Windoku by clover!
(This post is part of the Genuinely Approachable Sudoku (GAS) series.)
The late artist Joan Vila-Grau spent about two decades creating the stunning stained glass windows of La Sagrada Familia. Now it’s your turn to complete the stained glass of this Windoku puzzle.

or solve online (using SudokuPad)
Theme: Stained Glass
Author/Opus: This is the 186th puzzle from clover!, 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, each of the four 3×3 shaded regions must contain the numbers 1 to 9 without repeats.
GAS Time Standards (highlight to view): Two party hats (🎩🥳): 6:30; One party hat (🥳): 12:00. All other solvers earn a 🦕: tempered Tarchia.
Thomas Hits the GAS (highlight to view): 1:50, 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
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