Don't Fence Me In
(Published on 5. July 2024, 20:18 by HalfBakedLunatic)
The Rules:
• Normal Sudoku Rules Apply
• Digits touching the outside of a Blue cage on all orthogonal edges (but not touching diagonally) must sum to the indicated total
• Digits touching the outside corners of a Green cage (diagonally, but not touching the cage orthogonally) must sum to the indicated total
• Digits touching the outside of a Red cage both orthogonally and diagonally must sum to the indicated total
• No repeats are allowed in the digits making up the totals
Solve Online here (right-click and open in new tab):
Don't Fence Me In (Cracking The Cryptic)
Leave a comment and let me know how you like it!
Puzzle by David Workman (aka "HalfBakedLunatic")
Solution code: Row 7
Comments
on 21. April 2026, 20:13 by deangaudet
that was fun! i had to keep referring to the rules to differentiate red/blue/green though: it'd be interesting to see this rule in more regular use, but perhaps instead of cage colours, use little arrows pointing inward from the contributing cells?
on 14. July 2024, 02:50 by HalfBakedLunatic
Thank you for the great comments everyone! Here's a link to Mark solving this one CTC:
https://youtu.be/YYC5GdOkZKk
on 10. July 2024, 14:01 by OGRussHood
What a mad ruleset. I love it.
on 10. July 2024, 06:24 by mcs131313
One of my favorite new rulesets / puzzles. Took a little mental effort, but was fairly intuitive and found i was solving vs. just trying to do new rule gymnastics
on 6. July 2024, 23:29 by Basil
That was fun, the effect of the cages were really interesting.
on 6. July 2024, 17:59 by bansalsaab
That was a nice new variation.
on 6. July 2024, 16:07 by sanabas
Very good fun. Found it easier than disjoint sets, as I could colour things in better, the sets are smaller and/or contiguous compared to 9 separate cells.
on 5. July 2024, 23:30 by HalfBakedLunatic
Clarifying the rules
