Here is something new (for this site) for the New Year: Outside Sudoku. This puzzle is also shown today on the
Daily Sudoku variants page, but I thought I should properly introduce it.
The rules:
1. For the 9×9 grid all standard Sudoku rules apply. However, you don’t have any starting clues in there!
2. The clues are given outside the grid. 0, 1, 2 or 3 numbers are shown.
3. These clues tell you which numbers appear in the 3 closest cells in the grid, IN ANY ORDER (not necessarily in the order they are given in). In other words, the clues for a row tell you which numbers appear in the corresponding row and the closest nonet (3×3 box). Same for columns.
(click to download or right-click to save the image!)
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To see the solution to this puzzle click here
I hope you will like it. I might start including them on the Daily Sudoku page, of course in some variant version (the
non-consecutive outside sudoku type looks particularly interesting).
7 Comments
Something new, I do like it!
Cool! Took me about 1/2 hour or so to solve this morning. I’ve always liked non-consecutive puzzles in general, so an outside non-consecutive would be nifty.
I love outside sudoku – please have MORE!!!!!
Stravo,
still wait for a second Flower Sudoku/ or better flower/outside Sudoku book or new Zero/Killers. Oooohhh, please!!!! And without the “easy” and “cool” ones…again! And I have seen that you offer more Sudokus for kids now :o)) -and good for beginners too! If you would write that on the cover of the books too…..!Than you can leave out the boring “easy” and “cool” ones forever for “adults”…in the future!!!;o)
And you’ve pronounced some new books on amazon for the next months! Really urgent for me, cause I need new stuff !!!
Another important request: Have you ever seen the Killer-Sudokus, Stefan Heine created with “Killer-Sudoku 7 -ultrahardcore”??? They are handmade!!! And I know that you have a computerprogram only. But that’s the next step, and the best in the meanwhile. Your “IQ” Killers needs less than 10 to 15 minutes for me to solve them…looking football (US -soccer) in the meanwhile with father and son on the weekend…sorry! Think all your fans need more “hardcore”!!! We learned step by step…
Best regards
Tina
Tina, you surely know about this book, right? 🙂
http://www.amazon.de/Flower-Sudoku-Outside-variants-puzzles/dp/1480185388/?tag=djanet07-21
The green covered outside sudoku….. The problem is I have done it 5 times now. Cannot find another book like it. Is there any chance you will be doing another on only I am begining to remember certain grids.
Hi Karen,
Good news for you! 🙂 There already is a book with Outside Sudoku puzzles: Flower Sudoku and Outside Sudoku.
And even better: there is a new volume of the Outside Sudoku book coming very soon, in about a month! So stay tuned and you’ll know when precisely! 🙂
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