The third of my vampires puzzles. This ruleset is SO fun to construct with. I'll probably set another puzzle with vampires in the future.
You can try the previous ones if you didn't already: Little thirsty vampires and Vampires in town.
Rules
Fill the grid with the numbers from 1 to 9 so that in each row, column, and 3x3 block each digit occurs exactly once.
All the lines are at the same time region sum lines and palindromes: in each line the sum of digits is the same within each box and digits filled into the line read the same forwards and backwards. For example, 243|342.
Hidden in the grid are nine vampires, one in each row, column and box. Different vampires contain different digits. Vampires take exactly one sip of blood from an orthogonally adjacent cell. For clues purposes (region sum lines and palindromes), vampire cells count as increased by exactly one and the taken cells count as decreased by exactly one. Two vampires cannot bite the same cell.
Vampires cannot appear on lines.
Vampires Magnet Butterfly is also available online on CTC-App.
Have fun solving and please leave a comment after your solve!
And thank you to zzw, mormagli and Piatato for testing this one!
Lösungscode: Column 7, top to bottom.
am 10. Oktober 2024, 16:48 Uhr von damasosos92
Added Modifier Cells tag
am 18. April 2024, 16:16 Uhr von CHRosenthal
One step of chaining was required but otherwise very smooth logic :D
am 16. April 2024, 16:07 Uhr von sanabas
It's a lot harder if you forget the palindrome rule exists. ><
Very good fun.
- Thank you!
am 16. April 2024, 02:34 Uhr von deltameth
Please clarify for region sums, whether R4C3 and R6C3 represent different segments or shall be added together?
- different segments, sorry, I Will clarify that! Thanks. - damasosos92
am 15. April 2024, 21:48 Uhr von chameleon
Okay, that was super hard
am 15. April 2024, 21:10 Uhr von zzw
Really cool puzzle! I found the opening really difficult but it resolves very nicely after.
am 15. April 2024, 17:32 Uhr von mormagli
Very elegant. Hard but we'll telegraphed :)
am 15. April 2024, 16:59 Uhr von Piatato
Cool concept!