It's raining WHAT?
(Published on 21. July 2021, 06:25 by filuta)
My big thanks to setter of beautiful chains Kafkapharnaum and ctc discord member justnigel for bravely facing the immense struggle while testing this one with (originally) quite poorly written ruleset.
Rules:
Normal sudoku rules apply. In addition to that:
- the gray square means even digit, the gray circle means odd digit,
- digits must increase along the thermometer starting from the bulb end.
Moreover, the clues are falling down in the following sense:
- the digit N in the bulb (circle, square) means that the same clue also appears exactly N squares below the original one, in the case of the thermometer this means that the newly appeared one must be an identical copy i.e. of the same length and orientation,
- the newly appeared clues are also subject to the rule above,
- N cannot be bigger than the number of rows below the clue (clues must be permitted to fall), unless some part of the clue is in row 9 (the clue hits the ground).
For instance, if there is 1 in the gray circle (say in r1c1), then the digit right below the circle (r2c1) also must be odd, and if that digit is 7 than the digit another seven rows below (r9c1) must be also odd. Also neither the first, nor the second circle may contain digit 9 (they would fall off the grid), the last circle, however, may contain 9 (since it is already on the ground).
More examples of the falling clues:
The puzzle:
f-puzzles link
Solution code: row 5 and row 7 (without a comma or a space)
Comments
on 16. May 2024, 21:05 by The Book Wyrm
Very interesting puzzle. Took a while to understand the implications of the rules enough to get started, but once I did, a very smooth and not too difficult solve.
on 14. April 2024, 02:52 by Phistomefel
That is a really creative idea and a fun and wonderful puzzle. Thanks a lot, filuta!
on 1. April 2023, 20:49 by Andrewsarchus
Very creative ruleset with some really neat logic.
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Thanks a lot!
on 1. February 2023, 08:21 by AstralSky
Innovative and felt much easier than 3 stars imo.
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Thanks for the comment, yeah, probably more in the middle between 2 and 3 stars (also originally posted as 2 stars).
on 10. July 2022, 22:29 by Samish
Fantastic setting ! Quite fun and satisfying to solve.
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Thanks a lot for the comment, really glad you liked it.
on 2. July 2022, 07:13 by Vebby
Wonderful! Great fun to solve! :)
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Thank you, I must say so much positive feedback about this one came as a very nice surprise to me.
on 1. July 2022, 12:26 by Piatato
Fascinating and fun puzzle!
on 1. July 2022, 12:09 by filuta
minor correction
on 22. July 2021, 23:09 by filuta
difficulty changed to 3 stars
on 22. July 2021, 10:50 by Tilberg
Another nice one with an original, clever ruleset. Once you get your head around it, it's full of pleasant surprises. Cheers!
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Thanks, Tilberg.
on 21. July 2021, 18:11 by Crawlie
That was a pleasant surprise, I really liked your Find the clues yourself puzzle and wanted to try your Wrogn one, but it felt intimidating and I ended up choosing another puzzle. But this one was fairly easy and really fun! Rated average difficulty though because of the small learning curve
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oh, thank you so much, I'm happy you liked it, easy and fun was exactly my intention
on 21. July 2021, 09:42 by filuta
example figure changed
on 21. July 2021, 07:33 by Kafkapharnaum
Haha, indeed, a bit of a rough ride testing it with the wrong rules at first, but just pure fun afterwards! Quite simply a brilliant puzzle, like all the others I managed to solve from you!
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Thank you.
