Chaos Construction: Color Mixing
(Published on 15. May 2022, 17:41 by KNT)
There are three properties: red, yellow, and blue. A colored cell obeys the properties, and only the properties, of the primary colors that compose it.
Red: the number indicates the total count of cells in the same region as itself in the surrounding 3x3 area.
Yellow: the number indicates the total count of cells not in the same region as itself in the surrounding 3x3 area.
Blue: the number indicates the number of distinct regions in the surrounding 3x3 area.
Explicitly:
Orange = Red + Yellow
Green = Yellow + Blue
Purple = Red + Blue
White (grey) = Red + Yellow + Blue
Solution code: Row 3 followed by Column 7
Comments
on 19. January 2024, 21:44 by Christounet
Very nice ! The hardest part for me was not mixing the color of the circles and the regions. Thanks :)
on 26. December 2023, 03:17 by Nick Smirnov
Very interesting ruleset. Regions building logic was exquisite (with some cool traps punishing for lack of attention), but I also liked that irregular sudoku part was quite challenging.
on 31. July 2023, 11:13 by StephenR
More Stuckist than Impressionist for me! Really tough and never felt I had mastered it until near the end when things came together. Very clever puzzle, thanks.
on 31. May 2023, 21:31 by ibag
Very nice - as usual! ;-)
on 21. August 2022, 23:41 by Piatato
Very nice and relatively smooth one! Great ruleset. :-)
on 21. June 2022, 20:21 by PixelPlucker
Very memorable original ruleset and a lovely solve. Criminally underrated puzzle in my opinion. Thanks! :)
on 20. May 2022, 11:23 by MagnusJosefsson
Fun and original! Quite challenging for me, possibly five stars difficulty in my opinion.
on 16. May 2022, 12:50 by Niverio
Challenging! I was never completely sure of the deductions I made. Beautiful puzzle though!
Although a note, is there a way to put the circles such that the circle color doesn't change when we color the cells? It annoyed me to no end when I was coloring regions, that I had to sometimes uncolor just to remember which color the original circle was.
on 16. May 2022, 12:01 by kolot
Fun rule set and fun puzzle. Challenging from start to finish.
