The Super Snowflake Sudoku is made of 48 hexagon, 6 partial hexagons with four triangles and 16 partials hexagons with three triangles for a total of 128 triangles.
The complete hexagons have a circle at their center (in blue on the picture), and you need to place all the numbers from 1 to 6.
The partial hexagons with 4 triangles have a small square at their center (in red), and you need to place 4 different numbers from 1 to 6 in each triangle.
And last but not least: there are 3-triangle partial hexagons with a small triangle at their center (green). Enter 3 different numbers from 1 to 6 around the small triangles.
The addition of partial hexagons with three cells creates more attractive grid shapes.
Note that a triangle in the center of the grid is a member of 3 different hexagons. This geometry makes it possible to apply certain additional resolution rules between them, which I call 3-triangle gaps. If there are two triangles with the same number and these two triangles point in the same direction, and these two triangles are separated by three triangles, as in the following example.
The two triangles point upwards, have the same number and are separated by three cells. We know that both belong to two different hexagons. The first hexagons are outlined in blue.
This means that all the triangles in grey) in these first two hexagons will not have a number 2.
The two other hexagons are delimited by red lines.
These two hexagons will not have another 2 (except for th two triangles having 2), Then the hexagon between these two triangles having 2, will have a 2 int the center top triangle (in yellow). It will be the only triangle of tis hexagone to have 2.
So we can finalize our rule: if two triangles pointing in the same direction have the same number, and these two triangles are separated by 3 triangles, then the upper central triangle of the hexagon between the two triangles will have the same number as those two triangles.
You will discover more rules as you solve these games.
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