tso wrote:Especially interesting would be a puzzle with letters rather than numbers that could NOT be solved with out using the additional information that a 9 letter word -- that is NOT given -- will be spelled out -- either in a specified row or anywhere in the grid.
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A real genius might create a Word Sudoku with DUAL solutions -- the word that is spelled out in one solution being an anagram of the one spelled in the other!
Hello all. Here's a stab at something along those lines. The puzzle has multiple solutions (I haven't yet checked how many!), but there are two solutions that form 9-letter words, top-left to bottom-right. The words revealed by these two solutions are anagrammatic. The puzzle is not (AFAIK) solveable by purely sudoku methods - you'll need to figure the word out to get sufficient cells to proceed.
Letters to use: A C E G L N O T U (one of these is a "spare" just to make things harder!)
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....NU.A.
......U..
N......E.
..N......
E.O...T.A
......N..
.N......O
..C......
.G.NO....
I don't think this is a very well put-together puzzle - there's no obvious starting point where one might apply normal sudoku rules. I'll spend some more time on this and try to come up with a more interesting grid.
An anagram-finder program would probably get you the answers in no time at all
Extra clue if required:
first and last letters of both words are c and e respectively-----------------------------------------------------------------
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