Chaos Construction: Roller Coaster
(Eingestellt am 9. Februar 2023, 01:18 Uhr von KNT)
Draw a non-intersecting loop that travels orthogonally between the centers of some cells in the grid. Clues to the left of rows indicate the sum of numbers on horizontal segments of the loop in that row, in the correct order. Clues above columns indicate the sum of numbers on vertical segments of the loop in that column, in the correct order. A question mark may replace any number from 0-9, but no clue may have a leading zero.
On a single round trip of the loop, every region must be entered and exited exactly once.
A 6x6 example is provided:
Lösungscode: Row 4, then Column 8
Kommentare
am 15. März 2024, 16:43 Uhr von Lucx
Am Anfang ganz schön knifflig… super Idee und eine tolle Konstruktion - Vielen Dank!
am 31. August 2023, 05:19 Uhr von sugardude
This is unbelievable. So many different beautiful logics placed evenly throughout the puzzle... How?!
am 8. Mai 2023, 14:33 Uhr von Christounet
Amazing ! The fact that so much progress can be made without considering the clues themselves, but by thinking carefully about the overall progress of the puzzle at some key steps, shows how masterfully the whole process has been designed. Thanks a lot !
am 30. März 2023, 10:36 Uhr von CahounCZ
Awesome puzzle, thanks.
am 3. März 2023, 00:28 Uhr von Xendari
amazing! this opened my eyes to RC, such a lovely hybrid.
am 2. März 2023, 18:50 Uhr von madhupt
Fantastic puzzle, as always, by KNT. Very difficult. Even after the initial break in, it was very difficult. I had to backtrack many a times as new pieces of logic revealed themselves. Thanks a lot for sharing!
am 20. Februar 2023, 08:58 Uhr von ibag
Phantastic!!!
am 16. Februar 2023, 21:42 Uhr von Uhu
Wow, this was awesome! Thanks.
am 13. Februar 2023, 04:10 Uhr von BloodbuzzCorio
KNT this is an exceptional puzzle! It's brutally difficult and I found the level of difficult consistently high throughout - but certainly not in an unfair way. Just some beautiful interaction between the two rule sets - and an extremely rewarding puzzle to get through eventually. Thanks!
am 12. Februar 2023, 23:14 Uhr von tallcat
Very happy to solve this as it's way out of my comfort zone as a solver (and i've done precisely zero loop puzzles before). Fantastic construction and I enjoyed it immensely.
am 12. Februar 2023, 06:47 Uhr von RJBlarmo
Very nice puzzle, maintained its high difficulty from start to finish. Enjoyed the constant mix of loop building and region building logic required to progress in the puzzle.
am 11. Februar 2023, 04:46 Uhr von Agent
Absolutely joyful!
am 11. Februar 2023, 02:35 Uhr von stayal
This was my first rollercoaster puzzle and you combined it incredibly well with the chaos construction. I loved learning about the ruleset as I solved it. Thank you again!
am 10. Februar 2023, 21:10 Uhr von lerroyy
Really good puzzle!
am 10. Februar 2023, 00:35 Uhr von Piatato
Relentless puzzle, but ultimately very rewarding. :-)
am 9. Februar 2023, 22:47 Uhr von ONeill
Roller coaster and chaos constructions are two of my favourite genres and you combined them excellently. Thank you!
am 9. Februar 2023, 22:39 Uhr von bansalsaab
What a ride this coaster was. Thanks KNT. I kept making the same mistake of assuming different values for the dots in second column. On my final try before giving up, I realized my mistake and after that it was smooth.
am 9. Februar 2023, 18:36 Uhr von KNT
@Jesper I felt similarly when I decided to set it. I feel like a handful of awesome puzzles could be made with this ruleset :)
am 9. Februar 2023, 18:30 Uhr von Jesper
Brilliant! Such an intuitive way to combine Roller Coaster and Chaos Construction, I am almost wondering why nobody thought of it earlier.
am 9. Februar 2023, 17:29 Uhr von madhupt
Fantastic puzzle, as always, by KNT. Very difficult. Even after the initial break in, it was very difficult. I had to backtrack many a times as new pieces of logic revealed themselves. Thanks a lot for sharing!
am 9. Februar 2023, 14:19 Uhr von Vebby
I found the opening very tough, but after the initial breakthroughs the puzzle flowed very well and was a lot of fun.
am 9. Februar 2023, 10:56 Uhr von Niverio
Loops make my brain go poof!
Very cool puzzle, albeit difficult. Although that's not saying much as I tend to find almost all loop puzzles difficult.
am 9. Februar 2023, 09:24 Uhr von polar
Immensely enjoyable puzzle! Thanks :)
am 9. Februar 2023, 04:34 Uhr von the_cogito
Very cool puzzle, loved the region building logic especially :)
am 9. Februar 2023, 03:31 Uhr von Myxo
Awesome puzzle as usual!
am 9. Februar 2023, 01:20 Uhr von KNT
This is a difficult puzzle, and definitely assumes some proficiency in Roller Coaster logic. I recommend solving with the Penpa+ link, as a variety of careful notation will be of great use during the solve. Good luck, and enjoy the puzzle!
