Top Heavy Number Place by Serkan Yürekli

Top Heavy Number Place by Serkan Yürekli

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Theme: Sum of 24 in Both Halves

Author/Opus: This is the 67th puzzle from our contributing puzzlemaster Serkan Yürekli.

Rules: Fill the grid with digits from 1-6 (1-4 in example below) so that each digit appears exactly once in every row and column. When digits touch vertically, the upper digit must always be bigger.

Top Heavy Number Place by Serkan Yürekli

Answer String: Enter the values in each cell in the marked columns from top to bottom, using a capital X for blank cells. The example has the solution “412X3X,324X1X”.

Time Standards (highlight to view): Grandmaster = 4:15, Master = 5:30, Expert = 11:00

Solution: PDF

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  • James McGowan says:

    I think the top-heavy rule has good potential, I was starting to see interesting logic in the columns, especially when one blank remains to be found.
    But perhaps there needs to be a horizontal connection also, as currently the columns can be reshuffled in any order to give the ‘same’ puzzle.
    Could the top-heavy rule apply both horizontally and vertically?

  • I believe if we apply this rule for both, making this kind of puzzle would be hard. I prepared several of them which are based on just vertical rule, and even if I got one direction it was hard to get the puzzle. So I guess your suggestion will make it harder to prepare it. However we should try, and we should see what we’ll get.

  • skynet says:

    10:43.Tough and nice!

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