Outside Sudoku
Here is something new (for this site) for the New Year: Outside Sudoku. This puzzle is also shown today on the Daily Sudoku page, but I thought I should properly introduce it.
The rules:
1. For the 9×9 grid all standard Sudoku rules apply. However, you don’t have any starting clues in there!
2. The clues are given outside the grid. 0, 1, 2 or 3 numbers are shown.
3. These clues tell you which numbers appear in the 3 closest cells in the grid, IN ANY ORDER (not necessarily in the order they are given in). In other words, the clues for a row tell you which numbers appear in the corresponding row and the closest nonet (3×3 box). Same for columns.
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I hope you will like it. I might start including them on the Daily Sudoku page, of course in some variant version (the non-consecutive type looks particularly interesting).
January 4th, 2010 at 2:18 pm
Something new, I do like it!
January 4th, 2010 at 7:48 pm
Cool! Took me about 1/2 hour or so to solve this morning. I’ve always liked non-consecutive puzzles in general, so an outside non-consecutive would be nifty.
January 11th, 2010 at 1:10 pm
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January 18th, 2010 at 8:16 am
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March 12th, 2010 at 1:55 pm
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July 21st, 2010 at 10:49 pm
I love outside sudoku – please have MORE!!!!!
December 22nd, 2011 at 5:12 am
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