Lend Me Your Eyes
(Published on 17. November 2020, 01:46 by RockyRoer)
"Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears; I come to bury Caesar, not to praise him." - Mark Antony, Julius Caesar (Act III Scene II) by William Shakespeare
This should be a hard and steady solve -- no outrageous break-in's required, but challenging throughout. Good luck!
Rules:- Normal sudoku rules apply.
- XV rules apply... kind of.
- The first number in every row and column indicate how many I's must be placed in front of or behind the X's and V's in that row/column to form proper Roman Numerals. When the I's are properly placed, the numbers will show the sum of the cells they separate. For example, two cells surrounding an IX would add to 9. Two cells surrounding a VIII would sum to 8.
- Not all X's and V's are shown. (There is no negative constraint)
- It's possible some X's and V's will not end up with any I's.
- For your reference:
- IV = 4
- V = 5
- VI = 6
- VII = 7
- VIII = 8
- IX = 9
- X = 10
- XI = 11
- XII = 12
- XIII = 13
The Puzzle:
Solution code: Row VII followed by Column IV. (XVIII digits)
Comments
on 31. March 2024, 04:19 by RockyRoer
Added roman numerals tag
on 20. May 2021, 03:50 by Nylimb
Very nice! I'm glad to be the enoughth solver to give this a rating.
on 17. November 2020, 18:56 by CountSudokula
It's appropriate you should call it give me your "eyes"... 30 minutes staring at this grid and I had to call my optometrist! :)
on 17. November 2020, 18:16 by ThrowngNinja
@SudokuExplorer You dont give "X" to each roman numeral, you distribute it in a way that doesnt break the puzzle. You are essentially choosing which letters get the I's
on 17. November 2020, 17:46 by SenatorGronk
Thanks. Lots of novel deductions to make to solve this one.
on 17. November 2020, 17:04 by CountSudokula
From SudokuExplorer:
@RockyRoer I'm a bit confused by the rules.
When you say that the "The first number in every row and column indicate how many I's must be placed in front of or behind the X's and V's in that row/column to form proper Roman Numerals", is that only when the first digit is between 1 and 3? What happens when the first digit is greater than three?
From CountSudokia:
Is it the TOTAL number of ASSIGNED I's in the row/column, but not necessarily resulting in the same sums for each given V?? Example, a 7 in R1C1 could be used to make VII, VII and VIII in column 1? That must be it, right?
Author's reply: yep! That's the idea. Spoiler: since some of the rows only have 1 or 2 X's or V's, they can't have too many i's can they... :-)
on 17. November 2020, 16:45 by SirWoezel
Loads of fun!
on 17. November 2020, 06:35 by ThrowngNinja
Probably took me 30 minutes just to really comprehend what was going on hahaha. Found it fairly challenging, it was a lot of fun too!
