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Weekly Kakuro (Cross Sums) #3

This puzzle requires you to use the “Innies/Outies” technique. I hope you are familiar with it. I might post an explanation of this technique soon. Rules: Solve the puzzle so that the numbers in every horizontal and vertical region add up to the sum indicated for that region. Numbers CAN NOT be repeated in any […]
Medium Hard Kakuro Puzzles Book

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The Law of Leftovers (LOL)

I promised to explain this technique, which applies to Jigsaw Sudoku (aka irregular blocks) puzzles, a while ago, so it’s time to keep the promise. You can find the same technique explained on various other sites, too. This technique is somewhat similar to innies/outies which is used for solving Killer Sudoku puzzles, but there is […]
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Butterfly Killer Samurai

You knew this was coming – surely the largest Killer Sudoku puzzle ever! It’s a Butterfly Samurai Killer puzzle! It 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 […]
Killer Sudoku Samurai: 65 puzzles (Volume 1)

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Samurai Killer

Here we go – Killer Samurai with full (quad) symmetry! Click on the puzzle thumbnail to access the puzzle. The first step (innies and outies) in solving it is here.
Killer Sudoku Samurai: 65 puzzles (Volume 1)

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Samurai Killer

Here we go – Killer Samurai with full (quad) symmetry! Click on the puzzle thumbnail to access the puzzle. The first step (innies and outies) in solving it is here.
Killer Sudoku Samurai: 65 puzzles (Volume 1)

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KILLER Samurai

At long last, I just uploaded my first ever Killer Samurai Sudoku. As all our other puzzles – it’s PERFECT ;). Why: 1. It has one and only one solution. If you claim differently – triple check all the rules that apply. 2. This solution can be found by logic only – no trial and […]
Killer Sudoku Samurai: 65 puzzles (Volume 1)

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Welcome new visitors!

Yesterday there was a post at blogs.guardian.co.uk about Killer Sudokus and a link to our site was posted. As a consequence, we’ve had some 600 referrals from that post within 12 hours (and overnight too)! I’d like to welcome our new visitors and to suggest them to go through the previous messages posted here – […]
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Puzzle difficulty

First of all, I posted a Killer X puzzle rated THINKER for today. I would like to know how difficult you find this one. Regarding the INSANE puzzle posted on Friday – I see that there has been a lot of discussion regarding it’s difficulty and the difficulty of some other puzzles posted last week. […]
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You Asked For It!

As promised, I just posted a puzzle with the rating that is currently in the lead in our poll. And that, apparently, is INSANE. This puzzle requires all Killer techniques + it requires some advanced classic Sudoku techniques (match subsets etc). It does not require trial and error! I hope someone will solve it without […]
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Complex innies/outies – part two

I saw two comments (by Graham and David) for the puzzle posted on October 25, and I think there’s a little clarification on “complext innies/outies” that should be made here. You should look for innies/outies in more than just one row/column/nonet. This is a good example of such puzzle. See this image: Click on the […]
Fiendish Killer Sudoku Book

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