Portal Killer
(Published on 11. June 2022, 04:29 by crispy16)
This puzzle was inspired by Playmaker6174's Portal Sum puzzle.
Rules:
Normal Sudoku rules apply. Fill each cell with a digit from 1 to 9 such that every row, column and 3x3 box contains each digit exactly once.
There are 14 cages in the grid and each one contains a portal (oval shapes). 7 of the cages contain a blue portal and a total in the top left corner of the cage. The other 7 cages contain an orange portal. The cages are split into 7 pairs, with each pair containing one blue and one orange portal. Which cages belong to each pair is to be determined by the solver.
For each pair of cages the following conditions apply:
- The digit in the cells with the blue and orange portals must be the same.
- The two cages in the pair cannot touch orthogonally.
- Digits cannot repeat within any single cage and, apart from the digit in the portals, digits cannot repeat between the two cages.
- The sum of all the unique digits in the pair of cages (the digit in the portals is only counted once) must equal the total in the top left corner of the cage with the blue portal.
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Puzzle:
Solution code: Row 1 followed by column 6 (18 digits, no spaces)
Comments
on 10. May 2023, 04:43 by dennischen
This puzzle is really nice and quite easy too :) Thanks!
on 15. June 2022, 18:58 by Playmaker6174
Fantastic construction with lots of fun deductions all the way, I'm really glad that you managed to execute the portal idea in a really nice way :}
on 11. June 2022, 09:07 by Leonard Hal
The logic of the puzzle is very clear and smooth.Thank you very much!
on 11. June 2022, 07:44 by Elliott810
Very nice puzzle with a hard middle-/endgame! Thanks:)
