51st State
(Published on 19. January 2024, 07:25 by SSG)
This is my third puzzle themed on my home city of Washington, DC. I've previously set puzzles based on the DC Metro and the DC flag. This time, I'm working off the city's map. The title is, of course, aspirational.
Normal sudoku rules apply.
Anti-King: As befits the capital of a nation that rejected monarchy, diagonally adjacent cells may not contain the same digit.
Skyscrapers: Each digit in the grid represents the height of a building in its cell. Taller buildings obstruct the view of shorter ones behind them. Clues outside the grid give the number of buildings visible from that vantage point in the clue's row or column.
Dutch Whispers: Along the orange border, adjacent digits must differ by at least 4.
Region Sum Lines: The sum of digits along the blue rivers must be the same in each 3x3 box they pass through.
Solution code: Row 8 + Column 1 (18 digits)
Comments
on 20. January 2024, 02:12 by marcmees
Q:the lines pass through R5C3?
-Yes. Both lines pass through r5c3. -SSG
And r3c3 as well. Took me a while to realise. Thanks
on 19. January 2024, 16:57 by kublai
Hello neighbor! Greetings from just North of column 5 in the 7th state. Nice puzzle.
on 19. January 2024, 09:04 by ICHTUES
nice puzzle, thx!
