Rangst I just wanted to thank you for leading me to this type of sudoku! I started play sudoku earlier this year after finding your page from tiktok NTY games videos. I started playing this series a couple months ago and just started branching out to play other puzzles from Cracking the Cryptic. Can’t thank you enough for leading me to this new hobby and community!
I was a bit slow on this one in leveraging the roping created by a few of the entropic lines, but did make it through successfully with a time of 5:54. Many thanks to Gene for a really lovely puzzle, and to Rangsk for presenting it!
Fabulous way to end theme week for us Gene!! Great interaction with arrows and entropics!! @ 3:40 Rangsk..after you got the 6 in R3C6, by roping , it has to go on the entropic in r4, which then forces the 5 off it and into R4C4, which then gives you a 1 in R5C4 and 6 into R5C5. Liked how you deduced Box 5 arrow!! Arrow theme week was everything as advertised with all 7 puzzles featured!!!
Horizontal roping was my key in getting started. After finding that first 6 in r3c6, it forced a 6 in row 4 on that entropic line. This meant there couldn’t be a 5 on that entropic line, forcing it to be in r4c4, due to r5c6 being a 5 or less.
My break-in was along line 4. Since c123 have one of each highness, so do c456. That means their minimum is 135, plus a minimum of 1 in r5c4, means that r5c56 must total at least 10, with one degree of freedom. Then the 6 in box 4 places the 6 into box 6. Then knowing that r5c4 couldn't be a 6 meant that its arrow had to have the smallest two digits from among r5c456, which made them 14 adding to 5. My time today was 4:29, solver number 23.
I did it in 5mins. Rangsk, you could use powerful weapon, roping with entropic lines. There was a line row 1 column 1-3, meaning there is one low, one medium, one high, but also, it implicates the same for row 1 column 4-6, and for row 2 column 1-3, and for row 2 column 4-6 etc etc. You could instantly place 5 on r4c4, 1 on r5c4, 6 on r5c5 etc.
That one was a bit tricky! needed a hint about the circles looking into box 4. The entropic lines made for some interesting logic. The much easier way to deal with box 4 is to notice that that you can't have 5 and 6 in the same row in that box because of the entropy line in box 3 so the 5 must go in r4c4
Basically I got that 6 in R3C6 like you got, and that means that the entropic line in box 3 must have a 6, and that's the ONLY high digit on the line, which means that 5 must be in Row 3 of Box 3. Therefore, we know that 5 goes on one of the arrows in box 4 row 4, and if you tried to put it on the right most arrow you'd be forced to put a 6 in the corresponding circle, which doesn't work because that column already has a 6. So the 6 must be in R5C5, which also gives you a 6 in box 5 by roping The last bit of tricky deduction is that the R5C6 circle must be a 4 or 5, but it can't be a 5 because that would force a 6 into the R5C3 circle. The rest of the puzzle kind of flows pretty easily from there
Rangst I just wanted to thank you for leading me to this type of sudoku! I started play sudoku earlier this year after finding your page from tiktok NTY games videos. I started playing this series a couple months ago and just started branching out to play other puzzles from Cracking the Cryptic. Can’t thank you enough for leading me to this new hobby and community!
It's such a great hobby and a wonderful community!
I was a bit slow on this one in leveraging the roping created by a few of the entropic lines, but did make it through successfully with a time of 5:54. Many thanks to Gene for a really lovely puzzle, and to Rangsk for presenting it!
Fabulous way to end theme week for us Gene!!
Great interaction with arrows and entropics!!
@ 3:40 Rangsk..after you got the 6 in R3C6, by roping , it has to go on the entropic in r4, which then forces the 5 off it and into R4C4, which then gives you a 1 in R5C4 and 6 into R5C5.
Liked how you deduced Box 5 arrow!!
Arrow theme week was everything as advertised with all 7 puzzles featured!!!
Horizontal roping was my key in getting started. After finding that first 6 in r3c6, it forced a 6 in row 4 on that entropic line. This meant there couldn’t be a 5 on that entropic line, forcing it to be in r4c4, due to r5c6 being a 5 or less.
Good puzzle today.
My break-in was along line 4. Since c123 have one of each highness, so do c456. That means their minimum is 135, plus a minimum of 1 in r5c4, means that r5c56 must total at least 10, with one degree of freedom. Then the 6 in box 4 places the 6 into box 6. Then knowing that r5c4 couldn't be a 6 meant that its arrow had to have the smallest two digits from among r5c456, which made them 14 adding to 5. My time today was 4:29, solver number 23.
This is the intended break-in.
I did it in 5mins.
Rangsk, you could use powerful weapon, roping with entropic lines. There was a line row 1 column 1-3, meaning there is one low, one medium, one high, but also, it implicates the same for row 1 column 4-6, and for row 2 column 1-3, and for row 2 column 4-6 etc etc. You could instantly place 5 on r4c4, 1 on r5c4, 6 on r5c5 etc.
That one was a bit tricky! needed a hint about the circles looking into box 4. The entropic lines made for some interesting logic. The much easier way to deal with box 4 is to notice that that you can't have 5 and 6 in the same row in that box because of the entropy line in box 3 so the 5 must go in r4c4
17:39
I kind of used roping with the entropic lines to solve this puzzle (spoiler in reply)
Basically I got that 6 in R3C6 like you got, and that means that the entropic line in box 3 must have a 6, and that's the ONLY high digit on the line, which means that 5 must be in Row 3 of Box 3. Therefore, we know that 5 goes on one of the arrows in box 4 row 4, and if you tried to put it on the right most arrow you'd be forced to put a 6 in the corresponding circle, which doesn't work because that column already has a 6. So the 6 must be in R5C5, which also gives you a 6 in box 5 by roping
The last bit of tricky deduction is that the R5C6 circle must be a 4 or 5, but it can't be a 5 because that would force a 6 into the R5C3 circle. The rest of the puzzle kind of flows pretty easily from there
It took me 45 mins but I got the right answer, lol.