Sudoku is Advent Calendar by Analytical Ninja, App variant is ARROW


Digits on arrows sum to the attached circles. Digits within cages can't repeat and sum to the small number in the corner. (or to an even/odd total for certain cages). This puzzle is solved in THREE stages: Stage 1: Each 3x3 box is solved independently as a 3x3 “mean mini”. (Each box uses exactly three digits from 1-9 without repeating in the rows or columns of that 3x3 box.) Stage 2: Delete all digits except for the central cell of each 3x3 box, then solve each 6x6 quadrant as a “Quattroquadri”. (Place the digits 1-9 once each into the 3x3 boxes such that they don't repeat within rows and columns of the 6x6 bold outlined region) Stage 3: Delete all digits except for the sixteen digits saved from Stage 1 and the central four cells of each quattroquadri; this should result in four small X shapes of givens in the grid. Each 12-cell row, each 12-cell column, and each 6x6 quattroquadri of four 3x3 boxes consists of three sudoku boxes and one mean-mini box. Each sudoku box contains the digits 1–9 once each. Among the sudoku boxes, digits cannot repeat in the grid’s rows nor columns. Each mean-mini box can be solved again as mean-minis with one doubler per row and column of the 3x3 box. The doublers don't have to contain different digits.