Chaos Construction Meta Rules Series (1) - Cyclic Consecutive
(Published on 28. October 2026, 19:20 by Phistomefel)
The first puzzle is a minitiature and should therefore be relatively easy. Here are the rules:
- Divide the grid into 6 orthogonally connected regions. Every row, column and region contains the digits 1–6 exactly once. Some region boundaries are given and have to be respected.
- The cells on a purple line contain a set of distinct, (normally, not cyclically) consecutive digits, in any order.
- For digits 1–6, the cyclic consecutive is the next digit in the cycle 1→2→3→4→5→6→1.
- If two orthogonally adjacent cells are separated by a region boundary, the bottom digit must be the cyclic consecutive of the top digit, or the right digit must be the cyclic consecutive of the left digit, respectively.
Solution code: Last column
Comments
yesterday, 17:23 by Phistomefel
Updated puzzle link with corrected rules
yesterday, 14:55 by Djirt
Спасибо, жемчужина!)
yesterday, 03:30 by Phistomefel
Rule clarification. Thanks, Janie!
on 29. October 2026, 17:13 by Phistomefel
I'm sorry for misjudging the difficulty which surely caused some frustration. For those who are interested, I will leave a hidden comment with the intended solution path.
@olima: It seems that was the catch. ^^;
on 29. October 2026, 16:46 by Ocklepod
I'm pretty sure I found some nice meta rules, but I was guessing and testing so much. There has to be more to this than i expected.
on 29. October 2026, 11:51 by mihel111
You are very welcome, Sensei. I think I found one meta rule. I'm guessing I'm missing another.
on 29. October 2026, 00:44 by Silverscree
Very fun little puzzle! However, I suspect I missed some global restriction as this felt much harder than 2 stars with lots of case checking. I look forward to and dread the future full-sized puzzles!
I've just read Phistomefel's intended solve path; interestingly it was only step #2 that I didn't spot, which in retrospect is really not that difficult. I sort of backed into the correct conclusions by eliminating all other options rather than formulating my question the right way.
on 28. October 2026, 20:49 by udukos
Lovely puzzle! The ruleset leads to very interesting region building. Looking forward to the next one. Thanks, Phistomefel! :)
on 28. October 2026, 19:25 by olima
2*-Phistomefel puzzle? There must be a catch...
