Happy Birthday, Gabi!!
(Eingestellt am 10. Juli 2023, 00:51 Uhr von KNT)
Happy birthday Gabi!! For your birthday, it has been decided that the birthday puzzle will combine a standard crypto Japanese Sums with Pentopia. There is nothing new with the Japanese sums or the cryptification, but to make sure we are clear, the letters A through I replace unique values from 1 to 9, and values to be written in cells are also from 1 to 9. We also know you like skyscrapers, so we put standard skyscraper clues on the right and bottom of the grid.
We define a pentomino as a group of exactly 5 orthogonally connected black cells. No pentomino may appear more than once in the finished solution, even considering rotations and reflections. Note that in the finished solution, there also may be black cells that do not form pentominos! And, unlike standard pentopia, pentominos may touch diagonally.
The cells inside the grid with arrow clues point to the nearest pentominos in the indicated directions. None of these clue cells may be blackened, and further, the digit placed in these cells rotate the clue by 45 degrees multiplied by the digit clockwise (because only a maniac would have clues rotate anticlockwise). If the clue ends up aligned on a diagonal axis, the clue instead indicates the nearest diagonal directions with pentominos instead of orthogonal directions.
As a final clarification, a standard (orthogonal) pentopia clue will never consider pentominos in the four diagonal directions from that cell, and likewise a diagonal pentopia clue will not consider pentominos in the four orthogonal directions from that cell!
That should be everything, I hope you enjoy it!
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The puzzle follows:
Lösungscode: The second to last row followed by the second column, with X in place of blackened cells
Kommentare
am 18. März 2024, 14:38 Uhr von KNT
@Nensche777: No, they may not.
am 18. März 2024, 12:44 Uhr von Nensche777
May the black non-pentomino cells be orthogonally connected to black pentomino-cells?
am 22. Juli 2023, 22:47 Uhr von Niverio
My brain is dead, thank you. Why in the world would you have rotating clues, you suck. :P
am 20. Juli 2023, 06:23 Uhr von Alex
A genius puzzle for a genius birthday girl! Happy belated birthday once more <3
am 15. Juli 2023, 08:32 Uhr von ONeill
Incredible present :) More please!
am 14. Juli 2023, 12:42 Uhr von Piatato
Absolutely fabulous puzzle! A belated happy birthday to Gabi!
am 11. Juli 2023, 22:49 Uhr von Jesper
Tested this a month back, an amazing puzzle, really fun solve!
Zusätzlich: alles Gute nachträglich, Gabi!
am 11. Juli 2023, 21:49 Uhr von ibag
Und außerdem: vielen Dank für die vielen netten Glückwünsche!
am 11. Juli 2023, 21:48 Uhr von ibag
And wow again - this is another real masterpiece. Many many thanks for the great gift. And by the way - do not you want to join the "Wichtelrunde" this year?
am 11. Juli 2023, 00:27 Uhr von Myxo
Alles Gute, Gabi!
Wunderschönes Rätsel, ein absolutes Meisterwerk.
am 10. Juli 2023, 22:20 Uhr von zuzanina
Wonderful until the last moment! Thanks a lot KNT!
And happy birthday again, Gabi!
am 10. Juli 2023, 21:54 Uhr von ibag
Wow, that looks great, thanks already! Now I'm curious whether I'm up to the task of rotating clockwise - a great challenge for a real maniac ;-)
am 10. Juli 2023, 16:15 Uhr von polar
Happy birthday Gabi :)
am 10. Juli 2023, 16:05 Uhr von KNT
@Luigi: The clues are pentopia clues, they indicate the direction of the nearest pentominos; the clues, nor the digits placed on the clue digits, do not say anything about the distance to those pentominos. For example, if Row 3 Column 5 was a '2', then the nearest pentomino in the four cardinal directions (up, down, left, and right) would be left.
Likewise, if that same cell was a '3', then the nearest pentomino in the four diagonal directions would be in the northwest direction. I hope this helps!
am 10. Juli 2023, 13:41 Uhr von Phistomefel
Auch von mir alles Gute zum Geburtstag, liebe Gabi!
am 10. Juli 2023, 09:00 Uhr von marcmees
happy birthday Gabi.
am 10. Juli 2023, 03:45 Uhr von MicroStudy
happy birthday ibag
