Chaos Construction: Pointer Arrows
(Published on 26. June 2026, 07:57 by Piatato)
Rules:
Divide the grid into orthogonally connected 9-cell regions such that each cell is part of exactly one region. Fill the grid with digits 1-9 such that no digit repeats in any row, column or region.
Digits along an arrow must sum to the digit in that arrow's bulb. Additionally, arrow tips point towards a cell containing the digit within the arrow's bulb. The digit in the arrow tip indicates the distance from the arrow tip to the pointed-to cell.
The arrow tip and the pointed-to cell must be part of the same region.
Example:
Links to the example:
Solution code: Row 9, with a hyphen (-) between digits that are seperated by a region border.
Comments
on 10. July 2026, 00:23 by valacd
Awesome puzzle! Region building was great fun
on 3. July 2026, 13:35 by YrBodyIsNothing
Such an amazing puzzle, so much logic variety, did it twice because I made a small mistake at the end, and couldn't find it, was 99% sure I broke it again during 2nd try, but NO!, it all worked out in the end :D.
4/5 in difficulty in my opinion
on 3. July 2026, 04:09 by MaizeGator
This puzzle was so well put together. The given digits did some heavy lifting and the last bit of region building was magical IMO
on 1. July 2026, 12:07 by Djirt
Спасибо, великолепное судоку!
on 30. June 2026, 20:51 by dumediat
I loved the region building and the variety of logic in this, thank you!
on 30. June 2026, 01:39 by KNT
nice!
on 29. June 2026, 16:41 by mnasti2
Gorgeous region building!
on 29. June 2026, 14:11 by cyddrdrd
Cool and approachable! Thanks for this!
on 29. June 2026, 13:44 by DaniK
Very cool puzzle!
on 28. June 2026, 22:57 by vukkarak
Made a few mistakes but corrected them. So nice logic!
on 27. June 2026, 20:30 by japanoise_breakfast
This was a blast!
on 27. June 2026, 19:24 by peacherwu2
Amazing block building ????♂️ ????
on 27. June 2026, 04:18 by wisty
Lovely! Really fun and surprisingly smooth. Thank you so much!
on 26. June 2026, 23:44 by Myxo
Awesome!
on 26. June 2026, 19:45 by karlmortenlunna
Framifrå!
on 26. June 2026, 17:30 by Franjo
Thank you very much for creating and sharing this fantastic CC-puzzle. Hard but fair!
on 26. June 2026, 12:22 by Jesper
Very nice, thanks!
on 26. June 2026, 10:36 by wuc
Wow great puzzle. Proud having solved this with no solution check. Always fair deductions. Brilliant setting thx.
on 26. June 2026, 09:43 by Snookerfan
Brilliant puzzle! Seemed broken many times, but it was not by a whisker. Region building was hard and very interesting, the sudoku was quite approachable. Very enjoyable, thanks!
on 26. June 2026, 08:23 by Christounet
Great CC! Enjoyed it a lot. Thanks :)
