Sleepy Farmers (CC)
(Published on 26. July 2026, 12:33 by gdc)
Third approachable chaos construction in a row. According to testers (thanks everyone!) this should be the easiest of them at around 1.5 stars. Hope you enjoy!
Sheep: Digits joined by a sheep are consecutive and in the same farm.
Farmers: A digit on a farmer counts the number of sheep in his farm.
Solution code: The digits in the farm which contains the center of the grid (r4c4), in western reading order (7 digits)
Comments
yesterday, 08:32 by juggler
Lovely puzzle, everything is super well telegraphed
yesterday, 02:20 by pmays123
Clean CC with tricky but satisfying sudoku to finish it off. Thank you!
yesterday, 00:54 by eladv
Overall, incredibly enjoyable puzzle! I found this really hard finding the break-in in the sudoku part of the sudoku. It was a 3* break-in for me, but maybe I missed something obvious.
[Edit] Here's something I wrote to gdc, which he politely humored, even though I was missing something very obvious :)
@gdc: the rules don't say that each farm only contains one farm. It does say "A digit on a farmer counts the number of sheep in **his farm**" so I can deduce it's one-farmer-per-farm, but it's not spelled out.
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gdc: I deliberately don't include a rule that a farm cannot contain more than one farmer. It is true that the possessive "his" could be interpreted like that, but that wasn't my intent. I'll go more into detail in a hidden comment.
on 26. July 2026, 18:05 by chubnatty
1.5 star for me, with a small stumble towards determining the last two farms' borders. Had to go back dozens of steps to see my mistake, but it never felt particularly difficult. Lovely CC puzzle!
on 26. July 2026, 17:09 by Franjo
Thank you very much for creating and sharing this beautiful CC-puzzle. What a nice idea to combine it with farmers and sheep!
on 26. July 2026, 16:50 by cygne
Very cool!
on 26. July 2026, 16:46 by JVA
Good puzzle but a bit too hard to be considered "approachable"
on 26. July 2026, 15:30 by ThePedallingPianist
Very enjoyable!
on 26. July 2026, 15:17 by Snookerfan
Brilliant, lovely theme! The break-in of the sudoku part of the puzzle was quite tricky, but overall a 2 star puzzle. Thanks
on 26. July 2026, 14:30 by amirs
Very nice puzzle! 2* in my honest opinion.
on 26. July 2026, 13:59 by wuc
So many exquisit cc puzzles lately. Congrats to another one. Thx for sharing.
