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Destructive Counting

(Published on 21. November 2025, 13:12 by eap314)

I challenged myself to make a variation on a few lesser know rulesets. These authors are amazing, and their puzzles linked below can serve as examples.

Sudoku / Latin Square: Digits do not repeat in rows or columns.
Destruction (NXTMaster): All GIVEN regions contain at least one repeat digit. Locate 7 orthogonally connected HIDDEN regions that contain the digits 1-7.

A circle counts how many (orthogonally and diagonally) adjacent cells including itself (up to 9) are in both its given and hidden region.
A square counts how many TOTAL cells overlap between its given and hidden region.

Counting (IcyFruit): A digit in a CIRCLE indicates the TOTAL number of circles and squares that contain that digit. Digits in squares do not necessarily go in circles.
(2 could go in 1 square and 1 circle. 3 could go in 5 squares if it goes in 0 circles)

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If you are struggling, place a 6 in r2c5. My tester says it's more fun if you don't do this.

Note for setters: Some puzzles should be built top-down, and others bottom-up. Chaos construction is in-between. That means that you should place some constraints, then make a solution that fits them, and finally go back and tweak your constraints until the solution is unique. It took me a while to figure that out, and I want you guys to be better than me.

Solution code: Row 6 left to right. Use a hyphen (-) to designate hidden region boundaries.

Last changed on on 21. November 2025, 15:17

Solved by NXTMaster, tryote, marcmees, SPring, Yaoning, zakkai, LabRat
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Difficulty:4
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Solved:7 times
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ID:000Q4O

Variant combination Latin Square

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