Three is the Loneliest Number
by FullDeck
Heartburn
- XV and number dots
- Thermometers
- Sandwiches
- Thermo
- Sandwich
The brief
Normal sudoku rules apply. Thermometers are strictly increasing from bulb to tip (standard thermo constraint). Numbers outside the grid indicate the sum of the digits between 1 and 9 in that row or column (standard sandwich sum constraint). Some sandwich sums are indicated by dashes and you must determine their value. However, each sandwich sum (whether indicated by a value or a dash) is a distinct prime number and those values increase from top to bottom and from left to right. Cells separated by a black dot are in a 3:1 ratio. Not all black dots in the grid are indicated.