I’ve decided to start posting some sudoku variations that I’ve been playing around with. I wanted to start with a variation that I hadn’t tried before, but since this is opening week for baseball, I decided to go with a new Scoreboard Sudoku instead.
I really like this variation. There is definitely some interesting logic required for solving it. Unfortunately, you have to know baseball to solve it. Now, baseball is huge in Japan, so maybe there is a demand for this kind of puzzle. Still, I’m working on ways to incorporate the nice aspects of Scoreboard Sudoku into a variation that doesn’t require sports knowledge.
This puzzle is similar to the last one. There is a lot of variation potential here that I want to explore, mostly with different scoring options. That, however, will be for another day. Rules for this puzzle can be found at the link above or in the pdf file below. Enjoy!
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Pingback by game » More Baseball Sudoku — April 6, 2007 @ 3:26 pm
… if you’re interested in Sudoku variations, you might like this, compiled by Ed Pegg Jr:
http://www.maa.org/editorial/mathgames/mathgames_09_05_05.html
Comment by PuzzleScot — April 19, 2007 @ 12:48 pm
Yes, I know of this page. It was one of the first sites that I linked to from here.
It’s a very good survey, but a little bit out of date now, as there are quite a few more variations now.
Comment by Josh — April 19, 2007 @ 1:30 pm