about 2 months ago - No comments
Jigsaw 6×6 puzzle 2Jigsaw 6×6 puzzle 1I just made some Jigsaw Sudoku puzzles for a book and had a couple spare which I thought I’d post here. Just place A to F once each into every row, column and bold-lined jigsaw shape.
about 1 year ago - No comments
Sudoku 6×6 puzzleJigsaw 6×6 puzzle
I had a couple of 6×6 Sudoku puzzles left over when making issue 58 of Sudoku Pro magazine, so I thought I’d post them here.
Just place 1-6 into each row, column and bold-lined area.
about 1 year ago - No comments
Sudoku 16×16 puzzle
And to complement the Killer Sudoku I posted a moment ago, here’s a 16×16 puzzle for those who like these. Just place 1 to 9 and A to G in each row, column and 4×4 box. Only “scan and place” logic is needed for this, I promise!
about 1 year ago - No comments
Samurai 8X puzzle
When I was making Sudoku Xtra 10 I wanted to put in a really big Samurai Sudoku puzzle. In the end because I had a square page area available beneath the instructions I went with a 13-grid one (just as a one-off to see what sort of reaction it got!) but I had More >
about 1 year ago - No comments
Killer Plus Minus Samurai puzzle
If you’re a Sudoku Xtra reader you’ll have seen these in their regular 9×9 form in both issues 5 and 6, but this is the first time I’ve made a Samurai one, and the first time I’ve posted one here I think.
This is essentially a regular Killer Sudoku puzzle, except that More >
about 1 year ago - No comments
Killer Sudoku Pro 6×6 Samurai puzzle
It’s been quiet here recently – much of my effort has been going on my UK General Election site, How To Vote, although Sudoku Xtra 6 was out on Saturday too. Anyway, there are still 10 days to go to the election but after that I’ll get some time back!
However I thought I should More >
about 1 year ago - 1 comment
Samurai 3-grid Calcudoku 6×6 puzzle
I’ve been posting a few new varieties of Sudoku puzzle in the daily puzzle section of PuzzleMix (i.e. the subscription section, which costs less than £1 a month for well over 1,000 puzzles a year). These aren’t especially unusual variations, but I’ve done a few different mixes (e.g. Sudoku-X 12×12 and More >
about 1 year ago - 3 comments
Toroidal Killer Jigsaw Toroidal puzzle
A while back someone asked for some variant toroidal patterns on PuzzleMix, so I was just adding a couple of them to the daily puzzles section when it occurred to me that I could put up a few toroidal killer sudoku too, for a change. However I then realised that the More >
about 1 year ago - 1 comment
Samurai Star XXXXX puzzle
I haven’t posted a puzzle for a week (it’s been a busy week, mind!) so it’s time to make up for that, just in time for the weekend.
In this puzzle the aim is pretty simple: place 1 to 9 in each set of 9 squares starting and ending with a bold line, More >
about 1 year ago - 2 comments
I wrote quite a lot yesterday about whether you “needed” the X in some Sudoku-X puzzles. I promised that I’d follow up with the result of analysing a stack of Killer Sudoku-X puzzles, and so here is that result.
I picked 64 Killer Sudoku-X puzzles (52 for the daily puzzlemix section plus 12 for the weekly More >
about 2 years ago
Hi Gareth
I am really enjoying these consecutive puzzles. I have completed them all now and of the star, the skyscraper and the two grid samurai, found the latter to be much more difficult than the others – a real challenge, but manageable in the end! (I’ve never looked into some of the complex solving strategies you mentioned, so was glad they weren’t needed!
Have you considered adding a pdf file of consecutive sudoku puzzles to those you can buy on your puzzlemix site? I certainly wouldn’t mind paying for some more.
Thanks for providing these puzzles. It’s good to get away from the more standard puzzles.
about 2 years ago
I’m really glad you’re enjoying the consecutive puzzles – as I wrote a few days ago I’ve always wanted to make them but have just never got round to it! I tried one from a World Sudoku Championships a couple of years ago and thought it was fun.
I think the great thing about consecutive sudoku – compared to non-consecutive sudoku (where all of the digits are non-consecutive) is that the consecutive constraint eliminates all except two (or one) other digit, which makes the puzzle much more tightly constrained, and therefore entertaining to solve (for me at least!).
Now I know for sure they really are fun (and it wasn’t just a fluke) a book of them sounds like a great idea. I could add them to puzzlemix.com as an online puzzle, but a downloadable/printable PDF is a great idea. I will look at doing that this coming week.
about 2 years ago
I really enjoyed this puzzle with the flower design and all of the other elements. I also like that you start with only 4 givens and explode from the center outwards.
about 2 years ago
Thanks for all your comments, Spittledung, on this and other posts. Yes, I think that the way Consecutive puzzles ‘flow’ from the start point is really attractive, and it makes the puzzle feel pleasantly ‘manageable’ as you solve. Of course, getting started can be a different matter!