Arrow Sudoku by Thomas Snyder
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Theme: Fountain
Author/Opus: This is the 221st puzzle from Thomas Snyder, aka Dr. Sudoku.
Rules: Standard Arrow Sudoku rules.
Answer String: Enter the 5th row from left to right, followed by a comma, followed by the 9th row from left to right.
Time Standards (highlight to view): Grandmaster = 4:00, Master = 5:00, Expert = 10:00
Solution: PDF
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7:25…What a delightful sudoku!!
This is one of those puzzles where the geometry of the puzzle sort of takes you by the hand and leads you through the solving path if you let it.
A really excellent puzzle.
I broke it several times after taking a really unpleasant approach to the puzzle, (trying to exhaustively enumerate options for some of the arrows and then whittling lists down due to incompatibilities). Clearly, I’m not quite careful enough to make brute-force strategies like that work.
So the puzzle made me instead slow down and make positive deductions one step at a time. When I did that, I actually found the solving path and it was very satisfying. So thanks, Thomas.
Who knows, maybe I’ll learn to do that more often and I might even start enjoying Sudoku?