Adulthood
(Published on 5. March 2023, 05:42 by GarlicBredFries)
Rules:
Normal sudoku rules apply
A set of the digits 1 to 9, one in each row, column, and box, in the grid are Fountains of Youth
The fountain "splashes" the cells orthogonally and diagonally adjacent
A fountain does not splash itself, but can be splashed by other fountains
A cell may be splashed by multiple fountains.
Each time a cell is splashed, the value of the cell is reduced by one
The cages show the sum of the values of the cells it contains
Examples of how fountains work are shown below
Play on F-puzzles (without answer check)
Play on Penpa+ (with answer check)
Play on the CTC Webapp (without answer check)
Play on F-puzzles (without answer check)
Play on Penpa+ (with answer check)
Play on the CTC Webapp (without answer check)
Solution code: The numerical digit in each of the fountains, top to bottom, no spaces (9 digits)
Comments
on 6. March 2023, 17:59 by bansalsaab
Happy Birthday. What a beautiful concept. I made "splash" mistakes along the way but was able to recover and solve it.
on 5. March 2023, 20:05 by vidarino
Fantastic puzzle! Great variety of deductions throughout the entire solve.
on 5. March 2023, 16:44 by Piatato
Happy birthday in advance, and thanks for the awesome puzzle! I had a lot of fun throughout, and it solved very smoothly. It felt like around 3.5/5 for me, so maybe you should lower the difficulty to 4 stars so as to not unnessecarily scare away some solvers. :)
on 5. March 2023, 09:02 by GarlicBredFries
Changed the penpa link. It had a 10 cage instead of an 18 cage in box 5
