Cut the Rope
(Published on 6. July 2025, 17:00 by SparkNights)
Normal Sudoku rules apply.
Cut the Rope: Every row, column and box have exactly one scissors cell. 9 scissors cells contain 1~9 once each. If there is at least a scissors cell on the line between 2 knots (aqua circles), then the section between the 2 knots (not including the knots themselves) will be invalid. (ie. not regarded as a section of a valid line when it comes to line logic.) All sections without any scissors cell are valid. No scissors cell can appear at a knot.
Region Sum Line (Aqua, #00FFFF): After being cut by scissors cells, the rest valid part of the aqua line act as one or multiple region sum lines. (Box/region borders divide an aqua line into segments which have the same sum) Any region sum line cannot branch or be entirely in a single box. If there are multiple region sum lines, different lines may have different sums.
Example: (The red-circled cells are scissors cells. Not necessarily solvable)
Solution code: The 9 digits in scissors cells from top row to bottom row. (For the example it's 3214)
Comments
on 8. July 2025, 06:58 by Tacocat
The scissors ruleset is original and enjoyable, thank you! The puzzle got harder (for me) towards the end, I would say it starts at 3 stars difficulty and ends at 4 stars.
Maybe the rules should specify that region sum lines may self intersect / intersect each other.
