German Sums 6 (Chaos Construction Edition)
(Published yesterday, 07:00 by SennyK)
German Sums 6 (Chaos Construction Edition)
Today we have German Sums puzzle created for Scojo's prompt, as redeemed by gdc, to create an approachable Chaos Construction puzzle :-)
My inspiration for this puzzle was Ascending From Chaos by sujoyku.
According to testers, the puzzle is somewhere between high 2* and low 3*.
I hope you will enjoy and I would be really grateful for all the comments and ratings.
Chaos Construction: Divide the grid into seven orthogonally connected seven-cell regions, and place the digits 1-7 exactly once in each row, each column and each region.
7x7 German Sums: A clue outside the grid gives the sum of all continuously adjacent digits with a difference of at least 4 up to (and not including) the first digit with a difference of 3 or less in that row or column from the direction of the clue. A digit in the first cell is always included in the sum.
For example, if row 1 is 7435162, then the sum would be 7 from the left side and 14 (2+6+1+5) from the right side.
Region Building: For each clue, all the digits contributing to its sum must belong to the same region, and the first digit not contributing to its sum must belong to a different region.
SudokuPad Link
If you liked this puzzle, I recommend trying out my other puzzles:
The Erica Series:
★☆☆☆☆:
1,
2,
4,
5,
6,
12,
15,
17,
23,
26,
27,
31,
32,
46,
47
★★☆☆☆:
3,
7,
8,
10,
11,
13,
14,
16,
18,
20,
24,
25,
29,
30,
34,
35,
38,
40,
42,
45
★★★☆☆:
9,
19,
21,
22,
28,
33,
37,
38,
41,
44,
45,
48
★★★★☆:
36,
39,
43
German Sums Series:
★★☆☆☆:
1,
3
★★★☆☆:
2,
4,
5
Shading/Ying-Yang:
★★☆☆☆:
Pretty Odd Shaded Area
★★★☆☆:
(+5)-Yang,
Negative 8 YY
★★★★☆:
Aim High! (YY)
★★★★★:
Why-Why?,
Happ(Y) Birthda(Y), ChinStrap!,
Growing YY in the Fog Puzzle Pack
Modifiers:
★☆☆☆☆:
Borrower
★★★☆☆:
Modified Flat Mates,
Neighbourhood Watch
★★★★★:
Mad Delirium Puzzle: Remarkably Beyond Crazy [16x16],
Top Right Boi [CC],
There's Strength in Numbers
Fog of War:
★☆☆☆☆:
Erica 12,
Erica 17
★★☆☆☆:
It's What You Do in the Dark That Puts You in the Light,
Find It All,
What the Fog?,
Erica 20,
Erica 29
★★★☆☆:
Broken Flashlight in the Dark
Pencil Puzzle/Sudoku Hybrid:
★★☆☆☆:
Masyu (Short) Sudoku,
Heyawake Sudoku (Given Regions),
Way Too Hot, Are You? [Hotaru Beam],
Hey, What's Up? [Heyawake]
★★★☆☆:
Tetromino Sudoku
★★★★☆:
Made in the Shade (Heyawake CC)
★★★★★:
Heyawake Sudoku
Pairometers:
★★☆☆☆:
Pairometers (6x6 Pack 1),
Pairometers
★★★☆☆:
Pairometers (6x6 Pack 2),
Pairometers (6x6 Pack 3)
Various Puzzles:
★☆☆☆☆:
Blown Fuses in Electrical Installation,
Let Me Introduce Myself,
French Wrench,
GAS Regional Constraints,
Quadsumes,
Snack Latin Arrows,
Sarah
★★☆☆☆:
Symmetrical Fan,
Night Club,
Important Hour on the Clock,
What Was the Sum Again?,
Disgroup Joints,
10-Arrows,
Antiking Dutch Skyscrapers,
(Not so) Little Killers,
Indexing Sword,
Larna's HoneyMoon,
Ascending Sums
★★★☆☆:
Cops & Robbers,
Positive Symmetry,
Doppelgänger Killer 1-25,
Region Whisper Line,
Christmas Chaos
★★★★☆:
Liars. Liars Everywhere.,
Sandwiched XV Squishmates,
Fireworks 2025,
(Yin)German Pairrows,
Little Galaxy,
2x Solution
★★★★★:
Any NEWS?,
Potentially Pointer, Possibly Parity Party
Solution code: Second (2nd) row of the grid from left to right (with the symbol "/" marking borders between regions, e.g., 1/23/456/7).
Last changed on yesterday, 09:38
Solved by sujoyku, marcmees, Hrothan, LabRat, amirs, MartinR, Christounet, gdc, Flinty, GorgeousNicko, Ambrose, jkuo7, kublai, NEWS, scarfdoku, Aaravos, kangaroo, jorningekr, CrippledLamp, lune
Comments
yesterday, 13:24 by Flinty
Easy dubz!!
yesterday, 12:50 by gdc
Fun use of the German sums constraint.
yesterday, 12:18 by Christounet
Very cool! Thanks :)
yesterday, 11:13 by amirs
Lovely puzzle. I agree with the high 2* estimate.
yesterday, 09:05 by sujoyku
I love your German Sums constraint. Thank you for this awesome puzzle, SennyK!