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The Moving Finger (Numbered Regions Chaos Construction)

(Eingestellt am 27. Februar 2025, 03:00 Uhr von tallcat)

I have spent recent weeks looking at some older chaos construction puzzles with a view to making puzzles with their rulesets. This one was inspired by puzzles from Jesper that I can highly recommend, found here and here. Happy solving!

Chaos construction: Place the digits 1 to 9 once each in every row, column, and region. Regions are orthogonally connected and must be located by the solver.

Region numbers: The digit in the top-left cell of a region (the leftmost cell in its highest row) is its region number. All region numbers are different.

Pointing Arrows: If a cell with the digit X in a region with the number N contains an arrow, then the cell X steps away in the indicated direction belongs to the region numbered N+1. Not all possible arrows are given.




Can be played online at Penpa (no answer check) or Sudokupad (answer check)

Lösungscode: Row 6 (left to right) with '-' to represent region borders

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Kommentare

am 5. Juni 2025, 05:19 Uhr von rundmc214
This was such an amazing puzzle, from break in until the end. I absolutely adored Jesper's original puzzle, but I felt this one was much more consistent in difficulty and I loved the logical flow this had much more. Probably my favorite puzzle I've solved so far!

am 9. Mai 2025, 16:25 Uhr von glum_hippo
Drop dead fabulous puzzle! I found it on zetamath's stream and somehow snoozed when it was originally released. Splendoriferous cat!

am 13. April 2025, 11:22 Uhr von theaaronbomb
This was my first 5-star solve, and I couldn't have chosen a better one to attempt! this puzzle has opened up a whole new world of joy for me. Thank you tallcat!

am 7. April 2025, 08:29 Uhr von Erin
WOW such a nice puzzle!!

am 6. April 2025, 08:23 Uhr von rubencubed
such fun! was engaging from start to finish :D

am 5. April 2025, 22:36 Uhr von Fool on Hill
Wonderful puzzle with lovely logic about the regions.

am 5. April 2025, 20:15 Uhr von wooferzfg
Fantastic, thank you

am 5. April 2025, 03:31 Uhr von KNT
great!!!

am 30. März 2025, 20:24 Uhr von heliosfant
Several times I thought "no way this can be correct", but it turned out to be correct :)
And I do not know if it was intentional or not, but I loved where the 9 and 1 region numbers ended. The beginning and the end.

am 25. März 2025, 03:31 Uhr von BloodbuzzCorio
Brilliant puzzle tallcat!

am 5. März 2025, 10:06 Uhr von MagnusJosefsson
Amazing puzzle! Incredibly fun and rewarding. The finishing irregular sudoku is very smooth as well.

am 1. März 2025, 22:25 Uhr von askaksaksask
Wow, this logic is really fresh, in total agreement with the comments below. I quite enjoyed the "pressure" on sorting top-left digits, and the wonderful region building disarray that follows. Quite fun. Thank you so much!

am 1. März 2025, 05:05 Uhr von twototenth
Excellent puzzle - very much worth the headache.

am 1. März 2025, 01:06 Uhr von SirWoezel
One of the best puzzles I have ever solved. Can’t understand how this ‘only’ has 93% right now.

am 28. Februar 2025, 05:24 Uhr von Piatato
Awesome puzzle, thanks!

Zuletzt geändert am 27. Februar 2025, 19:55 Uhr

am 27. Februar 2025, 19:51 Uhr von Franjo
Incredible setting with a beautiful break-in! Thank you so much for creating and sharing this masterpiece, with which I could celebrate my 100th 5*-solution. ;-)

am 27. Februar 2025, 17:44 Uhr von Jesper
Fantastic puzzle! Really enjoyed solving :)

Zuletzt geändert am 7. April 2025, 03:33 Uhr

am 27. Februar 2025, 17:13 Uhr von tallcat
Thanks everyone for the positive responses and feedback - it was quite tricky to set this one so i appreciate the warm reception!

am 27. Februar 2025, 16:56 Uhr von SenatorGronk
Fantastic puzzle! Putting the over/under of this being featured on CtC at 1.5 days.

am 27. Februar 2025, 16:30 Uhr von gfoot
Brilliant - this kind of arrows-plus-chaos-construction is one of my favourite puzzle types, and this is a great example of it, thanks for setting it!

am 27. Februar 2025, 15:57 Uhr von marcmees
Thank you. 100% appreciation well deserved.

am 27. Februar 2025, 15:08 Uhr von TripleABattery
Lovely puzzle with beautiful logic throughout, thank you!

am 27. Februar 2025, 13:31 Uhr von Andrewsarchus
Very Nice!

am 27. Februar 2025, 11:30 Uhr von Snookerfan
Very nice puzzle! I love this ruleset. Thank you

am 27. Februar 2025, 11:19 Uhr von Silverscree
This was excellent and maintained its level of toughness right to the end in my solve.

am 27. Februar 2025, 09:37 Uhr von Playmaker6174
Wow, what a fantastic setting with also a rather consistent difficulty throughout!
It took me a lot of time to get my mind around how the opening works but the aha moments just kept coming in such delightful ways, and all of those were crammed into just over 90 minutes solve of mine. Also thank you for making the final irregular part not so insane this time x)

am 27. Februar 2025, 04:18 Uhr von henrypijames
Novel logic, recommend for CtC.

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