The Fool's Windmill
(Published on 15. August 2022, 18:46 by Fool on Hill)
Puzzle rules
Normal Sudoku rules apply.
In a cage digits must not repeat and must sum to the total at the top left of the cage.
Digits on a marked diagonal may not repeat.
Digits on an arrow must sum to that arrow's circle..
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This is part of my exploration of "zero sum Sudoku" - clues which would remain true if we deducted every number in the grid from 10. I call it zero sum because if we changed the Sudoku digits to run from -4 to 4 the clues would all be zero. A seven cell 35 cage is a zero sum clue. I wanted to explore seven cell 35 cages a bit after my last puzzle, as they have some interesting properties. Something needs to disambiguate a zero sum grid, and here that is done with arrows. The diagonals are zero sum clues.
Solution code: Row 5, column 8
Comments
on 16. August 2022, 19:23 by danmeehan91324
Intense puzzle (pun intended.)
Thanks for setting!
Thank you for the pun. I used it in the title of my next 7-cell 35 cage puzzle, which is rather different from this one, and I think a bit tougher.
on 16. August 2022, 13:48 by Caterinas80
Thanks, now I was able to do it!
Very nice puzzle, thank you!
on 15. August 2022, 19:49 by Fool on Hill
Corrected grid to make all cages 7 cells and symmetrical
on 15. August 2022, 19:25 by Caterinas80
Can digits repeat in cages? Otherwise the 8-cell cage in box 9 does not make sense...
Thank you. Corrected.
