Samurai Killer Calcudoku puzzle

I haven’t posted much here recently because I’ve been spending my time on Sudoku Xtra, so here’s a large puzzle to fill the void a bit.

This is a five-grid Samurai Killer Calcudoku:

  • Place 1 to 9 into each row, column and 3×3 box of the five underlying 9×9 Sudoku grids
  • Place numbers into the Calcudoku dashed-line cages to fulfil the results at the top-left of each cage.  The given operator when applied between all of the numbers must give the stated result, e.g. the solution to “5+” could be “2+1+2″. For subtraction and division start with the largest number, so for example “3-” could be “6-3″.
  • Numbers can be repeated in Calcudoku cages, subject to the row, column and 3×3 box constraints.

Unlike my other puzzles I haven’t used any symmetry in this one, but I’m not sure it’s really that obvious on a puzzle like this one.  It’s not especially hard, but with so many places to potentially go it might take you a little while.

Good luck! :)

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