Sumrex hints — 2026-05-07

Three hints for today's Sumrex (#18), escalating from gentle to almost-the-answer. The six-rex solution sits behind a toggle at the foot of the page.

Hint 1 — how big can a single digit get?

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Six rexes — one per row, one per column, one per region — must add up to exactly 14.

Your six rexes must sum to exactly 14. Even if every other row plays its smallest available digit, any single rex can be at most 8. So any cell with a digit greater than 8 can be crossed out straight away.

Hint 2 — your first rex

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Look at the coloured regions after the early crossings. One region has just a single cell left that isn't crossed — row 6, column 4. That has to be a rex.

Hint 3 — closing the budget

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By this stage you should have 4 rexes down, with their digits totalling 7. That leaves a budget of 7 across your final 2 rows. Only one arrangement of your remaining candidates sums to exactly 7 — those must be your last rexes.

Show today's answer
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(R1C6=2) (R2C3=3) (R3C1=4) (R4C5=1) (R5C2=1) (R6C4=3) — the six digits sum to 14.

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