Wednesday 25 March 2020

PUZZLE NO. 45 : KILLER/LITTLE KILLER HYBRID

Another sudoku on COVID-19 theme. This time , a hybrid of killer & little killer. This sudoku gave me the maximum satisfaction of all the sudokus that I have made till now. First , the cages are in the shape of COVID. Secondly , the little killer clues are all 19. Thirdly , if you notice the sum of the cages that make up each letter of COVID , they are all related to 19. For example , the cages the make up C add up to 19 . O is made up of four cages . Two of the cages add up to 19 and the remaining two also add up to 19 . The cages the make up V , also add up to 19. The numbers in the cage denoting I add up to 19. The cages that denote D add up to 38 , which is twice of 19. It really took up a lot of effort to get this done. Hope you people will like it.


THEME - COVID19
RULES : Classic sudoku rules apply. Additionally , there are some cages in the grid. The number on the top left corner of each cage is equal to the sum of the numbers in that cage. Numbers do not repeat inside a cage. Also, numbers with arrows outside the grid indicate the sum of numbers in the corresponding direction. Numbers may repeat in the corresponding direction.

9 comments:

  1. 13:03..I hope my time is not too bad..There were quite a few tricky steps.Enjoying this "Covid" series Sudokus.Thanks !

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  2. Excellently designed too !

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  3. Good timing kishore and thx for ur feedback

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  4. Great sudoku, didn't time it, but it took a long time (30+ minutes) for me to solve it. But really enjoyed it.

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  5. 16:30, I usually like math variants

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  6. Nicely designed.Hard one for me.Required few tricky steps.Liked it.

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