The Fountain
(Published on 14. October 2023, 11:49 by Tobias Brixner)
Featured on the YouTube channel Cracking The Cryptic. Many thanks to Simon and everyone else for playing!
Puzzle links: Play on CTC SudokuPad with background image or without background image.
Rules: Place the digits 1-9 once each into each row, column, and region of orthogonally connected cells. Regions must be determined.
On a green line, adjacent digits differ by 5 or more.
A cage indicates how many different regions there are in all orthogonally or diagonally adjacent cells.
Background: I find it fascinating that all the regions and digits can be found with so few (mostly symmetric) clues and such a short ruleset. Please enjoy the experience of the fountain! It took me quite some time to come up with this puzzle; your comments are therefore highly appreciated.
If you like chaos construction, consider also trying my other puzzle Count the Borders.
Image: Saxon Garden Fountain, Warsaw, Poland by Kgbo (CC BY-SA 4.0). For the combined Sudoku image, CC BY-SA 4.0 applies as well.
Solution code: All digits of row 3 (from left to right) followed by column 3 (from top to bottom) without spaces.
Comments
on 6. November 2023, 11:05 by Tobias Brixner
Added link to Cracking the Cryptic video.
on 6. November 2023, 10:33 by madhupt
An absolutely fabulous puzzle! Thanks a lot for sharing.
on 5. November 2023, 00:33 by NRB
This was stunning
on 20. October 2023, 14:20 by h5663454
Bruh.
on 16. October 2023, 15:41 by yuanbangod
good
on 16. October 2023, 11:33 by ONeill
Cool puzzle!
on 15. October 2023, 00:44 by coreng
Absolutely incredible. It looked like there was no way to resolve this. Tricky break in. I kept thinking whatever I entered would break. Then near the end I thought I had a dreaded deadly pattern. Then using some lettering I found my way through. Great puzzle. Thanks for setting
on 14. October 2023, 22:17 by marcmees
Very nice. Thanks.
on 14. October 2023, 14:29 by Xalothros
@marcmees The number of different regions includes the region the cage belongs to.
on 14. October 2023, 13:57 by marcmees
Q: how many different regions = including the region to which the cage belongs ... or not?
@ Xalothros: thanks
