Futoshiki Puzzles
Saturday November 14, 2009
Futoshiki, also known as Hutosiki, is a new type of Japanese number puzzle which, like Sudoku, requires logic rather than mathematical computations to solve. See if you have what it takes to meet the Futoshiki challenge.
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Comments
futoshiki.justplayfreegames.com – Lots of puzzles and all free. The best choice for futoshiki puzzles.
dofutoshiki.com – good puzzles but only 5 are free.
Puzzles.li – Nice, but has bad puzzles. The puzzles I tried did not have unique answers (more than 1 correct answer).
saidwhat.co.uk (puzzle club) – Only 2 free futoshiki puzzles.
“logic rather than mathematical computations”: Sorry, but this is not true. “a > b” is one of the simplest mathematical ideas going, but it is most certainly mathematical in a way that standard Sudoku is not. In a Sudoku puzzle, you can replace the numbers 1-9 with any nine different symbols – nine types of fruit for example. In a futoshiki puzzle, you CANNOT do this because the solver cannot decide whether {apple} is more or less than {banana}.