The Three Bears Sudoku
(Published on 14. October 2020, 03:48 by dance1211)
The Three Bears Sudoku
The three bears family live happily together in their comfy little home. Each killer cage belongs to one of the family members.
- Papa Bear's cages are always too big and the sum of digits within are always up to 4 less than the given total.
- Mama Bear's cages are always too small and the sum of digits within are always up to 4 greater than the given total.
- Baby bear's cages are just right. The sum of digits within is exactly the given total.
Two cages that belong to the same bear never touch orthogonally. However, they may touch diagonally. Digits do not repeat within the killer cages and of course, normal sudoku rules apply.
The preview shows a coloured grid. The colours are purely for decoration and have no impact on the solving process. The puzzle linked has no such colouring.
Solution code: Column 3 followed by Column 7, no spaces or commas
Comments
on 19. October 2020, 19:14 by dance1211
Changed solution code description
on 15. October 2020, 04:07 by panthchesh
Thank you for the puzzle. I loved what you did with it!!
on 14. October 2020, 08:41 by dance1211
Thanks ThrowingNinja! It's my first puzzle so I gave it my all in trying to make the whole thing work to a proper standard. What you said is also the reason I linked a Penpa version too ;)
on 14. October 2020, 06:29 by ThrowngNinja
Kept forgetting the actual cage totals and had to make a new grid with corrected totals after messing up so many times hahaha, had lots of fun with this one!
