Here’s another Anti-Chess sample puzzle: this one’s a bit harder than the last one. This one’s a HARD (4/5…BRAIN/IQ) Anti-King Killer (this puzzle was originally classified insane, but is actually easier than the insane puzzles in the book) Anti-King means that no two cells one king’s move move away from each other in chess can […]
The two anti-chess variants anti-knight and anti-camel cannot both exist on a sudoku grid with the standard 3×3 nonets, so I’ve removed the nonets!  In chess, a knight moves 2 cells horizontally and 1 cell vertically or vise versa. Since this puzzle is anti-knight, none of the red X’s below can contain a 5 because the center […]
Rules: Solve the puzzle so that the numbers in every horizontal and vertical region add up to the sum indicated for that region. Numbers CAN NOT be repeated in any region. Additional Rule: The yellow groups of 3×3 blocks contain the numbers 1-9 once and only once. Â It took me about 10 hours spread out […]
Djape has kindly granted me my own corner as well, which I will use to present my own hand-designed Saturday Specials. We’ll start things off with a big one. Samurai: This puzzle consists of 5 overlapping grids, which on their own don’t neccessarily have a unique solution, but together they do. X: Along the diagonal lines […]
