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Storms are popping up above skyscrapers all over Equestria! This looks like a job for Rainbow Dash.

In each city, you'll need to determine the locations of the skyscrapers as well as the storms. You know that:

  • Each city contains skyscrapers with heights 1-5.
  • Every row and column must contain exactly 5 skyscrapers, one of each height.
  • Some of the skyscrapers have storms on them. There are exactly 5 storms in each city, all on skyscrapers with distinct heights (don't ask how you know this).

Additionally, some scouts right outside the cities have given us helpful reports. Every report contains two parts:

  • The number tells you how many skyscrapers can be seen looking from that direction, where taller skyscrapers block the view of shorter ones. This includes skyscrapers with storms on them.
  • The number of 🌩️s tells you how many skyscrapers with storms on them can be seen. Note that if there are no 🌩️s in a report, then that scout cannot see any storms.

Some cities will have twists which bend the above rules, but if a rule isn't explicitly called out as different, you can assume that it still applies.

Example puzzle and solution (with heights 1-4 and 4 storms, which are highlighted in green):

🌩️
23
2🌩️
3🌩️
🌩️3
2
42
🌩️🌩️
🌩️
23
32412🌩️
41323🌩️
🌩️31324
22413
42
🌩️🌩️

Cloudsdale

This city has no additional twists.

🌩️
2
🌩️4
3🌩️
2
4
2
423
🌩️🌩️🌩️
🌩️

Mathsdale

In this city, everypony really likes math, so clues give the sum of the heights of all visible skyscrapers.

🌩️
9
8
12🌩️🌩️
11
9🌩️
11
🌩️🌩️

Programmingsdale

In this city, everypony is a software engineer, so each clue number is off by exactly one. For example, a clue of 2 means that either 1 or 3 skyscrapers are visible, and a clue of 5 means that exactly 4 skyscrapers are visible (because 6 is impossible). The storm counts are still correct.

🌩️
🌩️🌩️
412
3🌩️
4
🌩️5
1
3🌩️
232
🌩️🌩️

Crampedsdale

This city has a space shortage, so some cells are smaller than others, but other than that all rules still apply as normal.

2
🌩️🌩️32🌩️🌩️
3
3
3🌩️🌩️
3

Spaciousdale

This city has a space surplus, so in addition to skyscrapers of heights 1-5, each row and column has exactly one blank space. There are still 5 storms as usual, and they cannot be on blank spaces.

🌩️
🌩️🌩️
32
3
4
🌩️🌩️3
4
3
22
3134
🌩️

Wordsdale

Everypony in this city loves letters, so the clue numbers 1-5 have been replaced by the letters A-E (not necessarily in that order).

🌩️
🌩️🌩️🌩️
BEAD
C
E
D
D
🌩️

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