Dr. Sudoku Prescribes #35 – Skyscrapers
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Theme: Countdown!
Rules: Standard Skyscrapers rules.
Answer String: Enter the 8th row from left to right, followed by a comma, followed by the 1st column from top to bottom.
Time Standard: Skyscrapers Grandmaster = 5:15, Master = 8:00, Expert = 16:00
Solution: PDF
ohh no one has commented till now?!everyone busy in participating in sudoku grand prix?!
Coming to this puzzle i can assure that from a novice point of view that this was one hell of a puzzle.Have no second thought abt that.
Unless you are the great doctor sudoku himself ,there is no respite for poor amateur fellas (like me) to solve this puzzle.Rather than solving the puzzle which is what happens when great ones solve i was rather waiting for the puzzle to break.In addition to going wrong 2 times and punching a hole in the paper with my pencil everything was going wrong.
In the end miraculously doctors spirit possessed me and finally solved it in the third attempt.
Time : Have been trying from the morning at different occasions must be close to 2hrs
Thankfully this is the last of the skyscrapers never hope to see this puzzle again.waiting for tommorows outside to pep up the fallen spirits!
I appreciate the persistence you’ve had with a lot of unfamiliar puzzle types. But I never want a solver to feel angry at solving a puzzle or puzzle style.
A single week of three puzzles in a style from easy to hard is like a one week crash course in organic chemistry. It probably won’t work out well for you if you’ve never done them before. So please skip over the hardest puzzles in the styles you do not like until you’ve had more practice with them.
If you truly never want to see a skyscraper again, I’ve failed as a designer as I think they can be marvelous puzzles. I should have written larger warnings or given more pointers to Roland Voigt’s site or something else. And if it is just that you do not think you’ll ever like the style, then please skip the puzzle when it gets posted here. It is ok to not solve everything.
Hi motris!
Its not that i am against doing skyscraper puzzles.It was just my frustration in not completing it in the first attempt that was coming out.
So even if you were to devote another 1 or maybe even 2 weeks i will still attempt your puzzles.I have never enjoyed solving the sudokus or puzzles of any author as much as i do from yours.
And certainly you did not fail as a designer since you have made an amateur to persist on puzzles on which he has no clue and solve them too which i know will never happen unless the puzzle quality is simply too good!!
Great solve! Took me a little more than the Expert time (18 minutes), as I’m not that familiar with skyscrapers
Tough one. Spent quite some time trying to make some progress in the upper-left corner until I realized that the breakthrough would have to come from the bottom-right part.
RV
Making greater-than signs all over the place on this one really helped crack it, I think.
Very nice. I like how the solving path went from “but I can barely write in anything” to everything coalescing.