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(Published on 9. January 2025, 05:05 by aqjhs)
I made this puzzle following Scojo's prompt to make a deconstruction puzzle with German Whisper and Palindromic lines.
- Deconstruction rules: Place nine disjoint 3x3 regions on the grid and place the digits 1-9 in them so that they don't repeat in rows, columns and regions.
- Cells outside regions don't contain any digit but their value is equal to the count of the, up to 8, other non-region cells around it. Cells inside regions have a value equal to the digit they hold.
- Adjacent cells along a green line must have a value difference of at least 5.
- Grey lines are palindromes: their values read the same in either direction.
More deconstruction:
Solution code: Values on row 4
Comments
on 15. January 2025, 03:18 by askaksaksask
Great puzzle! This was a two-evening effort on my part. The break in was lovely, much clearer after I started pencil marking the values of ALL cells... very clever setting throughout. I think an 88% here is underrated (very creative approach), but ~5* seems on point. Bravo!
on 13. January 2025, 21:18 by Silverstep
Nice break-in, very nice decon sudoku setup. It's been a while since I had the chance to flex the decon muscles!
on 10. January 2025, 05:44 by MattYDdraig
Really nice deconstruction. Very clever use of the Germans.
on 9. January 2025, 18:35 by aqjhs
In this puzzle a cell that is not covered by the 3x3 regions is considered a *non-region cell*.
For the sake of solution checking these non-region cells don't have any digit on them.
For the sake of line constraints, non-region cells have a value equal to the count of the orthogonal or diagonal neighboring cells that are also non-region cells.
This count doesn't include the cell itself and it is bounded from above by 8 since a cell has at most 8 neighboring cells.
The solution code consists of all eleven values on row 4.
on 9. January 2025, 17:24 by SKORP17
ziemlich unverständliche Regel:
Cells outside regions don't contain any digit but their value is equal to the count of the, up to 8, other non-region cells around it
