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Sound Charades
A new brain teaser posted by Count Duko in the forum. Feel free to participate in solving this one by following this thread.
Sound Charades is a game played on BBC Radio 4’s “I’m Sorry I haven’t a clue” in which the panelists perform “mimes” in the form of a verbal sketch which describes a film, TV show, book or song.
The ones here are all films or (British) TV shows, and most of them are pretty groanworthy Very Happy
1. TV, 1 WORD:
“Have you seen Dracula lately?”
“I think he’s suffering from depression. All he does is mope around in his crypt”.
2. FILM, 1 WORD:
“Hi Dave, sorry, Davina, how was your operation?”
“Fine, how about yours Brian?”
“A complete success, you can call me Penelope now”.
3. TV, 3 WORDS:
“Good evening, and welcome to the programme. Today our reporters will be visiting Italy and not eating any nice pasta dishes. In the studio we’ll be looking longingly at some spicy Thai food, and we’ll also have a round up of different ways to get maximum enjoyment from a glass of water.”
4. FILM, 1 WORD:
Look! There’s an opposite divided by a hypotenuse! Oooh! There’s another one!
5. TV, 6 WORDS:
Listen up, children – this is your Careers Officer. Today we’re going to learn about jobs in the fashion industry. Each of you must choose a “job for the day” in this field.
Which of you would like to take the role of a fashion photographer?
Thankyou. Now, hatmaking…”
Clueless Sudoku
Here is another Sudoku overlapping puzzle variation. As far as I know, it was invented by Ruud from www.sudocue.net – please correct me if I’m wrong.
So I thought I should give it a go at creating one such puzzle – and of course I had to add something to it. So, my variation is Clueless X. There are 9 classic Sudoku X puzzles with no overlapping regions! If you attempt to solve them individually – you won’t get far: none of those 9 puzzles has a unique solution.
Here is where the “clueless” part comes in: in all of those 9 puzzles, the center nonet has no starting clues. As you plug in your numbers, center nonets (shaded in grey) start filling up. The trick is that those 9 center nonets, put together, also constitute a valid Sudoku X puzzle. So, when you run out of ideas, start working on the 10th puzzle and it will give you enough information to solve the whole lot. Those 10 puzzles together have, of course, a single solution.
Clueless Sudoku X for Thursday, April 6 – this is the only place you can find these kind of Sudoku puzzles!
Click on the puzzle thumbnail to access the puzzle.
Posted in Free sample puzzles, Sudoku Variants
Tagged Classic Sudoku, Clueless Sudoku, IQ, sudoku x
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Weekly Sudoku Samurai X
Samurai Sudoku X for Tuesday, April 4 – this is the only place you can find these kind of Sudoku puzzles!
Basically, not only do you have to fight against 5 interconnected Sudokus, but you also need to be careful about the diagonals: ALL diagonals in the puzzle must contain one occurrence of each 1-9 digit. The diagonals are marked in the puzzle so you wouldn’t forget about them.
Click on the puzzle thumbnail to access the puzzle.
Posted in Free sample puzzles, Samurai sudoku
Tagged samurai, Samurai Sudoku, Sudoku Samurai, sudoku x, Weekly Sudoku Samurai
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www.djapedjape.com features on ProBlogger
Darren Rowse, the man behind www.problogger.net is running a case-study series about blog sites. I submitted the story about www.djapedjape.com and how it all started – and guess what – Darren posted my story as the first case study!
If you’re interested you can have a look here: Killer Sudoku Blogger – Blog Case Study.
By the way, Darren has become well-known in the blogging world. He’s running a number of blogs on different topics and has become famous as a “six-figure blogger”. Figure out what that means.
Thanks Darren!
Greater than Sudoku
This Weekend’s special is a brand new Sudoku puzzle that I have never posted before.
It’s a greater/less than sudoku variant. All standard sudoku rules apply. You don’t have any numbers to start with, instead, there are clues which cells contain numbers that are greater/smaller than the numbers in adjacent cells. I’m sure you’ve seen these before. If you haven’t – well, give them a go, they can be a lot of fun.
If you don’t know where to start, here is a hint: if a cell is, for example, greater than 3 adjacent cells, it means that the smallest number it can contain is number 4! Vice versa: if it is smaller than 2 adjacent cells – the largest number that it can contain is 7!
UPDATE:The puzzle that you can download by clicking on the grid below is a Samurai “greater than” Sudoku puzzle! I decided to create another type of Sudoku puzzle that is uniquely available on this site.
Click on the puzzle thumbnail to access the puzzle.
Of course, you can still download my first “greater than” (9×9) here:
9×9 greater than Sudoku
9×9 greater than Sudoku – solution
Please do post your comments, especially on how difficult you find these puzzles. You can do that either via the comment form.
Thanks!
Posted in Free sample puzzles, Sudoku Variants
Tagged greater than, greater/less, IQ, rules, samurai, standard sudoku, Sudoku Variant, UPDATE, variant
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Double Harakiri Sudoku X
More unique Sudoku puzzles that you’ve never seen before – for die hard fans of big Sudoku puzzles, here is another one – Double Sudoku Harakiri X!
There are 13 classic sub-puzzles, which of course don’t have their own (unique) solutions but all together constitute a puzzle with a single solution. This time, however, you must also pay attention to diagonals: ALL diagonals in the puzzle must contain all numbers from 1 to 9. The diagonals are marked in the puzzle so you wouldn’t forget them.
Click on the puzzle thumbnail to access the puzzle.
Thoughts and comments are most appreciated (as always)!
Posted in Free sample puzzles, Samurai sudoku, Sudoku Variants
Tagged Double Sudoku, harakiri, HARD, IQ, Sudoku Harakiri, sudoku x
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Weekly Sudoku Samurai X
Samurai Sudoku X for Tuesday, March 28 – this is the only place you can find these kind of Sudoku puzzles!
Basically, not only do you have to fight against 5 interconnected Sudokus, but you also need to be careful about the diagonals: ALL diagonals in the puzzle must contain one occurrence of each 1-9 digit. The diagonals are marked in the puzzle so you wouldn’t forget about them.
Click on the puzzle thumbnail to access the puzzle.
Posted in Free sample puzzles, Samurai sudoku
Tagged samurai, Samurai Sudoku, Sudoku Samurai, sudoku x, Weekly Sudoku Samurai
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Butterfly Killer Samurai Sudoku
Weekend Special: Butterfly Samurai Killer Sudoku with diagonally adjacent cells!
This puzzle consists of 20 (twenty) 9×9 Sudoku sub-puzzles. There are 5 groups of 4 puzzles. Each group of 4 is arranged Butterfly-style, and those 5 groups are arranged Samurai-style.
Please make sure you understand how the puzzles are arranged before attempting to solve the puzzle.
Also, be careful when solving this one – with diagonally adjacent cells it’s sometimes easy to miscount the number of cells in a cage and if you do that, you get the cage-sum combinations completely wrong!
Click on the puzzle thumbnail to access the puzzle.
Enjoy!
Swordfish
A while ago I explained the X-Wing solving technique.
Recently I shown my explanation of other basic, Classic Sudoku solving techniques.
The only remaining solving method that I don’t consider trial and error is Swordfish. So, to complete the list of Sudoku solving tips, here is an example of a Sudoku puzzle that can be solved using Swordfish.
Here is the puzzle:
This is how far you can get without using Swordfish: Read More
This is how far you can get without using Swordfish: Read More
Posted in Solving tips
Tagged Classic Sudoku, IQ, Perfect Sudoku, solving technique, solving tip, solving tips, sudoku solving technique, swordfish, technique, x-wing
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