Cogito Ergo Santa
(Published on 26. December 2022, 17:02 by grkles)
Fillomino (almost): Divide the grid into non-overlapping regions and fill the cells in each region with the size of its respective region. Regions of the same size may not touch orthogonally.
Regions of size 7 are instead sudoku regions containing a set of the digits 0-9, to be determined. There are 7 sudoku regions in the grid, each containing the same set of 7 different digits. These regions still may not touch each other orthogonally.
Every given digit is a fillomino clue (ie given 7s are part of sudoku regions).
Sudoku digits do not necessarily appear in every row and column, and may never repeat in any row or column.
Numbered rooms: Digits outside the grid are numbered rooms clues, and indicate the value of the Nth cell in that respective row or column, where N is the value of the nearest cell. (Note that these clues do not necessarily point to the nearest cell containing the clued value.)
Ambiguous Dots: Cells separated by a gray dot contain digits which are either consecutive, the same value, or which sum to 10. Every dot may be any one of these possibilities.
Solve online:
- Penpa+ (for automatic answer check, all polyomino edges must be drawn in green, and all digits must be entered in red, blue, or green.)
- CtC app (for answer check, enter all digits.)
Solution code: Row 5, followed by column 7 (20 digits, no spaces).
Comments
on 2. November 2023, 11:17 by Fior
Wow, incredible fun solve! Some of the required logic steps, especially in the middle, were amazing.
on 4. March 2023, 05:04 by Playmaker6174
Fabulous, fabulous! My solve was quite godly awful here due to poor numbered room scanning, but I eventually got all the fruits and that ending was just *chef's kiss* x)
on 10. February 2023, 14:41 by Niverio
Fantastic gift! Enjoyed it immensely.
on 2. January 2023, 14:55 by MagnusJosefsson
Fantastic puzzle, very fun and very smooth!
on 31. December 2022, 17:28 by Agent
Very nice and unique puzzle! Love to see another sudoku / fillomino hybrid :-)
on 26. December 2022, 19:19 by grkles
Adding missing rules text.
on 26. December 2022, 18:15 by marcmees
Q: What does a grey dot do?
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A: Oh my gosh, I completely missed that when copy/pasting rules. I'll fix it, thank you!
In the meantime: "Cells separated by a gray dot contain digits which are either consecutive, the same value, or which sum to 10. Every dot may be any one of these possibilities."
on 26. December 2022, 17:33 by Samish
Gorgeous puzzle, the concept is really cool and the execution flawless. A great pleasure to test this one :D
on 26. December 2022, 17:25 by the_cogito
I LOVED this gift. Such a crazy puzzle, almost felt like I could have come up with it myself :P Thanks grkles.
on 26. December 2022, 17:06 by Andrewsarchus
I really enjoyed being one of the testers on this puzzle. Very original and fresh. Lots of fun.
