Suguru Chaos Deconstruction: Solo Little Killers
(Published on 10. April 2022, 21:17 by crispy16)
This puzzle is inspired by the excellent Suguru Chaos Deconstruction series by mathpesto. You should absolutely check out their puzzles here.
Rules:
Deconstructed Suguru: Fill some cells in the grid with the digits 1–9 such that no digit repeats in a row or column. All digits must belong to a region (a collection of orthogonally connected cells), and a region of size n contains the digits 1 through n once each. Regions may not touch each other orthogonally, although they may touch each other diagonally.
Digits cannot repeat along either of the marked main diagonals. All cells in cages must contain a digit, and they must sum to the given total.
Little Killer clues outside the grid indicate the sum of all digits in non-empty cells along the indicated diagonal. Digits may repeat on these diagonals if allowed by other rules.
For each diagonal (main or little killer), all non-empty cells on that diagonal belong to different regions.
Solve on F-Puzzles
Solve on Cracking the Cryptic
SPOILER: Solution Guide
Puzzle:
Solution code: Ignoring blank cells, write the digits in Rows 5 and 11 (left to right, no spaces)
Comments
on 23. April 2023, 20:29 by dennischen
Impressive how all the constraints came together. Love this Suguru variant :)
on 12. January 2023, 17:59 by Myxo
Lovely puzzle!
on 18. September 2022, 16:07 by cornuto
Wunderschön. Diese sugurus gefallen mir immer besser.
on 13. June 2022, 08:54 by Mody
Das war wirklich klasse.
That was really great.
on 1. June 2022, 22:55 by crispy16
Fixed typo
on 1. June 2022, 22:54 by crispy16
Updated links and added link to solution guide.
on 25. April 2022, 06:50 by Elliott810
Stunning!
on 24. April 2022, 13:29 by kolot
Very beautiful!
on 23. April 2022, 16:32 by crispy16
Added Suguru tag
on 23. April 2022, 00:17 by robals
Spent my Friday afternoon solving this. Nice start, nice finish. Got stuck near the middle defining the regions. Thanks for the puzzle!
on 17. April 2022, 01:03 by Bootenks
Wow, what an excellent construction.
I loved to solve this adventure.
on 15. April 2022, 03:23 by polar
Incredibly smooth puzzle - thank you!
on 12. April 2022, 01:30 by laregioncentrale
Really loved the constraint on diagonals, it made finding the regions a lot of fun. Thanks!
on 11. April 2022, 13:11 by Niverio
Very nice puzzle! Definitely worth half listening to class while solving this in 95 minutes ;) Very well done, the flow is spectacular and whenever one feels like stuck, one bit of information just jumps out at you!
on 11. April 2022, 11:20 by aruvi
brutal puzzle, but i'm not about to regret the 4 hours i spent on this. what a wonderful original concept!
on 10. April 2022, 21:35 by mathpesto
I'm delighted that you were inspired to do a puzzle based on my SCD series, and it's an incredibly impressive debut for you as a setter—congrats! Lots of lovely deductions the whole way through. A very smooth yet challenging solve.
