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Be ready for a party of thinking once you get your head around the rules of this variation (read carefully, because apparently this has been “A Long Time Coming”).

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Theme: A Long Time Coming

Author/Opus: This is the 106th 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). Clues outside the grid indicate the sum of numbers in that direction starting at the first cell in the row/column and continuing to either the first odd number or the first even number in that direction. The solver must determine if a clue refers to an even or odd number as the stopping point. (For example, possibilities for the left of row 2 include 643 as 6+4+3 = 13 and 3 is the first odd number, or 76 as 7+6 = 13 and 6 is the first even number. A one-digit outside clue could reference just the first cell, since that would be the first odd/even number in that direction.)

GAS Time Standards (highlight to view): Two party hats (🎩🥳): 8:00; One party hat (🥳): 15:00. All other solvers earn a 🦕: glum Glacialisaurus.

Thomas Hits the GAS (highlight to view): 1:54, 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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Be cautious with your rounding in this Tens Digit Product Sudoku by clover! The ones digit never matters.

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Theme: Rounding Error

Author/Opus: This is the 105th 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. The number clues given between pairs of cells indicate the tens digit of the product of the numbers in those two adjacent cells. (For instance, two adjacent cells containing 8 and 9 would have a clue of 7, since 8 × 9 = 72.)

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

Thomas Hits the GAS (highlight to view): 1:54, 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 and solving video with explanation from GAS team.

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We wonder what intellectual itch clover! might be scratching with this arrangement of clues — certainly nothing contagious we hope.

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Theme: Chicken Pox

Author/Opus: This is the 104th 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). If a white circle is given between two adjacent cells, then the two numbers in those cells must differ by 1. Pairs of cells without circles can have any relationship.

GAS Time Standards (highlight to view): Two party hats (🎩🥳): 6:00; One party hat (🥳): 11:00. All other solvers earn a 🦕: itchy Iguanacolossus.

Thomas Hits the GAS (highlight to view): 1:54, 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 and solving video with explanation from GAS team.

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Today it is clover! bringing a twist on Sudoku where some regions can’t have very many different values. Can you work around all these “open windows”?

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Theme: Passing Open Windows

Author/Opus: This is the 103rd 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. Each shaded 3×3 region contains exactly four distinct numbers.

GAS Time Standards (highlight to view): Two party hats (🎩🥳): 6:00; One party hat (🥳): 11:00. All other solvers earn a 🦕: queenly Quaesitosaurus.

Thomas Hits the GAS (highlight to view): 1:33, 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 and solving video with explanation from GAS team.

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Each region hides an odd or even group in gray, but you’ll need to figure out which kind of numbers each gray group stand for in this Sudoku.

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Theme: Never Odd or Even

Author/Opus: This is the 102nd 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. In each outlined region, numbers in gray cells must be either all odd or all even.

GAS Time Standards (highlight to view): Two party hats (🎩🥳): 6:30; One party hat (🥳): 12:00. All other solvers earn a 🦕: gray Giraffatitan.

Thomas Hits the GAS (highlight to view): 2:22, 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 and solving video with explanation from GAS team.

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Get centered again with this Median Sudoku where all outside clues describe the middle number in the first three in that direction.

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Theme: Middle Number Syndrome

Author/Opus: This is the 101st 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 clue given outside the grid must appear somewhere in the first three cells in the corresponding direction. This clue represents the median (i.e., middle value) of those three cells. (For example, the clue to the top of column 2 indicates that in R123C2 one of the three cells is lower than 4, one is 4, and one is higher than 4.)

GAS Time Standards (highlight to view): Two party hats (🎩🥳): 6:30; One party hat (🥳): 12:00. All other solvers earn a 🦕: central Segnosaurus.

Thomas Hits the GAS (highlight to view): 2:29, 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 and solving video with explanation from GAS team.

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Is this three puzzles in one or one puzzle in thirds? You decide as you solve each of the three groups of numbers.

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Theme: Three Rolled Into One

Author/Opus: This is the 100th 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, orange circles contain numbers from {1, 2, 3}, blue squares contain numbers from {4, 5, 6}, and blank cells contain numbers from {7, 8, 9}.

GAS Time Standards (highlight to view): Two party hats (🎩🥳): 5:00; One party hat (🥳): 10:00. All other solvers earn a 🦕: three-way Thescelosaurus.

Thomas Hits the GAS (highlight to view): 1:21, 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 and solving video with explanation from GAS team.

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What do you do when you get mad? Today, consider getting Even … Sandwich Sudoku as solving a puzzle might calm your nerves a bit.

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Theme: Don’t Get Mad, Get Even Sandwich

Author/Opus: This is the 99th 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, the clues outside the grid indicate all numbers in that row or column surrounded by even numbers on both sides (“sandwiched”). Clues can be given in any order, and all such numbers are given. If no clue is given, there may be any count of values (including no values) sandwiched between even numbers in that row or column.

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

Thomas Hits the GAS (highlight to view): 2:02, 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 and solving video with explanation from GAS team.

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Today’s GAS involves a bit of neighborly addition: Each outside clue shows the sum of the numbers (one or two) around the nine in the row or column.

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Theme: Sums Are My Favorite Things

Author/Opus: This is the 98th 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). Clues outside the grid indicate the sum of the number(s) immediately adjacent to the 9 in that row or column. For instance, R8C7 and R8C9 sum to 6. If there is only one number next to 9, the outside clue gives the value of that number.

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

Thomas Hits the GAS (highlight to view): 2:39, 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 and solving video with explanation from GAS team.

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Warning to those who don’t read titles (so maybe this text won’t help either?): this is not an Arrow Sudoku but a variation with the average of all numbers on an arrow’s path represented in the circle.

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Theme: Min-Maxed Means

Author/Opus: This is the 97th 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). Some arrow shapes are in the grid; the number in the circled cell is equal to the average of all numbers along the arrow. (For example, as R2C4 = 3, the average of R1C2, R1C3, and R1C4 is 3.)

GAS Time Standards (highlight to view): Two party hats (🎩🥳): 7:30; One party hat (🥳): 14:00. All other solvers earn a 🦕: calculating Kosmoceratops.

Thomas Hits the GAS (highlight to view): 1:59, 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 and solving video with explanation from GAS team.

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