Advent Calendar
(Published on 1. December 2023, 02:13 by marty_sears)
This is my old puzzle Advent Calendar that was featured on CTC on Christmas Eve last year. Nowhere near as clever as AnalyticalNinja's recent Advent Calendar puzzle, but I'm still rather fond of it and had never got round to uploading it to LMD. So here it is...
Rules:
- Normal sudoku rules apply but using the digits 0-8 instead of 1-9.
- Find and colour the 24 hidden cages, which do not overlap. Each cage has a different total between 1 and 24 – the total for each cage is given on one of its cells (by a red clue).
- Digits MAY repeat within cages.
- All cages are triominoes (ie consist of 3 orthogonally connected cells) apart from one, which is a pentomino (containing 5 orthogonally connected cells.)
- Cells with a large snowball in the central 3x3 box count as double their value for the purposes of their cage totals (if they reside within a cage).
- Cells separated by a small white dot contain consecutive digits.
- Cells separated by a small black dot contain digits with a ratio of 1:2 (ie one is double the other.)
- Not all possible black and white dots are given.
Click here to play on the CTC app
Please leave a comment if you enjoy :)
Solution code: The uncaged digits, in reading order (reading each row from left to right, and working downwards.)
Comments
on 30. October 2024, 18:32 by jakestilesowen
Delightful little puzzle and not too easy (for me at least).
on 16. April 2024, 00:54 by jellef
Ah, such a nice puzzle. It contains so many little puzzles, it really does feel like an advent calendar haha
on 1. December 2023, 23:18 by vitaminz
I enjoy :)
on 1. December 2023, 14:48 by Ragna
Das hat Spaß gemacht. Dankeschön für das Geschenk zum 1. Advent.
:-))
