The Spaceship
(Eingestellt am 7. Oktober 2023, 19:06 Uhr von Yann)
It has the same break-in as that one, but it develops differently, I hope you enjoy it !
Place 6 of the digits from 1 to 9 once in each row, column and marked box.
One cell per row, column and box is a doubler, its value is two times the digit it contains. Each digit is doubled once.
Digits along an arrow sum to the digit in that arrow's circle.
Here's a Penpa+ link : https://tinyurl.com/2mebewc9
And here's a CTC link : https://tinyurl.com/mr3prvvz
The estimated difficulty should be 3.5/4 stars, mainly because of the break-in.
Have fun solving, ratings, comments and a German translation are appreciated, and feel free to write a hidden comment if you're stuck !
Lösungscode: Row 2 (left to right), followed by row 6
Kommentare
am 13. Oktober 2023, 13:45 Uhr von wullemuus
It's the same for me as for kafkapharnaum (who told me to solve this ;))- though being familiar with the logic is wasn't that easy to find the right digits ... . The tiny monster was obviously more difficult. This one should be a very useful preparation for the monster puzzle and is not only very enjoyable but also very well designed- chapeau! Especially the arrow from box 3 disambiguated different sets of digits. Looking forward to your next ones!
P.S. I'm a "she" :D
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Thanks for the solve and the feedback, I think I got lucky with that box 3 arrow, but I like these final disambiguations between sets of digits ! I'm also a bit surprised by the difficulty, I thought it was going to be a smooth puzzle, but it's rather a cute monster...
am 12. Oktober 2023, 02:22 Uhr von Kafkapharnaum
"Easier" than the Tiny Monster, yes, but not by much, phew! Even knowing the core tricks, it still took me a while -- it's really incredible how different it is than the Tiny Monster too, despite some obvious similarities. I also really liked the crazy minimalist ending, that wasn't present in the previous puzzle -- even that was tricky in its own right!
So to me this is still definitely very much over 4/5, and I imagine for many other solvers as well, but it's still a shame how undersolved it is, as this is intricacy and originality like no other... I really hope others will try it! (and you should poke wullemuus, as I think he likely didn't see it :-)
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Thank you so much for the solve and the really warm comment ! I thought there only was only 1 tricky step after the initial logic, maybe you found another logical path. And I really loved the ending, I tried putting a symmetrical arrow and it disambiguated everything really elegantly !
am 8. Oktober 2023, 19:31 Uhr von Lizzy01
Nice :)
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Thanks for the solve !
am 7. Oktober 2023, 19:12 Uhr von Yann
Added online solving tag
