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Here are our best Sudoku puzzles of 2020, in chronological order, selected from the 32 web posts in this category based on FAVE votes, web comments, and tester comments. All of these puzzles are gathered in this PDF file<\/a>.<\/i><\/p>\n

With 1 day left before our official reopen, Dr. Sudoku shared this minimal clue “countdown” Consecutive Pairs Sudoku<\/a> puzzle that got a good number of FAVE votes.<\/p>\n

\"Consecutive<\/p>\n

A few months later, guest contributor Bryce Herdt’s Thermo-Sudoku<\/a> ran “hot” with our solvers, with a nice visual theme and fun solving path to the answer.<\/p>\n

\"Thermo-Sudoku<\/p>\n

While on the easier side, this “Big X” Consecutive Pairs Sudoku<\/a> from Thomas Snyder was another favorite sudoku puzzle from the year.<\/p>\n

\"Consecutive<\/p>\n

A few classic sudoku got strong reviews through the year, but none more so than this excellent Sudoku<\/a> by Swaroop Guggilam which was clearly one of our Best 2020 Sudoku.<\/p>\n

\"Sudoku<\/p>\n

Our final best of 2020 Sudoku comes from Ashish Kumar who made an XV Sudoku<\/a> with a theme referring to the letters, and a pretty minimal path taking advantage of the “XV rules” throughout.<\/p>\n

\"XV<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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