So the title of this puzzle kind of looks like a cryptic clue even though I'm not trying to make it a cryptic clue (literally just look at the puzzle) This puzzle has two of the constraints from the "green" puzzle I mentioned in Synergia (41) (which got rated on LMD as I'm writing this lol). And this puzzle has a smile! And the thumbnail has a cat that'll probably make you happy!!! Also nothing new from uni other than trying to learn asymptote code to add graphs to my notes Creator's time: 7:43 Rules: Normal 9×9 sudoku rules apply. Variant 1: German Whispers \ Adjacent digits along a green German Whispers line must differ by at least 5. Variant 2: Killer Cages \ Digits in a killer cage do not repeat and sum to the value in the top-left corner. Difficulty : 6.0/14 Online interface (SudokuPad)
If I had made this a few days ago this would've been a practice puzzle for a certain puzzle night-like event that I am going to post about later because as I'm writing this that event isn't over yet And also uni classes have started for me! But there's a bit of a lore moment I wanted to share --- I started taking AP Calc AB/BC about 3 years ago (HS sophomore). And I felt good about myself with this path until this random kid in my applied linear algebra (can't really say too much without leaking what uni I'm going to) started talking about how last year (?) a high school junior allegedly took this class I'm taking this semester. ok akash this is a puzzle blog not a college blog stop talking about uni stuff you're boring the people who actually want to see puzzles Creator's time: 0:17.7 Rules: Missing Middles (2) Rules \ Find the two letters that replace the blanks for each set of letters. See the bottom of the puzzle for an example and how answer ch...