Saturday Special - Extra Groups Kakuro
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 Rule: The yellow groups of 3×3 blocks contain the numbers 1-9 once and only once.
It took me about 10 hours spread out over a week to design this one. I tried to keep the difficulty and variety high. Enjoy!
Size: 14×14 Difficulty: INSANE
Download the puzzle by clicking on the thumbnail below
No PDF version is available.
Extra groups are not implemented or shown in the online version, so you will have to remember where they are based on the image.
Killer Sudoku fans
August 3rd, 2008 at 9:36 pm
Thanks h3lix - great puzzle. I especially liked having to discover and then apply the new techniques necessary to solve it.
August 4th, 2008 at 5:15 pm
Like wellbeback said, great one. But since you’ve provided the solution pic, and I don’t have the energy for a walkthrough, there’s not much I can post here.
So next time I suggest you to keep the solution unpublished for a few days.
August 4th, 2008 at 8:55 pm
That would be a good idea. I was modeling my posts after djape’s since he posts solutions along with the puzzles.
Thanks for the feedback!
August 5th, 2008 at 12:50 pm
A walkthrough and/or some of those new techniques would be great. Only way to learn!
August 6th, 2008 at 6:54 pm
I take an opposite view to udosuk - I like the solution together with the puzzle so I do not waste time chasing ghosts (mistakes…)and getting frustrated
August 7th, 2008 at 11:19 pm
David has a good point, and I suppose it would be a bigger inconvenience for someone who is stuck or made a mistake somewhere to not have the solution than for the solution to be available.
However, it would be fun to have a competitive aspect to the saturday specials
Charmommom, I have posted the beginning of a visual walkthrough here:
http://www.djape.net/sudoku/forum/viewtopic.php?p=9532
August 9th, 2008 at 1:33 pm
Okay, points taken. I agree the solution might need to be there…
My competitiveness is sometimes unreasonably high, once in a while in four years.
August 9th, 2008 at 2:43 pm
I guess I’ll leave the solution on then until I can think of a prize and a puzzle that can’t be solved with any known solvers, like mike’s variant.
August 23rd, 2008 at 6:38 pm
more non consecutives