Anti-Knight Untouch Sudoku 1 - 2020

(K)Night King Sudoku.

Hi All,

It had been a long time since I posted a puzzle on the blog. With the website being active for the last one year, I have been busy creating and providing free puzzles there for you all to solve online. If you haven't been there yet, I suggest you head to sudokumaniacs right now and register.

So today's puzzle is a combination or a hybrid sudoku as it is called. The rules of classic sudoku apply. Additionally, each of the 9 digits cannot repeat at a knight's step from itself and also at a king's step from itself. So it is a combination of 2 chess moves.

Hope you all have fun solving it. It is only a slightly difficult side. Happy Solving.

Kropki Sudoku Video Tutorial. - Simon

Two days back, I had created a kropki sudoku for my website https:///www.sudokumaniacs.com . The uniqueness of it was that there were no white dots provided. It turned out a bit tough but also had a very interesting solve. Quite a few people gave up on it. I had thought of creating a video tutorial on it, but Simon beat me to it :) .

Simon has done a wonderful job explaining the approach to the puzzle. Do have a look at it if you want to. I have also added an image of the puzzle.

Cracking the Cryptic

Sudokumaniacs YouTube Channel

Hello friends,

We wish to announce that we have started our own YouTube channel. We will be explaining the basic and advanced solving techniques in the initial videos.

We have had many people coming to us asking for solving tips. We thought it better to first explain the concepts and techniques before we plunge into the details of how to solve various sudoku variants that are there.

From January 2020 we will be recording the approach to solve the variants that are available at the sudokumaniacs website. This will help beginners understand the approach required and also give them an insight into an authors mind on how they wish the puzzle to be cracked.

The link to our channel is pasted below.

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCtdNbCC5KNWuWimJQzzBv5g

Please do subscribe to our channel and let us know if you have any feedbacks or suggestions.

Happy Solving

Odd Sudoku 2019 - 2

I came to know that Simon Anthony from UK, had done a video earlier of this version of the Odd Sudoku that I had posted earlier on the blog.

It is a very nice tutorial to learn the approach and on how to solve an odd sudoku.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SMPEibs5C8Q

The link to the video is pasted above for you all to check it out.

AntiKnight-NonConsecutive 2019 - 1

Last week I received a message from Simon Anthony, a member of the UK Sudoku team and an avid video blogger. He has a YouTube channel where he picks up puzzles of various authors and explains to his visitors the approach take to solve them. So Simon messaged me and said that another friend of ours Christoph Seeliger, had recommended a puzzle of mine to be featured on Simon's YouTube Channel.

The puzzle in question was an Antiknight - NonConsecutive sudoku that I had created way back in 2013. I was pleasantly surprised that Chistoph remembered the puzzle after so many years.

What Simon has done in the video is remarkable. He has made the approach to such mutant variants so simple. This video becomes a good guide for people who wish to learn how to solve an Anti-Knight Sudoku and also a Non-Consecutive sudoku.

You can view the video here.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QNzltTzv0fc&t=76s