Wichtel 2021 (8): Ideenklau im Sparmodus
(Published on 17. October 2022, 12:02 by wichtel)
„Froglegs and fiddlesticks!“ Santa Claus is in a pretty rotten mood this year. He had just completed a puzzle for Nairolf, and, having been in 'budget-conscious mode', simply stole Nairolf's own idea for a Japanese Subway puzzle („He's probably forgotten about it by now, anyhow!“) - when all at once the containers of clue widgets fell from his hands, scattering the Japanese sum and subway digits all over the workshop floor. Santa was, of course, far too lazy to properly sort them again („Let Nairolf figure it out!“) nor to put them in any sensible sequence. Instead, he simply wrote them in order of size in the respective row or column. The zeroes he found no use for, and tossed them straight into the bin („Nobody cares about zeroes anyway!“). And this is what the result looked like:
Solution code: Row 3 and row 8: E for corners, G for straight, T for branching, and K for intersection, otherwise the number
Comments
on 9. August 2025, 22:12 by cyddrdrd
I agree with KNT and Piatato. This one is an epic masterpiece. Lots of smart small deductions and one step in the middle is just beyond words.
on 4. June 2025, 21:33 by tuace
Super!
on 15. January 2024, 03:40 by ONeill
Amazing!
on 4. October 2023, 11:16 by Piatato
Superb puzzle! As KNT stated, it's a true epic. So many amazing little deductions, all of them such a joy to find. :)
on 2. September 2023, 19:36 by Agent
Fantastic puzzle, one of my favourite U-Bahns I have solved! The U-Bahn clues sorted in ascending order are a very interesting concept.
on 12. April 2023, 07:41 by wooferzfg
Absolutely incredible, one of my favorite puzzles ever :)
Rules clarification: If a row/column has clues, then all non-zero U-Bahn clues and all Japanese Sums clues in that row/column are given, but they are written in ascending order.
Solving link: https://tinyurl.com/2yosjf2p
on 10. December 2022, 18:55 by ffricke
Super schön. Ich musste zweimal ran und im Endspurt habe ich dann trotzdem noch einiges ändern müssen - überraschend - großartig
on 15. November 2022, 22:45 by Myxo
Amazing!
on 2. November 2022, 17:32 by Mody
Großartig und schön schwer :)
on 2. November 2022, 09:01 by Statistica
Grandios. Musste dreimal neu anfangen. Große Verhederrungsgefahr im U-Bahn-Netz!
on 28. October 2022, 22:40 by Alex
wow, gigantisch!
on 24. October 2022, 08:46 by KNT
A truly epic construction, it really humbled me as I am not a strong solver of underground puzzles. Thank you, kind gnome, for this awesome intellectually enriching experience :)
on 20. October 2022, 23:39 by lupo
Sehr schön pfiffig konstruiert!
on 17. October 2022, 22:08 by polar
Truly sublime. I loved every minute of it! Thank you very much
on 17. October 2022, 17:31 by Jesper
Großartig! Lässt sich sehr schön erarbeiten.
