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truncated index lines

This sorta an idea I had a long time ago. Digits on a teal line form a non-repeating consecutive sequence, where the number on the diamond is the lowest digit in the sequence. Digits are indexed on the line based on their hierarchy in the sequence. The first position on the line indexes the lowest digit, the last position indexes the highest digit, and so on.   The original idea was to have the digits on the line be any digits, sorted by value. But the options were so open I scrapped the idea. Then recently I thought of using a consecutive sequence. I think it raises some interesting possibilities. When I started setting it I realized you could think of it as an index line where the lower digits are self indexing. It makes thinking about it much easier. Then I realized I could program them like this. The setup at the top was just me playing around, then when I programmed it it solved the whole top band. So I had to figure out why. It's kinda cool actually. But now I need to ma...

almost Classic

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some oddities

An old one I couldn't figure out, showed it to chinstrap and he figured it out more than I could and made it unique with the two kropkis. Not feeling it enough for lmd anymore but it's still interesting.  Mod Index

killer lines archive

Killer Lines Sudokumaker Constraint antiknight killer lines coloring fun no repeats too hard random placement 1 an idea is born 11s 36 killer line loop v1 untitled add um slant rhyme v1 slant rhyme v2 Slant Rhyme v3 too hard but an idea v1 of something  stops being flowy hm  break in is nice kinda nifty  break in from hm, twice slant rhyme curve  love this one. Couple testers had trouble with the break in. Might still post it Top Right Boi symmetry coloring (palindromes)

Sluice

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  Sluice My most recent try at diagonal killers. Previously  gold sluice  and  killer lines . This one is more challenging, and I think some better sudoku steps. Cage design inspired by Oripy's  The Lost Sums of Akator .

Learning To Set Classic Sudoku

 This is just a place I'm going to put every classic sudoku I set. Until I don't want to anymore. I'm learning and I don't feel they are good for posting. But I want to store them somewhere to look back at.  one two three four five six  kinda like this one, not too hard seven eight nine 10  extreme  11 12 13 14   15  like 16 17  diabolical 18  114 19  264 really like this. the first one that i've set up a break in intentionally and i don't think there's a way around it. it's unique without 7 in r1c2 but adding it smoothed the flow and made a y wing. 20 21 22 23 24 25 26  shhh.. Don't tell anyone I used a thermometer to disambiguate a deadly pattern 27 28 29 30 31 32 33  I like this one and not only because 33 is my favorite number 34 35 36 37 38   39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50!  Like this one a lot, computer rates it diabolical but I think it's fairly easy for a human 51 52 53 54 55 56