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The Secret

(Published on 17. January 2024, 22:18 by Terttu5)

Normal sudoku rules apply. The killer cages acts as regions and cells must be shaded following regular stostone rules. (Regular stostone rules explained under the puzzle.) Every column must have exactly 5 shaded cells. Digits in the shaded cells of a cage sum to the number in the corner of a cage. Digits can't repeat in a cage.

You can solve this in f-puzzles.

Stostone rules from www.janko.at:
1. Blacken some cells of the grid [paper] resp. color the gray cells of the grid black or white [interactively].
2. A number in a region indicates how many cells in this region must be blackened. In regions without a number an arbitrary number of cells (at least one) may be blackened.
3. Within a region the black cells must form a stone, an orthogonally contiguous area.
4. Black cells must not be orthogonally adjacent across borders.
5. If all stones »fall down«, they must cover the lower half of the grid completely without gaps.

Example

Solution code: Numbers from left to right on row 1 + row 9. 18 characters, no spaces

Last changed on on 19. January 2024, 16:31

Solved by sanabas
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on 19. January 2024, 16:31 by Terttu5
Ah you are right! Digits can't repeat in a cage. I added this to the ruleset. Thanks for your comment!

on 19. January 2024, 10:55 by sanabas
Rules don't mention whether digits can repeat in a cage. I assume they can't?

on 18. January 2024, 18:35 by Terttu5
Made small adjustments to the rules.

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