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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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!
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.
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.
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.
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?
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.
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.
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.
19A
Numbers that can be represented by 8-bits or FF in hex
22A
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25A
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26A
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27A
Literary book burning temperature, in Fahrenheit
28A
A website better than Nate Silver’s?
29A
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30A
Mercury in Base 36
31A
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34A
On this date in 1846, the Donner Party began their culinary journey.
37A
___ Pinocchio, a 1991 Japanese cyberpunk-horror film. A HorrorNews.net review states that "its hard to call it a good film.”
40A
x=y+z
41A
1024 × __ a common screen resolution at the turn of the millennium.
42A
Anagram of 1A and 11A
43A
The first untouchable number greater than 599.
44A
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45A
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Verticales
1D
x=y-z
2D
Triple C less V
3D
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4D
The only sudoku valid strobogrammatic (rotational symmetric) prime.
5D
x * y = z
6D
Number of votes by which Bush beat Gore in Florida in 2000.
7D
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8D
x=y+z
9D
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16D
The smallest prime to the power of a different prime not involving 2.
17D
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18D
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19D
x=y/z
20D
A website worse than Nate Silver’s?
21D
Largest prime less than 700.
22D
6th year of the 5th decade of the 4th century
23D
Canadian variant of the card game 3-5-8
24D
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31D
x times 2^x
32D
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33D
x=y-z
34D
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35D
Unlucky squared
36D
x*y=z^2
37D
100 x^2 + x^3
38D
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39D
Yeas in a unanimous vote in the U.S. House of Representatives