Compartmentalised
(Published on 17. September 2026, 00:11 by Laake)
Compartmentalised
Wow Lake, are you obsessed with Marty or something? Why are your latest two puzzles all about him? Fan boy I hear you cry!
Well, you've seen a few of these being posted already, this was for the yearly impostor prompt where I was given the very scary but also very very fun role of impersonating Marty, and this is the bad boy I came up with. Yeah, they gave me a guy who is renowned for his cosmetic prowess.
I saw that he's on a bit of an Isofill kick, so wanted to have a crack at making one myself as I don't do much outside of Sudoku. I'm very proud of what I managed to create!... Where's my "me" puzzle I hear you ask? uhhh... I kinda need to work on making that friendly for LMD.
Did I win?..... uh... in my heart I did! Make sure to check out Marty's real Ying Yang Yogn puzzle
Rules:
- ISOFILL: Divide the grid into 10 regions, each with 10 orthogonally connected cells. Every cell in a region should contain the same digit. All of the digits 0-9 must appear in the grid.
- CAGES: All cages sum to the same total.
- WHITE DOTS: If two digits are joined by a white dot, they are consecutive.
SudokuPad: Click Here
Enjoy!
Solution code: If it's not too much trouble please could I grab row 7 off of you? (Reminder to myself there's 10 rows so don't miscount)
Comments
on 18. September 2026, 17:49 by mathpesto
Gorgeous setting!
on 18. September 2026, 12:25 by bboom
Fun, accessible, and the logic felt very much like a Marty puzzle to me
on 18. September 2026, 11:10 by Saltensity
What a fun puzzle! Quite enjoyed the logic regarding the numbers available to sum up to the total in cages, I think you captured his style quite nicely :D (also love how the solution code prompt is so polite haha)
on 18. September 2026, 04:54 by Montikulum
First class, sir! Certainly not 2* for me, but we need not discuss the quality of setting here - brilliant!
on 17. September 2026, 20:45 by amirs
Great puzzle! I would have definitely believed that it was authored by Marty.
on 17. September 2026, 19:56 by ViKingPrime
This is some top notch impersonating, especially the little drop shadows on the kropkis.
on 17. September 2026, 19:17 by Laake
Added a link to Marty's real puzzle
on 17. September 2026, 16:09 by Miatc
Proud of myself for doing this in 22:00, I think you managed imitating Sears' style quite beautifully!!
on 17. September 2026, 14:52 by Franjo
Thank you very much for creating and sharing this absolutely fantastic puzzle-fake. This IS Sears‘ style, for sure!
on 17. September 2026, 13:28 by marty_sears
This was great! Not only a lovely isofill puzzle in its own right, but also a very nice impersonation of my style and the kind of logic I enjoy. Even the choice of having all the cages be the same total, and drawing them in yourself rather than using the standard cage design. Very smooth and slick. I was looking forward to seeing what my impostor would do, and this really delivered
on 17. September 2026, 05:31 by Adrian71
Such a lovely puzzle, great construction, thank you!
on 17. September 2026, 02:34 by emoney1374
Fun puzzle!
