Yeah, if this is your first exposure to weird-rules sudoku then you're being thrown in at the deep end somewhat.
You need to work out where the islands are and how big they are in order to figure out where some of the numbers are - or aren't. For instance, because numbers can't repeat on an island, if you don't know which cells the islands occupy then you can't work out which numbers need to be excluded from them. Also, if you don't know how big the islands are then you can't get the numbers in the circles.
It's knowing that the circled numbers denote the size of the islands, in conjunction with what numbers it's possible to use in the black dot doubling relationships that should give you your first digit in the puzzle. It's really useful to have the colouring option that the app gives you to keep track of water/island cells. Something you can't really do for a pen and paper puzzle.
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VicJameson : fucking internet virgins since, Fri 9 Oct 2026, 15:21,
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