Fun and challenging. Thanks!

That was awesomely difficult but incredible rewarding! Had a couple of false starts because I didn't get the "hint" about the yellow triangles at first...thanks! Will try more from you Zek the Mad!

The yellow triangles indicate which cells you need to complete to unlock the next part of the puzzle. Thanks for playing!

okay its awesome and all but my only question is what the hell are the little trangles on some squares my mind is on that too much haha (didnt complete it)

WTF man, you made me and my buddy actually think hard on this map.

Solved it. For a while I had the thermometers backwards and worked out what the first six numbers had to be, but the door wouldn't open. My brain naturally assumes the circle is the large end.

Thanks for checking! The setting website i use to make these (f-puzzles) does not have the german whispers constraint in it so i had to check those options manually and I worry that I missed some alternate solution somewhere

nevermind, when i went back to find the alternate solution i found only one. i think i was fooled by a german whispers line. i have to say very well done on making the puzzle logic that minimal.

I would be very interested in knowing what the alternate solution is! I try very hard to make these have unique solutions

love your puzzles, i do have a question though. are you aware that there are two solutions to this one once the puzzle fully opens up? otherwise i found this one to be very challenging, and the logic as you open it up is particularly interesting. great puzzle.

Definitely the hardest room so far! Just for some context I never had played Sudoku in my life until now as my friend and I discovered this alongside the community picks and wanted to give it a try. We genuinely had a good time and play another map of yours here and there. I did not expect the green light indicator to be on the final door and just expected it here again. God the amount of times I definitely went through the correct box. Would play again, 10/10.

I hate this mission. This is the most infuriating thing I have ever played. 10/10. Would recommend.

I have not seen other sudoku puzzles that unlock like this unfortunately, but maybe there are some out there. I mostly did it to introduce the variants in a way that could focus the player on the right place to start thinking about them, especially for people who had little to no experience with sudoku. Also, I didn't want to just have the whole grid out there because you might as well just have it in a browser player. I did not have any more specifically planned but making some in the future is not out of the question. Thanks for playing!

These puzzles are amazing. I love the way you unlock more and more of the sudoku, and i desperately want more of it. Are there other platforms that provide this "progressive" way of solving Sudoku´s? I´m only able to find more traditional full sudokus

fug

This was amazing! thank you so much for this

@rosie, there are indicators on the door for each novemnet.
(heh quadrant is 4 for quadttuor is four in latin. Sudoku is 9 segments with novem being nine in latin)

If everything is correct, the door at the end will have 9 green lights and will open

how do i know ive completesd the puzzle correctley

Look forward to your next map! I really like it!!!!!!

@Entrian I do use f-puzzles.com to help me construct them. Mainly I figure out what theme i want and what order I want the boxes to be revealed and start there. I then try to build a logic path from that point and work my way around the grid. I try to start with a simpler logic trick for each of the variants in the first box to introduce them. Since I am building the logic path, I can mark the cells that are deducable and have them unlock the next area. The last 2 or 3 boxes are just adding some constraints to make the puzzle unique

I think zek uses f-puzzles.com

@Entrian There are various tactics one can use.

One method is outward in. Where one is takes a randomly generated Sudoku puzzle (or one you made by hand) and try to pattern match by hand where the additional rules go. Then you remove all the numbers and measure what is the bare minimum one needs to know to proceed to the next sections.

Another is inward out, where one just deferentially makes up a puzzle as they go along and are keen to not break any assertions along the way.

Puzzle making definitely is an interesting craft, and sometimes machine generated puzzles just can't compare to some clever rules people come up with. Sometimes just messing around with it and testing it thoroughly is a good way to go.

It turns out to be a really interesting and non-trivial problem to create good Sudoku puzzles.
https://www.sudokuwiki.org/Sudoku_Creation_and_Grading.pdf
https://gamedev.stackexchange.com/questions/56149/how-can-i-generate-sudoku-puzzles

How do you generate these?

It seems a bit more difficult than just generating a sudoku puzzle as you have to ensure it is sufficiently solvable as the clues are unfolding.

you make great sudoku maps! looking forward to the next one!! (if there is one, i'm hoping so)

good!

9/9

Another great puzzle

Glad you liked it! You cannot let people change elevation in the editor currently, so to do what you suggested I would have to move the entire level around the player, which would be possible but not easy and not really great in multiplayer

very fun map, but the end is very unsatisfying because you cant walk upstairs to the door
otherwise very fun tho, was fun.
9/10 was fun

honestly the most fun i have doing sudokus in a long time

Another fantastic Sudoku map! Loved it, had to start over as we made a mistake.. Got there in the end though!
Cant wait for the next one ;)

I love variant Sudokus and this was a BLAST! Solved it in coop, sooo much fun :) Thank you so much for creating this!

Thanks for answering my question and for this awesome map. Really enjoying it so far.

the green light was moved to the final door in this one!

Does the green light appear when a box is solved?? Maybe I'm trippin.. or wrong :P

Another great Sudoku map, keep em coming!

Love your maps! I've just finished this one with my bf (yes, the one that commented previously). Please keep making these. They are so fun!

The sudoku rules apply to the whole grid, all 9 3x3 boxes, so each row and column and box each have the digits from 1 to 9, once each. So the scenario you described would not be valid. Since you cannot see the whole grid from the start you have to work with the rows and columns that you can see at the time. You will not be able to fill in all of each box necessarily the first time you unlock it! Thanks for playing!

great sudoku room as always!

Something that is confusing me. Do the sudoku rules only apply to the individual 3x3 grids or do they also apply to other connected 3x3 grids? For example, if I put a 3 in row 1 column 1 of the first 3x3 grid (with the yellow tiles), can I also put a 3 in row 1 column 1 of the second 3x3 grid (the one with the blue tiles) or is that not allowed because there would be two 3s in the column?

INCREDIBLE MAP!!! Sooo well made! Awesome work as always man!

Glad you enjoy them!

Your sudoku maps are my religion, man. Me and my girlfriend love to solve them!

Check the guide if you want to see the logic path I intended for that section! Also, feel free to ping me on the official discord if you have any other questions

I don't think the assumptions you need to solve the Pink section are all there when I went to fill in the 7/8 as the last numbers I didn't have (or could not see) any information in order to deduce which went in which space . I very much enjoyed the difficulty however.

I have changed the color of the torch like I did the wheel so hopefully it is more obvious. Thanks for playing!

Amazing map, love your work!

thank you very much so funny !

Indeed harder than the previous maps. and then there's the stupid clickable torch that opens the wall !!!