I always enjoy new puzzle types created by combining two familiar puzzle types. The writer of this blog entry tried to figure out the best way to combine battleship and sudoku puzzles. The first (and less preferred by the author) is to put a “minifleet” in a sudoku grid and fill the empty spaces with numbers according to sudoku rules. The second method puts numbers on the fleet of ships so that a correct arrangement of ships will provide clues to solve the sudoku. The author prefers this one and I do as well. I would think that the ideal for this kind of combination would be an ambiguous sudoku grid, that can only be solved with the ships properly placed, along with an ambiguous battleships puzzle, so that the rules of sudoku are rewuired to find the true solution.
There are sample puzzles in the post. So, click over and try them out yourself.
