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Path being a Hamiltonian path through the centers of the orthogonal sudoku grid cells of the odd numbers. Standard sudoku rules imply 5 unique odd numbers in each row, column, and box.

The uniqueness constraint seemingly has to do with the clustering of cells of degree 3 or more in the middle and 2 or more around the endings.

Update: It is possible with one restricted endpoint (r1c5/r1c7/r2c6), it has 3 permutations without it. I found it manually, try it yourself here: f-puzzles

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Outdated: The best I have found is one with 4 permutations, see below.

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If it isn't possible then is it possible with restricted endpoints? Restricting the above example to a 1 or 3 ending in the top left box reduces its permutation count to 2.

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Yes they can.

odd number snake

It took a few hours of trial and error but I've found one (or eight as it is asymmetric). Feel free to post other ones if you find any.