Chaos Snakes
(Published on 31. March 2023, 03:35 by Dag H)
It's Chaos Snakes! A Chaos Construction puzzle where every region is also a snake. Enjoy!
Rules:
Every row, column and snake must contain the digits 1-9 once each. The finished grid will contain 9 snakes.
A snake is a set of orthogonally connected cells which is never wider than one cell, never forks and never touches itself, not even diagonally.
Digits increase along a thermo, starting at the bulb.
Digits separated by a black dot are in a 1:2 ratio.
All thermo bulbs are snake ends. Both cells separated by a black dot must be snake ends. All touching snake ends are marked with a black dot.
Every thermo is in at least two snakes.
Play online:
Thank you to Azerio on the Discord for testing and feedback!
Solution code: Row 5
Comments
on 7. July 2023, 07:05 by bansalsaab
Beautiful puzzle.
on 1. April 2023, 17:12 by henrypijames
The break-in of the irregular sudoku is quite tricky, but very neat.
on 31. March 2023, 22:23 by marcmees
very nice. thanks.
on 31. March 2023, 11:04 by Bankey
The rules say "all touching snake ends are marked with a black dot" (and not that all touching ends in a 1:2 ratio are so marked). Also, as per rules, "every thermo is in at least two snakes". These 2 rules when applied to the thermo in r9c8 to r9c9 lead to a contradiction.
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Not if one of those cells isn't a snake end! - Dag
--- oh, oh ! My bad :) Thanks for your response, Dag.
