Wichtel 2018 (10): HaHeHiHoHoHu
(Published on 7. February 2020, 18:20 by wichtel)
As late on Christmas evening Christian* wanted to go to bed he heard loud rattling outside. Curiously he opened the front-door and found Santa Claus trying to stuff a large envelope into Christian's mail box. "Well," Christian said aloud, "you're on your way quite late!" Santa Claus looked at him guilty. "Ho, Ho, Ho, Christian. Very good, that you are still awake." With heavy steps he stumped right to the door, laid his thick present bag down and handed the envelope to Christian. "Here I have a late present for you!" Full of expectation Christian tore the envelope open and examined the colourful printed sheet. "Very well, a puzzle, probably crytified Japanese Sums! Splendid! That's so great, thanks a lot!" He looked more carefully at the puzzle and the hints. O dear, someone let off steam with this, he just thought, yet... "But Santa Claus! There's certainly something wrong with it!" He pointed at a sequence of hints "Is this kind of 'knapp daneben', or something alike?" he asked. "No, no", answered Santa Claus, "actually total normally cryptified Japanese Sums with digits 1 to 9". He looked slightly embarrassed. "You know, originally I wanted to give you a skyscraper puzzle and had already started to set hints, when our chief gnome came and said for you had been originally planned a Japanese Sums. Well, so I quickly rearranged things into another puzzle. Unfortunately I forgot to erase the skyscraper hints. And now I do not know anymore, which numbers were skyscraper hints". "Ok", said Christian. "So you mean among the hints for the Japanese Sums there are additional some skyscraper hints as well?" "Yes, exactly", said Santa Claus, "but you have to figure out yourself, where they are and what values they have." "Well, that seems to be feasible!" said Christian optimistically and - considering the cold - invited Santa Claus to a cup of punch into the kitchen.
* Name changed by gnome editorial department with the author's approval :-)
Solution code: Row 6 and row 8, S for black cells
Comments
on 5. May 2024, 00:49 by Agent
Fantastic puzzle!
on 3. April 2023, 00:41 by KNT
One of the most enjoyable Japanese Sum puzzles I have ever solved.
on 9. April 2020, 19:41 by Danielle
Zuerst habe ich ein paar R für B gehalten, beim zweiten Versuch waren immer noch alle U ein O, aber beim dritten Versuch ging es wunderbar auf. Hat mir sehr gut gefallen!
on 8. April 2020, 09:54 by AndreasS
Sehr schönes Rätsel. Toll gemacht.
on 27. February 2020, 17:51 by AnnaTh
Wirklich schön, wie sich alles ineinander fügt. (Die Sauklaue könnte von mir sein;-) So ein schönes Rätsel allerdings nicht.)
on 22. February 2020, 00:03 by zuzanina
Wunderschön!!
on 17. February 2020, 16:33 by Krokant
HaHeHiHoHoHui, da hat der Weihnachtsmann die Ärmel sicher weit hochgekrempelt, um eine solch schicke Kombination zusammenzuklöppeln. Großes Kino :)
on 13. February 2020, 17:35 by Mody
Stimmt, eine der schönsten Japanischen Summen im Portal :)
on 11. February 2020, 14:31 by verflixt
Eines der schönsten, die ich lösen konnte!
on 10. February 2020, 20:59 by ibag
Und wie erwartet: Es HAT nochmal großen Spaß gemacht. Toller Wichtel!
on 9. February 2020, 22:54 by marcmees
klasse. Danke Wichtel
on 9. February 2020, 13:52 by ibag
Der Weihnachtsmann hat aber ne Sauklaue! Erst hab ich ne Weile gebraucht um zu merken, dass einige der Os ja Us sind. Und nun merke ich gerade, dass es ein paar mehr sind als orsprönglich gedacht. Auf ein neues also ... Aber das macht bestimmt auch ein zweites Mal viel Spaß!
on 8. February 2020, 08:59 by r45
Wunderschön!
