Puzzle No 124: Alphabet Sudoku

This would be the last puzzle for year 2014. I sincerely say "THANKS" to all of you who have supported me throughout the year solving my puzzles, testing it, encouraging me to create more. I hope you continue your support for my blog in coming years. 

With special day, I create a special puzzle for you all and wish you to have a Great Year ahead in 2015. I wish you in my style and it would be a Sudoku to Solve.

Creating a Alphabet Sudoku for first time, Hope you will like it and Enjoy it :)

I made this effort in the last 1 hr to go. Thanks to Prasanna for testing it in last minutes.

Rules:

Place alphabets "H A P Y N E W R O" in the grid such that each row,column and 3*3 box contain the alphabets only once.

Theme: Happy New Year [AOPW - 2015]

Difficulty: Medium--

Puzzle:

Puzzle No 123: Four Winds

Here is my first Four Winds Puzzle. Hope you will like it.
Merry Christmas !! :)

Rules:

Draw lines in any orthogonal direction from the given numbers so that each given number represents the number of connected cells (not including itself). Each empty cell is connected to exactly one of the given numbers. Lines cannot cross.

Difficulty: Easy

Puzzle:

Puzzle No 122: Next to 9 Sudoku

I made this puzzle as Practice for upcoming contest "Sudoku Mahabharat: Episode 4" on Logic Masters India. It has nice starts. Hope you will like it.

This is my 22nd Sudoku contribution to:

Daily League! The League of Extraordinary Ladies and Gentlemen

Remember that you can solve this puzzle from the League  online on the Sudokucup Guest League page with a 24 hr delay.

Rules:

Place numbers in the grid such that each row,column and 3*3 box contain the numbers 1-9. Additionally the clues outside the grid indicate the numbers to be placed in the cells before and after the cell containing 9 (in any order) in the corresponding direction.

Theme: 1-8

Difficulty: Medium

Puzzle:

Puzzle No 121: Nurikabe

Now that, this friday Tom has posted for Daily League. I don't have to create a Sudoku in a fixed place ;)   So time for some change. Here is the Nurikabe I made.

Rules:
Shade some blank cells so that the grid is divided into white regions. Each white region contains exactly one numbered cell and has same area as the number. Two white regions may only touch each other diagonally. All shaded cells are connected to each other horizontally or vertically. Shaded cells do not form 2X2 squares.

Difficulty: Easy

Puzzle:

Puzzle No 120: Even Sudoku

This is my 21st Sudoku contribution to:

Daily League! The League of Extraordinary Ladies and Gentlemen

Remember that you can solve this puzzle from the League  online on the Sudokucup Guest League page with a 24 hr delay.

Rules:

Place numbers in the grid such that each row,column and 3*3 box contain the numbers 1-9. Additionally shaded cells contains only Even digits (2,4,6,8).

Theme: Triplets

Difficulty: Easy

Puzzle:

Enjoy Solving :)

Puzzle No 119: Classic Sudoku

This is the 4th Sudoku which i contributed to

Czech Republic National Academic Championship 2014 

which was held on 15th November 2014. You can check 1st one here, 2nd one here and 3rd one here.

This is my 20th Sudoku contribution to:

Daily League! The League of Extraordinary Ladies and Gentlemen

Remember that you can solve this puzzle from the League  online on the Sudokucup Guest League page with a 24 hr delay.

Rules:

Place numbers in the grid such that each row,column and 3*3 box contain the numbers 1-9.

Theme: 1-9

Difficulty: Medium

Puzzle:

Puzzle No 118:No Even Neighbor Sudoku

Recently I contributed few puzzles to 

Czech Republic National Academic Championship 2014 

which was held on 15th November 2014. As competition is over now and with consent of Karel Tesar (Organizer) I would like to share my contribution on my blog. Here is the 3rd one. You can check 1st one here and 2nd one here.

The theme is inspired from the recently appeared Sudoku here.

Remember that you can solve this puzzle from the League  online on the Sudokucup Guest League page with a 24 hr delay.

Rules:
Place numbers in the grid such that each row,column and 3*3 box contain the numbers 1-9. Even Numbers cannot be adjacent to each other vertically or horizontally.

Theme: Quad 

Difficulty: Easy

Sudoku:

Puzzle No 117: Diagonal Sudoku

Recently I contributed few puzzles to 

Czech Republic National Academic Championship 2014 

which was held on 15th November 2014. As competition is over now and with consent of Karel Tesar (Organizer) I would like to share my contribution on my blog. Here is the 2nd one. You can check 1st one here.

Remember that you can solve this puzzle from the League  online on the Sudokucup Guest League page with a 24 hr delay.

Rules:Place numbers in the grid such that each row, column and 3*3 box contain the numbers 1-9.  Main Diagonals (marked for clarification) also contain numbers 1-9.

Theme: Symmetric

Difficulty: Medium-

Sudoku:

Thanks to Prasanna for creating the image for me, as I am out of home.
Also thanks to Ashish for test solving it.

Puzzle No 116: Odd Sudoku

Recently I contributed few puzzles to 

Czech Republic National Academic Championship 2014 

which was held on 15th November 2014. As competition is over now and with consent of Karel Tesar (Organizer) I would like to share my contribution on my blog. Here is the 1st one.

Rules:
Place numbers in the grid such that each row,column and 3*3 box contain the numbers 1-9. Additionally, Shaded cells can contain only odd digits (1,3,5,7,9)

Theme: S

Difficulty: Easy

Sudoku:

Puzzle No 115: Classic Sudoku

Difficulty Level might be easy but I am happy with the design :). 

