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 on the puzzle thumbnail to access the puzzle.
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).
