AkashG23's Puzzle Locker

  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 this puzzle was d4 for the LONGEST time (since like mid-late 2024) until I decided to bump it up to d5 in mid August of 2026. 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...

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 Online interface (Penpa+)