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A new Sudoku layout with 81 uniquely shaped cells


My journey making a Sudoku variant that doesn’t have rows or columns

To address this, I realized that it’s possible to tweak Sudoku’s rules to allow for cells of any shape, which produces a different layout on every puzzle: Human-designed puzzles are more interesting to solve than computer generated, so ideally I’d have a human designed Cracked Sudoku for you (and me!). My gut tells me the puzzle rules still work for concave polygons, but you’d have to use something other than Voronoi Diagrams to generate them.

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