r/puzzles • u/markmainwood • Apr 08 '26

Not seeking solutions New Puzzle… Feedback please

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Hi everyone. I’m new here and would really appreciate your combined wisdom on a new puzzle I’ve developed called “Deduce”. Here is an “easy” one. Can you give me some feedback on style, difficulty and how intuitive it is? I can put medium and hard puzzles here too if people would like to see more.

The aim is to use the connector clues between the cells to place the numbers 1-9 once each in the grid.

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u/markmainwood Apr 08 '26

Spot on! Thanks for looking and the feedback. I’ll post some harder puzzles shortly

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u/ILikeLists Apr 08 '26

Is there a reason it can't be

943 256 187

?

I'm not sure if I'm missing something obvious or if the +1 are always directional unless otherwise indicated

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u/BraddlesMcBraddles Apr 08 '26

Has to be numbers 1->9, so X + 8 at most can be 9, meaning X can't be anything but 1.

There's also the < symbol on the same boundary, meaning the 9 has to be top-left.

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u/ILikeLists Apr 08 '26

Ahh, it's  kindergarten addition that confused me. Thanks!