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I Heard You Like Cages

(Eingestellt am 4. Juni 2024, 20:56 Uhr von vitaminz)

This puzzle is inspired by a puzzle by ViKingPrime that was later revised to a totally different ruleset, so a big thanks to him for this and for testing. Thanks also to Marty Sears for ideas and also manpower on the grid aesthetics - it would be much less beautiful without him. Thanks also to many testers in the CtC discord, particularly SamuPiano. And finally, thank you to Lake for an unspecified idea I've shamelessly stolen that he might be able to identify in the puzzle.


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RULES:

Normal Sudoku Rules Apply

Each cage in the grid is either a killer cage or a look-and-say cage (or both), with each to be determined by the solver. Cage colors have no logical content.

Killer Cages: Digits must not repeat within a cage and must sum to the number in the top-left corner.
Look-and-Say Cages: The number in the top left corner says how many of a digit are in that cage. The ones place indicates the digit and the tens place indicates exactly how many times that digit appears. Digits may repeat in look-and-say cages if allowed by this and other rules. Example: If a look-and-say cage has the clue "14" then there is exactly one 4 in the cage.

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Lösungscode: Row 6

Zuletzt geändert am 9. Juli 2024, 23:19 Uhr

Gelöst von ViKingPrime, cornish-john, SamuPiano, fuxia, Prutsbeest, SKORP17, Xalothros, hoopsie, topoi, gdc, sanabas, faisalaak, johncj, pythonssssss, fca.felix.sudoku, liushong, Sonki, Big Tiger, Unknown, ... juventino188, arauwer, NEWS, morgannamodeaura, Laake, bboom, SudokuHero, QuiltyAsCharged, Uhu, actiondirecte, feverlute, darrenfwl, Leilalu222, Illuminated, Piff, W1n5t0n, dpatti, koXx
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Kommentare

am 21. Juli 2024, 01:06 Uhr von Laake
Don't know how this one flew under my radar! Loved it, the unspecified idea really helped!

am 8. Juni 2024, 00:19 Uhr von ThePedallingPianist
Beautiful flow to this puzzle - never too hard if you're looking in the right places!

am 6. Juni 2024, 05:37 Uhr von vitaminz
Thanks everyone for the wonderful comments and feedback.

am 5. Juni 2024, 21:29 Uhr von fortunia27
Absolutely loved it! Very fun break in. Great puzzle!

am 5. Juni 2024, 14:06 Uhr von marty_sears
This was brilliant! The 'unspecified idea from Lake' was really useful at helping me solve this. Apart from one deduction towards the end which I would class as a 4-5 star deduction, the rest of it did sit very comfortably in the 3 star department and flowed beautifully.

One particular part in box 1 I found very satisfying indeed.

Great work mate, definitely worthy of a feature on CTC!

am 5. Juni 2024, 08:04 Uhr von johncj
Perfect difficulty for me. Thank you very much.

am 4. Juni 2024, 21:54 Uhr von Prutsbeest
The difficulty can be set lower than 3 stars in my opinion, but it was a very fun puzzle, and nice idea!

am 4. Juni 2024, 21:41 Uhr von SamuPiano
Really fun puzzle! This one was a joy to test :)

am 4. Juni 2024, 21:17 Uhr von ViKingPrime
What an absolute privilege this was to test. I can't take any credit for this idea (besides toying with some Look-and-Say logic), this is a Justin Vitanza original and what an idea it is; such a fresh and innovative take on overlapping cages. The break-in is smart, the logic is fair and it flows wonderfully; every time you see the next step you get this little giddy sense of joy. Well done.

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Bewertung:96 %
Gelöst:123 mal
Beobachtet:8 mal
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