TomTom (Cipher) by John Bulten
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Theme: Nuns See Sense!
Author/Opus: This is the 68th puzzle from our contributing puzzlemaster John Bulten.
Rules: Standard TomTom rules, using the integers 1-6. Also, the letters E, N, S, U represent different digits from 0-9. Identify which letters stand for which digits and then solve the TomTom. Multi-digit clues cannot start with a 0.
Difficulty: 3 stars
Time Standards (highlight to view): Grandmaster = 3:15, Master = 5:45, Expert = 11:30
Solution: PDF
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Wow, that looks hard. Looking forward to give this one a shot!
Thank you.
Nice puzzle — the cipher part wasn’t too bad up front, but the solve was still interesting and subtle after that.
The cage from heaven is of some USE; it sets up what ENSUES.
Nuns in cages? Wasn’t that The Sound of Music?
Thank you everybody. I kind of thought no one cage in itself was the heavenly one, but rather the ensemble.
‘Heaven’ rather functions as an identifier plus unintended spoiler, no reference to the aesthetics or solve. As for the overall solve, I felt some consistent latin square-like logic was more pronounced in this one, than the usual TomTom/KenKen thing –
not very often do these puzzles have all the cages resolved before assigning the right cells to the numbers inside. A refreshingly different and one.