I Heard You Like Cages
(Published on 4. June 2024, 20:56 by vitaminz)
RULES:
Normal Sudoku Rules Apply
Each cage in the grid is either a killer cage or a look-and-say cage (or both), with each to be determined by the solver. Cage colors have no logical content.
Killer Cages: Digits must not repeat within a cage and must sum to the number in the top-left corner.
Look-and-Say Cages: The number in the top left corner says how many of a digit are in that cage. The ones place indicates the digit and the tens place indicates exactly how many times that digit appears. Digits may repeat in look-and-say cages if allowed by this and other rules. Example: If a look-and-say cage has the clue "14" then there is exactly one 4 in the cage.
Solution code: Row 6
Comments
on 21. July 2024, 01:06 by Laake
Don't know how this one flew under my radar! Loved it, the unspecified idea really helped!
on 8. June 2024, 00:19 by ThePedallingPianist
Beautiful flow to this puzzle - never too hard if you're looking in the right places!
on 6. June 2024, 05:37 by vitaminz
Thanks everyone for the wonderful comments and feedback.
on 5. June 2024, 21:29 by fortunia27
Absolutely loved it! Very fun break in. Great puzzle!
on 5. June 2024, 14:06 by marty_sears
This was brilliant! The 'unspecified idea from Lake' was really useful at helping me solve this. Apart from one deduction towards the end which I would class as a 4-5 star deduction, the rest of it did sit very comfortably in the 3 star department and flowed beautifully.
One particular part in box 1 I found very satisfying indeed.
Great work mate, definitely worthy of a feature on CTC!
on 5. June 2024, 08:04 by johncj
Perfect difficulty for me. Thank you very much.
on 4. June 2024, 21:54 by Prutsbeest
The difficulty can be set lower than 3 stars in my opinion, but it was a very fun puzzle, and nice idea!
on 4. June 2024, 21:41 by SamuPiano
Really fun puzzle! This one was a joy to test :)
on 4. June 2024, 21:17 by ViKingPrime
What an absolute privilege this was to test. I can't take any credit for this idea (besides toying with some Look-and-Say logic), this is a Justin Vitanza original and what an idea it is; such a fresh and innovative take on overlapping cages. The break-in is smart, the logic is fair and it flows wonderfully; every time you see the next step you get this little giddy sense of joy. Well done.