This is my 16th Sudoku contribution to:

Daily League! The League of Extraordinary Ladies and Gentlemen

Remember that you can solve this puzzle from the League  online on the Sudokucup Guest League page with a 24 hr delay.

Rules:

Place numbers in the grid such that each row,column and 3*3 box contain the numbers 1-9.

Theme: 1-9

Difficulty: Easy

Puzzle:

Puzzle No 114: Renban Groups Sudoku

Here goes one more to the series of Diagonals-Themed.

This is my 15th Sudoku contribution to:

Daily League! The League of Extraordinary Ladies and Gentlemen

Remember that you can solve this puzzle from the League  online on the Sudokucup Guest League page with a 24 hr delay.

Rules:

Place numbers in the grid such that each row,column and 3*3 box contain the numbers 1-9. Additionally, shaded cells inside each 3*3 box contains consecutive digits.

Theme: Spiral X-Box

Difficulty: Hard

Puzzle:

Puzzle No 114: Yajilin

This one is my first Yajilin creation. I hope you enjoy it.

Rules:

Blacken some white cells and then draw a single closed loop (without intersections or crossings) through all remaining white cells. Blackened cells cannot share an edge with each other. Some cells are outlined and in gray and cannot be part of the loop. Numbered arrows in such cells indicate the total number of blackened cells that exist in that direction in the grid.

Theme: Symmetric

Difficulty: Very Hard

Puzz.link: Solve Online

Puzzle: 

Enjoy Solving

Puzzle No 113: Horizontal Average Sudoku

This is my 14th Sudoku contribution to:

Daily League! The League of Extraordinary Ladies and Gentlemen

Remember that you can solve this puzzle from the League  online on the Sudokucup Guest League page with a 24 hr delay.

Rules:

Place numbers in the grid such that each row,column and 3*3 box contain the numbers 1-9. Additionally, numbers in shaded cell is average of its adjacent two cells. (Only applicable to rows and not columns - as the name of the puzzle suggests). Also if there is only one adjacent cell then the 2nd digit should be assumed 0. (i.e. The digit in shaded cell would be simply half of the adjacent cell in case of only one neighbor.). Not all shaded cells are given ( Implies no Converse Rule applies)

Theme: Diagonal / Broken Bridge

Difficulty: Medium

Sudoku:

Puzzle No 112 : Odd Sum Pair

Hope this puzzle serves as a good practice puzzle for Odd Sum Pair Sudoku variant in the upcoming Sudoku Mahabharat Episode 3. Click here for more details about Sudoku Mahabharat. Click here to learn more about Episode 3.

Rules:
Place numbers in the grid such that each row,column and 3*3 box contain the numbers 1-9. A dot between two cells implies the sum of digits in those 2 cells is odd. Not all dots are given (i.e. No converse rule applies)

Difficulty: Medium

Sudoku:

Enjoy Solving

Hope you will like it :)

Puzzle No 111: Fortress Sudoku

This is my 13th Sudoku contribution to:

Daily League! The League of Extraordinary Ladies and Gentlemen

Remember that you can solve this puzzle from the League  online on the Sudokucup Guest League page with a 24 hr delay.

Rules:
Place numbers in the grid such that each row,column and 3*3 box contain the numbers 1-9. Additionally, if a shaded cell and a white cell are Orthogonally adjacent to each other then the shaded cell has the greater value.

Theme: Diagonals

Difficulty: Medium

Sudoku:

Puzzle No 110: Odd Sudoku

Rules:
Place numbers in the grid such that each row,column and 3*3 box contain the numbers 1-9. Additionally, Shaded cells can contain only odd digits (1,3,5,7,9)

Theme: Diagonals

Difficulty: Medium

Sudoku:

Puzzle No 109: Diagonal Sudoku

Rules:
Place numbers in the grid such that each row,column and 3*3 box contain the numbers 1-9.  Main Diagonals (marked for clarification) also contain numbers 1-9.

Theme: Almost Consecutive Groups

Difficulty: Hard

Sudoku:

Puzzle No 108: No Even Neighbor Sudoku

Rules:
Place numbers in the grid such that each row,column and 3*3 box contain the numbers 1-9. Even Numbers cannot be adjacent to each other vertically or horizontally.

Theme: Symmetric

Difficulty: Easy

Sudoku:

Puzzle No 107: Anti-Diagonal Sudoku

Edited: Sudoku Image Modified (Marked Diagonals are Shown)

This is my 9th Sudoku contribution to:

Daily League! The League of Extraordinary Ladies and Gentlemen

Remember that you can solve this puzzle from the League  online on the Sudokucup Guest League page with a 24 hr delay.

Rules:
Fill in the grid with numbers 1-9 so that each row, column and outlined 3x3 box contains each number exactly once. Exactly three distinct numbers appear on each of the marked diagonals.

Theme: P^2 (Literally two P's and two Squares) :)

Difficulty: Hard

Sudoku:

Puzzle No 106: Clone Sudoku

Here goes the Friday Puzzle, 

Rules: 

Place numbers in the grid such that each row,column and 3*3 box contain the numbers 1-9. The gray areas are clones: they contain the same digits at the same locations ( gray areas can not be rotated or mirrored).

Theme: Doubly Arrows

Difficulty: Medium

Sudoku: