A Phistomefel-ian Miracle Sudoku
1,500** TODAY'S PUZZLE **
Dorlir is a maths professor by day but a sudoku wizard at night. He's managed to construct a quite ridiculous miracle sudoku using some ideas from recent Phistomefel puzzles. It is hard to overstate how beautifully this solves nor how other-worldly Dorlir's mind must be to come up with this stuff!!
Play the puzzle at the link below:
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Rules:
Normal sudoku rules apply. A border square is a 2x2 square that crosses at least one 3x3 box border. For all border squares exactly 2 digits are the same. The middle 3x3 box in the grid is a magic square i.e. the sum of digits in each row, column and main 3-cell diagonal in that box is N (where N must be determined by the solver). There are exactly N ‘friendly’ cells in the grid. A cell is friendly if its digit is equal to at least one of its row number, column number or box number. (Rows are numbered top to bottom; columns are numbered left-to-right; boxes are numbered in normal reading order.) Digits separated by a black dot must be in ratio 1:2 (ie one digit is double the other). Not all dots are necessarily given.
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▶ Contents Of This Video ◀
0:00 Intro music & puzzle introduction
1:55 The GCHQ Christmas Challenge
2:49 Maddy & Simon solve video
3:52 Streaming on Thursday
4:13 Happy Birthdays
6:50 Rules
10:30 Start of Solve: Let's Get Cracking
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