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15. Mysterious Pink Lines

To those who are trying to solve all my puzzles in order — I hope you had fun with the 10x1,200 look-air.

If you're into variant sudoku, you'll probably like this next puzzle.

Also, should I call this a "KenKen" or "TomTom"? Oh well, I'll just put both in the labels.

Creator's time: 3:32.3

Rules: Standard KenKen/TomTom Rules \ Place a number from 1 to N in each cell, where N represents the side length of the grid. You can’t repeat any numbers in the same row/column. The heavy lines indicate cages that contain groups of numbers that can be combined (in any order) to produce the target number shown in the cage, with the indicated operation.

Variant: Renban Lines \ Numbers on a pink line must not repeat and must form a consecutive sequence in any order.

Difficulty: 5/14



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