Encaged Four Sudoku by clover!
(This post is part of the Genuinely Approachable Sudoku (GAS) series.)
Take special care with all the fours in this puzzle; if they get too close to another even number they might cause some trouble.
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Theme: Despite All My Rage …
Author/Opus: This is the 136th puzzle from Clover, part of the Genuinely Approachable Sudoku (GAS) team.
Rules: Insert a number from 1 to 9 into each cell so that no number repeats in any row, column, or bold region. Also, all fours are encaged by odd numbers; this means that around the fours all orthogonally adjacent cells must be odd.
GAS Time Standards (highlight to view): Two party hats (🎩🥳): 7:30; One party hat (🥳): 14:00. All other solvers earn a 🦕: trapped Teratophoneus.
Thomas Hits the GAS (highlight to view): 1:45, 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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