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Philip’s wife: 🎵 Math-y birthday Sudoku! Math-y birthday Sudoku! 🎵 This X-Sums Sudoku quite literally has Philip’s numbers written all over it. Happy 44th, love!

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Theme: Birthday Maths

Author/Opus: This is the 140th 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 clues outside the grid indicate the sum of the first X numbers placed in the corresponding direction, where X is equal to the first number placed in that direction (e.g., if R9C2 is 5, then the five numbers in R9C2, R8C2, and on to R5C2 all add up to 26).

GAS Time Standards (highlight to view): Two party hats (🎩🥳): 7:29; One party hat (🥳): 44:44. All other solvers earn an 🦕: English Europatitan.

Thomas Hits the GAS (highlight to view): 3:25, 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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The loops in this puzzle indicate numbers that are pretty close together, just one or two apart. Can you see through all the logic to reach the unique solution?

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Author/Opus: This is the 142nd 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). Each pair of adjacent numbers along a pink loop must differ by 1 or 2.

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

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).

Solution: PDF; solving video with explanation to be added later from GAS team.

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Now it seems the Star Products themselves are multiplying as we have a second version of this variation from clover! just a few days apart. Will today’s be any harder to think through?

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Theme: Star-Crossed

Author/Opus: This is the 161st 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, in each row or column with a given clue outside the grid, the value of that clue is the product of all numbers in the starred cells in that row or column.

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

Thomas Hits the GAS (highlight to view): 1:29, 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; solving video with explanation to be added later from GAS team.

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Today’s Star Product Sudoku will have your thoughts multiplying alongside the standard Sudoku logic.

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Theme: Stars and Stripes

Author/Opus: This is the 160th 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, in each row or column with a given clue outside the grid, the value of that clue is the product of all numbers in the starred cells in that row or column.

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

Thomas Hits the GAS (highlight to view): 1:31, 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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Can you track how the numbers fill into the riptides, bringing the solution above the surface to see clearly?

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Theme: Riptides

Author/Opus: This is the 139th 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). The shaded regions must also contain 1 to 9 without repeats.

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

Thomas Hits the GAS (highlight to view): 2:19, 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; solving video with explanation to be added later from GAS team.

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All rows, columns, and regions have one lying given that you must uncover to get all the way to the finish in this Sudoku by Bill Murphy.

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Author/Opus: This is the 138th 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, exactly one clue in each row, column, and bold region is incorrect and must represent another number.

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

Thomas Hits the GAS (highlight to view): 2:57, 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; 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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Can you identify the parity of all the straight line groups in this clever clover! Sudoku?

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Theme: Parity Paths

Author/Opus: This is the 159th 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 numbers along each line are either all odd or all even.

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

Thomas Hits the GAS (highlight to view): 3:12, 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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Much like a boomerang, Kropki Pairs just keeps coming back.

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Theme: Boomerang

Author/Opus: This is the 139th 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). If a white circle is given between two adjacent cells, then the two numbers in those cells must differ by 1. If a black circle is given between two adjacent cells, then the two numbers must have a ratio of 2. Pairs of cells without circles 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 🦕: Down-Under Dreadnoughtus.

Thomas Hits the GAS (highlight to view): 4:52, 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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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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The marked cells point the way to all the “remote clones” in this creative Sudoku variation by Bill Murphy.

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Author/Opus: This is the 137th 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). Some cells are marked with gray lines pointing out from their centers; in the directions of those lines, the numbers entered N cells away must be identical where N is the value in the cell with the lines. Not all possible gray lines are given. (For example, since R1C4 = 2 with lines going left and down, R1C2 and R3C4 must contain the same number.)

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

Thomas Hits the GAS (highlight to view): 2:26, 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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Today’s Classic Sudoku was set late at night. Better late than later.

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Theme: Better Late

Author/Opus: This is the 138th 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).

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

Thomas Hits the GAS (highlight to view): 2:46, 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 classic Sudoku. If you are new to this puzzle type, here are our easiest Sudoku to get started on. More Sudoku including variations 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 classic Sudoku.

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