Parroting (Palindromes + Psycho-Look-And-Say)

(Published on 2. September 2026, 21:25 by The Book Wyrm)

This puzzle began at Sudokucon when I tried to set a puzzle for the Palindromes+Look-and-say Setting Saturday prompt. The version I made there was broken, so I restarted it a while later and ended up with this.

Rules:

Sudoku:
Place the digits 1-9 once each into every row, column, and 3x3 box.
Palindromes:
Two cells an equal distance away from the centre of a gray palindrome line contain the same digit.
Psycho Look-and-Say Cages:
Each digit in a pink cage indexes a cell in the grid, which is located in the box with the digit's number, in the same position within the box as the cell containing that digit. A digit may index its own cell. The cage clue should be read as a look-and-say clue that counts the number of times a digit appears in all the cells indexed by it's cage.
(The cage without a value is just for aesthetic purposes)

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Solution code: Row 9

Last changed on on 3. September 2026, 13:08

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