Logic Masters Deutschland e.V.

This is my entry for turn 2 of season 1 of The Skunkworks League, hosted by damasosos92. In this round, the prompt was to create a puzzle telling the story of the song The Boy by Tom Rosenthal.


Rules

Normal Sudoku rules apply

Fog of War : The grid is partially covered with fog. Correctly placed digits will clear the fog around that cell. No guessing is required.

The boy's path :

Draw a one-cell-wide path of orthogonally connected cells that obeys these rules :

• The path may not touch itself orthogonally, but may touch diagonally.


• The path acts as a German Whispers line: adjacent digits on the path have a difference of at least 5.


• The last cell on the path contains a 3.


• The path goes through 3 stages, each containing a different type of clues:
  
  
  1. Stage1: Hot air balloon. Here there are Houses that act as skyscrapers clues inside the grid (i.e if you imagine each digit as the height of a building, with taller building obstructing the view of shorter ones, the digit in the cell with a House tells you how many buildings you can see in the 4 orthogonal directions combined, not including itself).
  
  
  2. Stage2: Forest. Here there are trees on the path. A digit in such a cell must see at least one smaller digit and at least one higher digit in the up to 4 orthogonally adjacent cells.
  
  
  3. Stage3: Train. Here there are cells with a train symbol. Such a cell tells you how many path cells it sees in the 4 orthogonal directions combined (not including itself), with cells not on the path blocking the view.


• There are 3 clues of each type all appearing on the path, and the path must go through the 3 stages in order (i.e it cannot for example visit a cell with a tree before visiting all the cells with houses).

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