(This post is part of the Genuinely Approachable Sudoku (GAS) series.)
Can you gallop your way around this grid where numbers cannot be a knight’s moves apart from each other? This GAS puzzle is by Philip Newman.

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or solve online (using SudokuPad)

Theme: 81 Squires

Author/Opus: This is the 16th puzzle from Philip Newman, part of the Genuinely Approachable Sudoku (GAS) team.

Rules: Standard Sudoku rules (insert a number from 1 to 9 into each cell so that no number repeats in any row, column, or bold region). Also, numbers cannot repeat in any cells separated by a chess knight’s move.

GAS Time Standards (highlight to view): Two party hats (🎩🥳): 7:00; One party hat (🥳): 13:00. All other solvers earn a 🦕: Antient Anokhadino.

Thomas Hits the GAS (highlight to view): 2:37, with SudokuPad replay file shared as a download for now (requires loading via settings menu with improvements expected before people should use this regularly).

Solution: PDF; solving video with explanation to be added later from GAS team.

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