Volume 217
artisanalsudoku.substack.com/p/artisanal-...
02.03.2026 14:45
👍 3
🔁 0
💬 0
📌 0
Hm... that's strange, it works when I try it. Is it possible you had an error somewhere else?
Hi, thanks for reaching out. I'm not sure I understand where the glitch is, can you give me more information? Solution checking seems to be working for those cells and for the puzzle in general, as far as I can tell
Oh, just realized both of your comments are probably about the vault puzzle, not the paywalled bonus puzzle. If so, I hope my other response clarifies things. (And interesting that it almost works with the diagonal restriction! I guess that's essentially how two-cell cages work with the vault rule.)
I'm pretty confident that all of my puzzles are unique (but mistakes can happen, obviously). Do you have a screenshot showing the other solution and/or the point where it's unresolvable? I know it's paywalled, but I don't mind if you post it here (for this purpose, at least 😀)
A digit in a cage can't be in a cell that's orthogonally adjacent to *any cell in that cage*. So, for example, because 1 is in the 6-cage in r5c2, it can't be adjacent to it in r6c4.
Volume 200 Bonus Pack (somehow I forgot to post this here last week, sorry!)
artisanalsudoku.substack.com/p/artisanal-...
Thanks! Yeah, it definitely came from trying a similar setup and seeing what it did to 1s and 9s. In fact, you can see the original idea here:
logic-masters.de/Raetselporta...
In case you missed it in this week's post, Artisanal Sudoku: 150 Handcrafted Puzzles That Go Beyond the Ordinary, from Puzzlewright Press, will be published March 3, 2026, and is available for pre-order now in the US, Canada, the UK, and Australia.
www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/james...
