Steamed 'Bans (chaos construction with region sum clues)
(Published on 5. September 2024, 00:00 by SkepticalMario)
Steamed 'Bans by Skeptical Mario
It's a regional dialect.
Rules:
Chaos construction rules - Place a digit from 1-9 in each cell without repeating in a row, column, or region. The regions are orthogonally-connected groups of nine cells, which do not overlap and whose borders must be deduced.
Thermometers - On a gray thermometer line, digits increase from the bulb to the tip.
Renban - The digits on a pink renban line are a set of nonrepeating consecutive digits in any order.
Region sum clues - in addition to the standard line rules above, each clue is divided by region borders into segments that have the same sum. (Each clue crosses at least one region border.)
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I hope you enjoy the puzzle! :-)
Solution code: The leftmost digit in the top row of each region, in reading order
Comments
on 14. September 2024, 16:13 by Christounet
Elegant construction and very satisfying solve. Thanks :)
on 7. September 2024, 23:46 by wenchang
GREAT! Spoiler alert! https://youtu.be/-4BH0VmGaI0
on 7. September 2024, 23:24 by samuel1997
Awesome! Thank you!
on 6. September 2024, 10:09 by Qodec
So satisfying! Thanks!
on 6. September 2024, 05:13 by SkepticalMario
Delightfully devilish, @jerbear29!
on 6. September 2024, 04:45 by jerbear29
A..a chaos construction sudoku? At this time of year! At this time of day! In this part of the country! Localized entirely within Logic Masters Germany?!?
on 5. September 2024, 16:55 by Franjo
Very interesting CC-ruleset with incredibly fine setting. Thank you so much for creating and sharing.
on 5. September 2024, 12:30 by mihel111
Beautiful puzzle. The RSLs work great.
on 5. September 2024, 12:20 by Steven R
Very nice! Thanks :)
on 5. September 2024, 12:07 by marcmees
very nice. thanks
on 5. September 2024, 09:02 by rameshsrivats
Great puzzle. Suffered entering the solution code though :)
on 5. September 2024, 04:37 by cybers
Great CC! Clean and cool deductions throughout via the RS lines, some fun region building, and little to no tricky irregular sudoku :)
