About The Puzzle
In every Hidato puzzle the smallest and the highest number are listed on the grid. All consecutive numbers are adjacent to each other vertically, horizontally, or diagonally. There are more numbers on the board to help to direct the player how to start the solution and to ensure that Hidato has only a single solution. It is usually played on a square grid like Sudoku or Kakuro but it can also include irregular shaped grids like hearts, skulls, and so forth.
Hidato puzzles are published in newspapers such as the Daily Mail and Detroit Free Press.
Every well-formed Hidato puzzle is supposed to have a unique solution. Moreover, a Hidato puzzle intended for human solvers should have a solution that can be found by (more or less) simple logic. However, there exists very hard Hidato puzzles, even of small size.
Numbrix puzzles, created by Marilyn Vos Savant, are similar to Hidato except that diagonal moves are not allowed.
The names Numbrix and Hidato are registered trademarks.
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