Samurai SuDoku, Killer Sudoku and more

Here is another Kakuro variant: Consecutive Kakuro puzzle!

Rules: Solve the puzzle so that the numbers in every horizontal and vertical region add up to the sum indicated for that region. Numbers CAN NOT be repeated in any region.
Additional rules: If there is a thick vertical line between two cells, then the numbers in those two cells MUST BE CONSECUTIVE. If there is no such line, the numbers MUST NOT BE consecutive.

Consecutive Kakuro 12×12 for Thursday, July 31, 2008.

Unfortunately the “Play Online” Kakuro applet doesn’t support these extra features, so this puzzle can’t be played online.

Download the puzzle in your favorite format:

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These puzzles are also available to newspapers, magazines and other publishers. Be the first to have my Kakuro puzzles printed!

png solution – final

If you’re stuck on a puzzle, feel free to ask for advice in the Kakuro forum

Enjoy!

After a few weeks without Kakuro puzzles, this week I’ve prepared an extra special Kakuro puzzle: it’s a
Non-Consecutive, Greater/Less Than, Odd/Even Kakuro puzzle!

Rules: Solve the puzzle so that the numbers in every horizontal and vertical region add up to the sum indicated for that region. Numbers CAN NOT be repeated in any region.
Additional rules: Two consecutive numbers MUST NOT BE placed next to each other horizontally or vertically. Shaded cells MUST contain ODD numbers, cells that are not shaded MUST contain EVEN numbers. If there is an “<" or ">” inequality sign between two cells, then the numbers in those cells must respect that inequality relationship.

The puzzle should be relatively easy to solve because of all the additional restrictions. But it’s not too easy!

Kakuro 15×12 for Thursday, July 24, 2008.

Unfortunately the “Play Online” Kakuro applet doesn’t support all these extra features, so this puzzle can’t be played online.

Download the puzzle in your favorite format:

Find MORE KAKURO puzzles in the Kakuro category

These puzzles are also available to newspapers, magazines and other publishers. Be the first to have my Kakuro puzzles printed!

png solution – final

If you’re stuck on a puzzle, feel free to ask for advice in the Kakuro forum

Enjoy!

Djape has kindly granted me my own corner as well, which I will use to present my own hand-designed Saturday Specials.  We’ll start things off with a big one.

Samurai: This puzzle consists of 5 overlapping grids, which on their own don’t neccessarily have a unique solution, but together they do.

X: Along the diagonal lines in each puzzle, the numbers 1-9 may not repeat.

 This puzzle comes in two versions.  The first is IQ, the second is BRAIN (but less fun, in my opinion)

Download the IQ version by clicking on this thumbnail

Download the BRAIN version (created by filling in the remaining zero spots) by clicking on this thumbnail

solution – final

JSudoku file

To the best of my knowledge, no book exists with non-consecutive sudoku puzzles. Well, that’s about to change NOW!

I’ve prepared 150 Non-Consecutive Sudoku puzzles and put them in a book called “Non-Consecutive Sudoku Compendium”.
The book is available as an e-book (PDF) or a paperback and can already be purchased on lulu.com!.

(click on the cover page to go to lulu and buy!)

US $5.95 or £3.28 or €4.79 (PDF e-book)

(payable by PayPal or credit card)

In this book you will find:
- 20 8×8 Non-Consecutive Sudoku puzzles
- 20 classic 9×9 Non-Consecutive Sudoku puzzles
- 20 diagonal 9×9 Non-Consecutive Sudoku puzzles
- 5 classic and 5 diagonal Double Non-Consecutive Sudoku puzzles
- 10 classic and 10 diagonal TwoDoku Non-Consecutive Sudoku puzzles
- 10 Butterfly Non-Consecutive Sudoku puzzles
- 10 Flower Non-Consecutive Sudoku puzzles
- 10 Mini-Samurai Non-Consecutive Sudoku puzzles (each sub-puzzle is 6×6 in size!)
- 5 Ring Non-Consecutive Sudoku puzzles (4 in 1)
- 5 Samurai Non-Consecutive Sudoku puzzles
- 20 Killer Non-Consecutive Sudoku puzzles

Each variety is split into standard EASY – COOL – THINKER – BRAIN – IQ difficulty levels and there’s even one INSANE.

Hope you will like this!

……continued

So we have a famous old painting hanging in the Louvre and a quote from Chris Martin about how he was brought up a Catholic but rejected the religion.

Old painting + Louvre + Catholicism = DA VINCI CODE

Could there possibly a hidden meaning on the album cover?

In the quote about the Viva la vida song, Chris Martin mentions terrorists blowing up buildings ie; the 9/11 terrorist attack on the WTC in New York.

So, if you looked at the CD cover and happened to find an artistic representation of 9/11 it would be fair to say that it MIGHT be intentional. (check out the paint “splash” that is different from the rest)

If you then found another reference to New York on the album cover, it would be fair to say that it MUST be intentional.

Go find them!