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Shifter Lines 117: Shifty Candy: gUBBLOR's Sunday candy

2 Mar 2025 · 1,290 views

XV Kropki
30:23

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Today's Video:

Those shifty candy's shifted in my mind somehow part way through the solve. A quick? recovery later for a smooth solve.

I am confident you guys can do better!

Link to Play:

Shifter Lines 117: Shifty Candy by gUBBLOR https://link.sudoku-sleuth.com/ShifterLines117

Rules:

Normal Sudoku rules apply. Place the digits 1 through 9 in each empty cell. Digits must not repeat within the same row, column, or box.

Shifter lines: Adjacent digits within the same box on a shifter line share both parity (even/odd) AND polarity (low/high). Whenever the line enters a new box either the parity OR the polarity shifts, never both. Shifter lines can never have 5 on it. Digits may repeat on lines.

Ambigous dots: There are dots of four different colors in the puzzle, and four different constraints. It's up to the solver to deduce which color is paired with which constraint. Each color has only one constraint it identifies as, but dots are allowed to act as more than one constraint. There are no negative constraints, and the dots could be any of these four;

1. X - Adjacent cells connected with an X must sum to 10. 2. V - Adjacent cells connected with an V must sum to 5. 3. Black Kropki dots - A black dot between cells indicates cell values with a 2:1 ratio. 4. White Kropki dots - A white dot between cells indicates cells with consecutive values.

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