The Ye Gods of Interviews

Why Ye Gods I hear you say? Well it's simple really, who hasn't at any time gone into an inverview at any time and thought "Ye Gods!" There you go!

Moving swiftly on! A few special puzzles here for you today, in order a nurikabe, a heyawake, a fillonimo and an extra regions sudoku, all with their own unique concept! The extra regions having both the traditional 3x3 grids and it's own "colour coded" areas!

Author's note, The symetry down the one diagonal of the nurikabe is entirely accidental originally i just went for the 12345 series down the digonals but it wasn't until I'd finished I noticed it was diagonally symetrical, so I suppose I can't claim that one!

Woop, Summer at last!

A-F
Ok Folks, got some more puzzles for you all. The most are self explanitary, a kuromasu, a 16x16 Irregular, an extra-regions, and one easy as ABC (A-F), in that order!

I'll just say this for the extra-regions, there are only 4 extra-regions, not 9, this was the only way I could illustrate it though!

Stepping Up

Five puzzles for you today, that's two akaris and three sudoku variants, all of them with their own challenge. hope you all had a good Easter holiday!

Extra Regions, it's on a whole different level!

Well I've got another new(ish) genre for you today with not one but two puzzles for you to feast your eyes on. To help you the rules for this challenging genre located here... http://puzzlevalves.blogspot.com/2010/01/rules-for-sudoku-variants.html

25x25 Series - Sudoku

Betcha thought I'd gone. Well I haven't, actually I've been working on these, the giant series, each one 25 by 25, that's 625 squares!
The first one's Sudoku A through to Y in each row, column and box. You enjoy while I catch some zzz's!

4 Puzzles For The Price of 1

Well, it's true I could have put them in seperate posts, but ah... what the hey, here it is 4 puzzles in 1 post happy puzzling!
By the way if you're wondering it goes Sudoku, Nurikabe, Heyawake, Fillomino!

Greater Than / Less Than Sudoku now in 8x8 form!

Yeah well, I haven't posted one of these for a while so I decided to throw one at you today, don't expect it to be easy, but effort makes the reward of solving it all the more sweeter, right?

BTW, as Greater Than / Less Than is a pain to write out each time it'll be GTLT in future

Oooh, Torodial Sudoku

OK folks here's a challenge for you, a torodial sudoku, if you haven't solved one of these before then I recommend giving the much easier one attached to the rules a try first! These, like sudoku, have 1-9 in each row and column and nonet, but unlike sudoku they wrap around the sides of the grid!

Good Luck, you're gonna need it!

Link to Rules; http://www.blogger.com/post-edit.g?blogID=269895411422622247&postID=2322236166154412759

Diagonal Sudoku, a beauty

Who says Sudoku isn't art, well that may be true, and this may not be the hardest puzzle in existance but I like it, not least because of the layout, 12345678, 12345678 and a diagonal as well. Well perhaps it isn't art but it's still nice.

Dizzy Sudoku

Gosh I can tell you that designing this one made my eyes hurt, just one look and you can see why. I don't know what it is but there's still a pretty box in the middle, perhaps they're haunting me!

Diagonal Sudoku

Another favorite of mine, diagonal sudoku is another solid variant, so what better way to celebrate that than to levy up against a very fine puzzle, one that keep even the best chewing on a pencil (or a... keyboard?) for some time!

Irregular Sudoku

Again back with another variant, this time Irregular Sudoku. Instead of your pretty boxes, you've got nasty boxes with cells all over the place, well actually I lie, this one does have one nice pretty box, can you find it?

Well smartie pants let's just see how good you are at filling it then shall we!

Greater Than Less Than Sudoku

Well, to most people who have solved one of these in the past, Greater Than Less Than Sudoku is a good, solid variant, arrows point to the smaller of the two numbers between two cells apart from that it's a normal sudoku.

If you haven't yet solved one of these...

Where have you been, solve this one now, no, don't look back, go, go!

Only kidding, take your time in solving this one, enjoy!

Rules for Sudoku Variants

Extra Regions Sudoku
Rules for Extra Regions Sudoku are as follows. In any grid of n numbers,
1-n in each row
1-n in each column
1-n in each block of n
1-n in each diagonal if highlighted
1-n in each coloured set (joined or unjoined)





Irregular Sudoku
Rules for Irregular Sudoku are as follows. In any grid of n numbers,

1-n in each row
1-n in each column
1-n in each block of n
1-n in each diagonal if highlighted


Greater Than Less Than Sudoku
Rules for Greater Than Less Than Sudoku are as follows. In any grid of n numbers,

1-n in each row
1-n in each column
1-n in each block of n
1-n in each diagonal if highlighted
Arrow always points to smaller value


Torodial Sudoku
Rules for Torodial Sudoku are as follows. In any grid of n numbers,

1-n in each row
1-n in each column
1-n in each block of n (blocks may wrap around to the opposite side of the grid)
1-n in each diagonal if highlighted

Rules for Sudoku

Rules for Sudoku are as follows

In any grid of n numbers,
1-n in each row

1-n in each column

1-n in each block of n

1-n in each diagonal if highlighted

Woop First Puzzle

Well here's my first puzzle, and it's a Sudoku, yeah should probably get a rules section set up here for you, not for Sudoku itself because let's face it most people know how to solve them but still. Stay tuned for more later!