LITSweeper
(Published on 2. January 2024, 21:33 by SirSchmoopy)
Normal Sudoku rules apply.
LITS
Shade one tetromino of cells in each caged region so that all shaded cells form a single orthogonally connected area. Two tetrominoes of the same shape (including rotations and reflections) may not touch orthogonally. No 2x2 region may be entirely shaded.
Minesweeper
Cells with a circle have a digit that is equal to the number of surrounding cells (orthogonally or diagonally adjacent, and excluding the cell with the circle itself) which are shaded.
Cells with a square have a digit equal to the number of surrounding cells that are NOT shaded.
Cells with a circle or a square may or may not be shaded and not all possible circles or squares are necessarily given.
(n.b. - that the cages are regions for LITS and do NOT act as killer cages; digits may repeat within cages if allowed by other rules)
Solution code: Row 8 + Column 6 (18 digits from left to right/top to bottom, no spaces)
Comments
on 3. January 2024, 20:07 by SirSchmoopy
updated rules, thanks for the feedback peterkp!
on 3. January 2024, 13:26 by peterkp
OK, thanks. You might want to reword the rules, because you use the word "region" in different ways. I assumed you were describing the 3x3 boxes. You also refer to a 2x2 region.
on 3. January 2024, 06:59 by peterkp
If the cages are not killer cages, what kind of cages are they? Is there any constraint at all? I can't see why they are even there.
[SirSchmoopy] - those are the regions for the LITS portion of the puzzle
