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Chaos Construction: Nonogram

(Published on 8. March 2024, 08:48 by Xendari)

Chaos Construction: Nonogram
I haven't been setting or solving much of anything lately, but this is a puzzle that's been in my backlog for a while and I wanted to finally publish it. The setting process was kind of a blur - I want to say this puzzle took the most time to set out of all of my puzzles. My intention for the setting process was strictly to create a puzzle whose clues were not based in arithmetic, which I've used for every single puzzle so far. I want to specifically thank zzw for testing multiple versions of this puzzle and finding far more bypasses than I anticipated lol. Your feedback is appreciated, and I hope you enjoy the puzzle :)

Rules
Place the digits 1-9 once each in every row, column, and region. A region is an orthogonally connected group of 9 cells whose position must be determined by the solver.
Each cell is either shaded or unshaded. Clues outside the grid give the length of contiguous runs of unshaded cell in the corresponding row or column, read top to bottom or left to right. A '...' clue represents any number of runs, including none.
For each row and column, nonogram clues are either all given or none are given. In rows or columns with outside clues, region borders may only occur (but do not have to occur) at change of color.
A digit in a circle indicates the number of cells seen in all directions combined (including itself) that have the same shading and are in the same region (i.e., vision is obstructed by either a region border or a cell with different shading). Not all circles are necessarily given.


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Solution code: Row 9


Solved by zzw, Snookerfan, MicroStudy, bansalsaab, redgecko, jkuo7, marcmees, henrypijames, abed hawila, SPring, Jesper, Rafje, peacherwu2, Tom-dz, misko, Canyun, ONeill, lerroyy, kevinlimanta, dogfarts, Silverstep
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Comments

on 22. August 2024, 00:59 by Silverstep
Maybe this is just me solving a Philip Newman recently, but this seems too... easy, to get five stars? It's impressively clean as well!

Last changed on 8. March 2024, 23:00

on 8. March 2024, 20:43 by marcmees
Q: all directions combined = including diagonally?

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Hi marcmees, circles count only orthogonal directions (similar to cave clues)

on 8. March 2024, 20:04 by bansalsaab
Very hard due to multiple coloring but fair throughout.

on 8. March 2024, 12:35 by Snookerfan
Brilliant! Easy to make mistakes, so quite hard. Beautiful logic all around. Thank you

on 8. March 2024, 08:56 by zzw
Awesome! So glad this is finally seeing the light of day, it's a great puzzle!

Difficulty:5
Rating:96 %
Solved:21 times
Observed:7 times
ID:000H7V

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