Thursday, 6 January 2022

clover!

It's been a strange week. I keep getting these incomprehensible messages from other setters, like 'help, I woke up with a headache in the wrong channel and I don't know how I got here!' and 'I'm having strange urges to post a 16x16 kropki that can only be solved in hexadecimal!' and 'help me, clover, I got sucked through this weird pulsating portal to the puzzle dimension and this is my only chance to make contact with someone on the other side and get rescued!'

Oh well, there's no way to know what they're talking about, but I guess it's on me to continue providing the good old fashioned sudoku content you've come to expect while they straighten out whatever's going on over there! I found this funny-looking sudoku in the lint trap of the dryer after cleaning the duvet covers this weekend - it seems to have gotten a bit battered, but I know you'll give it a warm welcome. 😊

Today's GAPP is a kakuro!

Rules: place digits (which all have to be from 1 to 9, no zeroes) in the white squares in the grid so that digits that see each other don't repeat. (But, digits can repeat within the same row or column, as long as there's a grey square in between them.) Each clue gives the sum of the digits that it sees in a straight line: a clue at the top right of its cell sees the line of digits to its right, up to the next grey cell; a clue at the bottom left of its cell sees the line of digits below it, up to the next grey cell.

For a speedy sloth, finish within 3:00. For a quick crab, finish within 7:00. All other solvers will earn an unconcerned umbrellabird. 🐦

today's example puzzle: https://git.io/JSUWX

today's GAPP: https://tinyurl.com/2p96s8th