Frame (Mind Loft)

About Frame (Mind Loft)

Frame is a sudoku with a border of clues. Outside each end of every row and column is a number: the sum of the first three squares reading inward from that edge. That makes thirty-six sums, all printed every day, alongside the usual rule that each row, column and 3x3 box holds 1 to 9 exactly once.

The reasoning is arithmetic on groups of three: a 6 can only be 1, 2 and 3 in some order, a 24 must be 7, 8 and 9, and the middle values are where most of the deduction happens. Selecting a square lights up the two sums that cover it. Every board has a single solution reachable by logic, and the border is always needed: the printed digits alone would allow more than one grid. Wrong entries are not flagged; a clean solve scores 10 and the leaderboard is decided on time.

Printed digits inside the grid fall through the week, from 14 on Monday to 4 on Saturday, and the Sunday Edition prints only two. Notes, Undo, Erase, Clear, auto-move and a hint are available, and a new board arrives every day at midnight Eastern.

How to play Frame (Mind Loft)

1. Open Frame and press Start.
2. Read the sums outside the grid; each one totals the three squares nearest that edge.
3. Tap a square and a digit to fill it, or use Notes for candidates.
4. Complete the grid so every row, column and box holds 1 to 9 once and every edge sum is correct.

Tips

• Extreme sums are the way in: 6 means 1, 2, 3 and 24 means 7, 8, 9 in those three squares.
• Each three-square group lies inside one box, so a sum also tells you which digits that box must hold in that strip.
• Opposite sums on the same row add up with the middle three squares to 45, which can pin down the middle.

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