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One Nacho Chip

(Published on 3. June 2025, 22:31 by DubiousMobius)

This puzzle was dreamed up as part of Scojo's snack extravaganza. I wanted to try to miniature version of this this puzzle. I feel like the result is more than a snack, but I think it packs a nice wallop for a 4x4. Hope you enjoy, and all feedback is appreciated! Thanks for playing!

Rules:

Chaos Construction Sudoku: Create 4 orthogonally connected 4-cell regions each containing the digits 1-4. Digits may not repeat in any row, column, or region. Regions may wrap around the border of grid.

Quesadilla Grid: The grid has been folded across its positive diagonal so that its western and southern edges are adjacent, and its northern and eastern edges are also adjacent. This is reflected in the border coloring. Symbols outside the grid are duplicates of the clues inside the grid, and simply intended as visual cues to help the solver with orienting the tiling.

Passport Arrows: A digit with an arrow counts the number of region borders that it will cross by traveling in a straight line in the indicated direction before it returns to its home region. It does not count its final border crossing into the home region.

For example, if an arrow's path moves from region A ⮕ B ⮕ A, its cell will contain a 1, and if it moves from region A ⮕ B ⮕ C ⮕ B ⮕ A, it will contain a 3.

If a cell contains multiple arrows, each individual arrow's path will meet the above criteria.

If an arrow reaches the edge of the grid, it will continue out from its paired edge with its direction rotated 90 degrees (so if it was traveling SE to the bottom of the grid, it will be traveling NE when it reenters from the West side, for example).

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Solution code: The digits in every foreign cell visited by traveling west from r2c3 prior to returning to its home region

Last changed on on 4. June 2025, 19:27

Solved by tuturitu, jkuo7, marcmees, kingoffries, BeeBoi, aqjhs, tnop62830
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on 4. June 2025, 19:27 by DubiousMobius
updating difficulty

Last changed on 4. June 2025, 19:27

on 4. June 2025, 18:14 by kingoffries
Fun little puzzle. Is it even possible to make a harder 4x4? 3 stars for me.

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Glad you enjoyed it! Regarding difficulty, that's fair. I often underestimate difficulty on my border tiling puzzles, so I may have over course-corrected. Thanks for the solve and feedback! :)

Difficulty:3
Rating:N/A
Solved:7 times
Observed:2 times
ID:000NN6

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