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Separate but Equal

(Published on 30. August 2024, 21:21 by DubiousMobius)

The third in my shattered sudoku series (and my personal favorite). If you like this one you can play the first here. and the second here.
Also, I found that using the 'dashed grid' option for playing these shattered puzzles makes the grid feel way less cramped, but your mileage may vary. All feedback is appreciated, and thanks for playing!

Rules:

Place a digit from 1 to 9 in each empty cell. Digits must not repeat within the same row or column of the current grid.

Additionally place 1-9 in each 9-cell region. The 9-cell regions have been broken and rearranged, but the fragments of each region could be reshuffled into a 3x3 box using translation and rotation. No fragment has been placed next to any other fragment of its original box.

The blue lines are 'fragment-sum lines', and meet at fragment borders in the unshattered boxes. The sums of the cells on any given line are equal in each fragment it visits. If a line visits a fragment multiple times, the sum on each visit is counted separately. Different lines may have different sums, and no line visits more than one 9-cell region.

White dots separate cells with consecutive digits.

Play here on SudokuPad

Solution code: Row 4

Last changed on on 31. August 2024, 22:54

Solved by SKORP17, lmdemasi
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on 31. August 2024, 22:54 by DubiousMobius
Updating difficulty, per feedback

Last changed on 30. August 2024, 22:33

on 30. August 2024, 22:12 by lmdemasi
So happy to see another in this series! The sum constraint was excellent here.

Nothing too tricky, felt more like a 3*.

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DM: So glad you enjoyed it! And good feedback on the difficulty. I'm definitely still dialing in my estimates (and it feels like erring too difficult is the kinder alternative).

Difficulty:3
Rating:N/A
Solved:2 times
Observed:0 times
ID:000JLV

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