Minigrids On The Vine (for VKP)
(Published on 21. April 2025, 16:22 by gdc)
A birthday present for ViKingPrime. It uses a novel constraint called mingrid-quads, which was inspired by buttons from Fra314 and several "wheels" rules by Crusader175. Thanks ChinStrap for testing. Hope you enjoy!
The 4 digits touching a minigrid-quad may not repeat and can be shuffled for a valid fill of the small 2x2 grid.
All other clues are standard. Digits on ...
... arrows sum to the circled digit.
... black dots have a 1:2 ratio.
... grey thermos strictly increase from the bulb.
... white dots are consecutive.
... an X/V sum to 10/5.
... green whisper lines differ by 3 or more if adjacent.
... yellow nabner lines are never consecutive.
... pink renban lines are consecutive when sorted.
... a cage sum to the total in the top-left (if given).
Notes
The cage quad is an inside joke and provides no useful information. For solvers with limited color vision: Constraints are explained in reading order, e.g. the last line constraint mentioned (renban) belongs to the quad that touches all 4 bottom boxes.
Solution code: The bottom row, left to right (6 digits)
Comments
on 13. May 2025, 16:26 by Crusader175
Fun puzzle and cool idea!
on 22. April 2025, 13:11 by Chilimy
After misinterpreting the ruleset and 6 hours of arranging boxes, I finally noticed that the numbers inside each box are shuffeled and not the box itself. After that it took me 5 minutes to solve. I should have thought of that sooner.
on 21. April 2025, 19:39 by ViKingPrime
I found this to be incredibly fun and not so trivially easy for such an approachable ruleset. Thank you so much for this! and for for agreeing to share it, I would hate to think of such a novel concept not being taken up by the wider community.
