Candles Reconstruction
(Published on 9. January 2026, 21:28 by KNT)
Place candles into some empty cells. A candle has a height of 4 minus the amount of neighbors also containing candles. No candle may have all four neighbors filled (as then it would have height 0).
Clues outside the grid give the sums of heights of connected candles in order, where empty cells separate groups. A question mark can be any nonzero value.
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7x7 example is provided:
SudokuPad
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Solution code: The heights of the candles in the bottom two rows with X for empty cell.
Last changed on on 9. January 2026, 21:40
Solved by the_cogito, Myxo, Jesper, Piatato, r45, jkuo7, Mr_tn, MagnusJosefsson, AnnaTh, puzzler05, LouZX, cyddrdrd
Comments
today, 14:17 by cyddrdrd
Cool!
yesterday, 18:36 by AnnaTh
Great combination!
on 10. January 2026, 09:13 by Piatato
Great fun! :-D
on 9. January 2026, 22:10 by Myxo
Lovely!