Krop Circles
(Published on 10. January 2024, 01:05 by marty_sears)
Rules:
- Normal sudoku rules apply.
- Divide the grid into 8 fields (regions of orthogonally connected cells.) Fill the grid with the digits 1-8 so that no digit repeats in any row, column or field.
- Digits joined by a black dot are in a 1:2 ratio (one is double the other.)
- Black dots may not sit on a field border.
- A circled digit indicates how many black dots appear in its field.
- The digit in the yellow diamond indicates how many fields contain at least one plant.
- The sickle cuts to the left, into the smaller of the two digits it sits between.
Click here to play on the CTC app
Please leave a comment if you enjoy :)
Solution code: Column 3 reading downwards
Comments
on 17. July 2024, 12:31 by ChinStrap
What starts as a baffling board soon converges to a rollercoaster of beautiful logic. Another great CC from Marty
on 21. June 2024, 19:44 by Chad
Very good and fun puzzle!
on 15. June 2024, 23:46 by wuc
Awesome puzzle. Marty sears quality. And i could solve it. Brilliant break in and smooth flow. Tricky parts but fair. I love it thx.
on 1. June 2024, 22:49 by sockerbecca
Aww I loved this, so cute! It took me some time to get my head around it, but I got there!
on 30. January 2024, 00:33 by ThePedallingPianist
At first glance, it's very hard to predict how the solve path will develop, and yet every step is signposted beautifully when you get to it. Furthermore, it would be so easy for the ending of a puzzle like this to be a bunch of trivial sudoku, but this is Marty we're talking about here, and he's not going to leave you with anything less than a sense of awe!
All of this, and I haven't even mentioned the wonderful artwork and use of a theme based on a very clever title! Super classy setting as usual, loved it :D
on 11. January 2024, 17:30 by gfoot
Thanks, a nice puzzle which I enjoyed
on 11. January 2024, 03:57 by Geb
An excellent puzzle with a lovely theme! This had a very satisfying variety of methods needed along the way to solving it. Very well done.
on 10. January 2024, 23:13 by Silverscree
I really enjoyed the two-stage feel of this puzzle. After the "card-counting" I've just done, I feel like I might finally be good at 500!
on 10. January 2024, 19:55 by sacklunch
Wow, what a gorgeous puzzle!
on 10. January 2024, 17:49 by blackjackfitz
Very nice! I don't know how you can make puzzles this good this often.
on 10. January 2024, 10:01 by Lavender Gooms
Just lovely. Thank you.
on 10. January 2024, 09:13 by h5663454
Yes...this kind of puzzle is supposed to be a puzzle that makes people feel happy after completing it. Thanks a lot.
on 10. January 2024, 08:28 by gbrljt
AGH!!!! I always love puzzles like these, where the rulesets interact with each other in such a way I would've never expected. I will admit I had a trip-up with the region involving the TL-most cell because I for some reason thought it must include ebjguerrpbyhzagjb, but after being stuck there for half an hour it was smooth sailing. Bravissimo!
on 10. January 2024, 06:32 by Nylimb
This is lovely! Thanks.
on 10. January 2024, 02:52 by gdc
Wow. Smooth and approachable chaos construction with interesting logic. Every single rule is relevant yet it never felt overwhelming. And of course, this grid is stunningly beautiful!
on 10. January 2024, 02:20 by Calvinball
This puzzle has it all. A fun theme, an extraordinary solve, circles we're not used to counting, and even plants!
It's also about as smooth and approachable as a Chaos Construction gets.
on 10. January 2024, 01:11 by ViKingPrime
No bias here but that sickle-cell clue is perhaps the greatest addition ever to crop-based sudoku... what sublime genius conceived of this?
Aesthetics aside (which this grid is firing on all cylinders), the beauty in the logic is equally impressive - this is Marty in top-form. An absolute masterpiece of a puzzle.
