Theme: Clue Symmetry and Logic
Author/Opus: This is the 186th puzzle from Thomas Snyder, aka Dr. Sudoku.
Rules: Standard Sudoku rules.
Answer String: Enter the 5th row from left to right, followed by a comma, followed by the 7th column from top to bottom.
Time Standards (highlight to view): Grandmaster = 3:00, Master = 4:15, Expert = 8:30
Note: Follow this link for other classic Sudoku. If you are new to this puzzle type, here are our easiest Sudoku to get started on.
Theme: Fortress
Author/Opus: This is the 4th puzzle from guest contributor Craig Kasper, who has recently started a new blog about puzzles.
Rules: Standard Consecutive Sudoku rules.
Answer String: Enter the 6th row from left to right, followed by a comma, followed by the 6th column from top to bottom.
Time Standards (highlight to view): Grandmaster = 3:15, Master = 4:45, Expert = 9:30
Note: Follow this link for other Consecutive Sudoku. If you are new to this puzzle type, here are our easiest Consecutive Sudoku to get started on.
Theme: Four Arrows
Author/Opus: This is the 185th puzzle from Thomas Snyder, aka Dr. Sudoku.
Rules: Standard Sudoku rules.
Answer String: Enter the 5th row from left to right, followed by a comma, followed by the 5th column from top to bottom.
Time Standards (highlight to view): Grandmaster = 2:30, Master = 3:45, Expert = 7:30
Note: Follow this link for other classic Sudoku. If you are new to this puzzle type, here are our easiest Sudoku to get started on.
Theme: Counting Puzzle?
Author/Opus: This is the 184th puzzle from Thomas Snyder, aka Dr. Sudoku.
Rules: Standard Deficit Sudoku rules.
Answer String: Enter the 1st row from left to right, followed by a comma, followed by the 4th row from left to right.
Time Standards (highlight to view): Grandmaster = 1:20, Master = 2:00, Expert = 4:00
Note: Follow this link for other Deficit and Surplus Sudoku.
All the puzzles from last week have been grouped in this PDF.
While I’ve been featuring a lot more puzzle types this year, I often get requests to go back to having more Sudoku. While my focus for many months has been organizing the 2014 Sudoku Grand Prix, now that that work is mainly done it seemed a good time to revisit the style here. So the deficit of that style won’t continue for much longer; we’ll have some classic puzzles, but not on consecutive days as that might be too many classics in a row. Even odd folks like us can appreciate a good puzzle where nothing is repeated, neighbors.
The bonus puzzle for our Expert and above patrons will be a Skyscrapers by Prasanna Seshadri.
Theme: 1, 2, Star, ?
Author/Opus: This is the 6th puzzle from guest contributor Murat Can Tonta.
Rules: Standard Cross the Streams rules.
Answer String: Enter the length in cells of each of the black segments from top to bottom for the marked columns in the two grids, going in order from A to B to C to D and separating each entry with a comma.
Time Standards (highlight to view): Grandmaster = 5:00, Master = 10:00, Expert = 20:00.
Note: Follow this link for other Cross the Streams. If you are new to this puzzle type, here are our easiest Cross the Streams to get started on.
Theme: Sudoku GP Round 7, plus two hidden themes related to 7
(Note: this puzzle was originally created for the Sudoku Grand Prix but after testing was judged too hard and too puzzle-based for the competition. It is an excellent puzzle, and we are proud to showcase it here.)
Author/Opus: This is the 40th puzzle from our contributing puzzlemaster Prasanna Seshadri.
Rules: Standard Sudoku rules. Also, standard Skyscrapers rules. Additionally, the cells in grey are “underground” and cannot be seen by any of the outside skyscraper clues (think of them as starting with a negative sign if necessary). As an example, the 3 on the left of row 2 refers only to seeing three buildings in columns 2 through 9, even if there is a 9 in column 1 as that 9 cannot be seen.
Answer String: Enter the 1st row from left to right, followed by a comma, followed by the 5th row from left to right.
Time Standards (highlight to view): Grandmaster = 7:00, Master = 10:00, Expert = 20:00
Note: Follow this link for our first Basement Skyscraper Sudoku. Follow this link for other less common variations of Sudoku and this link for classic Sudoku. If you are new to this puzzle type, here are our easiest Sudoku to get started on.