Monday, October 13, 2025

Genre Spotlight 62: Kazunori Room (Puzzles 382 and 383)

This week, we have a Nikoli genre called Kazunori Room.  This type has actually been implemented in puzz.link for a while!  It's an interesting type.  I'm not quite sure if this genre needs an extra rule or clue type somewhere, but for now, here you go.

Rules: Place a number from 1 to N into each cell so that each region contains each number from 1 to N exactly twice each, where N is half the number of cells in the region. Two numbers of the same value within a region must be orthogonally adjacent. No 2x2 area may consist of cells which all contain the same number. Clues represent the sum of the numbers in the cells they touch.

               

Two puzzles today. The second is trickier than the first, but overall they both skew easier than some of the other puzzles in this series.  For a significantly tougher puzzle in this genre, check out this entry by PuzSQ user bay.

Puzzle 382 (puzz.link)

Puzzle 383 (puzz.link)

 

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