Star Battle by Ashish Kumar
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Theme: Comet
Author/Opus: This is the 80th puzzle from our contributing puzzlemaster Ashish Kumar.
Rules: Standard Star Battle rules. Two stars per row, column, and region.
Difficulty: 3.5 stars
Time Standards (highlight to view): Grandmaster = 4:00, Master = 6:30, Expert = 13:00
Solution: PDF; a solution video is also available here.
Note: Follow this link for other classic Star Battles and this link for Star Battle variations. If you are new to this puzzle type, here are our easiest Star Battles to get started on. More Star Battle puzzles can be found in The Art of Puzzles, in the books Star Battle by JinHoo Ahn and Star Battle 2 by JinHoo Ahn and Murat Can Tonta, and in our beginner-friendly collection Intro to GMPuzzles by Serkan Yürekli.
Some deep logic … some deep trial and error 🙂
Was happy to use some of the ideas drsudoku showed in solve videos from earlier in the week, but the second half was still quite difficult!
Solved 8min but at half the puzzle had to bifurcate and try 2 routes, will wait for the video to know how to solve this logically!
13mins.Tough but had did a logical solve.
6.02 mins to solve this without any guess. However, watching the solution video for this tricky Star Battle puzzle will be interesting.