Megha-Tropiques
(Published on 14. February 2022, 21:00 by Xenonetix)
- Every digit from 1 to 9 appears once in every row, column, and region. Regions are to be determined. Every region is a set of 9 orthogonally connected cells, with no 2x2 sections included.
- Normal Heyawake Rules Apply. (See below.)
- The Heyawake's unshaded area doesn't loop, and doesn't include any 2x2 unshaded area.
- Heyawake shaded cells only contain digits 1-3. Not all digits 1-3 are shaded.
- Cells across white dots are found in separate regions, and contain consecutive digits from 4-9 only. All dots following both these rules are given.
Heyawake Rules:
-- Regions contain shaded cells matching the circled number. All circles are given.
-- 2 shaded cells are never orthogonally adjacent.
-- A straight (orthogonal) line of connected unshaded cells does not span across more than 1 region border.
-- All unshaded cells are connected in a single group.
Cracking The Cryptic (recommended, now with answer check!)
Penpa+ (with answer check)
F-Puzzles (not recommended)
It's effectively 3 puzzles in one! Heyawake shading, followed by region construction, followed by Sudoku. I made an example puzzle to demonstrate the rules, but if anything, it may be even harder than the main puzzle itself, but the logic does overlap more through the solve:
Cracking The Cryptic (with answer check)
Penpa+ (with answer check)
I think this is my proudest puzzle to date, so I really hope people enjoy playing this hybrid Heyawake Chaos Construction Sudoku! 😄 Any feedback and comments welcome!
Solution code: Rows 8 & 9 (left to right) (18 digits)
Comments
on 21. March 2022, 06:45 by thefallenrat
Im so sorry that I made you to double-check on your puzzle, this is clearly an error on my part. Just checked this morning when I realized that I misinput on few last digits. Fixing those make the answer check works properly. Sorry Again!
on 19. March 2022, 23:06 by Xenonetix
Not sure what went wrong, but I just double-checked and the answer checking seems to be working for me! Thanks for playing nevertheless. :)
on 17. March 2022, 16:07 by thefallenrat
Answer checking on ctc software doesnt work properly though your puzzle is quite nice (like all of your chaos construction type puzzles)
on 5. March 2022, 06:10 by Xenonetix
Updated the rules based on feedback, and added answer check to CTC!
on 18. February 2022, 15:35 by hepcecob
I've spent 2 days on this puzzle only to now figure out that numbers CAN be consecutive without the white dot, but ONLY in the same region. I understood the rules as numbers can be consecutive only on white dots.
I know the example does show this, but a rules clarification may be in order.
EDIT: Damn this was crazy. Awesome puzzle!
on 16. February 2022, 01:47 by ProRock
Cool construction. Ending at regions part was tough.
on 16. February 2022, 00:58 by grkles
That was so, so difficult haha. Might have been easier if I was more comfortable with heyawake as a puzzle type...... but either way, an incredible construction.
on 15. February 2022, 23:04 by MagnusJosefsson
Fantastic! Smooth and fun logical path throughout, which is really difficult to set with such a long multi-layered puzzle. Well done!
Check out my puzzle "Chaos Construction: Snake" as well if you like :). It has totally different mechanics but is also a long multi-layered chaos construction.
