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HATMAN
PostPosted: Wed Feb 29, 2012 2:52 pm 
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Futoshiki Non-consecutive 1&2

Exactly as it says: a combination of greater than and non-consecutive.

I made a few of them and they work well together.

Greater than are marked - standard horizontal and vertical NC on all adjacent cells.

I've been making easy ones for my grandaughter, here is one to get you started (probably paper solvable with your eyes closed):

FSNC 1
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Here is one targetted at assassin level - please let me know how hard you find it.

FSNC 2
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PostPosted: Thu Mar 01, 2012 5:50 am 
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Yeah first one is downright no-pencilmark solvable:

Solution for FSNC 1:
53142
31425
14253
42531
25314
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The 2nd one is tough but not evil, it seems an "IQ" rating might be appropriate.

One particular tricky move:
If you see one of the rows being:
Code:
345 12 3567 345 3567 12 67

The central cell can't be [4], or NC would force its neighbours to be [67], clashing with the rightmost cell.
Hidden single: the leftmost cell must be [4]


A major spoiler:
An x-wing of [4] is required to crack the puzzle (at least for me).
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For completeness here is the solution & JS file (zipped) of FSNC 2:

Solution of FSNC 2:
5274631
3752416
1537264
6315742
2641375
4163527
7426153


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