Normal sudoku rules apply.
Yin-Yang: Shade some cells such that all shaded cells are orthogonally connected, all unshaded cells are orthogonally connected and no 2x2 area is completely shaded or unshaded.
Fortress: A digit in a shaded cell must be greater than all orthogonally connected unshaded digits.
Squares and circles are unshaded.
A digit in a square must be equal to the number of unshaded cells it sees in its row and column combined, including itself, where shaded cells block vision and are not seen.
A digit in a circle must be equal to the number of unshaded cells in the surrounding 9 cells including itself.
Solution code: row 5
on 14. July 2024, 13:54 by puzzlepandit
Nicely thought out puzzle. Thanks.
on 4. July 2024, 23:48 by wuc
Cool puzzle. Great flow and interaction of constraints thx.
on 3. July 2024, 18:01 by mihel111
Lovely puzzle.
on 3. July 2024, 14:06 by 9Rookienumbers
Thank you for the puzzle! I really like yin-yangs and I found this ruleset very interesting
on 3. July 2024, 13:52 by johncj
Thank you for a great puzzle. Perfect difficulty for me.