Chaotic Desktop
(Published on 23. July 2026, 20:46 by TalkingFredish)
CHAOS CONSTRUCTION
Place the digits 1-6 once each in every row and column. Additionally, create six 6-cell regions of orthogonally connected cells, each of which contains the digits 1-6.
FILES N FOLDERS
Each 6-cell region must contain exactly one file and one folder.
Additionally, digits on files and folders indicates the total number of cells seen in all four orthogonal directions, including themself, where region boarders obstruct vision.
One of the files have corrupted, and it indicates the wrong number of cells seen.
Solution code: Digits in region containing the corrupted file in reading order
Comments
on 21. August 2026, 05:04 by Frank Puzzles
Not sure what other people are talking about. This is at LEAST 3* difficulty. There are WAY too many paths to go down to lead to contradictions to rule out those scenarios for this to be anything close to 1*. If we DIDN'T have the corrupted file, I could maybe see what people are saying, but the corrupted file makes things so you HAVE to go down all the various paths to confirm that you lead to a contradiction until you get to the correct solve path which is a LOT of execution you have to pull off successfully which is WAY more than 1* needs to take.
It's a well designed puzzle, but I'm confuzzled as to how people think this is a 1* difficutly puzzle, unless they made a lot of assumptions which shortcutted the puzzle for them without confirming that those assumptions were actually correct.
on 26. July 2026, 07:22 by juggler
Very nice
on 24. July 2026, 17:51 by The Book Wyrm
Fun snack
on 24. July 2026, 00:18 by GorgeousNicko
Not as hard as it looked, and I enjoyed the couple of aha moments :)
on 23. July 2026, 23:08 by Sherif
1 * for me, easily approachable
on 23. July 2026, 22:28 by wuc
Very nice approachable cc puzzle thx.
