Today’s extra puzzles are based on a ‘Constant Consonants’ puzzle posed last Monday by Karen Richards at her blog, http://puzzlebits.wordpress.com/. She asked: How many words can you think of that use the consonants PRL in that order, and no others?
I just started trying Karen’s puzzles a few weeks ago, and up until this one, they came fairly easy—I certainly didn’t come up with as many words as Karen did, but I was reasonably respectable! This one? I came up with about a dozen. Harder! Although that's half the fun, isn’t it?
Today I’ll give you four solutions to Karen’s puzzle, inside Hidden Word Sudoku and Qudoku puzzle sets. I’ll begin with one puzzle showing you two solutions—although they’re different words, they contain the same distinct letters.
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Constant Consonants: 6x6 Word Sudoku Puzzle
Each row, column, 2x3 rectangle and set of circled cells contains the letters in the anagram exactly once
Copy the circled letters into their corresponding numbered cells in the answer grid to spell out two prl words
The next solution to Karen’s puzzle poser is spelled down the diagonal of a 6x6 Hidden Word Sudoku puzzle.
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Constant Consonants: 6x6 Hidden Word Sudoku Puzzle
Each row, column, 2x3 rectangle and the top-left to bottom-right diagonal contains the letters in the anagram exactly once
The hidden prl word is spelled down the diagonal
Finally, one more, because I like it: it’s one of the longest words I found, 7 letters; but it contains the smallest number of distinct letters of any solution I found: only 5. And I'll give you one!
REAP
Constant Consonants: 2x2 Word Sudoku Puzzle
Each row, column, 2x2 square and set of circled cells contains the letters in the anagram exactly once
Copy the circled letters into their corresponding numbered cells in the answer grid to spell out the prl word
Solutions tomorrow. Karen Richards’ blog, containing many more ‘Constant Consonant’ puzzles and lots of others as well, is http://puzzlebits.wordpress.com/
Thanks,
--Dave
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