I understand the frustration that can come from a lack of an audience for your puzzles, being a designer myself. I found this blog through the RUUD forum, which seems to have a large, but mostly inactive audience.
I would recommend the Djape forums, which comprise a smaller but more active audience. You should probably post one in the "other" section and name the topic something other than just "minidoku" (such as "minidoku - variation") because most people in that puzzle community would associate the name "minidoku" with a sudoku with dimensions smaller than 9x9.
You may also want to check out Janko.at The whole site's in German, but the webmaster knows English, so you can email him at (homepage [at] janko.at) and with luck, he may even create a java applet for your puzzles!
Rules are as follows:
1) Standard sudoku rules apply for rows and columns but not for blocks defined by solid line around a coloured area.
2) Each solid block must add up to a value X and all blocks of the same colour must add up to the same value X.
3) The sum value may be different for each colour.
4) It's possible for a number to be repeated in a block, as long as it doesn't appear more than once in any row or column.
A completed puzzle
Here is a completed puzzle, where pink pieces add up to 11 and blue pieces add up to 10:
1 comment:
Great puzzle!
I understand the frustration that can come from a lack of an audience for your puzzles, being a designer myself.
I found this blog through the RUUD forum, which seems to have a large, but mostly inactive audience.
I would recommend the Djape forums, which comprise a smaller but more active audience.
You should probably post one in the "other" section and name the topic something other than just "minidoku" (such as "minidoku - variation") because most people in that puzzle community would associate the name "minidoku" with a sudoku with dimensions smaller than 9x9.
You may also want to check out Janko.at
The whole site's in German, but the webmaster knows English, so you can email him at (homepage [at] janko.at) and with luck, he may even create a java applet for your puzzles!
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