Factory Line
(Published on 5. November 2021, 22:35 by starwarigami)
Fix the production line by replacing the missing conveyor belts. Belts come in any length between 3 and 9 cells, and each must connect two coloured workstations - the lengths are determined by the number of cells they pass through, including the workstations. The belts, tubes and chutes must form an unbroken, orthogonally connected path between the red and green workstations, visiting every other workstation exactly once and passing through every cell of the grid.
Technical Manual:
- Conveyor Belts (Anti-Factor Lines) - Digits on a line of length n may not be any multiple or factor of n other than 1, and must sum to a multiple of n.
- Grey: Pneumatic tubes (Between Lines) - Digits on the line must be between the digits in the circles.
- Yellow: Chutes (Thermometers) - Digits must increase from the bulb end.
- Pink: Enlargers (Maximum) - The digit in the cell must be larger than all orthogonally connected cells.
- Blue: Cloning Vats (Clone) - Cages labelled with the same letter must contain the same digit.
- Red: Input Hopper (Odd) - Insert an odd digit here
- Green: Quality Control (Even) - If the machine is working correctly, you should get an even digit here.
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Solution code: Column 1 (top to bottom) Column 2 (top to bottom) - 18 digits, no spaces
Comments
on 13. November 2021, 13:41 by uvo_mod
Labels angepasst.
on 6. November 2021, 06:55 by CastleSheepside
Thanks for a really cool puzzle! Lots of fun, tricky deductions involved here.
@CastleSheepside You're welcome! Glad you enjoyed it after the rocky start
on 6. November 2021, 00:57 by starwarigami
Further clarification of rules
on 6. November 2021, 00:43 by starwarigami
Updated rules to remove ambiguity
on 5. November 2021, 23:34 by CastleSheepside
I'm confused about this ruleset- if the path must visit every cell, and conveyor belts must have at least length 3, how can r1c5 be included in the path? There's no room for a 3-cell belt... unless the colored cells can be part of the belt?
@CastleSheepside belts connect the centres of the workstations, and their lengths are the number of cells they pass through, so a line of length 3 through R1C4-R1C6 would be a valid belt of length 3. I'll try and update the wording of the rules for clarity
