Rules
Divide the grid into regions, each consisting of nine orthogonally connected cells. Each row, column and region must contain the digits 1 to 9 once each.
Arrows indicate the distance between the first two region borders seen in that direction (the grid border also counts for this).
The puzzle
Solve on Penpa
Solution code: Column 1, Column 9
on 9. January 2023, 11:11 by MagnusJosefsson
Great puzzle Mark! The ruleset works very well with Chaos Construction as well.
on 6. January 2023, 00:42 by Christounet
A nice new border gaps puzzle !
Funnily, I had some trouble to not use fillomino logic while solving this one at the beginning, because I was so used to the logic introduced in the 2 first puzzles of this serie.
on 4. January 2023, 20:20 by marcmees
very nice. thanks.