XV*-O-*9
(Published on 29. May 2025, 09:54 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.
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.
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Bless you!
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Example
Solution code: give the digits of column 1 (top to bottom)
Comments
on 19. June 2025, 12:46 by shteev
I've done a quite a lot of these XV puzzles now and this one was on the easier side
on 2. June 2025, 14:44 by LehanLehan
Besides using letters it's really helpful to use different colours for values lower and higher than 5.
on 1. June 2025, 21:39 by yusuf17
Great puzzle.
I always solve these using letters instead of colors where A+I = B+H = C+G = D+F = 10
Then at the end I figure out which of A and I, which of B and H and so on is the smaller value and I recode them so that A, B, C and D are smaller than 5.
I makes it easier to think about the numerical values of the cells. Colors do not have that property.
And always watch out for 5.
on 31. May 2025, 00:34 by AnebodaSlatorp
Thank you as always
on 30. May 2025, 22:47 by takeponmaki
great puzzle, thanks.
on 30. May 2025, 15:54 by EvaristeLogic
Very fun puzzle!! That V constraint was very sneaky but gave a very lovely eureka moment :)
on 30. May 2025, 12:19 by dhansik
Smooth and pleasant for me until the disambiguation which gave me a bit of a headache - like others I forgot the negative V constraint. Doh!
on 30. May 2025, 03:50 by Exigus
That was great! Thanks!
on 30. May 2025, 03:50 by e_reads
This was great! I also think it was a lot easier than the previous one for me. I solved it in record time. I just had a bit of trouble with the disambiguation right at the end of the coloring, but other than that, smooth sailing!
on 30. May 2025, 00:14 by egglet
colouring this one was easier than the previous one but figuring out the numbers to match took awhile – got too fixated on the cage restriction. the logic for the numbers was great fun
on 29. May 2025, 19:24 by SirWoezel
That was a huge colouring mess. Great puzzle anyway.
on 29. May 2025, 18:54 by Onkel_Dagobert
It was extremely hard for me to put in the numbers after colouring, and very hard to get the colours correctly. I would rate this **** for me. It was all the more pleasing when everything fell into place.
