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Welcome to Chaconopia (Chaos Construction)

(Published on 16. August 2025, 13:24 by Mad-Tyas)

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Rules:

1. Chaos Construction: The grid has to be devided into nine regions of orthogonally connected cells. Each row, column and region has to contain the digits 1-9 once each.

2. Roles: Cells take on roles If certain conditions are met. These roles increase the value of those cells. Only if none of these conditions, which are described below, is met, the value of a cell is its digit. If more than one condition is met, a cell always takes the role with the highest value.

2.1 Role Mechanics and Values (X = Digit in a cell):
- Farmer (Value = 2X): To become a Farmer a cell needs at least X cells including itself of its own region in the 3x3 area centered on the cell.
- Merchant (Value = 3X): To become a Merchant there has to be at least one foreign region that occupies at least X orthogonally and/or diagonally touching cells of the considered cell.
- Diplomat (Value = 4X): To become a Diplomat a cell has to be orthogonally and or diagonally touched by at least X different other regions.

3. Clues: Clues outside the grid give the sums of all contiguous segments of cells of a region in order of their appearance in the respective row or column. A (?) replaces exactly one such clue. A (...) represents zero or any number of clues.

Have fun solving!

Solution code: The 9 digits from row 5 separated by (+) for borders between regions

Last changed on on 4. September 2025, 22:09

Solved by henrypijames, pecha_berrie, Default, War, Piff, marcmees, zakkai, sehringdipity, han233ing, jkuo7, dogfarts, Ppaatt, Taeqle, TheZwierz, bansalsaab, haoju
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Last changed on 6. September 2025, 20:03

on 6. September 2025, 20:02 by marcmees
An epic journey and I finally got the missing chaconopia, exhausted and afraid of what still may come. Thanks :-)

on 4. September 2025, 22:09 by Mad-Tyas
Re-wording of the rules for better comprehensibility.

on 21. August 2025, 18:02 by War
Awesome Logic, great setting. The break in is perfect and so is the logic following.

To Henrypijames: The clue in Row 5 is necessary for a logical completion.

on 19. August 2025, 06:42 by pecha_berrie
WOW, what a construction! The break-in stumped me for so long, I ended up making a filter-able spreadsheet in order to work out all the possible combinations of sums and multipliers for each total! It ended up helping me tremendously, though, and from there I was slowly able to work through the rest of the logic. Very fascinating interactions in this one, lovely job!

Last changed on 18. August 2025, 13:07

on 18. August 2025, 05:56 by henrypijames
Holy cow, how is this one even harder than the previous?!

But I don't think I used the R5 glue.

Difficulty:5
Rating:96 %
Solved:16 times
Observed:3 times
ID:000OQ1

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