Fog Puzzle #1.0
(Published on 20. April 2025, 11:46 by Visumation)
Rules:
Normal sudoku rules apply.
Box borders divide blue lines into segments with the same sum..
Digits in a cage cannot repeat and must sum to the clue in the top left of that cage (if given).
Additionally the grid is partially covered in fog. Placing a correct digit will clear fog in surrounding cells.
Solution code: Column 9
Comments
on 23. April 2025, 23:23 by MattJones
Glad to see the approval rating is inching up - a very nice puzzle, and now the corrections have been made I don’t see why the approval won’t continue to improve. Loved it!
Thanks for you comment and for solving. And yes. Looks like you’re right. /vis
on 23. April 2025, 12:07 by VitP
hard work will be required until very near the end.
SUDOKU is not to be skimped here !!
weird bug that i found by accident:
1) select all cells.
2) enter ONE final number
Weird…:) Thanks for solving. /vis
on 21. April 2025, 23:37 by Sparky
Also found this puzzle after the corrections and I enjoyed it a lot, thank you for submitting this ! :)
Thanks for solving and commenting. /vis
on 21. April 2025, 21:53 by Myfyr MJ
Lovely fog of war puzzle
Thanks a lot. /vis
on 21. April 2025, 08:11 by TheNineElements
Solve Time: 19:07
I rated this 2/5 difficulty.
Excellent puzzle! It was fairly approachable and enjoyable to solve. I really liked the use of fog, and it interfaced greatly with the RSL & killer clues.
The pacing and difficulty of the puzzle were very consistent, and the puzzle had a very nice 'flow'.
The user ratings are currently 77%, which is very unfortunate/disappointing. 77% for this puzzle is VERY underrated IMO. It seems like dFoW and classic FoW puzzles seem to get lower ratings automatically for some reason, but in this case it seems like the ratings are based on a prior version of the puzzle that had some problem with the starting 29 cage (and maybe the issue mentioned about the prior rule phrasing). I didn't solve this apparent earlier version, and I found no legitimate issues in my solve.
As it currently stands, this puzzle is excellent, and it is very unfortunate that some solvers may disregard this puzzle entirely due to the rating.
My favorite aspect of this puzzle was probably the utilization of the killer cage border formatting when the borders are obscured by fog. This is a fairly common trick constructors use nowadays, but this puzzle had a few examples of this that I found very nice and led to some very nice logic.
Thanks for sharing!
Thanks a lot for your lovely comment. Really appreciated. And yeah. I guess some people chose to downrate the puzzle, because of the needed changes to the ruleset. Nothing to do about that I guess. I’m just happy if some people get a bit of joy out of solving the puzzle. /vis
on 20. April 2025, 19:04 by Adrian71
Great puzzle! Thanks very much :)
on 20. April 2025, 17:45 by Inge
Very nice puzzle skat
on 20. April 2025, 17:03 by Martina
Nice! Thank you. I agree with the points made by the others regarding 2* and the 29 cage. Thanks for adjusting.
on 20. April 2025, 14:59 by jinkela114514
The rules don't say that digits cannot repeat in a cage
Oh. True. I will change that right away. Thanks. /vis
on 20. April 2025, 14:14 by fishsaltyak
An assumption needs to be made with the 29 cage to start this puzzle. I think you need to show that it's a 4 cell cage.
Good puzzle though. 2 star, not 3.
You are right I guess. Updatet in the link. Thanks. /vis
