XV*-O-*3
(Published on 5. April 2025, 09:02 by NurglesGift)
Normal sudoku rules apply.
Cells connected by an X must sum to 10.
Cells connected by an V must sum to 5.
All X's and V's are given.
Digits in a cage can not be orthogonally adjacent with a consecutive digit.(within and outside of the cage)
Two lines of the same length and same color are connected X lines.
Counting from the bulb, the first cell of each connected X line sum to 10. the second cell of each line sum to 10 etc.
5 can never be on a line.
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Bless you!
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Example
Solution code: give the digits of column 5 (top to bottom)
Comments
on 17. April 2025, 00:40 by jhow25
Loved the ending, how everything gets disambiguated.
on 10. April 2025, 13:51 by KingIsulgard
24:34 for me. Fun puzzle!
on 8. April 2025, 19:25 by nunc
I love your puzzles. Thanks a lot for sharing.
on 8. April 2025, 16:20 by NurglesGift
Thank You!
on 7. April 2025, 08:18 by TheNineElements
Solve Time: 34:46
I rated this 2/5 difficulty.
Great puzzle! I really enjoy your XV-variant puzzles, and this was no exception.
I think the true difficulty of this puzzle is probably on the harder end of 2*, but I don't think it was difficult enough for a 3* rating. That being said, I found it difficult to figure out where to start coloring. I began coloring on one side of the grid, but found it hard to progress from there, so I had to roll back my initial coloring and started from a different part of the puzzle. This ended up taking several minutes, so my solve time was impacted by that. However, once I started my coloring from there, the rest went very smoothly and was reasonably approachable.
I thought the break-in was around a harder 2*-easy 3* difficulty - mainly because it was difficult to find a good starting point. The remainder of the puzzle was straightforward and in the easier-average 2* range.
The other tricky part for me was the final disambiguation once I had fully colored all the cells. The actual logic for the disambiguation was wonderful, but was hard for me to spot. I had completely forgotten about one of the rules, and coupled with the non-obvious disambiguation logic - it took me a minute or two to figure out how to finish the puzzle. This logic was definitely within 1-*2* territory, but it did trip me up slightly - contributing to my longer solve time.
Overall excellent puzzle, and thanks for sharing!
on 6. April 2025, 20:37 by spatzle
I love these puzzles! So fun and satisfying <3
on 6. April 2025, 17:47 by wuc
Great addition. I love how the high-low remains unclear for one half. Great fun thx.
on 6. April 2025, 02:14 by AlexRaetselt
What a thing of colourful beauty!!
on 5. April 2025, 18:39 by dingledork
An easy colouring puzzle, with a sting in the tail to disambiguate everything. I really enjoyed that, thanks!
on 5. April 2025, 09:51 by Titus Adduxas
Given my solve time I’d probably say it was a 2. I do like puzzles where I can fill the grid in with letters before using that lovely little cage to disambiguate everything at the end. Very enjoyable puzzle though. Thanks NurglesGift
on 5. April 2025, 09:02 by NurglesGift
I think this still is 2* but just to be safe I gave it 3*. you decide :)
