Tuesday, 5 December 2023

Walker

Here’s a walkthrough for Freddie’s Hotaru Beam: https://youtu.be/sOXtDSftWcI

As of a few weeks ago, puzzlink Skyscrapers, Doppelblock, and Easy as ABC now support interior given numbers/letters! Here’s a Doppelblock that aims to show off how outside and inside clues can work together. You’ll need to bridge the gap between the low and high digits!

Rules: Place a number from 1 to N-2 into some cells so that each row and column contains every number from that range with no repeats, where N is the side length of the grid, and shade the remaining two cells of each row and column. (So 1-3 for the example puzzle, 1-6 for the main puzzle). A clue outside the grid indicates the sum of the digits which appear between the two shaded cells in the corresponding row or column.

Interface Note: This puzzle includes both puzzlink and Penpa links; feel free to use whichever you prefer! I find shading easier in puzzlink and number placing easier in Penpa.

Try Freddie’s Doppelblock GAPP here: Discord message

Example (puzzlink): https://tinyurl.com/2t25kze3
Example (Penpa): https://tinyurl.com/ykelznkd

Solve in 3:30 or under for a Speedy Sloth! 🦥
Complete in 7:00 or under for a Quick Crab! 🦀
And all solvers who complete the puzzle will earn a Double Dunnock! 🐦

Puzzle (puzzlink): https://tinyurl.com/mv7sjxcv
Puzzle (Penpa): https://tinyurl.com/yvs3kb6u