Sailing with the pirates

by sujoyku by sujoyku

CASE 4382

Sailing with the pirates

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The brief

Normal Sudoku rules apply. The digits 5 represent treasures which are protected by pirates (digits 1 to 4) from commoners (digits 6 to 9). Each treasure is orthogonally adjacent only to pirates and never orthogonally adjacent to a commoner. In other words: Any digit orthogonally adjacent to a 5 has a value of at most 4.

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