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The Reflections of Van Helsing

(Published on 19. October 2026, 08:04 by basilicon)

The Reflections of Van Helsing

  • 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.

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Solution code: Row 2, left to right


Solved by Piff, SKORP17
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Difficulty:4
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Solved:2 times
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