Oops, All Renbans!
(Published on 14. May 2024, 18:00 by PersonWhoExists50306)
Normal sudoku rules apply (no repeats in a row, column, or box).
Digits on thermometers increase from bulb to tip.
On the orange Dutch whisper lines, the digits in adjacent cells must have differences of at least 4.
On the cyan region sum line, sections divided by box borders must have digits which sum to the same value.
In the killer cages, the digits must sum to the indicated value.
All of these elements are also renban lines. You must be able to rearrange the digits to form a sequence of consecutive numbers. No repeats are allowed on a renban line.
If there is overlap between any of the aforementioned elements, consider them separate overlapping renban lines, not one big line.
Created with sirxemic's sudoku maker.
Solution code: The first row, from left to right
Comments
on 17. May 2024, 14:28 by BorisTheSnake
Beautiful logic! Thanks :)
on 16. May 2024, 11:58 by Fra314
Great construction, great fun, great everything!
Can I recommend your puzzles to BremSter? Thanks!
reply from PersonWhoExists50306: sure! appreciate it
on 15. May 2024, 16:43 by keenbowl
Very lovely, thanks for setting&sharing!
on 14. May 2024, 22:53 by Shearing
Great puzzle, thank you!
on 14. May 2024, 21:49 by emsou
Very fun!
I forget if there's an actual proof that a Dutch whisper with 9 distinct digits forms the sequence that it does here, but I found that even without it I was able to fill in the line just using the basic rule and Sudoku after staring at it for a while.
reply from PersonWhoExists50306: this made me curious and I messed around in the sudoku maker. In the following sudoku, the same sequence seems to repeat 9 times. https://sudokupad.app/nev15efrna
on 14. May 2024, 19:41 by PinkNickels
At first, I was lazy, didn't read the instructions, and assumed just the lines were renbans...I quickly got stuck and then re-read the instructions. Very fun solve! Clever idea.
on 14. May 2024, 19:39 by PersonWhoExists50306
added some tags i forgot
