Mineswee-Pea-Er (Split Peas/Yin Yang)
(Published on 11. August 2025, 19:52 by damo_89)
Absolute fan fiction with this ode to Florian Wortmann's excellent Minesweeper series. If you haven't already, do solve the original trilogy:
- Between The Mines
- Double The Mines
- Bridging The Mines
- Ambiguous Mines (the best of album)
Since the introduction of Split Pea lines I wondered if a similar approach could be taken with these, and after many failed grids this has finally come to fruition. Consensus testing estimate was 3 stars difficulty (edit: subsequent solvers have said this is higher than 3 so bumping to an estimated 4), and familiarity with the original puzzles will probably help. Good luck!
- Normal sudoku rules apply: Place the digits 1 to 9 once each in every row, column, and 3x3 box
- Yin Yang: Shade the grid such that all shaded cells are orthogonally connected, all unshaded cells are orthogonally connected, and no 2x2 area is entirely shaded or unshaded
- Minesweeper: Circles are unshaded, and count the number of shaded cells in the (up to 8) neighbouring cells
- Split Pill Arrows (Split Peas): Digits along a green line sum to a concatenation of the two digits in the connected circles. For example 3_436_1 would be a valid fill as 436 sums to 13 which can be made from the connected 3 and 1
Solution code: Unshaded cells in row 8 (for reference, circles are unshaded)
Comments
on 11. September 2025, 23:41 by damo_89
Added solution guide now I have worked out how to compress PDFs
on 22. August 2025, 21:57 by SamuPiano
I was so thrilled to be an original tester of this, and this version of the puzzle is just fantastic and packed with terrific logic!
on 16. August 2025, 05:59 by Florian Wortmann
Very nice! I'm flattered that my puzzles served as inspiration :-)
on 13. August 2025, 14:24 by LehanLehan
Замечательная головоломка,спасибо большое.
on 13. August 2025, 13:14 by Franjo
Amazing! Looking back it’s not as hard as I thought. (I broke it on the first attempt…) So many nice deductions! Thank you so much for creating and sharing this lovely masterpiece.
on 12. August 2025, 19:58 by Starlight
Found this very hard but I kept coming back and working at it. Got through it in the end. Awesome puzzle and loved it so much
Damo: Thanks for sticking with it, glad you enjoyed!
on 12. August 2025, 13:18 by sujoyku
Incredibly tough and beautiful puzzle! Thank you, damo_89!
Damo: Thanks for the kind feedback, and sorry if the difficulty was a bit harder than advertised! :)
on 12. August 2025, 13:15 by damo_89
Difficulty estimate adjusted
on 12. August 2025, 13:08 by dumediat
Great variety of logic among the constraints, thanks!
Damo: Many thanks, definitely a good helping of setters luck where a clue wound up forcing exactly what I wanted to move the solve along.
