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Equality Cages 134: Equality candy

(Published on 2. July 2024, 12:22 by gUBBLOR)

Another Equality Cage puzzle, yet again with a little inspiration taken from Niverio and their candy series. The previous puzzle in the series:
Equality Cages 133: Windoku
Equality Cages 135: Locked out

All my series:
Equality Cages
EquaLite Cages
Shifter Lines
Shifter Dots



Rules:
Normal Sudoku rules apply. Place the digits 1 through 9 in each empty cell. Digits must not repeat within the same row, column, or box.

Equality cages: Cages must have an equal number of low (1,2,3,4) and high (6,7,8,9) digits AND an equal number of even (2,4,6,8) and odd (1,3,7,9) digits. Equality cages can never contain 5. Digits may not repeat in a cage.

Ambigous dots: There are dots of four different colors in the puzzle, and four different constraints. It's up to the solver to deduce which color is paired with which constraint. Each color has only one constraint it identifies as, but dots are allowed to act as more than one constraint. There are no negative constraints, and the dots could be any of these four;
‍ ‍ 1. X - Adjacent cells connected with an X must sum to 10.
‍ ‍ 2. V - Adjacent cells connected with an V must sum to 5.
‍ ‍ 3. Black Kropki dots - A black dot between cells indicates cell values with a 2:1 ratio.
‍ ‍ 4. White Kropki dots - A white dot between cells indicates cells with consecutive values.

Solve here:
Sudokupad

Video featuring the puzzle:
Sudoku Sleuth

Solution code: Row 6 left to right and column 3 top to bottom - no spaces.

Last changed on on 10. October 2024, 16:06

Solved by WatermeRen, isajo4002, SKORP17, palpot, fstilus, NEWS, johnreid, KingIsulgard, radium, geronimo92, AnotherBubblebath, Horoshamu, Blaimi, humaLautema
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Comments

on 10. October 2024, 16:06 by gUBBLOR
Added links

on 2. September 2024, 20:40 by gUBBLOR
Added video link to the puzzle being solved

Last changed on 9. July 2024, 11:03

on 9. July 2024, 11:02 by KingIsulgard
Took me a while to find a break in.
Took me 31:53 to solve.

on 6. July 2024, 18:17 by johnreid
Very nice puzzle! Thanks!

Last changed on 2. July 2024, 13:50

on 2. July 2024, 13:49 by WatermeRen
Always feels nice to be the first listed solver on lmd, I found figuring out compatible constraints straightforward enough but there were parts where I couldn't figure out the logic and had to brute force and go back on myself a couple times, guess I still have a lot to improve

Difficulty:3
Rating:75 %
Solved:14 times
Observed:3 times
ID:000IQY

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