A Somewhat Coptic Sudoku

When I created this puzzle, I asked for two random numbers between 1 and 9, and received 9 and 8, again not the random numbers I wanted.

The last time I did this, I never got around to actually solving the puzzles I created. I have done so this time. Here is the solution to the Slightly Armenian Sudoku from November 12. The little numbers in the top right corner of some of the squares signify the order in which I filled up the grid.

On further review, the character I used came from the Armenian ligature Unicode set. In this context, ligatures are characters which stand for multiple characters. I was confused by the Unicode website. I got the impression that the Armenian ligatures set was the main Armenian character set, but it isn’t. I shall have to make another Armenian Sudoku eventually. I didn’t know what to call this Armenian ligature when I was solving the puzzle. But it reminded me of a Hebrew letter, so I called it “Gimel.” I later discovered that there isn’t a Hebrew letter that looks like this symbol. Since there were no 2’s given in this puzzle, I could have decided that Gimel stood for 2 instead of 1. But when I was composing the puzzle, and I asked for a random number between 1 and 9, I received the number 1. So Gimel stands for 1. Got that?

One thing I notice is that to solve these puzzles with unusual symbols, I have to make the unusual symbols part of an ordering of all the symbols. In this case, my ordering was “Gimel-2-3-4-5-6-7-8-9.” Will this Coptic puzzle be significantly harder than the Armenian one? We’ll find out soon enough!