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Prime Viking

(Eingestellt am 21. Februar 2024, 13:55 Uhr von heliopolix )

This puzzle has a lot of inspirations. It draws from the excellent Domino Trails series by Blobz, with its cage-and-cave hybrid clues. It substitutes the adjacent two-cell domino cages with Remote Sums, which are also two-cell cages that are scattered across a row or column. Finally, it uses a modified Genetics constraint where some cells inherit traits from the cells above them.

These different constraints take a fair number of words to convey, so the rules are quite lengthy. I hope you aren't dissuaded by this, and give the puzzle a try. Enjoy!

Thanks to Scojo and Viking Prime for the weekly puzzle prompt that inspired me to set a genetics puzzle, and to my testers for their time and feedback.

Rules:

  • Sudoku: Place the digits 1-9 once each in every row, column, and 3x3 box.
  • Viking Voyage: Shade some cells (the Islands) such that the unshaded cells (the Sea) form an orthogonally connected area (with no loops) where no 2x2 group of cells is either fully shaded or unshaded. Different parts of the Sea may touch diagonally (checkerboard patterns ARE allowed). Note that Islands do not need to connect to the edge of the grid.
  • The given digit is Sea.
  • Remote Sums: A digit X in a cage points to a second digit Y located X cells away vertically or horizontally. The number in the top left corner of the cage, if given, indicates the sum of X+Y.
  • Both the digit X and the digit Y are Sea.
  • The digit X also counts how many Sea cells (including itself) can be seen orthogonally from that position (Islands obstruct the view).
  • Genetics: Each digit has two properties. The first property is being shaded or unshaded according to the Viking Voyage rules. The second property is being prime (1,2,3,5,7) or composite (4,6,8,9). (1 is grouped in with the prime digits, though it technically isn't prime.)
  • Each cell that is directly connected to two cells in the row above it by an ivory line is considered a child of those two cells (the parents).
  • Each child can be formed by taking a property of one parent and taking the other property of the other parent.
  • For example: If a child has parents that are a shaded 8 (composite) and an unshaded 5 (prime), the child could either be a shaded prime digit, or it could be an unshaded composite digit. If a child has parents that are an unshaded 8 (composite) and an unshaded 7 (prime), the child will be unshaded either way, and could be any digit (prime or composite).

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am 27. Februar 2024, 03:26 Uhr von scottgarner
Truly incredible setting!

am 22. Februar 2024, 08:13 Uhr von Bankey
Fun puzzle. Needs constant focus! Thanks, @ heliopolix :).

am 21. Februar 2024, 15:35 Uhr von fopkovic
@ViKingPrime, how do you solve this in 2 minutes :) It took me more to read the rules

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am 21. Februar 2024, 13:57 Uhr von ViKingPrime
First! ... but seriously, not sure who you made this puzzle for but I imagine they must be ecstatic.

Great puzzle. Word of advice to all future solvers - reading the rules carefully will save you time and heartache.
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@fopkovic - Right? I had the benefit of solving this pre-release but I can assure you of its quality. -- VKP

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