Emergence
(Published on 13. October 2024, 16:58 by Jolly Rogers)
RULES:
- Normal Sudoku rules apply.
- All cells in the grid are either part of a Galaxy or a Killer cage, never both. Cells containing a corner clue must belong to a killer cage.
- Killer Cages: A killer cage is a group of orthogonally connected cells with no repeating digits. Killer cages containing a corner clue must sum to that number. Not all killer cages have a given sum clue.
- Cage sizes must be unique, e.g no two killer cages can contain the same number of cells. And different killer cages must not share an orthogonal edge.
- Galaxies: Divide the grid into non-overlapping groups of orthogonally connected cells. Each group contains a red diamond and is 180° rotationally symmetric around the diamond.
- Rotational Differences: Within a Galaxy, cells rotated 180° from each other must differ in value by the digit in their red diamond.
LINKS:
Play on SudokuPad
Here is a couple of example images for how rotational difference can work within a galaxy:
Want to try a warm up puzzle first? I have a 6x6 version with the same ruleset, ready to play here.
Hope you enjoy.
Solution code: Only the digits which are in galaxies in Row 3 and Row 6 (entered left to right with no spaces)
Solved by halakani, HertogHJ, wenchang, jkuo7, TheHiveMind
Comments
on 13. October 2024, 18:46 by halakani
It took me more than an hour so I rated it as very hard. Beautiful puzzle.