This is my response to
Scojo's setting prompt for a couple of weeks ago, for which his fiancée requested Copycat puzzles for his birthday! Thank you Scojo for your incredible dedication to the puzzle community as a setter, solver, streamer and all-round sausage. With thanks to
ChinStrap for the title!
COPYCAT FILLOMINO:
• Divide the grid into orthogonally connected regions and fill each cell with a digit showing the number of cells in the region to which it belongs (in this puzzle, all regions are of a single-digit size);
• No two orthogonally neighbouring regions may be the same size;
• In any two orthogonally neighbouring regions, exactly one is a Copycat Region;
• The value of any cell within a Copycat Region is the digit in the cell rotationally opposite itself in the grid (180° rotation about the center of the grid);
• The value of every other cell is the digit it contains.
KILLER CAGES:
• DIGITS may not repeat in a cage (but values may);
• VALUES in a cage sum to the given total.
Lösungscode: VALUES in the 6-cell diagonal from r1c1 (top left) to r6c6 (bottom right)
Gelöst von Scojo, ChinStrap, Flinty, SennyK, ViKingPrime, damo_89, Calesch, pmays123, mellowrobinson, Agent, JustinTucker, Mr. Happy, Franjo, marcmees, eladv, ralphwaldo1, QuiltyAsCharged, chenlu, jkuo7, Jesper, dorverbin, XuanZzz, CutieRainbow, Mjb99, misko, yangduoxing, widjo, kasperd, DragonEgg, fthompson, davidyay, puzzler05
Kommentare
am 12. Mai 2026, 07:06 Uhr von XuanZzz
Cute puzzle, really enjoyed it!
am 11. Mai 2026, 20:31 Uhr von Scojo
When you had mentioned last week that you were trying to get a copycat fillomino to work, I was curious how that could even exist, since normally all the power of the copycat comes from sudoku's restriction on repeated digits. This was a great way to answer that question, and fortress fillomino secrets definitely helped! Thanks for the gift!
am 10. Mai 2026, 20:01 Uhr von eladv
It's totally insane that this resolves. Whow.
am 10. Mai 2026, 00:46 Uhr von pmays123
That was very nice! It took me a while to grasp at first but flowed very smoothly after. Thanks for sharing
am 9. Mai 2026, 23:52 Uhr von ViKingPrime
I have no idea how you come up with things like this. You're a wonderful and insane human being.