This puzzle combines mirrored digits by Christounet, rellik cages by sujoyku and shenanigans by Jay Dyer. Mirrored cells act as modifiers and change the constraint type. See below for a 4x4 example puzzle.
Here is a filled grid that satisfies the rules mentioned above. Mirrored cells are highlighted in blue. The 4 in R3C4 must repeat in R4C1 because otherwise, the L-shaped regions would not contain each digit exactly once. All clues that don't contain a mirrored digit act normally. The 8-rellik cage turns into an 8 killer with values 4+4 because the mirror of 1 is 4. One renban line contains two fours which form a valid nabner line with values 1 and 4. the killer cage at the bottom contains the value 3 twice (3 is the mirror of 2). The nabner on the top turns into a renban with values 1 and 2. Note that cages can have repeated values and lines can have repeated digits but not the other way around.
Solution code: Column 7 top to bottom (9 digits)
on 31. May 2024, 05:04 by Roezaea
good lord, that was hard!
on 8. May 2024, 15:18 by oregan0
hour long solve. good
on 2. May 2024, 20:24 by vitaminz
Great puzzle as always gdc!
on 24. April 2024, 10:00 by Geb
Some quite novel thinking required to solve this one. That's certainly a good bit of exercise for the brain!
on 26. March 2024, 04:10 by SamuPiano
Amazing puzzle and combination ruleset!
on 3. March 2024, 02:15 by marty_sears
This was fantastic! Highly elegant fogwork as we have come to expect from gdc, and quite a few fun surprises to be uncovered. Took me a little while to get my head round the multiple overlapping rules, but once I did, the rewards were numerous
on 3. March 2024, 02:03 by Ratfinkz
Some stunning logic here! Enjoyed the group solve, thank you
on 3. March 2024, 02:01 by ViKingPrime
Quite the challenge! Well set (and a beautiful title to boot).
on 23. February 2024, 16:05 by gfoot
I enjoyed this, but found it very challenging even towards the end, irregular sudoku is quite hard for me
on 22. February 2024, 20:23 by Myxo
Very nice! Left me wanting for more with this ruleset.
on 22. February 2024, 20:21 by Christounet
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