Are you ready for this!? 🙂
After my first Multi Sudoku, here is another one… this time I labeled it “Loco Sudoku”, because, really, it is MAD! 🙂
Just as in the first Multi puzzle I posted, this is a Sudoku Samurai variation, where each constituent overlapping sub puzzle has different rules. This time they are extra special:
- The central sub-puzzle is Diagonal Sudoku.
- Top left is Frame Sudoku. IMPORTANT: the clues on the corners apply to the 3 closest numbers on the diagonal. However, this is not a diagonal sudoku puzzle! Keep that in mind!
- Top Right is Killer Sudoku.
- Bottom Left is Jigsaw Sudoku.
- Bottom Right is Outside Sudoku.
It doesn’t get much more crazy than this, folks! Gattai-5 sudoku multi variation puzzle!
Again… determining the difficulty of these puzzles is tricky. You need various skills to solve them. I labeled it IQ again, but it really isn’t too hard. Hopefully. 🙂
I really think this is the next big thing in the Sudoku world. What do you think?
I like the mix, it’s a unique challenge, which is cool. Only downside is that the solvers don’t support it. My typical solvers are jSudoku, SudoCue, & sudokuwiki.com, although I can’t find a working download link for SudoCue anymore so I don’t have it on my new machine, a shame since it’s the only one that does the alternate RN & CN boards.
Frame Sudoku is basically double-killer without innies & outies, still undecided if I like them or not
this is a really nice sudoku on its own. As long as I could get out of the jigsaw, the frame sudoku didn’t seem that unsolvable. Realy nice how it develops while solving it.
More of it! 🙂
ok, well having solved the jigsaw one fully, and the central one partially and the outside sudoku partially, I’m totally stuck… the killer jigsaw doesn’t seem solvable on it’s own and the frame sudoku, although I’ve solved >50% is not helping break into the central puzzle that much. Is there some particular trick in this one that is hard to spot? I’ve filled the remainder of the outside sudoku with candidates but it hasn’t helped….
In the book Loco Sudoku, what is the purpose and/or strategy of puzzle 15 on page 14?