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33. Caution: Setters at Work

  You might remember Mysterious Pink Lines (15), which was a variant KenKen with Renban lines. This KenKen actually has fewer lines than a standard KenKen --- if you think cage borders are lines.

And the difficulty might be inaccurate again... as this puzzle was also set in late 2024.

Creator's time: 1:45.9

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: Builder \ Draw borders to form "cages" on the grid such that each clue is on the leftmost cell of the uppermost row of each cage. All cages have exactly one clue. Cages containing a clue without an operator (ex. 2) must span exactly 1 cell, and cages containing a clue with an operator (ex. 4+) must span at least 2 cells.

Difficulty: 4/14
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