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 - 1 comment
Killer Sudoku puzzle
Sudoku Xtra 11 is out now, but I’m holding off the announcement post until it’s available on Amazon.com too. In the mean time, here’s a Killer Sudoku puzzle.
Just place 1 to 9 in each row, column and bold-lined box. Each dashed-line cage should add to the given sum, and you can’t repeat a More >
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 - 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
I solved this one pretty quick – under ten minutes (didn’t time myself exactly), but I definitely enjoyed it. The 10×10 part wasn’t necessarily tough, but it did make for a nice change.
It’d be interesting to try a 10×10 Killer Pro puzzle.
And as for the single cages, I still think they are a little pointless
, though I don’t really mind them. In this puzzle it seemed like there were a lot of them. Maybe I’m imagining this.
Regardless, I like it. Nice work.
about 2 years ago
Yes, nice little twist having to get your brain used to different combinations of numbers, but as Andrew said it was pretty quick to solve. Thanks for all these new puzzles – a real change from the standard types.
about 2 years ago
I like killers, and this was a fun alternative. I completed it in a few minutes. Since only the “10″ value was added, I made that the single-digit Roman Numeral “X” to avoid writing in 2 values per square.
And speaking of double-digit values, I finally bit the bullet and bought your Sudoku Pro puzzle book.
I had trouble in the past justifying not completing the 8 or so pages of 16×16 and 25×25 sudokus that I don’t like (OCD that I am). However, I get much enjoyment from the puzzles here and puzzlemix that I’ll throw some support your way. Cheers.
about 2 years ago
Thanks very much for buying the magazine! In a previous couple of issues a year or two ago we removed the 25×25s entirely and had just two 16×16s, and believe it or not there were enough complaints that we had to put them back in! I guess if you want these puzzles they’re pretty hard to find published elsewhere.
If you complete all of the rest of the puzzles that’s pretty good going!
For anyone who doesn’t know what we’re talking about, click through to the Sudoku Pro magazine homepage – there’s a free 20-page sample you can download.
about 2 years ago
I admit this one was easier than I intended when I rated it – somehow I didn’t realise that testing it using only easy maths logic with hard Sudoku logic didn’t make much sense, since you could just use slightly more complex maths logic to bypass the hard Sudoku logic! If that makes any sense.
Obviously I was having a slow afternoon…