Three Diamonds
(Published on 27. September 2026, 14:16 by Vythic)
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Chaos Construction: Digits are not repeated in rows, columns, or regions. The grid is divided into nine hidden regions, each consisting of orthogonally connected cells containing the digits 1-9.
Arrows: A digit on an arrow indicates the length of the uninterrupted run of cells immediately beyond the arrow, in the arrow's direction, that belong to the same region as the arrow cell.
Cages: Digits in a cage sum to the number in the top-left of the cage and cannot repeat. Within each cage, all digits of the same parity share the same region, and digits of opposite parities cannot share a region.
Summit Lines: Digits along a blue line must be ascending or descending, with 1 and 9 reversing the direction. Blue lines consist of two regions. Low digits (1, 2, 3, 4) share the same region and high digits (6, 7, 8, 9) share the other region. A 5 can belong to either.
Chaos Construction: Digits are not repeated in rows, columns, or regions. The grid is divided into nine hidden regions, each consisting of orthogonally connected cells containing the digits 1-9.
Arrows: A digit on an arrow indicates the length of the uninterrupted run of cells immediately beyond the arrow, in the arrow's direction, that belong to the same region as the arrow cell.
Cages: Digits in a cage sum to the number in the top-left of the cage and cannot repeat. Within each cage, all digits of the same parity share the same region, and digits of opposite parities cannot share a region.
Summit Lines: Digits along a blue line must be ascending or descending, with 1 and 9 reversing the direction. Blue lines consist of two regions. Low digits (1, 2, 3, 4) share the same region and high digits (6, 7, 8, 9) share the other region. A 5 can belong to either.
Solution code: Row 2, left to right, with a "+" between digits that belong to different regions
Solved by Starlight, Piff, Snookerfan, Nitwitter, haoju, marcmees, zakkai, lmdemasi, VesperV, Aeon, Malakree, wolf69, TitaniaLowe, Jesper, jkuo7, karlmortenlunna, MagnusJosefsson, polcat, Bathroomking
Comments
on 27. September 2026, 18:13 by Snookerfan
Beautiful puzzle! Not too hard and full of lovely steps. I should check out some of your others, which I set aside for a while, soon. Thanks
on 27. September 2026, 16:08 by Starlight
Fun CC puzzle that isn't super hard. I enjoyed it throughout.
