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Mazzel Sudoku

Approachable sudokus with visual hints

Welcome to Mazzel — a friendly place for cracking pleasantly challenging sudoku puzzles that lean on visual hints and gentle design. The first set of puzzles is inspired by Japanese kanji signs, giving each board a cryptic visual theme to guide your solving.

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New: Kanji collection
Kanji: Ame
Added: 2025-08-17
Kanji: Ame

Normal Sudoku Rules apply: place the digits 1 to 9 in each row, column and 9×9 box.

  • German Whisper Lines (green): adjacent digits must have a difference of at least 5
  • Dutch Whisper Lines (orange): adjacent digits must have a difference of at least 4
  • Region Sum Lines (blue): these lines have the same value in each 3×3 box they intersect (different lines have different values)
  • Thermo Lines (grey): digits along the thermometer must strictly increase from the bulb
  • Killer Cages: digits in a cage must sum to the small number in the top-left corner
  • Black Kropki Dots: digits have a 2:1 ratio
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Kanji: Aka
Added: 2025-08-15
Kanji: Aka

Normal Sudoku Rules apply: place the digits 1 to 9 in each row, column and 9×9 box.

  • German Whisper Lines (green): adjacent digits must have a difference of at least 5
  • Region Sum Lines (blue): these lines have the same value in each 3×3 box they intersect
  • Parity Thermo Lines (red): digits along the thermometer must strictly increase from the bulb. Digits must alternate between odd and even on these lines.
  • Entropic lines (peach): every set of 3 consecutive digits must contain one low (123), one medium (456), and one high (789) digit.
  • Killer Cages: digits in a cage must sum to the small number in the top-left corner, digits cannot repeat within a killer cage
  • Black Kropki Dots: digits have a 2:1 ratio
  • White Kropki Dots: digits are consecutive
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Kanji: Sake
Added: 2025-08-13
Kanji: Sake

Normal Sudoku Rules apply: place the digits 1 to 9 in each row, column and 9×9 box.

  • Dutch Whisper Lines (orange): adjacent digits must have a difference of at least 4
  • Tokyo Whisper Lines (red): adjacent digits must have a difference of at least 6
  • Region Sum Lines (blue): these lines have the same value in each 3×3 box they intersect
  • Thermo Lines (grey): digits along the thermometer must strictly increase from the bulb
  • Killer Cages: digits in a cage must sum to the small number in the top-left corner. digits CAN repeat in killer cages if allowed by other sudoku rules.
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Kanji: Karai
Added: 2025-08-10
Kanji: Karai

Normal Sudoku Rules apply: place the digits 1 to 9 in each row, column and 9×9 box.

  • German Whisper Lines (green): adjacent digits must have a difference of at least 5
  • Tokyo Whisper Lines (red): adjacent digits must have a difference of at least 6
  • Thermo Lines (grey): digits along the thermometer must strictly increase from the bulb
  • V's and X's: digits separated by a V must sum to 5, digits separated by a X must sum to 10
  • Little Killers: numbers outside the grid indicate the sum of the digits on the diagonal in the direction of the arrow
  • Negative ratio constraint: neighboring digits cannot have a ratio of 5:1
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Kanji: Inochi
Added: 2025-08-08
Kanji: Inochi

Normal Sudoku Rules apply: place the digits 1 to 9 in each row, column and 9×9 box.

  • German Whisper Lines (light green): adjacent digits must have a difference of at least 5
  • Tokyo Whisper Lines (red): adjacent digits must have a difference of at least 6
  • Region Sum Lines (blue): these lines have the same value in each 3×3 box they intersect
  • Modular Lines (dark green): every set of three sequential digits along a modular line must contain a complete set of one digit from {1,4,7}, one from {2,5,8} and one from {3,6,9}
  • Black Kropki Dots: digits have a 2:1 ratio
  • Maximum Cells (grey): maximum cells contain a digit that's bigger than all orthogonal adjacent cells
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Kanji: Hikaru
Added: 2025-08-06
Kanji: Hikaru

Normal Sudoku Rules apply: place the digits 1 to 9 in each row, column and 9×9 box.

  • German Whisper Lines (green): adjacent digits must have a difference of at least 5
  • Dutch Whisper Lines (orange): adjacent digits must have a difference of at least 4
  • Region Sum Lines (blue): these lines have the same value in each 3×3 box they intersect
  • Thermo Lines (grey): digits along the thermometer must strictly increase from the bulb
  • Palindrome (purple): digits along a palindrome line must read the same forwards and backward (i.e. the line is symmetrical)
  • Killer Cages: digits in a cage must sum to the small number in the top-left corner
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Kanji: Sora
Added: 2025-08-05
Kanji: Sora

Normal Sudoku Rules apply: place the digits 1 to 9 in each row, column and 9×9 box.

  • Tokyo Whisper Lines (red): adjacent digits must have a difference of at least 6
  • Dutch Whisper Lines (orange): adjacent digits must have a difference of at least 4
  • Region Sum Lines (blue): these lines have the same value in each 3×3 box they intersect (different lines have different values)
  • Killer Cages: digits in a cage must sum to the small number in the top-left corner
  • Black Kropki Dots: digits have a 2:1 ratio
  • White Kropki Dots: digits are consecutive
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Kanji: Kin
Added: 2025-08-03
Kanji: Kin

Normal Sudoku Rules apply: place the digits 1 to 9 in each row, column and 9×9 box.

  • German Whisper Lines (green): adjacent digits must have a difference of at least 5
  • Tokyo Whisper Lines (red): adjacent digits must have a difference of at least 6
  • Region Sum Lines (blue): these lines have the same value in each 3×3 box they intersect (different lines have different values)
  • Killer Cages: digits in a cage must sum to the small number in the top-left corner
  • Black Kropki Dots: digits have a 2:1 ratio
  • Little Killers: numbers outside the grid indicate the sum of the digits on the diagonal in the direction of the arrow
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