Paint By Sudoku!?!

[motris]

Some puzzles are created by matters of happenstance. The first diagramless crossword was created when an editor took a puzzle to lunch but realized he had just the clues and not the grid. Instead of waiting to find the grid, the experiment of trying to solve with just the clues created the diagramless crossword. Well, in this case, a puzzle was

Comments

[rpipuzzleguy]

Looking forward to trying this one (must find printer paper). You are a goddamn genius.

[gary3000]

Very ingenious puzzle.

I had to print it out at work for the colors.

I liked that you couldn't completely solve the Paint portion without some work on the Sudoku portion.

[motris]

Getting both solving elements to work together is ideal. I wish I could have buried a little more of that feature into the puzzle - I succeeded much better on my battleship sudokus that I just posted. I actually think - for both ease of writing, and new elements it adds to the puzzles - I'm much more likely to do more battleship sudoku than paint by sudoku, although maybe a 9x9 with 4 pixels is worth at least trying as there, at the very least, I can much more easily experiment with the givens where the 16x16 makes it much harder by hand to do so.