The New Sudoku Players' Forum

[udosuk]

There is this new variant from the Sunday Times:

www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,18209-2337707,00.html

But the puzzle is disappointingly too easy. Converted to digits it's one with a unique solution, solvable using singles plus a couple locked candidates/naked pairs... Ideally it should be one with multiple solutions and the readers should be required to use info from the anagram to decide which solution to pick...

Anyway here is the puzzle/solution in tiny fonts:

..IH.EG..
.S.....C.
E...N...H
R...G...A
..AR.HI..
N...S...R
I...E...C
.A.....S.
..SG.NR..

CNIHAEGRS
ASHIRGECN
EGRSNCAIH
RHCNGISEA
SEARCHING
NIGESACHR
IRNAESHGC
GAECHRNSI
HCSGINRAE

With the secret word being "SEARCHING"...

[MichalStajszczak]

This puzzle can be solved without sudoku, only by permutation of 9 letters.
I suggest putting the solution on the diagonal - the letters can repeat in the solution.

[udosuk]

If you treat them like anagram (letter scrambling) puzzles than the sudoku puzzle is totally irrelevant... But I suppose part of the fun is to find the anagram via the sudoku puzzle instead of scrambling the letter yourself!

The target anagram for the 2nd godoku is triangles... I think I don't need to post the solution to the whole puzzle here (it's solvable using locked candidates/naked pairs)...