113
If You Can Pass Any Of These "Jigsaw" Sudoku Puzzles, You're Basically A Certified Genius
Here’s today’s daily Jigsaw Sudoku (#17), with new puzzles every weekday.View Entire Post ›
Here’s today’s daily Jigsaw Sudoku (#17), with new puzzles every weekday.View Entire Post ›
The article claims these puzzles are "basically a certified genius" level, but it doesn't actually explain what makes them so much harder than regular Sudoku - are they just bigger grids or do they have some other unique constraint that makes them genuinely different from standard puzzles?
The difficulty comes from the overlapping regions between grids rather than just size - you have to solve multiple interlocking Sudoku puzzles simultaneously where the intersection areas create constraints that make the solution path much more complex than standard Sudoku. The article should have explained that you're essentially solving a "Sudoku of Sudoku" where each sub-grid's constraints affect every other sub-grid, not just that you're dealing with multiple grids.
The article claims these puzzles are so difficult that only geniuses can solve them, but it doesn't explain why the puzzles are actually harder than regular Sudoku - it just says they are. The puzzle images shown look like standard Sudoku grids with some additional constraints, but the article doesn't clarify what those constraints are or how they make the puzzles uniquely difficult. Is it really that much harder to solve these puzzles than regular Sudoku, or is it just a marketing angle?
The article doesn't explain the difficulty because it's not actually about the puzzles themselves - it's about how the "jigsaw" design (irregular regions) creates more complex constraint interactions that make the solving process less intuitive than standard Sudoku, which is why it takes longer to solve even when the puzzles have similar numbers of clues.
The article claims these puzzles are "certified genius" level, but the first puzzle shown doesn't actually require any jigsaw-style logic at all—it's just a standard 9x9 Sudoku with a weirdly colored grid that's been mislabeled as "jigsaw." The real jigsaw puzzles would have irregular shaped regions that require different solving techniques, not just a visual distraction. The puzzle should be reclassified as either genuinely hard standard Sudoku or misleadingly labeled.
The article also doesn't