In this episode of Today in Sudoku, we share some news for GAS, SudokuCon, the Sudoku Puzzlehunt that is part of our series “A Story of Self-setting Sudoku”, and our LinkedIn Mini Sudoku series.
We also introduce a new Cryptic Sudoku series to cover authors and puzzles we might have missed since the start of the pandemic. Today’s episode highlights a very cool puzzle by Mr.Menace that is posted on our GMPuzzles blog and can be played on SudokuPad here.
In this episode of Today in Sudoku, we show solving techniques for two of the recent Seventeen Sudoku where coloring in different ways may help the solve.
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In this episode of Today in Sudoku, Thomas talks about the search for minimal Sudoku puzzles, interesting properties across the 49,158 essentially different puzzles, and other discoveries. You may not think a person can claim authorship on these puzzles, but you can curate some great puzzles from them if you search purposefully.
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In this episode of Today in Sudoku, Thomas talks about the recent Sudoku Grand Prix Round 8 (Japan) results and tries out the hardest classic and the hardest non-sudoku in the round with some paper speed solving.
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In this episode of Today in Sudoku, we share the answer to our question yesterday of what is going on with “Naughty or Nice by Santa Claus” and connect it to the new theme of Seventeen.
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The first few minutes of this video covers news updates including what August may be like in our series A Story of Self-setting Sudoku.
The longer part includes discussion of, and a blind solve for, a Cryptic Sudoku by Palfly Kampling that is a variation on Renban lines requiring one gap in the middle. I have never solved a puzzle by Palfly, but having met at SudokuCon wanted to do a recommended puzzle which came from a recent SudokuCon stream.
Other Palfly puzzles are here including many puzzles he contributes to the “Sudoku Adventure” series with 6×6 variant grids.
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The first few minutes of this video cover special news like a GAS hidden puzzle series, a SudokuCon stream, and awesome outputs of the GMPuzzles solving community.
The rest of this unusual video cover Thomas’s recent experiences — ups and downs — of living as a bipolar person. August 1st, 2023, was the last time Thomas entered a manic state severe enough to need hospitalization. It was the lowest of lows, but he has recovered over two years and has a far improved approach to care that he wants to share on this important “recovery anniversary” date, including things he still wishes he better understood or could better control. The “near miss” from the title is about how we all experienced a December 2024 hypomania/early mania that was not ideal for how the GMP puzzle audience received original ideas even if Thomas avoided hospitalization. Takeaways from that are also covered and feedback welcome.
For anyone who might want support from peers with lived experience, NAMI is a great place to search for connection groups in your area.
In this short episode of Today in Sudoku, Thomas shares the latest news from SudokuCon as well as potentially alarming news at GMPuzzles as we almost had another system crash with Dr. Sudoku, our AI-powered puzzle engine. Who is behind this “near miss” and why? We also give the latest updates on our “A Story of Self-setting Sudoku” series.
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In this episode of Today in Sudoku, Thomas discusses how AI is affecting his view of many things including blog discussion and puzzle generation which motivated an unusual project to have a daily sudoku experience with a “serial” story character to it.
See all “A Story of Self-setting Sudoku” posts by clicking that link.
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In this subseries of Today in Sudoku, world champion Thomas Snyder speed solves the NYTimes Sudoku for the prior day as well as one of his prior puzzles scrambled so he might not recognize it. Watch him struggle or succeed at these Sudoku while using a new hybrid digital notation you might not recognize called Snyder Notation(TM).
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