Sightseeing (Aquapelago Chaos Deconstruction, 9x9)
(Published on 11. September 2023, 10:49 by thoughtbyte)
Chaos deconstruction: shade some cells so that no two shaded cells are orthogonally adjacent and the remaining unshaded cells form one orthogonally connected area. No 2x2 area may be entirely unshaded. In the unshaded area, 7 8-cell orthogonally connected regions containing the digits 1-8 must be located. Digits cannot repeat in any unshaded row, column or region.
Aquapelago: if a clued given digit cell is shaded, the clue indicates the number of shaded cells in the diagonally connected group it belongs to.
Sightlines: if a clued given digit cell is unshaded, the digit indicates the number of unshaded cells that can be seen orthogonally from that cell, including itself. Shaded cells and region borders block vision.
Digits inside a cage do not repeat and sum to the small clue in the top left corner. Shaded cells contribute 0 to the total.
Below is an example grid (minus the Sudoku) for illustrative purposes. It is not an actual puzzle. "Shaded" cells are grey, e.g. R1C1.
Penpa+: https://tinyurl.com/yoedx9yu
F-Puzzles: https://f-puzzles.com/?id=ywj4dbgs
SudokuPad: https://tinyurl.com/sightseeingsudoku
Solution code: Row 5, with the size of shaded groups for shaded cells.
Comments
on 21. September 2023, 06:06 by thoughtbyte
add tag
on 16. September 2023, 00:37 by boomsoon
Really nice puzzle. I made a mistake and spent ages backtracking because I enjoyed the rules and setting so much I had to finish it.
on 14. September 2023, 19:45 by thoughtbyte
edit title
on 12. September 2023, 23:15 by thoughtbyte
bump difficulty to 4 - I've had a wide range of difficulties on this one
on 12. September 2023, 23:09 by dennischen
this is quite a hard puzzle, but it's lovely. never seen anything quite like this before
on 12. September 2023, 19:57 by marcmees
great puzzle. thanks.
