Doublers Make Me Loop-Pea!
(Published on 9. September 2024, 15:44 by SamuPiano)
This is yet another puzzle using the split pea line constraint! Other puzzles in this series:
Schrodinger's Split Peas (5* difficulty) - S-cells
Inner Peas (4* difficulty) - yin/yang, hot/cold
Peas and Quiet (2* difficulty) - German whispers
Chaotic Gardening, Pt. 1 (3* difficulty) - mean mini, chaos construction
Last Resort (2* difficulty) - region sum lines (with sujoyku)
We Come in Peas (5* difficulty) - S-cells, base N (with Gene The Supreme)
Entro-Peas (3* difficulty) - entropy lines (with sujoyku)
If you want some nice introductions to this ruleset, I recommend these two: "Give Peas a Chance" by juggler and "No RePEAts!" by sujoyku!
This puzzle was created for the Secret Impostor prompt in Scojo's discord server. This prompt was so much fun and I had an absolute blast (even if I was forced to hand over my identity)!
Rules:
Sudoku:
Normal sudoku rules apply.
Doubler loop: Draw an orthogonal loop in the grid which may not touch itself, not even diagonally. Values on the loop are doubled for the purposes of other rules.
Split pill arrows (split peas): the sum of the values of cells on lines connecting two circles is equal to a concatenation of the two values in the circles, in some order. For example, 3-346-1 could be valid, as 3+4+6=13.
For clarification, two-digit values could be included in a circle. For instance, a doubled 5 and a normal 2 in two connected circles could indicate a value of either 102 or 210 (the possible concatenations of 2 and 10).
Every line between two circles is summed separately.
Click on the puzzle to play!
Happy solving! Please leave a comment if you enjoy this one, and check out some of my other puzzles!
Solution code: Digits NOT on the loop in C4, from top to bottom.
Comments
on 11. September 2024, 15:36 by blackjackfitz
I've enjoyed all the split pea puzzles I've tried so far and this one is my favorite. Adding doublers made for great logic on the lines, well done!
on 10. September 2024, 13:30 by Franjo
Amazing puzzle! Solving this gave me some delightful Aha-moments. Thank you so much for creating and sharing.
on 10. September 2024, 05:23 by gdc
Thanks for that puzzle. Love that combination shading and modifiers. And it works very well with the split peas.
on 10. September 2024, 05:21 by cybers
Wonderful!
on 10. September 2024, 05:12 by yttrio
Very fun puzzle! Other than one horrific blind spot that was entirely my fault, the solve flowed quite organically for me.
on 9. September 2024, 22:01 by ViKingPrime
This is my favourite new constraint, really enjoy seeing these.
on 9. September 2024, 16:52 by sujoyku
I was part of the minority voting this one to be real. But of course, I had the advantage of working with you lately and getting to know you better that way. Thank you for this wonderful puzzle, SamuPiano! I love your style and hope there are many more of your (split pea) puzzles to come!
on 9. September 2024, 16:23 by vitaminz
This is a great puzzle, even if I didn’t believe it was yours! I stand by my position that your other puzzles have better puns :)
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That's entirely valid - I spent a few hours trying to come up with something nice and I just couldn't for this one. Still a fun puzzle for me to make though! :) -SP
