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What puzzle’s this? I think I know — / An Anti-King Sudoku, so / Would you try briefly stopping here / To fill this grid with flakes of snow? — “Stopping by Sudoku on a Snowy Evening”

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Theme: Snowflake

Author/Opus: This is the 198th 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, cells sharing a corner cannot contain the same number (as if adding a chess king’s move constraint to each cell).

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

Thomas Hits the GAS (highlight to view): 1:37, 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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If you’re feeling peckish, you might want to partake of this timely Killer Sudoku.

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Theme: Elevenses

Author/Opus: This is the 173rd puzzle from Philip Newman, 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 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 (🎩🥳): 7:11; One party hat (🥳): 13:11. All other solvers earn a 🦕: Tolkienesque Katepensaurus.

Thomas Hits the GAS (highlight to view): 3:03, 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

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.

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As in this Anti-XV Sudoku, this puzzle has no pairs of orthogonally adjacent digits that add up to 5 or 10. Can you unlock the solution with the clues given?

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Theme: Check the Lock

Author/Opus: This is the 177th puzzle from Bill Murphy, 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). No two numbers in adjacent cells can sum to exactly 10 or 5 as in the Roman Numerals for X or V. (This is the same rule as in XV Sudoku, but there are no X or V clues given here so it is Anti- only.)

GAS Time Standards (highlight to view): Two party hats (🎩🥳): 6:30; One party hat (🥳): 12:00. All other solvers earn a 🦕: When It’s A Janenschia.

Thomas Hits the GAS (highlight to view): 2:43, 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

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In a 0-9 Sudoku, each row, column, and region contains 10 numbers. Otherwise, normal Sudoku logic applies. Can you determine how to squeeze all these numbers into just 81 cells?

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Theme: Two Givens for the Price of One

Author/Opus: This is the 197th puzzle from clover!, part of the Genuinely Approachable Sudoku (GAS) team.

Rules: Insert a number from 0 to 9 into each cell so that no number repeats in any row, column, or bold region. Some cells are split by slashes; in these cells, two numbers are to be entered, one on each side of the slash.

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

Thomas Hits the GAS (highlight to view): 2:38, with SudokuPad replay file shared as a download for now (requires loading via settings menu with improvements expected before people should use this regularly).

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Oh, the weather outside is frightful, / But the fire is so delightful, / And since we’ve no place to go, / Let’s Thermo, let’s Thermo, let’s Thermo!

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Theme: Colder on the Outside

Author/Opus: This is the 172nd puzzle from Philip Newman, 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 thermometer shapes are in the grid; numbers must be strictly increasing from the round bulb to the flat end.

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

Thomas Hits the GAS (highlight to view): 3:07, 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

Note: Follow this link for more Thermo-Sudoku puzzles. If you are new to this puzzle type, here are our easiest Thermo-Sudoku to get started on. More Thermo-Sudoku puzzles can be found in these books in our e-store. Also, visit this page to purchase all of the puzzles from the 16th World Sudoku Championship including some Thermo-Sudoku.

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“The Multiverse is a concept about which we know frighteningly little.” — Dr. Stephen Strange in Spider-Man: No Way Home | There are no givens in this Either/Or Sudoku; do you know enough information to solve this multiversal puzzle?

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Theme: Cahooting The Multiverse

Author/Opus: This is the 176th puzzle from Bill Murphy, 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 numbers given on the edges between cells must belong to one of those two adjacent cells.

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

Thomas Hits the GAS (highlight to view): 2:30, 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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This 0-8 Skyscraper Sudoku follows the same rules as previous Skyscraper Sudoku puzzles, except that the buildings only go up to 8 and 0 does not represent a building.

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Theme: Glass Houses

Author/Opus: This is the 196th puzzle from clover!, part of the Genuinely Approachable Sudoku (GAS) team.

Rules: Insert a number from 0 to 8 into each cell so that no number repeats in any row, column, or bold region. Also, as in the puzzle Skyscrapers, each number in the grid represents the height of a building and the clues on the outside of the grid indicate how many buildings can be “seen” when looking from that direction. Taller buildings block the view of smaller buildings. Note that 0 is not counted as a building and also never blocks any other digits from view. (For example, if a row contained the numbers 018432675, then two buildings are seen from the left – 1 and 8 – and three buildings from the right – 5, 7, and 8 – with the other buildings blocked by taller buildings in front of them.)

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

Thomas Hits the GAS (highlight to view): 3:07, 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

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Remember, remember the Fifth of November, / Anti-King Sudoku and plot. / I see no reason / Why Bonfire Night season / Should ever be forgot.

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Theme: What Does the Fawkes Say?

Author/Opus: This is the 171st puzzle from Philip Newman, 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, cells sharing a corner cannot contain the same number (as if adding a chess king’s move constraint to each cell).

GAS Time Standards (highlight to view): Two party hats (🎩🥳): 5:00; One party hat (🥳): 11:00. All other solvers earn an 🦕: Incendiary Igai.

Thomas Hits the GAS (highlight to view): 2:28, 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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Sweater weather is upon us. So many options — does today call for a cardigan, sweater vest, or poncho? Nah, it’s a turtleneck kind of day, much like this Consecutive Pairs Sudoku.

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Theme: Turtleneck

Author/Opus: This is the 175th puzzle from Bill Murphy, 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 (🎩🥳): 6:30; One party hat (🥳): 12:00. All other solvers earn a 🦕: Complete Ceratosaurus.

Thomas Hits the GAS (highlight to view): 1:39, 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

Note: Follow this link for Consecutive Pairs Sudoku puzzles on this website. If you are new to this puzzle type, here are our easiest Consecutive Pairs Sudoku to get started on. More Consecutive Pairs Sudoku puzzles can be found in these books in our e-store.

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This Almost Palindrome Sudoku follows the same rules as Palindrome puzzles, except that each gray line contains a mystery pair of mismatched digits.

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Theme: Off by One

Author/Opus: This is the 195th 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 numbers along each gray line form a palindrome (i.e., read the same forwards and backwards), except for a single pair of non-matching numbers on each line, which must be identified by the solver.

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

Thomas Hits the GAS (highlight to view): 4:13, 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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