Flies and Spiders
(Published on 13. October 2025, 16:00 by Blobz)
The Hobbit Puzzle Pack
VIII : Flies and Spiders
Image with kind permission from Ted Nasmith
One of the fat spiders ran along a rope till it came to a dozen bundles hanging in a row from a high branch. Bilbo was horrified, now that he noticed them for the first time dangling in the shadows, to see a dwarvish foot sticking out of the bottoms of some of the bundles, or here and there the tip of a nose, or a bit of beard or of a hood.
Normal sudoku rules apply.
Begin by filling in the digits discovered at "The Carrock" in the previous puzzle.
Box borders divide the enchanted stream (blue line) into segments that sum to the same value.
The captured dwarves (twelve grey bundles) must all be from the set of digits {3, 4, 5}.
Cells bound together by a cobweb contain consecutive digits.
Have fun, leave a comment if you enjoy the puzzle!
Solution code: Row 1
Comments
yesterday, 02:46 by marajade
As usual, I absolutely love how you converted this portion of the story into puzzle form. It was fun to see the dwarves constraint return, after enough puzzles not using it that I'd assumed it was a one-off!
(Like the previous commentator, somehow I completely missed that the river went through box 1 so that slowed me down for a bit.)
on 16. October 2025, 22:45 by dzamie
This is a really fun series! I've been enjoying it a lot.
The river was a little hard to read here, compared to more standard RSLs. It didn't prevent me from solving the puzzle, but I was stuck for 5ish minutes because my brain refused to realize that it does actually go through r3c3, instead reading it as a corner-cut directly from box 4 to box 2.
