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Equality candy: Fantastic Equality cages Sudoku fusion

1 Sept 2024 · 1,088 views

XV Kropki
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Today's Video:

Another exceptional puzzle from gUBBLOR. He once again masterfully fuses the candy variant with Equality Cages.

Hard work pays off if you focus on Equality Cages and the other constraints' interplay.

Link to Play:

Equality Cages 134: Equality candy by gUBBLOR https://tinyurl.com/SudokuSleuthEqualityCagegs134

Rules:

Normal Sudoku rules apply. Place the digits 1 through 9 in each empty cell. Digits must not repeat within the same row, column, or box.

Equality cages: Cages must have an equal number of low (1,2,3,4) and high (6,7,8,9) digits AND an equal number of even (2,4,6,8) and odd (1,3,7,9) digits. Equality cages can never contain 5. Digits may not repeat in a cage.

Ambigious dots: There are dots of four different colors in the puzzle, and four different constraints. It's up to the solver to deduce which color is paired with which constraint. Each color has only one constraint it identifies as, but dots are allowed to act as more than one constraint. There are no negative constraints, and the dots could be any of these four; 1. X - Adjacent cells connected with an X must sum to 10. 2. V - Adjacent cells connected with an V must sum to 5. 3. Black Kropki dots - A black dot between cells indicates cell values with a 2:1 ratio. 4. White Kropki dots - A white dot between cells indicates cells with consecutive values.

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