Herniated Ring-6
(Published on 29. October 2025, 14:05 by brtmns)
Digits strictly increase along a thermometer, starting from the bulb.
Digits cannot repeat within a cage, and the digits within a cage must add up to the total given in that cage’s upper-left corner.
A black dot separates two digits such that one is twice the other.
Digits appearing in large circles (on grid intersections) must appear in the surrounding four cells.
Clues outside the grid give the sum of the digits between the 1 and 9 in that row or column. (The 1 and 9 are not included.)
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Play the Herniated Ring-1 here.
Play the Herniated Ring-2 here.
Play the Herniated Ring-3 here.
Play the Herniated Ring-4 here.
Play the Herniated Ring-5 here.
Solution code: box 8
Comments
on 12. November 2025, 11:23 by JVA
Fairly easy if you know of the arcane knowledge, probably nightmarish without it
on 4. November 2025, 08:15 by Aronana
Nice!
on 30. October 2025, 15:58 by wuc
To me it is 1.5*-2*. A beginner would probably struggle. Great puzzle anyway thx.
on 30. October 2025, 13:10 by VitP
"easy for experts" does NOT mean the same thing as "easy".
with >3 variants in play, and a fairly good understanding of phistomefel REQUIRED, this puzzle must be level 2 AT LEAST (and, in the event, not higher than 2)
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The red star is what solvers vote for difficulty. Apparently, for this audience it is a 1 star puzzle. My initial estimate(blue star-which was 1 star too) gets overwritten after enough votes.
Brtmns
on 30. October 2025, 12:43 by Martina
Great fun in my lunch break. Thanks!
on 29. October 2025, 22:53 by abihummel
Lovely smooth solve, but I kept looking for the cage! xD
on 29. October 2025, 19:36 by Myfyr MJ
Very nice and easy puzzle - 14 minutes for me.
