I have come up with a new type of puzzle that may interest you . It combines crosswords and sudoku. I have seen other puzzles that do this partially, but I think my idea is new in that all the letters are determined by crossword-type clues.
You place nine consonants in a nine-by-nine grid sudoku-style (
i.e., with no repetitions in a row, column, or nonet). The letters are the consonants in the answer to a clue and are placed Boggle-style (
i.e., consecutive consonants adjacently) in a region (called a cage) of the sudoku.
If you are familiar with killer sudokus, this is like those, except we use consonants with clues in place of sums of numbers. Note to those who know killer sudokus: In our puzzles. letters
are allowed to be repeated within cages. (Otherwise, we would have been limited to words where no consonants repeat.)
I have attached a sample puzzle in an Excel file. Frank Longo and I have come out with a book, entitled _Boggle Sudoku_, of these. See
http://www.sterlingpublishing.com/catalog?isbn=9781402760372.
Enjoy.