Wrap-around Consecutive 3-grid 6×6 Samurai Skyscraper
Wrap-around Consecutive 3-grid 6×6 Samurai Skyscraper puzzle
Another mouthful of a puzzle name, but in essence simply a development of the previous puzzle I posted. This time we still have the wrap-around consecutive-ness, but I’ve extended it to a samurai puzzle and added in skyscraper clues. To keep it reasonable, I’ve reduced the underylying Sudoku size to 6×6, however!
What’s particularly fun about the wrap-around markers is that they warp from one side of the puzzle to the same row/column on the opposite side – for the centre two columns this means that they constrain the values of two numbers 10 squares apart.
So the full rules are:
- Place 1 to 6 into each row, column and 2×3 bold-lined box of each of the three underlying 6×6 grids
- White bars show that adjacent cells are consecutive – i.e. 1&2, 2&3, 3&4, 4&5 or 5&6; those squares without a white bar between are non-consecutive
- White bars are shown where appropriate even on the edges of the grid – they indicate how the cell relates to the square at the far end of this row/column of numbers. Remember that the lack of such a white bar means that these wrap-around squares are non-consecutive.
- Skyscraper clues reveal how many numbers can be ’seen’ from that clue number counting in along the adjacent row/column, where higher numbers obscure all lower numbers (see previous puzzles for more detailed instructions)
Just to clarify, if adjacent numbers are equal (which is possible if they’re at far sides of the grid from one another) then these count as non-consecutive.
Good luck!
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about 15 years ago
This one was very easy for me. The pattern at the top and bottom was cute in how it wrapped around. I feel that so much information was given that the puzzle seemed to solve itself for me. I had to slow down to make sure that I wasn’t making mistakes.
about 15 years ago
That’s really useful feedback. Clearly I need to prune away unnecessary Skyscraper clues in future puzzles. I experimented with a few different layouts and in each case I didn’t need any givens, so this precise puzzle setup is clearly (as you say) over-specified.
about 15 years ago
Similar comments from me too. The only skyscraper clues that were needed were the 1s, which gave you the neccesary numbers to get the puzzle started. After that it filled in very quickly purely from the consecutive rules – presumably because they were 6 x 6 grids and so just one number ruled out most of the others.
about 15 years ago
I agree. I’ve never been very good at the skyscraper puzzles, but this one didn’t take too much effort. Like Christine said, the 1 clues and the consecutive rules were probably enough to solve the puzzle. Then the one 5 clue filled in a complete column (lower right), and made that whole section solve itself pretty easily.
I definitely enjoyed it though, don’t let my comments make it sound like it was too easy to be fun!