Varient

Notes on possible new logic puzzles

Varient

Postby Pi » Sat Apr 01, 2006 4:28 pm

Yo people

I have this new varient and am unsure if it has been done before

It is inequality-sudoku

Below is an example.

It would be great if someone could brute force it to check that it is not valid without the inequalities being taken into consideration
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Postby MCC » Sat Apr 01, 2006 4:39 pm

Reply no longer necessary, so have removed.


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Postby Ruud » Thu Apr 06, 2006 3:21 pm

Pi,

I checked your puzzle and 77 cells can be solved with naked singles only, not using the inequalities.

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Postby Pi » Thu Apr 06, 2006 6:50 pm

Thanks, i am working on creating some more of these puzzles, hopefully with less clues, i assume that it should be possible to make some with less than 17 clues
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Greater/Less Sudoku

Postby Pyrrhon » Thu Apr 27, 2006 10:44 am

Greater/Less Sudoku are not new you can find examples in
Ed Pegg Jr.'s article, in the rule paper of the 1st Sudoku World Championship (PDF) and on my sudoku variant page (look for Greater/Less Sudoku). There is also a similar puzzle type called Sudoku Chain.
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Re: Varient

Postby r.e.s. » Fri Apr 28, 2006 12:04 am

Pi wrote:It would be great if someone could brute force it to check that it is not valid without the inequalities being taken into consideration

You could keep just the one inequality between r9c4 & r9c5, and delete all the rest -- the puzzle would still have only one solution, and be very easy to solve. (But deleting them all would produce a puzzle with two solutions.)

Personally, I prefer the type of inequality puzzle in which all the digits are absent, and there are inequalities between adjacent cells within each box. Every completed number-grid converts of course to exactly one (possibly invalid) inequality puzzle of that type.

It might be interesting to try to make a variant of that kind, going one step further and deleting as many inequalities as possible -- with the intention of having a unique-solution puzzle with only blanks and a minimum number of inequalities.
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