XV* Cage 3: Amongst the best XV Sudoku's I've played

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Today's Video:

Nurgles Gift continues the XV series with the third in there. Surprising how it all resolves in the end with one simple cell. Incredible construction.

Link to Play:

XV*Cage 3 by NurglesGift

Rules

Normal sudoku rules apply.

Cells connected by an X must sum to 10.

Cells connected by an V must sum to 5.

All X's and V's are given.

The cell inside a cage can not be orthogonally adjacent with a consecutive digit

Chapters:

00:00:00 Intro
00:01:51 Rules
00:03:51 Solve
00:22:16 Outro

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[oakleyg]

You were right in your description. Using the iterative non-consecutive box to unwind the puzzle at the end is beautiful.

[bronwyncarr]

👏👏👏 Love a XV puzzle! I take as long as possible to make it last longer!

[anaayoung]

Good puzzle! I used letters as you coloured highs and lows. It was a nice one.
You find out the F very easily!!! 😮🤗

[drengskap]

Yes, a very neat resolution. Very similar to one of the easier Colorado puzzles - after a false start, I tried again and completed in 29:04.

[stubbsz]

I struggled big time on that. Wasted a lot of time on that last phase. Did a bunch of deductions before thinking I must have missed something obvious and rewinding back to see that it was actually much simpler than I thought.

[xmen]

At 15:52 the A do NOT line up. Am I missing something? The A can be in either R1C6 or R3C6. I don't see any "I" restriction either.

[jdyerjdyer]

Had a little trouble at the end, but got there with 31 minutes and 56 seconds being my time. I know I said I had work to do, but I'm doing the last 8 puzzles so I don't fall behind.

[Sinisest]

It is so strange that we fill grid in way to end so we have like 8 different solutions available and then just one cage turn that everything into unique solution only available and no given digits.

[AditaBattleForge]

was trying to do this with only colors at first (*facepalm*) let me convince by the video to use letters instead. made a mistake, had to backtrack, took me well over 40 minutes in the end...

[christianlett]

Once again I forgot the negative constraint on Xs and Vs, which added about 15 minutes onto my solve time 🤦‍♂

[psiphiorg]

Quite a fun one! My time today was 21:43, solver number 644.

[jeandurant]

Hello please can you explain how you just guess BC at 09:20. It seems to me that your puzzle would have been lost if you did it the other way around right ? Or can you just write whatever, it doesnt matter ?