Skyscrapers/en

Instructions

Each row or column contains skyscrapers of different height (from 1 to n); numbers outside the grid indicate how many skyscrapers are visible from that direction.

 

Variants

• With empty fields: Additionally to the skyscrapers in every row and every column an empty field exists.
• At the borders the sum of the visible skyscrapers is given.
• At the borders the products of the visible skyscrapers is given.
• Crypto version: The numbers at the borders are replaced with letters.
• Sudoku-Skyscraper: Additionally to the Skyscraperrules there are 3x3-areas like Sudoku.
• As easy as ABC: Beside the skyscrapers every field has an assoziated letter, in a way that alle given combinations appear exactly once.

Weblinks

• Description of basic solving techniques
• Variants of the skyscraper puzzle in the Logic Masters 2006 (german)
• janko.at (german)
• Variants on sachsentext.de