(Published on 19. October 2026, 08:04 by basilicon)
Normal sudoku rules apply. Digits may not repeat on the marked negative diagonal.
Shade some cells so that all shaded cells form one orthogonally connected region and all unshaded cells form another. No 2x2 area may be entirely shaded or entirely unshaded. A black circle marks a shaded cell; a white circle marks an unshaded cell.
Mirror: a shaded cell's digit also appears in the cell reflected across the negative diagonal (e.g. if R1C3 is shaded and contains 2, R3C1 contains 2).
Vampires: a shaded cell whose reflected cell holds a different digit is a vampire (it casts no reflection). No two vampires share a row, column or box, and all vampires hold different digits.
Digits along a light grey thermometer strictly increase from the bulb.
Dark grey lines are palindromes: they read the same in both directions.
Digits separated by a white dot are consecutive. Not all such pairs are marked.