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 Post subject: Repeat killer NC FNC AK
PostPosted: Thu Aug 18, 2011 7:28 pm 
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Repeat Killer NC FNC AK 2

OK - a newish variant mixture

11*11 with no nonets - numbers from 0-10 - this is the smallest size with solutions to the constraint set.

Each cage must repeat and it must be maximum repeat.

It is Anti-King.

It is Non-Consecutive.

It is Fers Non-Consecutive (i.e diagonal NC).

Once you are used to it - probably an easy.

Note both are X but JSudoku gets its knickers in a twist if you apply that constraint.

For tarek: note it is a pro-kNight toroidal wrap.

The first one is intended to be maximum repeat as Simon points out.

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Repeat Killer NC FNC AK 1

A little bit harder.
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PostPosted: Tue Sep 13, 2011 6:09 pm 
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(Edited: Solutions were posted in wrong order causing confusion, now corrected thanks to Ed)

Puzzle 2 solution:
079513A6842
42079513A68
6842079513A
3A684207951
513A6842079
79513A68420
2079513A684
842079513A6
A6842079513
13A68420795
9513A684207


Puzzle 1 solution:
A5179420683
83A51794206
0683A517942
420683A5179
79420683A51
5179420683A
3A517942068
683A5179420
20683A51794
9420683A517
179420683A5


I solved them assuming each cage "must have at least 1 repeat", but after finishing realised they are both "maximum repeats". Could be much easier if I took the latter assumption.

Apparently they also have unique solutions if one assume each cage "may or may not have repeats", but it would be too hardcore even for me.
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PostPosted: Sat Nov 12, 2011 7:24 am 
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simon_blow_snow wrote:
but after finishing realised they are both "maximum repeats". Could be much easier if I took the latter assumption.
Many thanks to Simon for posting the solutions to these puzzles. I had to study them to work out that "maximum repeats" meant that a four-cell cage must have two pairs of repeats. Very impressed that Simon didn't need to use this to solve it. I found it hard even knowing about "maximum repeats" and had to go very, very slowly to try not to make silly slip-ups. Was very, very satisfying to get it out. Thanks HATMAN :) . Will slowly try to catch up with the other new variants instead of trying the second one of these. Very limited puzzling time these days.

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