Seer (Chaos Construction)
(Published on 11. October 2024, 04:24 by sfushidahardy)
My submission to another weekly Scojo prompt: "make a puzzle with X-sum clues and nabner lines". Of course, I had to turn it into a chaos construction. I 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.
- Sightline X-sums: clues around the grid are the sum of the first X digits in the corresponding row or column, where X is the first seen digit. Further, X is the number of cells belonging to the same region seen by the clue, where region-boundaries block vision. Each letter (S, E and R) represents a different digit from 0 to 9, and two-letter clues are interpreted as two-digit numbers. A "?" clue can be any number (not necessarily a single digit).
- Nabner: digits along gold lines belong to a set of pairwise non-consecutive digits.
Solution code: The digits in row 5, with a forward-slash at region borders. For example, 123/45/6789.
Comments
on 16. October 2024, 01:42 by konklone
Really impressive for so few clues. It made me feel like a seer!
on 13. October 2024, 00:19 by wuc
Hard but awesome cc. Smooth in a very challenging way. Love the break in. Great fun thx.
on 12. October 2024, 20:06 by Jesper
Great CC, thanks!
on 12. October 2024, 01:42 by yttrio
Another amazing chaos construction from sfushiahardy! Nothing too difficult in this one, and the nabner lines did some absolutely stunning work!
on 11. October 2024, 18:42 by Myxo
Beautiful!
on 11. October 2024, 17:50 by samuel1997
Excellent! Thank you!
on 11. October 2024, 14:28 by Christounet
Excellent CC ! Loved the opening. Thanks :)
on 11. October 2024, 11:39 by Snookerfan
Beautiful and smooth! Thank you
on 11. October 2024, 06:54 by bansalsaab
Fantastic
on 11. October 2024, 05:34 by MaizeGator
This is the best type of puzzle; as others have said, the break-in is tricky to grasp, but will hold your attention. I had a lot of difficulty right at the start, but then the rest of the puzzle flowed in a very satisfying way.
on 11. October 2024, 05:01 by MattYDdraig
Fabulous puzzle. Tough breaking in, some beautiful logical jumps along the way.
on 11. October 2024, 04:35 by dangernoodle
The break-in was fair and a bit difficult, and the solve was pretty smooth after that! I also really liked the logic that this variant of X-sums has.
