Try the CtC discord; maybe the puzzle-discussion forum. Or post something here and maybe we can help.

If I can't find it online (outside of the app), where's a good resource to create it and post in here?

What are you playing on? You should be able to take a screenshot. If you can't upload it to imgur, say, you could email it to me, then I could post it.

f-puzzles.com and you can screen shot it.

Nice!

This is probably an easy puzzle for most but the arrow ones really seem to trip me up.

So, there are some obvious restrictions on 9's in boxes 2/4/6/8 due to the arrow sums, but I get stuck on the logic to nail down how the arrow sums allow me to solve it.

The CtC hint #1:

This an arrow/sandwich?

yes

Okay, I got it solved in 14:55. So I'll give you the general idea:

For their hint


I hope that helps get you started.

Here's another one, probably fairly easy, but I hope it is interesting/fun.

Mountain Streams

Standard sudoku rules apply.
Cells separated by a black dot are in a 2:1 ratio.
Cells separated by a white dot are consecutive.

Blocks 1, 3, 7, 9 have mountain ranges in them.
Blocks 2, 4, 6, 8 have streams in them
Mountain ranges and streams divide their blocks so that even cells are on one side and odd cells are on the other.

Mountain cells must be higher than orthogonally adjacent non-mountain cells. Streams have no other effect.

Block 5 has a mountain and a valley cell, which must be lower than all orthogonally adjacent non-valley cells.

https://f-puzzles.com/?id=yg5hv49o

Done.. will send screenshot and comments

I did it in under 20 mins, so others will probably find this easy.

The ruleset seems hectic at first, but it provides a ton of cell exclusion info.

I was fun. Thx Eric...

Yes, it did, thank you very much. Something I recognize I am very bad at, which I've seen CtC use more and more is the idea of the numerical constraints of boxes/rows/columns. Bad considering we're doing Sudokus but those clues are exactly what I mean, realizing the patterns in a situation where the arrows/sums take up an entire box and what that means.

13:21 on mountain/valley

The kropki is a very nice way to break every case down.

The colors on f-puzzles hides the rivers though, sadly.

Yeah, a lot of simon's puzzles are focusing more and more on unique examples of PIE/SET. But I doubt many of the puzzles they have on the app go as hard on it.

Tricks you'll want to get used to though are: numbers on black kropki dots always sum to a multiple of 3, white kropki dots always sum to an odd number, take any arrow and double it to get the value it covers (unless you have cases where arrows stack/split), among others.

The Mirror of Eris

This one is possibly quite hard at the beginning; it may not be as elegant as I would like. After that, you will need to think carefully, but shouldn't be really hard.


Standard sudoku rules apply.

Cells in cages must sum to the little number at the top left corner of the cage.

Grey lines are palindromes: digits equidistant from either end must be the same.

Green lines are anti-palindromes: digits equidistant from either end must sum to 10.


https://f-puzzles.com/?id=yfgz9pe9

Done.. screenshot sent.

That was hard. At least I found it hard.

Thanks! I always worry a bit until someone besides me solves it. I know it's solvable, and not too easy.

So far, no one on CtC discord has tried it.

My copies of Cracking the Cryptic Greatest Hits have shipped! One week after I receive them, I will draw to give one to a lucky POGGER. Remember, you get one entry for each solved puzzle that I have posted in this thread. Make sure you send me a solved grid for each one you have solved. I will update the current status when the books arrive.

By the way, zetamath has a couple of YouTube channels. On one of them, he creates a puzzle from scratch, which was later published on the discord as well as Logic Masters Germany.

First puzzle I've tried, has a bit of a complex ruleset, ask me if you need more information:

Normal Sudoku rules apply

Each line is a juggling sequence. A juggling sequence is valid if no two throws land on the same spot in the cycle. This can be found by the following steps:
1. The number of balls in the pattern is in the circled cell, and is always the first toss in the pattern. Each following throw will be next along the line given. The value of the line must average to the number in the circled cell.
2. Take the value of the throw, and add the spot in the sequence it takes. (e.g. If x is the 3rd throw in the sequence you get x+3)
3. Take the remainder when dividing the new value by the length of the sequence.
4. If in this new sequence you get two (or more) numbers which are equal to each other after step, you have an invalid swap.

For example: 342 is a valid swap
For example: 435 is not a valid swap (all three new values map to 2)
For example: 334 is not a valid swap (they do not average to 3)

(You're going to be my first testers)

https://f-puzzles.com/?id=yej29wuw

There's only 1 tricky spot in this if you understand the rules fully:

If I understand the rules correctly, shouldn't the circle with the 5 have a line of length five coming from it? Similarly for the 3 on the left. I like the concept, however.

You can put me back on the list for the draw. In the last while I have been exploring a variety of variants, so I would be happy to be the lucky one who go the book.. Thx Eric

So let it be written.
So let it be done.

No. The average is equal to 5, so if you look at it like a little killer in a way you get 5*3 = 15 as the sum.

Similarly the average equal 3 then you get 3*5=15.

The 5 with a length 5 is hard to do. You'd need to have the sum of the line equal 25 using only 1-6 and limited repeats

So the bolded part above has no significance for the puzzle? It looked like it was saying that we would be placing four more numbers starting from the 5. The only significance, then, is that it gives the average of the numbers on the line.