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World Snooker Championship Sudoku

Added 2021-05-03 22:45:14 +0000 UTC

We're delighted to share a bonus solve with you of a puzzle apiyo made to celebrate the World Snooker Championship - which will finish tonight at The Crucible Theatre, Sheffield.

This puzzle has a LOT of rules, befitting the great game that inspired it! You can watch Simon attempt it at the video link below but do give it a try too on the puzzle link :)

Link to play the puzzle:

https://app.crackingthecryptic.com/sudoku/H92HDh76fR

Rules:

Normal Sudoku rules apply. The 6 coloured circles represent the coloured balls on a snooker table in their opening configuration. Each contains the digit corresponding to its points value in snooker. The two white circles in box 2 represent 2 cue balls. Each is snookered behind a ball whose colour is to be determined, represented by a grey circle. Each grey circle has a value from 2-7. Emanating from each cue ball is a green line indicating its path to escape the snooker and hit the triangle of red balls. Both green lines terminate at the white circle in box 8. Digits may not repeat along each escape path and must not include the value of the snookering ball. The grid contains the letters of SNOOKERED and CTC, representing all the digits 1-9. The four digits in the red triangle must sum to 15 (ie the number of red balls on a snooker table). The letters RE and C outside the grid indicate the sum of the digits along the bottom diagonal sections of the green lines sandwiched between the 1 and 9 (ie there must be a 1 and 9 on these bottom diagonal sections). Digits in the 6-cell cage must be different and, when read as three stacked 2-digit numbers, must sum to 147, aka a Maximum Break in snooker.

Simon's solve:

https://youtu.be/sIb2oaoNxZo