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Clue-doku No. 1

◆◆ · By SamuRai · Published 2024-04-11T05:46:37.144Z

Constructor's Note
Challenged by a prior comment by SylveonSoulmate, I present Clue-doku. It is a sudoku grid with 2/3rds of the 3-digit answers clued. As many as I could are non-mathematical in nature. Anyone who can solve this without googling something is smarter than I am, so I do not discourage use of the lookup machine. Don’t hesitate to let me know if anyone enjoys this or if it is a cursed idea that should be banished forever.
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  • SylveonSoulmate 🤓24:09 · 2024-04-11T11:18:18.537Z
    Wow. That was extremely fun to play, somehow solved it without google (only a calculator). I am genuinely impressed.
    • AuLeaf 🤓26:47 · 2024-04-11T17:06:05.579Z
      Ah, I should've used a calculator :P that would've saved a lot of time on 31D... Took a bit to figure out what I had wrong; I figured the number of representatives would be 438, working backward from Nate Silver's 538, but I should have considered that isn't a static figure!
      • SamuRai constructor · 2024-04-11T17:49:46.918Z
        FWIW Nate Silver’s 538 comes from the number of votes in the electoral college which includes one for each 435 representatives, 100 senators , and 3 extra for DC which doesn’t have congressional representation.
      • SamuRai constructor · 2024-04-11T17:30:40.986Z
        No more impressed than I am that people are successfully solving this Frankenstein puzzle. Nice job on a well earned victory!
      • kurtalert 🤓7:57 · 2024-04-11T15:12:51.655Z
        Hah, very cool. A few issues- I think the biggest is that the New Newfoundland area code is 879, not 798.
        And- in the NE and SE houses, the 7s and 8s are interchangeable from a Sudoku perspective. Since 7A and 45A are both just given "-" as their clues, it's impossible to know which one is right without just trying both. I only know this because these were my last squares to fill in, and I picked the wrong one first LOL.
        • SamuRai constructor · 2024-04-11T17:22:35.887Z
          I clearly put the clue for 879 into the slot for 798. Correcting that also fixes the double solution issue. Thank you for your keen editorial eye!
          • kurtalert 🤓7:57 · 2024-04-11T19:02:39.101Z
            Ah ha - perfect! Thank you!
        • parliboy 13:39 · 2024-04-11T16:48:50.272Z
          Such a fun puzzle. No lookups, but I did have to logic out some things.
          • SamuRai constructor · 2024-04-12T02:18:33.917Z
            I think logic is fair game. Glad you enjoyed it.
          • AuLeaf 🤓26:47 · 2024-04-11T17:06:30.197Z
            so grateful for all the banding in this sudoku :P
            • SamuRai constructor · 2024-04-12T02:23:42.162Z
              I’m glad someone noticed that. For my first shot at this concept, I wanted to have it be accessible. Next time I might try to clue a random sudoku grid rather than seed it.
              • SylveonSoulmate 🤓24:09 · 2024-04-12T06:12:48.701Z
                oh, the roping, thats sometimes used in variant sudoku as a step in filling the grid
              • heron 🤓7:47 · 2024-04-11T18:04:41.552Z
                WOW what a creative puzzle--this is so brilliant!!!!!
                • SamuRai constructor · 2024-04-12T02:37:26.011Z
                  Chuffed that people are enjoying this monstrosity.
                • Joah 🤓19:03 · 2024-04-12T01:44:51.413Z
                  Fun puzzle! Could get it with just one guess without Google! Just out of curiosity, how do you solve the clues for 896 and 927? Was there a hint somewhere that x was 7 and 3 respectively, or could x just be any number?
                  • SylveonSoulmate 🤓24:09 · 2024-04-12T02:12:41.040Z
                    Oh yeah, based on the xyz clues, I originally thought x was still the first digit, but it was not.
                    • SamuRai constructor · 2024-04-12T02:36:06.658Z
                      For 31D, only x=6 and x=7 give three-digit results with digits 1-9 non-repeated. Thus you just need to select between 384 and 896. Solving elsewhere in the column or rows can eliminate 384.
                      For 37D, x=3 gives the only valid number. 1 and 2 have a zero middle digit. x>3 gives answers greater than 1000.
                      • Joah 🤓19:03 · 2024-04-15T17:40:26.744Z
                        I see! Makes sense.
                    • Account 🤓35:16 · 2024-04-13T03:23:23.303Z
                      Woo! The only thing I double checked was that 628 was HG with a base converter I happen to already have. Totally forgot about the 3 DC electors so I flubbed that one at first.
                      Anyway, super impressive! I'd be down for more!
                      • SamuRai constructor · 2024-04-13T22:21:33.610Z
                        Thanks. I’m working on the sequel now. Look for it next week.
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                      1. 1A
                        End of a countdown
                      2. 4A
                        The 15th octagonal number, also divisible by 15
                      3. 7A
                        New Newfoundland area code
                      4. 10A
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                      5. 11A
                        Easy as
                      6. 12A
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                      7. 13A
                        Follows 11A
                      8. 14A
                        Beginning of a countdown
                      9. 15A
                        February 1st if January were a day longer.
                      10. 16A
                        Apparently the number of paths by which a chess rook can travel from one corner of a 4 × 4 chessboard to the opposite corner without passing through the same square twice.
                      11. 19A
                        Numbers that can be represented by 8-bits or FF in hex
                      12. 22A
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                      13. 25A
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                      14. 26A
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                      15. 27A
                        Literary book burning temperature, in Fahrenheit
                      16. 28A
                        A website better than Nate Silver’s?
                      17. 29A
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                      18. 30A
                        Mercury in Base 36
                      19. 31A
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                      20. 34A
                        On this date in 1846, the Donner Party began their culinary journey.
                      21. 37A
                        ___ Pinocchio, a 1991 Japanese cyberpunk-horror film. A HorrorNews.net review states that "its hard to call it a good film.”
                      22. 40A
                        x=y+z
                      23. 41A
                        1024 × __ a common screen resolution at the turn of the millennium.
                      24. 42A
                        Anagram of 1A and 11A
                      25. 43A
                        The first untouchable number greater than 599.
                      26. 44A
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                      27. 45A
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                      1. 1D
                        x=y-z
                      2. 2D
                        Triple C less V
                      3. 3D
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                      4. 4D
                        The only sudoku valid strobogrammatic (rotational symmetric) prime.
                      5. 5D
                        x * y = z
                      6. 6D
                        Number of votes by which Bush beat Gore in Florida in 2000.
                      7. 7D
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                      8. 8D
                        x=y+z
                      9. 9D
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                      10. 16D
                        The smallest prime to the power of a different prime not involving 2.
                      11. 17D
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                      12. 18D
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                      13. 19D
                        x=y/z
                      14. 20D
                        A website worse than Nate Silver’s?
                      15. 21D
                        Largest prime less than 700.
                      16. 22D
                        6th year of the 5th decade of the 4th century
                      17. 23D
                        Canadian variant of the card game 3-5-8
                      18. 24D
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                      19. 31D
                        x times 2^x
                      20. 32D
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                      21. 33D
                        x=y-z
                      22. 34D
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                      23. 35D
                        Unlucky squared
                      24. 36D
                        x*y=z^2
                      25. 37D
                        100 x^2 + x^3
                      26. 38D
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                      27. 39D
                        Yeas in a unanimous vote in the U.S. House of Representatives
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