Tea with the Queen

by Full Deck and Missing a Few Cards · Difficulty 4 of 5 by Full Deck and Missing a Few Cards

CASE 3349

Tea with the Queen

  • Sandwiches
  • Minimum and maximum cells
  • Fortress

The brief

Normal sudoku rules apply: every row, column, and box must contain a complete set of the digits 1-9.

Sandwich sums: numbers outside the grid indicate the sum of all cells between 1 and 9 in that row or column, excluding 1 and 9 from the sum.

Fortress cells: Shaded cells are fortress cells and must be larger than all orthogonally adjacent cells. All possible fortress cells are shown. That is, there is a negative constraint on fortresses and any unshaded cell must be orthogonally adjacent to at least one larger digit.

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