An enjoyable puzzle as ever from Marty Sears, 10:11 for me. Surprised it took you that long to spot the trick around the geometry of the fingers, one of the first deductions I made on placing a ring in R5C5
You say it's getting warmer, yet you have a fire in the background. Curious So many cool deductions in this puzzle! Solved it a while ago and happy to see it pop up again. The solve path is pretty clean if you do some more work with the 5s in the beginning. Once you get the 5s from the r5c5 ring, you know 5 must go one of the rings, and the only place it can go is r6c1
Good job on the solve, Kathy! I did this one a while back and found it really fun, some interesting deductions to make to solve it, and finished in 7:09 (conflict checker off). Many thanks to Marty for the fun puzzle!
My head exploded at 21:45 when you said R5C3 is the same as orange and then filled it with 1356. And I was hoping you'd see that with R5C3 being 16 and R6C4 being 13, the only common number was 1. Aside from that, this took me quite some time because I forgot the ring rule. I actually colored everything before finding even one number. I got stuck for the longest time until I read the rules again and was reminded that rings needed to be place as well and had my facepalm moment.
An enjoyable puzzle as ever from Marty Sears, 10:11 for me.
Surprised it took you that long to spot the trick around the geometry of the fingers, one of the first deductions I made on placing a ring in R5C5
You say it's getting warmer, yet you have a fire in the background. Curious
So many cool deductions in this puzzle! Solved it a while ago and happy to see it pop up again. The solve path is pretty clean if you do some more work with the 5s in the beginning. Once you get the 5s from the r5c5 ring, you know 5 must go one of the rings, and the only place it can go is r6c1
Good job on the solve, Kathy! I did this one a while back and found it really fun, some interesting deductions to make to solve it, and finished in 7:09 (conflict checker off). Many thanks to Marty for the fun puzzle!
My head exploded at 21:45 when you said R5C3 is the same as orange and then filled it with 1356. And I was hoping you'd see that with R5C3 being 16 and R6C4 being 13, the only common number was 1.
Aside from that, this took me quite some time because I forgot the ring rule. I actually colored everything before finding even one number. I got stuck for the longest time until I read the rules again and was reminded that rings needed to be place as well and had my facepalm moment.
This one was great fun. I love sudokus with zero given digits