This is the first puzzle in the Renban Walls series. I'd love to hear your thoughts about the puzzle.
Thanks to Nacnud, SudokuHero, Smoncko, Cliff, Jay Dyer, MicroStudy, mnasti2, and Solia for testing and feedback.
Renban Walls Series
Rules:
Normal 6x6 sudoku rules apply.
Digits touching a purple renban wall form a non-repeating set of consecutive digits. A wall touches all cells which overlap any of its corner or edge segments. A wall also divides its set of digits into regions. Digits in a region are consecutive and can appear in any order.
Informal Rules:
Renban walls are three renban in one. One side of the wall: renban. The other side of the wall: also renban. The whole thing: you better believe it's renban!
Comments are always welcome. Have fun!
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Playable Example:
The following images show a playable example and its solution.
Hints: The straight length-three wall and the Z-shaped length-three wall and can only divide the digits into 123|456. The L-shaped length-three wall has two options: 12|3456 and 1234|56. The straight length-two wall has a few options: 12|34, 23|45, and 34|56. The bent length-two wall has even more options: 1|234 and 123|4, 2|345 and 234|5, 3|456 and 345|6. The length-one walls can be any consecutive pair of digits.
Solution code: Row 5
on 3. June 2023, 16:36 by SHERAX
Easy…but it explains the rules…
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Thanks! It's hard to create a new type of constraint.
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After this one I advanced to you WATCHTOWER puzzle!
Same Rules Extremely Hard…
on 30. March 2023, 00:57 by TerrierDarts
Great Logic!
on 3. March 2023, 00:28 by heliopolix
Added renban walls #4 to series index.
on 25. February 2023, 19:24 by heliopolix
Added playable example.
on 22. February 2023, 02:13 by heliopolix
Added renban walls series info.
on 16. February 2023, 22:13 by heliopolix
Added explainer image, as requested.
on 16. February 2023, 21:13 by DiMono
The rules are very unclear. Please add an example image.