May Patreon Reward - Build your own Sudoku

Thanks, enjoyed this. Did it all except the final puzzle which I broke repeatedly and am fed up trying to work out where I went wrong. Clever puzzles.

Athel Stan

I joined Patreon just to try my hand at this puzzle hunt and I'm glad I did. Took about 15 hours over 2 days but I had a blast.

This was wonderful - I spread it out over time and found that whenever I had slept I would see some next steps immediately. Makes me wonder about my strategies in general.

This was absolutely brutal but a fantastic journey. I especially loved the mean sudoku, star battle, and the final puzzle. Bravo!

Final puzzle was brutal, but well worth the effort, thanks!

My best tip would be to delineate as much of the regions as possible, see what it does to the stars in the rows / columns and then identify what Simon would call a 'weak cell', which is put under pressure as to which region it can belong to. Also, I then bifurcated to sort that out, so I may not be the best person to ask. Don't want to say more seeing as CtC has asked for no spoilers here, so sorry for it being so general. If all else fails you could check Discord, and see what hints they have given to other people who were stuck on the SB puzzle. The final puzzle is worth it, so don't give up. (If by worth it, you count having scrambled brains as a good thing! It's a seriously tough but lovely puzzle.)

for sometime in the future when i decide to build my own as well cheers:)

Thank you Stevie D and James Cox, I have bookmarked those

Any tips? I've been stuck on it for quite a while now

Well, I finished the star battle - mainly through bifurcation and intuition, though. I hope when they revisit the hunt in a later video, they explain the logical path necessary. But if even I can do it, then so can you, I'm sure!

https://app.crackingthecryptic.com/sudoku/JF9GMhgDF9

The app can only check a completed sudoku board, nothing else

I've got the same issue. Even after practicing on some 2-star puzzles online, the undefined regions are still destroying me... Not sure how to proceed or if I'm just done.

Hi, I have just started the hunt, I have tried the Fillomino so far and I am pretty sure that I have the right solution but the app is saying that "That doesn't look right!", should I recheck my solution or is it because of Fillomino rules are not the same as sudoku rules? thanks.

Just finished. Took me a total of about 10 hours. What a beautiful and fabulous puzzle hunt! Matyas did an incredible job. The final puzzle was dazzling! The Star Battle was brutal, but the others were great fun!

Kim Geiger

You can build your own grid at https://f-puzzles.com, and use the tools on the left to draw cages, thermometers, etc.

Stevie D

Oh man, I'm not really into star battles, so one without defined regions sounds daunting. Maybe if I leave it until last it will somehow become less daunting... Have enjoyed the first three puzzles - fairly straightforward but I always like a good slitherlink (in particular).

a grid to make the final sudoku?

Maybe I am being a bit daft, but where would one find

To be fair, there is only one valid way that the 8-cell fillomino region can be split into two 4-cell killer cages.

You do have to figure that out, though it shouldn't be very difficult if you solved the Fillomino correctly. Figuring out the cage total is definitely just part of the final puzzle. It's a tough one.

Oh is that how it goes? I was wondering about that. Any indication of what the cage total is, or is that not included. How is the 8 region broken into 4-cages? Or is that what I gave to figure out?

Yeah, this was lots of fun. I really enjoyed the final puzzle. Very hard, though! The instructions could have been a little clearer that the 4 and 8 regions from the Fillomino solution are just directly turned into 4-cages on the puzzle grid, since every other puzzle goes through the map.