Pointing parodies
(Published on 21. September 2024, 04:35 by someguy209)
I really liked Scojo's setting prompt idea of trying to imitate someone’s setting style, and figured I’d give it an unofficial go as an excuse to make a chaos construction like @shintarofh. Hope you enjoy it!
Chaos construction: Divide the grid into regions, each consisting of orthogonally connected cells, and fill each row, column, and region with the digits 1 to 9 once each.
Other counting arrows: The head of an arrow is the sum of all cells in the indicated direction that are in a different region.
Example: If an arrow in R1C1 was pointing right and was in a region that spanned R1C1-C6, R1C1 would be the sum of R1C7-9
https://sudokupad.app/95ucn40zgb
Solution code: Columns 1 and 9, with a / indicating region or column borders
Comments
on 28. September 2024, 20:37 by Jorrr2
Very nice, that it is possible with so few arrows. Although I found the end part and finishing the puzzle very hard
on 23. September 2024, 12:10 by marcmees
very nice. thanks
on 22. September 2024, 21:10 by marty_sears
This was fantastic! exactly the way a chaos construction should be, with the region building and digit filling dancing in unison until the very end. Extremely elegant, interesting and beautiful
on 22. September 2024, 18:52 by someguy209
Oops! Fixed the example arrow
on 22. September 2024, 16:30 by marcmees
shouldn't the arrow in the example point right?
on 21. September 2024, 07:51 by sfushidahardy
Thanks for the shoutout! I loved the ruleset, and enjoyed the ways the arrows interacted to simultaneously force numbers and geometry in the first part of the solve. It felt miraculous that the puzzle had a unique solution at the end too!
