(This post is part of the Genuinely Approachable Sudoku (GAS) series.)
To drive towards the solution of this unusual Sudoku puzzle, you’ll need to keep your eyes at ten and two to make sense of things.

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Theme: Ten and Two

Author/Opus: This is the 126th 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 in circles between two cells indicate the total count of odd numbers in all adjacent and diagonally neighboring cells of the domino-shaped area created by those two cells.

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

Thomas Hits the GAS (highlight to view): 3:11, 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.

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

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Play Five-and-Seek in this German Whispers Renban Sudoku where the fives are hiding but make a huge difference.

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Theme: Five Deprived

Author/Opus: This is the 106th 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). Numbers in cells directly connected on a green line must differ by at least 5. Numbers along each purple line must form a non-repeating consecutive set, in any order. (For example, a 4-cell Renban line could be 4352, but not 5679 or 2312.)

GAS Time Standards (highlight to view): Two party hats (🎩🥳): 7:30; One party hat (🥳): 15:00. All other solvers earn a 🦕: Wambly Wamweracaudia.

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; solving video with explanation to be added later 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.)
Can you figure out how each of the Quadruples clues will sort out in this Sudoku called “The Wiggler”?

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Theme: The Wiggler

Author/Opus: This is the 104th 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). Numbers in white circles must appear in at least one of the four surrounding cells.

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

Thomas Hits the GAS (highlight to view): 2:40, 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.

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.)
Can you beat any of the hat times in this Clock Faces Sudoku puzzle where around the white dots all values must increase in clockwise order?

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Theme: Clock Wise

Author/Opus: This is the 125th 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). Around each white dot the four numbers must increase in a clockwise manner. (The starting cell for each white dot must be determined by the solver.)

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

Thomas Hits the GAS (highlight to view): 1:40, 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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Stomp around the grid with these four-legged circles in today’s Quadruples Sudoku. Some feet are off the ground, so you’ll have to work out what digits they are!

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Theme: Tetrapod Quads

Author/Opus: This is the 105th 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). Numbers in white circles must appear in at least one of the four surrounding cells.

GAS Time Standards (highlight to view): Two party hats (🎩🥳): 7:30; One party hat (🥳): 15:00. All other solvers earn a 🦕: Venerated Venenosaurus.

Thomas Hits the GAS (highlight to view): 3:27, 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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Today we have another trip to the Borderland with Bill showing a puzzle where each diamond indicates the size of an odd or even group of numbers.

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Author/Opus: This is the 103rd 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). A cell containing a diamond is part of a group of numbers of the same parity connected by edges, and the number inside the diamond indicates how many numbers of the same parity (including itself) form this group. (For example, a diamond containing a 2 must be connected by its edges to only one other even number besides itself; that is, all other edge neighbors of these two numbers must be odd.)

GAS Time Standards (highlight to view): Two party hats (🎩🥳): 9:00; One party hat (🥳): 17:00. All other solvers earn a 🦕: Handsome Jaxartosaurus.

Thomas Hits the GAS (highlight to view): 4:33, 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; solving video with explanation to be added later 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 a (45-degree) twist from regular Consecutive-style puzzles, here the connected cells all sit on a diagonal.

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Theme: Free Center

Author/Opus: This is the 102nd 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, numbers adjacent to each other along the gray lines must differ by 1. Numbers may repeat on the gray lines. Diagonally adjacent numbers that do not have a gray line can have any relationship.

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

Thomas Hits the GAS (highlight to view): 2:48, 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.

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 fresh variation of Sudoku, the numbers in the diamond cells indicate the size of the odd or even group they belong to. Careful counting and shading should get you through to the solution.

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Theme: On the Border

Author/Opus: This is the 123rd 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). A cell containing a diamond is part of a group of numbers of the same parity connected by edges, and the number inside the diamond indicates how many numbers of the same parity (including itself) form this group. (For example, a diamond containing a 2 must be connected by its edges to only one other even number besides itself; that is, all other edge neighbors of these two numbers must be odd.)

GAS Time Standards (highlight to view): Two party hats (🎩🥳): 9:00; One party hat (🥳): 17:00. All other solvers earn a 🦕: borderline Bothriospondylus.

Thomas Hits the GAS (highlight to view): 4:19, 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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As long-time solvers of Genuinely Approachable Sudoku will know, we at GAS, Inc. have a reputation. Of approachable puzzles, bordering on the side of far too generous with givens? Of course. But also a reputation for state-of-the-art security.

Now, more than ever, it is my job as Head of Security to implement cutting-edge artificial intelligence solutions to protect our ever dwendling precious resource: hats. To reassuring our valued solvers that we remain a safe place to hang your hat in these turbulent times, I am proud to invite you to be the first Beta Testers of our new security system. Backed by a powerful LLM trained on the mind of an extinct sauropod, you’ll find our website is more secure than ever.

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GAS – We’re there at the drop of a hat

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UPDATE from clover!: Good morning, friends! I hope you all enjoyed Bill’s April Fools CAPTCHA earlier today. Now that we’ve got that out of our systems, here’s today’s real GAS: a classic sudoku. Normal sudoku rules apply. And that’s it!

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UPDATE 2 from clover!: I hear you, I hear you. “Clover, something is wrong. Clover, we want more digits. Clover, our lack of creativity is preventing us from solving your beautiful sudoku.” Fine, I’ll give you one more digit, but you’re going to have to work for it. 😤 Here’s another classic sudoku that I set extra-special just for you. Normal sudoku rules apply. Once you’ve solved it, simply take the digit from r2c5, and place it in r1c1 in the previous sudoku. That should help you out a bit. And that’s it!

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UPDATE 3 from clover!: You may think I’ve singlehandedly tripled the GAS team’s count of non-unique sudoku in just a few hours, but you’d be wrong. I’ve actually quadrupled it. Are you almost ready to solve the puzzle, friends? Here you go: Normal sudoku rules apply. Solve this puzzle, and then take the digit from r1c9, and put it into r5c2 in the previous sudoku. That ought to do it!

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UPDATE 4 from clover!: Mea culpa, I knew I was forgetting something. Regarding the hats and/or dinosaurs: to earn them, simply take the digit from r9c9 in the first sudoku I posted this morning, and place it in r7c3 in the sudoku immediately preceding this post. The timer stops when you successfully solve all of the sudokus in this post. 😉 

Theme: Patience is a Virtue

Author/Opus: This is the 122nd 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.

GAS Time Standards (highlight to view): Two party hats (🎩🥳): 20:00; One party hat (🥳): 30:00. All other solvers earn a 🦕: waited-for-it Wintonotitan.

Solution: PDF; explanation from GAS team to be added later, because patience is a virtue.

Note: Follow this link for classic Sudoku. If you are new to this puzzle type, here are our easiest Sudoku to get started on. More classic Sudoku puzzles can be found in The Art of Sudoku, The Art of Sudoku 2 and in our beginner-friendly collection Intro to GMPuzzles by Serkan Yürekli.

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