CtC 600k free pack - Update
Added 2024-06-23 22:22:24 +0000 UTCThere is yet another new puzzle added - it's from Florian Wortmann! Re-download the pack on the link below to see it (and there is a solution-included version of the Tallcat puzzle too).
Stop press! Michael Lefkowitz (Juggler) has just sent us a hilarious puzzle to add to our free 600k pack, and we have done so! The document attached here contains the new puzzle (and an important correction to the printed rules in James Sinclair's puzzle - the linked sudokupad version was correct all the time).
Please do check out Michael's "Party of 600,000", even if you just read the rules!
Simon & Mark
Comments
Phistomefel's creation is outstanding, notwithstanding that everything else is magnificent.
Paolo De Leva
2024-07-20 08:14:27 +0000 UTCIs anyone able to share an approximate 1-5 star difficulty for each of these please? My simple mind couldn't do more than a 3 star but promise I'm not offended if they're all harder than that 😅
David Werran
2024-07-19 08:14:57 +0000 UTCGot it! My brain simply rejected to think about the obvious remaining possibility...omg
koXx
2024-07-11 09:24:57 +0000 UTCIt's tricky to think of a hint that doesn't immediately give it away. For now, I'll just say think very carefully about how the age limit rule is worded. I can give a stronger hint if requested, but I don't want to spoil it.
Richard Smith
2024-07-06 11:23:21 +0000 UTCI don't understand the "Party of 600000" puzzle. I always end up with the case that whatever digit goes into the >18 cage also goes into the >1 cage. This directly violates the sum of 6 constraint outside the grid. Checking the solution seems to be fine until that point so I don't see what I am doing wrong....anyone else with that issue?
koXx
2024-07-05 17:16:10 +0000 UTCNevermind, I deleted all versions I had and re-downloaded it. Now it seems to be the actual updated version.
Sven
2024-06-27 16:10:44 +0000 UTCPlease help, how can I get the actual updated PDF file? Whenever I click on the download from this post it seems to still give me the version without the extra puzzle and with broken Puzzle from Lunatic that is not uniquely solvable :(
Sven
2024-06-27 14:28:23 +0000 UTCLots of fun puzzles here. Thanks and congrats!
Lars Smith
2024-06-27 06:46:16 +0000 UTCI also came across. Looking at the PDF
Martin Gustafsson
2024-06-26 02:53:39 +0000 UTCMaybe when updating the PDF you could put a version on the filename since we are now on version 3 or something like that and they have all had the same filename.
Lennart Sorensen
2024-06-25 21:25:36 +0000 UTCI noticed the PDF has actually been updated and now has a few more kropki dots which makes it solvable. Also adds another puzzle.
Lennart Sorensen
2024-06-25 21:24:14 +0000 UTCSame! I'm starting at my solution, but cannot find they issue with it. Mind that that might be me 😅 but you seem to have the same thing?
Jana Endemann
2024-06-25 21:23:05 +0000 UTCIn the PDF file, the rules do mention the RSL is blue, so I guess it's a typo in the sudokupad
Martijn Dorrestijn
2024-06-25 20:39:19 +0000 UTCThs puzzle by halfbakedlunatic is broken. It has two solutions with the current rules and the pdf rules mention X that is nowhere in the puzzle. Maybe there was supposed to be one to resolve the non unique solution.
Lennart Sorensen
2024-06-25 17:50:35 +0000 UTCI'm not sure how to interpret the rules of puzzle 3. Region Sum Lines are often blue and there's a blue line in the puzzle, but the other line rules mention a colour and the RSL rule doesn't. Does that mean it applies to all lines in this puzzle?
Steve Tregidgo
2024-06-25 17:37:11 +0000 UTC"Party of 600,000" was really fun! :)
Fernando Serboncini
2024-06-25 14:47:04 +0000 UTCThe party of 600,000 puzzle is hilarious, if the timing wasn't off, would be a great April's fools puzzle.
Wayne Somerville
2024-06-24 22:50:08 +0000 UTCI think that's the point of the puzzle, to experience a bit of confusion over the rules and then to work out what they must mean. I thought it was great fun, and I can't think of any better way to word it. Hint (maybe spoiler): If you're allowing for digits greater than 9, it doesn't matter how you choose to represent them. Maybe A=10, B=11, and 🚒=137,624. You can still add any group of them together. When you apply modulo 10 to the sum, you'll wind up with something from 0-9.
Quark Twain
2024-06-24 10:19:01 +0000 UTCThanks for the puzzles! Puzzle 3 by TallCat doesn't include a solution, so here is an updated link with solution check: https://sudokupad.app/fi9madwcgw
Quark Twain
2024-06-24 09:48:57 +0000 UTCThe description of "Party of 600,000" seems confusing. Calling anything other than 0-9 a "digit" and then referring to them as such in other rules may be technically logically consistent, but feels like it'd invite a lot of possible misreadings of the rules. Especially if part of the ruleset then talks about how to _actually_ get a digit from 0-9 to enter it in SudokuPad.
Franz Luggin
2024-06-24 02:35:06 +0000 UTC
