This was the third Yajilin puzzle from my somewhat recent LMI contest, Yajilin Yacht. A solution video for the contest puzzle can be found on the contest page.
A six clue layout like this for a 9x9 was fairly ambitious, but something I felt would be possible to make smoothly. Ultimately, I was right, with another key idea being critical to unraveling the left side. It turned out a lot of people trialed or guessed through it, though, without getting the idea...
I'm curious what idea you mean for the left side. The fact that 2-down clue is forced to have two empties in between because it's in a column next to the edge?
ReplyDeleteYep, that's exactly the key step. A lot of people struggled with it in the contest because it isn't obvious, even though it's a relatively basic kind of step.
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