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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.

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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
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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!

Difficulty:3
Rating:91 %
Solved:20 times
Observed:3 times
ID:000TX3

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