the previous one. I tried keeping the clues symmetric, but didn't quite manage. Enjoy!
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Sudokus everywhere!
Every 9x9 box is a valid sudoku, making 9 sudokus in all. I'm not sure how hard it is as I started solving it with just a few clues, then added more whenever I got stuck. Enjoy!
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A sudoku with only four given digits and some more rules
Ok so this is one of the hardest sudokus (and one of the best sudoku) I have ever seen, with only $4$ given digits. There are some more rules too :-
$(i)$ First, normal sudoku rules apply here.
$(ii)$ ...
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An odd looking Sudoku
Somewhat in the spirit of Stiv's This new puzzle type needs a name, can you solve this odd looking Sudoku and give it a name?
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Hero Wars RPG - The Sudoku!
In the popular online action RPG game Hero Wars, the player has to solve some simple but fun puzzles to win loot such as weapons and cash – assuming the incessant ads I’ve seen on Facebook are all ...
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Are there Sudokus that are so hard that no known logical deduction techniques can reduce it? [duplicate]
Are there Sudokus that are so hard that no known logical deduction techniques can reduce it? Maybe such a technique would reduce away multiple options?
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Will forcing chains break this sudoku puzzle?
I am trying to pick up advanced sudoku techniques by practicing with “difficult” puzzles as suggested by my sudoku app.
In this puzzle, I am stuck in the position as shown below. I think I can make ...
