Sudoku: Singing the Serpent's Song

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Published on August 28, 2023 11:00:05 PM ● Video Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6re4WlQkr9A

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The Sudokuland: Divide the grid into regions, each consisting of nine orthogonally connected cells. Each row, column and region must contain the digits 1 to 9 once each.
The King’s Palace: The shown region is the king’s palace. It is one of the regions in which the grid has to be divided, and so it contains the digits 1 to 9 once each.
The Serpent: Some orthogonally connected cells must be shaded to form a single snake that is one cell wide that does not branch and cannot touch itself, not even diagonally. The snake must contain only odd digits.
The Watchtowers: The digit in a watchtower (the squared cells) says how many snake cells are a knight’s move away from that cell. Those snake cells sum to the number placed in the top-left corner of the watchtower. There is a watchtower in every region of the grid, and the snake cannot pass through any watchtower.
The Spell: Each region of the grid must contain exactly the same number of snake cells.

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