Mine Counter
(Published today, 00:06 by Eclectic_Hoosier)
Puzzle Name: Mine Counter
Puzzle Type: Duality
Puzzle Link: F-Puzzles or Sven's Sudokupad
Rules:
Puzzle Type: Duality
Puzzle Link: F-Puzzles or Sven's Sudokupad
Rules:
- This is a duality type puzzle. Each type of clue serves two purposes.
- Classic: Normal Sudoku rules apply.
- Counting Circles: A number in a circle indicates how many circles contain that digit. Minesweeper: A digit in a circle indicates how many shaded squares that circle sees in itself and the squares all around it.
- Yin-Yang: Shade some squares such that all shaded cells form one orthogonally connected region, and all unshaded cells form another orthogonally connected region.
Some shaded (red) and unshaded (blue) cells have been given. (If you prefer to use your own colors, these can be turned off in the settings, by selecting "hide colors.") No 2x2 block of cells may be either shaded or unshaded.
The unshaded region serves as an anti-german whisper, where any two adjacent orthogonally connected digits must have a difference of five or less. - Digital Duality, or Blackjack: For the purposes of the anti-whisper region, an "Ace" (the digit "1") can have a value of either 1 or 11. A single "1" my have two different values simultaneously for two different uses of the clue.
- Killer: Shaded digits in a killer cage sum to the number in the top left corner of the cage. Digits may not repeat in a cage.
The killer regions serve as a windoku constraint.
Solution code: Row 9 left to right
Solved by Sherif, SKORP17, dzamie
Comments
today, 17:55 by dzamie
Ah, my variant minesweeper experience worked against me! There's a minesweeper variant where every 2x2 region must have at least one mine, and seeing certain numbers force specific patterns of mines around it... except this is YY, which means that the "mine" can be *on* the clue.
This was really fun!
