XV Pairs Sudoku by clover!
(This post is part of the Genuinely Approachable Sudoku (GAS) series.)
With a lot of X and V clues and not many given numbers, can you still work your way around this XV Pairs Sudoku puzzle by clover!?
or solve online (using SudokuPad)
Author/Opus: This is the 63rd puzzle from Clover, part of the Genuinely Approachable Sudoku (GAS) team.
Rules: Standard Sudoku rules (insert a number from 1 to 9 into each cell so that no number repeats in any row, column, or bold region). Whenever an X or V, reflecting the Roman numerals for 10 or 5, is placed on the edge between cells, the numbers in the two adjacent cells must sum to exactly 10 or 5. (Pairs of cells without an X or V mark can have any sum value.)
GAS Time Standards (highlight to view): Two party hats (🎩🥳): 6:00; One party hat (🥳): 11:00. All other solvers earn a 🦕: numerical Nebulasaurus.
Thomas Hits the GAS (highlight to view): 2:48, with SudokuPad replay file shared as a download for now (requires loading via settings menu with improvements expected before people should use this regularly).
Solution: PDF; solving video with explanation to be added later from GAS team.
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Sudokupad instructions says V sums to 6, had me confused for a sec 🙂
I’m sorry that my first comment here is a correction: In the SudokuPad version of the puzzle, the rules text states that digits separated by a V sum to 6, which might be confusing to some solvers (especially since the GAS puzzles occasionally do include some “variant variant” puzzles). Not meant as a criticism; I just wanted to let you know about it.
No need to apologize. We don’t make the SudokuPad links so they use instructions pulled by the author when drafting and it seems no one caught this typo. Our instructions should be the same every time and make it clear the X and V are Roman Numeral based clues, not random algebra variables, and will always be 10 and 5.