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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: Values in cells seperated by a dot are in a ratio of 1:N. N has to be a positiv integer and no two dots of different color/letter may have the same N.
Have fun solving!
Solution code: The 9 digits from column 5 (top-to-bottom) separated by (+) for borders between regions
on 8. December 2025, 06:22 by War
I don't know if I can solve this one, my first Chaconopeia fail... Maybe the math is too complicated or I have holiday brain. I understand that with the high number of letters, there will be some pretty high ratios. It looks like the starting point is with the F and Ds but I'm not finding it. I'll have to revisit this one another time, sorry Mr Tyas, I'll try to get you another solve eventually
-So I found the break in eventually. I had to write things down to track ratios. I didn't realize how forcing the whole "integer" ratio is, especially when there are 7 different letters. It turned into a very beautiful puzzle, but is exceptionally challenging, even for a Chaconopeia puzzle