Teleportation Cycle Sum Sudoku
(Published on 6. April 2021, 01:00 by SudokuExplorer)
Each row, column and 3x3 box contain the digits 1 to 9.
When you are in a cell containing the digit N, you teleport to the Nth cell in the row/column from the corresponding direction. The teleportation cycle sum is the sum of all distinct digits in the cells visited in the row/column, starting from the first cell.
For example, consider the row of digits 278461359.
From the left, the teleportation cycle sum would be 2+7+3+8+5+6+1=32.
From the right, the teleportation cycle sum would be 9+2+5+6+4+1=27.
Here is a 6x6 example
You can try the 6x6 example puzzle on Penpa+ or F-Puzzles.
You can try the below main 9x9 puzzle on Penpa+ or F-Puzzles. Enjoy!
Solution code: Enter the 5th row and 5th column of the main 9x9 puzzle.
Comments
on 4. August 2021, 14:05 by SudokuExplorer
@Richard: Thanks for the lovely and glowing feedback! I am thrilled you enjoyed the logical path, and that you had as much fun solving it as I did setting it. I look forward to trying your take on the ruleset :-)
on 3. August 2021, 20:28 by Richard
Wow, wow, wow, what an incredible nice and original idea and ruleset! I thoroughly enjoyed unraveling all the intrinsic logic.
And wow, wow, wow, what an incredible nice and brilliant first puzzle of this type!
Thanks for an hour or so pure solving fun! I hesitated with each digit that I filled in, since I knew it would bring me closer to the end...
Very well done!
on 2. August 2021, 03:00 by SudokuExplorer
Fixed labels/tags
on 7. April 2021, 23:50 by Garford
Just wow...
on 7. April 2021, 19:37 by SudokuExplorer
This puzzle was inspired by a couple of different rulesets. If you enjoyed this one, you may want to try the following:
Teleportation Sums: https://logic-masters.de/Raetselportal/Suche/erweitert.php?skname=x&suchtext=teleportation%20sum
Y-Sums: https://logic-masters.de/Raetselportal/Suche/erweitert.php?skname=x&suchtext=y-sums
Z-Sums: https://logic-masters.de/Raetselportal/Suche/erweitert.php?skname=x&suchtext=z-sums
on 7. April 2021, 15:06 by PixelPlucker
Astounding puzzle! The solve path taught me important properties of the ruleset as I went. A very satisfying process of discovery. I'd gladly solve another of these :)
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Thanks for your informative feedback! I tried to use simpler ideas at the start, and then the more interesting ideas later on. I'm really pleased that you discovered the logic at the right moments :-)
on 7. April 2021, 12:49 by polar
Amazing rule set! Thoroughly enjoyed this puzzle.
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Thanks polar! I'm thrilled you had a fun experience :-)
on 7. April 2021, 12:02 by Mark Sweep
Wonderful puzzle! I loved how it was challenging, but never tedious. The 40 clue was probably my favourite.
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Thanks a lot Mark! I'm really pleased you enjoyed the logic. That 40 clue turns out to have multiple uses :-)
on 7. April 2021, 11:36 by AsilG
Very entertaining ruleset with some interesting and tricky logic.
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Thanks AsilG! I'm glad you had an enjoyable experience :-)
on 7. April 2021, 04:24 by henrypijames
What a phantastic ruleset! Absolutely want to see more of this. (4+ star difficulty for me.)
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Thanks a lot henrypijames, I will definitely consider making more :-)
on 7. April 2021, 02:20 by cdwg2000
Very beautiful rule set, thank you!
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I'm really glad you enjoyed it! It was partly inspired by the y-sums sudoku (id=0004A5) which you uploaded :-)
on 7. April 2021, 01:05 by CaneloC
This was literally an adventure! There were some tricky steps, but it was fun working them out.
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Thanks! It was a fun journey setting it too :-)
on 6. April 2021, 16:03 by SudokuExplorer
Increased difficulty to 4 stars.
on 6. April 2021, 16:02 by SudokuExplorer
@Dina + @marcmees: Thanks a lot for the lovely feedback! :-)
I wasn't too sure of the difficulty, I'll probably increase it to 4 stars.
on 6. April 2021, 15:14 by marcmees
tricky ruleset ... always just enough info to struggle forwards. was fun. thanks.
on 6. April 2021, 01:48 by Dina
Cool ruleset with some interesting logical deductions! I really enjoyed the solving path! :-D
