Satan Whispers
(Eingestellt am 19. Februar 2024, 16:42 Uhr von damasosos92)
Rules:
Within the thick-bordered 9x9 grid, place the digits 1 to 9 in every row, column, and 3x3 box. A digit from 1 to 9 must be placed in each dashed-line cell outside the grid. Digits outside the grid give the order in which those digits must appear in the corresponding row or column, but not necessarily next to each other. Digits joined by a grey diamond add up either to 5 or to 10. Solvers must deduce the sum for every grey diamond. Not all diamonds are necessarily given. Adjacent digits along green lines must differ by at least 5.
Satan Whispers is also available online on CTC-App.
This in an example of how digits in dotted cells work:
Have fun solving. And please leave a comment after your solve!
Lösungscode: Last column, top to bottom, including the outside clues (14 digits)
Kommentare
am 7. Mai 2024, 14:28 Uhr von Silverstep
You know how MMORPG sometimes have bosses that are dps-check? This puzzle is an "effective notation" check -- choose your notations carefully!
moderately hard, low 5 stars
am 24. April 2024, 20:58 Uhr von Nordy
VERY hard but suuuuuper cool! Loved it
am 24. Februar 2024, 02:45 Uhr von mormagli
Oh my.
This one almost killed me. The path is very subtle & I found it very easy to make mistakes.
Impressive & satanic construction!
am 22. Februar 2024, 10:49 Uhr von peacherwu2
Pure luck.
am 21. Februar 2024, 15:57 Uhr von goodcity
Easy to understand but satanic to solve ! Thanks for sharing :)
am 21. Februar 2024, 00:01 Uhr von femto113
After building the main pattern of high-low digits along the lines I couldn't see how to figure out how to disambiguate the two sets, so ultimately just tried it one way and it worked. Still plenty of rewarding logic before and after that point.
- damasosos92: Thank you so much. I added a hidden comment with an explanation of the logic needed to disambiguate.
am 20. Februar 2024, 12:05 Uhr von Snookerfan
Fantastic puzzle! Thank you
am 20. Februar 2024, 08:27 Uhr von Mutx
Just fabulous.
am 20. Februar 2024, 07:15 Uhr von zzw
Super cool puzzle! The rules play well together. And of course it's quite satanic too!
am 20. Februar 2024, 06:18 Uhr von by81996672
Good puzzle, I personally believe that with patient observation, it should be possible to solve it. I am more curious about what the black square in the top left corner of the puzzle is for?
- that square is needed to make the cells outside the grid editable. It's a limit of the export from Penpa+, so it's not relevant for the puzzle.
am 20. Februar 2024, 01:35 Uhr von sanabas
Excellent puzzle.
am 19. Februar 2024, 17:10 Uhr von jwsinclair
Fantastic puzzle! Really glad you decided to publish it
am 19. Februar 2024, 16:53 Uhr von Myxo
Beautiful puzzle!
am 19. Februar 2024, 16:50 Uhr von yttrio
It was really fun to solve this as one of the initial testers. Several steps were quite difficult, but it was ultimately very satisfying when everything finally fell into place!
