Circles and Thermos

2023-09-09

Rules

• Normal sudoku rules apply

• Circled cells: For a digit in a circle, it indicates exactly how many circles contain that digit. For example, if there is a 5 in any circle, then there are five 5s in circles.

• Thermo: some of the circles are also the bulb of a thermo, digits must increase as they move away from the bulbs.

links

• Ctc App

• Penpa+

• LMD

Comments

"Cirlce cells" is a really interesting rule. I first seen this on Circular Reasoning by marty_sears on LMD. Circles and Between Lines is my first attempt of using this rule set. That puzzle is fun too. Compared with the previous puzzle, this one more emphasize on the jellyfish / swordfish pattern.