Sudoku Badminton!?
824*** TODAY'S PUZZLE ***
The return of one of our favourite setters (and people in the CtC community) today in the form of Qodec - whose puzzle, Badminton, invokes something called a Parity Mirror to play havoc with our heads. This is quite seriously clever stuff. [Apologies for any issues with Audio/video quality - Simon is on his laptop for this solve.]
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Rules:
Normal sudoku rules apply. Odd-even parity is reflected across the diagonal running NW-SE. (For example: if R6C2 is odd, R2C6 must also be odd.) The other diagonal running SW-NE must contain the digits 1 to 9 once each. Digits along an arrow must sum to the digit in that arrow's circle.
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▶ Contents Of This Video ◀
0:00 Theme music & puzzle intro
2:14 Join Us On Patreon! Competition closing soon!
2:40 Happy Birthdays
5:30 Rules
7:55 Start Of Solve - Let's Get Cracking!
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You can input classic sudoku puzzles into our software and help support Sven, the programmer responsible for the wonderful user interface we all use to play these puzzles everyday. The app also comes with 12 handmade puzzles from us:
iOS:
https://apps.apple.com/us/app/svens-sudokupad/id1570622073
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ALSO on Amazon: Search for “SudokuPad”
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