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@Gareth: Not necessarily. IMHO if a cell remains empty, it is not reachable at all. Or can you post a contra-example (which has only one solution)?

I am more than skeptical. I also doubt whether anyone is willing to internalize and apply the suggested notation. In principle, an algorithm is needed to solve Sudoku and algorithms are usually described with programming languages. Do we now want to invent a Sudoku programming language? By the way, ...

Your answer does not address my complaints. If you deduce R3C5 = 3 or 5, you don't know that both are right -- so you have to guess. (There is no way to deduce that both numbers are right! You most likely assume that your logical skills are insufficient at this point.)

If there are two solutions, there is no logical way to decide which part of the solution path the solver should take. The solver must guess an some point. For example, you deduce that R3C5 must be 3 or 5, but since 3 leads to the first solution and 5 to the second one, there is no logical way to dec...

"MUST be logically solvable" and "SHOULD have a unique solution" is a contradiction.

Google is your friend: Seacht for "How to solve ...", e.g. "How to solve Nurikabe"

Andrea, check your email

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For some of your mazes I have Javascript programs – are you interested?

http://www2.stetson.edu/~efriedma/puzzle/index.html is dead (404)

Does anyone know what happened to Erich's Puzzle Palace? Is there a new location? Has anyone valid contact data of Erich Friedman? (The old mail address is dead.)

Wei-Hwa Huang wrote: »Some difficulty is that sometimes it's hard to distinguish between a Sudoku variant and a puzzle that simply uses a Latin square concept. So, I've restricted myself to cases where the puzzle seems clearly inspired by "Number Place" or "Sudoku".« http://www.mathpuzzle.com/Sudoku...

do we have to write a definition which include all previous wsc and gp puzzles

No! Obviously there is dissatisfaction with the scope of the WSC puzzles and this scope should be restricted. If we would consider all puzzles, only the status quo - with which some are dissatisfied - would freeze.

A is Berlin, B is Stuttgart, C is Strasbourg. Do I have to conclude that Strasbourg is in Germany because the distance between Strasbourg and Stuttgart is much less than the distance between Stuttgart and Berlin, which is the capitale city of Germany? No, because there is a clear border between Ger...

It depends on the Sudoku (Variation) definition. You can interpret Eulero as 3D Sudoku with 2 layers: A number layer and a letter layer combined into one 2D diagram in which the layers influence each other. Each cell is part of 4 regions: numer rows, number columns, letter rows and letter columns. A...

Counter to what Mephisto is saying, it is not just that a Sudoku has 3 regional constraints in some places. I only quoted detuned and made my comments assuming this definition and questioned it. However, assuming your Sudoku definition, there are only two kinds of Sudoku:; regular and irregular. Or...

The main controversial point with this example is that there are many cells in the grid which are only subject to row/column constraints, and there is no third regional constraint. And if you "overlay" a standard 3x3 grid: Is it a Sudoku then? Killer has also such an overlay, KenKen has not (but co...

Thinking again: Now we come to the kernel of the poodle: If we agree on the rule "A Sudoku must have at least 3 regional constraints" then we can simply exclude many variants without further thinking. For example, we can exclude KenKen (but not KenKen with diaginals). A second simple rule may be: "A...

Eulero.jpg https://www.janko.at/Raetsel/Eulero/index.htm ➊ Enter a number from 1 to N and a letter from A to N into each cell of the diagram of size NxN ➋ so that each number and each letter occurs exactly once in each row and each column ➌ and each number-letter-combination occurs exactly once in ...

impose the principle that a Sudoku variant should have some kind of 3rd regional constraint then it is very easy to say that kenken is not a Sudoku variant. Ok, then add the uniqueness of the numbers on the two diagonals to KenKen. Now you have a 3rd regional constraint. Is it a Sudoku yet? You hav...

In your example, you make big steps and it is easy to draw a line between. So why should it always be the case that we should be unable to say no at each incremental adjustment of the rules? Short answer: Because the number of possible Sudoku variants is infinite, maybe nondenumerable. [think of a p...

The main controversial aspect to this variant as far as I can see is the use of repeated symbols.

As in Star Battle Sudoku (there are 8 symbols, numbers from 1~7 and a star which must be used twice). [A good example to speak of symbols and not of numbers. SCNR.]

In these Sudoku variants there are "holes" in the diagram. Staircase Sudoku: Staircase.jpg https://www.janko.at/Raetsel/Sudoku-Varianten/024.a.htm Ten Box Sudoku: Ten-Box.jpg https://www.janko.at/Raetsel/Sudoku-Varianten/027.a.htm (It seems that I do not have the right to add a poll to a posting. de...

detuned asked for an example for a Sudoku (?) in which the latin rule is violated. What about Subset Sudoku? Subset-Sudoku.jpg See https://www.janko.at/Raetsel/Sudoku-Subset/index.htm Write numbers from 1 to N into the cells of the diagram, so that each number occurs exactly M times in each row, in ...

Does the use of "we" imply that you would like to contribute more meaningfully to the committee's work? I do not know enough about this committee. Primarily, "we" are the members of this forum. But I'm open to be convinced to join. What are the convincing reasons to use the word "digit" over "numbe...

however it is a pity to have too much overlap between the two competitions and as such a clear line needs to be drawn with regards to Sudoku variants. A clear line does not exist. This is one of the paradoxes that philosophers have discussed for a long time. The basic thesis is always the propositi...

First thoughts and basic questions: A classic Sudoku is not really a number puzzle, because it does not make use of the properties of numbers (Penao axioms). Digits (not numbers!) are simply used as signs. Instead of digits you can also use letters, colors or any symbols (star, circle, square, ...)....