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Today, take special care with all the threes; they should be encaged by even numbers to ensure the correct solution of this puzzle.

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Theme: … I Am Still Just a Three in a Cage

Author/Opus: This is the 137th 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 threes are encaged by even numbers; this means that around the threes all orthogonally adjacent cells must be even.

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

Thomas Hits the GAS (highlight to view): 1:53, 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.

Note: Follow this link for other less common variations of Sudoku.

Note 2: Comments on the blog are great! For a more interactive discussion, please also consider using our Daily GAS discussion post on the GMPuzzles Discord. Not a member of the Discord? Click this link for basic access.

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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 and solving video with explanation from GAS team.

Note: Follow this link for other less common variations of Sudoku.

Note 2: Comments on the blog are great! For a more interactive discussion, please also consider using our Daily GAS discussion post on the GMPuzzles Discord. Not a member of the Discord? Click this link for basic access.

(This post is part of the Genuinely Approachable Sudoku (GAS) series.)
If a recent GAS puzzle made you think “Run”, the negative space of this fun Killer Sudoku by clover! might remind you of another full diagonal pattern.

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Theme: Negative Space

Author/Opus: This is the 135th puzzle from Clover, part of the Genuinely Approachable Sudoku (GAS) team.

Rules: Insert a number from 1 to 8 into each cell so that no number repeats in any row, column, or bold region. Also, the sum of the numbers in each cage must equal the value given in the upper-left corner of that cage. Numbers cannot repeat inside a cage.

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

Thomas Hits the GAS (highlight to view): 2:05, 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.

Note: Follow this link for more Killer Sudoku and this link for classic Sudoku. More Killer Sudoku puzzles can be found in Killer Sudoku by Serkan Yürekli.

Note 2: Comments on the blog are great! For a more interactive discussion, please also consider using our Daily GAS discussion post on the GMPuzzles Discord. Not a member of the Discord? Click this link for basic access.

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Have you ever tried an 8×8 Sandwich Sudoku, possibly one with some of the crust cut off? Enjoy this “single-digit” treat by clover!.

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Theme: Single-Digit Sandwich

Author/Opus: This is the 134th puzzle from Clover, part of the Genuinely Approachable Sudoku (GAS) team.

Rules: Insert a number from 1 to 8 into each cell so that no number repeats in any row, column, or bold region. Clues outside the grid give the sum of the numbers in the cells between the 1 and the 8 in that row or column.

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

Thomas Hits the GAS (highlight to view): 1:42, 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.

Note: Follow this link for other less common variations of Sudoku.

Note 2: Comments on the blog are great! For a more interactive discussion, please also consider using our Daily GAS discussion post on the GMPuzzles Discord. Not a member of the Discord? Click this link for basic access.

(This post is part of the Genuinely Approachable Sudoku (GAS) series.)
Have you noticed how all these 8×8 puzzles by clover! are “nineless”? Today’s variation makes this abundantly clear.

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Theme: Nineless

Author/Opus: This is the 133rd puzzle from Clover, part of the Genuinely Approachable Sudoku (GAS) team.

Rules: Insert a number from 1 to 8 into each cell so that no number repeats in any row, column, or bold region. Whenever an X or V, reflecting the Roman numerals for 10 or 5, is placed on the edge between cells, the numbers in the two adjacent cells must sum to exactly 10 or 5. (Pairs of cells without an X or V mark can have any sum value.)

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

Thomas Hits the GAS (highlight to view): 1:57, 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.

Note: Follow this link for other less common variations of Sudoku.

Note 2: Comments on the blog are great! For a more interactive discussion, please also consider using our Daily GAS discussion post on the GMPuzzles Discord. Not a member of the Discord? Click this link for basic access.

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Something key seems to be missing from the starting values in this Renban Sudoku — can you figure out how to start without any square one?

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Theme: The Missing Digit

Author/Opus: This is the 132nd puzzle from Clover, part of the Genuinely Approachable Sudoku (GAS) team.

Rules: Insert a number from 1 to 8 into each cell so that no number repeats in any row, column, or bold region. Numbers along each line must form a non-repeating consecutive set, in any order. (For example, a 4-cell Renban line could be 4352, but not 4678 or 2312.)

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

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.

Note: Follow this link for other less common variations of Sudoku.

Note 2: Comments on the blog are great! For a more interactive discussion, please also consider using our Daily GAS discussion post on the GMPuzzles Discord. Not a member of the Discord? Click this link for basic access.

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With all of the given Quadruples clues in this Sudoku by clover!, can you figure out how to complete the square?

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Theme: Completing the Square

Author/Opus: This is the 131st puzzle from Clover, part of the Genuinely Approachable Sudoku (GAS) team.

Rules: Insert a number from 1 to 8 into each cell so that no number repeats in any row, column, or bold region. The set of four numbers in a white circle must appear in the four surrounding cells.

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

Thomas Hits the GAS (highlight to view): 2:07, 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.

Note: Follow this link for other less common variations of Sudoku.

Note 2: Comments on the blog are great! For a more interactive discussion, please also consider using our Daily GAS discussion post on the GMPuzzles Discord. Not a member of the Discord? Click this link for basic access.

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Continuing a run of Sudoku by clover! with a “between” size that isn’t the normal 9×9 or 6×6 either, can you solve this Between Lines Sudoku?

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Theme: Straight and Narrow

Author/Opus: This is the 130th puzzle from Clover, part of the Genuinely Approachable Sudoku (GAS) team.

Rules: Insert a number from 1 to 8 into each cell so that no number repeats in any row, column, or bold region. Also, numbers along each line must have values strictly between the values of the two numbers in the circle cells bounding that particular line. (For instance, a line whose circles contain 3 and 7 must only contain some combinations of 4s, 5s, and/or 6s.)

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

Thomas Hits the GAS (highlight to view): 2:05, 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.

Note: Follow this link for other less common variations of Sudoku.

Note 2: Comments on the blog are great! For a more interactive discussion, please also consider using our Daily GAS discussion post on the GMPuzzles Discord. Not a member of the Discord? Click this link for basic access.

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Only “Small” and “Odd” things are allowed in this “So-So” version of Odd-Even-Big-Small Sudoku.

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Theme: So-So Puzzle

Author/Opus: This is the 129th puzzle from Clover, part of the Genuinely Approachable Sudoku (GAS) team.

Rules: Insert a number from 1 to 8 into each cell so that no number repeats in any row, column, or bold region. Clues outside the grid give the nature of the first two cells seen from the direction of the clue. O for Odd = {1,3,5,7}; E for Even = {2,4,6,8}; B for Big = {5,6,7,8}; S for Small = {1,2,3,4}.

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

Thomas Hits the GAS (highlight to view): 1:43, 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.

Note: Follow this link for other less common variations of Sudoku.

Note 2: Comments on the blog are great! For a more interactive discussion, please also consider using our Daily GAS discussion post on the GMPuzzles Discord. Not a member of the Discord? Click this link for basic access.

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In this puzzle, you’ll want to look near each of the X clues to find a “treasure” of logic and a path to the final answer.

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Theme: X Marks the Spot

Author/Opus: This is the 128th 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). Numbers marked with an X indicate how many different numbers are in the four cells diagonally adjacent to it.

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

Thomas Hits the GAS (highlight to view): 3:29, 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.

Note: Follow this link for other less common variations of Sudoku.

Note 2: Comments on the blog are great! For a more interactive discussion, please also consider using our Daily GAS discussion post on the GMPuzzles Discord. Not a member of the Discord? Click this link for basic access.