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What Are The Rules of Futoshiki?: Star Sudoku Is A Variety of The Usual Samurai Sudoku Puzzle. It Is A Much More Tightly

Futoshiki is a logic puzzle where numbers 1-5 must be placed in a grid without repetition, and inequality signs indicate whether a number is greater or less than its neighbor. The goal is to deduce where each number goes using logic. Samurai Star Sudoku is a challenging variation where four grids overlap in the center, and the central puzzle is determined by the surrounding grids. It requires checking multiple regions to solve. Flower Sudoku is similar but with more overlapping grids, such that the center is fully covered by the other four puzzles.

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What Are The Rules of Futoshiki?: Star Sudoku Is A Variety of The Usual Samurai Sudoku Puzzle. It Is A Much More Tightly

Futoshiki is a logic puzzle where numbers 1-5 must be placed in a grid without repetition, and inequality signs indicate whether a number is greater or less than its neighbor. The goal is to deduce where each number goes using logic. Samurai Star Sudoku is a challenging variation where four grids overlap in the center, and the central puzzle is determined by the surrounding grids. It requires checking multiple regions to solve. Flower Sudoku is similar but with more overlapping grids, such that the center is fully covered by the other four puzzles.

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What are the rules of Futoshiki?
Futoshiki is a fun puzzle game. The rules of futoshiki are as follows:
You start with a grid that is usually 5 x 5 in shape, or 7 x 7 for larger futoshiki puzzles.
There are also greater than and less than signs between certain cells on the grid.
The aim is to fill each row and column with 1 - 5 exactly once (assuming a 5 x 5 grid) this rule is familiar from sudoku.
However there are no box regions to concern you as in sudoku.
The big difference is the inequality signs, and you must obey these in your answers. For
instance if you have that a cell is greater than the one next to it, then you know the left
cell cannot be 1 and the right cell cannot be 5.
Use logic alone to deduce where each number goes and solve the puzzle.

Samurai Star Sudoku


Star sudoku is a variety of the usual samurai sudoku puzzle. It is a much more tightly
overlapping set of puzzles. In fact, the central puzzle is created completely by the other
four grids that are to its left, right, top and bottom. However you need to remember it is
still a valid puzzle that obeys the sudoku rules in order to solve the puzzle.
Samurai star sudokus - also known as 'flower sudoku' due to its shape, tend to be
particularly tricky to solve particularly the first few times you attempt them, due to the
complexity of having to check many different regions and overlapping areas to deduce
the potential values for each cell in that region. It is a great challenge for experienced
sudoku solvers looking for the next level of challenge!

We can also provide these samurai star puzzles in a range of formats, standardly PDF
black on white; you may also wish to have regions coloured for added clarity if you print
in colour plates or in one additional colour - you may specify your requirements.

Flower Sudoku ("Musketry Sudoku") has five sudoku puzzles in layout, similar to
Samurai Sudoku. However, these puzzles overlap each other much more than in Samurai.
The center grid is fully covered by the remaining four sub-puzzles.

In Star Sudoku the row on the outer edge of the grid includes the cell on the nearest
sharp end of the figure.

Greater Than Sudoku is the variation of the original sudoku. In addition, greater than or
less than signs (">" or "<") in the walls indicate that one cell's number is greater than or
less than an adjacent cell's number. Also called "Compdoku".

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