(This post is part of: “A Story of Self-setting Sudoku”.)
Today marks our 100th Mini Sudoku post on LinkedIn. If I had a paperclip for every time someone has played Mini Sudoku over that time, my guess is I’d have somewhere between 100 million and a billion paperclips? That seems pretty cool. (Note to self: never become a billionaire in the currency of paperclips.)

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or solve online (using SudokuPad)

Theme: 100: A Big Celebration for a Mini Milestone

Author/Opus: This is the 606th puzzle from Thomas Snyder, aka Dr. 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 in cells directly connected by a red line must alternate between even (2, 4, 6 , 8) and odd (1, 3, 5, 7, 9) numbers.

Estimated Difficulty: 2 stars

Solution: PDF.

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