Chaotic Six
(Published on 4. October 2024, 10:47 by wuc)
This is one of two final challenge puzzles for my students who worked for one week very successful with variant sudokus - we called it the "mind benders week". To the students which are new to chaos construction this puzzle surely is challenging. It still maybe much easier to more experienced solvers. Leave a comment if you like it.
Rules:
6x6 Chaos Construction: In every row and column, each digit from 1 to 6 occurs exactly once. In addition, there are 6 continuous regions in which each digit from 1 to 6 occurs exactly once. The shape of these regions have to be determined by the solver.
Digits in circles indicate the number of cells seen horizontally and vertically combined, including itself. Region borders block the vision.
White Dots: Digits joined by a white dot are in the same region and must be consecutive.
Black Dots: Digits joined by a black dot are in the same region and must be in a 1:2 ratio.
Solution code: Row 4 with a "-" between digits of different regions (e.g. "3-16-245").
Comments
on 17. October 2024, 05:32 by aguyd
Many thanks to AMWSP for the warning. Ironically, this ruleset is hard on experienced solvers, since it's too easy to see, "* Dots" and think, "I know what this means, so I'll skip reading this rule."
on 13. October 2024, 00:37 by AMWSP
Really cool puzzle! And very approachable. Though, I tried solving this with a few (too many) beers and didn't pay attention to the rules. After staring stupidly at an empty grid for longer than I'll admit, I finally re-read the rules. Don't be like me
on 6. October 2024, 20:01 by permafrostyx
yay six
on 6. October 2024, 19:15 by MattConco
40 minutes and Ive gone wrong...
on 5. October 2024, 18:15 by Franjo
Nice little CC. Thank you for sharing.
on 5. October 2024, 17:01 by Karitsu
Took me a while to get started until I closely reread the rules. Turns out it’s pretty important that cells separated by dots are in the same region! After realizing that, it flowed fast and easy!
on 5. October 2024, 16:36 by gdc
Loving this approachable chaos construction. More of those please!
on 5. October 2024, 13:06 by Hamsterbase
Very smooth, gentle solve. Thanks
on 5. October 2024, 04:25 by brightonsimon
17 minutes of chaotic fun for me, many thanks :-)
on 4. October 2024, 21:04 by MSDOS
Very nice construction! Loved the logic throughout.
