Squid Game: No need to risk lives in this Will Power puzzle

[@mrpokefan8369]

49:49 here. Stuck in the middle. Very nice puzzle, thanks Sleuth!

[@TheMNbassHunter]

Another solid puzzle from Will Power. Done in 16:44. I found the 21-cage in box 3 unnecessary. It just filled itself in by Sudoku at the end for me.

[@psiphiorg]

I like your break-in with the 48 in box 3. I didn't find that until much later in the solve. My break-in was in the 19 cage in column 1. Because it went along the Dutch whsper line, it couldn't be 478, 469, or 568, because there are no arrangements of those digits that are all 4+ apart. That left only two possibilities: 289 (which would have to be 928 from top to bottom due to the 8 already in the box), or 379 (which had to be either 739 or 937 from the top). But 739 would break the 12 cage in box 1, because that would eliminate 39, 57, and 48 and leave no fill. So the top digit had to be 9, which led to the 12 cage being 57 and fixed the order of two different 48 pairs. My time today was 8:17, solver number 439.

[@mscha]

Same here, but my reasoning about the 19 cage was slightly different. It's obviously not 159, so it's high-low-high or low-high-low (where 5 can be high or low). Since 4+5+9 = 18 < 19, it's not low-high-low and must be high-low-high. That resolves the 48 in r1c23, puts a 9 in r2c1, and the rest follows.

[@SudokuSleuth]

It was a different type of break in. Yours is quite intricate too!

[@anaayoung9142]

10:56... indeed it looked like the squid games... and we will have the season 2 soon... 🤔 Thanks for the puzzle! 😁

[@boydegg]

22:28 ... I made one slip up along the way and needed the video for help. Excited for Squid Game S02 on 26th December!!!

[@AditaBattleForge]

nice puzzle! 25 mins for me. I focused on the lower triangle, and it was quickly clear that it had to have some polarity changes.

[@phoenixaki3458]

18:35, was a bit stuck at some points but never so long that I got discouraged which is the exact type of difficulty puzzle I have time to deal with in my busy life, Will Power rarely if ever lets me down on that front :)

[@SudokuSleuth]

😃

[@chrisbrogan3307]

Very nice

[@Sinisest1121]

17:42 for me. I break in mix of your and psiphiorg ways. cage 19 reveals me parities of 48 and also these cages what now were forced to have 5-s helped with whispers.

[@jonbrowne]

17:38 to solve. Another superb puzzle from willpower! Thanks Sleuth and happy Monday!

[@SudokuSleuth]

You too!

[@Pwecko]

27:20. Very good puzzle.

[@StGordo61]

Another Will Power treat, ….sometimes rather than just focussing on the lines and sequences, it mays to check the cage total! (Sometimes I wish I could add!) thanks Sleuth

[@SudokuSleuth]

My pleasure!

[@niyazali7983]

18:46 for me. I'm (slowly) getting more comfortable with DW lines.

[@bronwyncarr6714]

Enjoyable puzzle - thanks:) re the show -I never would have assumed it was "my thing" yet I was transfixed! Even the reality show was gripping. Have you watched that?

[@SudokuSleuth]

I couldn’t watch the reality TV show. It’s supposedly staged I heard?

[@bronwyncarr6714]

@ it’s surprisingly gripping even though there obviously isn’t the same jeopardy!! It’s fascinating to see how people will behave with that much money at stake.

[@mscha]

Around 20:00, Sleuth incorrectly states that the remaining cells in box 7 are 1568, uses that to deduce the 2 in r4c3, and never corrects that. 🤔

[@kvom01]

33:52.