I was screwing around with trying to mash up puzzle types and reinvented what I m calling Sudoku Word Search. It s a letter-sudoku puzzle with words hidden in the puzzle, and you have to deduce where the words are in order to solve them.As in, the puzzle does not have a unique solution using sudoku logic alone. You must use one of two forms of hidden word logic to finish the puzzle. 1) Deduce where a word must be placed and add letters, or 2) deduce where a word may not be placed and restrict letters. To keep it more sudoku like and aid in solving, every row, column, and box has at least one letter of a found word.In playtesting I thought it was fun, although at times very difficult for me (I m not an expert sudoku player), so I thought I d build it out to share.The puzzles are generated by creating racks of 9 unique letters, finding all words that can be made with those letters, generating sample grids, finding the words in them, throwing out candidates that don t fit the word placement criteria, then carving the board by removing letters until two constraints hold: we have =2 solutions by sudoku logic and exactly 1 solution when the word search logic is added. Overall about 60000 puzzles are generated and thrown out for every sound one.I used Claude pretty extensively for the code, which includes:- Puzzle generator - Puzzle solver - Puzzle explainer - Static website (Cloudflare) - Online puzzle player (local storage) - Online static puzzle walkthrough - Print book layouts - PDF layoutsOverall, it s been a lot of fun to focus on for a few weeks.https://www.sudokuwordsearch.com