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(Published on 14. May 2026, 00:46 by gkammer)

I published a similar puzzle a couple days ago, but it turned out to have a small mistake and which meant it was not solvable. I fixed the issue and now it should work out. Sorry!

You have been gifted a large collection of puzzles from a friend. You sift through them looking for interesting ones and find a photocopy of a puzzle from an old book of puzzles, filed under "puzzles with no given digits". The original book is nowhere to be found and the photocopy is in black and white.

To make matters worse, in box 3, a coffee stain has covered 3 cells. You suspect there may have been clues under the stain, but you can't make them out. At least you can make out that there are no lines connecting any of those cells to any of the adjacent uncovered cells (e.g. there is no line connecting R1C8 to R1C7).

You can see the photocopy here:

Still, you think it might be solvable regardless. The rules listed for the puzzle are:

Rules:

  • Normal sudoku rules still apply.
  • Renban: Digits along a purple line form a set of consecutive digits in any order.
  • German whispers: Adjacent digits along a green line have a difference of at least 5.
  • Equal-sum lines: Box borders divide a blue line into multiple segments which have the same sum. Different lines may have different sums.

What is the original solution to this puzzle?

I have transcribed the puzzle so that it is easier to play:

And finally, you can play it online here!

Solution code: 7th row, left to right


Solved by TheCutmaster, jmw, Briks, SKORP17, Hagemann
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Last changed on 14. May 2026, 14:12

on 14. May 2026, 14:09 by gkammer
Blueberrypug, it can't be a renban line, but it could just happen to also contain digits in sequence that could satisfy renban. You should pretend there was an original puzzle called "Line Dancing" with the given lines, and that if a line is a region sum, it doesn't say anything about those digits not being a renban. And jmw, your edit is correct.

Last changed on 14. May 2026, 05:27

on 14. May 2026, 05:19 by blueberrypug
oh okay so if a line is a region sum for example, it cant also be say a valid renban at the same time?

on 14. May 2026, 04:18 by gkammer
No, each distinct line you see is one color.

on 14. May 2026, 03:10 by blueberrypug
can lines be multiple different types of lines?

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