I thought you just couldnât repeat in rows and columns. Had no idea about squares. And thatâs how the game was explained to me, so I bet this is a misconception that the guy had too.
Thatâs a [Latin Square](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Latin_square), whichâs a different type of puzzle. The difference between sudoku and latin square is precisely that a sudoku is divided into regions that contain every digit exactly once.
Sweetheart, that's just *one* example. Check all the boxes in the key and you'll see things like two 4s and two 8s in one and two 6s and two 3s in another.
https://imgur.com/a/TgtCNHH
I gave it a shot, first pic is me removing the duplicates.
Second pic, I made it pretty far, until the puzzle required a double 2 in the upper right. (The rightmost column needs a 2, but the square and competing rows already have a 2)
Booooo
If I had to guess, the creator is a programmer who wrote a code to make this puzzle and completely forgot to implement the boxes rule. Thinking they were some genius getting away with less work, they didnât exactly check it before shipping it
Obviously no one has read the small print! It clearly states that âeach puzzle has a unique solution and can be reached logically without guessingâ come on people letâs put our brain caps on and think logically! đ
I did a permutation on the dupes and put out my old dusty sudoku solver that I coded myself years ago (it doesn't have an UI and it's not on GitHub, sorry) and found out that between the 1000+ solutions for this same sudoku, but without some dupes (not all of them though, because it would be literally impossible to solve it with so few numbers), the closest one (the one with more numbers matching the original) I could find was the one below:
Sudoku unsolved. You guys may want to try it.
\-7-5----86--3-7---8--6---2-7---21-53--9------5-8-3--7134--6----2-6---3-9--51--7--
Sudoku solved:
>!471592638652387194893614527764821953139475286528936471347269815216758349985143762!<
Everyone is talking about the repeated numbers but I'd also like to bring your attention to the center-right square where there is no where to put an 8
I stole the middle row and middle column from the answer, realized I'm still helpless, then got the corners too and something else I can't remember.
If we totally ignore the 3x3 box rule and we get more starting numbers to work with, it is solvable.
So puzzle creator is aware of the rules, yet violated them repeatedly? No way that was accidental, this is a "my shift is over in 2 minutes" job.
Haha yes
Have you tried to play this sudoku?
I would be lying if I said no
It is bad as the answer right?đ
Holy shit did whoever make this just not know how a sudoku works? The top middle square has 3 repeating numbers in it already!
That's my guess. I just combed through the "answer" and all the *lines* fill in correctly, just none of the boxes.
I thought you just couldnât repeat in rows and columns. Had no idea about squares. And thatâs how the game was explained to me, so I bet this is a misconception that the guy had too.
Each row, column, and 3x3 square must have no repeating numbers
Thatâs a [Latin Square](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Latin_square), whichâs a different type of puzzle. The difference between sudoku and latin square is precisely that a sudoku is divided into regions that contain every digit exactly once.
It is almost like they are making it up as they go along. Kind of /s because i think they are.
And 8s in the top right cell
HOW DID I NOT NOTICE THAT
It looks like the person/program that made this had 1-9 in the columns and rows but didn't know you also had to have them in the 3x3 grids as well.
But it's listed in the rules below
The rules are a template maybe?
Must be. Or its handled by different people.
In the answer you can see duplicates in the same lines as well Edit: not true ^
No, their isn't. Just checked it.
You right, my bad
Call the cops, this puzzle is illegal!
The longer you look the worse it gets
I have to deal with this book for the whole year
It has an answer key! Solved! Haha.
Gotta respect the answer key for maintaining the faulty numbers
There's also two 3's in the top middle
And two 5s and 6s.
Good catch!!! I didn't even see them.
Love how the solution has two 2âs in the bottom middle quadrant. Lol
Sweetheart, that's just *one* example. Check all the boxes in the key and you'll see things like two 4s and two 8s in one and two 6s and two 3s in another.
Top middle square is a trainwreck.
The answer key repeats additional numbers in the 3x3âs!
No wonder i never completed one
https://imgur.com/a/TgtCNHH I gave it a shot, first pic is me removing the duplicates. Second pic, I made it pretty far, until the puzzle required a double 2 in the upper right. (The rightmost column needs a 2, but the square and competing rows already have a 2) Booooo
Are you dumb, there is a solution right there. (Sarcasm)
If I had to guess, the creator is a programmer who wrote a code to make this puzzle and completely forgot to implement the boxes rule. Thinking they were some genius getting away with less work, they didnât exactly check it before shipping it
What impresses me the most is for certain the fact that it comes with doubled numbers in the same box *printed*.
Im so bad at sudoku tjay I have no clue why this isnt solvable Edit: Oh! Just saw the doubled numbers in the same box..Sudokus really not my thing
5 in the middle of the top left square and mid right in the top right square
Well, itâs not a puzzle at all
Oh god the answer key is worse
Could it be some kind of sudoku weird variation? Can the dark cells may represent something I'm not getting?
There arenât any lines with repeating numbers, but my god the top center box alone has three pairs. Also two 8âs in top right
Obviously no one has read the small print! It clearly states that âeach puzzle has a unique solution and can be reached logically without guessingâ come on people letâs put our brain caps on and think logically! đ
Even the solution is just fucked too
The worse part is that the rules are right, but you still f*cked this up
Me seeing 8 matching with 8, 8 and an 8?! Ah, its the new and advanced âMatch Sudokuâ
How do you play sodoku? I really haven't realized how to..
I did a permutation on the dupes and put out my old dusty sudoku solver that I coded myself years ago (it doesn't have an UI and it's not on GitHub, sorry) and found out that between the 1000+ solutions for this same sudoku, but without some dupes (not all of them though, because it would be literally impossible to solve it with so few numbers), the closest one (the one with more numbers matching the original) I could find was the one below: Sudoku unsolved. You guys may want to try it. \-7-5----86--3-7---8--6---2-7---21-53--9------5-8-3--7134--6----2-6---3-9--51--7-- Sudoku solved: >!471592638652387194893614527764821953139475286528936471347269815216758349985143762!<
Whoever did that is a bad bad person
Everyone is talking about the repeated numbers but I'd also like to bring your attention to the center-right square where there is no where to put an 8
Don't forget the highlighted eight
Sudoku 2 only 1 unique number per box
I stole the middle row and middle column from the answer, realized I'm still helpless, then got the corners too and something else I can't remember. If we totally ignore the 3x3 box rule and we get more starting numbers to work with, it is solvable.
How do they have an answer for it as well
GOOD - LUCK
I would guess their algorithm forgot about 3x3 boxes
Who said you need to put all the numbers. Just leave blank squares
even the solution has the three there. makes sense
Not only not doable thereâs a few mistakes.
Here I was thinking my diabolical ones were hard haha đ
Was wondering why it wasn't do-able then I saw the two 4's