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Standard sudoku rules applies. Fill the grid with numbers from 1 to 6 so each digit occurs exactly once in every row, column and 2x3 box.

Digits outside are skyscraper clues. Every digit in the grid is a building with the same number of floors as the digit is. Outside clues indicate how many building can be seen from that direction.

Same character represent the same digit.

This puzzle is made by Old Miles from China.Today kicks off Xiaonian (literally little New Year, character in the puzzle), the day when people celebrate the beginning of the Spring Festival. The day falls on the 23rd (Northern China) and 24th (Southern China) of La Yue, the last month on the Chinese calendar. One of the most distinctive traditions of the Little New Year is the burning of a paper image of the Kitchen God, dispatching the god's spirit to Heaven to report on the family's conduct over the past year.Most of the offerings to the kitchen god are sweets of various varieties. It is thought that this will seal the Kitchen God's mouth and encourage him to only say good things about the family when he ascends to heaven to make his report. That's why this puzzle is getting kitchen god cryptic So he can't talk bad stuff.

In other words, festival begins. Happy little New Year, everyone.