I've been working on minimum cage killers for a while and thought 14 cages was the smallest possible. However in trying to get one at Assassin level I came up with a formulation that gave paper solvable ones. As I played around trying to improve the puzzle I accidently found this 13-cager.
The requirement is for a plain killer (no cage overlaps, no zeros, no disjoint cages and no X) with the minimum number of cages. Without the zero constraint I've done a 10-cager.
I seem to remember Udosuk posting a 12-cager somewhere but cannot remember if he allowed zeros - does anyone remember?
I also have a human solvable I will post on the assassin site in a while.
Paper solvable means that I can do it on paper, normally with an SS score of around 0.75, SS gives this 0.87 but I think it overstates it slightly.
Sumocue PS code: 3x3::k:10752:10752:10752:10752:8452:8452:8452:8452:8452:10752:8970:8970:8970:8970:8970:8970:7184:8452:10752:8970:5396:4373:4373:4373:7184:4373:9242:10752:8988:4893:5396:7184:7184:4373:9250:9242:8988:8988:4893:7184:5396:9250:9250:9250:9242:8988:4893:7184:4893:6193:5396:9250:9250:9242:8988:7184:6193:6193:4893:6193:5396:9250:9242:8988:9792:9792:9792:9792:9792:6193:5396:9242:8988:9792:10570:10570:10570:10570:10570:10570:10570:
