Gold Rush (Dazed Out #1)

(Published on 22. March 2026, 09:54 by .proxz14)

About This Puzzle

This is the start of a new puzzle series primarily built around the Sudoku variant Chaos Construction. In the following puzzles, many different variant combinations will be experimented on with chaos, at a varying difficulty level.

RULES

Chaos Construction:
Divide the grid into 9 regions of 9 orthogonally connected cells. Place the digits 1–9 in every row, column, and region once each.
Gold Cells:
A gold cell contains its position within its row, column, or region (reading order). No two regions have the same number of gold cells. All possible gold cells are given.
Circles:
A circled digit equals the number of non-gold cells in its region. Each region has exactly one circled cell.
Kropki:
Digits separated by a black dot must be in a 1:2 ratio.

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Solution code: Digits of the region that contains a circled 5, in normal reading order.

Last changed on on 18. June 2026, 13:32

Solved by BaguetteSolves, marcmees, Survivalinstinct_07, ShoneChello, War, 30somethingsolver, zakkai, Becky, Asphodel, jkuo7, Andrewsarchus, eelyashova, brewring, Snookerfan, Hazem-77, Zzzzz..., snowbaby, steeto, peacherwu2, elmers, BlazingSnow, Isael, SPring, MagnusJosefsson, Elker, hepcecob, Gnosis66, MountBecton, JDP678, kangaroo

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Comments

on 20. May 2026, 18:23 by Snookerfan
Brilliant puzzle! So much to keep track off to break-in, but then there is a superb flow, especially after remembering there is an implied negative constraint. Thanks

on 15. April 2026, 17:57 by henrypijames
Not sure what I'm missing, but I've tried for an hour and can't break in.

on 23. March 2026, 20:01 by Survivalinstinct_07
The rules made me think this would not solve, but suprisingly it solved without being too difficult. Awesome puzzle!

Last changed on 23. March 2026, 19:54

on 23. March 2026, 18:46 by marcmees
Did some extra black dots get added since I had a first look at this puzzle? If so, it surely made for an easier start, still leaving the further solve very challenging and rewarding. Thanks for this beauty.

.proxz14's response: If you saw it when it was first published, yes that is the case. The dots were added a few days ago, but I accidentally uploaded the wrong version here at first.