Daily Kendoku (CanCan, SquareWisdom) #3

Some may not like the fact that today’s puzzle isn’t actually a SquareWisdom puzzle, instead, it’s actually a true hybrid between Killer Sudoku and Kendoku. Having implemented Kendoku puzzles into my solver&generator program, it was a no brainer to extend…

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Daily Kendoku (CanCan, SquareWisdom) #1

Today’s puzzle is a diagonal Kendoku variant. In addition to all other standard Kendoku rules, there is one extra for this puzzle: the numbers cannot be repeated on either diagonal, just like they can’t be repeated on any row/column. This…

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Saturday Special – Killer ACAN Square

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…

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Non-consecutive Butterfly Sudoku

After a few weekends without any special puzzles, now I present you with another Gattai-4 non-consecutive Sudoku puzzle. This time, it’s a (somewhat forgotten) Butterfly Sudoku variation. The 4 sub-puzzles heavily overlap, so be careful! Non-consecutive Butterfly (Gattai-4) Sudoku for…

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Non-consecutive Ring Sudoku (Gattai-4)

A few people have requested more non-consecutive puzzles and, as usual, I’m happy to fulfill your demands. This time is a Gattai-4 non-consecutive puzzle. Non-consecutive Ring (Gattai-4) Sudoku for Saturday, April 5, 2008. Difficulty: Brain Rules: Solve the puzzle so…

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