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October Patreon reward - Caroline's Halloween Adventure
🕑 Added 2024-10-01 15:16:15 +0000 UTCHello Patreons!
Thank you so much for supporting the channel! As October's reward, we are bringing you Caroline's Halloween Adventure, a collection of Japanese Sums-style sudoku puzzles Each puzzle, when correctly solved, creates a picture.
To enter the competition, please send the string of 12 digits specified on this form: https://tinyurl.com/CarolinesAdventure by 4pm UK time on October 20th. You can also enter the string of 4 digits generated by the bonus puzzle if you want!
Links to the puzzles appear in the pdf. The pack now (3rd Oct, 7am) includes a link to the final puzzle that will work in most browsers and help with zoominga nd panning! Have fun!
Simon & Mark
Comments
Kim Wheeler
Ahh this makes a lot of sense now I read it, and is a great idea! Perhaps next time the word any could be added (any Skin colour), that would help those of us like Jason and I who misunderstood it as just a name for the pink. I suppose in the clues each puzzle could use a different colour too, though that seems potentially more complicated to combine with the default palette stuff. I really enjoyed this pack celebrating my favourite time of the year. Thank you for sharing it!!! ❤️
Wayne Taft
Wonderful puzzles! Thank you for all of the hard work that went into these :)
Anders Sørensen
This was really fun! Thanks to both CtC and the setters of this hunt. The extra puzzle was really nice - like juggling 5 x 10 kg balls at the same time :D Keep up the good work!
Richard Smith
Very enjoyable pack. I have one small query, though. Shouldn't there be cages corresponding to letters D and E in the "Definitely Not Batman" puzzle? It could still be solved without them, but the rules do say that the letters correspond to cages in the grid, and yet D and E don't seem to follow this rule?
Michael Lee
Excellent pack, one of my favourites to date!
Mario
Negative? My comment was quite positive. I said that the added zooming for the last puzzle was very good. It will more than likely increase the number of solvers, which wouldn't have been the case otherwise.
Shawn Kiewel
Thank you for being so negative about our pack. It is doing wonders for my self-esteem and may actually give me the impetus I need.
Mario
The new release with a zooming control on the bonus puzzle is very good. We should've had that version in the first place.
Benny Ng
i'm not the only one who couldn't see the numbers in the bonus puzzle, right?
Mario
You're welcome.
MapleZzz
Thank you so much!!
Mario
There is no such thing as a dumb question. Yours was legitimate and your guess was correct. Submitting a wrong 12-digit code simply by not understanding the labeling of the rows/columns would certainly be hard to digest.
Shawn Kiewel
You should be able to just click the link in the pdf on your Macbook, and things should be fine.
Shawn Kiewel
Yes
MapleZzz
I have a dumb question... When we count the row and column #, should we start from the top left? Have completed all but the optional puzzle and want to make sure I don't mess up with the wrong digits. Thanks!!
Shawn Kiewel
we're making pictures, so the black is appropriate. The easy solution to the visual problem is to solve in an easier color to see then change to black at end to get the picture. Not hard.....
Mario
I totally agree. Very poor choice of colors indeed.
abcba
This is the first time I’ve done Japanese Sum puzzles. It’s been fun so far and I have reached the last 3 fog of war puzzles. Could someone kindly clarify exactly what / where is the recommended web version. I use iPad / MacBook and if I type a puzzle link into my browser I just get an error message. Apologies if I am missing something obvious.
Leondu
why use this much black in the puzzles? the blue numbers are not visble very well on a black background
Richard Buckingham
I never did a Japanese Sums puzzle before, I like it!
aah
Was my first thought. And yes, my skin is roughly that color.
Panthera Cheshire
It wasn't that "pink" is skin tone. It was meant to be inclusive so that ANY skin tone color could be used in place of the pink.
Panthera Cheshire
We can't draw nearly as well as we can create pixel puzzles. If you want to draw for us, let me know on Discord :) (We will be making more packs!)
Quark Twain
Another option to access the default palette is to use a different browser than you usually do for SudokuPad. Or you can use incognito mode, but that might result in losing your progress.
Katsa Middluns
Excited to try the puzzles, though I wish AI art wasn't used :/
Jason Thompson
Hmm. Not so sure that pink should be called "Skin Tone". I'm not personally upset or triggered, but just wanted to point that out, you're good people and this seems like an oversight or error. Cheers!
Jonathan Bristow
Confirmed!
Aaron Hertz
Yes, the PDF link works correctly.
Cracking The Cryptic
Can anyone confirm that they CAN click on the pdf this time? You may have to open the new post ...
Erin Toler
If you want to reset your color palette, you'll need to remove the line breaks from the JSON string. Here it is for convenience: {"colors":{"0":"transparent","1":"rgb(214, 214, 214)","2":"rgb(124, 124, 124)","3":"rgb(-36, -36,-36)","4":"rgb(179, 229, 106)","5":"rgb(232, 124, 241)","6":"rgb(228, 150, 50)","7":"rgb(245, 58,55)","8":"rgb(252, 235, 63)","9":"rgb(61, 153, 245)","a":"transparent","b":"rgb(204, 51,17)","c":"rgb(17, 119, 51)","d":"rgb(0, 68, 196)","e":"rgb(238, 153, 170)","f":"rgb(255, 255,25)","g":"rgb(240, 70, 240)","h":"rgb(160, 90, 30)","i":"rgb(51, 187, 238)","j":"rgb(145, 30,180)","k":"transparent","l":"rgb(245, 58, 55)","m":"rgb(76, 175, 80)","n":"rgb(61, 153,245)","o":"rgb(249, 136, 134)","p":"rgb(149, 208, 151)","q":"rgb(158, 204, 250)","r":"rgb(170, 12,9)","s":"rgb(47, 106, 49)","t":"rgb(9, 89,170)"},"pages":[["0","1","2","3","4","5","6","7","8","9"],["a","b","c","d","e","f","g","h","i","j"],["k","l","m","n","o","p","q","r","s","t"]]}
